WASHINGTON: Moody’s Ratings stripped the US government of its top credit rating Friday, citing successive governments’ failure to stop a rising tide of debt.
Moody’s lowered the rating from a gold-standard Aaa to Aa1 but said the United States “retains exceptional credit strengths such as the size, resilience and dynamism of its economy and the role of the US dollar as global reserve currency.”
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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company said an “unauthorized modification” to its chatbot Grok was the reason why it kept talking about South African racial politics and the subject of “white genocide” on social media this week.
An employee at xAI made a change that “directed Grok to provide a specific response on a political topic,” which “violated xAI’s internal policies and core values,” the company said in an explanation posted late Thursday that promised reforms.
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President Donald Trump proclaimed a decisive break with decades of US interventionism during his Middle East tour, promising a new American foreign policy based instead on his beloved art of the deal.
Trump vowed during his swing through Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates that there would be no more “lectures on how to live”, saying the region had achieved a “modern miracle the Arabian way.”
In an extraordinary rupture with his predecessors, Trump then lambasted what he called…
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A recent United States ambassador to Ukraine has published an opinion column explaining her decision to resign her post, and criticising President Donald Trump for siding with Russia over Ukraine.
On Friday, former diplomat Bridget Brink published an article in the Detroit Free Press, a newspaper in her home state of Michigan, expressing concern about current US foreign policy.
The US has long been an ally of Ukraine, and since 2014, it has provided the war-torn country with military…
News Source: www.aljazeera.com
Over the past 36 hours, the Israeli army has escalated its attacks across the Gaza Strip, killing at least 250 Palestinians and wounding hundreds, according to local health officials. The wave of air and artillery strikes has drawn comparisons from residents to the earliest and most brutal days of the war.
In the southern city of Khan Younis, the courtyard of the European Gaza Hospital came under heavy bombardment on the evening of May 13. According to Gaza’s…
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An aide worker in Gaza who has witnessed Israel’s increased bombardment of the enclave calls it “shocking,” as Palestinians struggle with a lack of food and medical supplies. Afeef Nessouli with Gila International tells Al Jazeera Israel is also keeping medical workers from coming in or out.
Published On 16 May 2025
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US President Donald Trump wrapped up a four-day tour of the Gulf region this week, visiting Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. The trip focused heavily on military might, economic deals, and pressuring adversaries like Iran. But for Palestinians and Syrians, Trump’s visit delivered little more than headlines—without any meaningful change.
At Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, Trump inspected cutting-edge U.S. weaponry. AI-powered drones, precision bombs, and…
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Picture of a Young Man
In 2025, the New York Times released a report indicating that young men and boys are falling behind on key factors within education, mental health, and transitioning into adulthood. According to this report, young men are outnumbered in college enrollment, have significantly higher rates of completed suicides, and take longer to reach adult milestones such as leaving the family home. There’s consensus that being male isn’t the problem, but that a major…
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People with cancer, heart disease and other conditions have come to expect treatments that their medical teams “personalize” just for them, based on tests.
But care for mental health conditions hasn’t gotten to that point yet.
Now, a new study suggests that it might be possible to personalize care for people with bipolar disorder, using the results of detailed personality tests.
The research finds that such tests might help identify people who have certain combinations of personality traits…
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A new study published in Science Advances reveals that a single gene plays a big role in how the liver stores energy, a process that’s critical for overall health and for managing diseases like type 2 diabetes. Led by Penn Nursing’s Kate Townsend Creasy, PhD, Assistant Professor of Nutrition Science in the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences, the research focuses on the PPP1R3B gene. This gene tells the liver how to handle energy: store it as glycogen (a form of sugar) or…
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