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In One Key A.I. Metric, China Pulls Ahead of the U.S.: Talent

China has produced a huge number of top A.I. engineers in recent years. New research shows that, by some measures, it has already eclipsed the United States.

The World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in July 2023. China has invested heavily in A.I. education.

Study on ‘World’s Oldest Pyramid’ Is Retracted by Publisher

Par : Mike Ives
The study, based on research featured in a Netflix documentary, fueled debate over a site that is used for Islamic and Hindu rituals.

Students visiting Gunung Padang last year in Cianjur, Indonesia.

Pro-Israel Lobby Faces Challenges Amid Gaza War and Shifting Politics

AIPAC, long influential with both parties in Washington, is drawing criticism from Democrats for trying to defeat incumbents while it struggles to move aid for Israel through Congress.

About 1,600 donors and legislators attended an invite-only AIPAC gathering near Washington this week.

Guernica Magazine Retracts Essay by Israeli as Staffers Quit

Par : Marc Tracy
An Israeli writer’s essay about seeking common ground with Palestinians led to the resignation of at least 10 staff members at Guernica.

Joanna Chen, whose essay about the war in Gaza led to turmoil at Guernica, a literary magazine.

White House Denies Biden Has Set ‘Red Lines’ for Israel-Hamas War in Gaza

The Biden administration repeated its warning that Israel should not attack the city of Rafah, the southernmost city in the enclave, without protections for the more than a million people sheltering there.

A destroyed building in Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, on Sunday.

A Humanitarian Crisis Is Rapidly Unfolding in Haiti

As gangs have united in concerted attacks against the state, the prime minister is stranded in Puerto Rico, and food, water, fuel and medical care are in short supply.

Police officers patrol in Port-au-Prince on Saturday. Haiti is in the throes of an uprising not seen in decades.

Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister Who Led Canada Into NAFTA, Dies at 84

He signed the historic free trade agreement with the United States and Mexico but was shadowed by scandal.

Brian Mulroney spoke in 2002 during a 10th-anniversary celebration of the North American Free Trade Agreement in Washington. He was a skilled debater and orator and always ready with a crowd-pleasing joke.

Belmopan, Belize’s Capital, Is a City of Brutalist Calm

The British-designed capital, Belmopan, is bureaucratic and, some say, boring. Some in the city want it to stay that way.

Belize’s Brutalist National Assembly building in the capital, Belmopan.

As Latin America’s Prison Population Explodes, Gangs Seize Control

Intended to fight crime, Latin American prisons have instead become safe havens and recruitment centers for gangs, fueling a surge in violence.

Gang members at a prison in El Salvador. Over the last two decades, prisons have become recruitment centers for Latin America’s cartels and gangs, experts say, strengthening their grip on society.

As Gaza Death Toll Mounts, Groups Urging Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire Are Outmatched

Par : Kate Kelly
The Friends Committee, a Quaker lobbying group, has been pushing in Washington for a cease-fire, going up against more powerful and better-funded groups backing Israel.

“We’re clearly being outspent, but I think the saving grace is that our ideas are just more popular,” said Hassan El-Tayyab, the Friends Committee’s Middle East legislative director.

Biden Shields Palestinians in the U.S. From Deportation

The president, who is facing mounting criticism over U.S. support for Israel, used an authority that exempts people from deportation if their homeland is in crisis.

While President Biden’s criticism of the war has grown more forceful, the United States has not signaled that it plans major policy changes.

In Private Remarks to Arab Americans, Biden Aide Expresses Regrets on Gaza

In a closed-door meeting, the aide offered some of the administration’s clearest notes of contrition for its response to the Gaza war, a sign of rising Democratic pressure on President Biden.

A protest outside the Henry Hotel in Dearborn, Mich., where Biden administration officials met on Thursday with Arab American leaders.

More Adolescent Boys Have Eating Disorders. Two Experts Discuss Why.

For the longest time, researchers focused on diagnosing and treating girls, but that is changing.

