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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is demanding a $1 billion payment from Harvard University to end his prolonged standoff with the Ivy League campus, doubling the amount he sought previously as both sides appear to move further from reaching a deal.The president raised the stakes on social media Monday night, saying Harvard has been “behaving very badly.” He said the university must pay the government directly as part of any deal — something Harvard has opposed — and that his administration wants “nothing further to do” with Harvard in the future.Trump’s comments on Truth Social came in response to…
GENEVA, Feb 3 (Reuters) – A World Health Organization official said on Tuesday that the first five patients were transferred through Gaza’s Rafah crossing with Egypt, which reopened on Monday.”On the second of February, WHO and partners supported the medical evacuation of five patients and seven companions to Egypt via the Rafah crossing,” said WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier.”It was the first medical evacuation through this route since sometime in 2025,” he said referring to a limited number of evacuations during an early 2025 ceasefire.Over 18,500 patients are awaiting evacuations after the two-year war, he said, with trauma injuries from the…
A couple is suing a Florida fertility clinic after they were implanted with the wrong embryo, and asking for help locating their daughter’s biological parents.Tiffany Score and Steven Mills made a social media post asking for prayers as they navigate “this deeply confusing and painful time” with their daughter Shea, born December 11. They also expressed “unbearable” fear that their daughter might be taken from them at any time.“I have a million things I want to say and so many emotions I wish I could share, but for now, this is what we are able to tell you: due to…
Americans think the future of work is in their hands.A poll commissioned by the Business for Good Foundation, a nonprofit focused on reducing the wealth gap, found that 75% of Americans agree that “hands-on skills and practical experience matter more than formal degrees when it comes to career success.””You’ve got a lot of people that have historically didn’t think the American dream was for them,” Ed Mitzen, cofounder of the Business for Good Foundation, told Business Insider ahead of the poll’s release. “I would argue that it isn’t broken, it’s just moved, and it’s moved to places we stop looking.”The…
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MADRID (AP) — Spain plans to ban social media access for children under 16, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Tuesday, in a move designed to shield young people from the harms of online content.The progressive Spanish leader spoke at a summit in the United Arab Emirates, where he chided the world’s biggest tech companies for allowing illegal content such as child sex abuse and nonconsensual sexualized deepfake images and videos on their platforms, saying that governments also needed to “stop turning a blind eye.”“Today, our children are exposed to a space they were never meant to navigate alone,” Sánchez…
In the generative AI boom, vibe coding and AI expertise have become in-demand résumé skills. But tech companies are also looking to pay a premium for expertise in people who have a skill that predates AI: the art of communication.Andreessen Horowitz launched its New Media team last year to help founders learn what they “need to win the narrative battle online.” Adobe is looking for an “AI evangelist” to lead the company’s “artificial intelligence storytelling.” Netflix, a company that sells stories to your living room, recently posted a director of product and technology communications role with a salary range of…
BEIJING (AP) — Even as China’s expansion of solar and wind power raced ahead in 2025, the Asian giant opened many more coal power plants than it had in recent years — raising concern about whether the world’s largest emitter will reduce carbon emissions enough to limit climate change.More than 50 large coal units — individual boiler and turbine sets with generating capacity of 1 gigawatt or more — were commissioned in 2025, up from fewer than 20 a year over the previous decade, a research report released Tuesday said. Depending on energy use, 1 gigawatt can power from several…
Feb 3 (Reuters) – AstraZeneca said on Tuesday the U.S. health regulator has rejected its application for a self-injectable version of lupus drug Saphnelo, pushing back the approval timeline for a possible approval to the first half of 2026.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a complete response letter for the subcutaneous version of Saphnelo, which would allow patients to inject the drug themselves at home rather than receiving intravenous infusions at a clinic or hospital.The Anglo-Swedish drugmaker said it has since provided the information requested by the FDA and will continue working with the regulator to advance the…
The Gates Foundation will not change course in the face of massive foreign aid cuts, holding out hope that the U.S. specifically will return to funding the global health projects the foundation has long championed, its CEO said Tuesday.Instead, the foundation — one of the largest in the world — will concentrate at least 70% of its funding over the next 20 years on ending preventable maternal and child deaths and controlling key infectious diseases. A third goal focused on poverty will divide its work between U.S. education and agriculture in poorer countries.“We are saying not only will we not…