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Kabosu, a Shiba Inu whose “very wow” face helped launch one of the biggest memes of the last decade and inspired the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, died Friday. He was 18 years old.She "crossed the rainbow bridge" on Friday, her owner Atsuko Sato said on social media, adding that she died without pain and while Ms. Sato caressed her. She died at her home in Sakura, a city east of Tokyo, Ms. Sato said in an email Friday.In the Animal Hall of Fame, Kabosu's sudden rise from ordinary dog ​​to global meme can only be described as "astounding." Sent to an animal shelter with a group of other Shiba Inu dogs after her breeder went out of business, she was adopted in 2008 by Ms. Sato, a kindergarten teacher. Ms. Sato began posting photos of Kabosu enjoying life and playing at home on her blog.Bu...

For weeks, the Gaza Strip’s southernmost city, Rafah, was one of the few places where desperate Gazans could find some aid and food. Bakeries sold bread; fuel powered generators; markets were open, if expensive.But since Israeli forces began an incursion in the city this month — effectively closing the two main crossings where aid enters — Rafah has become a place of fear and dwindling supplies. Bakeries have shuttered. So have malnutrition treatment centers. The price of the firewood that many people now use to cook has doubled. Tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers have grown so expensive that they are sold by the piece, not by the kilogram.Families hide what canned goods they still have. They eye their emptying sacks of flour, calculating how long they will last.“There’s always something miss...

A panel of experts advising the Food and Drug Administration voted overwhelmingly Thursday that a new blood test to screen for colon and rectal cancers is safe and effective and that its benefits outweigh its risks.But the group warned that the blood test has limitations and added that they are supporting it with the hope that it will increase the abysmally low number of people who are routinely screened for this cancer.The FDA typically follows the advice of its expert committees.In the United States, about 150,000 people are diagnosed with colon and rectal cancers each year, and about 53,000 are expected to die this year. Most people screened for the disease receive a colonoscopy or stool test. The FDA approved these methods long ago, and research has shown they are more accurate than ...

Pope Francis has paved the way for an Italian teenager to become the first millennial saint by crediting him with a second miracle, the Vatican announced Thursday.The teenager, Carlo Acutis, is often called the patron saint of the Internet among Roman Catholics because of his computer skills, which he used to share his faith. He died of leukemia in 2006 when he was just 15 years old.Carlo was born in London to Italian parents and moved with his family to Milan when he was a child. His passion for Catholicism blossomed early, his mother, Antonia Acutis, told the New York Times in an interview in 2020. At age 7, he began attending daily Mass. His faith inspired his mother to rejoin the church, he said.He was called to serve, finding ways to help the less fortunate and donating to those wi...

The Justice Department on Thursday sued Live Nation Entertainment, the concert giant that owns Ticketmaster, asking a court to break up the company over claims it illegally maintained a monopoly in the live entertainment industry.In the lawsuit, which is joined by 29 states and the District of Columbia, the government accuses Live Nation of using its vast empire to dominate the industry by tying venues into exclusive ticketing contracts, pressuring artists to use its services and threatening its rivals with financial backing. remuneration.These tactics, the government claims, have resulted in increased ticket prices for consumers and stifled innovation and competition across the industry. The lawsuit asks the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to order "the divesti...

After a four-day blockade at Al Awda Hospital, a major medical center in northern Gaza, the Israeli army on Wednesday ordered patients and staff to evacuate and then raided the complex, according to Gaza health officials.While most of the approximately 150 people who had been at Al Awda Hospital managed to evacuate, around 30, including critically ill patients, their carers and healthcare workers, remained behind, Dr Medhat Abbas, spokesperson for the Ministry of Gaza Healthcare said in a statement on Thursday.The Israeli army declined to comment on its operations around Al Awda, which is located in the Tal Al-Zaatar area of ​​northern Gaza. Israel withdrew from much of the north earlier this year but has recently returned to some areas to fight what it believes are attempts by Hamas to r...

In more than a dozen states, doctors and nurses have resorted to paper, handwritten treatment orders to track patients' illnesses and monitor them, unable to access the detailed medical histories that have long been available only through computerized records.Patients have waited long periods in emergency rooms and their treatments have been delayed as lab results and readings from machines like MRIs are ferried through makeshift efforts lacking the speed of electronic uploads.For more than two weeks, thousands of medical staff have switched to manual methods after a cyber attack on Ascension, one of the nation's largest health systems with about 140 hospitals in 19 states and the District of Columbia.The large-scale attack on May 8 was eerily reminiscent of the hack of Change Heal...

Polls suggest the centre-left Labor Party is set to return to power after more than a decade in opposition, which would bring a fundamental realignment to British politics.How does Britain vote?The United Kingdom – which includes England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales – is divided into 650 constituencies.Voters in each constituency select a candidate to represent them as a member of Parliament, and the political party that wins the most seats usually forms the next government. The leader of that party also becomes prime minister.To gain an absolute majority, a party must secure 326 seats. If the party at the top fails to achieve this, the result is known as a “Hung Parliament” and the party may try to form a coalition government with other parties. In 2010, the Conservatives join...

In 2021, David Sacks, a prominent venture capital investor and podcast host, said that former President Donald J. Trump's behavior during the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol had disqualified him from being a future candidate politic.At a technology conference last week, Mr. Sacks said his opinion had changed.“I have more disagreements with Biden than with Trump,” the investor said. Mr. Sacks said he and his podcast co-hosts were working to host a fundraiser for Mr. Trump, which could include an interview for their show “All In.” They also extended an invitation to President Biden, he said, but Trump's camp was more open.Such public support for Trump was taboo in Silicon Valley, which has long been seen as a liberal bastion. But frustration with Biden, Democrats and the state ...

Spain, Norway and Ireland said Wednesday they will recognize an independent Palestinian state, dealing a diplomatic blow to Israel that shows the country's growing isolation on the world stage more than seven months after its devastating military offensive in the Gaza Strip.In closely coordinated announcements, the leaders of the three countries said Palestinian independence cannot wait for a negotiated peace deal with Israel's right-wing government, which largely opposes the two-state solution and is expanding settlements in the West Bank occupied by Israel and continues to bomb Gaza without overthrowing Hamas or bringing home all its hostages.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also frustrated world leaders - and two members of his war cabinet - with his refusal to esta...