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Workers remove the rubble as rescuers keep searching for a missing woman and girl at a destroyed building that was hit on April 8, in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, April 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)2026-04-13T12:27:48Z BEIRUT (AP) Fierce fighting Monday rocked the strategic southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, as Israeli troops appeared to encircle the area while Hezbollah militants launched rockets and artillery in an effort to push them back.The clashes in the hilly town that overlooks the U.N.-mandated Blue Line dividing the two countries just over 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) away have intensified over the past week, after Iran and the United States agreed to a temporary truce. On Tuesday, Lebanon and Israels ambassadors to the U.S. are set to meet in Washington for an in-person meeting in a bid to kick off a landmark series of direct negotiations.Israel has scaled back its attacks in Lebanon, especially in Beirut, after a series of deadly strikes without warning hit the heart of the capital in some of its busiest residential and commercial areas, killing over 350 people. At the same time, Israel appears to have stepped up strikes and ground invasion in southern Lebanon, where it intends to create a security zone along the Litani River, almost 20 miles (32 kilometers) from the border. Bint Jbeil is among dozens of towns and villages south of the river that Israel called to evacuate early on in the war. The latest round of fighting was sparked by Hezbollah firing rockets into northern Israel on March 2, in solidarity with Iran. At least 2,055 people have been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon, the Health Ministry said, among them 252 women, 165 children, and 87 medical workers, while 6,588 were wounded. Read More Lebanons state-run National News Agency has reported Israeli ground forces making their way into the town with most of the exit roads cut off. Local media reported dozens of Hezbollah gunmen were largely encircled.The Israeli military said its troops surrounded Hezbollah infrastructure and started ground operations in Bint Jbeil and surrounding areas, killing over 100 Hezbollah fighters. Hezbollah did not immediately announce any fatalities among its ranks, and Israel did not comment on its military casualties. Hezbollah on Sunday claimed at least five attacks on Israeli troops in the town and outskirts with rockets, artillery and drones. According to the groups statements, Israeli troops were positioned near a school, a hospital and juncture that surrounds the heart of Bint Jbeil. That day, Israel said its troops attacked Hezbollah forces surveilling from the Bint Jbeil Government Hospital and found a cache of machine guns and rockets.When Israel occupied southern Lebanon until its withdrawal in 2000, it had relied on Bint Jbeil and other elevated locations for strategic vantage points. A major turning point was Hezbollah retaking the hilly town, and the victory speech by then-Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah in a stadium there. The Israeli military on Monday shared a satellite photo showing the stadium apparently destroyed in a strike. Sign up for Morning Wire: Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Email address Sign up By checking this box, you agree to AP's Terms of Use and acknowledge that AP may collect and use your data pursuant to our Privacy Policy. Lebanese Red Cross volunteer laid to restElsewhere, a Lebanese Red Cross volunteer killed in an Israeli strike Sunday while on a mission in the southern village of Beit Yahoun was laid to rest in Choueifat, just south of Beirut. On Monday, an Israeli strike near the entrance to Red Cross offices in the coastal city of Tyre killed a wounded person who was being transported, damaging several Red Cross vehicles. A person familiar with the matter said the strike targeted a man on a motorcycle transporting the wounded. Its unclear who either people were. The person spoke on condition of anonymity they werent authorized to disclose the information. The Red Cross did not immediately comment. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to The Associated Press when asked for comment. ___Associated Press writer Isabel DeBre in Sidon, Lebanon contributed to this report. KAREEM CHEHAYEB Chehayeb is an Associated Press reporter in Beirut. twitter instagram mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

The letter warns that the deal will result in fewer jobs for creatives, along with higher costs and less choice for audiences.

