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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin urged Israel on Tuesday to abandon plans for a major ground offensive against Hamas militants in southern Gaza, as the Biden administration attempts to curtail a spiraling humanitarian crisis at a moment of acute strain between the United States and its closest Middle Eastern ally.
Getty Images Electrical goods retailer Currys has rejected a takeover approach from US investment firm Elliott. Currys, which operates more than 800 stores globally and employs 28,000 people, said the offer valued the business at about £700m. But the proposal “significantly undervalued” the company, Currys said. Elliott has a reputation as an activist investor, meaning […]
The Biden administration is overhauling the country’s disaster assistance programs, expanding aid for survivors of hurricanes, wildfires and other catastrophes and making it easier to access. The shift, announced on Friday by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, comes amid a growing number of climate-related disasters. It follows years of criticism surrounding the agency’s aid programs, […]
What are the priorities of the Pacific Island nations going into COP28? Peake: Pacific Island negotiators will have the same asks as they always have when they go into these meetings, which is seeking practical action on and financial compensation for climate change. Leaders of Pacific nations make the point regularly that their nations, which […]
To the editor: Curtis Dahlin’s address to the New Ulm Junior Pioneers (” ‘A political agenda instead of facts,’ “ Oct. 24) merits a response. We respect Mr. Dahlin’s expertise as the author of several books and articles on the US-Dakota War. However we feel that his representation of the Minnesota Historical Society […]
Israel’s apparent decision to hold off on a full-scale invasion of the Gaza Strip and instead conduct more limited ground incursions, at least initially, aligns with suggestions that the U.S. defense secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III, made to his Israeli counterparts in recent days, American officials said on Saturday. Biden administration officials warned that it […]
Published 8 hours ago Submitted by Black & Veatch By the Black & Veatch Insights Group Across the U.S., a myriad of challenges is intensifying scrutiny about the resiliency and reliability of the ever-aging grid infrastructure. Load demands are rising due to growing consumer electric vehicle (EV) charging networks, enterprise fleet electrification, cloud computing and […]
As Russia continues its assault on Ukraine, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) is keeping a close eye on Russia’s movements across the military, cyber, and information domains. With more than seven years of experience monitoring the situation in Ukraine—as well as Russia’s use of propaganda and disinformation to undermine the United States, NATO, […]
The classic computer science adage “garbage in, garbage out” lacks nuance when it comes to understanding biased medical data, argue computer science and bioethics professors from MIT, Johns Hopkins University, and the Alan Turing Institute in a new opinion piece published in a recent edition of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The rising […]
As a journalist of color working for a legacy publication of color, I’ve spent my career being reminded of my constraints. Like many of my colleagues, I work with limited resources compared with other journalists at larger publications, but I’ve been fortunate in my work with the New York Amsterdam News never to have suffered from having […]