FILE -Vice Adm. Eli Sharvit arrives on board the Israeli Navy Ship Atzmaut in the Mediterranean Sea, Sept. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)2025-04-01T07:27:50Z The Israeli military struck a building in Beiruts southern suburbs early Tuesday, killing at least three people, in an attack it said targeted a member of the Hezbollah militant group.The airstrike came without warning days after Israel launched an attack on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Friday for the first time since a ceasefire ended fighting between Israeli forces and the Hezbollah militant group in November. At least seven other people were wounded in Tuesdays airstrike, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.The Israeli military said in a statement the latest strike targeted a Hezbollah member who had been helping the Palestinian Hamas group in the Gaza Strip in attacks against Israel.___Heres the latest: Netanyahu withdraws his nomination to lead internal security agencyIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has withdrawn his nomination of a former navy commander to lead the countrys internal security agency after a flurry of criticism.Netanyahus office said in a statement early Tuesday after meeting with Vice Adm. Eli Sharvit that he intends to examine other candidates, without elaborating.The nomination announced on Monday had provoked widespread criticism from allies and opponents.Critics of Netanyahu are already up in arms over his move to fire Ronen Bar, the current head of the Shin Bet domestic security agency, viewing it as part of a broader assault on state institutions at a time when Netanyahu is on trial for alleged corruption and his aides are being investigated over links to the Gulf Arab nation of Qatar. Israels Supreme Court froze Bars dismissal pending further hearings but cleared the way for Netanyahu to interview candidates for the job.The nomination of Sharvit angered some of Netanyahus allies after Israeli media reported that he had taken part in protests against Netanyahus plans to overhaul the judiciary in 2023.The move also brought an unexpected rebuke from Sen. Lindsey Graham, a top ally of President Donald Trump, who tweeted an excerpt of an op-ed Sharvit had written for an Israeli technology news website in January 2024 criticizing Trumps climate policies. Graham called the nomination beyond problematic. Israeli military says it intercepted a projective fired from GazaThe Israeli military says it intercepted a projectile fired from the Gaza Strip early Tuesday that set off sirens in nearby communities.Palestinian militants have fired a small number of rockets, without causing any casualties or damage, since Israel ended its ceasefire with Hamas last month.Israel has launched waves of airstrikes and limited ground operations, killing hundreds of Palestinians.Hamas ignited the war with its Oct. 7, 2023, attack into Israel, in which militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted 251, most of whom have since been released in ceasefires or other deals. Hamas is still holding 59 hostages, 24 of whom are believed to be alive.Israels offensive has killed over 50,000 Palestinians, according to Gazas Health Ministry, which does not say how many were combatants or civilians.

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00932-4Regulatory efforts to purge PFASs from drinking water have led to a rush for technologies that can capture and destroy the chemicals.

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00985-5The global scientific community must keep studying LGBT+ health

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European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen addresses European Parliament members on new plans to ramp up defense spending agreed at last week's summit, Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AP Photo/Pascal Bastien)2025-04-01T08:34:35Z BRUSSELS (AP) A top European Union official warned the U.S. on Tuesday that the worlds biggest trade bloc holds a lot of cards when it comes to dealing with the Trump administrations new tariffs and has a good plan to retaliate if forced to.U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to roll out taxes on imports from other countries on Wednesday. He says they will free the U.S. from reliance on foreign goods.Hes vowed to impose reciprocal tariffs to match the duties that other countries charge on U.S. products, dubbing April 2 Liberation Day.Europe has not started this confrontation. We do not necessarily want to retaliate, but if it is necessary, we have a strong plan to retaliate and we will use it, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told EU lawmakers.The commission, the EUs executive branch, negotiates trade deals on behalf of the blocs 27 member countries and manages trade disputes on their behalf. Europe holds a lot of cards, from trade to technology to the size of our market. But this strength is also built on our readiness to take firm counter measures if necessary. All instruments are on the table, von der Leyen said, at a European Parliament session in Strasbourg, France. The commission already intends to impose duties on U.S. goods worth some $28 billion in mid-April in response to Trumps steel and aluminum tariffs. The EU duties will target steel and aluminum products, but also textiles, home appliances and farm goods. A lot remains unknown about how Trumps levies will actually be implemented, notably the reciprocal tariffs, and the EU wants to assess their impact before taking retaliatory action.So many Europeans feel utterly disheartened by the announcement from the United States, von der Leyen said. This is the largest and most prosperous trade relationship worldwide. We would all be better off if we could find a constructive solution. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

A Ukrainian military boat CB90 of Military Naval Forces patrols Black Sea coast line of Odesa region, Ukraine, on March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)2025-04-01T08:46:11Z Germanys chief diplomat on Tuesday described U.S. President Donald Trumps efforts to secure a truce in the three-year war between Russia and Ukraine as deadlocked, while Chinas foreign minister said it was encouraging that the talks between Washington and Moscow on finding a settlement are continuing.German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, arriving in Kyiv for an unannounced visit, said that due to the deadlock between the U.S. and Russia on forging a ceasefire deal, European allies continued support for Ukraine in the war is absolutely crucial.Trump on Sunday scolded Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, expressing frustration at the continued fighting in a war that he had pledged to swiftly stop.Trump insisted progress was being made in the negotiations, but said that he would consider imposing further sanctions on Moscow and accused Zelenskyy of trying to back out of a deal with the U.S. on access to Ukraines mineral resources. Putin has effectively refused a U.S. proposal for an immediate and full 30-day halt in the fighting, despite Trumps prodding. Also, a partial ceasefire in the Black Sea that could allow safer shipments has fallen foul of conditions imposed by Kremlin negotiators. Russia is holding out on a Black Sea deal in order to stall efforts toward a general ceasefire and extract additional concessions from the West, according to an assessment late Monday by the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank. Putin previously has ruled out a temporary break in hostilities, saying that it would only benefit Ukraine and its Western allies by letting them replenish their arsenals. He has insisted that Moscow wants a comprehensive agreement that would ensure a lasting settlement.Meanwhile, deadly attacks by both Russia and Ukraine have continued, and they are gearing up for spring campaigns in their war of attrition along the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line. Overnight, Russia fired no Shahed drones at Ukraine for the first time in more than five months, according to authorities.But Andrii Kovalenko, the head of the counter-disinformation branch of Ukraines Security Council, detected no change in Russian strategy.For now, this means nothing, he said on Telegram.Ukraines European backers say they will keep supporting Kyivs efforts to defeat Russias invasion. Putin is getting military help from North Korea and Iran.China, too, has given diplomatic support to Russia and has provided economic help through trade in energy and consumer goods.Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, on a visit to Moscow, was quoted as saying Tuesday that certain results have been achieved in Washingtons attempt to stop the war as U.S.-Russia relations have improved under Trump.He said in an interview with Russian state news agency RIA Novosti that Beijing supports the goal of a fair, long-term, binding peace agreement acceptable to all parties involved.Wang was to meet Tuesday with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. He was also expected to meet with Putin, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said without saying when it might happen.___Follow APs coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00931-5As governments fight to regulate access to materials important for many technologies, the people mining them are left behind.

