A forest official walks with volunteers to search for olive ridley sea turtle eggs on Marina Beach in Chennai, India, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)2025-04-07T03:51:14Z CHENNAI, India (AP) For nearly four decades, residents in southern Indias coastal city of Chennai have patrolled moonlit beaches at night trying to protect sea turtles and their hatchlings that for millennia have nested along these shores.Hungry dogs, locals looking for a snack, and disorienting lights are among the hazards facing the olive ridley turtles and their eggs, which can take up to 60 days to hatch. Many turtles are caught offshore in fishing nets, which this year alone have killed hundreds of them in the area.Nonetheless, local residents have collected and helped to protect more than 260,000 turtle eggs this year in Tamil Nadu state, whose capital is Chennai.Patrollers scan the beaches looking for turtles nesting or small sand mounds that might indicate eggs are buried underneath. When they find a cache of eggs, they transport them to a protected area and rebury them at the same depth as they were initially found. This is crucial since temperatures affect what sex the turtles will be. Researchers say rising temperatures from human-caused planet warming are resulting in fewer male turtles being born. We cover a lot of ground, at least 30 kilometers (18 miles), by breaking into smaller groups and each group walking seven or eight kilometers, said a volunteer named Melvin, who goes only by his first name and has been working with turtle conservation groups for several years. The patrols begin around midnight each day during the turtle nesting season, which runs from December to April. The Associated Press saw one volunteer dig carefully at a possible nesting site until his hand was elbow-deep in the sand, where he found the eggs. He and other volunteers carefully brought the eggs out, counting a total of 137 of them. They were placed in a cloth bag and brought to the safe haven of a nearby hatchery.I come during my summer holidays to Chennai just to do this, said Yajur Karthik, an 11-year-old volunteer from nearby Bengaluru city who has been coming for the last two years to help protect the turtles. Karthik said he feels its important to help conserve the turtles given the growing number of challenges these ancient creatures face.Only one in a thousand turtles survives, he said.___The Associated Press climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find APs standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org. SIBI ARASU Sibi reports on climate change from India and South Asia twitter mailto

Nature, Published online: 07 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01067-2Without clear protocols to catch errors, artificial intelligences growing role in science could do more harm than good.

A dejected investor waits to restart trading, suspended for an hour following a 5% drop in in its main index, at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSE), in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)2025-04-07T10:13:25Z BANGKOK (AP) The impact of U.S. President Donald Trumpsblast of tariff hikes was reverberating across world markets Monday as Americas trading partners puzzled over whether there is room for negotiating better deals. Several countries said they were sending trade officials to Washington to try to talk through the crisis, which has cast uncertainty over the global economic outlook, hammered markets and left U.S. allies wondering about the value of their ties with the worlds largest economy. However, Germanys economy minister, Robert Habeck, was defiant as he arrived at a meeting of European Union trade ministers in Luxembourg, saying the premise of the wide-ranging tariffs was nonsense and that attempts by individual countries to win exemptions havent worked in the past. Its important for the EU to stick together, he said. That means being clear that we are in a strong position America is in a position of weakness. China, which hit back Friday at Washington with 34% tariffs on U.S. products and other retaliatory moves, accused the U.S. of failing to play fair.Putting America First over international rules is a typical act of unilateralism, protectionism and economic bullying, Foreign Affairs spokesperson Lin Jian told reporters. The ruling Communist Party struck a note of confidence even as markets in Hong Kong and Shanghai crumpled. The sky wont fall, declared The Peoples Daily, the partys official mouthpiece. Faced with the indiscriminate punches of U.S. taxes, we know what we are doing and we have tools at our disposal. Leading big drops in many markets, Hong Kongs stock benchmark, the Hang Seng, plunged 13.2%. The Shanghai Composite index, meanwhile, lost 7.3% despite reported moves by regulators to staunch the losses.Chinas Commerce Ministry said officials met with representatives of 20 American businesses including Tesla and GE Healthcare over the weekend and urged them to take concrete actions to address the tariffs issue.During the meeting, Ling Ji, a vice minister of commerce, promised that China will remain open to foreign investment, according to the readout by the ministry. Other Asian nations seek negotiations South Koreas Trade Ministry said its top negotiator, Inkyo Cheong, will visit Washington this week to express Seouls concerns over the 25% tariffs on Korean goods and discuss ways to mitigate the damage to South Korean businesses, which include major automakers and steel makers.Pakistan also planned to send a delegation to Washington this month to try negotiate over the 29% tariffs on its exports to the U.S., officials said. The prime minister ordered Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb to assess the tariffs potential impact on Pakistans fragile economy and draw up recommendations. The U.S. imports around $5 billion worth of textiles and other products each year from Pakistan, which heavily relies on loans from the International Monetary Fund and other lenders. In Southeast Asia, Malaysias Trade Minister Zafrul Abdul Aziz said his country will seek to forge a united response from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to Trumps sweeping tariffs. As chair of the 10-nation body this year, Malaysia will lead a meeting Thursday in its capital Kuala Lumpur to discuss broader implications of the trade war on regional trade and investment, Zafrul told reporters.We are looking at the investment flows, macroeconomic stability and ASEANs coordinated response to this tariff issue, Zafrul said. He denied reports Malaysia had imposed a 47% tariff on imports from the U.S., saying the actual average Malaysian tariff on American exports is 5.6%. He said that he had met with the U.S. ambassador to Malaysia to try to clarify how the U.S. came up with its 24% tariff. Indonesia plans to increase imports from US Indonesia, one of the regions biggest economies, said it would work with businesses to increase its imports of U.S. wheat, cotton, oil and gas to help reduce its trade surplus, which was $18 billion in 2024. Coordinating Economic Affairs Minister Airlangga Hartarto told a news conference that Indonesia will not retaliate against the new 32% tariff on Indonesian exports, but would use diplomacy to seek mutually beneficial solutions. Some Southeast Asian neighbors, including Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar, face tariffs of over 40%, giving Indonesia a slight advantage, he noted.For Indonesia, it is also another opportunity as its market is huge in America, Hartoto said. He said Indonesia would buy U.S.-made components for several national strategic projects, including refineries.___Associated Press journalists from around the world contributed to this report. ELAINE KURTENBACH Based in Bangkok, Kurtenbach is the APs business editor for Asia, helping to improve and expand our coverage of regional economies, climate change and the transition toward carbon-free energy. She has been covering economic, social, environmental and political trends in China, Japan and Southeast Asia throughout her career. twitter mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

