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A mysterious illness that has affected US diplomats in recent years has been linked to a Russian intelligence unit....

World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés said Monday that several of the group’s employees were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. Andrés, a celebrity chef, called those who died his “sisters and brothers” and “angels” in a statement on social media....

The Biden administration is close to approving the sale of as many as 50 American-made F-15 fighter jets to Israel, in a deal expected to be worth more than $18 billion, according to three people familiar with the matter....

NEW DELHI (AP) — The world’s largest democratic election could also be one of its most consequential....

At issue is a once widely used test that overestimated how well Black people’s kidneys were functioning, making them look healthier than they really were — all because of an automated formula that calculated results for Black and non-Black patients differently. That race-based equation could delay diagnosis of organ failure...

Protesters even demanded an end to trade relations, particularly vegetable exports to Israel....

Cool paper from my field. In every plant species there’s a hormone receptor sitting there but we don’t know what the hormone is yet! Finding the ligand has become a bit of a holy grail for many researchers. This study finds an endogenous ligand for a divergent homologue of this receptor, not of much consequence to most plant...

Gaza’s largest hospital has been gutted. Combat bulldozers have moved sand into the courtyards. The buildings are scorched. It smells like death. Israeli commandos pulled out before dawn on Monday....

The moon will pass directly in front of the sun, exposing ghostly traces of the sun’s atmosphere...