Toronto Jewish School Attacked Again, Prompting Canada to Investigate Antisemitism
Canadian ministers will convene a meeting with the police to discuss antisemitism, after attacks at Jewish establishments in Toronto and Montreal this week.
US officials to investigate labor and human rights abuses in Nicaragua
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is opening an investigation into labor and human rights abuses in Nicaragua, impacting relations with a country the U.S. has a free trade deal with amid growing concerns over President Daniel Ortega’s increasingly authoritarian rule. The investigation being opened by the U.S. Trade Representative must be completed within a year. […]
Traces of a giant landslide deep in the southern Baltic Sea—researchers investigate a potential tsunami
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Off the coast of Blekinge, in southern Sweden, at a depth of around 50–60 meters, the bottom sediment has scars that are tens of kilometers long and appear to have been caused by a huge submarine landslide. However, what caused this landslide and exactly when it may have occurred are unknown. […]
Former GOP Officials Urge Justice Department To Investigate Elon Musk’s $1 Million Giveaways
A coalition of former Republican officials asked the Justice Department to immediately investigate billionaire Elon Musk’s cash awards for voters. Musk — the world’s richest person — has thrown his financial might behind former President Donald Trump’s bid for the White House. He said last week he would hand out the million-dollar sweepstakes each day […]
Gibbon dances provide model to investigate the use of gestural signals in primates
A northern white-cheeked gibbon at Mulhouse Zoo (left) and a female yellow-cheeked gibbon with young at Amsterdam Zoo (right). Credit: Miriam Lindenmeier (left); HHU/Kai R. Caspar (right) Female crested gibbons display jerky, almost geometric patterns of movement. Researchers from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), Oslo in Norway and Paris have studied these conspicuous movements, which […]