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by Peter Elkind ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as theyre published. The Trump administration has eliminated or stifled critical data at dozens of federal agencies. Now the administrations actions are hitting a new realm: the energy industry.For decades, the Energy Information Administration, an independent agency housed inside the Department of Energy, has provided crucial reports on everything from oil and gas to the future of alternative energy. Relied on by oil company CEOs and government policymakers alike, the EIAs data has been called the gold standard by Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of S&P Global and an minence grise in the world of oil. No less a source than Project 2025 described the EIA as historically providing independent and impartial analysis.Last month, the EIA released its signature report: the Annual Energy Outlook for the United States. Largely based on data gathered during the administration of Joe Biden, the report projected rapid growth in alternative energy and declines in American reliance on coal, oil and natural gas. Agency officials feared that the findings would rankle the Drill, Baby, Drill proponents in the Trump administration, according to multiple EIA sources. So instead of promoting the reports publication with an hourlong webcast and PowerPoint presentation spotlighting key findings, as it has in recent years, the agency released it without any of that. And at a late stage, the EIA deleted the analytical narrative then 53 pages in draft form that is typically the centerpiece of the report. Instead the agency posted links to hundreds of data-filled tables and charts and a seven-page explanation of its methods. That didnt stop the Energy Department from pillorying the findings. In a press release on the same day the report was published, a department spokesperson attacked the EIAs report for featuring the disastrous path for American energy production under the Biden administration and failing to reflect Trump-initiated policy changes aimed at ensuring Americas future is marked by energy growth and abundance not scarcity.Now the EIA has privately informed staff that it is scrapping publication of its closely followed International Energy Outlook for 2025. The previous edition of the international outlook, released every two years, contained 70 pages detailing global trends. The paradox: That will leave the field open to the equivalent publication from the Paris-based International Energy Agency, which conservatives accuse of bending its forecasts to promote climate-change goals. (Unlike the U.S. agency, whose projections take into account only formally adopted policies, the international one includes some policies that havent been adopted and are considered aspirational.)In an April 16 internal email announcing the cancellation of the international report, which has not previously been reported, Angelina LaRose, assistant administrator in the EIAs office of energy analysis, blamed the decision on the departure of so many staff experts. More than 100 of the EIAs 350 staff have left as a result of firings or resignations, in the wake of Fork in the Road buyout offers from Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency. At this point, you can assume we will not be releasing the IEO this year, she wrote. This was a difficult decision based on the loss of key resources.In the same memo, LaRose ordered an all hands-on-deck type of effort, before even more EIA analysts departed, to try to preserve as much institutional knowledge as possible about the models and procedures used to formulate the international report.Failing to publish that report is viewed as consequential. Amy Myers Jaffe, a prominent energy consultant and research professor at New York University, called the EIAs reports and analysis essential. These are global markets, she said. The only way to figure out which policies work or dont is to have accurate EIA data. Everybody benefits from that analysis, whether youre in the private sector or the public sector.The EIA was established nearly a half-century ago, amid the energy crises of the 1970s, to tackle what had become an urgent need: to collect and report objective data on energy production and consumption. Its regular stream of postings now track oil and gasoline prices, electricity rates, natural gas and crude oil exports, automobile fuel consumption, wind and solar energy generation, coal production and nuclear plant outputs.Its U.S. Annual Energy Outlook projects long-term trends, based on multiple scenarios, and customarily provides detailed analysis discussing key takeaways from reams of data. For 2025, its baseline reference case projected how markets would operate through 2050 under laws and regulations in place as of December 2024, prior to the Trump administrations efforts to promote fossil fuels. In addition to eight side cases based on variations in economic growth, energy pricing and supply, the EIA also modeled two alternative policy scenarios. These projected impacts from the elimination of Biden-era laws and regulations reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants and boosting adoption of electric vehicles.According to the contents pages from the draft, which ProPublica obtained, the deleted narrative highlighted projections in the reference case showing that increased electricity demand would be met through 2050 mainly by generation from renewable sources; that coal generation falls to close to zero; and that there would be declines in domestic consumption of oil and natural gas.The decision to jettison the reports traditional explanatory narrative was announced to EIA staff in a March 10 internal email, after the document was largely complete following months of work. After conferring with the [EIA] front office, we are shifting gears on the material that will be released with this years AEO, assistant administrator LaRose wrote. We will not be releasing the narrative as currently written and will not be hosting a release event.The omission of the analytical section left readers to sort through the data for themselves. Joseph DeCarolis, who served as EIA administrator under Biden and is now an engineering professor at North Carolina State, called the annual outlooks narrative extremely important. Its important to be able to look at the results, interpret them, and explain to your audience what you think the insights are.EIA employees said they believe the changes were made out of fear that spotlighting unwelcome findings and projections would make the agency a Trump target. There was a concern that any narrative we put out would be seen as ideological, said Emily Schaal, an EIA statistician who worked on the U.S. report. Another EIA employee commented: Fewer people were going to get mad if we just threw the numbers out.Asked about the decision, EIA spokesperson Chris Higginbotham said the agencys leadership jettisoned the analysis because it decided it was most important to prioritize getting our AEO results to the public as soon as we could rather than waiting longer to complete a written market analysis. He added, We do not make decisions about our data or our analyses with the goal of influencing outcomes or avoiding pushback.With regard to EIAs international report, Higginbotham said, We remain committed to maintaining our long-term energy modeling capabilities. He asserted that the staff reductions will not compromise the agencys work. We are committed to meeting EIAs quality standards, he said, and we will not publish any data or analysis that doesnt meet those standards.Meanwhile, the EIA has canceled or delayed other data reports and projects. Those moves, combined with the turmoil and departures, have devastated morale, according to current and former EIA employees.Schaal was among those grappling with the tumult. After completing a doctorate in math, Schaal, 