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SPRINGFIELD, ILAs the landmark bipartisan legislation passed into law Thursday, Illinois became the first state in the union to mandate paid haircut leave while an employees new bob grows out.Effective immediately, every employer in Illinois will be required to provide two weeks of compensated time off for workers who thought a blunt, chin-length haircut might be a good idea, said Gov. JB Pritzker, commending the Illinois General Assembly for its passage of the bill at a time when federal support for hairstyle-related absences from work has been drastically reduced. Studies show time and again that workers are happier and more productive when they are able to see what their haircut looks like after washing it a few times instead of immediately debuting their dramatic new look in public. No one should have to worry about losing their job just because they need time to come to terms with what the heck they were thinking when they brought a photo of Keira Knightley from 2002 into the salon and said, Do that. On top of the base of 14 days off, full-time private sector employeesregardless of gender or face shapewill also be able to accrue additional paid hairstyle leave at a rate of one day for every inch of hair chopped off. The new statute also grants spouses and domestic partners of those who have received a bob several days of paid leave to help them learn how to properly style it.The post Illinois Becomes First State To Require Haircut Leave While Bob Grows Out appeared first on The Onion.

WASHINGTONIn a major new agreement expected to provide the United States with unprecedented market access to the island nation, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he had finalized a long-anticipated trade deal with Pedotopia.Despite years of tension between the two leaders, Trump smiled and gave a thumbs-up as he shook hands with Prime Minister Felix Orwick of Pedotopia, lauding the special relationship he shared with his mustachioed counterpart. The pact follows months of heated negotiations that reportedly made use of a diplomatic back channel with Pedotopia maintained by American casting directors, superyacht owners, youth ministers, and scoutmasters.Today Im proud to announce another great trade deal for the American people, perhaps the greatest deal in our nations history, Trump said of the accord, which requires Pedotopia to purchase two dozen F-35 fighter jets, 3 million tons of American soybeans, and 100,000 U.S.-born preteens over the next decade. My administration was able to find a lot of common ground with Pedotopia. Other presidents have tried, but this is the first time anyone has succeeded.We look forward to having Pedotopia as a partnerits a wonderful country, Trump continued. They say it has someof the most gorgeous Catholic cathedrals in the world. And the children there are beautiful, just beautiful.Freight containers filled with Pedotopias best-known exports are already en route to American consumers.The trade framework, officially known as the U.S.-Pedo Agreement on Critical Minerals and Transnational Lolitas, gives the United States increased access to rare earth elements crucial for the electronics and defense industries, while also setting the effective tariff rate at 15% for all underage sex slaves shipped into the country from Pedotopia. This is significantly lower than the 135% duty Trump imposed in April, when he repeated his long-held claim that Pedotopia was ripping off Americans and he promised to reshore child prostitution jobs from abroad.Top White House officials credited the president with extracting major concessions from Pedotopia, which will open its markets to U.S. oil and gas, in addition to granting American predators the right to import up to 1.2 million cubic yards of prepubescents annually.According to sources with knowledge of the talks, the deal nearly fell apart when Trump insisted on eliminating the demolestimis exemption, a loophole that allowed Pedotopia to avoid levies on underdeveloped children below 80 pounds. But the prime minister agreed to give up that benefit in exchange for the lifting of U.S. export restrictions on Nvidias most advanced AI chips.Im pleased to announce the United States will remain Pedotopias largest child-trading partner, said Orwick, who during his time leading the Groper Republic has prioritized the cultivation of a customer base among North American pedophiles. President Trump has been a great friend to Pedotopia. He understands the importance of investing in supply chains of sexually immature minors so the child-sex trafficking that is vital to both our economies can continue to flourish.Ethics watchdogs have warned the deal would give child sex offenders with ties to Trump family businesses preferential access to the vast reserves of children arriving on container ships in U.S. ports. In addition, a recent ProPublica investigation found that Orwick has approved generous tax credits for several of the presidents commercial real estate developments, including a new Trump International Golf Club to be built on the Pedotopian coast.Though Trump ran for office on reigning in inflation to keep prices low for American families, the costs of masseuses, adolescent spa attendants, and domestic rent boys have remained stubbornly high, and in December the president announced a $12 billion relief package for groomers whose activities have been impacted.Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who oversaw U.S. child-groping efforts under President Bill Clinton, criticized the new trade deal.The pedophiles ate Trumps lunch on this one, the Harvard economist said. What you ideally want out of a healthy international sex-trafficking ring are lower barriers to market that bring down the ages of these girls for everyone. Protectionist policies inevitably backfire and make it harder for American families to have a dark secret.Its also important to note that many of these child-bride agreements are nonbinding, Summers added.The post U.S. Reaches Trade Deal With Pedotopia appeared first on The Onion.