People clean debris from damaged buildings in the aftermath of an earthquake on March 28, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo)2025-04-07T10:26:45Z BANGKOK (AP) Long-shot efforts to find survivors from Myanmars devastating March 28 earthquake were winding down Monday, as rescue efforts were supplanted by increasing relief and recovery activity, with the death toll from the disaster surpassing 3,500 and still climbing.In the capital, Naypyitaw, people cleared debris and collected wood from their damaged houses under drizzling rain, and soldiers removed wreckage at some Buddhist monasteries.Myanmar Fire Services Department said Monday that rescue teams had recovered 10 bodies from the rubble of a collapsed building in Mandalay, Myanmars second biggest city.It said international rescuers from Singapore, Malaysia and India had returned to their countries after their work to find survivors was considered completed. The number of rescue teams operating in the residential areas of Naypyitaw has been steadily decreasing. The 7.7 magnitude quake hit a wide swath of the country, causing significant damage to six regions and states. The earthquake left many areas without power, telephone or cell connections and damaged roads and bridges, making the full extent of the devastation hard to assess. Heavy rains and winds disrupted rescue and relief operations on Saturday night and added to the misery of the homeless forced to sleep in the open. The weather forecast for this week said scattered showers and thunderstorms are possible across the country. Myanmars military government and its battlefield opponents, meanwhile, have been trading accusations over alleged violations of ceasefire declarations each had declared to ease earthquake relief efforts.Myanmar has been in turmoil since the armys 2021 takeover ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, which led to nationwide peaceful protests that escalated into armed resistance and what now amounts to civil war.Although the military government and its armed opponents declared unilateral ceasefires for a temporary period, reports of continued fighting are widespread, with the army coming in for special attention for continuing aerial bombing, according to independent Myanmar media and eyewitnesses. Independent confirmation of fighting is difficult because of the remoteness of the areas in which much of it takes place and restrictions on journalists.The Three Brotherhood Alliance, a trio of powerful ethnic minority guerrilla armies, declared a unilateral temporary ceasefire on April 1, following an earlier declaration by the opposition National Unity Government, or NUG.The NUG, which leads the pro-democracy resistance, said its armed wing, the Peoples Defense Force, would cease offensive actions for two weeks.On Wednesday night, the army announced a similar unilateral ceasefire, as did another ethnic minority group among its foes, the Kachin Independence Organization.All sides reserved the right to act in self-defense.The Taang National Liberation Army, or TNLA, a member of the powerful Three Brotherhood Alliance, charged in a Sunday statement on the Telegram messaging platform that the military conducted airstrikes, including dropping toxic gas bombs, on villages the guerrilla group occupied last year in the northern part of Shan state. Another member of the alliance, the Arakan Army, fighting in the western state of Rakhine, said Saturday night that the military continued to launch daily counterattacks, aerial bombardments, shelling and naval attacks against its troops in two townships in Rakhine state, as well as in Ayeyarwady and Bago regions.The group said it occupied a military base it had besieged on a strategic hill in Bago a day after declaring its ceasefire, but honored its terms by failing to attack the armys retreating soldiers.The shadow National Unity Government on Saturday accused the military of carrying out 63 airstrikes and artillery attacks since the earthquake, resulting in the deaths of 68 civilians, including one child and 15 women.However, Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun, a spokesperson for the military government, said in an audio message to journalists on Saturday night that the groups in the Three Brotherhood Alliance and the Kachin Independence Army, as well as the Karen National Union in southeastern Myanmar and pro-democracy forces in the central Magway region and other groups violated the ceasefires by attacking the army.We are carrying out relief and assistance efforts for the people affected by the earthquake. I am saying this to make everyone aware of the ceasefire violations at a time like this, Zaw Min Tun said.

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A soldier plays an accordion during the performance of a corrido for the media at a military base in Mexico City, Monday, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)2025-04-07T05:07:07Z MEXICO CITY (AP) At a Mexican military base, Captain Eduardo Barrn picks up not a rifle but a microphone. Swaying boot-to-boot, he belts out a song as the sounds of trumpets and accordions roar from a band of a dozen camouflage-clad soldiers.The rhythmic style known as a corrido is recognizable to just about every soul in the Latin American nation of 130 million. But Barrns lyrics diverge sharply from those blaring on speakers across Mexico.I still remember the day I joined the military, he crooned. This is a dream my soul longed for, and if I were to live another life, Id become a soldier again.Barrn, who performs under the name Eddy Barrn, began releasing music videos and songs on Spotify last year in coordination with the Mexican military. His lyrics extol the armys virtues, celebrate proud parents and honor the fallen. They stand in stark contrast to the controversial narco corridos, a subgenre that has sparked controversy as famed artists pay homage to cartel bosses, portraying them as rebels going against the system.Faced with the challenge of addressing a musical style that depicts cartel violence, local governments across Mexico have increasingly banned performances and pursued criminal investigations of bands and musicians. Mexicos president even vowed to reduce the popularity of narco corridos while promoting other, less violent musical styles. But Barrn, 33, is taking a different approach. Instead of censorship, he wants to build upon the momentum with his own military corridos, an effort to both infuse the genre with more socially acceptable lyrics and recruit young people to the military.Narco life is in style and they make it sound really pretty but the reality is different, he said. Were playing our part to invite young people to join this movement of positive music. A vow to change Mexican musicBarrons military ballads are part of a wider government push spearheaded by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has proposed that the government promote corridos about love, falling out of love and peace.She even announced a government-sponsored Mexican music competition in the northern state of Durango showcasing music that avoids glorifying violence, drugs and discrimination against women.It will completely change Mexican music, she said.But in a subculture long defined by resistance and putting words to the harsh realities facing the poor, the governments initiatives around the genre have been met with skepticism about official attempts to promote family-friendly narratives.I dont think using corridos as a way to incorporate other kinds of narratives, is a bad idea, said Jos Manuel Valenzuela, a Tijuana sociologist who studies the genre. There are a lot of songs that sing of peace and love. Its just that those arent the ones that are turning out to be hits because were living in a moment of aggrieved youth. Singing through social issuesCorridos were born in the 19th century, their classical band instruments and the accordion rooted in German and Polish migration to Mexico. At a time of widespread illiteracy, they were used widely to pass on oral histories.The ballads took off during the Mexican revolution, when they were used to share stories of war heroes and glory from the conflict.That is why Barrn says he didnt invent military corridos, but that hes simply bringing them back.Corridos come from the revolution, and were doing the same thing as those soldiers and revolutionaries, albeit in a different age, but the result is the same, he said.The genre evolved over generations, from singing about smuggling tequila during the 1920s Prohibition era in corridos tequileros to grappling with the rising wave of cartel violence in Mexico with narco corridos.All the big social issues are told through corridos, Valenzuela said. Its a metaphor to speak about what weve been living through. Weapons and barbed wire as inspirationBarrn said he would play guitar with his fathers Mexican regional music band as a teenager, and write his own music. He would bring his guitar to play on deployments after he joined the army at 20.In 2021, he said he began writing his own songs about his time in the military and singing with a military FX Band, named after the type of gun the military uses. But the music never went public.Around 2023, the genre exploded when artists like Peso Pluma, Fuerza Regida and Natanael Cano began to mix the classic style with trap music in what are known as corridos tumbados. That same year, Peso Pluma bested Taylor Swift as the most streamed artist on YouTube.A year later, the Mexican army decided to post Barrns music under his artistic name.The music videos, which have clocked tens of thousands of views on YouTube alone, are layered with images of heavy duty weapons, the Mexican flag, barbed wire and Barrn belting out in camouflage and infrared goggles pulled above his military helmet. Originally intended to entertain troops and boost military recruitment among young Mexicans, Barrns songs took on a different meaning amidst the renewed controversy that has come with the corridos boom.The musical style has long been criticized for romanticizing cartel violence, but has hit an inflection point in recent years.Mexican states have implemented performance bans, and prominent artists have received death threats, often claiming to be from rival cartels whose leaders are glorified in their music. And musicians have been forced to cancel shows due to concerns about potential violence.The controversy intensified last week, after the face of top cartel boss Nemesio Rubn El Mencho Oseguera was projected onto a large screen behind the band Los Alegres del Barranco at a music festival in the northern state of Jalisco. The incident, occurring shortly after Osegueras cartel was linked to a ranch under investigation as a training camp and body disposal site in Jalisco, sent shockwaves across Mexico.The performance was met with a cascade of criticisms. Two Mexican states announced criminal investigations, concerts were cancelled and the Trump administration revoked the U.S. visas of band members.It also marked a hardening in tone by Sheinbaum, who called for an investigation into the concert, adding: You cant justify violence or criminal groups.Barrn, who opposes a ban on corridos, believes the solution is to continue to sing cloaked in camouflage with the hopes of reclaiming the Mexican music from his childhood from the negative stereotypes that have grown to define it.He said the army is already planning to release new songs in the coming months.Sadly, weve been stuck with this label of corridos as negative music, he said. A better approach is to reclaim the genre and take a different path to shift the conversation.____Follow APs coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at https://apnews.com/hub/latin-america

Nature, Published online: 07 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08924-0Author Correction: Recapitulation of premature ageing with iPSCs from HutchinsonGilford progeria syndrome