28, joined the EIA as a statistician in June 2024, working remotely from Michigan, and expected to remain at the agency for years. Instead, she was one of about 30 probationary employees who were abruptly terminated on Feb. 13, just weeks into the new administration. A lawsuit challenging firings at six agencies, filed by a union that represents government workers, prompted a federal judge to order their reinstatement, and Schaal returned to the EIA in mid-March.Everyone at EIA had been through a month of torture, she told ProPublica. Employees were dealing with chaos, uncertainty and fears of termination. In early April, Schaal accepted a new deferred resignation offer, with plans to depart on April 19.On April 11, hours before a midnight deadline for the resignation program, EIAs acting administrator presided over an all-hands meeting with a top deputy, where he read a prepared statement urging employees to take the offer. Then the two managers gave assurance they had done a great job defending the agency in a meeting with DOGE officials, who were certain to treat them all appropriately, according to four people who attended the all-hands meeting.Schaal was furious. After the session ended, she pounded out an angry email to the two bosses and then shared it with everyone who still remained at EIA. DOGE doesnt care what we do and will treat us the same as all other agencies: with contempt, she wrote. Shame on you for falling in line and giving up without any perceptible effort to fight. Shame on you for keeping those you purport to lead in the dark. Shame on you for betraying the mission set to us by Congress and selling out the American people.On the following Monday, Schaal was summoned to a virtual meeting with her supervisor, where she was presented with a formal letter of reprimand for her unprofessional and disrespectful email, as well as a second letter notifying her that she was being placed on administrative leave, a week ahead of her planned departure. The episode made her something of a hero among colleagues who remained behind, who have taken to sharing their frustrations with one another on private Signal groups. (EIAs spokesperson declined to comment on the episode. Neither DOGE nor the White House replied to requests for comment for this article.)The EIA, whose director is a presidential appointee, typically chosen from among apolitical academic or industry figures, is poised to get new leadership. Trumps nominee is Tampa energy consultant Tristan Abbey, a self-described think-tanker at conservative groups who has called U.S. dominance in natural gas exports a generational opportunity. Abbey, 39, served as an energy staffer on the National Security Council in the first Trump administration. His financial disclosure reports $103,083 in senior fellow fees since 2024 from the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation and $435,833 in income from his consulting business, whose clients included Thiel Capital. (Abbey worked for Trump-friendly billionaire Peter Thiels investment firms before going into government.) Abbeys consulting firm also has an eclectic side business focused on publishing books written by or about explorers and historical figures in philosophy and math.Abbey enjoyed a friendly confirmation hearing on Wednesday before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee. He testified that he would leave his policy role behind and affirmed his commitment to the EIA providing nonpartisan facts.Abbey praised the EIA as the worlds premier energy data agency but also said it is in urgent need of revitalization. He presented an ambitious must-do list seemingly at odds with the current administrations wholesale cuts. The EIA, Abbey declared, must clear the decks of unfinished projects, recruit and retain the best talent and develop the most powerful analytical capabilities. Among his top priorities, Abbey testified: the expansion of global energy data collection and analysis. Doris Burke contributed research.

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In this image taken on Monday, April 28, 2025, and made available Saturday, May 3, 2025, by Vatican Media, workers prepare the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, where the upcoming conclave will start May 7, backdropped by Michelangelo Buonarroti's fresco 'The Last Judgement'. (Vatican Media via AP)2025-05-05T10:09:56Z VATICAN CITY (AP) Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators. All the support staff for the cardinals who will elect the successor to Pope Francis are taking an oath of secrecy on Monday ahead of the conclave thats starting on Wednesday.The punishment for breaking the oath? Automatic excommunication.The oath-taking is being held in the Pauline Chapel at the Vatican for all those assigned to the upcoming conclave. They include clerics in support roles, including confessors speaking various languages. The cardinals themselves will take their oath on Wednesday in the Sistine Chapel, before they cast their first ballots.But an array of laypeople are also required to house and feed the cardinals. A conclaves duration cannot be predicted and it will only be known when white smoke rises out of the Sistine Chapel chimney to signal a winner. All those people will be sequestered to be on hand for any medical needs, and maintain the majestic beauty appropriate for the election of the next head of the 1.4 billion strong Catholic Church. The oathThe provisions for the oath-taking are laid down in Vatican law.St. John Paul II rewrote the regulations on papal elections in a 1996 document that remains largely in force, though Pope Benedict XVI amended it twice before he resigned in 2013. He tightened the oath of secrecy, making clear that anyone who reveals what went on inside the conclave faces automatic excommunication. In John Pauls rules, excommunication was always a possibility, but Benedict revised the oath that liturgical assistants and secretaries take to make it explicit, saying they must observe absolute and perpetual secrecy and explicitly refrain from using any audio or video recording devices.They now declare that they: Promise and swear that, unless I should receive a special faculty given expressly by the newly elected pontiff or by his successors, I will observe absolute and perpetual secrecy with all who are not part of the College of Cardinal electors concerning all matters directly or indirectly related to the ballots cast and their scrutiny for the election of the Supreme Pontiff. I likewise promise and swear to refrain from using any audio or video equipment capable of recording anything which takes place during the period of the election within Vatican City, and in particular anything which in any way, directly or indirectly, is related to the process of the election itself.I take this oath fully aware that an infraction thereof will incur the penalty of automatic excommunication reserved to the Apostolic See. So help me God and these Holy Gospels, which I touch with my hand.Preparations underwayThe Sistine Chapel has already undergone a week-long transformation following the funeral of Pope Francis, who died on April 21 at age 88.Technicians installed a floating floor to level out the space and make way for ceremonial furnishings, including tables for the electors and their aides, which are draped by Vatican upholsterers. The famous stove used to signal the voting outcomes was placed in its designated corner, a placement dictated by protocol, and firefighters installed the chimney on the roof. Twelve technicians and maintenance craftsmen will remain inside for the duration, maintaining temperature, lighting, and electrical systems, and assisting with ceremonial logistics like operating the stove, the Vatican City State administration said.As tradition dictates, all windows in the conclave zone are darkened to guarantee privacy. Nearly 80 access points around the perimeter are sealed with lead on the eve of the conclave.A colonel and a major of the Pontifical Swiss Guard Corps are among those taking the oath they will be responsible for surveillance near the Sistine Chapel, the frescoed Renaissance jewel where 133 cardinal electors will be voting. ___Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the APs collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

