Prince Harry waves as he leaves the Royal Courts of Justice in London, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)2025-04-10T19:18:38Z LONDON (AP) Prince Harry met with war victims on Thursday in an unannounced visit to Ukraine as part of his ongoing work with wounded veterans, a spokesperson said.Harry visited the Superhumans Center, an orthopedic clinic in Lviv that treats and rehabilitates wounded military personnel and civilians, to see top-notch services provided in a country in the midst of war. The center provides prosthetics, reconstructive surgery and psychological help free of charge.The Duke of Sussex, who served 10 years in the British Army, has made helping injured soldiers one of his most prominent causes. He founded the Invictus Games in 2014 to offer wounded veterans the challenge of competing in sports events similar to the Paralympics.Harry was accompanied by a contingent from the Invictus Games Foundation, including four veterans who have been through similar rehabilitation experiences. The visit to the area in western Ukraine that has frequently been targeted with Russian missiles was not announced until after he was out of the country.He traveled to Ukraine after spending two days in a London court where he is appealing the British governments decision to strip him of his government-funded protection after he quit working as a member of the royal family in 2020 and moved his family to California. The prince is no stranger to war, having served two tours in Afghanistan, where he flew missions as an Apache helicopter copilot gunner. Harry, 40, the younger son of King Charles III, is the second member of the royal family to visit Ukraine. His aunt, Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, became the first British royal to travel to the country since Russias 2022 invasion when she made an unannounced visit to Kyiv last year.The royal family has been outspoken in their support for Ukraine. King Charles warmly greeted President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a show of support at his estate on the North Sea coast just two days after his extraordinary dressing down by U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House.Harrys older brother, Prince William, met with Ukrainian refugees during a two day visit to Estonia last month.____Find more of APs coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/royalty RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

Cannes film festival president Iris Knobloch, right, and Cannes film festival delegate general Thierry Fremaux attend a press conference to announce the International Cannes film festival line up for the upcoming 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, Thursday, April 10, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)2025-04-10T10:09:41Z PARIS (AP) New films from Wes Anderson, Ari Aster, and Richard Linklater will compete for the Palme dOr at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, organizers announced Thursday.Coming off a 2024 edition that produced the Academy Award best-picture winner Anora, as well as a number of Oscar contenders in Emilia Prez, The Substance and The Apprentice, the French film festival responded with a 2025 lineup full of big-name auteurs.Thierry Frmaux, Cannes artistic director, announced the selections in a news conference in Paris with festival president Iris Knobloch.Asked if he was under pressure after producing so many Oscars contenders last year, Frmaux said the festival organizers feel like an athlete putting his title back on the line.What happened last year was great, he said. And what happened the year before was great. The last seven, eight years, Cannes and the films of Cannes were great. Entries include Asters Eddington, a pandemic-set Western starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone; Andersons The Phoenician Scheme, starring Benicio Del Toro as a European profiteer and Linklaters appropriately French-language Nouvelle Vague, about Jean-Luc Godard and the French New Wave. Julia Ducournau, whose Titane won the Palme dOr in 2021, making Ducournau only the second female filmmaker to ever receive Cannes top honor, will return to the festival with the 1980s New York-set Alpha, about an 11-year-old with a parent who has AIDS. Several high-profile films that some had hoped would show up in Cannes werent announced Tuesday in Paris, including Terrence Malicks long-awaited Jesus drama The Way of the Wind, Spike Lees Akira Kurosawa remake Highest 2 Lowest, and Paul Thomas Andersons One Battle After Another. New films by Jim Jarmusch and Kristen Stewart had also been expected in the Cannes lineup. Asked about their absence, Fremaux declined to comment, saying he wanted to instead focus on the pictures which made the cut. He, however, said more films could be later added to the selection.An hour after the press conference in Paris, however, Lee said on Instagram that Highest 2 Lowest is, indeed, going to Cannes, and screening out of competition. Representatives for the festival later confirmed that Lees post was accurate, noting that the film wasnt announced in the press conference because Cannes was awaiting confirmation that the movies star, Denzel Washington, would be in attendance. With that confirmed, Highest 2 Lowest will premiere on May 19.Fremaux altogether announced 19 films vying for the Palme dOr, six of which are directed by women.Two films starring Josh OConnor made it into the competition lineup: Oliver Hermanus The History of Sound, co-starring Paul Mescal, and Kelly Reichardts The Mastermind, an art heist film set during the Vietnam War.Other previously Cannes regulars coming back include two-time Palme winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The Belgian filmmaking brothers latest is titled Young Mothers. Joachim Trier, whose The Worst Person in the World was a highlight of the 2021 Cannes, is back in competition with Sentimental Value, which likewise stars Renate Reinsve. Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who was imprisoned during the release of his last, secretly made film, 2022s No Bears, and not released until he went on a hunger strike, will unveil his latest film, It Was Just an Accident. Playing in the festivals Un Certain Regard sidebar is Scarlett Johanssons directorial debut, Eleanor the Great, starring June Squibb. Harris Dickinson, the Babygirl star, will also premiere his directorial debut, Urchin, in the same section. Bono will also be coming to the Croisette for the premiere of Bono: Stories of Surrender, Andrew Dominiks film of the singers one-man stage show. That will play in Cannes special screening section. Cannes earlier announced that Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning will launch at the festival, which three years ago bestowed an honorary Palme dOr on Tom Cruise. This year, Robert De Niro is set to receive one during the festivals opening ceremony. Following in the footsteps of Greta Gerwig, Juliette Binoche will head the jury that decides this years Palme dOr. Knobloch said its the first time in 60 years that two women succeed each other in this role.The festival runs May 13-24. The opening night film, playing out of competition, will be Leave One Day, the first movie by French director Amlie Bonnin.___Coyle reported from New York. SAMUEL PETREQUIN Petrequin has been covering sports and general news for The Associated Press for more than two decades. twitter mailto JAKE COYLE Coyle has been a film critic and covered the movie industry for The Associated Press since 2013. He is based in New York City. twitter mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