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An LGBTQ+ related book is seen on shelf at Fabulosa Books a store in the Castro District of San Francisco on Thursday, June 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Haven Daley,File)2025-04-07T10:02:06Z NEW YORK (AP) Removing books from library shelves is no longer just a story of objections from a local community or an individual parent, the American Library Association says. In its new State of American Libraries Report released Monday, the ALA found more than 70% of attempted bans of a given title or titles come from organized groups and elected officials, and just 16% originated with a parent.The most commonly criticized books, including Maia Kobabes Gender Queer and the late Toni Morrisons The Bluest Eye, can be found on such websites as www.ratedbooks.org and through lists compiled by Moms for Liberty and other conservative activists.We can trace many of the challenges to lists of books that have been distributed by Moms for Liberty and other groups, said Deborah Caldwell-Stone, who directs the associations Office for Intellectual Freedom. As part of its annual report, the ALA unveiled its list of the 10 most challenged books of 2024, starting with George M. Johnsons All Boys Arent Blue, and also featuring Gender Queer, The Bluest Eye, Stephen Chboskys The Perks of Being a Wallflower and John Greens Looking for Alaska. Most of the books listed have LGBTQ+ themes, continuing a yearslong trend. Other objections include references to drug addiction, such as in Ellen Hopkins Crank, and to slavery and sexual abuse, including those in Patricia McCormicks Sold. The ALA defines a challenge as a formal, written complaint filed with a library or school requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness. The association, which compiles censorship data through media accounts and reports from librarians, has long believed the actual number of challenges is far higher than the numbers cited in its annual studies.The report comes at an especially perilous time for libraries. The Trump administration is implementing drastic cuts at the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which already is canceling grants to state libraries. Bans have surged in recent years and several states, from Texas and Florida to Iowa and Utah, have passed laws restricting what school libraries can acquire. While the ALA is reporting a sharp drop in challenges in 2024, down to 821 attempts compared to 1,247 the year before, the number remains far higher than before 2021. And Caldwell-Stone doesnt believe censorship is declining. Libraries are now more likely to avoid stocking books that are controversial, or may be prohibited by law, she says. I spoke to a librarian from Texas who told me she was looking over a political book and wasnt sure if she could add it to the collection, Caldwell-Stone said. Librarians dont want to get prosecuted or otherwise face legal trouble. A lot of librarians are operating under these kinds of threats.The 10 Most Challenged Books of 20241. All Boys Arent Blue, by George M. Johnson2. Gender Queer, by Maia Kobabe3. (Tie) The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison3. (Tie) The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky5. Tricks, by Ellen Hopkins6. (Tie) Looking for Alaska, by John Green6. (Tie) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, by Jesse Andrews8. (Tie) Crank, by Ellen Hopkins8. (Tie) Sold, by Patricia McCormick10. Flamer, by Mike Curato RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

In 2018, I spent two days at Facebooks Menlo Park campus doing back-to-back on-the-record interviews with executives who worked on the companys content policy teams. This was after we had published article after article exposing the many shortcomings of Facebooks rules, based on internal guidebooks that were leaked to Joseph. We learned, for example, that Facebook would sometimes bend its rules to comply with takedown requests from governments that were threatening to block the service in their country, that Facebook had drawn an impossible-to-define difference between white supremacy, white nationalism, and white separatism that didnt stand up to any sort of scrutiny, and that it had incredibly detailed rules about when it was allowable to show a Photoshopped anus on the platform.After months of asking for interviews with its top executives, Facebooks public relations team said that, instead, I should fly to Menlo Park and sit in on a series of meetings about how the rules are made, how the team dealt with difficult decisions, how third party stakeholders like civil liberties groups are engaged, and how particularly difficult content decisions were escalated to Sheryl Sandberg. SPONSORED This segment is a paid ad. If youre interested in advertising, let's talk.Your Personal Data May Not Be Hidden. Take Control with DeleteMe.Don't want just anyone finding your information on Search Engines? Remove your personal information from Data Brokers using DeleteMe. Use code 404MEDIA for 20% off Learn more One of the people I interviewed while at Facebook headquarters was Guy Rosen, who was then Facebooks head of product and is now its chief information security officer. I interviewed Rosen about how it could be possible that Facebook had failed so terribly at content moderation in Myanmar that it was being credibly accused of helping to facilitate the genocide of the Rohingya people. What Rosen told me shocked me at the time, and is something that I think about often when I write about Facebook. Rosen said that Facebooks content moderation AI wasnt able to parse the Burmese language because it wasnt a part of Unicode, the international standard for text encoding. Besides having very few content moderators who knew Burmese (and no one in Myanmar), Facebook had no idea what people were posting in Burmese, and no way to understand it: We still dont know if its really going to work out, due to the language challenges, Rosen told me. This was in 2018; Facebook had been operating in Myanmar for seven years and had at that time already been accused of helping to facilitate this human rights catastrophe.Posters that were hanging at Facebook HQ in 2018. Image: Jason KoeblerMy time at Facebook was full of little moments like this. I had a hard time squaring the incredibly often thoughtful ways that Facebook employees were trying to solve incredibly difficult problems with the horrendous outcomes we were seeing all over the world. Posters around HQ read REDUCE CLICKBAIT, DEPOLARIZE, REDUCE MISINFO, and UNSHIP HATE. Yet much of what I saw on Facebook at the time and to this day are, well, all of those things. Other posters talked about having respect for employees, as I wrote about a workforce that was largely made up of low-wage contractors around the world whose job was to look at terrorism videos, hate speech, graphic sexual content, etc. When I asked a Facebook executive about what it was doing to support the mental health needs of its content moderators and to help them deal with PTSD, the Facebook executive in charge of content moderator training at the time told me that they had designed actual physical environments in its offices where traumatized employees could just kind of chillax or, if you want to go play a game, or if you want to just walk away, you know, be by yourself.The biggest question I had for years after this experience was: Does Facebook know what its actually doing to the world? Do they care?In the years since, I have written dozens of articles about Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, have talked to dozens of employees, and have been leaked internal documents and meetings and screenshots. Through all of this, I have thought about the ethics of working at Facebook, namely the idea that you can change a place that does harm like this from the inside, and how people who work there make that moral determination for themselves. And I have thought about what Facebook cares about, what Mark Zuckerberg cares about, and how it got this way.Mostly, I have thought about whether there is any underlying tension or concern about what Facebook is doing and has done to the world; whether its values, to the extent a massive corporation has values, extend beyond making money, amassing power, growing, crushing competition, avoiding accountability, and stopping regulation. Basically, I have spent an inordinate amount of time wondering to myself if these people care about anything at all.Careless People, by Sarah Wynn-Williams, is the book about Facebook that I didnt know I had been waiting a decade to read. Its also, notably, a book that Facebook does not want you to read; Wynn-Williams is currently under a gag order from a third-party arbitrator that prevents her from promoting or talking about the book because Facebook argued that it violates a non-disparagement clause in her employment contract.Wynn-Williams worked at Facebook between 2011 and 2017, rising to become the director of public policy, a role she originally pitched as being Facebooks diplomat, and ultimately became a role where she did a mix of setting up meetings between world leaders and Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, determined the policy and strategy for these meetings, and flew around the world meeting with governments trying to prevent them from blocking Facebook.The reason the book feels so important and cathartic is because, as a memoir, it does something that reported books about Facebook cant quite do. It follows Wynn-Williams interior life as she recounts what drew her to Facebook (the opportunity to influence politics at a global scale beyond what she was able to do at the United Nations), the strategies and acts she made for the company (flying to Myanmar by herself to meet with the junta to get it unblocked there, for example), and her discoveries and ultimate disillusionment with the company as she goes on what often feels like repeated Veep-like quests to get Mark Zuckerberg to take interactions with world leaders seriously, to engineer a spontaneous interaction with Xi Jinping, to get him or Sandberg to care about the role Facebook played in getting Trump and other autocrats elected.Facebook HQ. Image: Jason KoeblerShe was in many of the rooms where big decisions were made, or at least where the fallout of many of Facebooks largest scandals were discussed. If you care about how Facebook has impacted the world at all, the book is worth reading for the simple reason that it shows, repeatedly, that Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook as a whole Knew. About everything. And when they didnt know but found out, they sought to minimize or slow play solutions.Yes, Facebook lied to the press often, about a lot of things; yes, Internet.org (Facebooks strategy to give free internet to people in the developing world) was a cynical ploy at getting new Facebook users; yes, Facebook knew that it couldnt read posts in Burmese and didnt care; yes, it slow-walked solutions to its moderation problems in Myanmar even after it knew about them; yes, Facebook bent its own rules all the time to stay unblocked in specific countries; yes, Facebook took down content at the behest of China then pretended it was an accident and lied about it; yes, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg intervened on major content moderation decisions then implied that they did not. Basically, it confirmed my priors about Facebook, which is not a criticism because reporting on this company and getting anything beyond a canned statement or carefully rehearsed answer from them over and over for years and years and years has made me feel like I was going crazy. Careless People confirmed that I am not.It has been years since Wynn-Williams left Facebook, but it is clear these are the same careless people running the company. When I wonder if the company knows that its platforms are being taken over by the worst AI slop you could possibly imagine, if it knows that it is directly paying people to flood these platforms with spam, if it knows it is full of deepfakes and AI generated content of celebrities and cartoon characters doing awful things, if it knows it is showing terrible things to kids. Of course it does. It just doesnt care.Throughout the book, Wynn-Williams grapples with the morality of what shes being asked to do, and whether it feels ethical for her to be doing it at all. This is her book, of course, and she generally comes off as someone fighting to do the right thing at a company that often did not do the right thing. But even this retrospective introspection hit hard for me; Wynn-Williams is a funny, colorful, and sometimes heartbreaking writer. She writes about staying at Facebook even as shes treated terribly and asked to do horrible things following a near-death health emergency she suffered during childbirth because she needs the health insurance, she talks about sexual harassment she says she endured from her boss and Sheryl Sandberg, and about being fired after reporting it.It is obvious why Facebook doesnt want people to read this book. No one comes out looking good, but they come out looking exactly like we thought they were.