FILE -Sean 'Diddy' Combs participates in "The Four" panel during the FOX Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 4, 2018. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)2025-05-05T04:11:16Z NEW YORK (AP) Sean Diddy Combs, the hip-hop entrepreneur whose wildly successful career has been dotted by allegations of violence, will be brought to a New York courthouse Monday to be tried on charges that he used the influence and resources of his business empire to sexually abuse women.Jury selection is scheduled to begin in the morning and potentially take several days. Opening statements by the lawyers and the start of testimony is expected next week. The 17-page indictment against Combs reads like a charging document filed against a Mafia leader or the head of a drug gang, accusing him of engaging in sex trafficking and presiding over a racketeering conspiracy.The indictment says that with the help of people in his entourage and employees from his network of businesses, Combs engaged in a two-decade pattern of abusive behavior against women and others. Women were manipulated into participating in drug-fueled sexual performances with male sex workers that Combs called Freak Offs, prosecutors say. To keep women in line, prosecutors say Combs used a mix of influence and violence: He offered to boost their entertainment careers if they did what he asked or cut them off if they didnt. And when he wasnt getting what he wanted, the indictment says Combs and his associates resorted to violent acts including beatings, kidnapping and arson. Once, the indictment alleges, he even dangled someone from a balcony. Combs and his lawyers say he is innocent. Any group sex was consensual, they say. There was no effort to coerce people into things they didnt want to do, and nothing that happened amounted to a criminal racket, they said.The trial is expected to take at least eight weeks.Combs, 55, has acknowledged one episode of violence that is likely to be featured in the trial. In 2016, a security camera recorded him beating up his former girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, in the hallway of a Los Angeles hotel. Cassie filed a lawsuit in late 2023 saying Combs had subjected her to years of abuse, including beatings and rape. The Associated Press does not typically name people who say they have been sexually abused unless they come forward publicly, as Cassie, whose legal name is Casandra Ventura, did.Combs attorney, Marc Agnifilo has said Combs was not a perfect person and that there had been drug use and toxic relationships, but said that all sexual activity between Combs, Cassie and other people was consensual.The trial is the latest and most serious in a long string of legal problems for Combs.In 1999 he was charged with bursting into the offices of an Interscope Records executive with his bodyguards and beating him with a champagne bottle and a chair. The executive, Steve Stoute, later asked prosecutors to go easy on Combs, who pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and took an anger management class.Later that same year, Combs was stopped by police after he and his then-girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez, fled a nightclub where three people were wounded by gunfire. Combs was acquitted of all charges related to the incident at a 2001 trial, but a rapper in his entourage, Jamal Shyne Barrow, was convicted in the shooting and served nearly nine years in prison. Then in 2015, Combs was charged with assaulting someone with a weight-room kettlebell at the University of California, Los Angeles, where one of his sons played football. Combs said he was defending himself and prosecutors dropped the case. Now, Combs faces his most serious case yet.If convicted, he faces the possibility of decades in prison.

Warren Buffett, presidente y director general de Berkshire Hathaway, concede una entrevista a Liz Claman en el programa "Countdown to the Closing Bell" de Fox Business Network, el 7 de mayo de 2018, en Omaha, Nebraska. (AP Foto/Nati Harnik, archivo)2025-05-05T11:29:49Z OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Billionaire Warren Buffett will remain with Berkshire Hathaway as chairman of the board when vice chairman Greg Abel takes over as CEO to begin 2026. The board of directors at the cash-rich conglomerate voted Sunday to keep the legendary 94-year-old investor as head of the board, a decision likely to relieve investors worried about Berkshires remarkable winning streak as the U.S. and global economies are beset by tariff shocks, financial turmoil and a growing risk of recession.The board in the same meeting also approved Buffetts chosen successor as CEO, veteran Berkshire executive Greg Abel, 62. In a surprise announcement Saturday, Buffett said he would step down from that top spot at the end of the year.Berkshire Class B shares fell nearly 3% before the opening bell Monday.Macrae Sykes, portfolio manager at Gabelli Funds, praised the transparent way Buffett announced the transition at the meeting and believes investors can have confidence that he isnt going anywhere. Retaining the position of Chairman means he can continue to mentor Greg and the Berkshire leaders, while also providing additional intellectual capacity when the inevitable time for more major capital allocation occurs, Sykes said. In six decades at the helm, Buffett turned a Massachusetts textile company into a sprawling but nimble conglomerate that owns everything from Daily Queen and Sees Candies to BNSF Railway and giant insurers. As the company grew, Warrens reputation grew with it as shares of Berkshire Hathaway climbed steadily, exceeding major indexes by wide margins and returning an average 19.9% each year versus 10.4% for the Standard & Poors 500. The decision to continue with the so-called Sage of Omaha as head of the board came amid speculation that Howard Buffett, the second-born of the investors three children, would move into that spot. The older Buffett has said that after he dies he would like Howard to take over as chairman. A current vice-chairman, Abel, will take over as CEO as big questions hover over the company. Buffett himself has said President Donald Trumps tariffs were a big mistake. There are also worries that Berkshire might not able to avoid the fate of most conglomeratesforced to break up to recapture focus.Then there is Berkshires $348 billion in cash. Buffett says he doesnt see many bargains to invest that money in now, not even Berkshires own stock, but assured some of the estimated 40,000 attendees of the companys celebratory weekend annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, that one day the company would be bombarded with opportunities.Abel, a low-key Canadian with a love a hockey, has been overseeing many of Berkshires non-insurance businesses for years, but has not been deciding where to invest the companys cash.Buffett said his trust in Abel can seen in where he is putting his money.I have no intention zero of selling one share of Berkshire Hathaway. I will give it away eventually, Buffett said. The decision to keep every share is an economic decision because I think the prospects of Berkshire will be better under Gregs management than mine. What to do with that personal fortune, nearly $170 billion, will eventually be in the hands of Buffetts three children, including would-be Berkshire chairman, Howard Buffett.Howard was designated in June along with his siblings as manager of Buffetts trust when he dies and he said that they will decide where to donate that money. Buffett has already given away billions, most notable more than $40 billion to the Gates Foundation started by Bill and Melinda French Gates.Howard, 70, has his own foundation through which he has donated billions to humanitarian and food security causes, including helping coffee farms in El Salvador and clearing landmines in Ukraine.Tributes to Buffett came tumbling in over the weekend praising his investment savvy and folksy management style.Theres never been someone like Warren, and countless people, myself included, have been inspired by his wisdom, Apple CEO Tim Cook posted on X. Its been one of the great privileges of my life to know him. JP Morgans CEO Jamie Dimon said Buffett represented everything that is good about American capitalism and America itself, and praised his integrity, optimism and common sense.