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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken suggested on Wednesday that the Biden administration might be willing to tolerate attacks by the Ukrainian military inside Russia using American-made weapons, saying the United States will “adapt and adapt” the their position based on changing conditions in the country. the battlefield.Blinken said the United States neither encouraged nor allowed such attacks. But he said Ukrainians must make their own decisions about how to best defend themselves — a position he has stated before — and that the U.S. government has “adapted and adjusted as needed” as the war has evolved.When a reporter asked him if his words “adapt and adapt” meant that the United States might support Ukraine's attacks with American-made weapons inside Russia, he replied: “Adapt a...

A dozen years ago, John Mark Dougan, a former deputy sheriff in Palm Beach County, Fla., sent voters an email posing as a county commissioner, urging them to oppose the re-election of the county’s sheriff.He later masqueraded online as a Russian tech worker with a pseudonym, BadVolf, to leak confidential information in violation of state law, fooling officials in Florida who thought they were dealing with a foreigner.He also posed as a fictional New York City heiress he called Jessica, tricking an adviser to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office into divulging improper conduct by the department.“And boy, did he ever spill ALL of the beans,” Mr. Dougan said in a written response to questions for this article, in which he confirmed his role in these episodes.Those subterfuges in the United ...

The Israeli military said Wednesday evening it had taken "tactical control" over the Philadelphia Corridor - a sensitive strip of Gaza along the border with Egypt - in a move that could further strain Israel's already strained ties with Cairo.Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, an Israeli military spokesman, said the area was "Hamas's oxygen pipe" and had been used by the Palestinian armed group to "regularly smuggle ammunition into Gaza territory." He said Hamas had also built tunnels near the Egyptian border, calculating that Israel would not dare strike so close to Egyptian territory.Israeli officials said seizing the narrow area, about 9 miles long, is crucial to preventing Hamas from rearming itself through cross-border smuggling. “It must be in our hands; it must be closed,” Israe...

Think for a minute about the little bumps on your tongue. You probably saw a diagram of those taste bud arrangements once in a biology textbook: sweet sensors on the tip, salty on both sides, sour in the back, bitter in the back.But the idea that specific tastes are confined to certain areas of the tongue is a myth that "persists in the collective consciousness despite decades of research debunking it," according to an article published this month in the New England Journal of Medicine. The concept that taste is limited to the mouth is also wrong.The old diagram, used in many textbooks over the years, originated in a study published by David Hanig, a German scientist, in 1901. But the scientist wasn't suggesting that the various tastes are separated on the tongue. He was actually me...

When the small town of Valentina in Russia came under heavy shelling in March by Ukrainian forces, her daughter Alla, who lives a short distance across the border near Kharkiv, texted her mother to make sure she was okay .Now that Kharkiv and the surrounding region are under heavy attack from Russia, it is Valentina who is consulting with her daughter to make sure everything goes well. Regular checks continued as fighting intensified on the new front opened by Russia this month.“So he calls me and asks, 'Mom, how's it going there? It's so loud in here. I think there's something heading your way from our direction. Mom, be careful!'” said Valentina, a dual Russian-Ukrainian citizen who did not want to give her full name for fear of repercussions for both her and her ...

Few debates have raged longer and more controversially in the computing industry than one: Is “open source” better than “closed” when it comes to software development?This debate was revived as companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Microsoft differed on how to compete for supremacy in artificial intelligence systems. Some choose a closed model while others embrace an open approach.Here's what to know.What does open source software mean?Source code is the underlying building blocks of the apps you use. Developers can write tens of thousands of lines of source code to create programs that will run on a computer.Open source software is any computer code that can be freely distributed, copied, or modified for the developer's purposes. The nonprofit Open Source Initiative, an indu...

The temporary pier that the US military built and put in place to deliver much-needed humanitarian aid to Gaza broke due to rough seas, the Pentagon said Tuesday.The latest calamity to befall the pier venture has punctuated several particularly grim days in Gaza, where Israeli forces have stepped up attacks on the city of Rafah just two days after carrying out a deadly attack that killed dozens of people .“Unfortunately, we had a perfect storm in high seas conditions and then, as I said, this North African weather system also came through at the same time, creating a suboptimal environment to operate,” Sabrina Singh, Pentagon deputy press secretary. , he said at a press conference.Army engineers are working to put the pier back together, and Defense Department officials hope "it will be f...

Fluctuating disease rates, innovative treatments and talk of “moonshots” at the White House could make cancer seem like a modern plague. But a new discovery sheds light on how humans dealt with disease and sought cures as far back as ancient Egyptian times.Scientists led by Edgard Camarós, a paleopathologist at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, were studying an Egyptian skull about 4,600 years old when they found signs of brain cancer and its treatment.“There was an uncomfortable silence in the room, because we knew what we had just discovered,” Dr. Camarós said.Using a microscope, he and Tatiana Tondini of the University of Tübingen in Germany and Albert Isidro of the Sagrat Cor University Hospital in Spain, the study's other authors, found cut marks around the edges...

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken plans to spend this week showing U.S. support for nations facing a hostile Russia during visits to Moldova and the Czech Republic, where he will participate in a meeting of NATO foreign ministers discussing on how to strengthen Ukraine.Mr. Blinken, who stopped in Kiev more than two weeks ago, is expected to fly to Chisinau, Moldova's capital, on Wednesday and meet with Maia Sandu, the nation's president, who is running for re-election. Ms. Sandu supported Moldova's membership of the European Union and scheduled a referendum vote on EU membership on the same day as October's general elections.He is expected to run against a pro-Russian candidate, and U.S. and European analysts say Moscow will likely try to interfere in the election, as i...

Ryan Salame, a top executive at collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on Tuesday, making him the first of Sam Bankman-Fried's circle of advisors at FTX to receive a prison sentence.Salame, 30, a trusted lieutenant of Bankman-Fried, the exchange's founder, pleaded guilty last year to violating campaign finance law and a charge of operating a money transfer business without license. He is one of four top deputies in the FTX empire who have pleaded guilty to crimes since the company imploded in November 2022.Mr. Salame's sentence exceeded the five to seven years recommended by prosecutors. Defense lawyers had asked for 18 months.Wearing a blue suit and socks emblazoned with the Bitcoin logo, Salame stood before Judge Lewis A. Ka...