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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)2025-04-24T12:47:48Z WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump on Thursday offered rare criticism of Vladimir Putin, urging the Russian leader to STOP! after a deadly barrage of attacks on Kyiv, Ukraines capital.I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are dying, Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform. Lets get the Peace Deal DONE!Russia struck Kyiv with an hourslong barrage of missiles and drones. At least nine people were killed and more than 70 injured in the deadliest assault on the city since last July. Trumps frustration is growing as a U.S.-led effort to get a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia has not made progress.Trump lashed out at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday and accused him of prolonging the killing field by refusing to surrender the Russia-occupied Crimea Peninsula as part of a possible deal. Zelenskyy has repeated many times during the war that began when Russia invaded in February 2022 that recognizing occupied territory as Russias is a red line for Ukraine.Zelenskyy noted Thursday that Ukraine had agreed to a U.S. ceasefire proposal 44 days ago as a first step to a negotiated peace, but that Moscows attacks had continued.Trump is set to meet later Thursday with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stre to discuss the war in Ukraine, U.S. tariffs and other issues.Norway, a member of NATO and strong supporter of Ukraine, shares a roughly 123-mile (198-kilometer) border with Russia. AAMER MADHANI Madhani covers the White House for The Associated Press. He is based in Washington. twitter mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

Relatives grieve over the bodies of members of the Jalis and Al-Sharbasi families, killed in an Israeli army airstrike on Yaffa School in Gaza City, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)2025-04-24T08:51:33Z Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 28 people, mostly women and children, the territorys Health Ministry said Thursday. Israel ended its ceasefire with Hamas and renewed its air and ground war over a month ago. It has sealed off Gazas 2 million Palestinians from all food and other imports since the beginning of March to pressure Hamas to release hostages. Hamas has said it will only release the remaining 59 captives, 24 of whom are believed to be alive, in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and a full Israeli withdrawal. Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas.The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251 hostages. Most have since been released in ceasefire agreements or other deals. Israels offensive has killed over 51,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gazas Health Ministry, which does not say how many of the dead were civilians or combatants. Israel says it has killed around 20,000 militants, without providing evidence.Heres the latest: At least 28 dead as Israel pounds GazaIsraeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 28 people, mostly women and children, according to the territorys Health Ministry. At least nine people were killed in a strike on a police station in the northern Jabaliya area, the ministry said. The Israeli military said it targeted a command and control center for Hamas and the smaller Islamic Jihad militant group. At least seven people were killed, including a mother and her two children, and another two children, in three strikes on the southern city of Khan Younis. Strikes in central Gaza killed six people, including two women and two children. An airstrike on a home in Gaza City killed four children and their parents, the Health Ministry said.