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Auburn guard Tahaad Pettiford (0) moves on the court against Michigan State during the second half in the Elite Eight of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)2025-04-07T10:30:07Z Hours before college basketball crowns its next champion, the future of college sports will be hanging in the balance in a California courtroom. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilkens scheduled hearing Monday in a courtroom in Oakland is expected to be the last one before the changes will truly begin under an industry-changing, $2.8 billion settlement of a five-year-old lawsuit against the NCAA and the nations largest conferences. Among other things, it will clear the way for schools to pay up to $20.5 million each with their athletes.Wilken has already granted preliminary approval for the settlement. It was unknown whether she will give final approval at Mondays hearing, which is expected to include testimony from some of those objecting to details of the sprawling plan. LSU gymnast and influencer Olivia Dunne is among the 18 people scheduled to testify, though she is expected to appear via Zoom. The new structure outlined by the settlement, which represents a shift in billions of dollars from the schools into the pockets of athletes, is supposed to go into effect on July 1. Universities across the country have been busy making plans, under the assumption Wilken will put the terms into effect. Were going to have a plan going into July 1, then were probably going to spend the next year figuring out how good that plan is and how we need to modify it going forward, said Florida athletic director Scott Stricklin, whose department is among the biggest in the country and includes a Gators mens basketball team playing for the national title late Monday against Houston. The so-called House settlement, named after Arizona State swimmer Grant House, actually decides three similar lawsuits that were bundled into one. The defendants are the NCAA and the Southeastern, Big Ten, Atlantic Coast, Big 12 and Pac-12 conferences, all of whom have been touting the settlement as the best path forward for their industry. Its a huge step forward for college sports, especially at the highest level, said NCAA President Charlie Baker, whose organization continues to seek antitrust protections from Congress. My biggest problem with the way the whole thing works right now is the schools have been removed from the primary relationship with the student-athletes.The most ground-shifting part of the settlement calls on schools from the biggest conferences to pay some 22% of their revenue from media rights, ticket sales and sponsorships which equals about $20.5 million in the first year directly to athletes for use of their name, images and likeness (NIL). Still allowed would be NIL payments to athletes from outside sources, which is what triggered the seismic shift college sports has endured over the last four years. For instance, Cooper Flagg of Duke reportedly makes $4.8 million in NIL deals from groups affiliated with the school and others. The settlement calls for a clearinghouse to make sure any NIL deal worth more than $600 is pegged at fair market value. Its an attempt to prevent straight pay for play deals, though many critics believe the entire new structure is simply NIL masquerading as that. Another key element is the $2.8 billion in back damages to athletes who played sports between 2016 and 2024 and were not entitled to the full benefits of NIL at the time they attended schools. Those payments are being calculated by a formula that will favor football and basketball players and will be doled out by the NCAA and the conferences.The settlement also calls for replacing scholarship limits with roster limits. The effect would be to allow every athlete to be eligible for a scholarship while cutting the number of spots available. There will be winners and losers under such a formula, though some fear it could signal the end of the walk-on athlete in college sports and also imperil smaller sports programs that train and populate the U.S. Olympic team. ___AP college sports: https://apnews.com/hub/college-sports

President Donald Trump waves as he arrives at the White House on Marine One, Sunday, April 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)2025-04-07T11:56:43Z WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump remained defiant on Monday as global markets continued plunging and fears of a recession grew after his tariff announcement last week. He said other countries had been taking advantage of the Good OL USA! in a post on Truth Social, his social media platform.Our past leaders are to blame for allowing this, and so much else, to happen to our Country, Trump wrote. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!Trump has insisted his tariffs are necessary to rebalance global trade and rebuild domestic manufacturing. He has singled out China as the biggest abuser of them all and criticized Beijing for increasing its own tariffs in retaliation. The Republican president also called on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. On Friday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned that the tariffs could increase inflation, and he said theres a lot of waiting and seeing going on, including by us, before any decisions would be made. Trump spent the weekend in Florida, arriving on Thursday night to attend a Saudi-funded tournament at his Miami golf course. He stayed at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach, and golfed at two of his properties nearby. On Sunday, he posted a video of himself hitting a drive, and he told reporters aboard Air Force One that evening that he won a club championship. Its good to win, Trump said. You heard I won, right? He also said that he wouldnt back down from his tariffs despite the turmoil in the global markets.Sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something, Trump said. Goldman Sachs issued a new forecast saying a recession has become more likely even if Trump backtracks from his tariffs. The financial firm said economic growth would slow dramatically following a sharp tightening in financial conditions, foreign consumer boycotts, and a continued spike in policy uncertainty that is likely to depress capital spending by more than we had previously assumed. On Monday, the president is scheduled to welcome the Los Angeles Dodgers to the White House to celebrate their World Series victory. Hes also meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and theyre expected to hold a joint press conference in the afternoon.Trump has strived for a united front after the chaotic infighting of his first term. However, the economic turbulence has exposed some fractures within his disparate coalition of supporters. Bill Ackman, a hedge fund manager, lashed out at Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Sunday as indifferent to the stock market and the economy crashing. He said Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial firm led by Lutnick before he joined the Trump administration, stood to profit because of bond investments. On Monday, Ackman apologized for his criticism but reiterated his concerns about Trumps tariffs. I am just frustrated watching what I believe to be a major policy error occur after our country and the president have been making huge economic progress that is now at risk due to the tariffs, he wrote on X. Top White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett told Fox News Channel that Ackman should ease off the rhetoric a little bit.He insisted that other countries, not the United States, are going to bear the brunt of the tariffs.Billionaire Elon Musk, a top adviser to Trump on overhauling the federal government, expressed skepticism about tariffs over the weekend. Musk has said that tariffs would drive up costs for Tesla, his electric automaker.I hope it is agreed that both Europe and the United States should move ideally in my view to a zero tariff situation, effectively creating a free trade zone between Europe and North America, Musk said in a video conference with Italian politicians.He added, That certainly has been my advice to the president.Peter Navarro, a Trump trade adviser and tariff proponent, later told Fox News that Musk doesnt understand the situation. He sells cars, Navarro said. Thats what he does. He added that, Hes simply protecting his own interests as any business person would do.___Follow the APs coverage of President Donald Trump at https://apnews.com/hub/donald-trump. CHRIS MEGERIAN Megerian covers the White House for The Associated Press. He previously wrote about the Russia investigation, climate change, law enforcement and politics in California and New Jersey. twitter mailto

