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In a concession to automakers and labor unions, the Biden administration plans to loosen elements of one of its most ambitious strategies to fight climate change, limits on emissions designed to get Americans to switch from gas-powered cars in electric vehicles. to three people familiar with the plan.Instead of effectively requiring automakers to rapidly increase sales of electric vehicles in the coming years, the administration will give automakers more time, with a sharp sales increase not required until after 2030, these people said. They asked to remain anonymous because the regulation has not been finalized. The administration plans to publish…

The researchThe study, led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, looked at the experience of more than 6,000 patients in the months after the federal government began allowing abortion pills to be mailed, from April 2021 to January 2022.Patients used one of three telemedicine abortion agencies—Hey Jane, Abortion on Demand, or Choix—serving 20 states and Washington, DC. sparking a wave of state abortion bans and restrictions. Since then, more telemedicine services have opened and are used by many patients who find the method more convenient, private and affordable than visiting clinics or doctors, especially if they have…

As Western leaders gathered in Munich over the past three days, President Vladimir V. Putin had a message for them: Nothing they’ve done so far—sanctions, condemnation, attempted containment—would change his intentions to disrupt today’s world Series.Russia made its first major gain in Ukraine in nearly a year, capturing the devastated town of Avdiivka, at a huge human cost on both sides. war. The suspicious death of Alexei Navalny in a remote Arctic prison has made it increasingly clear that Mr Putin will tolerate no dissent as the election approaches.And the US discovery, revealed in recent days, that Mr Putin may…

New plagiarism allegations surfaced Monday against Claudine Gaye threatened to plunge Harvard deeper into the debate over what constitutes plagiarism and whether the university will hold its president and its students to the same standards.The accusations came in an unsigned complaint published Monday in The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative online magazine that has led a campaign against Dr. Gay in recent weeks.The new complaint added additional allegations of plagiarism to about 40 that had already been released in the same way, apparently by the same accuser.Dr. Gay strongly defended her work. “I stand by the integrity of my scholarship,”…

William Beecher, who as a reporter for the New York Times exposed President Richard M. Nixon’s secret bombing campaign in Cambodia during the Vietnam War and who later won a Pulitzer Prize for The Boston Globe, died on 9 February at his home in Wilmington. , NC It was 90.His daughter, Lori Beecher, and son-in-law, Marc Burstein, confirmed the death.President Nixon ordered the bombings, codenamed Operation Menu, in March 1969 in response to increasing attacks by the North Vietnamese Army and South Vietnamese rebels based in Cambodia, a neutral country. The campaign was so secret that even William P. Rogers,…

A Ukrainian man pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to his leading role in two cyberattack schemes that caused tens of millions of dollars in damage and temporarily disabled a Vermont hospital in 2020, the Justice Department said.Prosecutors said Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov, 37, was the leader of an organization that in May 2009 began infecting thousands of computers at companies with malware and that he helped lead a separate malware program that began around November 2018.Mr. Penchukov, of Donetsk, pleaded guilty in US District Court in Nebraska to one count of conspiracy to commit an offense in violation of the…

On Fridays at 10am, Richard Bement and Zach Ahmed join in the weekly video chat. The program that brought them together provides online discussion and suggests arts-related activities, but both are largely oblivious to all of this.”We just started talking about things that were important to us,” said Mr. Ahmed, 19, a student at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.Since the pair met more than a year ago, topics of conversation have included: Pink Floyd, in a long exploration led by Mr. Bement, 76, a retired sales manager in Milford Township, Ohio; their religious beliefs (the senior interlocutor is Episcopalian, the…

Thousands of anti-government protesters filled a central Tel Aviv boulevard on Saturday, the same street where protests rocked the nation before the start of the Israel-Hamas war, in the biggest display of anger against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in months.In the immediate aftermath of the October 7 Hamas attacks, which killed about 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials, the nation was in shock and anti-government protests were put on hold. Protesters said at the time that they felt the need to unite as a nation, and many protesters were drafted into the military reserves or volunteered to help the war…

Harvard President Claudine Gay announced her resignation Tuesday after her presidency was plunged into crisis over allegations of plagiarism and what some called an inadequate response to anti-Semitism on campus following the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel.In announcing that she would step down effective immediately, Dr. Gay, Harvard’s first black president and the second woman to lead the university, ended a tumultuous tenure that began last July. He will have the shortest tenure of any Harvard president since its founding in 1636.Alan M. Garber, an economist and physician who is Harvard’s professor and chief academic, will serve as interim…

Volkswagen Group is considering the future of its joint venture in northwest China’s Xinjiang region and another German industrial giant is starting to sell its stake there after fresh international scrutiny of forced labor by predominantly Muslim ethnic groups.Volkswagen said last week it was in talks with one of its main joint venture partners in China, the state-owned Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, following allegations of human rights abuses at their joint venture in Xinjiang.The companies are considering “the future direction of the JV’s business activities in Xinjiang,” VW said, adding that “various scenarios are currently being intensively considered.”Germany’s BASF, the…