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The Department of Health and Human Services building is seen in Washington, April 5, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)2025-04-01T11:14:40Z Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday in an overhaul ultimately expected to lay off up to 10,000 people. The notices come just days after President Donald Trump moved to strip workers of their collective bargaining rights at HHS and other agencies throughout the government.Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan last week to remake the department, which, through its agencies, is responsible for tracking health trends and disease outbreaks, conducting and funding medical research, and monitoring the safety of food and medicine, as well as for administering health insurance programs for nearly half of the country. The plan would consolidate agencies that oversee billions of dollars for addiction services and community health centers under a new office called the Administration for a Healthy America. The layoffs are expected to shrink HHS to 62,000 positions, lopping off nearly a quarter of its staff 10,000 jobs through layoffs and another 10,000 workers who took early retirement and voluntary separation offers. Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington predicted the cuts will have ramifications when natural disasters strike or infectious diseases, like the ongoing measles outbreak, spread.They may as well be renaming it the Department of Disease because their plan is putting lives in serious jeopardy, Murray said Friday. Beyond layoffs at federal health agencies, cuts are beginning to happen at state and local health departments as a result of an HHS move last week to pull back more than $11 billion in COVID-19-related money. Local and state health officials are still assessing the impact, but some health departments have already identified hundreds of jobs that stand to be eliminated because of lost money, some of them overnight, some of them are already gone, said Lori Tremmel Freeman, chief executive of the National Association of County and City Health Officials. Union representatives for HHS employees received a notice Thursday that 8,000 to 10,000 employees will be terminated. The departments leadership will target positions in human resources, procurement, finance and information technology. Positions in high cost regions or that have been deemed redundant will be the focus of the layoffs.Kennedy criticized the department he oversees as an inefficient sprawling bureaucracy in a video Thursday announcing the restructuring. He said the departments $1.7 trillion yearly budget, has failed to improve the health of Americans.I want to promise you now that were going to do more with less, Kennedy said.The department on Thursday provided a breakdown of some of the cuts.__ 3,500 jobs at the Food and Drug Administration, which inspects and sets safety standards for medications, medical devices and foods.__ 2,400 jobs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which monitors for infectious disease outbreaks and works with public health agencies nationwide. __ 1,200 jobs at the National Institutes of Health, the worlds leading health and medical research institution.__ 300 jobs at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees the Affordable Care Act marketplace, Medicare and Medicaid.At the CDC, most employees have not been unionized, but interest rose sharply this year as the Trump administration took steps to reduce the federal workforce. Roughly 2,000 CDC employees in Atlanta belonged to the American Federation of Government Employees local bargaining unit, with hundreds more who had petitioned to join in recent days being added.But on Thursday night, Trump signed an executive order that would end collective bargaining for a large number of federal agencies, including the CDC and other health agencies.The erosion of collective bargaining rights was decried by some Democratic lawmakers.President Trumps brazen attempt to strip the majority of federal employees of their union rights robs these workers of their hard-fought protections, Reps. Gerald Connolly and Bobby Scott, both of Virginia, said in a joint statement Friday.This will only give Elon Musk more power to dismantle the peoples government with as little resistance from dedicated civil servants as possible further weakening the federal governments ability to serve the American people. ___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington and Mike Stobbe in New York contributed. ___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. CARLA K. JOHNSON Johnson covers research in cancer, addiction and more for The Associated Press. She is a member of APs Health and Science team. twitter mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

A sign for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is displayed outside their offices in Silver Spring, Md., Dec. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)2025-04-01T12:04:50Z WASHINGTON (AP) The Food and Drug Administrations chief tobacco regulator has been removed from his post amid sweeping cuts at the agency and across the federal health workforce handed down Tuesday, according to people familiar with the matter.In an email to staff, FDA tobacco director Brian King said: It is with a heavy heart and profound disappointment that I share I have been placed on administrative leave.King was removed from his position and offered reassignment to the Indian Health Service, according to a person familiar with the matter who did not have permission to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.Dozens of staffers in FDAs tobacco center also received notices of dismissal Tuesday morning, including the entire office responsible for enforcing tobacco regulations.King, who joined the agency in 2022, has been vigorously criticized by vaping lobbyists for ordering thousands of companies to remove their fruit and candy-flavored e-cigarettes from the market. During his time at FDA, teen vaping has fallen to a 10-year low. His removal comes just days after FDA vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks was forced out, citing health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s support for vaccine misinformation and lies in his resignation letter. The latest changes mean that nearly all of FDAs top leaders overseeing drugs, food, vaccines, medical devices and now tobacco products have resigned or retired in recent months. The leadership vacuum comes as Kennedy moves to fire 3,500 FDA staffers and pushes ahead with plans to scrutinize ultra-processed foods, childhood vaccines, antidepressants and other long-established products.The wave of departures means incoming FDA commissioner Marty Makary who was confirmed last week will inherit an agency without many of its top experts and a beleaguered workforce that has been rocked by weeks of layoffs and a chaotic return-to-office process. Only a handful of FDA employees are political appointees, with nearly all of the agencys scientific reviews and decisions overseen by career officials. Neither Makary nor Kennedy have said much about how tobacco policy fits into their plan to Make America Healthy Again. Despite historically low rates of smoking, tobacco-related diseases remain the nations leading preventable cause of death, blamed for more than 490,000 annually. In recent years, the FDAs tobacco center has been besieged by criticism from all sides including congressional lawmakers, anti-smoking advocates, and tobacco and vaping companies.Politicians, parents and anti-tobacco groups want the FDA to do more to stamp out unauthorized vaping products that can appeal to teens, many of which are imported from China. Tobacco and vaping companies say the FDA has been too slow to approve newer products for adult smokers including e-cigarettes that generally carry much lower risks than traditional cigarettes.Under King, the FDA rejected applications for millions of flavored e-cigarettes, citing insufficient data that the products would help adult smokers while not becoming popular with underage kids. Those rejections have resulted in multiple lawsuits against FDA from vape makers, including one that was argued before the Supreme Court in December. The Vapor Technology Association, an industry group, has been running ads urging Trump to follow through on a campaign pledge he made to save the flavored vaping industry.The FDA has authorized a handful of e-cigarettes for adults, mostly from major vaping brands owned by legacy tobacco companies, including R.J. Reynolds Vuse and Altrias Njoy.Other recent FDA departures include: Deputy commissioner for foods, Jim Jones, who resigned in February after dozens of his staffers were fired. Director of FDAs drug center, Dr. Patrizia Cavazzoni, who stepped down days before President Donald Trump took office. The agencys second-ranking official. Dr. Namandje Bumpus, who resigned late last year. FDAs longtime medical devices director, Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, who retired last summer.Many deputies and senior scientists have also retired or stepped down in recent weeks. ___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.