____AP Business writer Bernard Condon is in New York City. AP Business Writer Michelle Chapman contributed to this report from New York City. BERNARD CONDON Condon is an Associated Press investigative reporter covering breaking news. He has written about the Maui fire, the Afghanistan withdrawal, gun laws, Chinese loans in Africa and Trumps business. twitter facebook mailto JOSH FUNK Funk is an Associated Press reporter who covers all the major freight railroads including Union Pacific, BNSF, Norfolk Southern, CSX, Canadian National and CPKC. Funk also covers Warren Buffetts Berkshire Hathaway and has been attending Buffetts Woodstock for Capitalists annual meeting every spring in Omaha, Nebraska, for 19 years. twitter mailto

This combination of photos show Anna Wintour, from top left, Pharrell Williams, Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo, from bottom left, A$AP Rocky, who will serve as co-chairs, and LeBron James, who will serve as honorary chair for the 2025 Met Gala. (AP Photo)2025-05-05T04:00:06Z NEW YORK (AP) Pharrell Williams has high hopes for the Met Gala, the first to focus exclusively on Black designers, and the first in more than 20 years to have a menswear theme.I want it to feel like the most epic night of power, a reflection of Black resiliency in a world that continues to be colonized, by which I mean policies and legislation that are nothing short of that, he recently told Vogue.Its our turn.Indeed. And welcome to the first Monday in May.How to watch the 2025 Met GalaVogue will livestream the gala starting at 6 p.m. Eastern on Vogue.com, its YouTube channel and across its other digital platforms. Teyana Taylor, La La Anthony and Ego Nwodim will host the stream. Emma Chamberlain will also do interviews on the carpet.The Associated Press will livestream celebrity departures from the Mark Hotel beginning at 5 p.m. Eastern and will stream the gala carpet on delay beginning at 6:30 p.m. The feeds will be available on YouTube and APNews.com.E! will begin live coverage at 6 p.m. on TV. The livestream will be available on Peacock, E! Online and YouTube, along with the networks other social media feeds. Whos hosting the 2025 Met Gala?This year, the fundraising gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosted by a group of Black male celebrities, including Williams, the musical artist and Louis Vuitton menswear director, and Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo, and A$AP Rocky, with NBA superstar LeBron James as honorary chair. Theyre joined by Vogues Anna Wintour, the mastermind behind the gala, considered the years biggest and starriest party.Also guaranteed to show up is a second tier of hosts from a variety of worlds: athletes Simone Biles and husband Jonathan Owens; Angel Reese and ShaCarri Richardson; filmmakers Spike Lee, Tonya Lewis Lee and Regina King; actors Ayo Edebiri, Audra McDonald and Jeremy Pope; musicians Doechii, Usher, Tyla, Janelle Mone and Andr 3000; author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; artists Jordan Casteel, Rashid Johnson and Kara Walker; playwrights Jeremy O. Harris and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; and fashion figures Grace Wales Bonner, Edward Enninful, Dapper Dan and Olivier Rousteing.The gala raises the bulk of the curation budget for the museums Costume Institute. This years Met Gala dress code is...Its more like a firm suggestion. From Wintour. This year, its about tailoring and suiting as interpreted through the history and meaning of Black dandyism across the Atlantic diaspora. The theme is inspired by the annual spring exhibition, which this year is based in large part on Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, a book written by Monica L. Miller. She is guest curator of the exhibit.Historical manifestations of dandyism range from absolute precision in dress and tailoring to flamboyance and fabulousness in dress and style, Miller writes in the exhibit catalog. Whether a dandy is subtle or spectacular, we recognize and respect the deliberateness of the dress, the self-conscious display, the reach for tailored perfection, and the sometimes subversive self-expression. How the dress code goes, in terms of taste and style, is anyones guess. Wintour has a hand in virtually all things gala, so the presumption is things cant go too far off the rails. She recently knocked down the rumor that she approves all looks, telling Good Morning America shell weigh in if asked. The exhibit, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, draws on other sources beyond Millers book. Its organized into 12 sections. Each symbolizes a characteristic of dandy style as defined by Zora Neale Hurston in her 1934 essay, Characteristics of Negro Expression.Among them: ownership, presence, distinction, disguise, freedom, respectability and heritage. Presumably, for gala guests who do deep-dive research (or have stylists to do it), some of these factors will play out on the museum steps that serve as the events red carpet.Who else is going to show up?The guest list amounts to about 450 high-profile people from tech, sports, art, entertainment and more. The mix, Williams said, is a must.Its so important to me to have successful Black and brown people of every stripe in the room: not just athletes and actors and actresses, entertainers, but also authors, architects, folks from the fintech world, he told Vogue. Weve got to invest in each other. Weve got to connect with each other, because its going to take everybody to coalesce the force of Black and brown genius into one strong, reliable force.___For full coverage of the Met Gala, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/met-gala LEANNE ITALIE Italies work spans the lifestyles and entertainment space, from fashion and family to film, music and theater. She is based in New York and has worked across the United States for The Associated Press. twitter instagram facebook mailto

Pakistan's Rangers soldiers, in black, and Indian Border Security Forces soldiers, lower their flags during a daily closing ceremony at the Wagah, a joint post on the Pakistan and India border, near Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, May 3, 2025. