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Cellphones and high school education might not mix, according to Pew Research Center analysis published as more and more schools weigh bans.
Niger has revoked the operating licence of French nuclear fuel producer Orano at one of the world's biggest uranium mines, the company said Thursday, in a move that highlighted tensions between France and the African country's ruling junta."Orano takes note of the decision by the Niger authorities to withdraw from its subsidiary Imouraren SA its licence to work the deposit," the company said in a statement Thursday.
Inflation is coming down under Biden. Many economists think it could go back up if Trump wins the 2024 presidential election.
President Joe Biden won the coin toss.
Nvidia's record-breaking surge, which catapulted it to the title of world's most valuable public company, was set to continue.
The U.S. military's floating pier off Gaza has resumed bringing humanitarian aid into the Israeli-besieged Palestinian territory, the Pentagon said on Thursday, even as aid continues to collect in a nearby marshalling area since the United Nations has not restarted transporting it to warehouses. U.S. President Joe Biden announced the pier in March for aid deliveries as Israel invaded and bombarded Gaza while also severely limiting aid through land routes, threatening famine conditions. "Overnight, the transfer of humanitarian assistance from Cyprus to Gaza resumed with more than 656 metric tons, or 1.4 million pounds, being delivered to the marshalling yard in Gaza today," Air Force Major General Patrick Ryder told reporters.
The changes come amid a wider push by Robert Fico's leftist-nationalist cabinet to reshape Slovak institutions and policy, including among state prosecutors and police, environment policy, and non-governmental organisations. Some of the changes have sparked public protests and concerns in the European Union that Slovakia was backsliding on democratic controls.
In Season five of "The Kardashians," Kourtney Kardashian Barker recalled the "urgent fetal surgery" she underwent to save her son Rocky's life.
Dozens of pro-Palestinian student protesters arrested in April after occupying and barricading a building at Columbia University in New York City had all criminal charges against them dropped on Thursday, Manhattan prosecutors said at a court hearing. The hearing at the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse came seven weeks after Columbia administrators called in hundreds of armed and heavily armored police officers to the university's campus in a high-profile law-enforcement response that was broadcast live on national news channels. Police arrested 46 protesters who had barricaded themselves inside Hamilton Hall, and cleared a weeks-old tent encampment on a nearby Columbia lawn that has inspired similar pro-Palestinian protests at universities around the world.
A South Carolina judge approved just over $1.3 million in a partial settlement in the case of a bride killed by a suspected drunk driver.
Washington promised Thursday to prioritise shipments of air-defence missiles to Ukraine after Russian bombardments forced mass blackouts and prompted the country's president to call for solar panels on hospitals and schools."Solar panels, smart meters, and energy storage units must appear in every school and hospital as soon as possible," he said in a statement on social media.
The new "FLiRT" COVID-19 variants, including KP.3 and KP.2, are spreading in the United States. Will there be a summer surge? Experts discuss transmission, symptoms, and vaccines.
Turks and Caicos is revising part of its firearms law that recently caused legal trouble for several Americans carrying ammunition into the British Overseas Territory, House of Assembly member Edwin Astwood said in a statement Friday.
Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will stay at the ISS while the crew takes "extra time" to prepare for a safe return to Earth.
Biden and Trump will debate for the first time in the 2024 election season on June 27th. But will it be the only one?
Several hundred people protested against anti-Semitism and "rape culture" in Paris on Thursday after the gang rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl at the weekend sparked nationwide outrage.Ner Sfez, a 24-year-old Jewish woman, said she had come to protest a crime "at the intersection of sexism and anti-Semitism".
The Supreme Court's final decisions of the term are dropping in the lead up to the first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump
Hundreds of people have died and thousands have been treated for heatstroke while performing the annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca amid extreme temperatures.
Plenaries in Colombia's lower house and Senate on Thursday both approved a request from the leftist government of President Gustavo Petro to increase the debt ceiling to $17.6 billion to finance its development plans and comply with payment terms. The vote comes amid warnings from analysts about the state of the Andean country's fiscal needs and after Petro said last month that Colombia could stop paying its debts or enter an economic emergency if the ceiling was not increased, comments later softened by Finance Minister Ricardo Bonilla. "This gives clear rules going forward about how to manage public credit," Finance Minister Ricardo Bonilla said after the measure was approved.
Fossil fuel opponents won a major victory Thursday as the U.K. Supreme Court ruled that planners reviewing well-drilling permits must consider the greenhouse gas emissions from burning the extracted oil. A woman had challenged a decision by Surrey County Council south of London to allow additional oil wells at a site called Horse Hill near London Gatwick Airport. Sarah Finch, acting on behalf of Weald Action Group, argued that the environmental impact assessment conducted before the permit was approved had failed by only considering emissions from extracting the oil.