For the last week, several news outlets have published shocking headlines about a game called No Mercy on Steam that features incest and rape.In the UK, Peter Kyle, a member of Parliament and the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology described the game as deeply worrying and demanded Valve, which operates the PCs leading digital game store Steam, take it down. The Sydney Morning Herald called it a Rape game available online for Australian Children. Two organizations, Women in Games and Collective Shout, called on Valve to remove the game.I downloaded and played No Mercy today for about 20 minutes. Its crude, badly made, very boring, and about as pornographic as a seventh grader who is really good at drawing boobs. You click through endless lines of inane dialogue and eventually get to a point where two characters who look like stiff action figures of the same age are miming sex in a way that is barely recognizable as human. This is what many of the sex games on Steam look like, and the only reason youve heard about this one is that one of the characters is labeled son and the other is labeled as mom.I understand how conceptually, in the way it is written out and pitched on Steam, No Mercy can sound highly offensive. Thats the point. But playing it makes clear that its not interesting or well made enough to follow on its own shocking pitch. Its just shovelware, low quality games published in huge quantities in hopes of making a few bucks.No Mercy is a visual novel, meaning its a kind of choose-your-own-adventure presented mostly with still or barely animated images made with crude 3D models that players click through to advance the story and occasionally make choices about how that story unfolds. With adult games, those choices usually result in some kind of sexual encounter that is also rendered with those crude 3D models. Its a common type of game on Steam, and No Mercy differentiates itself by focusing on taboos.In this game, youll either become every womans worst nightmare or rather: the best dick they'll ever have. Your goal is simple: leave no pussy non-fucked, since that's the only thing they all want. Never take 'no' for an answer, the games Steam page reads. Fuck your mom, fuck your auntie, and even fuck your friends mom. Why not?Its a shocking way to pitch a game if porn tube site algorithms arent already serving you similar pornography, and doubly so if you havent kept up with Valves policy surrounding adult content on Steam, which is extremely permissive when compared to other platforms.Valves current position is that pretty much anything goes when it comes to adult content. Users can easily choose not to have any of those games surfaced to them, and if they do, Steam does a good job of filtering that content out. If they choose to see that stuff, which I do, its all over the place, including the front page, game recommendations, and lists of new releases and best sellers, where at least one of these games is always featured.Looking at my Steam account right now under the list of popular upcoming games, I see Office Affairs : Executive Decisions, an adult only visual novel with a an office romance angle, Saviour of the Wasteland, an adult only visual novel with post-apocalyptic/Fallout-y premise, and Lusts Cupid, an adult only pleasure simulator with an anime aesthetic.As PC Gamer helpfully keeps track, there were over 19,000 games released on Steam in 2024. A lot of those games are not good, and the list includes plenty of copycats, cheap asset flips, and shovelware. There are exceptions among Steams sex games, but the ratio there is even worse. There are a few formulas that developers in this space follow. There are games that basically use existing, well-known game mechanics like bullet hell and breakout-likes that reward players with some form of nudity, often furry or anime themed, and there are visual novels that usually follow porn genres and conventions, and are often rendered with cheap 3D graphics. Often, and especially in the latter category, these games have some kind of shocking, edgelord premise in an attempt to get players attention. For example, back in 2022 Sam and I played a Steam game called Sex with Hitler, which was a very bad top-down shooter/visual novel where, after a lot of very boring filler, you occasionally see a few images of having sex with Adolf Hitler. Most of these games barely rise above the level of the type of games advertised on porn sites that dare players not to cum.No Mercy is just a more extreme example of what Valve has been allowing on Steam for years. I understand why people are upset that its on the platform, but at least Valve makes it easy to filter out those games if you dont want to see them, something much bigger platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter are terrible at, as we report on constantly. This is not to say that Valve is doing a great job of moderating its platform. Ive been reporting on its problem with hate groups since 2017, which it still deals with today, and which there is no simple filter for as there is for adult content. Steam has also previously hosted games with an explicit connection to pick-up artists, the manosphere, and misogynist world views that are straight up marketed as instructions on how to talk to women in the real world, as opposed to the ridiculous fantasies included in No Mercy.Weve also reported on the adult industry for years, and theres an infinite variety in genres and fetishes. Sexuality can be strange, funny, and weirdly specific, and because it is generally a suppressed aspect of the human condition, its often offensive to people.Step-sister/step-brother porn is such a popular trope in pornography its become a punchline. There are more than 97,000 videos under Pornhubs Rough Sex category. There are many things people get off to that other people find objectionable, but a good rule is that if the adult content is entirely consensual and is not hurting anyone, people should be able to engage with it if they wish.Every platform decides the terms its going to allow, and then the people who make and play games, write ebooks, or make porn find whatever the edge is. Pornhub does not let users search for rape, and not all of the rough sex videos on Pornhub are rape fantasies, but some of them are. From what Ive seen, No Mercy is like many other games that are on Steam but has successfully won the outrage lottery, allowing it to stand out from thousands of other games that are doing much the same thing.