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)2025-05-05T09:25:47Z NEW DELHI (AP) India and Pakistan are scrambling resources both military and diplomatic to respond to a crisis triggered by a massacre in Indian-controlled Kashmir that has heightened fears of a conflict between the nuclear-armed rivals. India blames Pakistan for backing the gunmen behind the April 22 killing of 26 people, most of them Indian Hindu tourists, and has described it as a terror attack. Islamabad denies the charge. Both countries have expelled each others diplomats and nationals, as well as closed their borders and shuttered airspace. India has also suspended a critical water-sharing treaty with Pakistan.A Pakistani minister last week said his country had credible intelligence that an Indian strike was imminent. There has been no military action from India so far.Heres where the situation stands since the attack: World leaders urge de-escalation After an initial wave of condemnations of the attack on tourists, world leaders are calling for both sides to avoid escalation. The U.N. Security Council is expected to hold closed consultations on Monday to discuss the situation.International pressure has been piling on both New Delhi and Islamabad which fought two of their three wars over disputed Kashmir to ease tensions. Senior officials from the U.S., China, Russia and Saudi Arabia have urged both sides to exercise restraint. Iran has offered to mediate.Meanwhile, both nations have launched an aggressive diplomatic campaign to shore up support for their positions. India has made efforts to highlight what it called the cross-border link to the attack by briefing diplomats of dozens of countries.The diplomatic outreach this time has been quite extensive and the idea for India would be to showcase whatever evidence it has to its partners and to make a case that whatever actions might be coming from its side has the support of its partners and allies, said Harsh Pant, foreign policy head at the Observer Research Foundation think tank in New Delhi. Pakistan has offered to cooperate with an international investigation into the attack and reached out to dozens of foreign diplomats. Islamabad, however, said that it will match or exceed any military action by India. Tensions on the border, fears in KashmirIndian army has said its troops have exchanged gunfire with Pakistani soldiers along the de facto border, the Line of Control, in Kashmir, blaming the neighbour for unprovoked firing for 10 straight nights. Islamabad, meanwhile, has accused India of violating a ceasefire.In Kashmir, Indian forces have launched a huge operation to hunt the April 22 attackers. At least 2,000 people have been detained and questioned. Some have been arrested under anti-terrorism laws that allow authorities to detain people without formal charges. Indian forces also blew off at least nine family homes of suspected rebels, who have been fighting for independence or merger with Pakistan.The crackdown has led to fear and anxiety in Kashmir, stirring traumatic memories of the regions decades-long insurgency and Indias brutal response. Praveen Donthi, senior analyst with the International Crisis Group, said Kashmiris are always the first to bear the brunt of any political or military tensions between India and Pakistan. The collective punishment imposed on Kashmiris and the state violence unleashed against them further inflames the conflict, Donthi said.India and Pakistan are flexing military mightOn Monday, Pakistans military test-fired a short-range missile, the second test launch since a medium-range ballistic missile on Saturday. Indias navy also test-fired missiles last week. In 2019, a skirmish between the two countries almost spiralled out of control, before U.S. intervention eased tensions.Associated Press writers Aijaz Hussain in Srinagar, India and Rajesh Roy in New Delhi contributed to this report. SHEIKH SAALIQ Saaliq covers news across India and the South Asia region for The Associated Press, often focusing on politics, democracy, conflict and religion. He is based in New Delhi. twitter mailto

A Telegram bot that does nothing but AI generate nonconsensual short videos of men ejaculating on womens faces has more than 100,000 monthly active users.Telegram bots that produce nonconsensual pornography are common, but this particular bot is notable for amassing 115,016 users in just a few weeks and for making the bleeding edge of AI video generation cheap and easy to access for nefarious means. The bots popularity also shows how quickly open AI tools released by tech giants are being adopted to cause harm.The size of the bots audience, and the rapid speed at which it grew, shows just how quickly abusive tools like this are spreading across Telegram and the communities that use them. It also shows how Telegram is one of the major platforms where this abuse takes place, despite this content technically violating its terms of service.I found the bot promoted in a different Telegram channel dedicated to making and sharing AI-generated nonconsensual pornography which has about 50,000 members. As I previously reported, in late February the Chinese tech giant Alibaba released an open weights AI video generation model called Wan 2.1, which was quickly modified to create several AI video generation models dedicated to creating porn. About 24 hours after Alibaba released Wan 2.1, those porn AI models started appearing on Civitai, a site for sharing modified AI models that multiple 404 Media investigations have shown is widely used by people who create nonconsensual content.As I reported in March, the users in the Telegram channel have been sharing nonconsensual AI videos created with a variety of apps that are available via the Apple App Store since 2024, but since Wan 2.1 was released, an increasing number of users in the Telegram channel have been sharing nonconsensual AI generated videos they say use modified Wan 2.1 models that are shared on Civitai.AI-generated videos of men ejaculating on celebrity womens faces have been particularly popular in the Telegram channel seemingly because they are easier to produce and more convincing. Im not going to repeat every detail, but according to several users in the channel who shared instructions on how to create these videos, the process involves using a Civitai image-to-video AI model and running it locally or in the cloud. Image-to-video AI models allow users to feed a single still image to the model, then type a text prompt in order to animate that image how they like.In mid-April, similar AI-generated videos started flooding the Telegram channel but with a watermark with a URL, registered April 18, that directed users to the Telegram bot that now has 115,016 users. Another Telegram channel with an almost identical name and logo was banned by Telegram sometime in April for violating its terms of service, but the bot was still active at the time of writing.Users who join the bots Telegram channel get one free credit that allows them to generate one of these videos. All they have to do is upload a still image and the bot will generate it within minutes. When I tested it, my queue position was #172 and it took the bot 20 minutes to generate the video. Users can buy additional credits in packages which are cheaper the more credits they buy. Four credits cost $4.60, for example, while 240 credits cost $195. Users also get a 20 percent discount for paying in cryptocurrency.Cumshot AI bots are an evolution of tributes, where people physically ejaculate on photographs of women and share videos of it online. Women whove been targeted by tributes have said they find it disturbing at its mildest and serious harassment and threatening at worst. Sometimes tributes escalate to threats of violence and rape.Im not sure exactly how the bot grew so fast in such a short time, but its notable that it is now almost double the size of the original Telegram channel where I found it. Ive also found that videos with the watermark advertising it are hosted on a porn tube site where they have gained thousands of views, as well as another Telegram channel dedicated to creating nonconsensual AI-generated pornography of Korean pop stars. One user who uploaded these videos to a tube site also uploaded a couple of videos labeled as highschool crushes, explained that they were videos of women he knew in real life, and left instructions in the description of the video on how to find these womens real Instagram accounts.While nonconsensual AI-generated adult content violates Telegrams policies, and while the company has taken action on such channels and bots before, they are still very common on the platform. I did a quick search while researching this article and found various such bots, including an undress bot with more than 170,000 monthly users.Telegram and Alibaba did not respond to a request for comment.