Dr. Jason Nagata, left, a pediatrician specializing in eating disorders at the University of California, San Francisco; and Dr. Sarah Smith, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the University of Toronto.

Bank of America Pledged to Stop Financing Coal. Now It’s Backtracking.

The changes come as Republican lawmakers step up efforts to punish businesses that consider climate change and the environment in their operations.

Demonstrators at a Bank of America branch last year calling on banks to stop financing fossil-fuel projects.

Biden Imposes Sanctions on Israelis Over West Bank Violence

The order served as both a sharp-edged diplomatic notice to Israel and a message to Arab Americans, a key part of the political coalition the president needs to be re-elected.

President Biden speaking in Warren, Mich., to members of the United Auto Workers Union, which recently endorsed him. Michigan is vital to Mr. Biden’s campaign for a second term.

Chicago Passes Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution in Israel-Hamas War

The passions ignited by the war in Gaza have reverberated through American politics, but the issue has been particularly contentious in Chicago and its suburbs.

Protesters calling for a cease-fire during a Gaza rally near the University of Illinois, Chicago, this month.

Biden Urged to Re-examine Israel Support After Lawsuit Dismissed

The judge, after expressing regret that he was limited by constitutional precedent, urged President Biden to rethink U.S. policy on Israel’s military siege in the Gaza Strip.

Five days after a hearing at the federal courthouse in Oakland, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White dismissed a lawsuit by Palestinian Americans seeking to block U.S. support of Israel’s military campaign.

Palestinian Americans’ Lawsuit in Oakland Seeks to Halt U.S. Support for Israel

The case, filed in Federal District Court in Northern California, is unlikely to succeed, given legal precedents regarding foreign policy decisions. But it has energized pro-Palestinian activists.

Protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, during the first day of the California legislative session in Sacramento this month.

Dark Galaxies: What Happens When Stars Are Nearly Invisible

To dark matter and dark energy, add dark galaxies — collections of stars so sparse and faint that they are all but invisible.

An artist’s depiction of hydrogen gas observed in the galaxy J0613+52, with the colors indicating the likely rotation of the gas relative to the observer, red indicating motion away, blue indicating motion toward.

In a New Cannabis Landscape, a Navy Veteran Battles for Racial Equity

Wanda James is on a mission to empower entrepreneurs from communities harmed by racial disparities in marijuana arrests.

Wanda James at her recreational cannabis dispensary, Simply Pure Denver. A former Navy lieutenant, she now advocates for racial justice in the changing cannabis landscape.

Palestinian American Teenager Killed in the West Bank Is Mourned

Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, 17, who was fatally shot on Friday, was raised in New Orleans and had planned to attend business school there.

Mourners attending the funeral of Tawfic Abdel Jabbar, a 17-year-old Palestinian American who was killed in the occupied West Bank on Friday.

Guatemala’s New President Is Sworn In, Despite Efforts to Stop Him

For hours, it was unclear whether Bernardo Arévalo, an anticorruption crusader, would take office at all, as lawmakers delayed the transfer of power.

President Bernardo Arévalo of Guatemala and his vice president, Karin Herrera, greeting onlookers from the balcony of the National Palace to celebrate their inauguration on Monday.

Asian American Officials Cite Unfair Scrutiny and Lost Jobs in China Spy Tensions

National security employees with ties to Asia say U.S. counterintelligence officers wrongly regard them as potential spies and ban them from jobs.

“I know dozens of diplomats who have lost out on getting assignments to China, Hong Kong and Vietnam,” said Yuki Kondo-Shah, a diplomat in London who successfully fought an assignment restriction placed on her for Japan.

Surging Mexico Border Crossings Push U.S. Resources to Brink

Officials are struggling to contend with the chaos at the U.S.-Mexico border as thousands of migrants arrive every day, trekking from the farthest reaches of the globe.

Migrants who were brought in for processing by Border Patrol agents in Sásabe, Arizona, on Tuesday.

Chile Rejects Conservative Constitution

Par : Jack Nicas
For the second time in less than two years, Chileans voted thumbs down on a new national charter, and few seem to have the energy to try again.

