In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the military said it and police forces launched raids in the cities of Nablus, Qalqiliya and elsewhere, detaining at least 13 suspected terrorists and seizing weapons. It said one militant was killed.
Under the ceasefire that began in mid-January, Hamas released 25 hostages and the bodies of eight more in exchange for more than 1,700 Palestinian prisoners as agreed in the first phase.
But Israel balked at entering negotiations over a second phase. Under the agreement, phase two was meant to free the 24 living hostages still in captivity and bring about an end to the war and full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Israel says Hamas also holds the remains of 35 captives.
The war erupted when Hamas-led terrorists stormed into southern Israel on Oct 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 hostages. Most have been released in ceasefires or other deals, with Israeli forces rescuing only eight and recovering dozens of bodies.
The ceasefire deal that the U.S. helped broker, however, did not require Hamas to release more hostages to extend the halt in fighting beyond its first phase.
An Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the unfolding operation, said Israel was striking Hamas' military, leaders and infrastructure and planned to expand the operation beyond air attacks.
The official accused Hamas of attempting to rebuild and plan new attacks. Hamas terrorists and security forces quickly returned to the streets in recent weeks after the ceasefire went into effect. Hamas on Tuesday denied planning new attacks.
The strikes came as Netanyahu comes under mounting domestic pressure, with mass protests planned over his handling of the hostage crisis and his decision to fire the head of Israel's internal security agency. His latest testimony in a long-running corruption trial was canceled after the strikes.
The strikes appeared to give Netanyahu a political boost, with a far-right party that had bolted the government over the ceasefire announcing Tuesday that it was rejoining.
The main group representing families of the hostages accused the government of backing out of the ceasefire.
"We are shocked, angry and terrified by the deliberate dismantling of the process to return our loved ones from the terrible captivity of Hamas," the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said.
A senior Hamas official said Netanyahu's decision to return to war amounts to a "death sentence" for the remaining hostages. Izzat al-Risheq accused Netanyahu of launching the strikes to save his far-right governing coalition and called on mediators to "reveal facts" on who broke the truce. Hamas said at least six senior officials were killed in Tuesday's strikes.
The Israeli military ordered people to evacuate eastern Gaza and head toward the center of the territory, indicating that Israel could soon launch renewed ground operations. The new campaign comes as aid groups warn supplies are running out two weeks after Israel cut off all food, medicine, fuel and other goods to Gaza's 2 million Palestinians.
"Israel will, from now on, act against Hamas with increasing military strength," Netanyahu's office said.
He pointed Tuesday to the danger from Russian President Vladimir "Putin's war of aggression against Europe — it is a war against Europe and not just a war against Ukraine's territorial integrity." He pointed to suspected Russian sabotage and disinformation in Europe.
Merz said the prospective German government's move should be "the first step toward a new European defense community," which could include countries outside the European Union such as Britain and Norway.
The Social Democrats' co-leader, Lars Klingbeil, said that "Europe stands today next to an aggressive Russia on one side and an unpredictable United States of America on the other side." He said he favors doing everything to maintain "indispensable" trans-Atlantic cooperation, but "we must now do our homework in Europe — we must become stronger, we must take care of our own security."
Baidu's latest models have been made free-to-use for individual users. Previously, users had paid a monthly subscription to access the company's latest Ernie models.
The company also announced last month that s it would make its next-generation AI model Ernie open-source from June 30, according to Reuters. This represents a change from Baidu's prior strategy of focusing on proprietary models.
"By open-sourcing its models, Baidu seeks to once again position its technology as an industry standard, strengthening its influence in the AI community and expand its market share," said Sun.
Rippling hired the person whom it calls the Deel spy for a management role in 2023, as the two companies were becoming more competitive, the filing says. Deel had used Rippling's software, but Rippling opted to not renew Deel's contract, according to the legal filing.