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FILE Clouds hang over the North Sentinel Island, in India's southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Nov. 14, 2005. (AP Photo/Gautam Singh, File)2025-04-07T10:53:08Z NEW DELHI (AP) Indian police have arrested a 24-year-old American Youtuber who visited an off-limits island in the Indian ocean and left an offering of a Diet Coke can and a coconut in an attempt to make contact with an isolated tribe known for attacking intruders.Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, from Scottsdale, Arizona, was arrested on March 31, two days after he set foot on the restricted territory of North Sentinel Island part of Indias Andaman and Nicobar Islands in a bid to meet people from the reclusive Sentinelese tribe, police said. A local court last week sent Polyakov to a 14-day judicial custody and he is set to appear again in the court on April 17. The charges carry a possible sentence of up to five years in prison and a fine. Indian authorities said they had informed the U.S. Embassy about the case. Visitors are banned from traveling within 3 miles (5 kilometres) of the island, whose population has been isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years. The inhabitants use spears and bows and arrows to hunt the animals that roam the small, heavily forested island. Deeply suspicious of outsiders, they attack anyone who lands onto their beaches. In 2018, an American missionary who landed illegally on the beach was killed by North Sentinel islanders who apparently shot him with arrows and then buried his body on the beach. In 2006, the Sentinelese had killed two fishermen who had accidentally landed on the shore. Indian officials have limited contacts to rare gift-giving encounters, with small teams of officials and scientists leaving coconuts and bananas for the islanders. Indian ships also monitor the waters around the island, trying to ensure outsiders do not go near the Sentinelese, who have repeatedly made clear they want to be left alone. Police said Polyakov was guided by GPS navigation during his journey and surveyed the island with binoculars before landing. He stayed on the beach for about an hour, blowing a whistle to attract the attention but got no response from the islanders. He later left a can of Diet Coke and a coconut as an offering, made a video on his camera, and collected some sand samples before returning to his boat.On his return he was spotted by local fishermen, who informed the authorities and Polyakov was arrested in Port Blair, the capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, an archipelago nearly 750 miles (1,207 kilometres) east of Indias mainland. A case was registered against him for violation of Indian laws that prohibit any outsider to interact with the islanders.Police said Polyakov had conducted detailed research on sea conditions, tides and accessibility to the island before starting his journey.He planned meticulously over several days to visit the island and make a contact with the Sentinel tribe, Senior Police Officer Hargobinder Singh Dhaliwal said.In a statement, police said Polyakovs actions posed a serious threat to the safety and well-being of the Sentinelese people, whose contact with outsiders is strictly prohibited by the law to protect their indigenous way of life. An initial investigation revealed Polyakov had made two previous attempts, in October last year and January, to visit the islands, including in an inflatable kayak.Police said Polyakov was drawn to the island due to his passion for adventure and extreme challenges, and was fascinated by the mystique of the Sentinelese people.Survival International, a group that protects the rights of Indigenous peoples, said Polyakovs attempted contact with the tribes of North Sentinel was reckless and idiotic.This persons actions not only endangered his own life, they put the lives of the entire Sentinelese tribe at risk, the groups director Caroline Pearce said in a statement.

Its the first Monday after Donald Trump started implementing his so-called reciprocal tariffs and the markets are seeing red. At the time of writing the S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq are all down around four percent with the latter taking the hardest hit. And thats on top of the S&P 500s 10 percent fall last week. Things can still change quickly, and its up to historians to decide what to call Trumps decision to push the economy off a cliff when they write their history books, but Wikipedia editors, who are arguably writing one of the first drafts of history, have already called it the 2025 stock market crash.At the beginning of Donald Trump's second term, he was inaugurated inheriting a particularly strong domestic stock market, the top section of the Wikipedia article titled 2025 stock market crash reads. Whilst this was maintained for a period of a few weeks after his inauguration, the Trump administration began making and announcing increasingly aggressive trade policies in an attempt to practice protectionism and economic pressure, including heightening previous trade wars, starting new trade wars, heavy tariffs, and increasing tensions with allies; most prominently, Canada. As the administration continued to practice these policies, markets began to experience continued turbulence, volatility, and general uncertainty.While the current title of the article definitely calls it a stock market crash, it is, like every Wikipedia article, subject to change depending on how editors continue interpreting events. The article currently includes two disclaimers. The first notes that it may be affected by a current event, and the article may change rapidly as the event progresses. The second notes that there is a pending request from some editors to change the article title to 2025 stock market decline.The suggested renaming is just a placeholder, one editor who wants to call it a decline said in the talk page where Wikipedia editors debate the decision. I cannot find many reliable sources describing this as a "crash", at least not yet. A crash is generally considered to be a fall of >20%.[1] Most indices are bubbling around 910%; it is certainly contentious to label it a crash.The talk page for the Wikipedia article shows that previously there were two Wikipedia pages for the current economic turmoil caused by Trumps tariffs, one titled stock market crash and the other titled stock market decline. Editors agreed to merge the articles, and at least for now keep the crash title.Although there is no definition of a stock market crash it's generally accepted an abrupt double-digit percentage drop in a stock index over the course of a few days is a crash (which both have happened), the editor said, citing Investopedia. Also this is a really big crash, the last time the smp was at 5000 points was in April of 2024, meaning a year of progress has been wiped out in 48 hours. My personal stock portfolio dropped by 25%. But with that being said it might be better to change the title of the article to something like April 2025 stock market crash as there might be a bigger crash later.Just because Wikipedia says something doesnt necessarily mean its fact. Its a crowdsourced repository that ultimately reflects what Wikipedia editors decide. But its also one of the most useful and reliable repositories of information humanity has created, which feeds Google and countless other tools on the internet, and at the very least it reflects a prevailing point of view on what Trump did to the global economy.

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Flowers and toys left on a swing seat to commemorate victims killed in Russia's missile attack on Friday, at a children play area near the damaged apartment buildings, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Saturday, April 5, 2025. (AP Photo)2025-04-07T14:53:20Z KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine (AP) Anger and outrage gripped the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday as it held funerals for some of the 20 people, including nine children, killed by a Russian missile that tore through apartment buildings and blasted a playground.More than 70 were injured in the attack last Friday evening on Kryvyi Rih. The children were playing on swings and in a sandbox in a tree-lined park at the time. Bodies were strewn across the grass.We are not asking for pity, Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the city administration, wrote on Telegram as Kryvyi Rih mourned. We demand the worlds outrage.The U.N. Human Rights Office in Ukraine said it was the deadliest single verified strike harming children since the start of Russias full-scale invasion in February 2022. It was also one of the deadliest attacks so far this year. Ukraine has consented to a ceasefire proposed weeks ago by Washington. But Russia is still negotiating with the United States its terms for accepting a truce in the more than three-year war.U.S. President Donald Trump has voiced frustration at the continued fighting, and Ukrainian officials want him to compel Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop. Trump vowed during his election campaign last year to bring a swift end to the war. Were talking to Russia. Wed like them to stop, Trump told reporters Sunday. I dont like the bombing. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reaffirmed Monday that Putin supports a ceasefire proposed by Trump but wants Russian conditions to be met.President Putin indeed backs the ceasefire idea, but its necessary to first answer quite a few questions, Peskov said. In Kryvyi Rih, teacher Iryna Kholod, 59, remembered Arina and Radyslav, both 7 years old and killed in Fridays strike, as being like little suns in the classroom.Radyslav, she said, was proud to be part of a school campaign collecting pet food for stray animals. He held the bag like it was treasure. He wanted to help, she told The Associated Press. After Friday evening, two desks in my classroom were empty forever, Kholod said, adding that she still has unopened birthday gifts for them. How do I tell parents to return their textbooks? How do I teach without them? she asked.Russian missile and drone tactics continue to evolve, making it harder to shoot them down, Yurii Ihnat, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Force Command, said on national television.Russias Shahed drones have undergone significant upgrades, while Moscow is also modernizing its ballistic missiles, he said.Only the U.S. Patriot missile defense system can help prevent attacks like the one in Kryvyi Rih, Zelenskyy said late Sunday.He said he had instructed his defense and foreign affairs ministers to work bilaterally on air defense, especially with the United States, which has sufficient potential to help stop any terror.Ukraine will send a team to Washington this week to begin negotiations on a new draft of a deal that would give the U.S. access to Ukraines valuable mineral resources, Economy Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko told The Associated Press. Failure to conclude a mineral deal has hamstrung Ukrainian efforts to secure pledges of continuing U.S. military support.Britains Ministry of Defense and the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War, a think tank, say Russias battlefield progress on the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line has slowed since November. But on Saturday night, Russia launched its biggest aerial attack on Ukraine in nearly a month.Both sides are thought to be preparing for a renewed spring-summer military campaign.In Kryvyi Rih on Monday, an air raid alert interrupted a planned memorial a reminder of the continuing threat for civilians. The frustration hit home for Nataliia Freylikh, the schoolteacher of 9-year-old Herman Tripolets, who was killed in last Fridays attack.Even mourning him properly is impossible, Freylikh said.___Novikov reported from Kyiv, Ukraine.___Follow APs coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine

