Author: Elon Mark

Using heavy machinery, drones, dogs and dozens of rescuers, officials worked frantically Tuesday to find survivors of a deadly roof collapse at a nightclub in the Dominican Republic, where the authorities said at least 67 people died. The collapse happened during a concert at Jet Set, a popular nightclub whose Monday night dance party was a decades-old tradition frequented by a who’s who of Dominican society, many of whom were still trapped inside. Among those either killed or injured were a governor, a member of the Dominican Republic’s congress and two former U.S. Major League Baseball players. Officials said they…

Two big law firms that have come under attack by the Trump administration filed court papers on Tuesday seeking to permanently block executive orders that threaten their businesses and ability to represent clients in matters involving the federal government.The firms, Jenner & Block and WilmerHale, filed the papers in federal court in Washington a little over a week after judges approved temporary restraining orders against most of the provisions in the executive orders.In its filing, Jenner & Block said that the executive order was “a plain violation of the First Amendment” and that it punished the firm for representing clients…

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The advantages, though, were clear in my two days of testing in Arizona (I planned to ski a third day at Mount Hood in Oregon, where conditions are worse than in the Southwest, but a big spring storm had the roads under winter advisory, and I was not interested in strapping tire chains onto a rented Nissan Rogue).Most skiers agree that a softer ski is better on bumpy terrain or bad snow, while a stiffer ski is more comfortable at higher speeds. Swapping between the two is essentially the promise of Renoun’s design. I skied groomed runs from the slightly…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has in the past listed the three main threats facing Israel as “Iran, Iran and Iran.” He has largely staked his career on being Israel’s protector against Iranian nuclear ambitions, has openly confronted the country in recent months and is at war with Iran-backed militias around the region.Many Israelis were thus surprised when President Trump, with Mr. Netanyahu sitting in a supporting role beside him, announced on Monday that the United States would engage in “direct” negotiations with Iran on Saturday in a last-ditch effort to rein in the country’s nuclear program.Mr. Trump’s statement was splashed…

After three days of global market turmoil not seen since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, stocks regained a measure of calm on Tuesday despite little let up in the escalating trade tensions caused by President Trump’s tariffs.Before markets opened in China, the government unleashed a series of measures to stabilize stocks. In turn, share prices in Hong Kong, a day after plunging 13.2 percent, and in mainland China jumped about 1.5 percent.Stocks in Japan gained 6 percent, recouping a portion of the previous days losses. The rise in sentiment followed comments made on Monday by Treasury Secretary Scott…

Studying the dire wolf’s genome also allowed the Colossal team to figure out which features distinguished the ancient wolf from its modern relatives. They settled on traits involving size, musculature, hair color, hair texture, hair length, and coat patterning. They then used gene editing to alter the genome of cells from the dire wolf’s closest living relative, the gray wolf. In total the company made 20 unique edits to 14 genes in the gray wolf genome. Of those, 15 were meant to reproduce extinct dire wolf gene variants. Colossal claims it’s a record number of unique genetic edits done to…

Before President Barack Obama was sworn into office in 2009, Benjamin Netanyahu called the Israeli diplomat Alon Pinkas out of the blue and asked for a lesson in what was essentially a foreign tongue: the language of Democrats.“I speak Republican and you speak Democratic, and I need the intermediary,” said Mr. Netanyahu, who was about to become prime minister of Israel, according to Mr. Pinkas. He added: “Netanyahu always thought of himself as some pedigree neocon that belongs in the right wing of the Republican Party.”Mr. Netanyahu, who is meeting with President Trump at the White House on Monday, is…

Last Wednesday, the Trump administration believed it had a plan to save TikTok.ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese owner, along with some of its U.S. investors and officials in Washington had coalesced around a new ownership structure for the popular video app, four people familiar with the situation said. That structure, the people said, would help TikTok satisfy the terms of a federal law that required the app to find a new owner in order to address national security concerns, or face a ban in the United States.Under the plan, new investors would own 50 percent of a new American TikTok entity, while…

Photograph: Henri RobbinsLike almost every keyboard today, the Apex Pro Mini has multiple layers of sound-dampening inside the case. This includes a dense foam layer between the plate and PCB, a secondary foam layer underneath the PCB, and a thick piece of silicone filling the bottom of the case. Peeling back the silicone reveals two internal steel weights, which serve to make the keyboard feel more dense, along with preventing it from sliding around on your desk, which is not typically done on a keyboard with a plastic case. However, these weights and the silicone dampening make up a large…