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Although Israel was dropping aid directly to the north, Philippe Lazzarini, head of UNRWA, the main UN agency providing support to Palestinians in Gaza, said Israeli forces had hit a food distribution center in the southern city of Rafah, killing one service. worker and injuring 22 others. He said the center was hit even though UNRWA shares the coordinates of its facilities with all parties to the war.”Attacks against UN facilities, convoys and personnel have become routine, in flagrant disregard for international humanitarian law,” Mr Lazzarini said.The Israeli military, in a statement, said Wednesday’s strike “precisely targeted and eliminated a…
A batch of federal financial aid applications were just days away from being processed when Department of Education officials made a fateful discovery: 70,000 emails from students across the country, containing reams of key data.They were sitting in an inbox, untouched.That discovery last week set off a frantic, three-day scrambled effort by more than 200 department officials, including Richard Cordray, the nation’s top student aid official, to read each of the emails one by one and extract critical identifying information. required for financial aid. The students’ future depended on it.”He needs to untangle it,” Mr. Cordray told his staff members…
The House on Wednesday passed a bill with broad bipartisan support that would force the Chinese owner of TikTok to either sell the wildly popular video app or face a ban in the United States.The move escalates a showdown between Beijing and Washington over control of a wide range of technologies that could affect national security, free speech and the social media industry.Republican leaders quickly shepherded the bill through the House with limited debate and it passed on a two-way vote of 352-65, reflecting broad support for legislation that would directly target China in an election year.The action came despite…
In the wake of a test interview with Elon Musk, former TV host Don Lemon’s deal for a new talk show on X fell through just days before it was scheduled to air.Mr. Musk canceled Mr. Lemon’s partnership with X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, the day after he taped an hour-and-a-half interview with the former news anchor at SpaceX’s office in Austin, Texas. The conversation was tense at times, Mr. Lemon said, as he asked probing questions about the upcoming U.S. presidential election, Mr. Musk’s reported drug use and his various business ventures.Mr Lemon said he…
Actress Olivia Munn said Wednesday that she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer last year and soon after underwent a double mastectomy as part of her treatment.Munn, 43, who has starred in dozens of movies and TV shows, including the HBO series “The Newsroom,” wrote in a lengthy social media post that she tried to be proactive about her health.In February 2023, shortly after the routine mammogram, Munn took a powerful genetic test that checked for 90 cancer genes. He said the test came back negative for all of them, including BRCA, the most well-known breast cancer…
The first rocket launched by Japanese start-up Space One exploded seconds after liftoff on Wednesday, dashing its ambition to become the country’s first private company to put a satellite into orbit.The Kairos solid-fuel rocket launched shortly after 11 a.m. local time and burst into flames less than ten seconds later, according to live streams of the launch. The blast left behind a large plume of smoke and ignited a fire in a nearby forest that firefighters were battling to put out.The 60-foot-long rocket weighs 23 tons and was launched from Space Port Kii in Wakayama Prefecture on Japan’s main island,…
A week after Justice Amy Coney Barrett criticized Justice Sonia Sotomayor for choosing to “intensify dissent with rigor” in a Supreme Court ruling on former President Donald J. Trump’s eligibility to take office, the two women appeared together on Tuesday to discuss civility and civility.They gave, for the most part, a familiar picture of a collective court whose members know how to disagree without being disagreeable.”We don’t talk heatedly in our conferences,” Judge Barrett said, referring to the private meetings in which judges discuss cases. “We don’t raise our voices, no matter how hot the case is.”Justice Sotomayor, who usually…
The Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and provides behind-the-scenes information on how our journalism comes together.When Ron Lieber arrived at the Wall Street Journal office in 2002 for a job interview, some editors immediately sized him up.”They said, ‘We know what your beat is: beating the system,'” said Mr. Lieber, who most recently worked as a senior writer for Fast Company covering management, design and careers. “And now you’re going to come over here and do this for us.”After co-founding the Wall Street Journal’s Personal Journal section and writing a separate money management column, he…
Airbnb announced this week that it is banning the use of all indoor security cameras in its listings worldwide, an update to its current policy that allows the devices to be installed in common areas such as hallways and living rooms.In a statement Monday, the company said most of the listings on its site do not have indoor security cameras, but that it makes privacy a priority.In the past, security cameras were allowed in common areas as long as hosts disclosed them to guests prior to booking. They had to be visible, not hidden, and not allowed in sleeping areas…
The first sea shipment of food for Gaza left the Mediterranean island of Cyprus on Tuesday morning, officials said, the start of an untested sea route to bring aid to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians the United Nations says are on the brink of starvation.The ship was towing a barge loaded with nearly 200 metric tons of rice, flour and other food from World Central Kitchen, a charity group. The ship, provided by the Spanish aid group Open Arms and named after her, is the first authorized to deliver supplies to Gaza by sea since 2005, according to Ursula von…