The spy repeatedly accessed information about Rippling customers, quotes, sales calls, demos and support requests in internal Slack repositories, according to the filing. He found and downloaded Rippling's guidance on how to go up against Deel for prospective business, too, the filing says.
Then, in February, a reporter at The Information sent an inquiry to Rippling that included Slack messages from inside Rippling, which the startup concluded were collected by the Deel spy, the filing says. Additionally, email records suggest that the spy met with Deel executives in December, Rippling said in the complaint.
"We always prefer to win by building the best products and we don't turn to the legal system lightly," Parker Conrad, Rippling's co-founder and CEO, said in a Monday X post. "But we are taking this extraordinary step to send a clear message that this type of misconduct has no place in our industry."
This isn't Conrad's first legal entanglement over data access. In 2015, ADP dropped a defamation lawsuit that claimed his previous HR startup, Zenefits, had obtained information from clients in order to provide them with payment processing services.
Sunday's arrival of their relief crew meant Wilmore and Williams could finally leave. NASA cut them loose a little early, given the iffy weather forecast later this week. They checked out with NASA's Nick Hague and Russia's Alexander Gorbunov, who arrived in their own SpaceX capsule last fall with two empty seats reserved for the Starliner duo.
"We'll miss you, but have a great journey home," NASA's Anne McClain called out from the space station as the capsule pulled away 260 miles above the Pacific.
Their plight captured the world's attention, giving new meaning to the phrase "stuck at work." While other astronauts had logged longer spaceflights over the decades, none had to deal with so much uncertainty or see the length of their mission expand by so much.
Even in the middle of the political storm, Wilmore and Williams continued to maintain an even keel at public appearances from orbit, casting no blame and insisting they supported NASA's decisions from the start.
NASA hired SpaceX and Boeing after the shuttle program ended, in order to have two competing U.S. companies for transporting astronauts to and from the space station until it's abandoned in 2030 and steered to a fiery reentry. By then, it will have been up there more than three decades; the plan is to replace it with privately run stations so NASA can focus on moon and Mars expeditions.
Both retired Navy captains, Wilmore and Williams stressed they didn't mind spending more time in space — a prolonged deployment reminiscent of their military days. But they acknowledged it was tough on their families.
Wilmore, 62, missed most of his younger daughter's senior year of high school; his older daughter is in college. Williams, 59, had to settle for internet calls from space to her mother. They'll have to wait until they're off the SpaceX recovery ship and flown to Houston before the long-awaited reunion with their loved ones.
The plans needed a two-thirds majority of at least 489 votes in parliament's lower house, the Bundestag, because they involve changes to Germany's strict self-imposed borrowing rules — the "debt brake," which allows new borrowing worth only 0.35% of annual gross domestic product and is anchored in the constitution. That forced the prospective coalition partners into negotiations with the environmentalist Greens to get enough votes.
The package will exempt from the debt rules spending on defense and security, including intelligence agencies and assistance to Ukraine, worth more than 1% of GDP. It also foresees a 500 billion-euro ($544 billion) fund, financed by borrowing, to pour funding into Germany's infrastructure over the next 12 years and help restore the stagnant economy — Europe's biggest — to growth.
At the Greens' insistence, 100 billion euros from the investment fund will go into climate-related spending.
Merz acknowledged that many are struggling to digest the wider spending plans but argued that "they open prospects for our country that, in the times we are living in, are urgently needed."
The package was brought to the old parliament — not the newly elected one, which will hold its first session March 25, in which parties that were unlikely to agree have just over one-third of the seats. The far-right, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany portrays itself as a staunch defender of the "debt brake," while the Left Party opposes it but is skeptical about military spending.
"A politician's greatest asset is credibility and with this embarrassing action, dear Mr. Merz, you have already squandered yours completely," Alternative for Germany co-leader Tino Chrupalla said. "Voters feel cheated by you, and rightly."
Ahead of Tuesday's vote, Germany's highest court rejected several bids to block the meeting of the outgoing parliament.