Nature, Published online: 10 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01157-1Blimp-shaped experiment shows the particle is at least one million times lighter than an electron.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08774-wThis Perspective offers a guide for researchers, peer-reviewed journals and funding agencies to make quantitative intersectional approaches a standard part of science and technology research design, where relevant, in efforts to enhance precision in science, and ultimately global equity and environmental sustainability.

Eric Karabell looks into the crystal ball to tell fantasy baseball managers what might come to pass in the not-too-distant future.

Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson has a message for anyone questioning if he'll be able to return from the latest setback in his career.

First responders walk along Pier 40, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in New York, across from where a helicopter went down in the Hudson River in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Jennifer Peltz)2025-04-10T19:52:52Z NEW YORK (AP) A helicopter crashed Thursday into the Hudson River just off Manhattan, killing six people, officials said.The fire department said it received a report of a helicopter in the water at 3:17 p.m. A official told The Associated Press that six people were aboard, and all were dead.Videos posted on social media showed the Bell 206 mostly submerged, upside-down in the water. Multiple rescue boats were seen circling the aircraft.The rescue craft were near the end of a long maintenance pier for a ventilation tower serving the Holland Tunnel. Fire trucks and other emergency vehicles were on streets near the scene with their lights flashing. The skies over Manhattan are routinely filled with both planes and helicopters, both private recreational aircraft and commercial and tourist flights. Manhattan has several helipads that whisk business executives and others to destinations throughout the metropolitan area. Over the years, there have been multiple crashes, including a collision between a plane and a tourist helicopter over the Hudson River in 2009 that killed nine people and the 2018 crash of a charter helicopter offering open door flights that went down into the East River, killing five people.

