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In 2017 Ray Kaplan, a parasitologist and veterinarian then at the University of Georgia, started receiving e-mails from colleagues around the U.S. asking for help with resistant parasitic infections in dogs.The parasites were hookworms, a group of roundworm species that target animals and humans.Kaplan specializes in livestock animals, not pets.

Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images The Boston Celtics may have fallen short of their championship expectations, but don't expect a major shakeup.ESPN's Brian Windhorst said the Celtics' priority this offseason is re-signing Jaylen Brown to a contract extension and the team has no plans on trading him-even if it means acquiring Bradley Beal.

Jack McNally, who as a police detective in 1964 made the first arrest in the most audacious jewel theft in New York City history, and who then became a private investigator for famous defense lawyers like F. Lee Bailey and worked on behalf of clients like O.J. Simpson, died on May 28.He was 89.His death was announced on the website of the Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home on Staten Island, which handled the funeral arrangements.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken makes his long-delayed visit to China beginning Sunday in the hope of slowing the downward spiral of relations between Beijing and Washington.But China's increasingly assertive, at times outright hostile, stance suggests that the visit will be as much about confrontation as detente.

A cellphone video taken by a teenage bystander showing a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, pressing his knee on the neck of a 46-year-old Black man, George Floyd, on a Minneapolis street corner on May 25, 2020, led to the largest social-justice protest movement in the United States in a half-century.

The emaciated survivors of a doomsday cult in Kenya that the authorities say ordered its followers to starve themselves to death held hands and leaned on each other as they staggered into a courtroom on Thursday to face charges of trying to kill themselves.The 65 cult members have been refusing to eat their meals at a rescue center where they are being cared for prompting the authorities to charge them with attempted suicide, a crime under Kenyan law, and adding a further twist to a case that has shocked the East African nation.

The U.S. Open winner Gary Woodland had lately sensed something different in professional golf.Players were empowered and emboldened.Executives were listening.The PGA Tour was changing.With the circuit's dominance challenged by LIV Golf, an upstart built with billions of dollars from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, the tour felt closer to a cooperative than a dispassionate titan of professional sports.

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Travelers heading to Los Angeles International Airport experienced heavy delays Friday night when a terminal was evacuated after someone reported a suspicious item.The item was reported around 9:30 p.m. and located near an official Transportation Security Administration checkpoint, prompting airport police to clear Terminal 1.
Vehicle traffic was temporarily diverted on both the arrival and departure levels, according to Victoria Spilabotte, a public information officer for the airport.

Two bipartisan bills were introduced in Congress this week seeking to change a nearly 100-year-old trade law that allows imported packages that fall under a certain price threshold to receive less oversight while moving through the United States customs process.The trade rule is called de minimis and critics say it gives an unfair advantage to e-commerce companies from other countries, including some where forced labor is an issue.

Members of the activist group Rise And Resist gather in a silent protest inside the World Trade Center on September 12, 2019.Erik McGregor / LightRocket / Getty Images This story was originally published at Prism.CW: This story includes descriptions of torture in immigrant detention and mentions of death by suicide At least three facilities operated by the private prison company CoreCivic systematically use torture as retaliation against immigrants who denounce the conditions of detention, according to advocates, attorneys, researchers, and detainees.

If the strike takes place, it could be the largest strike against a single employer in U.S. history.A UPS worker delivers packages on April 29, 2020, in New York City.Stephanie Keith / Getty Images In a landslide vote on Friday, United Parcel Service workers represented by the Teamsters authorized a nationwide strike as part of their effort to win a strong contract in ongoing negotiations.

This provision ignores scientific consensus that conditions like depression don't "cause" someone to be trans.These screenings don't provide access to gender-affirming care for trans youth; rather, they erect a formidable barrier to even obtaining mental health care.StockRocket / Getty Images In a concerning turn of events, Ohio has become the newest addition to the growing list of states progressing gender affirming care bans for transgender youth out of legislative committees.

An estimated 76 percent of those disenrolled were kicked off for "procedural reasons" like completing paperwork late.Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, on May 2, 2023.Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images A healthcare catastrophe is unfolding across the U.S. as states - now unrestrained by coverage rules enacted early in the coronavirus pandemic - continue to remove people from Medicaid at an alarming clip, mostly for procedural reasons unrelated to their eligibility for the program.

President Joe Biden departs a celebration marking Jewish American Heritage Month in the East Room of the White House on May 16, 2023, in Washington, D.C.The event focused on the Biden Administration's efforts to combat rising antisemitism.Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images A recently released White House strategic plan on combatting antisemitism, while including numerous mentions of "cross community solidarity" and the importance of combatting all forms of hate, fails to promote a framework that makes that kind of solidarity possible.