The package faces another hurdle Friday in parliament's upper house, which represents Germany's 16 state governments. They are also set to be given more freedom to borrow money.
A two-thirds majority will also be needed in the upper house. That initially was uncertain because the parties behind the plans control only 41 of the 69 upper-house votes. But on Monday, the conservative-led governing coalition in Bavaria, which has six votes, also agreed to support the package.
At this point, neither Greco nor Shao have been accused of wrongdoing, according to the report. Further, Adams is not linked to the investigation.
The Justice Department last month asked a court to dismiss the corruption charges brought against Adams by the Biden administration. A District Court judge canceled a hearing scheduled for last week, indicating a ruling could be imminent.
The New York Post reported in October that Greco had "disappeared" from NYC and might be cooperating with authorities in the investigation of Adams and other members of his cabinet.
Ernst said she is concerned the Chinese Communist Party could exploit Wang's position to access sensitive or classified national security information.
A 2024 report by Govini, a government data analysis company, said the military relied on more than 100 Chinese suppliers to source critical technology components, Ernst said.
"American taxpayer dollars dedicated to our national defense should not be enriching our foreign adversaries," said Ernst, noting she had been working to address this for years. "As the Trump administration seeks to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in the Department of Defense, I would like to ask the Department to audit S&L and, if necessary, suspend or cancel all contracts with the company."
!summarize #michaalkosta #god #quantum #ai
In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the military said it and police forces launched raids in the cities of Nablus, Qalqiliya and elsewhere, detaining at least 13 suspected terrorists and seizing weapons. It said one militant was killed.
Under the ceasefire that began in mid-January, Hamas released 25 hostages and the bodies of eight more in exchange for more than 1,700 Palestinian prisoners as agreed in the first phase.
But Israel balked at entering negotiations over a second phase. Under the agreement, phase two was meant to free the 24 living hostages still in captivity and bring about an end to the war and full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Israel says Hamas also holds the remains of 35 captives.
!summarize #patmcafee #westvirginia #ncaa #machmadness
The war erupted when Hamas-led terrorists stormed into southern Israel on Oct 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 hostages. Most have been released in ceasefires or other deals, with Israeli forces rescuing only eight and recovering dozens of bodies.
The ceasefire deal that the U.S. helped broker, however, did not require Hamas to release more hostages to extend the halt in fighting beyond its first phase.
An Israeli official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the unfolding operation, said Israel was striking Hamas' military, leaders and infrastructure and planned to expand the operation beyond air attacks.
The official accused Hamas of attempting to rebuild and plan new attacks. Hamas terrorists and security forces quickly returned to the streets in recent weeks after the ceasefire went into effect. Hamas on Tuesday denied planning new attacks.
The strikes came as Netanyahu comes under mounting domestic pressure, with mass protests planned over his handling of the hostage crisis and his decision to fire the head of Israel's internal security agency. His latest testimony in a long-running corruption trial was canceled after the strikes.
The strikes appeared to give Netanyahu a political boost, with a far-right party that had bolted the government over the ceasefire announcing Tuesday that it was rejoining.
The main group representing families of the hostages accused the government of backing out of the ceasefire.
"We are shocked, angry and terrified by the deliberate dismantling of the process to return our loved ones from the terrible captivity of Hamas," the Hostages and Missing Families Forum said.
A senior Hamas official said Netanyahu's decision to return to war amounts to a "death sentence" for the remaining hostages. Izzat al-Risheq accused Netanyahu of launching the strikes to save his far-right governing coalition and called on mediators to "reveal facts" on who broke the truce. Hamas said at least six senior officials were killed in Tuesday's strikes.
The Israeli military ordered people to evacuate eastern Gaza and head toward the center of the territory, indicating that Israel could soon launch renewed ground operations. The new campaign comes as aid groups warn supplies are running out two weeks after Israel cut off all food, medicine, fuel and other goods to Gaza's 2 million Palestinians.
