Author: KnowledgeHippo

Leelee Ray and her husband, Austin, had been trying to have a child for six years, through insemination procedures, two eggs, four embryo transfers, a potentially fatal ectopic pregnancy and eight miscarriages.With four frozen embryos remaining in storage at a fertility clinic, the Rays, who live in Huntsville, Ala., decided to change course. In February, they turned to an agency in Colorado, where surrogacy laws are more lenient than in Alabama, to find a woman to carry their baby.It all came to a screeching halt days later when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos should be considered “ectopic…

On a Tuesday night last December, singer-pianist Michael Feinstein was at the Café Carlyle on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in a sparkling silver blazer, making his way through the audience to the small stage, where the members of his four-piece band were taking their places. The audience burst into applause. A few people stood and extended a hand to greet him. As George and Ira Gershwin’s “Our Love Is Here to Stay” began, some sang along, others swayed a little. Written in 1937, the American songbook is full of nostalgia, wit and romance. The same could be said for Café…

Josette Molan, who died aged 100 in France on February 17, was a young member of the French Resistance during World War II when she was captured by the Gestapo and imprisoned in Nazi women’s forced labor camps. He survived, after seeing and enduring repeated episodes of brutality. Later, after returning to France, she spoke to students about her experiences over the years.In the 1980s, however, worried that her story was not reaching them, she concluded that it was not enough to tell young people about her life in the camp. He would have to show them. So she began…

Eight high school students in Philadelphia were shot and wounded as they waited for a public bus after school Wednesday, the latest in a string of shootings that have sparked outrage in the city, police said.The students, who attend Northeast High School, were shot about 3 p.m. as they waited at a bus stop near a Dunkin’ Donuts a little more than half a mile from the school, said Kevin J. Bethel, the Philadelphia police commissioner. Press conference.As a bus pulled up to the stop and the students prepared to board, three people got out of a car parked nearby…

Jerome H. Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, said on Wednesday that he believed the central bank would start cutting borrowing costs in 2024, but that policymakers needed to gain “greater confidence” that inflation was contained before making a movement.”We think our policy rate is probably at its peak for this tightening cycle,” Mr. Powell said during testimony before the House Financial Services Committee. “If the economy develops broadly as expected, it will probably be appropriate to start imposing policy restraint at some point this year.”Mr. Powell’s comments on economic policy were largely in line with market expectations. Policymakers have…

A Chinese national who recently quit his job as a software engineer for Google in California was accused of trying to transfer artificial intelligence technology to a Beijing-based company that secretly paid him, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday.Prosecutors accused Linwei Ding, who was part of the team that designs and maintains Google’s massive AI supercomputer data system, of stealing information about the system’s “architecture and functionality” and stealing software used to “orchestrate “supercomputers” when cutting. cutting edge of machine learning and AI technology.”Between May 2022 and May 2023, Mr Ding, also known as Leon, uploaded 500 files, many…

Twins are a bonus for research psychologists. In a field constantly trying to tease out the effects of genetics, environment, and life experience, they provide a natural controlled experiment as their paths diverge, subtly or dramatically, into adulthood.Take Dennis and Douglas. In high school, they looked so much alike that their friends could tell them apart from the cars they were driving, researchers in a study of twins in Virginia told them. Most of their childhood experiences were shared – except that Dennis endured an attempted molestation when he was 13.At 18, Douglas married his high school sweetheart. He raised…

On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was en route from Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, to Beijing, when it deviated from its planned route, turning west along Peninsular Malaysia.The plane, a Boeing 777 carrying 239 passengers from 15 countries, is believed to have veered off course and flown south for several hours after radar contact was lost. Some officials believe it may have crashed somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean after running out of fuel, but extensive search efforts over the years have yielded no answers, no victims, and no plane.The reason the plane went off course…

The security crisis in Haiti is reaching a tipping point. An alliance of armed gangs is pressuring the country’s prime minister to resign, putting the United States in the middle of a power struggle that is gripping the country. Aiming to defuse the conflict, the Biden administration is increasing pressure on Prime Minister Ariel Henry to allow the transfer of power.The United States was not “calling or pressuring him to resign,” said Matthew Miller, a State Department spokesman. However, he added, “we urge him to expedite the transition to a strong and inclusive governance structure.”The impasse marks a major turning…

Members of the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team gathered at the stately Hanover Inn near campus on a dreary, rainy Tuesday and made their way to a small office building where they smiled for a group photo. Then they went up to a second-floor conference room and took a vote that was six months — or rather, many years — in the making.When the yellow sheets of paper were counted and validated about an hour later, the basketball players had accomplished something no other college athlete had done.With a vote of 13-2 they had formed a union.”It’s definitely getting more…