From left: Honorary Starter Gary Player, Augusta National Chairman Fred Ridley, Honorary Starter Jack Nicklaus, and Honorary Starter Tom Watson pose on the first hole during the first round at the Masters golf tournament, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)2025-04-10T13:40:40Z AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) The Masters began Thursday with its largest field in 10 years and a feeling that only two players were at the center of attention at Augusta National.One was Scottie Scheffler, a natural choice as the No. 1 player in the world for the last two years with a chance to become the youngest player since Jack Nicklaus with three Masters green jackets.Rory McIlroy was the sentimental choice, one of the best of his generation, with only a Masters title keeping him from the career Grand Slam.That much was evident not long after Nicklaus, Tom Watson and Gary Player hit honorary tee shots to get the 89th edition of the Masters started.They were asked who they wanted to win and who they thought would win. McIlroy was a unanimous choice among three players who have combined for 11 green jackets.I think Rory McIlroy will win the Masters this year, and I hope he does because it would give golf a great boost to have another winner of the Grand Slam, Player said. Watson concurred, saying it was his gut feeling.Nicklaus revealed that McIlroy came to see him in Florida last week. There has been a long line of players who have tried to tap into the knowledge of the six-time Masters champion. Nicklaus said he asked McIlroy how he was going to play Augusta National.We went through it shot for shot, Nicklaus said. And he got done with the round, and I didnt open my mouth. And I said, Well, I wouldnt change a thing. Thats exactly the way I would try to play the golf course. The discipline to do that is ... the discipline is what Rory has lacked in my opinion, Nicklaus said. Hes got all the shots. Hes got all the game. He certainly is as talented as anybody in the game.McIlroy has leaned on that discipline earlier this year, purposely playing more conservative unless the shot clearly allowed for an aggressive play. That was his strategy when he won at Pebble Beach in February. A month later, he added The Players Championship.McIlroy did not tee off until Thursday afternoon. Scheffler was among the early starters.___AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf DOUG FERGUSON Doug Ferguson has been the APs golf writer since 1998. He is a recipient of the PGA Lifetime Achievement in Journalism award. twitter mailto

Nature, Published online: 10 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01099-8Nature analyses which fields of science and US states are being hit hardest by grant terminations.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01121-zNew sequencing analyses fill in long-awaited gaps in the genomes of six ape species plus, evidence that laser-plasma particle accelerators could work as well as conventional kinds.

Former Real Madrid and Netherlands coach Leo Beenhakker has died at the age of 82, the LaLiga club said on Thursday.

Portland Thorns and Venezuela women's national team forward Deyna Castellanos said she does not know when it will be safe for her to travel outside of the United States due to uncertainty around potential travel bans to the U.S.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00908-4A large consortium of scientists adds functional data to neuronal wiring maps, seeking to crack the computational circuitry of the mouse brain.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00962-yAn established theory for how good sleep reduces a persons risk of neurodegenerative disease has been called into question. The ensuing argument could have enormous consequences for the treatment of Alzheimers disease.

High Point's Alan Huss is stepping down and will rejoin Greg McDermott's staff at Creighton, where he will be named head coach-in-waiting.

MLS has announced that the league will explore a switch to its schedule that would align with the international soccer calendar as early as 2027, as well as possible changes to the format of the regular season and playoffs