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A great white shark trapped on a sand bank along the coast of Australia was saved by three men who spent nearly an hour maneuvering the animal into deeper waters. What do you think?Hopefully this will usher in an age of peace between Shark and Man.Eric Creech, Systems AnalystThis may seem compassionate, but ultimately youre just preventing them from ever evolving legs.Gary Sturdevan, Tortilla FlattenerIts good to know there are still some stupid Samaritans out there.Jasmine Remmler, Keyboard DusterThe post Australians Rescue Great White Shark Stranded In Shallow Water appeared first on The Onion.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, 1 in 31 U.S. children is diagnosed with ASD, also known as autism spectrum disorder. The Onion dispels the common myths surrounding autism.MYTH: Autism is caused by vaccines.FACT: There is no scientific evidence that the microchips inside vaccines are linked to autism.MYTH: All autistic people are good at math.FACT: All autistic people are good at Wave Race 64.MYTH: Bad parenting causes autism.FACT: Bad parenting causes people to believe that bad parenting causes autism.MYTH: Only boys can be autistic.FACT: Girls were given access to the spectrum in 1983.MYTH: There werent autistic people in the past.FACT: Who do you think categorized all the bugs?MYTH: All autistic people have a special skill.FACT: Autistic people are often just as useless as the rest of us.MYTH: Autistic people will use martial arts to kill my family.FACT: The Accountant and The Accountant 2 are works of fiction.MYTH: Some people with autism may never work.FACT: Thats awesome, good for them.MYTH: You should have been much, much nicer to your classmates with autism growing up.FACT: This one checks out, actually.The post Autism: Myth Vs. Fact appeared first on The Onion.

WASHINGTONQuestioning the presss past coverage of the man known as the D.C. sniper, social media users have reportedly begun criticizing the early 2000s media for its harsh treatment of John Allen Muhammad. You should have seen the tabloids back thenthey were so mean to him, 37-year-old podcast host Leigh Scholler wrote Monday, lambasting outlets from news broadcasts to blogs for their cruel and unnecessary depiction of the serial killer. He was all over the papers, all the time. He couldnt shoot anybody without making a headline. Can you imagine how that must have made him feel? These vultures were rooting for and celebrating his downfall. We all were. Honestly, it makes me sick. Scholler went on to express hope that at least the nation was learning to treat mass shooters with more empathy.The post Early 2000s Media Criticized For Harsh Treatment Of D.C. Sniper appeared first on The Onion.

DURHAM, NCThreatening to have his client sit out the rest of the academic semester unless he was paid what hes worth, Cooper Flaggs agent Austin Brown negotiated a 10% increase Monday in textbook buyback value for the NCAA star from the Duke University bookstore. This Intro to Psychology textbook is top-of-the-line, and we arent budging on this, so dont spit in our face with this weak-ass $25 offer when you know Cooper is worth $27.50, Brown said to an English literature grad student working part time at the bookstore, explaining that Duke must not understand the asses Flagg puts in seats if they arent will to accept a macroeconomics textbook that is clearly only lightly used. I will burn your whole life down okay? I will go scorched earth. Who the hell has heard of Duke University anyway? I hear North Carolina is paying $40 for Earth: A Physical Geology. It still has the accompanying CD-ROM in the back, for Christs sake. This is the 2018 edition, and these babies are still crisp as the day he got them. That better become $44 real quick, or were walking. And at least look my client in the face while youre trying to fuck him. At press time, Brown had also secured Flagg a complimentary third taco and fountain drink at the Duke dining hall.The post Cooper Flaggs Agent Negotiates 10% Increase In Textbook Buyback Value At Duke Bookstore appeared first on The Onion.