Chris Unger/Getty Images / Realtor.comTwo-time Super Bowl winner Patrick Mahomes recently listed one of his Kansas City, MO, homes for $2.9 million.The superstar quarterback signed a 10-year, $450 million contract with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2020.Thanks to those riches and his endorsement deals, Mahomes has built a mini real estate empire, which includes a few properties in Missouri and a mansion in Texas.

ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images / Realtor.comMiles Teller is upgrading his living situation.The actor recently picked up a Cape Cod-style home in Pacific Palisades, CA, according to reports.So now he's ready to offload his smaller dwelling in nearby Studio City.The Studio City home features a modern Spanish style, with five bedrooms, 6.5 baths, and just over 5,500 square feet of living space.

A gull picks up a discarded protective face mask from the shoreline in the marina on August 11, 2020 in Dover, England.Leon Neal/Getty Images How many COVID tests should I keep on hand?Can I toss my masks?Should I still be afraid of long COVID?These are a few of the questions you sent us when we asked what's on your mind in this new stage of the pandemic.

The FDA cautions that prescription testosterone is only approved for men who have low testosterone due to certain medical conditions.Wladimir Bulgar /Getty Images/Science Photo Libra In 2014 Time magazine ran a cover story titled Manopause?!, documenting the rise of the $2 billion testosterone industry, which marketed the hormone as a way to fend off age-related declines in sexual function, energy and strength.

P rince Louis stole the show yet again as the charismatic young royal thrust his fists into the air as the Royal Family witnessed the flypast from the Buckingham Palace balcony.King Charles received the official birthday wishes of the nation during his first Trooping the Colour ceremony as monarch on Saturday.

Two New Orleans-area residents wear 3D glasses for a Revenge of the Creature screening in February 1982.AP I saw the Pixar film Elemental this week.It's a story about Element City, where fire people, water people, cloud/air people and earth people all live alongside each other, sometimes uncomfortably.

British actress Glenda Jackson in April, 1974.(Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty Images Glenda Jackson has died at the age of 87, after a brief illness, according to her agent, Lionel Larner."One of the world's greatest actresses has died, and one of my best friends has died as well," he told NPR.

Fire, water, earth and air are characters in Disney and Pixar's new movie Elemental, directed by Peter Sohn.Pixar The seeds of the idea for Elemental came to Peter Sohn many years ago, in a middle school science class, looking at the periodic table."All I saw were apartment buildings," he says.

The government is to delay its planned ban on two-for-one junk food deals a key anti-obesity measure for another two years amid the cost of living crisis.UK food giant calls for higher fat, sugar and salt taxes Rishi Sunak will shelve the expected measure targeting multi-buy promotions on products high in fat, sugar or salt (HFSS) to avoid restricting consumer options while prices remain high.

Britain's Boris Johnson, pictured in 2021, resigned as prime minister last year, but his policies are still felt.He resigned his seat in the House of Commons last week after receiving a draft of a report excoriating his behavior as prime minister.Toby Melville/WPA Pool/Getty Images By some measures, democracy has been in decline around the globe for more than a decade and a half, but there are encouraging signs in places you might not expect.

Francis X. Suarez, the two-term mayor of Miami who formally announced his entry into the 2024 presidential race on Thursday, is presenting himself as a fresh face for the Republican Party: a 45-year-old in a field led by a septuagenarian, and a Cuban American in a party whose elected officials are overwhelmingly white.

The union also unveiled several offices that have recently won union elections, including Ocasio-Cortez's office.The U.S. Capitol building is seen in Washington D.C. on May 3, 2023.Celal Gunes / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The Democratic staff on the House Education and the Workforce Committee announced on Thursday that they have filed a petition to form a union, the Congressional Workers Union (CWU), marking the first committee staff in congressional history to unionize.

For more than 20 years, fans of college sports like softball, baseball, women's basketball and more than two dozen others have known just where to find N.C.A.A. championships on ESPN's spectrum of channels.The arrangement has worked well for both parties: The N.C.A.A. ensured that its top athletes would perform on a national stage, and ESPN added hundreds of hours of live programming to a college sports portfolio that is anchored by college football and men's basketball games.

Not many international sporting contests predate the countries that play them, but few contests are as old as the Ashes.The cricket series between England and Australia was first played in 1882, before Australia was even founded as a nation.On Friday, its 73rd edition will begin in Edgbaston, a suburb of Birmingham, England.

