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A Ukrainian official with long experience fighting corruption resigned Monday from a government agency that oversaw mainly Western-funded reconstruction work in Ukraine, citing mismanagement of funds. His departure highlights tension within President Volodymyr Zelensky's government over the allocation of wartime aid.Official Mustafa Nayyem, who had been director of the State Agency for the Restoration of Ukraine, did not report any embezzlement. But his allegations of abuse and mismanagement risked undermining the government's efforts to allay concerns from the United States and other allies about providing billions in aid to Ukraine's war effort.He was the second senior official involved in Ukraine's reconstruction effort to leave in the past month, following the dismiss...

California lawmakers last month advanced about 30 new AI measures aimed at protecting consumers and jobs, one of the largest efforts yet to regulate the new technology.The bills aim to impose the toughest nationwide restrictions on artificial intelligence, which some technologists warn could kill entire categories of jobs, throw elections into chaos with misinformation and pose national security risks. California's proposals, many of which have won broad support, include rules to prevent AI tools from discriminating in housing and health services. They also aim to protect intellectual property and jobs.The California Legislature, which is expected to vote on the proposed laws by Aug. 31, has already helped shape U.S. tech consumer protections. In 2020 the state passed a privacy law ...

Still battling Israel's external enemies on multiple fronts, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu awoke Monday to a new political battlefield at home.The departure this weekend of Benny Gantz and his centrist National Unity party from Israel's wartime emergency government is unlikely to immediately sever Netanyahu's grip on power. The prime minister's ruling coalition still holds a narrow majority of 64 seats in the 120-seat parliament.But Gantz's move means Netanyahu is now totally dependent on his far-right and ultra-Orthodox coalition partners as he presses ahead with the war in Gaza despite growing international opprobrium, leaving him increasingly isolated and exposed at home and abroad.Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot, another powerful National Unity member, also left Netany...

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“The voice got bigger,” Fortunato said. Previous campaigns to remove the plaque have failed. Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, around 12,000 people signed an online petition to have it removed, but it was rejected. Part of the problem is that it is not clear even to some local officials who is responsible for this decision, although the rector of the basilica, Giovanni Dtante, said that the square where the plaque is posted "falls under the direct responsibility" of the government of the city. .The mayor of Bari, Antonio Decaro, did not respond to multiple requests for comment. In 2022, he defended the plaque, saying: "I am not in favor of erasing a piece of history," local media reported at the time.In an interview, Father Distant sought to resolve the controversy by focusing inst...

If you haven't yet seen Apple's new and already infamous commercial, the one in which a giant mechanical compactor violently crushes a pile of musical instruments, books, sculptures, art supplies and toys, turning them into an iPad Pro, then Apple executives probably they are happy. They saw the headlines: “Apple's iPad ad is terrible”; “Because the stench from that bad iPad ad won't go away”; "The advert for Apple's new iPad is a beautiful metaphor for the end of the world." They saw the mocking posts on social media. They know Hugh Grant it weighed. (“The destruction of the human experience,” she wrote on X. “Courtesy of Silicon Valley.”) In response, Apple did what it rarely does: it apologized. “We missed the mark with this video and we are sorry,” one of the...

Set to a lively electronic soundtrack, a recent video clip showed what the Hezbollah militia called a missile-launching drone, a new weapon in its arsenal as it steps up its attacks on Israel.Showing off a new weapon is the kind of muscular display that Hassan Nasrallah, the organization's elusive leader, boasts about. “What protects you is your strength, your courage, your fists, your weapons, your missiles and your presence on the field,” he said in a speech earlier this year.Hezbollah's attacks, which began last October in solidarity with Hamas in the Gaza war, have gradually intensified as the group uses larger, more sophisticated weapons to strike more often and deeper across the border between Israel and Lebanon. Israel is also hitting targets further away in Lebanon.Hezbol...

You know you have a credit score. Did you know that you might also have a driver score?The score reflects the safety of your driving habits — how often you slam on the brakes, speed, look at your phone or drive late at night.While you can see your credit score, you will have a harder time finding out what your driving score is. But auto insurance companies can get it — and that could affect the rate you pay.For the last two decades, auto insurers have been trying to get people to enroll in programs, commonly called usage-based insurance plans, that monitor their day-to-day driving so rates better reflect the actual risk. But privacy-minded consumers have been reluctant to sign up.So the industry has taken a different tack, getting data about how people drive from automakers or from apps th...

For months, Israelis had heard only of hostages killed or reported dead in Gaza. The “lucky” families were those whose loved ones' remains were recovered by soldiers, at great risk, and brought home to Israel for burial.Thus, Saturday's daring rescue of four living hostages immediately boosted morale in Israel and delivered at least a momentary victory for the country's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.But by Sunday the euphoria was already giving way to a harsher reality. The heavy air and ground attack that accompanied the rescue killed dozens of Palestinians, including civilians, according to Gaza health officials, belying Israel's claims that the operation was a resounding success, at least internationally. And the operation failed to resolve any of the profound di...

At an assisted living facility in New York State, a small crowd gathered at the entrance to the dining room at lunchtime, waiting for the doors to open. As one researcher observed, a woman, tired and frustrated, asked the man in front of her to move; she didn't seem to have heard."Come on let's go!" she screamed—and she pushed the walker at him.In Salisbury, Maryland, a woman woke up in the dark to find another resident in her bedroom at an assisted living complex. Her daughter, Rebecca Addy-Twaits, suspected her 87-year-old mother, who suffered from dementia and could become confused, was hallucinating the encounter.But the man, who lived down the hall, returned half a dozen times, sometimes during Mrs. Addy-Twaits' visits. He never threatened or harmed her mother, but "s...