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Evan Stark, who studied domestic violence with his wife and then pioneered a concept called "coercive control," which describes the psychological and physical domination that abusers use to punish their partners, died March 18 at his home in Woodbridge, Connecticut. 82.His wife, Dr. Anne Flitcraft, said the cause was most likely a heart attack that occurred while he was on a Zoom call with women's advocates in British Columbia.Through studies begun in 1979, Drs. Stark and Flitcraft became experts in intimate partner violence, raising the alarm that beatings — and not car accidents or sexual assaults — were the leading cause of injuries that sent women to the emergency room.But in speaking with battered women and veterans who had experienced post-traumatic stress disorder as a result ...

Iran has retaliated directly against Israel for the killing of its generals in Damascus, Syria, with an attack of more than 300 drones and missiles aimed at restoring its credibility and deterrence, officials and analysts say.This represents a time of great risk, with key questions still to be answered, they say. Was Iran's attack enough to satisfy its demands for revenge? Or, given the relatively paltry results – almost all drones and missiles have been intercepted by Israel and the United States – will he feel compelled to strike again? And will Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, consider the excellent performance of his country's air defenses as a sufficient response? Or will he choose to escalate further with an attack on Iran itself?Now that Iran has attacked ...

Computers seem methodical, deliberate, and utterly predictable. But they can also behave in completely random ways. As researchers build ever more powerful machines, a key question is: what role will randomness play?On Wednesday, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest society of computing professionals, announced that this year's Turing Prize will go to Avi Wigderson, an Israeli-born theoretical computer mathematician and computer scientist who specializes in randomness.Often called the Nobel Prize in computing, the Turing Prize carries a prize of $1 million. The award is named after Alan Turing, the British mathematician who helped lay the foundations for modern computing in the mid-20th century.Other recent winners include Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan, who...

For decades, Israel and Iran have fought a shadow war across the Middle East, trading clandestine attacks on land, sea, air and in cyberspace. The barrage of drones and missiles fired by Iran at Israel on Saturday – although nearly all were shot down or intercepted – marked a watershed in the conflict.It was the first time Iran had directly attacked Israel from its own territory, according to Ahron Bregman, a political scientist and expert on Middle East security issues at King's College London, who called it a "historic event."Iran has widely used foreign agents to target Israeli interests, while targeted assassinations of Iranian military leaders and nuclear scientists have been a key part of Israel's strategy. Here is a brief history of the conflict:January 2020: Israel welcom...

The National Academy of Sciences is asking a court to allow it to repurpose about $30 million in donations from the wealthy Sackler family, which controlled the company at the center of the opioid epidemic, and to remove the family's name from endowment funds.The petition filed Thursday by the Academy in Superior Court in Washington, D.C., seeks to change the terms of the donations so the institution can use them for scientific studies, projects and educational activities.The move follows a New York Times report last year that examined donations from several Sacklers, including an executive at Purdue Pharma, which made the painkiller OxyContin that has long been blamed for fueling the crisis of opioids that has claimed thousands of lives.“The notoriety of the Sackler name has made it i...

A cable car carrying passengers in a mountainous area of ​​southern Turkey broke down after colliding with part of the metal structure supporting it on Friday, sending its eight terrified occupants plummeting to the rocky slope below.One passenger was killed, seven were injured and nearly 200 others were trapped in other cabins in midair, some overnight and then for hours into Saturday afternoon, as rescuers worked to free them from the paralyzed line.Helicopters, cranes and hundreds of rescue workers were deployed to the area to evacuate a total of 174 people, Turkey's interior minister said. Those affected include children, local residents and foreign tourists who were stranded in cabins, some of them tens of meters above the ground in the Sarisu area of ​​Antalya province, official...

Jackson Hinkle has cultivated an online persona so incendiary that he has been kicked off YouTube, Twitch and Instagram.It rages undaunted, even energetic. He regularly produces a podcast on Rumble, a website popular with many prominent conservatives. He writes dozens of posts a day onMeanwhile, he used false or misleading content, promoted manipulated images and made comments that watchdog organizations denounced as anti-Semitic. He calls himself an American patriot even as he praises American adversaries, including Vladimir V. Putin, Xi Jinping and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei."LEAVE A LIKE if you stand with IRAN in the face of ISRAELI TERRORISM!" he wrote last week on X after an Israeli airstrike in Syria killed several Iranian military officers. The next day he addressed the Houthi lead...

An Israeli teenager whose disappearance sparked riots by Israeli settlers in the West Bank was found dead on Saturday, Israeli authorities said, threatening to further inflame tensions in Israeli-occupied territories.Dozens of Israelis and Palestinians were injured during clashes later on Saturday in several locations in the West Bank, the Israeli army said in a statement. Israeli extremists stormed at least two villages in the territory, attempting to burn Palestinian property and clashing with residents, according to Palestinian witnesses.Binyamin Achimair, 14, had left a West Bank farming settlement to herd sheep on Friday morning but never returned, according to Israeli police. Israeli forces later found his body and the military claimed, without providing evidence, that he had been ...

Yuxin Sun, a psychologist in Seattle, sees many clients in her associate practice who insist they are not perfectionists. “'Oh, I'm not perfect. I'm far from perfect,'” they tell her.But perfectionism isn't about being the best at a certain goal, Dr. Sun said, "it's the feeling of never getting to that point, of never feeling good enough, of never feeling adequate." And this can create a harsh inner voice that belittles and chastises us.Perfectionism is so pervasive that there is a test to measure it: the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale. When researchers examined how college students responded to the scale's questions over time, they found that rates of perfectionism have increased in recent decades, skyrocketing between 2006 and 2022.Thomas Curran, an ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky likely changed the fate of thousands of Ukrainian men when he signed a law lowering the conscription age to 25 from 27 this month, more than two years after Russia began its full-scale invasion .Ukrainian forces are struggling to hold back the much larger Russian army and desperately need to replenish their ranks. Now many of the young people who remain in Ukraine – thousands of others have fled the country illegally – worry about their future.New York Times reporters spoke with Ukrainian men who may be affected by the change."I'm worried, even a little scared"Yegor Khomchenko, the owner of a communal bakery in eastern Ukraine who turns 25 next month, said he had many friends who had gone to war.But he said his wife, Amelia, told him he would "do...