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CORRECTS ID TO KRUGMAN NOT KRUGER Kate Krugman, facing camera, and other students from Atlanta's Midtown High School confer during a semifinal round of the National High School Ethics Bowl in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)2025-05-05T04:18:23Z CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) A contrast:At the National Speech and Debate Tournament, two high school students take the stage. The first articulates the position he has been assigned to defend people should have a right to secede from their government and why it is correct. Another student, assigned the opposite position, begins to systematically tear down her opponents views. A year later and 800 miles away, two teams of high school students convene at the University of North Carolina for the National High School Ethics Bowl finals. A moderator asks about the boundaries of discourse when a public figure dies, how do you weigh the value and harm of critical commentary about their life?Teams have not been assigned positions. One presents their ideas. The opposing team asks questions that help everyone to think about the issue more deeply. No one attacks. Many a young debater may learn the rhetorical skills to become a successful lawyer or politician, subduing an opponent through wit and wordplay. But are they learning skills that will make them better citizens of an increasingly complex and contentious republic?In an age when many Americans are wondering whether it is still possible to have a principled, respectful disagreement over important issues, proponents of Ethics Bowl say it points the way. Discussion replaces contentiousnessEthics Bowl may resemble debate. After all, its two teams discussing a controversial or difficult topic. But they are very different. In Ethics Bowl, teams arent assigned a specific position on an issue that they have to defend regardless of their beliefs. Instead, members are given cases to discuss and make their own decisions about what they consider the best position. Teams can, and often do, come to similar conclusions. It is and this is important OK for them to agree. Scoring is based on how deeply they explore the issues, including other viewpoints. Robert Ladenson, who developed the Ethics Bowl as a college philosophy classroom exercise back in 1993 and went on to lead the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl for decades, explains what he considers an ethical understanding of an issue in an oral history for the University of Illinois in 2023.It means having some capacity to view, from the inside, the ethical outlooks of people who disagree with you. That means not simply being aware of what theyve said or what theyve written, or being able to develop a nifty debaters responses to the viewpoints they hold but really looking inside the other view and trying to understand it from the other persons way of looking at the world. Its a reach for understanding and common groundThat plays out at Ethics Bowl. Take the case See Spot Clone, about whether it is ever ethical to clone a beloved pet.Harpeth Hall from Nashville starts the discussion with six minutes to present their thoughts. There are millions of homeless pets, so the ethical choice is to adopt, they believe. Cloning is self-serving for the human. The pet cannot consent to being cloned. Also, cloning may involve unknown health issues for the cloned pet, as in the renowned case of Dolly the sheep. The team also believes that death is a part of life, and it is important for people to confront death. Now it is the turn of team B, Miamis Archimedean Upper Conservatory not to attack and refute, but to ask questions that expand the discussion. What about pet breeders? Where do they fit on the ethical continuum? Also, whats so wrong with cloning a pet for your own happiness? Are all selfish pursuits bad?Team A responds that breeding is better than cloning but worse than adopting a stray. They point out that a cloned pet will not have the same personality, and that could bring the owner pain instead of comfort. Next the judges ask questions. What if there were no possible health problems for the cloned animal? What if the animal is not cloned to comfort an owner but for a more noble purpose? Would it be ethical to clone a skilled search-and-rescue dog?Cloning is still a threat to the natural cycle of life, Team A contends. And there is no guarantee that the temperament and personality that make an excellent service animal would be retained in a clone. Once the round is complete, the moderator introduces a new case. Easy answers are avoidedIn a society awash in shortcuts and simple solutions, simply setting the ground rules for contentious conversations can be a high hill to climb. At the Ethics Bowl, though, its part of the point: The process of conversation is as important as the outcome. And subtlety matters.A good Ethics Bowl case is one where two well-meaning individuals can take in all of the same facts and information and come to diametrically opposite, value-driven answers, says Alex Richardson, who directed the National Bowl for five years. The cases students grapple with include real-life scenarios pulled from the headlines, like the less-than-respectful response to the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. There are also more philosophical issues, like whether humans should pursue immortality. And there are dilemmas that teenagers deal with every day, like whether not posting on Instagram about a hate crime in your community makes you complicit. That last case was a difficult one for the team from Harpeth Hall, they say, but it helped them clarify some of their thoughts around social media. We came to the conclusion that no one is obligated to share information, says Katherine Thomas. But then there was a difference like when youre talking about Taylor Swift, when she actually could register 500,000 people to vote but she decides not to. Is she actually complicit in that? She has the actual power to make change, where I dont, really, with my 200 followers.Another case considered whether to confront an uncle who makes sexist remarks at the dinner table. Discussing the issue with her Harpeth Hall teammates helped Thalia Vidalakis think through when it might be good to speak up and when its good to just be there for your family and recognize that theres going to be differences.It unfolds in a low-key wayA group of teenagers sits at a table with sticker-covered water bottles and the occasional Red Bull. They are allowed only pens and blank paper, no previous notes, but their backpacks litter the room. Their opponents sit at a neighboring table. In between is a moderator. Facing them are three judges pulled from the UNC philosophy department, Ethics Bowl leaders from other states, even the community at large. There is no dress code, so the teens come in whatever they consider nice clothes.The teams have been discussing a group of cases for weeks, but they dont know which theyll be asked about. Once the question is read, they are given a few minutes to discuss. Thats when one or two of the teammates generally scurry around the table to huddle. Intense whispering and furious scribbling ensue. Its clearly a contest. There is a winning team and a trophy. But students say it is not competitive in a traditional sense. Were all sad that it has to end. But I agree that its not about beating people, says Lizzie Lyman, whose first-year team from Midtown High School in Atlanta lost in the semifinals of the national championship. When it becomes about winning and beating the other team, it gets hostile and ... just unsavory. When its about constructively answering a question and just having a really interesting, engaging conversation, thats where you get to have all these amazing conversations.Competitiveness isnt only beside the point. It can even be counterproductive in achieving the desired goal. Thats how Mae Bradford of the winning team BASIS Flagstaff from Arizona sees it. Her assessment: Something thats rare and unique about Ethics Bowl is that those who dont focus on winning and instead focus on truth and respect and getting to the moral heart of the issue will win.Changing minds, one kid at a timePart of the point of the Ethics Bowl is to create well-rounded students who ingest other viewpoints and engage without arguing. A 2022 survey of participants in nationals found that 100% believed that their critical thinking skills had improved. A large majority said their ethical or political beliefs had changed. There is clearly a thirst for a different kind of competition. The National High School Ethics Bowl is only 12 years old, and this year saw 550 teams competing in regional bowls around the country.Sona Zarkou, also on the BASIS Flagstaff team, sees herself as a case study in Ethics Bowl benefits. When she practiced debate, she says, she was kind of a jerk very quick to attack and very rude about opposing views. In Ethics Bowl she sees herself turn the discussion to something a lot more respectful, a lot more truth-oriented.Rhiannon Boyd, a judge at this years competition as well as a high school teacher and coach and the organizer of the Virginia High School Ethics Bowl, has seen the positive changes as well. Two of her students last year were on opposite ends of the political spectrum. Their disagreement was great. Could they be on the same team together? In the end, both joined and made it all the way to nationals. Their differing opinions remain. But now, Boyd says, they are really good friends.They can see each others strengths because they were sitting side by side at nationals in a huddle trying to build off of each others ideas, she says. They could see that leveraging those differences was actually the thing that made them strong. Ethics Bowl: Lesson learned. ___AP National Writer Allen G. Breed contributed to this report.

