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In the latest sign of rising tensions with the United Nations, Israel recalled its ambassador for consultations, claiming on Tuesday that the UN chief had failed to take action to address a new report that found evidence that sexual violence was committed during October under the leadership of Hamas. 7 attack on Israel.The UN report released on Monday, which was widely welcomed in Israel, found “reasonable grounds” to believe that sexual violence had occurred in at least three locations and “clear and convincing information” that the hostages had been sexually assaulted. including rape. . He said the abuse of hostages…

The battle over the fate of Harvard President Claudine Gay took an unexpected turn this week as accusations of plagiarism in her academic work surfaced, along with questions about how the university handled them.On Tuesday, the Harvard Corporation, the university’s governing body, announced that Dr. Gay would keep her job, despite the uproar over her remarks about campus anti-Semitism at a congressional hearing. But the Corporation also revealed it had carried out a review of her published work after receiving charges in October over three of her articles.The Corporation said that while the review found that he had not breached…

Bitcoin hit a record high of more than $69,000 on Tuesday, capping a remarkable comeback for the volatile cryptocurrency after its value plunged in 2022 amid a market crash.Bitcoin’s price has risen more than 300 percent since November 2022, a resurgence that few predicted when the price fell below $20,000 that year. Its previous record was just below $68,790 in November 2021 as cryptocurrency markets boomed and amateur investors cashed in on experimental digital currencies.The cryptocurrency has been “declared dead for the 150th time,” said Cory Klippsten, CEO of Swan, a financial services firm focused on Bitcoin. “And Bitcoin continues…

Meta said it had resolved a technical issue with its platforms, including Facebook, Facebook Messenger and Instagram, after an hour-long outage on Tuesday.After user reports of an outage that lasted about two hours, Meta said it had fixed the problem that caused the sites to stop working. “We resolved the issue as quickly as possible for everyone affected and apologize for any inconvenience,” said Andy Stone, a Meta spokesman. wrote to X.The issue appeared to be resolved for many users as of Tuesday afternoon, but some were still reporting issues with the platforms.Around 10 a.m. Tuesday, more than 25,000 users…

Drug company Atai Life Sciences is spending millions to research the compound, and congressional lawmakers from both parties have pushed the administration to advance research into ibogaine for substance abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health problems.For Dr. Deborah Mash, a professor of neurology at the University of Miami who began studying ibogaine in the early 1990s, the growing interest is a vindication of her belief that the compound could help ameliorate the opioid crisis. “Ibogaine is not a silver bullet and it won’t work for everyone, but it is the most powerful addiction breaker I’ve ever seen,” he…

American Airlines announced Monday that it has ordered 260 new planes in roughly equal numbers from Airbus, Boeing and Embraer. It is the airline’s largest aircraft order since 2011 and reflects the strength of demand for air travel.The order consists of 85 Airbus A321neo aircraft, 85 Boeing 737 Max 10 aircraft and 90 smaller Embraer E175 aircraft. Boeing’s equal position in the deal suggests American remains confident in the manufacturer after a panel exploded from a Max 9 plane during an Alaska Airlines flight in January. This incident did not cause serious injuries, but it reignited concerns about the safety…

The Supreme Court ruled that Trump can remain on the ballotThe US Supreme Court ruled unanimously that states cannot bar Donald Trump from running for another term, rejecting a challenge from Colorado that threatened to remove the former president from ballots across the nation.The ruling, while not surprising, is the most significant presidential election ruling since George W. Bush prevailed in Bush v. Gore in 2000.The case was based on a constitutional provision, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, that bars insurgents from holding office. All of the justices’ opinions focused on legal issues without taking a position on whether…

As universities across the country were pressured to take a public position on Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, few were as tormented as Harvard.Officials at the first school said nothing when a pro-Palestinian student group wrote an open letter saying Israel was “entirely responsible” for the violence. Harvard followed up with a letter to the university community acknowledging “feelings of fear, sadness, anger and more.” After an outcry, Harvard President Claudine Gay issued a more forceful statement condemning Hamas for “terrorist atrocities” while urging people to use words that “enlighten, not inflame.”Difficult and divisive questions about how universities should…

China’s top leaders have set an ambitious 2024 economic growth target as they seek to boost confidence in an economy facing its biggest challenges in decades.But they announced only modest measures to boost growth, refraining from the kind of bold moves the business community is looking for to tackle a housing crisis, a loss of confidence among Chinese households and investor wariness.Premier Li Qiang, the country’s No. 2 official after Xi Jinping, said in his report Tuesday to the annual session of the legislature that the government would aim for economic growth of “around 5 percent.” That’s the same target…

Microsoft filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday that seeks to dismiss parts of a lawsuit brought by The New York Times Company.The Times sued Microsoft and its partner OpenAI on December 27, accusing the two companies of infringing its copyright by using its articles to train artificial intelligence technologies such as the online chatbot ChatGPT. Chatbots compete with the news outlet as a source of reliable information, the lawsuit said.In its filing, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Microsoft argued that large language models, or LLMs — the technologies that drive chatbots…