Finland's main conservative party announced a new coalition government on Friday after weeks of negotiations, in a deal that moves the country firmly to the right and follows a pattern of similar political shifts elsewhere in Europe.Petteri Orpo, leader of the center-right National Coalition Party, would become prime minister under the coalition, which includes the right-wing nationalist Finns Party.

Skip to content Continue reading the main story Moscow June 16, 1:42 p.m. Washington June 16, 6:42 a.m.KYIV, Ukraine After days of reprieve, Russian missiles were fired at the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Friday, where explosions were heard as a delegation of top African officials visited the city.The blasts echoed across Kyiv before noon as Ukrainian air defenses engaged Russian missiles in the skies overhead.

Just over a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor, 15 sailors assigned to the U.S.S.Philadelphia wrote a letter to a Black newspaper detailing the abuse and indignities they had faced on the warship solely because of the color of their skin.When they enlisted, the Navy had promised training and assignments that would lead to advancement, but the Black sailors soon found that those opportunities did not exist for them.

Supporters pose for a group photo during a rally in support affirmative action policies outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on October 31, 2022.Eric Lee for The Washington Post via Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to wipe out affirmative action in higher education any day now.

Daniel Ellsberg, the defense analyst whose unauthorized release of the top-secret Pentagon Papers triggered court battles over freedom of the press and led to calamity for the presidency of Richard M. Nixon, has died.One of America's most famous whistleblowers, Ellsberg died Friday at his home in Kensington, Calif., his family said his death in a statement to the New York Times.

In an interview with NPR on Thursday, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman defended the company's plan to start charging for access to its company's data, a move that prompted a 48-hour blackout among thousands of Reddit communities.Randy Shropshire/Getty Images for Blavity Inc/Afr Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says a mass protest on Reddit is not going to change the company's plans despite the coordinated boycott upending the popular site and turning thousands of discussion groups dark.

Bill de Blasio, then the mayor of New York, holds up a sign announcing spring during a Groundhog Day event in 2015.Things did not go so smoothly the year before.(Andrew Burton/Getty Images)Comment Gift Article Everything that could've gone wrong arguably did during the fateful Groundhog Day celebration at the Staten Island Zoo in 2014.

An demonstrator holds a portrait of George Floyd in March 2021 outside the Hennepin County Government in Minneapolis, where the trial of former Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin in Floyd's killing was under way.Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland today accused the Minneapolis Police Department of a pattern of bias and excessive force, the product of a wide-ranging federal investigation into the department following the 2020 killing of George Floyd.

Law enforcement officers amass along Lake Street in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 29, 2020.David Jolesi / Star Tribune via Getty Images The Department of Justice has released a scathing, 89-page report of the Minneapolis Police Department conducted after the police murder of George Floyd, shedding light on the culture of unlawful police violence and rampant racism that laid the groundwork for Floyd's murder three years ago.

American orchestras, which have come under scrutiny in recent years for their lack of diversity, have made some inroads in hiring more Asian and Latino players over the past decade.But according to a new study, they have barely moved the needle in addressing the persistent dearth of Black musicians.

Last week, golf's premier circuit, the PGA Tour, announced it was partnering with its rival circuit LIV Golf, an upstart league backed by Saudi Arabia, giving the country a powerful new seat at the table of international sports.Alan Blinder, who covers golf for The New York Times, explains what was behind the deal and what it means for the business of sports.

Boris Johnson's image was splashed across the front pages of London newspapers on Friday, a day after a Parliamentary committee condemned him for misleading lawmakers about parties during the coronavirus pandemic.But it was conspicuously absent from The Daily Mail, the biggest and most influential British tabloid.

Image Soldiers from Ukraine's 68th Brigade resting outside of the village of Blahodatne, Ukraine, on Thursday.Credit...David Guttenfelder for The New York Times Ukraine's counteroffensive against Russia is making gains, albeit at a high cost, Ukrainian and American officials said.But after initially retaking some small settlements and villages, Ukraine's advances in the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions are better measured in yards than miles, according to independent analysts.

In this 2020 photo, survivors walk below a gate with the inscription "Work sets you free" after a wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial site of the former German Nazi death camp Auschwitz during ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of the camp's liberation in Oswiecim, Poland.Janek Skarzynski/AFP via Getty Images The German government will pay more than $1.4 billion next year to Holocaust survivors, in the latest compensation for atrocities and persecution inflicted by the Nazis.

Danielle DowlingReporting on the arts With Asteroid City, Wes Anderson serves up a Technicolor turducken, wrapping a TV special around a play and stuffing them into his film.Here's more on that movie and other entertainment highlights this weekend Pop.87 Productions/Focus Features Anderson's Asteroid City is comic and often wry, but like some of his other films, it has the soul of a tragedy, Manohla Dargis writes, adding that the palette is an astonishment, a dusty rainbow of hues.

