Trump Makes False Genocide Claims. South Africans Respond With Humor.
The jokes mask a deep-seated anger over the legacy of apartheid and the inequality that many Black people say continues to define life in their country.
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Sports analysis: YULA, Shalhevet shouldn’t forfeit playoff games
The YULA and Shalhavet baseball teams have been banned from participating in next year’s Southern Section playoffs and placed on probation for pulling out in the middle of this year’s playoffs to participate in a Jewish baseball tournament in Ohio. CIF rules do not allow schools to play in non-authorized events during the season of…
A Public Health Researcher and Her Engineer Husband Found How Diseases Can Spread through Air Decades before the COVID Pandemic
Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe, by Carl Zimmer, charts the history of the field of aerobiology: the science of airborne microorganisms. In this episode, we discover the story of two lost pioneers of the 1930s: physician and self-taught epidemiologist Mildred Weeks Wells and her husband, sanitary engineer William Firth Wells. Together,…
Anthropic faces backlash to Claude 4 Opus feature that contacts authorities, press if it thinks you’re doing something ‘egregiously immoral’
Bowman later edited his tweet and the following one in a thread to read as follows, but it still didn’t convince the naysayers.Read More
Tina Arena grabs fan’s phone during concert
Tina Arena is sticking to her guns in concert after previously warning fans about mobile phone use. The songstress, who is performing around Australia on her successful Don’t Ask… Again tour, got a laugh from the crowd as she grabbed one fan’s phone mid-song. “Pick it up after the show,” the 57-year-old said as she…
How to Delegate to Someone Who Doesn’t Report to You
Delegating to your direct reports is simple. They report to you, so when you assign work, they know it’s part of their job. But with peers, it’s trickier. Take what happened to Preston, who had recently stepped into a VP role leading Customer Experience. His first major initiative involved rejiggering workflows across Sales, Support, and…
How ‘Daniel’ Led Our Reporters to an Assembly Line for Russian Spies
For years, Russia used Brazil as a launchpad for its most elite intelligence officers, known as illegals. They started businesses, made friends and had love affairs — events that, over many years, became the building blocks of entirely new identities. Jane Bradley and Michael Schwirtz, investigative reporters for The New York Times, discuss one case.
MLB Power Rankings Week 8: Tigers debut at No. 1
May 22, 2025, 07:00 AM ET The Detroit Tigers have continued their meteoric rise up our list … all the way to No. 1, usurping the Los Angeles Dodgers for the top spot in Week 8. The Tigers, who started at No. 18 in our preseason rankings, continue to dominate the majors in 2025. You…
Special contact lenses let you see infrared light – even in the dark
New contact lenses can provide infrared vision olga Yastremska/Alamy Contact lenses have enabled people to see beyond the visible light range, picking up flickers of infrared light even in the dark – or with their eyes closed. The lenses contain engineered nanoparticles that absorb and convert infrared radiation – specifically, a near-infrared wavelength range of…
Kidnap hoax mom Sherri Papini changes her story again, names alleged abductor – National
Sherri Papini, the California mom convicted of faking her own kidnapping in a bizarre hoax that invoked comparisons to the book-turned-movie Gone Girl, has changed her story once again. Papini, who disappeared in November 2016 while on a run near her Redding, Calif., home and emerged 22 days later with claims she’d been kidnapped and…