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The Doomsday Clock symbolising how near humanity is to destruction has been moved one second forward to 89 seconds to midnight – the closest it has ever been.The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) – which sets the clock annually – said nuclear threats, potential misuses of advances in biology and artificial intelligence, as well as climate change, were the key factors.Daniel Holz, chair of the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board, said the latest move was “a warning to all world leaders”.The clock was originally placed at seven minutes to midnight in 1947. Last year, it was left unchanged at…

Justin Baldoni admitted he “fell short” of Blake Lively’s expectations in an alleged “rambling” voice note, which appears to have been sent after the actors worked on the rooftoop scene for their movie “It Ends With Us.”Baldoni, 41, apologized to his co-star in a six-minute message seemingly sent after the pair met to discuss a now-infamous rooftop scene from the movie in which he claimed in legal documents that he felt pressured by Lively’s husband, Ryan Reynolds, and her friend, Taylor Swift, to use Lively’s rewritten scene for the film.Lively filed a sexual harassment suit in December against Baldoni, his…

A tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas City, Kansas, has become the largest documented on record in the United States.As of Jan. 24, 2025, there have been 67 active cases reported in Wyandotte County (60) and Johnson County (7) since January 2024, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE).There have also been 79 latent, or asymptomatic, tuberculosis (TB) infections reported over the last year, including 77 in Wyandotte County and two in Johnson County.FEELING EXTRA TIRED? THIS VIRUS COULD BE THE CULPRIT, STUDY SUGGESTSKDHE has reportedly been working with local health departments in response to the outbreak, following guidance…

U.S. President Donald Trump recently threatened the EU with tariffs: “The European Union is very, very bad to us. So they’re going to be in for tariffs. It’s the only way … you’re going to get fairness.” Cars made in America and shipped to the EU are subjected to 10% duties, but European-made vehicles imported to the US get a far lower 2.5% customs rate. That doesn’t seem fair, does it?Speaking at the WELT-Wirtschaftsgipfe conference earlier today in Berlin, BMW CEO Oliver Zipse proposed that the EU and US level the playing field by applying a singular tariff rate of…

Medicaid payment portals are down following the Trump administration’s decision to freeze trillions of dollars in federal funding, an effort by the new president to root out “wokeness” in the federal government, multiple sources have reported.A health insurance program for low-income individuals, Medicaid is run jointly by the states and the federal government. With the Children’s Health Insurance Program (Chip), Medicaid insures more than one in five Americans, or about 79 million people, nearly half of whom are children. Medicaid also pays for roughly two in every five births in the US.“My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are…

Christopher Walken’s Quote About Never Owning A Cellphone Is Going Viral The octogenarian explained to the Wall Street Journal how he pretty much doesn’t *do* technology, and that quote is going viral on social media. “I don’t have technology. I only have a satellite dish on my house. So I’ve seen ‘Severance’ on DVDs that they’re good enough to send me,” he said. “I don’t have a cell phone. I’ve never emailed or, what do you call it, Twittered.” I love how he just said, “I don’t have technology,” as if technology is an attribute you can have. This isn’t…

Safety is often overlooked in the rush to bring humanoid robots to the workplace. As high-profile corporations ranging from retailers like Amazon to carmakers such as Mercedes and BMW have announced humanoid pilots for factories and warehouses, conversations around worker safety are regularly buried beneath industry hype. One Bay Area-robotics firm is hoping to correct that shortfall. Figure AI announced Tuesday it is building a Center for the Advancement of Humanoid Safety, an in-house division wholly focused on the topic. Rob Gruendel, the former Amazon Robotics safety engineer who is heading up the project, revealed the plans via a LinkedIn…

Guy De LauneyBBC Balkans correspondentGetty ImagesMilos Vucevic was in office for less than a yearSerbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic has resigned, following nationwide protests over the deadly collapse of a railway station canopy.He said he had acted “to avoid further complicating things” and so as to “not further raise tensions in society”. Fifteen people died in November when a concrete canopy at a railway station collapsed in the city of Novi Sad. Tens of thousands of people have been regularly taking to the streets since then, demanding accountability for the collapse and protesting against corruption.In a TV address late on…

Speaking to Republican Party members in Denton County Monday night, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, listed several Republicans he plans to purge from the Texas GOP for being insufficiently conservative. Among those on Paxton’s list was Texas’ senior U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, one of the most powerful members of the Senate GOP.The crowd erupted into loud applause as Paxton said, “The second thing we need to do, and I might play a role in this, is replace John Cornyn in the U.S. Senate.”GARY PETERS, DEMOCRATIC SENATOR FROM TRUMP STATE, WON’T SEEK RE-ELECTIONThe attorney general,…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureFour universities have received $1m in funding to run agriculture pilot programs in a bid to attract students to the profession.The funding, allocated in the federal budget, will go to Charles Sturt University, the University of Queensland, Australian National University and Charles Darwin University, to run over 2025 and 2026.Assistant minister for education and agriculture, fisheries and forestry, Anthony Chisholm, said the work liaison pilot program aimed to undo “preconceived stereotypes” about working in the agricultural sector. Some students, especially those in our cities, can see a career in…