This article was produced in collaborationwith Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records.Subscribe to them here.Two former OnlyFans subscribers are suing the platform in a class-action lawsuit, claiming that they were defrauded because creators allegedly werent interacting directly with them, but were instead employing agencies to impersonate the models they thought they were speaking to.The plaintiffs, M. Brunner and J. Fry, both from Illinois, claim that they thought the creators they subscribed tosome of whom have hundreds of thousands of subscriberswere talking to them in direct messages and video clips. Both also say that if theyd known they werent speaking directly to the creators themselves, they wouldnt have subscribed, or would have paid less to subscribe. If OnlyFans stopped creators from using agencies to talk to fans they would consider going back to spending money on the platform, they say.Do you have a tip about OnlyFans, as a creator or a subscriber? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at sam.404. Otherwise, send me an email at sam@404media.co.The complaint is brought against OnlyFanss parent companies Fenix Internet, LLC and Fenix International Limited.The plaintiffs dont provide proof in the complaint that they were talking to agency chatters and not the creators themselves, but say that they became suspicious after subscribing, including realizing that a single individual could not send the number of direct messages or videos that generating revenue from 700,000 fans, in one creators case, would require.Plaintiff Fry created an account primarily in order to engage in friendly conversations with models and share photographs of his cooking creations, the complaint says. Fry alleges that he began to become suspicious of who he was actually communicating when he started getting contradicting information and errors in messages.By exercising its discretion to enrich itself while participating in the deception of its customers, OnlyFans consciously and deliberately frustrates the agreed common purposes of the contract and disappoints the reasonable expectations of Plaintiffs and Class Members, thereby depriving them of the benefit of their bargain, the complaint states.OnlyFans agencies have been a well-documented industry for yearsespecially the chatting aspect, where people employed by an agency manage creators messages and in some cases, respond to fans. Not all OnlyFans creators use agencies or chatters, but there are dozens of agencies that advertise the service. A November 2021 lawsuit against Unruly Agency alleged that the company preyed on and defrauded fans into divulging their "deepest and innermost personal secrets including sexual fantasies and fetishes, marital troubles, suicidal ideations, and other private desires to account managers and senior account managers."Creators may choose to work with a wide range of third parties, including photographers, videographers, talent managers and agencies, to curate and monetise their content, an OnlyFans spokesperson told Cosmopolitan last year for a story about OnlyFans models who use agencies to be more productive. Any third party that a creator elects to work with does not work on behalf of OnlyFans and is not affiliated with the company in any way.In July 2024, five OnlyFans users also filed a class action complaint against OnlyFans parent company claiming that chatter scams defraud fans. Last month, a judge ordered that the case would go to trial in 2027.OnlyFans did not respond to 404 Medias requests for comment about the new class action complaint.

Nature, Published online: 31 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01012-3Two experiments show that small payments can speed up peer review, but there might be unintended consequences. Plus, US grant cuts are ending scientific careers and Lyft drivers data reveals speeding-ticket racism.

Nature, Published online: 28 March 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01000-7The gender gap in research publishing is improving but slowly. Plus, climate disasters are creating an insurance crisis and scientists discovered a promising antibiotic in a box of dirt theyd left under a lab bench for a year.

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Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts (1) lines up for the goal line Tush Push play during the NFL championship playoff football game against the Washington Commanders, Jan. 26, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola, File)2025-04-01T10:00:07Z PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) The future of the tush push should be decided on Tuesday following debates about the safety of a play thats helped the Philadelphia Eagles win one Super Bowl and reach another.NFL owners are set to vote on Green Bays proposal to ban the play along with other potential rules changes, including playoff seeding and kickoffs.Even though the league has said there havent been any injuries reported as a result of the tush push, the potential risk involved in Philadelphias version of the quarterback sneak has sparked intense discussions.The Packers, who lost to the Eagles in a wild-card playoff game, also cited pace of a play as a reason to consider eliminating the play. Rams coach Sean McVay is against it. Los Angeles also lost to Philadelphia in the playoffs. Bills coach Sean McDermott is leading the push to get rid of it even though Buffalo used it more than any team other than the Eagles. Itll take 24 of 32 votes to approve the ban.I feel where Im most concerned is, even though there is not significant data out there to this point, my biggest concern is the health and safety of the players, first and foremost, McDermott said at the league meetings on Monday. Its two things. Its force, added force, No. 1, and then the posture of the players, being asked to execute that type of play, thats where my concern comes in. ... Im not a doctor. Im not going to get too deep into that situation there, in terms of how much data, how much sample. I dont think thats really always the best way to go. There is other data out there that suggests when youre in a posture like were talking about, that can lead to serious injury. I think being responsible and proactive in that regard is the right way to go. The Eagles began using the play in short-yardage situations in 2022. Two or three players line up behind quarterback Jalen Hurts and push him forward. Several other teams, including the Bills, began using it but no team has matched Philadelphias success rate. Tough play to stop but then youre listening to that and the medical side and you probably could go either way with it, said Chiefs coach Andy Reid, whose team lost 40-22 to the Eagles in the Super Bowl. But I would say if its putting a player in a bad position, then you probably have to do something about it. But if its not, its a heck of a play. Other changes include making the dynamic kickoff rule permanent and overhauling the playoff format.The NFL competition committee has recommended sticking with the kickoff rule that was redesigned last year and tweaking it to move touchbacks to the 35-yard line in hopes of generating even more returns.The Detroit Lions proposed that playoff seeding should be based on record instead of automatically placing division winners in the top four spots.The committee also proposed an expansion of instant replay to allow replay assist to consult on-field officials to overrule objective calls such as facemask penalties, whether there was forcible contact to the head or neck area, horse-collar tackles or tripping if there was clear and obvious evidence that a foul didnt occur. Replay would also be able to overturn a roughing the kicker or running into the kicker penalty if video replay showed the defender made contact with the ball. ___AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl ROB MAADDI Maaddi is senior NFL writer for The Associated Press. Hes covered the league for 24 years, including the first two decades as the Eagles beat writer. mailto

