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This is how Dr. Yuval Bitton remembers the morning of Oct. 7. Being jolted awake just after sunrise by the insistent ringing of his phone. The frantic voice of his daughter, who was traveling abroad, asking, “Dad, what’s happened in Israel? Turn on the TV.”News anchors were still piecing together the reports: Palestinian gunmen penetrating Israel’s vaunted defenses, infiltrating more than 20 towns and military bases, killing approximately 1,200 people and dragging more than 240 men, women and children into Gaza as hostages.Even in that first moment, Dr. Bitton says, he knew with certainty who had masterminded the attack: Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza and Inmate No. 7333335 in the Israeli prison system from 1989 until his release in a prisoner swap in 2011.But that was not all. ...

The last oneColorectal cancer rates are rising rapidly among adults in their 20s, 30s and 40s, and the most common warning sign for the disease is blood in the stool, according to a new scientific review.Rectal bleeding is associated with a five-fold increased risk of colorectal cancer, according to the new analysis, which looked at 81 studies that included nearly 25 million adults under 50 from around the world.Abdominal pain, changes in bowel habits and anemia are other common warning signs of the disease and should not be ignored, said the researchers, who published the paper Thursday in the journal JAMA Network Open.Because matterColon and rectal cancer rates have increased among young adults while rates have decreased among older adults, who are much more likely to undergo colonoscopi...

Russia bombed a hardware superstore in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Saturday afternoon, killing at least six people and wounding at least 40 others, Ukrainian officials said. The attack was the latest in a prolonged bombing campaign against the city that has made life increasingly difficult and dangerous for civilians.Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv regional military administration, said 16 people were still missing, suggesting the death toll could rise. He added that another airstrike on Saturday in the center of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, wounded at least 14 people.“For the whole day, Kharkiv was under Russian terrorist attacks. The airstrike in the Kharkiv region has been ongoing for more than 12 hours,” President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on soc...

Shortly before Russian troops crossed Ukraine's northern border this month, members of Ukraine's 92nd Assault Brigade lost a vital asset. The Starlink satellite internet service, which soldiers use to communicate, gather intelligence and conduct drone strikes, has slowed.Operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX, Starlink has been crucial to the Ukrainian military since the early days of the war with Russia. Without full service, the Ukrainian soldiers said, they could not quickly communicate and share information about the surprise assault and resorted to sending text messages. Their experiences were repeated along the new northern front line, according to Ukrainian soldiers, officials and electronic warfare experts.At the heart of the disruptions: Russia's increased interference....

The Israeli army was carrying out the operation in Rafah on Saturday, according to three Israeli officials, a day after the world's top court appeared to order Israel to "immediately" cease its military campaign in the southern city of Gaza, amid a growing international outcry over the offensive.Officials did not say exactly in which part of the city his forces were striking and fighting. An official said the army continued to advance slowly, but warned that it was too early to conclude how Israel would respond to the court order because it takes time for a military ground operation to change course. The officials all spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.Palestinian media reported that an Israeli attack killed one person in central Rafah and that t...

Slowly but steadily, Marlene Nathanson was recovering. She had a stroke in November 2022 at her home in Minneapolis and spent a week in the hospital; Later, when she arrived at St. Paul's Episcopal Homes for rehabilitation, she could not walk. The weakness of her right arm and hand made her unable to feed herself and her speech remained somewhat slurred.But after three weeks of physical, occupational and speech therapy, "she was making good progress," said her husband, Iric Nathanson. “Her therapists were very encouraging.” Mrs. Nathanson, then 85, had begun getting around using a walker. Her arm was getting stronger and her speech was almost back to normal.Then, one Wednesday afternoon, one of his therapists told the Nathansons that their Medicare Advantage plan had denied a req...

A far-right group in the European Parliament announced Thursday that it had ousted the Alternative for Germany party from its coalition, dealing a blow to a key alliance just two weeks before European parliamentary elections.In a statement on its official accountIn an interview last week, Krah appeared to downplay crimes committed by the SS, the Nazi paramilitary force that killed millions of people during the Holocaust. “A million soldiers wore the SS uniform,” Krah told La Repubblica and the Financial Times in a joint interview. “Can you really say that because someone was a Waffen-SS officer, he was a criminal? Individual guilt must be established."In its statement, Identity and Democracy wrote that it "no longer wants to be associated with the incidents involving Maximilian Krah, he...

TikTok may add a new skill to its resume: the disco time machine.The social platform, normally populated by countless Gen Z dancers – mostly in short choreographed routines that have been practiced and perfected – has recently been infused with the energy of a surprising demographic: their Gen X parents.In the viral videos, adult children ask their parents to dance as they would have done to the 1984 sound bite “Smalltown Boy,” by British synth-pop band Bronski Beat. Most of the posts are tagged #momdancechallenge, #daddancechallenge or #80sdancechallenge and have amassed tens of millions of views.The reactions were perhaps unexpected, because instead of laughing, the videos are great, really great, and act as a portal to another time: when dance was more often improvised and spontaneous...

But in the bigger picture, said Gabi Siboni, a reserve colonel and fellow at the conservative-leaning Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, the main problem is that the army is only concerned with dismantling the Hamas military system and not of the civil one. Hamas's control over the civilian sphere will be the springboard for rebuilding its army, he said.In his view, there is no alternative to a transitional period of Israeli military rule in Gaza that could last several years.Hayman said that while the military effort to capture the city of Rafah at this pace could last another two to three weeks, the process of dismantling Hamas facilities could take much longer. "The choice is between withdrawing or strengthening control and trying to hide Hamas," she said. “You could ...

Bovine tissue from a sick dairy cow tested positive for the avian influenza virus, federal officials said Friday.According to the US Department of Agriculture, the cow was ordered to be slaughtered because it was sick and the meat was not included in the food supply. The department continued to emphasize that the commercial food supply remained secure.But the positive test, which is part of an ongoing federal study on the safety of beef, raises concerns that the virus could enter the commercial beef supply, posing a risk to human health.So far the virus, known as H5N1, has only been detected in dairy cattle and not in beef cattle raised for meat. But experts believe the outbreak is larger than the official count of 58 affected dairy farms in nine states.“It is clear that this situation i...