Adam Chace picked a pretty good time to create a data archiving product for turbulent times. I first saw an ad for PrepperDisk on Reddit soon after the election of Donald Trump: Take lifesaving websites into any emergency, and Be SHTF (Shit Hits the Fan) Proof, the ads read.PrepperDisk is a mini internet box that comes preloaded with offline backups of Wikipedia, street maps, survivalist information, 90,000 WikiHow guides, iFixit repair guides, government website backups (including FEMA guides and National Institutes of Health backups), TED Talks about farming and survivalism, 60,000 ebooks and various other content. Its part external hard drive, part local hotspot antennathe box runs on a Raspberry Pi that allows up to 20 devices to connect to it over wifi or wired connections, and can store and run additional content that users store on it.It doesn't store a lot of content (either 256GB or 512GB), but what makes it different from buying any external hard drive is that it comes preloaded with content for the apocalypse.I was interested in PrepperDisk because I care about data hoarding and archiving more broadly, but I wanted to talk to Chace after it became clear that a lot of his sales seemed to be a direct result of Trump being elected president.Sales increased dramatically in the early part of the new administration as economic uncertainty and even uncertainty about government data prevailed, Chace told me. Elon Musk is pulling data off of federal websites, and we want to make sure people realize is like, Hey, this might have a use case even when the internet itself remains up, but there might be political reasons why that data isnt available.The National Institutes of Health, we have their entire website on our device, and some of their information has been pulled off the internet, he added. "We have gotten a lot of questions about the content thats getting deleted. The National Library of Medicine is one we get asked about a lot as it has had content deleted. Weve had customer ask about whether the Prepper Disk copy of Wikipedia would continue to have entries that might get deleted by the government. Yes. Our copy of FEMAs emergency management website, Ready.gov, has gotten a lot of questions as that website was part of the DOGE sweep. Amusingly I had a customer also ask what the Gulf of Mexico was called on our maps [its still the Gulf of Mexico]. It is clear that folks are looking at the overall permanency of data on the Internet and our product as a way to control some of that.PrepperDisk is similar to a DIY, open-source project that started in 2012 called Internet in a Box and which has become popular in rural areas in developing countries where internet access is sparse. The idea is basically that you can carry around an external hard drive-sized, mini version of the internet with you that creates a local network your phone or laptop can access.I was also interested in PrepperDisk because, unlike a lot of prepper products, PrepperDisks marketing is relatively understated. Chace doesnt consider himself to be a prepper, and generally doesnt sell the product in apocalyptic or conspiratorial terms. It feels more like a project designed to preserve and distribute vulnerable data from the internet than a project designed for the end of the world.I personally wouldnt categorize myself as a prepper, though Im the son of an Eagle Scout and was a Boy Scout myself, and Ive always been a sort of be prepared kind of guy, Chace said. I was discussing with my son that, especially in the current climate, theres a threat to the persistence of information, things we always thought would be available, like government resources from FEMA, suddenly theres a question mark around that information.Chace admits that an enterprising person could (and many do) build similar DIY products with a Raspberry Pi and an external hard drive. But his goal was to build something accessible to nontechnical people.Our goal has been to take what some open source products do and make it more of a refined, commercial-grade consumer product, he added. Despite the name, Chace said a lot of his customers arent necessarily preppers, they are largely people who are worried about important websites going offline. Others are people who want to take a smaller version of the internet camping in remote areas.Then there are, of course, people who store them in go bags.We do have the kind of classic, Im getting it and putting it in an EMP bag and putting it somewhere safe and hope I never need it, he said. And then we have a customer who bought it basically to have it be available for his kids to use when theyre on vacation.

Nature, Published online: 24 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01253-2The relationship between pathology in the brain and alterations in the gut microbiome could lead to therapies even if its not clear which changes come first.

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SILVER SPRING, MDEmphasizing that these guidelines had already been issued to the public plenty of times, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a passive-aggressive safety alert Thursday reminding Americans that the serving tongs were there for a reason. We just thought wed let everybody know that serving tongs are not there for decoration, they are there to be used, read the statement, the impetus for which was said to be the fact that the American public had apparently forgotten how to use them and needed its memory refreshed. Were not sure why we have to keep reminding you, since you seem to love buffetsthis is your third plate, right? And before you all bother asking: No, it doesnt matter if you managed to take one cookie and not touch the others. No, you wont get sick from touching the tongs that everyone else touched. No, we dont believe you when you say youve thoroughly washed your hands before approaching the food. Seems like you should have picked up on this by now, but were sure you have a really good reason to think you dont have to follow the rules like everybody else. At press time, the FDA had reportedly followed up with a condescending step-by-step video demonstrating how to use serving tongs.The post FDA Issues Passive-Aggressive Reminder That Serving Tongs There For A Reason appeared first on The Onion.

MARYVILLE, TNRelying on a precise measurement as though a slight miscalculation could be lethal, local woman Anna Gardner, who is said to be on a diet, reportedly weighed out peanut butter Thursday like it was hard drugs. Several reports indicated that Garner precisely laid a dollop of the Jif peanut butter onto a kitchen scale and removed the excess with a knife to make sure it was the right amount as if she were portioning out a Schedule I substance that she planned to sling to junkies on the streets. According to sources, upon licking a bit of the peanut spread off the knifes blade, Gardner let out a sigh of pleasure and said Thats the stuff in the manner of a notorious drug lord who, after testing out the purity of her product, runs the knife across her own cheek and mutters Im loco. At press time, reports confirmed a blissful Garner was passed out on the couch with an empty glass of peanut butter and banana smoothie by her side like a woman strung out on black tar heroin.The post Woman On Diet Weighing Out Peanut Butter Like It Hard Drugs appeared first on The Onion.