In this image provided by Senate Television, Sen, Cory Booker, D-N.J. speaks on the Senate floor, Tuesday morning, April 1, 2025. (Senate Television via AP)2025-04-01T11:46:57Z New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker carried an all-night speech in protest of President Donald Trumps agenda into Tuesday morning. Booker took to the Senate floor on Monday evening saying he would remain there as long as he was physically able. He was still on the floor more than 14 hours later. These are not normal times in our nation, Booker said at the start of his speech. And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate. The threats to the American people and American democracy are grave and urgent, and we all must do more to stand against them.Booker railed against cuts to Social Security offices and spoke to concerns that broader cuts to the social safety net could be coming, though Republican lawmakers say the program wont be touched. Donning and doffing reading glasses, Booker read what he said were letters from constituents. One writer was alarmed by the Republican presidents talk of annexing Greenland and Canada and a looming constitutional crisis. I hear you. I see you, and Im standing here in part because of letters like yours, Booker said. On Tuesday morning, Booker got some help from Democratic colleagues, who gave him a break from speaking to ask him a question. Booker said he would yield for questions but would not give up the Senate floor. According to the Senates website, the record for the longest individual speech belongs to Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Booker invoked Thurmond and the civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis of Georgia on Tuesday morning, arguing that changing history would require the public to get involved.You think we got civil rights one day because Strom Thurmond after filibustering for 24 hours you think we got civil rights because he came to the floor one day and said, Ive seen the light, Booker said. No, we got civil rights because people marched for it, sweat for it and John Lewis bled for it. Booker, 55, is serving his second term in the Senate. He was an unsuccessful presidential candidate in 2020, when he launched his campaign from the steps of his home in Newark. He dropped out after struggling to gain a foothold in a packed field, falling short of a threshold to meet in a January 2020 debate. Before taking to the national political stage, Booker was considered a rising star in the Democratic Party, serving as mayor of Newark, New Jerseys largest city, from 2006 to 2013. A Rhodes Scholar and graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law, he started his career as an attorney for nonprofits. He served on the Newark City Council before becoming the citys mayor. He was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2013 during a special election held after the death of incumbent Democrat Frank Lautenberg. He won his first full-term in 2014 and then reelection in 2020. Booker was at the helm in Newark when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced a $100 million donation to improve the citys schools in 2010. Roughly a decade ago, Zuckerberg told the AP a major lesson from Newark being applied in later donations was to make sure the desires of the public are considered.___Catalini reported from Trenton, N.J. MIKE CATALINI Catalini covers government, elections and news primarily in New Jersey for The Associated Press. He focuses on accountability and how policy affects people. twitter

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00915-5Why really good trombones sound the way they do, and the peculiar motion of creatures in the ocean, in this weeks dip into Natures archive.

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Palestinian girls dressed for Eid al-Fitr celebrations walk next to destructions in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip on Monday, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)2025-04-01T14:45:02Z DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) The U.N. food agency is closing all of its bakeries in the Gaza Strip, officials said Tuesday, as food supplies dwindle after Israel sealed the territory off from all imports nearly a month ago.Israel, which tightened its blockade and later resumed its offensive in order to pressure Hamas into accepting changes to their ceasefire agreement, said that enough food entered Gaza during the six-week truce to sustain the territorys roughly 2 million Palestinians.Markets largely emptied weeks ago, and U.N. agencies say the supplies they built up during the truce are running out. Gaza is heavily reliant on international aid, because the war has destroyed almost all of its food production capability.Mohammed al-Kurd, a father of 12, said that his children go to bed without dinner.We tell them to be patient and that we will bring flour in the morning, he said. We lie to them and to ourselves. A World Food Program memo circulated to aid groups on Monday said that it could no longer operate its remaining bakeries, which produce the pita bread on which many rely. The U.N. agency said that it was prioritizing its remaining stocks to provide emergency food aid and expand hot meal distribution. WFP spokespeople didnt immediately respond to requests for comment. Olga Cherevko, a spokesperson for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said that the WFP was closing its remaining 19 bakeries after shuttering six others last month. She said that hundreds of thousands of people relied on them. The Israeli military body in charge of Palestinian affairs, known as COGAT, said that more than 25,000 trucks entered Gaza during the ceasefire, carrying nearly 450,000 tons of aid. It said that amount represented around a third of what has entered during the entire war.There is enough food for a long period of time, if Hamas lets the civilians have it, it said. U.N. agencies and aid groups say that they struggled to bring in and distribute aid before the ceasefire took hold in January. Their estimates for how much aid actually reached people in Gaza were consistently lower than COGATs, which were based on how much entered through border crossings.The war began when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 hostages. Hamas is still holding 59 captives 24 of whom are believed to be alive after most of the rest were released in ceasefire agreements or other deals.Israels offensive has killed more than 50,000 Palestinians, including hundreds killed in strikes since the ceasefire ended, according to Gazas Health Ministry, which doesnt say whether those killed in the war are civilians or combatants. Israel says it has killed around 20,000 militants, without providing evidence.Israel sealed off Gaza from all aid at the start of the war, but later relented under pressure from Washington. U.S. President Donald Trumps administration, which took credit for helping to broker the ceasefire, has expressed full support for Israels actions, including its decision to end the truce. Israel has demanded that Hamas release several hostages before commencing talks on ending the war, negotiations that were supposed to have begun in early February. It has also insisted that Hamas disarm and leave Gaza, conditions that werent part of the ceasefire agreement.Hamas has called for implementing the agreement, in which the remaining hostages would be released in exchange for the release of more Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli pullout.___Mednick reported from Tel Aviv, Israel. Fatma Khaled contributed to this report from Cairo.___Follow APs war coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war SAM MEDNICK Mednick is the AP correspondent for Israel and the Palestinian Territories. She focuses on conflict, humanitarian crises and human rights abuses. Mednick formerly covered West & Central Africa and South Sudan. twitter

Rescuers work on site of a residential building destroyed by a Russian drone strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko, File)2025-04-01T11:34:57Z WASHINGTON (AP) While most Americans disapprove of President Donald Trumps handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the conflict is not weighing as heavily on his public perception as it did on President Joe Biden, a new poll shows. Thats because of Trumps solid support from his base on this issue. The survey of U.S. adults from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that about 8 in 10 Republicans approve of Trumps handling of the conflict. Only about 4 in 10 Democrats approved of Bidens handling of the conflict last June, shortly before Biden dropped out of the presidential race.During Trumps first administration, we did not actively start any wars. And theres a stark difference between his history and his first term versus the Biden presidency. And I think Trump is just trying to fix things that Biden let get out of hand, said Patrick Vigil, a 60-year-old Republican from New Mexico who voted for Trump in Novembers election. The poll suggests Republicans are growing more satisfied with the countrys foreign policy actions as Trump pulls back U.S. support for Ukraine and puts new pressure on allies notably with his talk of annexing Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal. Trump has warned Hamas that there would be hell to pay if Israeli hostages werent returned immediately and urged Israel to wrap up their offensive and get it over with. He has supported ceasefire talks in both conflicts and said hed end the war between Ukraine and Russia within 24 hours or even before taking office. Since becoming president again, Trump has publicly torn into Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy but also tried to pressure Russias Vladimir Putin to accept a peace deal. Broadly, Republicans are more content with the U.S. on solving global issues now that President Trump is in office. About half of Republicans say the U.S.s current role in world affairs is about right, up from about 2 in 10 last February when Biden was president. Theres a greater consensus that the U.S. should be focused on ceasefire negotiations in Israel and Ukraine than there was last year too. About 6 in 10 U.S. adults say its extremely or very important for the U.S. to negotiate a permanent ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, up from about half in an AP-NORC poll conducted in February 2024, with a similar uptick on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.Republicans have grown more committed to both foreign policy goals since Trump took office, according to the poll. For instance, about 6 in 10 Republicans now think its highly important for the U.S. to negotiate a permanent ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, up from about 4 in 10 last year.I think we really need to step back and figure out a way just to bring everybody to the table so that they can use their own resources and figure out what they need to do to compromise, said Lisa Major, 61, a registered Republican from Kentucky who voted for Trump in November.Keith Willey, a Republican-leaning registered independent from Florida who voted for a third-party candidate for president, said peace deals in Ukraine and Gaza have become more important to him over time amid mounting death and destruction. But Willey said he doesnt support a deal that allows Hamas to stay in control in Gaza and he doesnt support a ceasefire in Ukraine that divides it up with Russia or hinges on the U.S. taking control of Ukraines rare earth minerals.He still supports strong American intervention on Ukraines behalf against Russia, supports strong U.S. backing of Israel and doesnt like Trumps friendly relationship with Russia or Russian President Vladimir Putin.Im not tired of giving weapons to Ukraine. I think we should support where we can to have them fight for their own country. But, generally speaking, I would like to see a ceasefire, Willey, 63, said.Many Republicans dont want more investment in Ukraine, though only about 2 in 10 think providing aid to Ukraines military to fight Russia is extremely or very important and not all of Trumps voters are satisfied with Trumps ceasefire efforts. Michael Johnson, a 36-year-old registered independent from North Carolina who voted for Trump, isnt happy with Trumps handling of Israels war in Gaza or the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Johnson said Trump had held himself out as a president who could bring the wars to an end quickly but hasnt.I dont think he went through with what he said he would do, Johnson said. He said he would stop it, but its still going on. Theres a lot of people losing their lives out there, young kids and stuff.And many Republicans want Trump to continue shrinking American involvement abroad. About 4 in 10 Republicans now say the U.S. should take a less active role in world affairs. That includes Major, who supports Trump, likes how hes handling foreign conflicts and sees him trying to reduce the role the U.S. plays in the world, as she wants him to do.For one, it takes our attention off of the citizens of America, but also it may be sending a really negative message where we keep involving ourselves in other peoples issues when we cant figure out our own issues, Major said.___Levy reported from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. ___The AP-NORC poll of 1,229 adults was conducted March 20-24, using a sample drawn from NORCs probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points. MARC LEVY Levy covers politics and state government in Pennsylvania for The Associated Press. He is based in Harrisburg. twitter LINLEY SANDERS Sanders is a polls and surveys reporter for The Associated Press. She develops and writes about polls conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, and works on AP VoteCast. twitter

