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The difficulties for Apple have piled up. In recent months it has been sued by the Justice Department, fined by European regulators and challenged by the resurgence of a Chinese smartphone competitor.The company added to the list of its problems on Thursday, signaling that its business was in crisis.Apple said sales fell by 4 percent to $90.8 billion for the three months ended in March. Revenue from iPhones, iPads and wearables like the Apple Watch fell from the same quarter last year, while sales of software and services increased. Profit fell 2% to $23.64 billion, Apple's first quarterly decline in a year.Apple's struggles were most concerning in China, the world's second-largest smartphone market, where sales fell 8%. The iPhone's popularity has declined since Huawei...

President Biden broke days of silence Thursday to finally speak out about the wave of protests on American college campuses against Israel's war in Gaza that have inflamed much of the country, decrying violence and anti-Semitism while defending the right to peaceful dissent .In a previously unscheduled televised statement from the White House, Biden strongly condemned students and other protesters who he said had taken their complaints about the war too far. But he has rejected Republican calls to deploy the National Guard to rein in the campuses.“There is a right to protest, but not a right to cause chaos,” Biden said before cameras in his first personal speech on the campus melee in 10 days. “People have the right to receive an education, the right to earn a degree, the right to wa...

Scientists observed a wild male orangutan repeatedly rubbing chewed leaves of a medicinal plant on a facial wound in a forest reserve in Indonesia.It was the first known observation of a wild animal using a plant to heal a wound, and adds evidence that humans are not alone in using plants for medicinal purposes.The male orangutan, Rakus, lives in Gunung Leuser National Park on the island of Sumatra and is believed to be around 35 years old. For years, researchers have followed orangutans like him on his travels through the forest, picking his way through the canopy in search of fruit to eat.Scientists at the park's Suaq Balimbing research area first noticed a wound on his face on June 25, 2022, when they saw his self-medicating behavior begin.“When I heard about it, I was very excited...

Few famous Britons, it seems, can resist the chance to be painted by Jonathan Yeo. David Attenborough, the 97-year-old legend of the show, was among those who recently climbed the spiral stairs to his cozy studio, tucked away at the end of an alley in west London, to pose for Mr Yeo, one of its most famous characters. of Great Britain. portrait artists.However, when it came to painting his last portrait, that of King Charles III, the artist had to address the subject.Mr Yeo hired a lorry to transport his 7.5 x 5.5 foot canvas to the king's London residence, Clarence House. There, he erected a platform so he could apply the final brushstrokes to the strikingly contemporary portrait, which depicts a uniformed Charles against an ethereal backdrop.The painting, which will be unveiled at...

The United States' greatest challenge yet to the vast power of today's tech giants has reached its climax.On Thursday and Friday, lawyers from the Justice Department, state attorneys general and Google will present their closing arguments in a years-long case: US et al. against Google – over whether the tech giant broke federal antitrust laws to maintain its dominance in online search.The government alleges that Google competed unfairly when it paid billions of dollars to Apple and other companies to automatically handle searches on smartphones and web browsers. Google insists that consumers use its search engine because it is the best product.In the coming weeks or months, the judge who oversaw the trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Amit P. Mehta, wil...

Near the end of a whirlwind trip to the Middle East this week, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken finished meetings with the Israeli president and relatives of American hostages held by Hamas, left his beach hotel in Tel Aviv and shook hands with protesters gathered outside.He looked them in the eye and said there was a new ceasefire agreement on the table for the hostages that Hamas would have to take.“Bringing your loved ones home is at the heart of everything we are trying to do, and we will not rest until everyone – men, women, soldiers, civilians, young, old – has come home,” he said.That public display of empathy toward frustrated protesters is something Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has avoided since the war began in October. And, of late, he has focused his recent public com...

A California company is recalling organic walnuts sold at health food stores and co-op retailers in 19 states because of an E. coli outbreak that has sickened 12 people and hospitalized seven, federal officials said.Gibson Farms, the Hollister, California-based company, is voluntarily recalling its shelled walnuts branded as Organic Light Halves and Pieces after discovering that the walnuts may contain the E. coli 0157:H7 strain that "causes an illness diarrhea often with bloody stools". " the Food and Drug Administration said in an advisory Tuesday.The recall came after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notified the company of 12 recorded illnesses linked to walnuts. They were distributed in more than 300 food retailers, including Whole Foods Market, New Seasons Market and ...

Olga Fikotova Connolly, who won a gold medal in athletics for Czechoslovakia at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, watched Harold Connolly of the United States win one the next day and, in March 1957, married him as the highlight of a Cold War storybook. she romance, she died on April 12 in Costa Mesa, California. She was 91 years old.The cause was breast cancer, said her daughter Merja Connolly-Freund. She died at her son Jim's home, where she had been cared for in a hospice, Ms. Connolly-Freund said.European Athletics' governing body said Olga Connolly was the last living women's gold medalist from the Melbourne Games.Her competitive record as a discus thrower was outstanding: five Olympic Games (four representing the United States as an American citizen), five American champion...

Elon Musk has gutted the part of Tesla responsible for building electric vehicle charging stations, sowing uncertainty about the future of the largest and most reliable charging network in the United States.The layoffs of about 500 Tesla employees, which many of them posted on social media Tuesday, have raised questions about deals that Musk, Tesla's chief executive, made last year with leaders of General Motors, Ford Motor and other companies automakers allowing cars made by other companies to use Tesla Supercharger stations.Tesla's deals with other electric car makers assured buyers they would be able to find fast chargers on road trips, addressing one of the main reasons many people are reluctant to buy such cars. It was also seen as a coup for Musk, who validated Tesla's t...

Thousands of miles from the campus protests that have divided Americans, some displaced Palestinians are expressing solidarity with anti-war protesters and gratitude for their efforts.Messages of support were written on some tents in the southern city of Rafah, where about a million displaced people have sought refuge from Israeli shelling and ground fighting that Gaza health officials say has killed more than 34,000 people."Thank you, American universities," read a message captured on video by the Reuters news agency. “Thank you, students in solidarity with Gaza, your message has arrived,” read another neighbor.Tension has risen on campuses across the United States, with police in riot gear arresting dozens of people at Columbia University on Tuesday night and officers across the country...