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The lives of most Wii consoles ended sometime in the early 2010s, left to collect dust in dorm rooms and parents dens, having run their last Just Dance disc long ago. But at least one Wii is finding another life hosting a website.Security engineer Alex Haydock found a discarded sacrificial Wii at the 2024 Electromagnetic Field festival swap shop, he wrote on his blog (which is now running on that Wii). He took it home intending to use it to emulate and homebrew games, but hed noticed while browsing the website for the open-source operating system NetBSDwhich has options for installing a Unix-like operating system on devices like Dreamcasts, Amiga and Atari machines, and many morethat it had an option for a Wii installation.As soon as I discovered this was fully supported and maintained, I knew I had to try deploying an actual production workload on it, he wrote. That workload is the blog youre reading now.Haydock wrote set-by-step instructions on how he softmodded the Wii on his site, which you can check out for yourself if you have a sad old console lying around and a need for a web host. Youll need the Wiimotes and sensor bar, he notes, because a lot of this process relies on installing channels (applications on the Wii menu, for the unfamiliar) on the Wii itself.Part of it is of course simply the fun of taking a piece of tech people are very familiar with and trying to get it to do something it was never designed to do, Haydock told me in an email. But I also find that the fastest way for me to learn new concepts and technologies is when something breaks and I end up having to fix it. If I follow a tutorial and something 'just works', it's almost like losing an opportunity to really appreciate the complexity of what's going on underneath.On Wednesday, his Wii blog made it to the top of technology forum Hacker News, meaning potentially hundreds of thousands of people clicked through to the site at the same timea load that could easily hug any lesser website to death. But the Wiiweb held up. This is where the Wii really managed to impress. Watching the graphs as the post went live was great fun. I spent a few hours watching as the load spiked, trying to work out where the post had been shared to cause each of the sudden bursts in traffic, Haydock told me. The page spent about four hours at the number one spot on Hacker News, he said, and was on the front page for 20 hours.At its peak a few hours in, the Wii was serving around 40 requests per second, and it was still serving a steady 10 requests per second near the end of the front page run. I was shocked but the Wii kept up amazingly well the entire time. It could easily have handled more, he said. Based on the figures I've got, I'm pretty sure the (not great) upload speed on my home connection would become the bottleneck way before the Wii itself would.He said he hopes to bring the Wii back to the festival where it started in 2026, and continue to serve the blog from it, in the middle of a field.Originally I expected I'd run it like this for a few days or weeks, until I got tired of fixing it when it fell over, Haydock said. But it's been so stable that I do now plan to run it like this indefinitely. Especially now that some helpful folk have pointed out how to get it to boot directly into the NetBSD environment. Although I did quite enjoy having a production Wiimote.

Nature, Published online: 24 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01180-2Telltale signs of chatbot use are scattered through the scholarly literature and, in some cases, have disappeared without a trace.

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Robert E. Crimo III watches the jury selection process during the first day of his trial, accused of opening fire on a suburban Chicago Independence Day parade, killing seven people, at the Lake County Courthouse, Waukegan, Ill., Feb. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, Pool, File)2025-04-24T04:01:29Z WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) The suburban Chicago man who admitted to fatally shooting seven people and wounding dozens of others during a 2022 Independence Day parade was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Lake County Judge Victoria Rossetti handed down seven consecutive sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole, as prosecutors requested, for the first-degree murder charges after hearing emotional testimony from survivors and the relatives of those killed in the shooting.This court has absolutely no words that could adequately describe and capture the horror and pain that was inflicted on July 4th, the judge said. Robert E. Crimo III, 24, has a complete disregard for human life and is irretrievably depraved, permanently incorrigible, irreparably corrupt and beyond any rehabilitation, she said. After years of unpredictable legal proceedings, Crimo changed his plea to guilty last month just moments before opening statements at his trial.Dozens were wounded in the shooting in the suburb north of Chicago. They ranged in age from their 80s to an 8-year-old boy who was left paralyzed from the waist down. Crimo refused to attend his sentencing hearing Wednesday or Thursday despite Rossettis previous warnings that the case would proceed without him. Crimo also declined to provide a written statement in court ahead of sentencing. Hes always known that he was facing life in prison, said Crimos public defender, Gregory Ticsay. He has spared this community the lengthy trial.Survivors and witnesses told the court about how their lives have changed since he killed seven people and hurt dozens more. Keely Roberts, whose 8-year-old son Cooper Roberts was the youngest victim, called Crimo cowardly for not attending. You will not hear my grief, she said. You are now irrelevant. Its unusual for defendants to skip trial, especially sentencing, but constitutionally they have the right not to attend, said David Erickson, a former state appellate judge who teaches at Chicago Kent College of Law. Often in violent cases, defendants will explain themselves or profess innocence before sentencing. Certainly in crimes of violence its not unusual for a defendant to show some remorse, Erickson said.Some survivors called Crimo a monster while another cited their faith in forgiving him. Many described feeling empty or facing deep sadness since the shooting. Some no longer attend public gatherings. Erica Weeder described how she and her husband were injured and helpless on the ground, watching others bleed out. For weeks, there was shrapnel in her body and a bullet lodged in her husbands elbow. A mass shooting is like a bomb blast throughout a community, she said.Prosecutors argued that Crimo was fully in control of his actions as he fired 83 shots over 40 seconds.This was his evil plan. He intended to end the happiness that he saw around him, said Lake County States Attorney Eric Rinehart.Crimo pleaded guilty to 21 counts of first-degree murder three counts for each person killed and 48 counts of attempted murder. Each first-degree murder count carries a maximum life sentence in Illinois. Even in his absence, prosecutors made sure Crimos own words were heard Wednesday, revealing parts of the trove of evidence prepared for trial, including key parts of Crimos videotaped confession. In the interview, which defense attorneys tried to have thrown out, a blank-faced Crimo slumped in a chair with arms crossed. He told officers that he briefly reconsidered the attack because of a problem with the gun. He later fixed the weapon. I walked up the stairs, jumped on the roof and opened fire, he said.Crimo was calm and cavalier, even laughing and joking, said Brian Bodden, a Highland Park police officer.Prosecutors recreated the horror of the day in the upscale community of about 30,000 people north of Chicago, showing video and asking witnesses to recount the terrifying aftermath of the attack. In one video, a marching band played Youre a Grand Old Flag before shots were fired. Musicians carrying instruments ran as emergency sirens blared. Many cried during the testimony, while others put their arms around each other inside the Lake County courtroom. The seven people killed were Katherine Goldstein, 64; Jacquelyn Sundheim, 63; Stephen Straus, 88; Nicolas Toledo-Zaragoza, 78; Eduardo Uvaldo, 69; and married couple Kevin McCarthy, 37, and Irina McCarthy, 35.Crimos father, Robert Crimo Jr., a former mayoral candidate, served less than two months in jail on charges in connection with how his son obtained a gun license.__Associated Press writer Scott Bauer contributed to this report from Madison, Wisconsin.

