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Pro-Palestinian protesters blocked traffic Monday morning in cities across the country, part of a global effort to disrupt economies and pressure world leaders to push for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.In California, protesters chained themselves to barrels and blocked lanes on northbound I-880 in Oakland, while another group of protesters carrying banners disrupted southbound traffic. On the Golden Gate Bridge, protesters blocked traffic in both directions, with some carrying a banner reading “Stop the World for Gaza.”The outages didn't just impact motorists. In Chicago, protesters on I-190 blocked traffic entering O'Hare International Airport, and passengers who had already arrived began walking on foot with their luggage to catch their flight. The airport announced on Day X t...

Dr. David Egilman, a physician and expert witness who, over a 35-year period, testified in nearly 600 corporate wrongdoing trials, winning billions of dollars in awards for victims and their survivors, died April 2 at his home in New York. Foxborough, Massachusetts. He was 71 years old.The cause was cardiac arrest, his son Alex said.Many medical experts have a sideline in court, offering their informed opinions on the witness stand and helping to validate or undermine plaintiffs' claims. But few make it a career-long passion like Dr. Egilman has. He taught at Brown University and ran a private practice, but spent most of his time consulting and testifying in as many as 15 cases a year.He did more than just give opinions from the gallery. A tenacious researcher, he dug up incrimina...

Hundreds of survivors of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing have filed a lawsuit against Britain's government intelligence agency MI5, their lawyers said.Three main firms - Hudgell Solicitors, Slater & Gordon and Broudie Jackson Canter - said in a statement on Sunday that they represented more than 250 victims of the attack and the families of those killed, and lodged a collective complaint with the Investigative Powers Tribunal. , an independent judicial body that examines complaints against British intelligence.“As this is an ongoing legal matter, we are neither able to provide further details, nor comment further, at this stage,” the group's statement read.The lawsuit comes a year after an independent public inquiry found that MI5, the national security service, failed to act on...

Westfield Public Schools held a regular board meeting in late March at the local high school, a red brick complex in Westfield, NJ, with a scoreboard outside proudly welcoming visitors from the "Home of the Blue Devils".But for Dorota Mani it didn't go as usual.In October, some 10th grade girls at Westfield High School - including Ms Mani's 14-year-old daughter, Francesca - alerted administrators that boys in their class had used artificial intelligence software to fabricate sexually explicit images of them and were by circulating false images. Images. Five months later, the Manis and other families say, the district has done little to publicly address the manipulated images or update school policies to thwart the exploitation of artificial intelligence.“It appears that the Westf...

Moments after Israel and its allies shot down a barrage of Iranian missiles and drones this weekend, many began to wonder what the latest exchange between Israel and Iran would mean for the war in the Gaza Strip.The Iranian attack was retaliation for what was believed to be an Israeli attack this month on an embassy building in Damascus that killed seven Iranian officials, including three senior commanders of the Iranian military. But it came against the backdrop of the war in Gaza, where Israel is fighting Hamas, a militant group financed and armed by Iran.Israeli military analysts were divided over whether a more direct confrontation with Iran could alter the war in Gaza, now in its sixth month. The next focus of that war could hinge on Israel's decision to pursue Hamas in the sout...

The New York Times is interested in the organ transplant system.Do you have a tip about irregularities in the system? If so, we need your help.If you are a doctor, nurse, technician, or anyone else who works on organ transplants, we would like to hear from you. We are also eager to speak with residents working in these transplant programs. And, of course, we also want to hear from patients and their families.

To enter a secret session of the German parliament, lawmakers must lock their phones and leave them outside. They can't even take notes inside. Yet to many politicians these precautions against espionage now seem like something of a farce.Because sitting next to them in those confidential meetings are members of the Alternative for Germany, the far-right party known by its German acronym, AfD.In the past few months alone, a prominent AfD politician has been accused of taking money from pro-Kremlin strategists. One of the party's parliamentary assistants turned out to have ties to a Russian intelligence agent. And some of its state lawmakers flew to Moscow to observe Russia's run elections.“Knowing for sure that sitting there, while these sensitive issues are being discussed...

The Biden administration will award up to $6.6 billion in grants to the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the leading maker of the most advanced microchips, in an effort to bring some of the most cutting-edge semiconductor technologies to the United States.The funds, which come from the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act, will help support the construction of TSMC's first major U.S. hub, in Phoenix. The company has already committed to building two plants at the site and will use some of the grant money to build a third plant in Phoenix, U.S. officials said Sunday. TSMC will also increase its total investments in the United States to more than $65 billion, up from $40 billion.Bringing the world's most sophisticated chip manufacturing to the United States has been a major ...

On Sunday the hospital waiting room was silent: there was no crowd of relatives, no sea of ​​patients. Israeli air defenses had just repelled a large-scale Iranian attack, recording only one serious casualty.But there was no sense that a crisis had been averted outside the pediatric intensive care unit at Soroka Medical Center in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba. Instead, tension filled the air until the ward doors opened and a panting mother stepped out, her face contorted. Then raw emotion quickly took over as she collapsed into a chair, crying.While Israel suffered little significant damage overnight, this family suffered a devastating blow. Amina al-Hasoni, 7 years old, was clinging to life and was the only serious victim of the Iranian barrage. And if not for systemic inequ...

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 ...