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These early studies “highlighted both the potential we could learn from dogs and that we needed larger sample sizes to do it really well,” said Elinor Karlsson, a geneticist at UMass Chan Medical School and the Broad Institute. And so researchers began creating large citizen science projects, seeking DNA samples and data from dogs across the United States.Pet owners have risen to the challenge. The Golden Retriever Lifetime Study, which began recruiting in 2012, has followed more than 3,000 dogs in an attempt to identify genetic and environmental risk factors for cancer, which is particularly common in the breed. Since 2019, the Dog Aging Project, a long-term study of health and longevity, has enrolled approximately 50,000 dogs.Dr. Karlsson’s personal project, Darwin’s Dogs, numbers 44,000...

American defense officials raised the security alert level at military bases in Europe over the weekend in response to vague threats from the Kremlin about Ukraine using long-range weapons on Russian soil, U.S. and Western officials said.Officials said no specific information had been gathered about possible Russian attacks on U.S. bases. Any such attack by Russia, overt or covert, would represent a significant escalation of its war in Ukraine.Russia has stepped up sabotage in Europe, hoping to disrupt the flow of material to Ukraine. So far, no U.S. bases have been targeted in those attacks, but U.S. officials have said raising the alert level would help ensure service members remain vigilant.Throughout the war, U.S. officials have assessed that President Vladimir V. Putin is reluctant to...

The Supreme Court eluded a final resolution Monday in a pair of cases challenging state laws designed to limit social media companies’ power to moderate content. The ruling dashed an effort by Republicans who had pushed the legislation as a remedy for what they say is a bias against conservatives.It was the latest case in which the Supreme Court considered, and then sidestepped, a major decision on the parameters of expression on social media platforms.State laws differ on the specifics. Florida’s bars platforms from permanently banning candidates for political office in the state, while Texas’s bars platforms from removing any content based on a user’s views.The justices unanimously agreed to remand the cases to the lower courts for review. Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the majority, n...

The raid turned Al-Shifa into a symbol of war, and many Gazans saw Israel’s targeting of medical institutions as a sign of contempt for Palestinian life. The detention of Dr. Abu Salmiya reinforced this view. For Israelis, the hospital was an example of Hamas’s exploitation of civilian infrastructure for military purposes.The Israeli military later released some evidence to support its claim that Hamas operated inside the Shifa compound, including showing reporters a fortified tunnel built beneath its grounds. A New York Times investigation suggested that Hamas had used the site as a shelter and stored weapons there. The Israeli military, however, struggled to substantiate its claim that Hamas maintained a command and control center beneath the facility.Dr. Abu Salmiya's release has se...

Dr. Mildred Thornton Stahlman, a Vanderbilt University pediatrician whose research on deadly lung diseases in newborns led to life-saving treatments and the creation of one of the first neonatal intensive care units in 1961, died Saturday at her home in Brentwood , Tennessee. She was 101 years old.His death was confirmed by Eva Hill, the wife of Dr. Stahlman's nephew, George Hill.On October 31, 1961, Dr. Stahlman placed a premature infant he was gasping for air into a miniature steel lung machine, also known as a negative-pressure ventilator, the kind used for children with polio. The machine worked by pulling on the newborn's fragile chest muscles to help him take in air. The newborn survived.That initial success, together with the discoveries of Dr.'s studies. Stahlman o...

For many, France seems like a very different place on Monday.The results of the first round of Sunday's legislative elections showed a deeply fragmented country, with a rising far right winning a record number of votes and the near collapse of President Emmanuel Macron's centrist party.“The far right at the door of power,” read the cover of the daily newspaper Le Parisien the morning after the first half of the early elections called by Macron.“Twelve million of our fellow citizens voted for a far-right party that is clearly racist and anti-republican,” the left-wing newspaper Libération said in an editorial, referring to Marine Le Pen's National Rally party. "The head of state threw France under the bus, the bus continued without slowing down and is now parked in front of the...

The Olympics have ancient origins. Now they will also have a dose of the latest technologies.This year, the highlights of the Summer Olympics will be told by artificial intelligence and, more specifically, by Al Michaels' AI-generated narration.Executives at NBCUniversal and the Peacock streaming service said Wednesday that a daily highlight reel customized for the Olympics would be available to streaming subscribers. The reel will feature the voice of Mr. Michaels, the 79-year-old American television host who first covered the Olympics decades ago.Mr. Michaels, however, will not be holed up in a television booth every night to briefly summarize the dozens of Olympic events that have taken place. Instead, the Peacock program has been trained by NBC clips of Mr. Michaels — he joined the...

Taliban officials attended a rare UN-led conference of global envoys in Afghanistan on Sunday, the first such meeting that Taliban representatives agreed to attend, after organizers said Afghan women would be excluded from interviews.The two-day conference in Doha, Qatar, is the third of its kind. It is part of a United Nations-led effort, known as the “Doha process,” which began in May 2023. It aims to develop a unified approach to international engagement with Afghanistan. Envoys from around 25 countries and regional organizations will participate, including the European Union, the United States, Russia and China.Taliban officials were not invited to the first meeting and refused to attend the second, held in February, after objecting to the inclusion of Afghan civil society groups pre...

Ann Lurie, a self-described hippie who later became one of Chicago's most celebrated philanthropists, in one case donating more than $100 million to a hospital where she once worked as a pediatric nurse, died Monday. She was 79 years old.Her death was announced in a statement from Northwestern University, to which Ms. Lurie, a trustee, had donated more than $60 million. The statement does not say where she died or specify a cause.An only child raised in Miami by a single mother, Ms. Lurie protested the Vietnam War while in college and planned to join the Peace Corps after graduation. In interviews, she said she chafed at the trappings of wealth even after she married Robert H. Lurie.Mr. Lurie had built a real estate and investment empire as a partner at Equity Group Investments, work...

The National Rally party won a landslide victory in the first round of voting for the French National Assembly on Sunday, according to early projections, bringing its long-taboo brand of nationalist, anti-immigrant politics to the threshold of power for the first time .Pollsters’ projections, usually reliable and based on preliminary results, suggested the party would win about 34 percent of the vote, far ahead of President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist Renaissance party and its allies, who won about 22 percent, placing them in third place.A coalition of left-wing parties called the New Popular Front, ranging from moderate Socialists to the far left of France Indomitable, was projected to win about 29 percent of the vote, buoyed by strong support among young people.Turnout was high, around 67...