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Vehicles drive past an anti-Israel banner showing numerous locations in Israel as a Yemeni dagger (jambiya) with writing in Farsi reading: "All targets are within range, Yemeni missiles for now!", and in Hebrew "All targets are within reach, we will choose", at the Felestin (Palestine) Sq. in downtown Tehran, Iran, Monday, May 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)2025-05-05T13:20:01Z DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) Iran is talking tough while still wanting to talk more with the United States over a possible nuclear deal. In the last days, Tehran has backed an attack by Yemens Houthi rebels that slipped through Israels missile defenses to strike near Ben-Gurion International Airport. It aired footage of its own ballistic missile test while defense minister called out threats by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth against the Islamic Republic. And an organization linked to its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard unveiled a new mural with a map of Israel overlaid by possible missile targets in the shape of a Yemeni jambiyya, an ornamental dagger worn by Yemeni men. But all the while, Iran maintains it wants to reach a nuclear deal with the U.S. after talks scheduled to take place last weekend in Rome didnt happen. Thats even as Trump administration officials continue to insist that Tehran must give up all its ability to enrich uranium in order to receive sanction relief something Iran repeatedly has said is a nonstarter for the negotiations. Israel-Hamas war changes equation for IranAll this together can feel contradictory. But this is the position where Iran now finds itself after having been ascendant in the Mideast with its self-described Axis of Resistance, countries and militant groups finding common cause against Israel and the U.S. That changed with the attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed some 1,200 people and saw 250 others taken hostage back to the Gaza Strip. Israel launched a devastating war on Hamas in Gaza that rages on even today and may be further escalating after Israel approved plans Monday to capture the entire Gaza Strip and remain there for an unspecified amount of time. Israels war has killed more than 52,000 people in Gaza, many of them women and children, according to Palestinian health officials, who do not distinguish between combatants and civilians in their count. In the course of the war, Hamas, Lebanons Hezbollah and other Iran-backed militants have been beaten back by Israeli attacks. Syrian President Bashar Assad, long backed by Iran, saw his familys over 50-year rule end in December as rebels swept the country. Thats left Iran with just Yemens Houthi rebels, though they too now face an intensified campaign of strikes by the Trump administration. Iran carefully applauds Houthi strike on IsraelThe strike Sunday on Ben-Gurion repeatedly earned highlights in Iranian state media. However, Irans Foreign Ministry made a point to insist that the attack had been an independent decision by the group. Expert opinion varies on just how much influence Iran wields over the Houthis. However, Tehran has been instrumental in arming the Houthis over Yemens decadelong war in spite of a United Nations arms embargo. The Yemeni people, out of their human feelings and religious solidarity with the Palestinians, and also to defend themselves in the face of continuous aggression by America, have taken some measures, Irans Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said Monday. Meanwhile, Iranian Defense Minister Gen. Aziz Nasirzadeh called out comments by his American counterpart who had warned that Iran would pay the CONSEQUENCE for arming the Houthis with weapons.I advise the American threatening officials, especially the newcomer defense minister of the country, to read the history of Iran in the recent four decades, the general said. If they read, they will notice that they should not speak to Iran using the language of threats.Iran has not, however, responded to Israeli airstrikes targeting its air defenses and ballistic missile program in October.Nuclear deal remains a top Iranian priorityBut getting to a new nuclear deal with the U.S., which could see Tehran limit its enrichment and stockpile of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions, remains a priority for Iran. Its troubled rial currency, once over 1 million to $1, has strengthened dramatically on just the talks alone to 840,000 to $1.The two sides still appear a long way from any deal, however, even as time ticks away. Iranian media broadly described a two-month deadline imposed by President Donald Trump in his initial letter sent to Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Trump said he wrote the letter on March 5, which made it to Iran via an Emirati diplomat on March 12. Meanwhile, the U.S. campaign on Yemen and Israels escalation in Gaza continues to squeeze Tehran. Thats on top of American officials including Trump threatening sanctions on anyone who buys Iranian crude oil, as well as following a new, harder line saying Iran shouldnt be able to enrich uranium at all. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who strongly encouraged Trump to unilaterally withdraw American in 2018 from Irans nuclear deal with world powers, also has been pushing for the same. Iran likely has been trying to get messages to America despite last weekends planned talks in Rome being postponed. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi flew to Islamabad to meet his Pakistani counterpart, Ishaq Dar. A readout from Pakistans Foreign Ministry acknowledged the men discussed the nuclear negotiations. Araghchi got a colder reception from Kaja Kallas, the foreign policy chief of the European Union. While European nations have had warmer ties to Iran in the past, Tehrans arming of Russia in its war on Ukraine has angered many in the EU. I called on Iran to stop military support to Russia and raised concerns over detained EU citizens and human rights, Kallas wrote Monday on the social platform X. EU-Iran ties hinge on progress in all areas.___Associated Press writers Nasser Karimi and Amir Vahdat in Tehran, Iran, and Riazat Butt in Islamabad contributed to this report. ___EDITORS NOTE Jon Gambrell, the news director for the Gulf and Iran for The Associated Press, has reported from each of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Iran and other locations across the Mideast and wider world since joining the AP in 2006. JON GAMBRELL Gambrell is the news director for the Gulf and Iran for The Associated Press. He has reported from each of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Iran and other locations across the world since joining the AP in 2006. twitter instagram mailto

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