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00992-6Europe is advertising itself as a destination for embattled US scientists. It seems many are considering leaving.

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08934-yAuthor Correction: Controlled patterning of crystalline domains by frontal polymerization

NFL owners have tabled voting on the Green Bay Packers' proposal to ban the tush push in order to have further discussion, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

NFL owners approved a variety of rule changes Tuesday, including a modification of the dynamic kickoff that will place the ball after touchbacks at the 35-yard line and a tweak to the regular-season overtime period to mirror postseason rules.

Luigi Mangione, acusado de matar al director general de UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, durante una audiencia en un tribunal de Nueva York, el 21 de febrero de 2025. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post va AP, Pool, Archivo)2025-04-01T15:20:05Z NEW YORK (AP) U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday she has directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a New York City hotel on Dec. 4.Mangione, 26, faces separate federal and state murder charges for the killing, which rattled the business community while also galvanizing health insurance critics. The federal charges include murder through use of a firearm, which carries the possibility of the death penalty. The state charges carry a maximum punishment of life in prison.Prosecutors have said the two cases will proceed on parallel tracks, with the state charges expected to go to trial first. It wasnt immediately clear if Bondis death penalty announcement will change the order of how the cases are tried.Luigi Mangiones murder of Brian Thompson an innocent man and father of two young children was a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America, Bondi said in a statement. After careful consideration, I have directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in this case as we carry out President Trumps agenda to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again. A message seeking comment was left for a spokesperson for Mangiones lawyers. Mangione has pleaded not guilty to a state indictment and has not entered a plea to the federal charges. President Donald Trump, who oversaw an unprecedented run of executions at the end of his first term, signed an executive order on his first day back in office on Jan. 20 that compels the Justice Department to seek the death penalty in federal cases where applicable.His predecessor, Joe Biden, had issued a moratorium on federal executions.Thompson, 50, was ambushed and shot on a sidewalk as he walked to an investor conference at a hotel in midtown Manhattan. Mangione was arrested Dec. 9 while eating breakfast at a McDonalds in Altoona, Pennsylvania.Police said he was carrying a gun that matched the one used in the shooting and a fake ID. He also was carrying a notebook expressing hostility toward the health insurance industry and especially wealthy executives, authorities said. UnitedHealthcare is the largest health insurer in the U.S., though the company said Mangione was never a client.Among the entries in the notebook, prosecutors said, was one from August 2024 that said the target is insurance because it checks every box and one from October that describes an intent to wack an insurance company CEO. MICHAEL R. SISAK Sisak is an Associated Press reporter covering law enforcement and courts in New York City, including former President Donald Trumps criminal and civil cases and problems plaguing the federal prison system. twitter mailto

