During oral arguments on Monday in a key case involving the policing of homeless encampments‚ Supreme Court justices questioned lawyers about what it means to be homeless‚ when people with nowhere to go should be allowed to sleep outside‚ and how far municipalities should be allowed to go to enforce anti-camping laws. Theane Evangelis‚ a lawyer representing the small southern Oregon city of Grants Pass‚ told the justices that anti-camping laws are “essential” to prevent the...

In her three decades of working with elephant seals‚ Dr. Marcela Uhart had never seen anything like the scene on the beaches of Argentina’s Vald&;eacute;s Peninsula last October. It was peak breeding season; the beach should have been teeming with harems of fertile females and enormous males battling one another for dominance. Instead‚ it was “just carcass upon carcass upon carcass‚” recalled Dr. Uhart‚ who directs the Latin American wildlife health program at the University of California‚ Davis...

A little shy of my teenage years‚ I made my first discoveries of the world outside the borders of my own country. The first of these came at Expo 67‚ a world fair hosted by Canada in French-speaking Montreal‚ where I experienced my first extended exposure to a language other than the English I had grown up with in the United States.

Last summer‚ Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood next to President Biden in the White House and said regarding India’s democracy‚ “there is absolutely no space for discrimination.” He was speaking during a rare press briefing and was challenged by an American journalist on concerns regarding India’s democratic values and discrimination against its Muslim citizens. Over the weekend‚ in an election campaign rally in northwest India‚ Modi referred to Muslims as “infiltrators.” His...

Tesla is set to release its first-quarter earnings on Tuesday after the market closes – and the electric vehicle (EV) maker faces a reckoning from investors after a big sales miss. The company saw vehicle deliveries decline in the first quarter for the first time in nearly four years – falling well short of analysts' expectations amid a price war in China‚ where domestically made EVs like those from BYD have taken market share.  Tesla has responded with price cuts for its most...

Utah GOP Senate candidate Trent Staggs is attempting to rebrand his Covid record in order to win a crowded Republican primary. Staggs is branding himself as the MAGA candidate in the race — and that means portraying his Covid record as mayor of Riverton‚ Utah‚ as one of relentless defiance in the face of state and county mitigation measures. On his campaign website‚ Staggs claims he opposed mask mandates and took on government officials seeking to close cities and limit gatherings...

The U.S. is drafting sanctions that threaten to cut some Chinese banks off from the global financial system‚ arming Washington’s top envoy with diplomatic leverage that officials hope will stop Beijing’s commercial support of Russia’s military production‚ according to people familiar with the matter. But as Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to Beijing on Tuesday‚ the question is whether even the threat of the U.S. using one of its most potent tools of financial coercion can...

Major artificial-intelligence companies including OpenAI‚ Meta Platforms and Google agreed on Tuesday to incorporate new safety measures to protect children from exploitation and plug several holes in their current defenses.  A host of new generative-AI powered tools have supercharged predators’ ability to create sexualized images of children and other exploitative material. The goal of the new alliance is to throttle the creation of such content before...

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