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NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus and neighboring Israel are seeking to swiftly establish an electricity linkup via an undersea cable that would eliminate their respective energy isolation, an official said Monday.Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said that Israel is particularly keen to ensure that it can rely on Cypriot energy reserves from both conventional and renewable sources to power the country if the need ever arises.Pananastasiou told The Associated Press that Cyprus would soon have the capacity to generate around four gigawatts of electricity from fossil fuels as well as solar and wind sources, while consuming only 0.5 GW.Wind turbines and photovoltaics…
Former big league infielder Bret Boone was hired Monday as the hitting coach for the Texas Rangers, who are last in the American League in runs scored.It will be the first time Boone, the brother of New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone, is on a major league coaching staff. Bret Boone will join the Rangers on Tuesday for the opener of their three-game series in Boston.Boone’s hiring came a day after Texas fired offensive coordinator Donnie Ecker.In 14 big league seasons as a player, Boone was a three-time All-Star and hit .266 with 252 homers and 1,021 RBIs in 1,780…
WASHINGTON :Hackers defaced one of the websites of the airline at the center of President Donald Trump’s campaign of deportations to an offshore detention center in El Salvador, a Reuters viewing of the site showed on Monday.A message posted to a subdomain of GlobalX said the site had been hijacked by hackers operating under the banner of “Anonymous,” a label often chosen to evoke rebellious cyber activism.GlobalX’s fleet of aircraft played a key role in the Trump administration’s deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March despite a judge’s order that the planes be turned around. The deportations have…
The Trump administration is swiftly remaking housing policy as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development retreats from long-established fair-housing protections for transgender people.In recent months, HUD has been targeting the Obama-era Equal Access Rule that expanded protections to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Also in the bull’s-eye are fair-housing complaint investigations and federally funded homeless shelters.“This administration wants to pretend trans people don’t exist,” said Hannah Adams, a senior staff attorney at the National Housing Law Project. “Whatever they’re doing is not in line with HUD’s supposed mission to provide a safety net for families that are…
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Kenny Atkinson went through a winless preseason with the Cleveland Cavaliers and wondered if his team would be any good.Turns out, they were better than good.And their coach — he was the NBA’s best this season.Atkinson is now an NBA Coach of the Year winner, announced Monday night as this year’s recipient of the Red Auerbach Trophy. Atkinson led Cleveland to a 15-0 start to the season — one of three winning streaks of at least 12 games this season by his club — and led the Cavaliers to the best record in the Eastern Conference.”I stepped into this,” Atkinson…
U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. discusses the findings of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) latest Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network survey, during a press conference at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 16, 2025. Elizabeth Frantz | ReutersA group of Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit on Monday to challenge the Trump administration’s decision to gut the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by firing 10,000 of its employees and shuttering entire agencies within the department.Attorneys general from 19 states and the District…
BEIJING, May 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Beijing Tide Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Sino Biopharmaceutical Limited (1177.HK), has achieved a milestone in developing its first-in-class analgesic drug (research code: TRD205), a highly selective angiotensin II type 2 receptor (AT2R) antagonist, with the first patient successfully dosed. As the first globally innovative drug targeting chronic post-surgical neuropathic pain (CPSP) to enter Phase II clinical development, TRD205 is positioned to overcome the limitations of existing opioid therapies and provide a safer, more effective solution for hundreds of millions of patients worldwide. Mechanistic Breakthrough: Pioneering Non-Opioid Analgesic Pathways via AT2R Targeting CPSP affects…
LeBron James is now a 40-year-old man, making more history just by getting a year older.The all-time great will become the first player in NBA history to have ever played a game both as a teenager and as a 40-year-old the next time he takes the court. He’s still going strong in his 22nd season, too, averaging 23.5 points and nine assists per game as of his birthday on Dec. 30. As if that weren’t impressive enough, James has also exceeded the hype following him around since he entered the NBA in 2003, playing at an All-Star level essentially since he…
Washington — The Trump administration on Monday urged a federal district court to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s actions expanding access to the widely used abortion pill mifepristone. Justice Department lawyers wrote in a filing with the U.S. district court in Amarillo, Texas, that the three states pursuing the lawsuit — Missouri, Idaho and Kansas — should not be able to do so in that court. The administration is pursuing a request initially made by the Biden administration last year in the closely watched challenge to mifepristone, a drug used to terminate an early pregnancy, that has…