"Israel will, from now on, act against Hamas with increasing military strength," Netanyahu's office said.
He pointed Tuesday to the danger from Russian President Vladimir "Putin's war of aggression against Europe — it is a war against Europe and not just a war against Ukraine's territorial integrity." He pointed to suspected Russian sabotage and disinformation in Europe.
Merz said the prospective German government's move should be "the first step toward a new European defense community," which could include countries outside the European Union such as Britain and Norway.
The Social Democrats' co-leader, Lars Klingbeil, said that "Europe stands today next to an aggressive Russia on one side and an unpredictable United States of America on the other side." He said he favors doing everything to maintain "indispensable" trans-Atlantic cooperation, but "we must now do our homework in Europe — we must become stronger, we must take care of our own security."
!summarize #tesla #modely #mini #ev #automotive
Baidu's latest models have been made free-to-use for individual users. Previously, users had paid a monthly subscription to access the company's latest Ernie models.
The company also announced last month that s it would make its next-generation AI model Ernie open-source from June 30, according to Reuters. This represents a change from Baidu's prior strategy of focusing on proprietary models.
"By open-sourcing its models, Baidu seeks to once again position its technology as an industry standard, strengthening its influence in the AI community and expand its market share," said Sun.
!summarize #germany #tesla #surveys #automotive
Rippling hired the person whom it calls the Deel spy for a management role in 2023, as the two companies were becoming more competitive, the filing says. Deel had used Rippling's software, but Rippling opted to not renew Deel's contract, according to the legal filing.
The spy repeatedly accessed information about Rippling customers, quotes, sales calls, demos and support requests in internal Slack repositories, according to the filing. He found and downloaded Rippling's guidance on how to go up against Deel for prospective business, too, the filing says.
Then, in February, a reporter at The Information sent an inquiry to Rippling that included Slack messages from inside Rippling, which the startup concluded were collected by the Deel spy, the filing says. Additionally, email records suggest that the spy met with Deel executives in December, Rippling said in the complaint.
!summarize #biden #pardon #autopen
"We always prefer to win by building the best products and we don't turn to the legal system lightly," Parker Conrad, Rippling's co-founder and CEO, said in a Monday X post. "But we are taking this extraordinary step to send a clear message that this type of misconduct has no place in our industry."
This isn't Conrad's first legal entanglement over data access. In 2015, ADP dropped a defamation lawsuit that claimed his previous HR startup, Zenefits, had obtained information from clients in order to provide them with payment processing services.
!summarize #nyknicks #nba #playoff
!summarize #marriage #divorce #open #relationships
Sunday's arrival of their relief crew meant Wilmore and Williams could finally leave. NASA cut them loose a little early, given the iffy weather forecast later this week. They checked out with NASA's Nick Hague and Russia's Alexander Gorbunov, who arrived in their own SpaceX capsule last fall with two empty seats reserved for the Starliner duo.
"We'll miss you, but have a great journey home," NASA's Anne McClain called out from the space station as the capsule pulled away 260 miles above the Pacific.
Their plight captured the world's attention, giving new meaning to the phrase "stuck at work." While other astronauts had logged longer spaceflights over the decades, none had to deal with so much uncertainty or see the length of their mission expand by so much.
Even in the middle of the political storm, Wilmore and Williams continued to maintain an even keel at public appearances from orbit, casting no blame and insisting they supported NASA's decisions from the start.
NASA hired SpaceX and Boeing after the shuttle program ended, in order to have two competing U.S. companies for transporting astronauts to and from the space station until it's abandoned in 2030 and steered to a fiery reentry. By then, it will have been up there more than three decades; the plan is to replace it with privately run stations so NASA can focus on moon and Mars expeditions.
Both retired Navy captains, Wilmore and Williams stressed they didn't mind spending more time in space — a prolonged deployment reminiscent of their military days. But they acknowledged it was tough on their families.