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel, center, speaks with supporters as former Gov. Scott Walker, left, watches on Monday, March 31, 2025, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)2025-04-01T04:02:28Z WASHINGTON (AP) Elections in Florida and Wisconsin have become key tests of President Donald Trumps political standing two months into his second White House term. The marquee race Tuesday is for a swing seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, a technically nonpartisan election that has drawn at least $90 million in spending. Trump and billionaire adviser Elon Musk are backing conservative judge Brad Schimel while progressive billionaires and Democrats support liberal Susan Crawford. Two Republican-friendly Florida congressional seats could give the GOP some breathing room in the narrowly divided chamber. But Democrats in both districts have far outraised their GOP counterparts, and national Republicans have been publicly concerned in particular about the race to replace Mike Waltz, now Trumps national security adviser. Here are the places to watch as the vote results are reported on election night: Wisconsin: How big will Democrats win in Milwaukee and Madison?In any statewide election in Wisconsin, Democrats tend to win by large margins in the populous counties of Milwaukee and Dane (home of Madison). But the size of that win is usually a big factor in who wins statewide, especially in a close contest. In 2024, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris carried Milwaukee with 68% of the vote and Dane with 75% while narrowly losing statewide. That same night, Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin ran about 2 percentage points ahead of Harris in both counties and narrowly won reelection. In 2023, the Democratic Party-backed Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz received 73% of the vote in Milwaukee and 82% of the vote in Dane and went on to win statewide by an 11-percentage-point margin. Wisconsin: How big will Republicans win in the WOW counties?Republicans tend to do well in the suburban Milwaukee counties of Washington, Ozaukee and Waukesha the so-called WOW counties. A strong Republican showing in these counties can help counter the Democratic advantage in urban areas. Republican candidates have carried all three counties in every major statewide election going back to at least 2016. Wisconsin: Whos ahead in Green Bay?Republican candidates tend to win Brown County, which is home to Green Bay, but not by huge blowouts. Trump carried the county in all three of his presidential campaigns with between 52% and 53% of the vote. But since the 2016 election, there have been two Democrats who carried Brown County and went on to win statewide: Tony Evers in his bid for governor in 2018 and more recently Protasiewicz in her 2023 state Supreme Court race. A Democrat can still win statewide without winning Brown (such as Democrat Joe Biden in 2020, Evers reelection in 2022 and all three of Baldwins U.S. Senate runs). But if they do carry Brown, its probably going to be a rough night for Republicans. Wisconsin: Whats the situation in Sauk?Sauk County, northwest of Madison, is a competitive area in statewide elections that usually ends up supporting the Democratic candidate, albeit by slim margins. It falls somewhere in the middle of Wisconsins 72 counties in terms of population, and the margins are usually so small that statewide elections arent typically won or lost in Sauk. Democrats or Democratic-backed candidates had a long winning streak in Sauk, having carried the county in eight of the last 10 major statewide elections. But the two exceptions are notable: Trump carried Sauk in 2016 and 2024, when he won Wisconsin and the White House. While Sauk wont likely place a decisive role in Tuesdays elections, a victory there by a Republican-backed candidate may be a good sign for the party statewide.Florida: Voting history favors RepublicansDemocrats are encouraged by the strong fundraising performances of their nominees to replace Waltz and former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, but the special elections take place in two congressional districts that have long been safe Republican territory.Trump received about 68% of the vote in 2024 in the Florida Panhandles 1st Congressional District, slightly outperforming the 66% Gaetz received in his reelection bid. In the 6th Congressional District on the Atlantic coast, Trump received roughly 65% of the vote, just behind the 67% Waltz received in his final House reelection bid. The four counties that make up the 1st District have voted for Republican presidential candidates almost continually for the past 60 years. Only Walton County went for a Democrat on one occasion since 1960, although all four voted for Democrat-turned-independent candidate George Wallace in 1968. Today, the part of Walton County that falls within the 1st District is the most reliably Republican of the four counties. Republican presidential candidates have carried all six counties in the 6th District for the last four presidential elections. The Republican winning streak in some of the counties stretches back for decades before that. Lake County, for instance, hasnt supported a Democrat for president since Franklin Roosevelt in 1944. Trump and Waltz performed best in Putnam County, where they both received about 74% of the vote. Florida: Where to look for signs of a possible Democratic upsetIf Democrats manage to pull off upsets in either the 1st or 6th districts, the first indications may be in their best performing counties. Given the Republican advantage in both districts, the Democrats best areas are still places where Republicans performed well. In the 1st District, Trump and Gaetz did comparatively the worst in Escambia County, although they still received 59% and 57% of the county vote, respectively.In the 6th District, Democrats may do best in Volusia County, where Trump received 58% and Waltz received about 60%. Republican presidential candidates have carried Volusia in the last four elections, but the area used to be more friendly territory for Democrats, who won the county for six consecutive elections from 1992 through 2008. ROBERT YOON Yoon is an elections and democracy reporter for The Associated Press, with a focus on analyzing vote and demographic data and explaining the intricacies of the electoral process. He is now covering his seventh presidential campaign cycle. facebook mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

Former Patriots coach Bill Parcells will be inducted into the team's Hall of Fame as a contributor, team owner Robert Kraft announced Tuesday.

Colorado star Travis Hunter could be an option for the Giants with the third overall pick in the draft as both a wide receiver and cornerback, coach Brian Daboll said.

Wall Street sign is seen outside the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, March. 21, 2024. Reddit shares will begin trading Thursday. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)2025-04-01T05:07:37Z NEW YORK (AP) U.S. stocks are swerving through another shaky day of trading Tuesday, with uncertainty still high about just what President Donald Trump will announce about tariffs on his Liberation Day coming Wednesday.The S&P 500 was up by 0.6% in midday trading after storming back from an early drop of 1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 135 points, or 0.3%, as of 12:18 p.m. Eastern time, after eliminating a morning loss of 480 points. The Nasdaq composite was 1.1% higher. Wall Street has been particularly shaky recently, and momentum has been swinging not just day to day but also hour to hour because of uncertainty about what Trump will do with tariffs and by how much they will worsen inflation and grind down growth for economies. On Monday, for example, the S&P 500 careened from an early loss of 1.7% to a gain of 0.6%. Tesla helped drive Tuesdays rise after climbing 6.9%. That, though, clawed back just a small portion of the electric-vehicle makers steep losses this year, and its still down by nearly a third for 2025 so far.Elon Musks company is expected to report on Wednesday how many vehicles it delivered during the first three months of the year, and worries have grown about a potential backlash from customers. Protestors have been swarming Tesla showrooms due to anger about Musks leading the U.S. governments efforts to cut spending. PVH jumped 17.6% after the company behind the Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger brands reported a stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected. It also said it plans to send $500 million to shareholders this year through purchases of its own stock. In the bond market, Treasury yields sank immediately after a report said U.S. manufacturing activity contracted last month, breaking a two-month streak of growth. A separate report said U.S. employers were advertising slightly fewer job openings at the end of February than economists expected. Companies are saying theyre already feeling effects from Trumps trade war, even with the main event potentially coming on Wednesday, when the president will announce a sweeping set of tariffs. Customers are pulling in orders due to anxiety about continued tariffs and pricing pressures, one computer and electronic products company told the Institute for Supply Management in its monthly manufacturers survey. Starting to see slower-than-normal sales in Canada, and concerns of Canadians boycotting U.S. products could become a reality, a manufacturer in the food, beverage and tobacco products industry said in the ISMs survey.The economy is still growing, to be sure, and the job market has remained relatively solid even with Februarys slightly weaker-than-expected job openings. But one of the fears hitting the market is that even if Trump announces less-punishing tariffs than feared, the stop-and-start rollout of his trade strategy may by itself cause U.S. households and businesses to freeze their spending, which would damage the economy. Trump has pushed for tariffs in part to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States from other countries. All the nervousness in the market has helped push the price of gold to records, and it briefly topped $3,175 per ounce before turning slightly lower. Thats up from less than $2,700 at the start of the year.On Wall Street, Johnson & Johnson dropped 5.3% after a U.S. bankruptcy court judge denied the companys settlement plan related to baby powder containing talc. Its the third time the companys attempt to resolve the baby powder settlement through bankruptcy has been rejected by courts.Airline stocks continued their descent on worries that customers feeling nervous about the economy and global trade wont fly as much. Delta Air Lines lost 2.9%, and United Airlines gave up 1.6%. In stock markets abroad, indexes rose across much of Europe and Asia to recover some of their sharp drops from the day before. In Europe, Germanys DAX returned 1.7%, and Frances CAC 40 rose 1.1% after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the worlds biggest trade bloc would not cower in the face of U.S. trade demands. Europe holds a lot of cards, from trade to technology to the size of our market. But this strength is also built on our readiness to take firm counter measures if necessary, von der Leyen said. All instruments are on the table. In Japan, the Nikkei 225 held steady as Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he was imploring Trump not to impose higher auto tariffs on Japan, a longtime U.S. ally. A central bank survey found a worsening in business sentiment among big manufacturers. In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.17% from 4.23% late Monday and from roughly 4.80% in January. Thats a significant move for the bond market, and yields have been falling with worries about a potentially slowing U.S. economy.___AP Business Writers Matt Ott and Elaine Kurtenbach contributed. ___ This story has been corrected to show that PVH is buying back $500 million of its own stock, not $500 billion. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