The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)2025-04-24T15:10:52Z Follow live updates on President Donald Trump and his administration WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to allow enforcement of a ban on transgender people in the military, while legal challenges proceed.The high court filing follows a brief order from a federal appeals court that kept in place a court order blocking the policy nationwide.President Donald Trump signed an executive order a week into his term that claims the sexual identity of transgender service members conflicts with a soldiers commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in ones personal life and is harmful to military readiness.In response, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a policy that presumptively disqualifies transgender people from military service.But in March, U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin Settle in Tacoma, Washington, ruled for several long-serving transgender military members who say the ban is insulting and discriminatory, and that their firing would cause lasting damage to their careers and reputations. Trumps Republican administration offered no explanation as to why transgender troops, who have been able to serve openly over the past four years with no evidence of problems, should suddenly be banned, Settle wrote. The judge is an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush and a former captain in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps. In 2016, during Barack Obamas presidency, a Defense Department policy permitted transgender people to serve openly in the military. During Trumps first term in the White House, the Republican issued a directive to ban transgender service members, with an exception for some of those who had already started transitioning under more lenient rules that were in effect during Obamas Democratic administration. The Supreme Court allowed that ban to take effect. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, scrapped it when he took office. The rules the Defense Department wants to enforce contain no exceptions.Thousands of transgender people serve in the military, but they represent less than 1% of the total number of active-duty service members.The policy also has been blocked by a federal judge in the nations capital, but that ruling has been temporarily halted by a federal appeals court, which heard arguments on Tuesday. The three-judge panel includes two judges appointed by Trump during his first term. In a more limited ruling, a judge in New Jersey also has barred the Air Force from removing two transgender men, saying they showed their separation would cause lasting damage to their careers and reputations that no monetary settlement could repair.___Follow the APs coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court at https://apnews.com/hub/us-supreme-court.