!summarize #snowwhite #hollywood #premeire #disney
Wilmore, 62, missed most of his younger daughter's senior year of high school; his older daughter is in college. Williams, 59, had to settle for internet calls from space to her mother. They'll have to wait until they're off the SpaceX recovery ship and flown to Houston before the long-awaited reunion with their loved ones.
The plans needed a two-thirds majority of at least 489 votes in parliament's lower house, the Bundestag, because they involve changes to Germany's strict self-imposed borrowing rules — the "debt brake," which allows new borrowing worth only 0.35% of annual gross domestic product and is anchored in the constitution. That forced the prospective coalition partners into negotiations with the environmentalist Greens to get enough votes.
The package will exempt from the debt rules spending on defense and security, including intelligence agencies and assistance to Ukraine, worth more than 1% of GDP. It also foresees a 500 billion-euro ($544 billion) fund, financed by borrowing, to pour funding into Germany's infrastructure over the next 12 years and help restore the stagnant economy — Europe's biggest — to growth.
At the Greens' insistence, 100 billion euros from the investment fund will go into climate-related spending.
!summarize #clarkeschmidt #nyyankees #trevorbauer #mlb
Merz acknowledged that many are struggling to digest the wider spending plans but argued that "they open prospects for our country that, in the times we are living in, are urgently needed."
The package was brought to the old parliament — not the newly elected one, which will hold its first session March 25, in which parties that were unlikely to agree have just over one-third of the seats. The far-right, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany portrays itself as a staunch defender of the "debt brake," while the Left Party opposes it but is skeptical about military spending.
"A politician's greatest asset is credibility and with this embarrassing action, dear Mr. Merz, you have already squandered yours completely," Alternative for Germany co-leader Tino Chrupalla said. "Voters feel cheated by you, and rightly."
Ahead of Tuesday's vote, Germany's highest court rejected several bids to block the meeting of the outgoing parliament.
!summarize #economy #china #consumption #deflation #realestate
The package faces another hurdle Friday in parliament's upper house, which represents Germany's 16 state governments. They are also set to be given more freedom to borrow money.
A two-thirds majority will also be needed in the upper house. That initially was uncertain because the parties behind the plans control only 41 of the 69 upper-house votes. But on Monday, the conservative-led governing coalition in Bavaria, which has six votes, also agreed to support the package.
!summarize #unrivaled #angelreese #ratings #womens #basketball #caitlinclark
At this point, neither Greco nor Shao have been accused of wrongdoing, according to the report. Further, Adams is not linked to the investigation.
The Justice Department last month asked a court to dismiss the corruption charges brought against Adams by the Biden administration. A District Court judge canceled a hearing scheduled for last week, indicating a ruling could be imminent.
The New York Post reported in October that Greco had "disappeared" from NYC and might be cooperating with authorities in the investigation of Adams and other members of his cabinet.
!summarize #marriage #divorce #cheating #relationships
Ernst said she is concerned the Chinese Communist Party could exploit Wang's position to access sensitive or classified national security information.
A 2024 report by Govini, a government data analysis company, said the military relied on more than 100 Chinese suppliers to source critical technology components, Ernst said.
"American taxpayer dollars dedicated to our national defense should not be enriching our foreign adversaries," said Ernst, noting she had been working to address this for years. "As the Trump administration seeks to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in the Department of Defense, I would like to ask the Department to audit S&L and, if necessary, suspend or cancel all contracts with the company."
!summarize #unitedstates #recession #housing #realestate
!summarize #robots #humanity #elonmusk #ai
!summarize #trump #putin #ukraine #russia #war
!summarize #brownuniversity #professor #deportation
!summarize #roycelewis #minnesota #twins #mlb #injuries
!summarize #billoreilly #trump #russia #ukraine #war
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!summarize #tsla #tesla #sales #stock
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!summarize #jaybilas #ncaa #marchmadness #richeisen
!summarize #democrats #party #poltics
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