Mike Lamont, director for accelerators and technology, center left, and Fabiola Gianotti, center right, director general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), speak with members of the U.S. House of Representatives in the Large Magnet Facility during a visit to CERN facilities in Meyrin, near Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, March 21, 2025. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)2025-04-01T06:49:23Z GENEVA (AP) Top minds at the worlds largest atom smasher have released a blueprint for a much bigger successor that could vastly improve research into the remaining enigmas of physics.The plans for the Future Circular Collider a nearly 91-kilometer (56.5-mile) loop along the French-Swiss border and below Lake Geneva published late Monday put the finishing details on a project roughly a decade in the making at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.The FCC would carry out high-precision experiments in the mid-2040s to study known physics in greater detail, then enter a second phase planned for 2070 that would conduct high-energy collisions of protons and heavy ions that would open the door to the unknown, said Giorgio Chiarelli, a research director at Italys National Institute of Nuclear Physics.History of physics tells that when there is more data, the human ingenuity is able to extract more information than originally expected, Chiarelli, who was not involved in the plans, said in an e-mail. For roughly a decade, top minds at CERN have been making plans for a successor to the Large Hadron Collider, a network of magnets that accelerate particles through a 27-kilometer (17-mile) underground tunnel and slam them together at velocities approaching the speed of light. The blueprint lays out the proposed path, environmental impact, scientific ambitions and project cost. Independent experts will take a look before CERNs two dozen member countries all European except for Israel decide in 2028 whether to go forward, starting in the mid-2040s at a cost of some 14 billion Swiss francs (about $16 billion). CERN officials tout the promise of scientific discoveries that could drive innovation in fields like cryogenics, superconducting magnets and vacuum technologies that could benefit humankind.Outside experts point to the promise of learning more about the Higgs boson, the elusive particle that has been controversially dubbed the God particle, which helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang. Work at the Large Hadron Collider confirmed in 2013 the existence of the Higgs boson, the central piece in a puzzle known as the standard model that helps explains some fundamental forces in the universe.CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti said the future collider could become the most extraordinary instrument ever built by humanity to study the constituents and the laws of nature at the most fundamental levels in two ways, by improving study of the Higgs boson and paving the way to explore the energy frontier, and by looking for new physics that explain the structure and evolution of the universe.One unknown is whether the Trump administration, which has been cutting foreign aid and spending in academia and research, will continue to support CERN a year after the Biden administration pledged U.S. support for the study and collaboration on the FCCs construction and physics exploitation if its approved.The United States is home to 2,000 users of CERN, making them the single largest national contingent among the 17,000 people working there, including outside experts abroad and staff on site, Gianotti said. While an observer state and not a member, the U.S. doesnt pay into the CERN regular budget but has contributed to specific projects. Most of the CERN regular budget comes from Europe.Costas Fountas, the CERN Council president, said he had spoken with some U.S. National Science Foundation and Department of Energy staff who relayed the message that so far theyre under the radar of the cuts of the Trump administration. Thats their words.CERN scientists, engineers and partners behind the plans considered at least 100 scenarios for the new collider before coming up with the proposed 91-kilometer circumference at an average depth of 200 meters (656 feet). The tunnel would be about 5 meters (16 feet) in diameter, CERN said. JAMEY KEATEN Keaten is the chief Associated Press reporter in Geneva. He previously was posted in Paris and has reported from Afghanistan, the Middle East, North Africa and across Europe. twitter RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00997-1Supershear quake moved fast and far, amplifying the damage and human toll.

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01002-5The European Unions new research chief Ekaterina Zaharieva speaks to Nature about attracting disaffected US scientists and cutting grant bureaucracy.

Hansi Flick has said there is no luck to Barcelona success this season but he knows it's trophies that matter as he prepares for Wednesday's "final before the final" against Atltico Madrid in the Copa del Rey.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola confirmed that Erling Haaland could be on the sidelines for seven weeks with an ankle injury he picked up against Bournemouth in their FA Cup quarterfinal.