The Department of Homeland Security seal is seen on the podium at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters, Wednesday, April 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)2025-04-10T20:55:41Z Follow live updates on President Donald Trump and his administration WASHINGTON (AP) A federal judge is allowing the Trump administration to move forward with a requirement that everyone in the U.S. illegally must register with the federal government, in a move that could have far-reaching repercussions for immigrants across the country. In a ruling Thursday, Judge Trevor Neil McFadden sided with the administration, which had argued that they were simply enforcing an already existing requirement for everyone in the country who wasnt an American citizen to register with the government. The requirement goes into effect Friday.The Department of Homeland Security announced Feb. 25 that it was mandating that all people in the United States illegally register with the federal government, and said those who didnt self-report could face fines or prosecution. Failure to register is considered a crime, and people will be required to carry registration documents with them or risk prison time and fines. Registration will be mandatory for everyone 14 and older without legal status. People registering have to provide their fingerprints and address, and parents and guardians of anyone under age 14 must ensure they registered. The registration process also applies to Canadians who are in the U.S. for more than 30 days, such as so-called snowbirds who spend winter months in places like Florida.Federal immigration law has long required that people who arent American citizens and live in the U.S., including those here illegally, register with the government. Those laws can be traced back to the Alien Registration Act of 1940, which came amid growing fears of immigrants and political subversives in the early days of World War II. The current requirements stem from the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. But the requirement that people illegally in the U.S. register has been enforced only in rare circumstances. In fact, advocates opposing the government say it hasnt been universally used since it was first introduced in the mid-1940s. It was used in a limited way after Sept. 11, 2001, when the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System required that all noncitizen males 16 and older from 25 countries all but one of them majority Arab or Muslim register with the U.S. government. The program led to no terrorism convictions but pulled more than 13,000 people into deportation proceedings. It was suspended in 2011 and dissolved in 2016.The Trump administration has argued that the registration requirement has always existed and that officials are simply enforcing it for everyone.The groups that sued say this registration process is expressly to facilitate President Donald Trumps aim of carrying out mass deportations of people in the country illegally.The plaintiffs also say the government should have gone through the more lengthy public notification process before bringing about the change.They argue that the registry puts people who work, contribute to the economy and have deep family ties in America into a deep bind: Do they come forward, register and essentially give up their location to a government intent on carrying out mass deportations, or do they stay in the shadows and risk being charged with the crime of not registering?The government has already asked people subject to the registration requirement to create an account on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website. REBECCA SANTANA Santana covers the Department of Homeland Security for The Associated Press. She has extensive experience reporting in such places as Russia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. twitter mailto

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01066-3Finspan is visually stunning and brilliantly captures the intricacies of the oceans ecosystems.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08866-7The conversational diagnostic artificial intelligence system AMIE (Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer) has potential as a real-world tool for clinical history-taking and diagnostic dialogue, based on its performance in simulated consultations.

The team in Queens passed its torpedo-powered Bronx counterpart, while the Cubs cracked the top 10. Who else rose or fell?

NFL draft prospect Isaiah Bond turned himself in on an outstanding sexual assault warrant Thursday morning, the Frisco (Texas) Police Department confirmed to ESPN.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08830-5An acanthocephalan body fossil, Juracanthocephalus daohugouensis, is described from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou biota of China, showing previously unrecognized diversity in ancient Acanthocephala and the origins of this group of living organisms.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08807-4Acute stress activates autophagy in the lateral habenula, whereas chronic stress suppresses it, with this autophagy having a causal role in maintaining emotional homeostasis against stress, and its restoration through autophagy enhancers offers a novel antidepressant strategy.

The Colts released kicker Matt Gay on Thursday, two years after signing him to a four-year, $22.5 million contract.

Amateur Jose Luis Ballester, who plays at Arizona State, was in need of a bathroom break during his first Masters round and decided to relieve himself in Rae's Creek.

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., Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)2025-04-10T22:57:16Z WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court on Thursday said the Trump administration must work to bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to prison in El Salvador, rejecting the administrations emergency appeal.The court acted in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who had an immigration court order preventing his deportation to his native country over fears he would face persecution from local gangs.U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis had ordered Abrego Garcia, now being held in a notorious Salvadoran prison, returned to the United States by midnight Monday. The order properly requires the Government to facilitate Abrego Garcias release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador, the court said in an unsigned order with no noted dissents. It comes after a string of rulings on the courts emergency docket where the conservative majority has at least partially sided with Trump amid a wave of lower court rulings that have slowed the presidents sweeping agenda. In Thursdays case, Chief Justice John Roberts had already pushed back Xinis deadline, and the justices said that her order must now be clarified to make sure it doesnt intrude into executive branch power over foreign affairs, since Abrego Garcia is being held abroad. The court said the Trump administration should also be prepared to share what steps it has taken to try and get him back and what more it could potentially do. The administration claims Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang, though he has never been charged with or convicted of a crime. His attorneys said there is no evidence he was in MS-13. The administration has conceded that it made a mistake in sending him to El Salvador, but argued that it no longer could do anything about it. The courts liberal justices said the administration should have hastened to correct its egregious error and was plainly wrong to suggest it could not bring him home. The Governments argument, moreover, implies that it could deport and incarcerate any person, including U. S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, joined by her two colleagues.In the district court, Xinis wrote that the decision to arrest Abrego Garcia and send him to El Salvador appears to be wholly lawless. There is little to no evidence to support a vague, uncorroborated allegation that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was once in the MS-13 street gang, Xinis wrote.Abrego Garcia, 29, was detained by immigration agents and deported last month.He had a permit from the Homeland Security Department 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, finding that he faced likely persecution by local gangs. 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.___Associated Press writer Lindsay Whitehurst contributed to this report.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00905-7Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past seven million years could have influenced how species, including human ancestors, moved between continents.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00998-0Sleep-medicine specialist Esra Tasali explains the science behind maintaining a healthy weight without the need for expensive drugs.