UConn guard Paige Bueckers (5) looks to shoot against UCLA during the first half of a national semifinal Final Four game during the women's NCAA college basketball tournament, Friday, April 4, 2025, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)2025-04-07T14:00:30Z NEW YORK (AP) Theres no doubt whos going first in the WNBA draft next Monday with Paige Bueckers the consensus top pick. After that it gets interesting with Olivia Miles decision to enter the NCAA transfer portal instead of the draft. The Washington Mystics, with a new coach and general manager, control the direction of the draft with the third, fourth and sixth pick. Five teams dont have picks in the opening round as New York, Indiana, Phoenix and Atlanta all traded away their picks. Las Vegas forfeited its pick following an investigation by the league in 2023 that found the franchise violated league rules regarding impermissible player benefits and workplace policies.Heres a look at how the first round could look on April 14:1. Dallas Wings: Paige Bueckers, UConnA generational player who averaged 20.0 points and shot 42.4% from behind the 3-point line this season. Bueckers is one of the most efficient players in college basketball and will pair with Arike Ogunbowale in the Wings backcourt. 2. Seattle Storm: Dominique Malonga, FranceThe 6-foot-6 center played for the French Olympic team last year and has a bright future in the WNBA. She averaged 15.0 points and 10.3 rebounds so far this season while playing for Lyon. While Seattle has a solid frontcourt with Ezi Magbegor and Nneka Ogwumike, its hard to pass up on this talented 19-year-old. 3. Washington Mystics: Sonia Citron, Notre Dame She averaged 14.3 points and 5.8 rebounds during her career at Notre Dame and also improved her defense to become one of the top defenders on the team. She would be the first of three first-round picks for a rebuilding Washington team and is in need of a solid wing. Citron has shot over 90% from the free throw line the past two seasons, one of the best percentages in the country.4. Washington Mystics: Kiki Iriafen, Southern California Was a star at Stanford before heading to USC for her last season. Shes risen her game since JuJu Watkins went down with an ACL tear and helped get the team to the Elite Eight. She averaged 18.2 points and 8.3 rebounds this season and will be another nice addition to a rebuilding Mystics team.5. Golden State Valkyries: Aneesah Morrow, LSUMorrow led the nation in double-doubles, averaging 18.7 points and 13.5 rebounds a game. She is second all-time in that category, behind only Oklahoma great Courtney Paris, having more than 100 in her career at LSU and DePaul.The 6-foot-1 Morrow has a toughness and nose for the basketball.6. Washington Mystics: Shyanne Sellers, MarylandThe Mystics will have had a lot of chances to see Sellers play in college with the Terrapins right up the road. She has size at 6-foot-2, but also plays the guard and wing spot. Her versatility makes her an attractive pick for the Mystics. She was the first player in Maryland history to have 1,500 points, 500 rebounds and 500 assists in her career.7. Connecticut Sun: Juste Jocyte, LithuaniaJocyte showcased her scoring skills with a 22-point effort against Belgium in the EuroBasket qualifiers. Shes a versatile player who can play any of the guard positions and is really effective on the pick and roll. Has a toughness about her and is fundamentally sound. Sun coach Rachid Meziane, who has spent time coaching in the French league, is well aware of her talents. 8. Connecticut Sun: Sania Feagin, South CarolinaDawn Staley has produced a plethora of talented post players over the last few years, from Aja Wilson to Aliyah Boston to Kamilla Cardoso. The South Carolina coach believes Feagin could be the next one to have an impact in the WNBA, predicting over the weekend that shell be a lottery pick. At 6-3, Feagin has size and shoots over 60% from the field.9. Los Angeles Sparks: Maddy Westbeld, Notre DameWestbeld missed the first half of this season while recovering from a foot injury, and with Miles and Hannah Hidalgo getting the majority of the shots, it was difficult for the 6-3 forward to get back to the numbers she put up the year before. Westbeld averaged 14.4 points, 8.7 rebounds and 1.5 steals in 2023-24. 10. Chicago Sky: Georgia Amoore, KentuckyThe Sky could pair Amoore with veteran guard Courtney Vandersloot to help the Australian learn the pro game. She averaged 19.6 points and 6.9 assists for Kentucky this season after transferring from Virginia Tech to play for Kenny Brooks, her former Hokies coach before he took the job in Lexington.11. Minnesota Lynx: Hailey Van Lith, TCUVan Lith became the first player to play on three different teams in the Elite Eight after seeing her college career revitalized at TCU. She averaged 17.7 points and 5.5 assists to help the Horned Frogs reach the Elite Eight for the first time in school history. She also has some pro experience helping the U.S. win a bronze medal in 3-on-3 at last years Paris Olympics. 12. Dallas Wings: Ajsa Sivka, SloveniaSivka is a multi-level scoring forward with efficient shot-making ability. She made over 42% from the 3-point line. At 6-4, she is a difficult matchup to defend.Other players to watch out for who could be taken in the first round or early in the second include: Te-Hina Paopao, South Carolina; Sedona Prince, TCU; JJ Quinerly, West Virginia; Sania Rivers, N.C. State; and Makayla Timpson, Florida State.___APs Mock WNBA Draft is an analysis on select players and their pro prospects. For more AP WNBA coverage, click here: https://apnews.com/hub/wnba-basketball

On Saturday Elon Musk sat in his personal jet and tested out Starlinks in-air WiFI by streaming some Path of Exile 2. Less than five minutes into the stream, someone in game chat asked him to jerk off mr trump so he dies of a heart attack! For the next hour and 40 minutes, the worlds richest man frowned his way through a livestream while people yelled at him.Path of Exile 2 is an action role-playing game and Musk loves it, but hes terrible at it. He has claimed hes one of the top players in the world and later admitted hes paid people to help keep his account leveled up and full of the high-end gear it needs to play the game at the highest level.Over the weekend, in his jet, he was playing the game in hard core mode. When a player dies in this mode they cannot progress any further. Essentially, players have one life. Musk died a lot. The streams entire vibe was fucked. This is the richest man in the world sitting in a private jet playing a game by himself for an audience of strangers while techno music blasted through the speakers. Streaming on a platform he owns using technology he owns in a jet he owns, he sat stone-faced and grinded his way through the early portions of Path of Exile 2 while other players yelled at him.Elon. Its me, Ashley St. Claire. I have no other means of contacting you so I bought PoE2 early access. Please pay your child support. Thank you Elon, an account named YakubsWorstCreation spammed. The message was a reference to Musks newest (disputed) child.Some of the messages were supportive. One encouraged people to Buy TSLA. Another mentioned Musks deployment of Starlinks to storm ravaged areas in the Carolinas after Hurricane Helene. By the way, thank you for helping out Western NC with the starlinks, we really appreciate it, it said.There were a lot of references to Kekius Maximus, Musks Roman emperor aesthetic Pepe the Frog persona thats steeped in washed out 2016 online culture. Your Imperial subjects demand an audience, one DM said.But a lot of the messages, especially those that were spammed, were trolls. ELON ARE YOU A SMART FELLA OR A FART SMELLA, one asked.Among the juvenile jokes were more personal attacks. The account ELON_MUSK_IS_A_PEDOPHILE spammed Musk with the message YOU HAVE NO REAL FRIENDS AND WILL DIE ALONE.An account called ELON_MUSK_IS_PATHETIC sent messages several times. STILL NOT OVER GRIMES SHE NEVER LOVED YOU, the account spammed at a stoic Musk.Its possible to hide the chat in PoE2. Several times on the stream, Musks watchers spammed the /dnd or Do Not Disturb command at him in a misguided attempt to help save the billionaire from seeming a constant stream of hateful messages.But Musk never typed /dnd. He did not stem the flow of weird hate. He did, on occasion, silence individual accounts. But its hard to tell what the criteria is. At about 20 minutes in he muted the account HC_John_Wick after it spammed ELON HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO LOOK THIS DUMB AND UGLY WHY IS UR TESLA COMPANY FALLING APART AHAAHAAHAAH! WHAT HAPPENED BUDDY?ELON_MUSK_IS_PATHETIC returned several times before Musk finally silenced it. YOU WILL ALWAYS FEEL INSECURE IT WILL NEVER GO AWAY, it spammed. YOU RUINED THE COUNTRY JUST LIKE YOU RUINED ALL YOUR MARRIAGES, it said 2 minutes later.Anyone spamming the chat will get, uh, ignored, Musk said as he finally muted the account that had been harassing him for almost an hour.The day after the stream, the internet picked it apart for content. A post with screenshots of some of the funniest DMs went viral on BlueSky. Among the PoE2 community, dissecting Musks gameplay and making fun of it is a cottage industry. Quin69TV is a pioneer of the form and already has a 30 minute long video breaking down how much Musk sucks at the game.At about an hour in the stream, we saw Musks login screen and a list of his individual characters and their names. His level 46 amazon is AMAZON_DOT_COM_. A level 75 invoker is BeLessDumb. His level 7 monk is DOESNTMATTERANYWAY. Another invoker hes got at level 100 is FatalismFTW.