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Although the U.S. roster for this summer's Women's World Cup won't be publicly announced until next week, coach Vlatko Andonovski has already begun letting players know who made the team - and who didn't.One player whose fate isn't certain is Alyssa Thompson, the 18-year-old Angel City forward.

The American health insurance system leaves both uninsured and insured people to languish, polling suggests.Martin Barraud / Stone / Getty Images / Texturelabs The American health insurance system is expensive, actively antagonizes patients, and leaves millions of people without access to coverage - and, as a new poll shows, is often dysfunctional even for the majority of people who have an insurance plan.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (left) takes part in a demonstration of the Fridays for Future movement to demand the stop of further funding of new fossil projects, in front of the headquarters of German retail banking company Postbank in Bonn, Germany, on June 12, 2023.Bernd Lauter / AFP via Getty Images As the United Nations climate talks in Bonn, Germany became the latest in a string of high-profile negotiations to end with little substantive progress, a coalition of environmental groups on Thursday announced plans for a global mobilization that organizers say will bring millions into the streets to demand an end to planet-wrecking fossil fuel production.

Advocates had feared the Supreme Court would dismantle the Indian Child Welfare Act and Native sovereignty at large.The U.S. Supreme Court is pictured on November 8, 2022, in Washington, D.C., on a day that the Court heard a case challenging the legality of the Indian Child Welfare Act.Samuel Corum / Getty Images In a somewhat surprising ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), delivering a win to Native American communities by upholding a decades-old law aimed at keeping Native American children from being taken away from their families and tribes.

Rep. Kevin Hern speaks at a press conference on vaccine mandates for businesses with House Republicans on Capitol Hill on November 18, 2021, in Washington, D.C.Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images A panel comprised of three-quarters of the House Republican caucus released a budget proposal on Wednesday that would raise the Social Security retirement age - cutting benefits across the board-while further privatizing Medicare and slashing taxes for the rich, a plan that Democratic lawmakers and progressive advocacy groups said is a clear statement of the GOP's warped priorities ahead of a critical spending fight this fall.

The incredibly dangerous practice is currently banned in just 21 states and Washington, D.C.
LeoPatrizi / E+ / Getty Images The Michigan state legislature advanced two bills on Wednesday that would prohibit mental health professionals from subjecting LGBTQ minors to anti-LGBTQ "conversion therapy."

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Silicon Valley executive Lexi Reese, a Democrat, announced Thursdaythat she is considering running for the seat being vacated by retiring U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein."As a working mom, I've spent my career in nonprofits and at technology and financial services businesses - working to help create economic opportunity for women and small businesses.

Josiah Gray recently added a sweeper to his arsenal.(Bob Levey/Getty Images)HOUSTON - The last pitch of Nationals starter Josiah Gray's outing on Wednesday night wasn't perfect.But it was deceptive enough to get Martin Maldonado to check his swing and strike out to end the seventh inning.The pitch that helped Gray complete seven innings was a sweeper, a new addition his arsenal, which seems to be growing and developing.

President Joe Biden gestures after speaking during a Juneteenth concert on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 13, 2023.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images On Tuesday night, hours after former President Donald Trump was indicted on charges relating to his improper removal of government documents from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago estate, Fox News ran a chyron at the bottom of its screen calling current President Joe Biden a "wannabe dictator" who used his powers in office to have his "political rival arrested."

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Netflix is debuting its first pop-up restaurant on June 30 in Los Angeles at the Short Stories Hotel, the streaming service announced Tuesday.The restaurant, Netflix Bites, will feature "a special tasting menu" curated by chefs featured in some of its most popular culinary shows, as well as custom cocktails by mixologists featured on the show "Drink Masters."

Biden risks a legacy of failing on "campaign promises but succeed[ing] in widening the racial wealth gap," NAACP said.People rally to show support for the Biden administration's student debt relief plan in front of the Supreme Court on February 28, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times / Tribune News Service via Getty Images The NAACP is warning President Joe Biden that failing to deliver on student debt relief if the Supreme Court strikes down his forgiveness plan will be tantamount to breaking his promises to narrow the racial wealth gap.

A majority of Americans approve of the DOJ opting to indict Donald Trump, the poll also found.Former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster following his appearance in a Miami court on June 13, 2023, in Bedminster, New Jersey.Spencer Platt / Getty Images It's been around 10 months since the FBI executed a search warrant at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, obtaining thousands of government documents in the process, including more than 100 marked "classified."