Steve Rad, CEO of toy maker Abacus Brands Inc., which designs science kits and other educational toys for older children, shows a new improved matte box, left, that will replace its black mold plastic material packaging insert with an improved cardboard material to help offset the costs of future tariffs in El Segundo, Calif., on Monday, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)2025-04-01T16:35:43Z NEW YORK (AP) Gadgets sold without batteries. Toys sold in slimmed-down boxes or no packaging at all. More household goods that shoppers need to assemble themselves.These are some of the ways consumer product companies are retooling their wares to reduce costs and avoid raising prices as President Donald Trump levies new import taxes on key trading partners as well as some materials used by American manufacturers.The economic environment in which the president has imposed, threatened and occasionally postponed repeated rounds of tariffs is more precarious than during his first term. U.S. consumers are feeling tapped out after several years of inflation. Businesses say tariffs add to their expenses and eat into their profits, but they are wary of losing sales if they try to pass all of the increase on to customers.Instead, some companies are exploring cost-cutting options, both ones that consumers likely would notice in time remember shrinkflation? and ones that exist too far down the supply chain for them to see. The changes may help minimize price increases yet wont be enough in every case to offset them completely. These are some of the strategies retailers and brands have in mind: A kink in the supply chain: After putting an extra 20% tariff on all goods from China, as well as a 25% tariff on imported steel, aluminum and automobiles, Trump said he would announce on Wednesday the targets of reciprocal tariffs that mirror the taxes all other nations apply to certain U.S. exports. He argues the tariffs will spur domestic manufacturing, among other goals. Also on the horizon: twice-delayed tariffs on most goods from Canada and Mexico, and duties on copper, lumber and pharmaceutical drugs. Kimberly Kirkendall, president of supply-chain consulting firm International Resource Development, has told clients U.S. makers of shelving, home goods and food products that given all the uncertainty, this is not the time for long-term moves like seeking factories outside of China. She encouraged them to focus on the short term, particularly the need to scrutinize product lines from every angle for possible savings.Youve got to collaborate and work together with your suppliers in this situation to be able to bring costs down, Kirkendall said.Sourcing concerns are not only a worry for big companies that rely on Chinese manufacturers. Sasha Iglehart, founder of a small online clothing company called Shirt Story, has a collection of upcycled mens shirts that sell for around $235. She said she typically gets her vintage buttons from an Austrian supplier and knows Trump has talked about taxing goods from the European Union.I will continue to look for local vendors and collectors here in the States as back up, said Iglehart, whose company is based in Connecticut. Reworking a productFor many companies, evaluating which components or details they can remove from their products or replace with less expensive ones is the go-to move for absorbing the potential financial hit from tariffs. Los Angeles-based toy company Abacus Brands Inc., which designs science kits and other educational toys, has most of its products made in China. By using slightly thinner paper in an 80-page project book that comes with two of its kits, the company expects to avert a $10 retail price increase, President Steve Rad said. Three or 4 cents here, Rad said. Seven or 6 cents there. Two more pennies over there. All of a sudden, youve made up the difference.Aurora World Inc., known for its plush pets and toy vehicles, is looking at using fewer paint colors as a way to counteract tariff costs, according to Gabe Higa, managing director of the California companys toy division. All of Aurora Worlds toys come from factories in China. This is something that makes it a little bit simpler so that theres less manual labor involved or less material cost, Higa said. (It) doesnt have a lot of incremental value so its easy to take away. The company still may have to raise prices as long as the new tariffs are in effect, he said. Economy packaging: Tweaking or reducing product packaging is another area where importers may cut back and carries the advantage of possibly appealing to eco-conscious customers.Basic Fun CEO Jay Foreman, whose company markets classic toys like Tonka trucks, Lincoln Logs and Care Bears, said he is presenting retailers with three different packaging options and asking them to decide which ones they prefer for the trucks and some other products that will be in stores next spring. The first is the current packaging, which consists of a box with a big open window that lets customers see whats inside. The second option: no box, just a tray attached to the bottom of toys to hold them in place on shelves. The third: unwrapped but affixed with a simple paper price tag that features brand information.The second-tier packaging would reduce the toy companys cost per item by $1.25, and the package-free version would yield savings of $1.75, Foreman said. Both would diminish the appeal of the products and would not come close to canceling out the tariff on goods made in China, Foreman said. He said he would make pricing decisions later this week after Trump provides details about his planned reciprocal tariffs. To further reduce its production costs, Abacus Brands is thinking of switching from plastic to cardboard for the package inserts that keep toy parts in place. Cardboard trays cost 7 cents per unit compared to 30 cents for the plastic version, according to Rad.The change requires finding a new factory to make the inserts, a move that did not make financial sense before now, he said. The various tariff-related modifications should be effective for fall and holiday deliveries to stores, Rad said. The compromises were making are things that do not matter to the consumer, he said.Forget the extrasShoppers will likely have to assemble more of their products at home as companies look to reduce shipping costs, according to Kirkendall of International Resource Development.One of her clients manufactures self-watering planters that are made in China. The product is undergoing a redesign so it can be shipped as separate nesting components instead of fully assembled.Companies also are reevaluating the pieces of their products that are essential or extra. Chris Bajda, managing partner at online wedding gift retailer Groomsday, said accessories like batteries and decorative gift boxes may end up in the latter category.We now carefully assess whats truly necessary and avoid including items that dont serve a functional purpose for the customer, Bajda said.The return of shrinkflation? Reducing the size or weight of products without lowering prices proliferated as a business practice from 2021 through 2024 as companies grappled with rising costs for ingredients, packaging, labor and transportation. Edgar Dworsky, a consumer advocate and former assistant attorney general in Massachusetts, suspects the makers of consumer goods will embrace shrinkflation again to hide costs given the blast of new tariffs. The additional import tax on Canadian soft lumber, for example, might show up in smaller toilet paper rolls, he said. Shrinkflation has been a little quiet in the last few months, Dworksy said. But I would expect to see both price increases and product shrinkage. ANNE DINNOCENZIO DInnocenzio writes about retail, trends, the consumer economy and hourly workers for The Associated Press. twitter mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01018-xLong-awaited report explores the practicalities of building a triple-sized version of the LHC.

Nature, Published online: 01 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01016-zIn shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.

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The icon for the TikTok video sharing app is seen on a smartphone in Marple Township, Pa., on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)2025-04-01T16:37:09Z LOS ANGELES (AP) As the deadline to strike a deal over TikTok approaches this week, President Donald Trump has signaled that he is confident his administration can broker an agreement with ByteDance, the social media apps China-based parent company.Speaking with reporters on Air Force One late Sunday, Trump said that theres tremendous interest in Tiktok. He added that he would like to see TikTok remain alive. The presidents comments came less than one week before an April deadline requiring ByteDance to divest or face a ban in the United States.We have a lot of potential buyers, Trump said. Trump also said that the administration is dealing with China who also want it because they may have something to do with it. Last week, Trump said he would consider a reduction in tariffs on China if that countrys government approves a sale of TikToks operations in the U.S. Questions about the fate of the popular video sharing app have continued to linger since a law requiring ByteDances divestment took effect on Jan. 19. After taking office, Trump gave TikTok a 75-day reprieve by signing an executive order that delayed enforcement of the statute until April 5. During his first term, Trump tried to ban TikTok on national security grounds, which was halted by the courts before his administration negotiated a sale of the platform that eventually failed to materialize. He changed his position on the popular app during last years presidential election and has credited the platform with helping him win more young voters. I won the young vote by 36 points. Republicans generally dont do very well with the young vote, he said Sunday. I think a lot of it could have been TikTok.Trump has said that the deadline on a TikTok deal could be extended further if needed. He previously proposed terms in which the U.S. would have a 50% stake in a joint venture. The administration hasnt provided details on what that type of deal would entail. TikTok and ByteDance have not publicly commented on the talks. Its also unclear if ByteDance has changed its position on selling TikTok, which it said early last year it does not plan to do. What will happen on April 5?If TikTok is not sold to an approved buyer by April 5, the original law that bans it nationwide would once again go into effect. However, the deadline for the executive order doesnt appear to be set in stone and the president has reiterated it could be extended further if needed.Trumps order came a few days after the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a federal law that required ByteDance to divest or be banned in January. The day after the ruling, TikTok went dark for U.S. users and came back online after Trump vowed to stall the ban.The decision to keep TikTok alive through an executive order has received some scrutiny, but it has not faced a legal challenge in court.Who wants to buy TikTok?Although its unclear if ByteDance plans to sell TikTok, several potential bidders have come forward in the past few months.Aides for Vice President JD Vance, who was tapped to oversee a potential deal, have reached out to some parties, such as the artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI, to get additional details about their bids, according to a person familiar with the matter. In January, Perplexity AI presented ByteDance with a merger proposal that would combine Perplexitys business with TikToks U.S. operation. Other potential bidders include a consortium organized by billionaire businessman Frank McCourt, which recently recruited Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian as a strategic adviser. Investors in the consortium say theyve offered ByteDance $20 billion in cash for TikToks U.S. platform. And if successful, they plan to redesign the popular app with blockchain technology they say will provide users with more control over their online data.Jesse Tinsley, the founder of the payroll firm Employer.com, says he too has organized a consortium, which includes the CEO of the video game platform Roblox, and is offering ByteDance more than $30 billion for TikTok. Trump said in January that Microsoft was also eyeing the popular app. Other interested parties include Trumps former Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and Rumble, the video site popular with some conservatives and far-right groups. In a post on X last March, Rumble said it was ready to join a consortium of parties interested in purchasing TikTok and serving as a tech partner for the company. SARAH PARVINI Parvini covers artificial intelligence for The Associated Press. She is based in Los Angeles. mailto

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