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Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, speaks during a news conference at CASA's Multicultural Center in Hyattsville, Md., April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)2025-04-07T15:12:39Z WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to block a court order requiring it to return a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. The Justice Department argued in an emergency appeal to the justices that U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis overstepped her authority when she ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to the United States.The administration has conceded that Abrego Garcia should not have been sent to El Salvador because an immigration judge found he likely would face persecution by local gangs.But he is no longer in U.S. custody and the government has no way to get him back, the administration argued.Xinis gave the administration until just before midnight to facilitate and effectuate Abrego Garcias return.The district courts injunctionwhich requires Abrego Garcias release from the custody of a foreign sovereign and return to the United States by midnight on Mondayis patently unlawful, Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in court papers, casting the order as one in a deluge of unlawful injunctions judges have issued to slow President Donald Trumps agenda. The Trump administration is separately asking the Supreme Court to allow Trump to resume deportations of Venezuelan migrants accused of being gang members to the same Salvadoran prison under an 18th century wartime law. The federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, denied the administrations request for a stay. There is no question that the government screwed up here, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson wrote in a brief opinion accompanying the unanimous denial. The White House has described Abrego Garcias deportation as an administrative error but has also cast him an MS-13 gang member. Attorneys for Abrego Garcia said there is no evidence he was in MS-13. Xinis wrote that the decision to arrest him and send him to El Salvador appears to be wholly lawless, explaining that little to no evidence supports a vague, uncorroborated allegation that Abrego Garcia was once an MS-13 member. Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Salvadoran national who has never been charged or convicted of any crime, was detained by immigration agents and deported last month.He had a permit from DHS to legally work in the U.S. and was a sheet metal apprentice pursuing a journeyman license, his attorney said. His wife is a U.S. citizen.In 2019, an immigration judge barred the U.S. from deporting Abrego Garcia to El Salvador.A Justice Department lawyer conceded in a court hearing that Abrego Garcia should not have been deported. Attorney General Pam Bondi later removed the lawyer, Erez Reuveni, from the case and placed him on leave.

Nature, Published online: 04 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01082-3Neuroscientists have observed how deep-brain structures are activated when the brain becomes aware of its own thoughts. Plus, the worlds tiniest pacemaker and how the Trump tariffs will affect US science labs.

Trail Blazers general manager Joe Cronin, who has spent more than 19 years with the organization, has agreed to a multiyear contract extension, sources told ESPN.

For the first time since 2021, UConn earned the No. 1 spot in the AP Top 25 women's basketball poll a day after beating South Carolina 82-59 for the Huskies' 12th national championship.

The change of the guard by the Utah Highway Patrol during a funeral service for former U.S. Rep. Mia Love, Sunday, April 6, 2025, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Melissa Majchrzak)2025-04-07T04:01:20Z SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Family and friends of former U.S. Rep. Mia Love gathered Monday in Salt Lake City to honor the life and legacy of the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress after she died of brain cancer last month at age 49.The former lawmaker from Utah, a daughter of Haitian immigrants, had undergone treatment for an aggressive brain tumor called glioblastoma and received immunotherapy as part of a clinical trial. She died March 23 at her home in Saratoga Springs, Utah, weeks after her daughter announced she was no longer responding to treatment.Hundreds of mourners entered the service from a walkway lined with American flags, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Institute of Religion on the University of Utah campus. Long tables displayed framed family photos and bouquets of red and white flowers. A choir of Loves friends sang the hymn Consider the Lilies at the start of the service. Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, a close friend of Loves, was seated on stage and was named an honorary pallbearer.Loves sister Cyndi Brito shared childhood memories, including how Love used to rehearse all day and night for starring roles in her school plays. She was always the best at everything she did, her sister said. Sis, we will always, always look up to you, Brito said. Keep being the best.Brito read an excerpt of a speech her third-grade daughter gave at a recent school assembly for Black History Month honoring Loves legacy. Mia Love played many roles and had many titles, but the most important role in the most important title that Mia Love played in my eyes was auntie, Brito recalled her daughter, Carly, telling classmates.On Sunday evening, state lawmakers and members of the public visited the Utah Capitol to pay their respects at Loves flag-covered coffin behind ropes in the buildings rotunda. Love, born Ludmya Bourdeau, represented Utah on Capitol Hill from 2015 to 2019. She and her husband, Jason, had three children, Alessa, Abigale and Peyton.She was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2022 and said her doctors estimated she had only 10 to 15 months to live, which she surpassed. With aggressive treatments, Love lived for about three years after receiving her diagnosis.Love entered politics in 2003 after winning a seat on the city council in Saratoga Springs, 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Salt Lake City. She was elected as the citys mayor in 2009, becoming the first Black woman to serve as a mayor in Utah.In 2012, after giving a rousing speech at the Republican National Convention, she narrowly lost a bid for the U.S. House against the Democratic incumbent. She ran again two years later and defeated a first-time candidate by about 7,500 votes.Love did not emphasize her race during her campaigns, but she acknowledged the significance of her election after her 2014 victory. She said her win defied naysayers who suggested a Black, Republican, Mormon woman could not win a congressional seat in overwhelmingly white Utah. She was briefly considered a rising star in the GOP, but her power within the party fizzled out as President Donald Trump took hold. Love kept her distance from Trump and called him out in 2018 for vulgar comments he made about immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and some African nations. Later that year, she lost in the midterm elections as Democrats surged. HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Schoenbaum is a government and politics reporter based in Salt Lake City, Utah. She also covers general news in the Rockies and LGBTQ+ rights policies in U.S. statehouses. twitter mailto

On Monday stocks plummeted again following President Trumps tariff announcements last week. For a brief moment, they dramatically shot back up following reports that Trump was considering a 90-day pause in tariffs. But, that turned out to be false, and people have been trying to find out where the idea that there would be a 90-day pause actually came from.A company called Benzinga carried the headline Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett Says Trump Is Considering A 90-Day Pause in Tariffs For All Countries Except China, according to what appears to be a screenshot of the headline posted to Bluesky.Benzinga itself is now blaming posts on X for the market-moving mistake.In response to an emailed request for comment, Steve Krause, chief of news operations for Benzinga Pro, told 404 Media that the company issued this note:Benzinga Note: Market continues to be volatile after the White House Calls Hassett Tariff Headline 'Fake News' Amid Numerous Tariff Developments from EU, China. Hassett was misquoted by numerous X accounts and sources as indicating that Trump was considering a 90-day pause in tariffs.Most people have probably not heard of Benzinga. Its a company that is supposed to quickly provide information to financial professionals. The headline then got mentioned on CNBC. The outlet said the source of the claim was unclear.Still in response to that snippet of news, the S&P 500 leapt 8.5%. The White House then debunked the tariff pause, and the market immediately went back down.Krause did not provide any more details on how or why unverified claims on X ended up being reported by Benzinga.NBC News found one of it not the earliest claim of Hassett and the pause came from an account called @yourfavorito.

