All posts tagged: rule

Israel’s Netanyahu doesn’t rule out targeting Iran’s supreme leader and regime change

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[ad_1] Iran launched two waves of missiles in response to the Israeli attacks, setting off air raid alerts in parts of central and northern Israel in the early hours. Netanyahu also dismissed reports that he and Trump were in disagreement over Israel’s targeting of Khamenei, saying, “I wouldn’t rush to conclusions.” The Israeli leader suggested that U.S. support for Israel’s attempts to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program would prevent the two allies from being “on the brink of nuclear war” waged by Iran, whom he accused of “stringing the U.S. along” during negotiations over a nuclear deal. At least 224 people have been killed since Israel began bombing Iran on Friday, Iranian state media reported, while Iranian retaliatory strikes have killed at least 24 people in Israel. While calls for a regime change in Iran have grown louder from Israel and its allies in Washington, Mohammad Eslami, a research fellow at Tehran University, told NBC News on Tuesday that inside Iran, the overwhelming sentiment was now focused on unity and holding the country together. “This is …

Supreme Court order gives religious organizations new chance to challenge New York abortion rule

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[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a New York court to take a new look at whether some religious organizations should be excluded from a state regulation requiring health insurance plans to cover abortions. The justices acted after the court unanimously ruled earlier in June that Wisconsin discriminated against a Catholic charity by forcing it to pay state unemployment taxes. The New York case poses a similar issue because the state exempts religious employers if their purpose is to spread religious values and they primarily employ and serve people of their faith. But religious groups that serve and employ people regardless of their beliefs don’t qualify for the exemption. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany and other church groups challenged the rule. It’s the second time the nation’s highest court has sent the case back to New York courts. Last year, the New York Court of Appeals upheld the regulation after taking into account the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in 2021 in favor of a Catholic foster care agency in Philadelphia that refused to work with same-sex couples because …

A Mesozoic myth: Dinosaurs didn’t rule the Earth like we think

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[ad_1] Sign up for Big Think on Substack The most surprising and impactful new stories delivered to your inbox every week, for free. Adapted from The Shortest History of the Dinosaurs: The 230-Million-Year Story of Their Time on Earth © 2025 by Riley Black. Published by The Experiment. The various ways that dinosaurs interacted with the environments they called home is a relatively new area of study, one that was reliant on new fossil finds in the latter part of the 20th century, as well as technological advances such as CT scanning that’s allowed experts to analyze tiny fossil details that were previously entirely beyond the reach of the imagination. But there is one aspect of dinosaur ecology that paleontologists have been pondering ever since they recognized that an especially long “Age of Reptiles” preceded the “Age of Mammals.”  The earliest mammals originated during the Mesozoic, right alongside the evolutionary explosion of reptiles. These ancient beasts seemed to be insectivores and universally small, with big eyes that suggested they were active at night. Paleontologists pointed …

Primavera Sound Barcelona review: With help from Haim, Chappell Roan and Charli XCX rule over pop’s coolest festival

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[ad_1] Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free Right at the entrance to Primavera Sound Barcelona is an enormous sculpture of the Powerpuff Girls – the doe-eyed, kindergarten superheroes of Cartoon Network. Set between the futuristic concrete structures of Parc del Forum and the Mediterranean Sea, the American bobblehead sisters are an apt tribute to this year’s headliners, Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter, and Chappell Roan, AKA the holy pop trinity of this year’s festival season. Where Glastonbury seems forever stuck in its nostalgia mud, Primavera has always embraced the now. First up on Friday night (strictly speaking, Saturday morning; Primavera is very much a nighttime affair) is Essex pop auteur Charli XCX. “Can you believe Brat turns one this year?” she asks the crowd, referring to the internet-consuming rave record that soundtracked a presidential campaign and invented a new colour in Brat green. Technically, she’s right – …

After its data was wiped, KiranaPro’s co-founder cannot rule out an external hack

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[ad_1] Indian grocery delivery startup KiranaPro’s recent data loss story has more holes than Swiss cheese, as the startup remains unclear whether the incident was an internal breach or an external hack. Last week, the Bengaluru-based startup discovered that it could not access its back-end servers and that all its data, including its app code, had been deleted from GitHub. The startup on Friday blamed a former employee for the breach. However, in an interview, KiranaPro co-founder and CEO Deepak Ravindran conceded that the company had not deactivated the employee’s account after they departed the company and cannot rule out the possibility of subsequent malicious misuse of their account. “If we go deeper, we have to do a real forensic investigation. We are going to talk [about] this with our board, the investors, and we are going to get a formal opinion on that also with our legal advisers,” Ravindran told TechCrunch. Earlier on Friday, Ravindran claimed in a post on X that the incident that affected its data was an internal breach. “After careful …