A class of medications called GLP-1s have skyrocketed in popularity recently for their effectiveness in reducing body mass. The Onion examines the myths and facts surrounding these weight-loss drugs.MYTH: GLP-1s are only prescribed for diabetes. FACT: GLP-1s have many applications, from aiding in addiction recovery to making your stepsister jealous.MYTH: The long-term effects of these drugs havent been thoroughly studied.FACT: Tamaras wedding is in two months.MYTH: You only lose body fat, not muscle.FACT: You also lose out on coveted sassy fat lady movie roles.MYTH: To lose weight, you must also incorporate changes to your diet and lifestyle. FACT: Just take more.MYTH: Wegovy is better than Ozempic.FACT: Wegovy is only good for losing weight on your top half while Ozempic slims down your bottom half.MYTH: GLP-1s are for everyone.FACT: Not sumo wrestlers.The post GLP-1s: Myth Vs. Fact appeared first on The Onion.

Eligible men in the United States will be registered into the military draft pool automatically by December, a measure slipped into last years annual defense policy bill that will replace the previous self-registration process. What do you think?If you cant even fill out a form, how can you be trusted to die in a pointless war?Cameron Benton, Ink SupplierThis is pretty scary for the 3% of American men healthy enough to serve.Max Harris, Produce WaxerDying in war should be a frictionless experience.Jenna Thornton, Organ DusterThe post Automatic U.S. Military Draft Registration To Begin By December appeared first on The Onion.

