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Howard Buten, a college dropout from Detroit, juggled three extraordinary lives.In one, he was a cuddly, clumsy, speechless red-nosed clown named Buffo. It sold out in theaters around the world. Critics have compared him to Charlie Chaplin and Harpo Marx.In another, he volunteered as an assistant with autistic children, went back to school to earn a doctorate in psychology, helped create a pioneering therapy for autism and opened a treatment center.He has made a third life as a novelist. "Burt," written in the voice of a disturbed 8-year-old, failed in the United States but incredibly achieved "Catcher in the Rye" status in France, where it sold nearly a million copies and became, to his amusement, and a slight displeasure, a cultural sensation.“Howard Buten is a kind of walking poem,” wro...

Since the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel was announced on Wednesday, Israeli airstrikes have continued across the Gaza Strip, with northern Gaza facing the heaviest attacks, officials said Friday morning emergency in the area.The Palestinian Civil Defense, an emergency services organization, said more than two dozen children were among the victims and that more than 200 people were injured across the territory. The highest toll was in Gaza City, where more than 80 Palestinians were killed, Civil Protection said.The group's figures cannot be independently confirmed. The Israeli military did not immediately comment.Wafa, the Palestinian Authority's official news agency, said Israeli warplanes hit houses in northeast Gaza City, causing deaths and injuries. Rescuers and ambulance...

Shortly after Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, was arrested by police in France last summer and accused of failing to prevent illicit activity on the app, a French law professor specializing in cybersecurity received online messages from a man name Isaac Steidl.“I would like to talk to you,” said an email signed by Mr. Steidl, who introduced himself as the founder of the online chat site Coco. "My case is very similar to Telegram's, as are the charges."Michel Séjean, the professor, who shared copies of the messages with The New York Times, said he did not know Mr. Steidl, had no interest in helping him and never responded. However, he was familiar with Coco, a website where anonymous users could chat without leaving a trace of the conversation.French law enforcement had linked the sit...

Less than six months after rolling out a slew of AI features, Apple is disabling one of its signature features: news notification aggregation and summarization.The company revealed the change Thursday in a software update for developers. This followed an outcry from the British media that Apple software was misrepresenting the news.In December, the BBC was among the first to urge Apple to change its software. The call came after the BBC sent readers a notification about Luigi Mangione, the man arrested for the murder of Brian Thompson, the health insurance executive, in New York City. Some iPhones summarized BBC news by saying: “Luigi Mangione shoots himself.” He hadn't.In addition to disabling news summaries, Apple said it will add a warning for users who have opted in to receive notifica...

More Americans are surviving cancer, but the disease strikes younger, middle-aged adults and women more frequently, the American Cancer Society reported Thursday.And despite overall improvements in survival, Black and Native Americans die from some cancers at rates two to three times higher than white Americans.These trends represent a stark shift for a disease that has long been considered a disease of aging, affecting many more men than women.The changes reflect declines in smoking-related cancers and prostate cancer among older men and a staggering increase in cancer in people born since the 1950s.Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, but the leading cause among Americans under 85. The new report predicts that there will be approximately 2,041,910 new cases t...

Israel's military campaign in Gaza has dealt devastating blows to Hamas: It has killed top Hamas leaders and thousands of militants, pummeled the militant group's tunnel network, and undermined its ability to threaten Israel with rocket fire .When Hamas launched its attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, it hoped to trigger a regional war that would draw in its allies and lead to Israel's destruction. Instead, he was left to fight Israel almost entirely alone. Its allies have been decimated in Lebanon, overthrown in Syria and weakened in Iran. The Houthis in Yemen have only managed to launch occasional rocket and drone attacks, most of which Israel has intercepted.Despite its isolation, however, Hamas remains the dominant Palestinian power in Gaza even after 15 months of Israeli bombardment,...

The Albanian government has given preliminary approval to a plan proposed by Jared Kushner, Donald J. Trump's son-in-law, to build a $1.4 billion luxury hotel complex on a small abandoned military base off the coast of Albania.The project is one of many involving Trump and his extended family that directly involve foreign government entities and that will continue even while Trump is responsible for foreign policy relating to these same nations.The approval by Albania's Strategic Investment Committee, led by Prime Minister Edi Rama, gives Kushner and his business partners the right to move forward with accelerated negotiations to build the luxury resort on a 1,400-acre section of the area of ​​2.2 square meters. mile of Sazan Island which will be connected by ferry to the mainland.Kushner ...

TikTok sought to assure its US employees on Tuesday that they will still have jobs next week, even if the Supreme Court upholds a law that would see the video app banned in the US on Sunday.The message is a change of tone from TikTok, which otherwise said it was confident it would emerge victorious from its legal challenge to the law. This also shows that the company has no plans to leave the United States in the near term, even if it were banned.TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, is fighting a law last year that would ban the app unless its U.S. operations were sold to a non-Chinese owner. TikTok sent a message to its staff on Tuesday acknowledging uncertainty over the upcoming decision and assuring employees that they will continue to be paid. The Supreme Court is expected to ma...