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Gaza health authorities say nearly 200 people, including 96 children, have died of hunger in Gaza, as the starving population battles against the odds to get food from dangerous airdrops and deadly aid hubs run by the GHF.As Israel’s man-made famine under the ongoing blockade tightened its grip on the enclave, hospitals recorded four more deaths from “famine and malnutrition” on Thursday – two of them children – bringing the total to 197.Amid the mounting death toll, World Health Organization (WHO) director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that about 12,000 children younger than five were suffering from acute malnutrition in July…

Miran, who currently sits on the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, has advocated for a far-reaching overhaul of Fed governance.United States President Donald Trump has said he will nominate Stephen Miran, a top economic adviser to the US Federal Reserve’s board of governors, for four months, temporarily filling a vacancy while continuing his search for a longer-term appointment.The president announced his decision on Thursday.Miran, the chair of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, would fill a seat vacated by Governor Adriana Kugler, a Biden appointee who is stepping down Friday. Kugler is returning to her tenured professorship at…

new video loaded: France Struggles to Contain Largest Fire in DecadesBy Monika Cvorak•August 7, 2025The blaze, which has grown to nearly 40,000 acres, was the country’s biggest since 1949, the civil defense chief said.Recent episodes in News Clips: EuropeShow more videos from News Clips: Europe

In 2023, when the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) strikes shut down Hollywood for four months, seeking protection from, among other things, artificial intelligence (AI), many in India wondered why nothing of the sort was happening there. One of the concerns of the movement was how big studios were going to use AI to replicate likenesses of artists in ways that could be exploitative. The strike ended in a three-year agreement that guaranteed fair pay and included provisions that required performers to approve how their voices were used.Nothing of the sort has happened in India…

As a certified sleep science coach and mattress tester of five years, I’m no stranger to soothing noises being part of many people’s sleep hygiene arsenal. For some, the perfect soundtrack might be white noise. For others, it could be a different color entirely—sometimes streamed on their phone, but often courtesy of a sound machine. If your sound machine or app offers a variety of different colored sounds, how might you know what they mean, or which might be best for your brain?How Noise Is “Color-Coded”Let’s get our Sheldon Cooper on for a minute and establish why certain noises are…

US to Pull $500m from mRNA Vaccine Research Citing “More Risk Than Benefit”

Ghana international Thomas Partey has joined La Liga club Villarreal following his release from Arsenal.The 32-year-old, who signed for Arsenal in a £45m deal from Atletico Madrid in 2020, left the Gunners when his contract expired at the end of June.Four days later, Partey was charged with five counts of rape against two women and a charge of sexual assault against a third woman.Partey, who denies the charges, was granted conditional bail on Tuesday at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. Under the conditions of the bail, Partey must not contact any of the three women and must notify police of any permanent…

A lawmaker with the Cross River House of Assembly, Mrs. Mercy Apama has decried the absence of a scholarship program in the state for eight consecutive years. Apama, the representative of Yakurr II constituency, stated this on Thursday while presenting a motion for the state to reintroduce scholarship and bursary awards to Cross River students through its scholarship board. Leading the debate on her motion during the plenary, she stated that scholarship awards were for deserving students, based on merit and also for those without financial resources to pursue their academic endeavours. Speaking further, she urged the scholarship board to…

Rosie O’Donnell, who was a host on ABC’s “The View” from 2006 to 2007 and returned briefly in 2014, recently posted on TikTok that she is worried about the iconic daytime talk show being canceled amid unconfirmed rumors that ABC is reviewing “The View’s” alleged “liberal bias.” The White House put out a statement last month saying “The View” could be the “next to be pulled off the air” as Donald Trump celebrated CBS’ decision to cancel Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” and called for Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon to get axed next. “The show with five women speaking their…

In February, AI coding startup Windsurf was in talks to raise a big new round at a $2.85 billion valuation led by Kleiner Perkins, at double the valuation it hit six months earlier, sources told TechCrunch at the time. That deal didn’t happen, according to a source familiar with the matter. Instead,  news broke in April that the startup planned to sell itself to OpenAI for roughly the same valuation: $3 billion.  While that deal famously fell apart, one bigger question remains: if the startup was growing that fast and attracting VC interest, why would it sell at all?  Insiders…