If Aston Villa can't afford to keep Marcus Rashford, PSG will be waiting in the wings. Transfer Talk has the latest news, gossip and rumors.

Kyle Walker has said his "heart kicked in" when he attempted to persuade the referee to avoid showing Dele Alli a red card on his Como debut.

Trader Jonathan Mueller works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)2025-04-11T01:13:15Z Asian shares sank Friday in early trading after U.S. stocks surrendered a chunk of their historic gains from the day before. The deepening worries over President Donald Trump s trade war helped pull Japans Nikkei 225 share index down 5.6%. Shares also fell in South Korea and Australia in early trading Friday. On Thursday, the S&P 500 tumbled 3.5%, slicing into Wednesdays surge of 9.5% following Trumps decision to pause many of his tariffs worldwide. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,014 points, or 2.5%, and the Nasdaq composite tumbled 4.3%. China announced more countermeasures against the United States and losses for U.S. stocks accelerated after the White House clarified that the United States will tax Chinese imports at 145%, not the 125% rate that Trump had written about in his posting on Truth Social Wednesday, once other previously announced tariffs were included. The drop for the S&P 500 exceeded 6% at one point. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01088-x3D reconstruction is the first to overlay neuronal activity on a large-scale map of brain cells.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08790-wDense calcium imaging combined with co-registered high-resolution electron microscopy reconstruction of the brain of the same mouse provide a functional connectomics map of tens of thousands of neurons of a region of the primary cortex and higher visual areas.

Owen Michaels scored in double overtime as Western Michigan toppled defending champion Denver to advance to the Frozen Four final.

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Demonstrators gather outside of the Edward A. Garmatz United States District Courthouse in Baltimore, on Friday, March 14, 2025, before a hearing regarding the Department of Government Efficiency's access to Social Security data. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)2025-04-11T01:37:41Z WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump administration has moved to classify more than 6,000 living immigrants as dead, canceling their Social Security numbers and effectively wiping out their ability to work or receive benefits in an effort to get them to leave the country, according to two people familiar with the situation.The move will make it much harder for those affected to use banks or other basic services where Social Security numbers are required. Its part of a broader effort by President Donald Trump to crack down on immigrants who were allowed to enter and remain temporarily in the United States under programs instituted by his predecessor, Joe Biden. The Trump administration is moving the immigrants names and legally obtained Social Security numbers to a database that federal officials normally use to track the deceased, according to the two people familiar with the moves and their ramifications. They spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday night because the plans had not yet been publicly detailed. The officials said stripping the immigrants of their Social Security numbers will cut them off from many financial services and encourage them to self-deport and abandon the U.S. for their birth countries. It wasnt immediately clear how the 6,000-plus immigrants were chosen. But the Trump White House has targeted people in the country temporarily under Biden-era programs, including more than 900,000 immigrants who entered the U.S. using that administrations CBP One app. On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security revoked the legal status of the immigrants who used that app. They had generally been allowed to remain in the U.S. for two years with work authorization under presidential parole authority during the Biden era, but are now expected to self-deport. Meanwhile, a federal judge said Thursday that she was stopping the Trump administration from ordering hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans with temporary legal status to leave the country later this month. A representative from the Social Security Administration did not respond to a request for comment on the news that living immigrants were being classified as dead. The agency maintains the most complete federal database of individuals who have died, and the file contains more than 142 million records, which go back to 1899.The Privacy Act allows the Social Security Administration to disclose information to law enforcement in limited circumstances, which includes when a violent crime has been committed or other criminal activity.DHS and the Treasury Deprartment signed a deal this week that would allow the IRS to share immigrants tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U.S. The agreement will allow ICE to submit names and addresses of immigrants inside the U.S. illegally to the IRS for cross-verification against tax records. The acting IRS commissioner, Melanie Krause, who had served in that capacity since February, stepped down over that deal. In March, meanwhile, a federal judge temporarily blocked a team charged with cutting federal jobs and shrinking the government led by billionaire Elon Musk from Social Security systems that hold personal data on millions of Americans, calling their work there a fishing expedition.Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, an advocacy group that has challenged various Trump administration efforts in court, said her organization would likely sue over the Social Security numbers as well, once more details become available. This President continues to engage in lawless behavior, violating the law and abusing our systems of checks and balances, Perryman said. WILL WEISSERT Weissert covers national politics and the White House for The Associated Press. He is based in Washington. twitter mailto FATIMA HUSSEIN Hussein reports on the U.S. Treasury Department for The Associated Press. She covers tax policy, sanctions and any issue that relates to money. twitter mailto