Civitai, a hugely popular site for sharing AI models and a critical piece of infrastructure for AI-generated pornography across the internet, yesterday announced that it will now ban content depicting incest, self-harm, and fetishes featuring bodily excretions like urine, vomit, menstruation, and diapers. The site is also demonetizing content featuring the likeness of real people and making it harder to find.As many of you know, the world of AI content is under increasing scrutiny - from regulators, legislators, and the general public, Civitai said in a post explaining the policy and content adjustments. Platforms like ours are being held to higher standards around safety, legality, and accountability. Weve always striven to be a place for innovation, creativity, and openness, but some things have to change in order to continue operating, growing, and protecting our users. Depictions of firearms being pointed at people and mind-altered states like hypnosis are also now forbidden on Civitai.Despite its claim that its being held to a higher standard, the type of content Civitai has updated its policies to ban has long been on the edge of whats acceptable even on porn sites, and is in fact banned on many platforms. While its an established fetish that consenting adults engage with regularly, adult content involving diapers is especially sensitive for internet platforms because it could be interpreted as featuring minors. In 2023, for example, Sam reported that Patreon had banned a ton of accounts that created adult baby/diaper lover, or ABDL content which was popular in the furry community and a source of income that suddenly disappeared for some.Incest as well is normally a step too far for most porn sites because its illegal in many jurisdictions, which is why so many adult videos engage with this taboo via the now common porn trope of step- sister/brother/mother/father. Weapons, content depicting self harm or harm to others, and content featuring certain bodily fluids are also commonly prohibited even on adult platforms. All of these are banned on OnlyFans, for example.Civitai is giving users 30 days before it starts removing content violating these new policies. Click any of these links at your own risk, but a quick search reveals that Civitai currently does hold many AI image generation models specifically for the purpose of generating images of people inserting guns into vaginas, ABDL, menstrual pads, and so on. Did I mention this website is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, one of the biggest venture capital firms in silicon valley? AnywayOn one hand, despite trying to downplay the obvious popularity of adult content on its site and its critical role in making it easier for people to generate non-consensual adult content, in many ways the policy update shows that Civitai is dealing with the same moderation challenges that all adult sites deal with, and that its subject to the same pressures. One of the big reasons adult sites and other internet platforms are banning the same type of content is that they are all getting pressured by payment processors, without which it is much more difficult for them to make money. This is famously why Pornhub changed its entire approach to content moderation and banned millions of unverified content from its platform in 2020. Civitai, Visa, and Mastercard did not respond to requests for comment.On the other hand, Civitais moderation might be more challenging because AI image generators make it incredibly easy to produce an infinite stream of images that will create more or less whatever a user describes in a prompt. Its just a massive amount of wild content.Thats probably why Civitai also announced that it now demands users include generation metadata on all mature content, and why it announced it has partnered with AI moderation service Clavata, whose image ingestion and analysis system represents the most advanced and accurate solution we have encountered to-date, according to Civitai.The one upside of the changes will be not seeing 20 new diaper loras [AI models] a day, one user said in the official Civitai Discord. But the new censorship is a bit over the line when it gets into common themes like drunk hanky panky and gunplay.Even though scat, diapers, piss, etc are squicky for me, Im always apprehensive when they get censored, because then its usually a matter of time until things that I do enjoy, and other things, get censored as well, another user said. The canary in the cave, as it were.Other updates to Civitais policy signal that the site is finally taking some type action on models that are designed to recreate the likeness of real people. Content tagged with the names of real celebrities or real-person will be hidden from feeds, ads will not show up next to this content, and users will not be able to tip each other with Buzz, Civitais on-platform currency, for this content. The latter is especially notable because Civitai had previously introduced a bounties feature which allowed people to offer a certain amount of Buzz to any other user who created an AI model for generating the likeness of real people.This isnt the first time Civitai has done a major overhaul of its content moderation policies. Following 404 Medias investigation in 2023 which showed that Civitai users were generating images that could be categorized as child pornography, the platform introduced radical new measures to stop abuse on its site.

Nature, Published online: 24 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01290-xA small, preliminary trial and studies in mice draw links between fibromyalgia and alterations of the gut microbiome.