Nature, Published online: 07 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00995-3Success gives hope to scientists and advocates who managed to get millions of dollars in grants restored.

The Panthers on Monday signed former Division I basketball player Colin Granger to develop as a tight end.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Alex Ovechkin for setting an "outstanding record" as the NHL's top career goal scorer.

President Donald Trump, left, greets Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Monday, April 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)2025-04-07T14:44:44Z WASHINGTON (AP) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday, becoming the first foreign leader to visit Trump since he unleashed tariffs on countries around the world.Whether Netanyahus visit succeeds in bringing down or eliminating Israels tariffs remains to be seen, but how it plays out could set the stage for how other world leaders try to address the new tariffs.Trump greeted the Israeli prime minister with a firm handshake as he arrived for talks.Trump ignored shouted questions from reporters about the tumbling global markets and whether he would lift tariffs on Israel.Shortly before their meeting, the White House announced that Trump and Netanyahus plans to hold a joint news conference had been canceled. The White House did not offer any immediate explanation for why it was scrapped, but Trump and Netanyahu were expected to make comments to reporters at the start of their scheduled Oval Office meeting. Netanyahus office has put the focus of his hastily organized Washington visit on the tariffs, while stressing that the two leaders will discuss major geopolitical issues including the war in Gaza, tensions with Iran, Israel-Turkey ties and the International Criminal Court, which issued an arrest warrant against the Israeli leader last year. Trump in February signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the ICC over its investigations of Israel. The prime minister soon after arriving in Washington on Sunday evening met with senior Trump administration officials, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S. Trade Representative Jameson Greer, to discuss the tariffs. And Netanyahu met on Monday with Steve Witkoff, Trumps special envoy to the Middle East, ahead of his sit down with the president. Trump and Netanyahu are also expected to discuss Israels hoped-for annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank, which the Palestinians want as the heart of their future independent state. Eytan Gilboa, an expert on U.S.-Israel relations, said he expected Trump to use the tariffs as leverage to force concessions from Netanyahu.In Israels case, those concessions might not be economic. Trump may pressure Netanyahu to move toward ending the war in Gaza at the very least through some interim truce with Hamas that would pause the fighting and free more hostages. Gilboa said Trump is hoping to return from his first overseas trip expected next month to Saudi Arabia with some movement on a deal to normalize relations with Israel, which would likely require significant Israeli concessions on Gaza. If he does manage to move toward bolstering ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia, that would act as a regional diplomatic counterweight to pressure Iran, against which Trump has threatened new sanctions and suggested military action over its nuclear program.In a preemptive move last week, Israel announced that it was removing all tariffs on goods from the U.S., mostly on imported food and agricultural products, according to a statement from Netanyahus office. The statement did not mention Trumps impending tariffs, which were announced the following day, but said Israels step would bolster ties with its largest trading partner, the United States. Israel is not a major trading partner of the U.S.But the tactic failed, and with a 17% rate, Israel was just one of dozens of countries that were slapped with tariffs on Trumps so-called Liberation Day last week.Although Israel is a tiny market for U.S. products, the United States is a key trade partner of Israel. Much of that trade is for high-tech services, which are not directly affected by the tariffs, but key Israeli industries could be impacted.The Manufacturers Association of Israel estimates that the tariffs will cost Israel about $3 billion in exports each year and lead to the loss of 26,000 jobs in industries that include biotechnology, chemicals, plastics and electronics. The World Bank says Israels gross domestic product, a measure of economic output, is over $500 billion a year.The damage wont stop at exports, said Ron Tomer, the groups president. It will scare investors, encourage companies to leave Israel and undermine our image as a global center of innovation. He called on the government to work urgently to protect the economy. ___Goldenberg reported from Tel Aviv, Israel. TIA GOLDENBERG Goldenberg is an Associated Press reporter and producer covering Israel and the Palestinian territories. She previously reported on East and West Africa from Nairobi. twitter mailto AAMER MADHANI Madhani covers the White House for The Associated Press. He is based in Washington. twitter mailto

Nature, Published online: 07 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00860-3Nathan Alexander's laboratory welcomes anyone and everyone to use a mix of mathematics and computing to solve challenges in society.

A big weekend in Major League Soccer ends with the top three holding steady in our Power Rankings, as Messi and Miami stay top closely pursued by the always tough Columbus Crew and upstarts Vancouver.

Greg Peterson provides full analysis on the bets to make on the men's national championship game on Monday.

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Augusta National Golf Club chairman Fred Ridley announced on Monday that five-time Masters champion Tiger Woods, who last won in 2019, and his TGR Design firm is crafting a new nine-hole short course at The Patch, the former Augusta Municipal Golf Course.

Frameworka company that makes upgradeable and repairable laptopshas said it will pause sales on several versions of one of its models in America thanks to Trumps tariffs.Due to the new tariffs that came into effect on April 5th, were temporarily pausing US sales on a few base Framework Laptop 13 systems (Ultra 5 125H and Ryzen 5 7640U). For now, these models will be removed from our US site. We will continue to provide updates as we have them, Framework said in a post on X.Due to the new tariffs that came into effect on April 5th, were temporarily pausing US sales on a few base Framework Laptop 13 systems (Ultra 5 125H and Ryzen 5 7640U). For now, these models will be removed from our US site. We will continue to provide updates as we have them. Framework (@FrameworkPuter) April 7, 2025Unlike most laptops, Frameworks machines are designed to be upgraded and repaired. Customers pick a screen size and choose from a list of parts they want in the machine. They can have Framework assemble it and ship it with Windows installed, or they can build it themselves and install a custom operating system.The 13 line is Frameworks mid-sized option and the Ryzen 5 7640U was the cheapest variation of that model, starting at $749. The Ultra 5 125H was the Intel variant and is no longer listed on Frameworks website in the U.S. An archived version of the page shows this model starting at $799.A spokesperson for Framework told 404 Media in an email that the company was pausing sales on their six lowest priced units in the U.S. They clarified that those models are still available to customers that are ordering the machines outside of America. I asked if they knew when, or if, those models would ever come back to America. No comment, they said.I asked Framework why this was happening and it pointed to an answer it had posted on X. We priced our laptops when tariffs on imports from Taiwan were 0%. At a 10% tariff, we would have to sell the lowest-end SKUs at a loss, they said. Other consumer goods makers have performed the same calculations and taken the same actions, though most have not been open about it.Frameworks cheapest line of laptops is the latest consumer product to be felled by Trumps decision to issue a blanket import tax of 10% on all goods coming into the United States and a 32% tariff on Taiwan in particular. The stock market slumped on Monday and Wikipedia has already begun calling the events the 2025 Stock Market Crash.Nintendo announced the global launch of the Switch 2 just before Trump launched his tariff regime. The gaming company pulled pre-orders for the new gaming console in the U.S., citing uncertainty around the tariffs. The price was meant to be $449, but it might go up now. The board game and collectible card game industries, which rely on cheap materials from China, are signaling that prices are about to go up and its industry may collapse. A 2024 study from the Consumer Technology Associationthe group that puts on CESlooked at what effect proposed tariffs may have on gamers.What the CTA report predicted Framework, Nintendo, and the board game industry have confirmed. Trumps tariffs will hit gamers hard.

Having played just four events since returning from injury, Xander Schauffele is confident heading into the Masters: "My dream is just to give myself another chance coming down the stretch."

Practice at the Masters was suspended late Monday morning, and spectators were pulled off the golf course because of worsening rain and the threat of thunderstorms.