WebinarTV, a site that scrapes Zoom webinars without permission, has downloaded and posted Zoom Webinars for anonymous addiction recovery meetings, support groups for caregivers and people who suffer from chronic illness, and a meeting of nudists.WebinarTVs Michael Robertson told me that the company asks every single person for permission to promote their webinars, but these specific examples show that WebinarTV scrapes and shares the videos on its site before asking for permission and that some people are not aware that this is happening to them.As with all of our support group meetings, this meeting was not intended to be recorded, but rather to be a private discussion among participants, Kimberly Dorris, executive director at the Graves Disease & Thyroid Foundation (GDATF), which hosted a Zoom session which vetted participants, and which still ended up on WebinarTV, wrote in a post about the meeting being uploaded to WebinarTV. That post was titled A Warning For Patient Communities Connecting on Zoom.I first reported about WebinarTV in March, after a teacher told me that a sensitive meeting he held on Zoom for educators who wanted to protect their students from ICE raids ended up on the site. The teacher found out about the video when a someone calling themselvesSarah Blair, which appears to be an AI-generated persona, sent him an email letting him know that the meeting was posted to WebinarTV and also turned into an AI-generated podcast. The teacher asked WebinarTV to take down the meeting because it could put some of the participants in danger, and WebinarTV removed it shortly after.WebinarTV claims it hosts more than 200,000 Zoom webinars it scraped this way.After I published the story, several people who use Zoom regularly for meetings or webinars they consider private checked to see if their Zoom videos were posted to WebinarTV and got in touch with me.Gillian Brockwell, a journalist and 404 Media reader who goes to addiction recovery meetings on Zoom searched WebinarTV for her own meeting after seeing my story. She didnt find her own meetings, but flagged several other meetings that were clearly meant to be for people who want to preserve their anonymity.One meeting posted to WebinarTV for panic anonymous, or people who suffer from panic and high anxiety, was described as a a confidential group that bridges decades of clinical biofeedback practice with modern wearable technology. The recording of the webinar posted to WebinarTV included participants full names and shows their faces.A 12 steps and faith-based recovery meeting for people with substance abuse issues also shows participants full names and faces."If I found out I was in one of these meetings captured by WebinarTV, I would feel terrified and betrayed, especially if I were in early recovery," Brockwell told me. "These meetings are clearly meant to be confidential and anonymous, and anonymity is a key component of mutual-support and 12-step recovery models. It allows people a pathway through the stigma that so often prevents them from seeking help, and members sharing openly about some of the most humiliating moments in their lives things they might never say in public is a key part of 'identifying in.'"I hosted a meeting last night that was intended to be for family members of patients with Graves' disease, thyroid eye disease, and Hashimoto's thyroiditis, Dorris from the GDATF told me in an email in March. The link to *register* was public, but in order to receive the joining link, you had to fill out a questionnaire.The description for the Zoom meeting was: Has a loved one been diagnosed with Graves disease, thyroid eye disease, or Hashimotos thyroiditis? Join us for a short presentation followed by an interactive discussion with people who understand what your family is going through! This meeting is intended for family members and caregivers only. If you are a researcher, industry representative, etc. please contact GDATF at info@gdatf.org to discuss how we can better assist you.The registration form specifically asked potential participants whether they were attending in support of or on behalf of someone impacted by these conditions, and were admitted to the meeting one at a time from a Zoom waiting room. Dorris said that no visible AI and transcription tools were running.One meeting of nudists, or naturists, also featured every participants face and name, and some appeared shirtless on camera. Its not clear if this meeting was designed to be private nor if the participants know the meeting was recorded and posted on WebinarTV.Robertson told me that WebinarTV is not violating these peoples privacy because the site only scrapes Zoom webinars as opposed to Zoom meetings. Zoom webinars work similarly to a regular Zoom meeting, but are intended for larger audiences with features like polling, breakout rooms, and EventBrite integrations.Webinars are no different than Facebook Live, X broadcast, or Youtube Live. They are broadcast to the public. This is why we have 200,000 webinars and zero issues to date, Robertson told me. We contact every host, twice to make sure they want the promotion. We're the only search engine that does this. Also we make it one click easy to remove. Go try and get something removed from any other search engine. Robertson is of course ignoring the fact that many people organizing or joining these sessions, even if they are technically webinars, expect them to be private or limited to just the participants.When I reached out to Zoom in March it said that based on its review WebinarTV accesses meetings using links that have been shared publicly, then records the sessions using browser extension or other tools.Because these recordings occur on the participants device and outside of Zooms environment, no platformincluding Zoomhas the technical ability to fully prevent third-party screen recording, the spokesperson said.While it is true that our meeting wasnt infiltrated due to a technical flaw from Zoom, as a customer, I would still like to see Zoom speak out against companies like WebinarTV that send bots with fake identities to infiltrate meetings and covertly record participants who had a reasonable expectation of privacy, Dorris told me.