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by Jeff Ernsthausen, Mica Rosenberg and Avi Asher-Schapiro ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as theyre published. In an unusual move, the administration of President Donald Trump has canceled a $3.8 billion contract to build an immigrant detention camp in Fort Bliss, Texas, just days after issuing it.That doesnt mean the job wont go forward. Sources told ProPublica the administration still intends to move ahead with the plan to build a tent detention camp at Fort Bliss. A site visit for interested contractors took place on Wednesday.The job promises to be highly sought after as Trump officials plan to pour billions of dollars into building detention facilities as part of the presidents push to deport more immigrants.Why the contract was posted and then canceled is unclear. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement awarded the contract on April 10 to Deployed Resources, a privately held company, according to data posted on a federal procurement website.ProPublica published a profile of the company on April 11, describing its ascension from running facilities at music festivals into a government contracting juggernaut that, like other vendors, is pursuing billions of dollars in detention contracts planned under Trump. Company executives, ProPublica found, had hired more than a dozen former government insiders as it built its business over the years. Recent hires included some high-ranking former officials from ICE, the agency that would be tasked with carrying out Trumps promises of mass deportation.Then, on April 13, the administration reversed course and terminated the contract with Deployed Resources for convenience, according to data posted to the federal contracting site.An ICE spokesperson confirmed that the award was made and then canceled, and that a revised procurement action for Fort Bliss is currently active and ongoing. The agency did not answer questions about why it reversed course.Deployed Resources has not responded to requests for comment. On its website, the company says it is dedicated to safely and efficiently providing transparent facility support and logistical services, anytime, anywhere.The awarding and cancellation of such a large contract to a company in such a short time is extremely unusual, according to a ProPublica review of contracting data going back a decade.In solicitation documents, the government said it needs a facility with the capacity to hold thousands of immigrants before they are deported.Its possible, but not yet clear, that Deployed Resources could win the contract following a subsequent round of bidding. It likely is not the only bidder interested in the job, which could be broken up into two pieces.Since mid-March ICE has housed detainees at a tent facility in El Paso, Texas, operated by Deployed Resources, that was previously used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The Department of Defense awarded Deployed Resources a contract to run the site for ICE, an ICE spokesperson told ProPublica.Current and former agency officials said holding ICE detainees in tent facilities which in the past have generally held people for shorter periods of time raises significant concerns about potential health and safety risks. An ICE official at a recent border security conference said Deployed Resources was adding more rigid structures within its tents, which could address such concerns.Trump, upon returning to office in January, signed a series of executive orders declaring an emergency at the border and enlisting the military to help with immigration enforcement. In early April, the administration issued a request for bids on new detention facilities across the country that could be worth up to $45 billion.The rush of immigration contracts comes as the Trump administration guts federal programs and fires thousands of workers in other wings of the government. Joel Jacobs contributed data analysis.

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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)2025-04-24T16:08:26Z SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A federal judge in California on Thursday barred the Trump administration from denying or conditioning the use of federal funds to sanctuary jurisdictions. U.S. Judge William Orrick said a preliminary injunction was appropriate because the executive orders were unconstitutional just as they were in 2017 when President Donald Trump announced a similar order. Orrick issued the injunction sought by San Francisco and more than a dozen other municipalities that sued over a pair of executive orders the Republican president issued targeting local municipalities that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts.Orrick, based in San Francisco, wrote that defendants are restrained and enjoined from directly or indirectly taking any action to withhold, freeze, or condition federal funds and the administration must provide written notice of his order to all federal departments and agencies by Monday.

This image provided by Martin Surbeck shows a female bonobo being groomed by another in the Congo in 2020. (Martin Surbeck/Kokolopori Bonobo Research Project via AP)2025-04-24T15:01:50Z NEW YORK (AP) Female bonobos find strength in numbers, teaming up to fend off males in the wild, a new study finds. Along with chimpanzees, bonobos are among humans closest relatives. Scientists have long wondered why bonobos live in generally female-dominated societies since the males are physically bigger and stronger.Three decades of observations in Congo the only place the endangered bonobos are found in the wild lend support to the idea of a sisterhood where female bonobos band together to assert their power. These girl groups chased male bonobos out of trees, securing food for themselves, and females that grouped more ranked higher in their communitys social ladder, researchers found. Its very clear that you dont want to overstep as a male bonobo, said study author Martin Surbeck from Harvard University.Findings were published Thursday in the journal Communications Biology. Female bonobos combined numbers seem to turn the tide against a males physical strength, Surbeck said. Its one of the rare times such a strategy has allowed females to come out on top in the animal kingdom. Spotted hyenas similarly find power in groups.Female bonobos linked up even when they didnt have close ties, supporting one another against the males and cementing their social standing. The observations show how female bonobos work together to protect themselves from male violence, said biological anthropologist Laura Lewis with the University of California, Berkeley. The findings support the idea that humans and our ancestors have likely used coalitions to build and maintain power for millions of years, Lewis, who was not involved with the research, said in an email.___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content. ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN Ramakrishnan is a science reporter for The Associated Press, based in New York. She covers research and new developments related to space, early human history and more. twitter mailto

Nature, Published online: 24 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09026-7Editorial Expression of Concern: Essential roles of PI(3)Kp110 in cell growth, metabolism and tumorigenesis

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