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[ad_1] JERUSALEM — Tens of thousands of Israelis on Saturday night protested in Tel Aviv against the new right-wing government’s plans to fundamentally overhaul the judicial system, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to weaken the country’s democratic institutions just weeks after returning to power. The protest was organized by grass-roots activists and backed […]

[ad_1] Photo: Ken Wolter (Shutterstock) Air travel was a total mess this holiday season (looking at you, Southwest). Then this week, more than 10,000 flights were delayed—with another 1,300 cancelled—thanks to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) system outage. If all that has made you swear off flying for a while, you’re in luck: Amtrak is […]

[ad_1] A Florida man who last month was charged with possession of child pornography is now facing nearly 1,200 more charges after detectives discovered he had a large amount of child pornography. Johnathan Jhovanni Hernandez, 23, was arrested on Dec. 29 on two counts of possession of child pornography, two counts of transmitting child pornography […]

[ad_1] Helena Světlá, left, and Anna Rathkopf share a laugh in the hospital in 2021 as Rathkopf holds a mirror for her mother to apply lipstick. It was a small gesture — holding her mother’s hand — that opened photographer Anna Rathkopf’s eyes to the uncomfortable way in which her world was shifting. The two […]

[ad_1] A Swedish mining company said this week that it had found Europe’s largest known deposit of coveted rare earth metals, critical to many green technologies including electric vehicles, in a far northern part of the country within the Arctic Circle. The world’s production of rare earths is dominated by China. The discovery by LKAB, […]

[ad_1] Photo: trambler58 (Shutterstock) Like everything else in the modern age, car headlights have enjoyed a steady advance in terms of technology and function. Back in the earliest days of cars, headlights used to be called headlamps because that’s what they were—gas-fueled flames inside a glass enclosure. Eventually, car makers migrated to electric headlights, and […]

[ad_1] According to a report, the sole victim of a deadly tornado in Georgia was a 5-year-old boy. At least six others have been killed due to tornadoes in Alabama.  In Butts County, a tree fell on a vehicle containing the boy, who died, and an adult, who was transported to the hospital in critical […]

[ad_1] Deborah A. Brown shared video showing damage on Facebook (Courtesy Deborah A. Brown) Deborah A. Brown shared video to Facebook showing damage to a street in Selma, Alabama, after a tornado ripped through the city Thursday. A woman can be heard off-camera describing her experience. She said she was in a tax office when […]

[ad_1] Gen. Valery V. Gerasimov, who has been named the new chief of Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine, is Russia’s highest-ranking military officer. He has often been described as the real head of the Russian military, rather than defense officials in the Kremlin. General Gerasimov is replacing Gen. Sergei Surovikin, who had only been in […]

[ad_1] Photo: Jacob Lund (Shutterstock) If you’re not approaching getting your new January gym membership with the same mindset you would use for a car dealership negotiation, you’re probably not getting a good enough deal. January is the Black Friday of gym memberships, and you need to strategize accordingly and go in with a plan: […]