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Pope Leo XIV arrives at Algiers' Houari Boumdine International Airport on Monday, April 13, 2026, at the start of an 11-day apostolic journey to Africa. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)2026-04-13T04:23:58Z ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) Pope Leo XIV arrived in Algeria on Monday on a first-ever papal visit, calling for peace and the end of neocolonial tendencies in world affairs, while facing an extraordinary broadside by President Donald Trump over his criticism of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.Leos arrival in Algiers kicked off an 11-day tour of four African nations Algeria, Cameroon, Angola and Equatorial Guinea that will bring historys first U.S.-born pope deep into the growing heart of the Catholic Church.Leo is in Algeria to promote Christian-Muslim coexistence in the majority Muslim nation at a time of global conflict and to honor the locally born inspiration of his religious spirituality, St. Augustine.The trip began, however, against the backdrop of a growing feud between the Chicago-born Leo and Trump over the war. Trump overnight said he didnt think Leo was doing a good job as pope and suggested he should stop catering to the Radical Left. Leo responded en route to Algeria, saying the Vaticans appeals for peace and reconciliation are rooted in the Gospel, and that he didnt fear the Trump administration. In his first remarks in Algiers, Leo tied his current appeal for peace to Algerias struggle for independence from France, obtained in 1962. Hundreds of thousands died in the revolution during which French forces tortured detainees, disappeared suspects and devastated villages as part of a strategy to maintain their grip on power. Read More God desires peace for every nation, a peace that is not merely an absence of conflict but one that is an expression of justice and dignity, he told several thousand people at the monument to Algerias martyrs.Later, meeting with President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and other government authorities, Leo praised Algerians for their solidarity and respect for one another, which he said provided an important perspective on the global balance of power.Today, this is more urgent than ever in the face of continuous violations of international law and neocolonial tendencies, he said. Leo didnt name examples but has previously spoken about Russias war in Ukraine, the Iran war and Israels invasion of southern Lebanon. A message of peace in AlgeriaIn Algeria, a tiny Catholic community of around 9,000 people made up mostly of foreigners exists alongside the Sunni Muslim majority of about 47 million, according to Vatican statistics.The archbishop of Algiers, French Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco, said on any given day, nine out of 10 people who visit the Our Lady of Africa basilica are Muslim.Its wonderful to be able to show that we can be brothers and sisters together, building a society despite our different religions, Vesco told The Associated Press. And that is what our church has been doing since this country gained independence.The United States, though, has placed Algeria on its special watch list for having engaged in or tolerated severe violations of religious freedom. The Algerian constitution recognizes religions other than Islam and allows individuals to practice their faith if they respect public order and rules. But proselytizing to Muslims by non-Muslims is a crime, and some other Christian denominations have faced persecution from Algerian authorities, who have closed their churches.I imagine its a good thing that a pope is visiting Algeria, said Selma Dnane, a student who lives in Annaba down the coast from Algiers. But what will it change afterward? Will Christians be able to say, I am a Christian without fear or stigmatization?A violent past of martyrsThree decades after declaring independence from France, Algeria fought a civil war in the 1990s that is known locally as the black decade, when some 250,000 people were killed as the army fought an Islamist insurgency.Among them were 19 Catholics, including seven Trappist monks from the Tibhirine monastery south of Algiers, who were kidnapped and killed in 1996 by Islamic fighters. Also among them were two nuns from Leos Augustinian religious family.On his first day in Algeria, Leo was paying homage to the 19 martyrs and visiting the remaining Augustinian nuns who run a social services project out of the Algiers basilica that helps people of all faiths. They gave their lives for God, for Jesus, for the church, for the Algerian people because they didnt want to leave the country, even in the difficult moments, said Sister Lourdes Miguelez.All 19 were beatified in 2018 as martyrs for the faith in what was then the first such beatification ceremony in the Muslim world.The Algiers archbishop likes to remind audiences that Leo was elected on May 8, the Catholic feast day of the 19 martyrs. Immediately after Leos election, Vesco invited him to visit.Leo has made a mantra out of one of the sayings of the martyred prior of the Tibherine monastery, Christian de Cherg, who spoke of an unarmed and disarming peace. Leo has cited the line starting from the night of his election. A personal and pastoral visitThe visit to Algeria is pastoral but also deeply personal. Leos Augustinian religious order was inspired by the teachings of St. Augustine of Hippo, the fifth-century theological and philosophical titan of the early Christian church who was born in what is today Algeria and spent all but five years of his life there.On Tuesday, Leo will visit Annaba, the modern-day Hippo where St. Augustine was bishop for three decades, and will literally walk in the footsteps of the saint.From his first public words as pope, Leo proclaimed himself a son of St. Augustine, and he has repeatedly cited the church father in speeches and homilies.I dont know if I have seen a statement, a homily, an apostolic letter or exhortation that doesnt reference Augustine, said Paul Camacho, associate director of the Augustinian Institute at Villanova University, Leos Augustinian-run alma mater outside Philadelphia.The shadow that he casts on Western thought, not just the Roman Catholic Church but on Western thought more broadly, is very, very long indeed, he said.___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. NICOLE WINFIELD Winfield has been on the Vatican beat since 2001, covering the papacies of St. John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI and the Francis pontificate and traveling the world with them. PAOLO SANTALUCIA Santalucia covers events throughout Southern Europe, Italy, the Mediterranean sea and the Vatican for The Associated Press based in Rome. instagram mailto

Nature, Published online: 13 April 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01199-zState-of-the-industry report finds that, despite the limitations of artificial-intelligence systems, researchers have embraced them.

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