A rally in Santiago, Chile last week against adopting a new constitution.

How Abigail Echo-Hawk Uses Indigenous Data to Close the Equity Gap

The public health researcher Abigail Echo-Hawk is a leading voice in a movement to empower Indigenous people, wielding data as a tool for racial equity.

Abigail Echo-Hawk is a leading voice of the Indigenous data movement. She uses data to dismantle stereotypes, highlight disparities and vie for funding.

Children of Jailed Narges Mohammadi Accept Her Nobel Peace Prize

At the ceremony in Oslo, the Iranian activist’s twins also read a speech from their mother calling for a “globalization of peace and human rights.”

The ceremony awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, shown on the screen, in Oslo, Norway, on Sunday.

White House Disavows U.S. Islamic Group After Leader’s Oct. 7 Remarks

The director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said in a speech that he was “was happy to see” Palestinians break out of Gaza on the day Hamas attacked Israel.

Nihad Awad, the national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, in 2021. He said his remarks in a recent speech were being misconstrued.

Nguyen Qui Duc, Whose Salon Became a Hanoi Hub, Dies at 65

A former refugee who found radio success in the U.S., he opened an exhibition space in his native Vietnam that drew artists and ambassadors. Anthony Bourdain dropped in.

Alberto Fujimori Is Ordered Released From Prison in Peru

The ruling, which affirms a decision to reinstate a pardon, defies an order by an international court that former President Alberto Fujimori continue to serve his sentence for human rights violations.

Peru’s top court reinstated a presidential pardon for Alberto Fujimori, and he will most likely be freed on Wednesday, his lawyer said.

68,000 Gallons of ‘Unfit’ Olive Oil Seized by Italy and Spain

Officials in Europe, where a majority of the world’s olive oil is produced, charged 11 people with selling adulterated oil not suitable for consumption.

Scottish Country Music Venue Ends Display of Confederate Flag

The flag, and efforts to ban it, had caused a rift among members of the Grand Ole Opry in Glasgow.

The club voted 50 to 48 to maintain a ban agreed to by the venue’s committee last month.

Cheers for Cricket

How sports can dissolve boundaries.

The celebration after Australia beat India to win the Cricket World Cup.

Surviving War in Gaza, One Text Message at a Time

Every morning, Ahmed Mansour, a Palestinian filmmaker in the U.S., texts his family in Gaza to check if they are still alive. Israel’s siege of the territory has caused widespread communication blackouts, making it difficult for him to reach his parents and siblings.

Israel Blocks Palestinian Americans From Entering From West Bank

The move is an apparent violation of a recent agreement that says citizens from the United States and Israel can travel to the other nation without a visa.

The West Bank in October. Palestinian-Americans have faced difficulties traveling to the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

March for Israel: Jewish Groups Rally in Washington, D.C.

The rally was a response to large protests across the United States and the world denouncing the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.

People gathered on the National Mall in Washington on Tuesday for the rally.

In Texas, Vietnamese American Shrimpers Must Forge a New Path Again

They overcame the trauma of war, language barriers and prejudice to become successful shrimpers. But the decline of the industry in America is forcing them to consider other options.

Vinh Nguyen fishing for shrimp on his trawler in Matagorda Bay. Mr. Nguyen is one of thousands of Vietnamese refugees who settled along the Gulf Coast after the Vietnam War.

A New Answer for Migrants in Central America: Bus Them North

Costa Rica and Panama are busing people through their countries to ease the concentration of people along their borders, which Biden officials fear will encourage more people to travel to the U.S. border.

Migrants, mostly Venezuelans, waiting to get access to the bus that will take them to the border with Nicaragua last month in Paso Canoa, Costa Rica.

Biden Hosts Leaders of South American Nations for an Economic Summit

One goal is to help bolster economies of countries across the region so they can better absorb the millions of migrants who are fleeing poverty, political instability and natural disasters.

President Biden hosted leaders from 11 Western countries to address immigration and the economy.
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