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08783-9High-resolution images from the Hubble Space Telescope show evidence of star cluster migration and merger in dwarf galaxies.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08854-xA photonic processor capable of running advanced artificial intelligence models with near-electronic precision is introduced, marking a substantial step towards post-transistor computing technologies.

Three goals are surely enough to see Arsenal through to the semis, right? ESPN's writers tackle that, and some of the other most burning Champions League questions.

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President Donald Trump speaks during an event on energy production in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)2025-04-11T04:01:03Z WASHINGTON (AP) Donald Trump is undergoing his annual physical on Friday, potentially giving the public its first details in years about the health of a man who in January became the oldest in U.S. history to be sworn in as president. I have never felt better, but nevertheless, these things must be done! Trump, 78, posted on his social media site.Despite long questioning predecessor Joe Biden s physical and mental capacity, Trump himself has routinely kept basic facts about his own health shrouded in secrecy shying away from traditional presidential transparency on medical issues. If history is any indication, his latest physical is likely to produce a flattering report thats scarce on details. It will be conducted at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and will be the first public information on Trumps health since an assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pennsylvania, last July. Rather than release medical records at that time, Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson a staunch supporter who served as his White House physician and once joked in the White House briefing room that Trump could live to be 200 if he had a healthier diet wrote a memo describing a gunshot wound to Trumps right ear. In a subsequent interview with CBS last August, Trump said hed very gladly release his medical records but never did. Trump is three years younger than Biden. But on Inauguration Day of his second term in January, Trump was five months older than Biden was during his 2021 inauguration making Trump the nations oldest president to be sworn into office. Before Jacksons memo, Americans hadnt seen key details about Trumps health since November 2023, when Dr. Bruce A. Aronwald released a letter to coincide with Bidens 81st birthday, saying Trump was in excellent physical and mental health.The letter, posted on Trumps social media platform, contained no details including Trumps weight, blood pressure and cholesterol levels, or the results of any test. Instead, Aronwlad wrote that hed examined Trump that fall and found his physical exams were well within the normal range and his cognitive exams were exceptional, while also noting that Trump had reduced his weight. Trump was treated at Walter Reed for his serious bout with the coronavirus in 2020. During that, Trumps physician offered a rosy prognosis on his condition, though his White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said some of Trumps vital signs were very concerning.After he recovered, more details emerged that Trump had been sicker than hed let on. But Trump largely refused to say more about his health at the time, instead submitting to a pretaped, remote medical evaluation and interview on Fox News Channel. That was conducted by Dr. Marc Siegel, a Fox News contributor who had questioned Hillary Clintons physical ability to serve as president in 2016 and later urged the Biden White House to test the then-presidents cognitive acuity. In November 2019, meanwhile, Trumps trip to Walter Reed for a physical was omitted from his public schedule, breaking the White House protocol of giving advance public notice of them. The visit was revealed three days later, with Trump disclosing that hed had a very routine physical. The White House released a subsequent statement from the presidents then-personal physician, U.S. Navy Cmdr. Sean Conley, saying it had been a planned interim checkup kept off the record due to scheduling uncertainties.Arguably, Trumps most famous past comments about his own health came during a television interview in July 2020, when he listed off Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV while attempting to demonstrate his cognitive abilities.Trump said that a collection of those five nouns, or ones like them, stated in order, demonstrated mental fitness and were part of a cognitive test he had aced. WILL WEISSERT Weissert covers national politics and the White House for The Associated Press. He is based in Washington. twitter mailto