The No. 1 Rule for Understanding Trump

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[ad_1] A useful one-sentence guide to the second Trump administration might go something like this: A lot happens under Donald Trump, but a lot un-happens, too. In the past four months, President Trump has announced tariffs on Canada, paused tariffs on Canada, restarted tariffs on Canada, ruled out tariffs on certain Canadian goods, and then ruled in, and even raised, tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum. And that’s just for starters. On April 2, so-called Liberation Day, Trump announced a broader set of tariffs on almost every country in the world. Soon after, the plan was half-suspended. Then Trump announced a new set of elevated tariffs on China, from which he backtracked as well. Next the courts, as often happens, took over the job of erasing the president’s previously announced policies. Last week, a trade court struck down the president’s entire Liberation Day tariff regime as unconstitutional, only for a federal circuit court to reinstate the tariffs shortly thereafter. Now a higher court has the opportunity to do the funniest thing: undo the undoing of …

Ross Kemp refuses to rule out EastEnders return after 40th anniversary appearance

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[ad_1] Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter EastEnders actor Ross Kemp has refused to rule out a return to the BBC soap, which he says he owes “a great debt” to for giving him a career in television. The 60-year-old returned to EastEnders as Grant Mitchell after almost 10 years away during the show’s 40th anniversary celebrations earlier this year. His character returned to Albert Square to support his brother Phil, who was struggling with mental health issues, but later left Walford again, returning to his home in Portugal. When asked whether he would return to the role again, Kemp told ITV’s Loose Women: “You just don’t know, do you? You don’t know what’s in the minds of the people who work on it. “I’ve also (always) known that without it, I wouldn’t have had the career that I’ve had, I’ve always owed it a great debt, and it was very good …

How the expiring de minimis rule will affect online shopping

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[ad_1] There are many reasons why you might want to start spending less money online: It can be bad for the environment, it can be bad for your quality of life, it’s bad for your wallet, and, with the ‘de minimis’ import rule changing, it will soon be extra bad for your wallet. On Friday, May 2, packages worth less than $800 entering the U.S. from China will no longer be tax-exempt. President Donald Trump announced he would be pull the de minimise exemption in April, and now the change is set to take effect. His official reasoning is that Chinese-based shippers use the de minimis exemption to ship illicit substances like fentanyl in low-value packages. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree that a reform on the de minimis provision could slow the spread of drug trafficking in the U.S., but slashing the exemption will have lasting effects on other spaces within the economy, particularly the world of e-commerce. So, online shoppers, businesses, and retailers who rely on low-cost imported Chinese goods should …

NASUWT members seek to publicly rule out NEU merger

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[ad_1] More from this theme Recent articles Members of the NASUWT teaching union are seeking a public dismissal of calls for a merger with other unions, following a renewed push by the National Education Union for amalgamation. An urgent motion, due to be debated at the union’s conference in Liverpool this afternoon, will call on its ruling executive to “reiterate publicly that there is no desire by NASUWT to consider any union amalgamation or merger”. It would also instruct the executive to “report all attempts of poaching members and infiltrating of our lay structures” to the Trades Union Congress and other bodies. Speaking to Schools Week earlier today, outgoing NASUWT general secretary Dr Patrick Roach said he did not “detect” an appetite for a merger among members. “But it’s nice to be wooed,” he added. At its own conference in Harrogate earlier this week, the NEU ordered its executive to “redouble its efforts to seek further amalgamations with the aim of creating one union for education workers. “This to include initiating meetings, on or off …

The Third Rule of Time Travel by Philip Fracassi

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[ad_1] Philip Fracassi’s latest novel, “The Third Rule of Time Travel,” is not your typical time travel narrative. Rather than focusing on the paradoxes of altering history or the adventure of visiting different eras, Fracassi delivers a deeply personal story about loss, memory, and the destructive power of grief. The novel poses a fascinating question: What if time travel was possible, but you could only observe your past, never interact with it? And what if even this seemingly harmless observation could fracture reality itself? As a fan of Fracassi’s horror works like “Boys in the Valley” and “Gothic,” I was curious to see how he would handle science fiction. The result is impressive—a character-driven story that uses the sci-fi concept as a vehicle to explore very human emotions rather than getting lost in technological explanations or physics puzzles. Time Travel With Emotional Weight The rules established early in the novel provide an elegant framework: Travel can only occur to points within your lifetime You can only maintain contact with the arrival world for ninety seconds …