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15 Jun

US expands sanctions against Russia during G7 leaders’ meeting

295Politics

While the measures expand the scope of the U.S. sanctions program, the Biden administration has so far refrained from imposing sanctions on Chinese or European banks it believes are helping Russia. The new measures do not prevent banks from facilitating transactions related to Russia's energy exports, which the Biden administration has allowed to continue out of fear that restricting them could stoke inflation. Announcing the sanctions, Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said in a statement that “Russia's war economy is deeply isolated from the international financial system, leaving the Kremlin's military desperate for access to the outside world.” At the…

ConocoPhillips will acquire Marathon Oil in a .5 billion all-stock deal

15 Jun

ConocoPhillips will acquire Marathon Oil in a $22.5 billion all-stock deal

295Business

The oil industry in the United States, the world's largest producer of crude oil, is made up of many small and medium-sized oil companies, ranging from family businesses with a few wells in one state to global giants like Exxon Mobil. Wall Street values ConocoPhillips at about $140 billion, or about 10 times larger than Marathon Oil but about a quarter of Exxon. Oil companies have completed some of the largest acquisitions in the past year despite regulatory scrutiny from the Biden administration and oil market volatility. U.S. giants have capitalized on record profits, giving them the firepower to acquire…

15 Jun

Guía completa para la gestión de riesgos en proyectos en Argentina

295Empresas

En la actualidad, la sostenibilidad y la responsabilidad social ganan creciente relevancia en el ámbito empresarial. Así, la incorporación de una consultoría de desempeño social se ha transformado en un componente clave para las empresas que buscan llevar a cabo proyectos de gran impacto en Argentina.Estas firmas de consultoría no solo facilitan el cumplimiento de los estándares internacionales, sino que también reducen impactos adversos y fomentan vínculos constructivos con las comunidades y todas las partes interesadas en los proyectos.Sin embargo, ¿qué significa verdaderamenteamortiguar los riesgos de un proyecto? En este artículo, descubrirás cuáles son las implicaciones de un proyecto…

14 Jun

Biden joins fight for Ukraine with allied efforts on D-Day

295News

Mr. Biden was accompanied by the first lady, Jill Biden, who flew separately to France to join him after attending the trial of her son Hunter Biden in Wilmington, Del., on federal firearms charges. Wearing his aviator sunglasses, the president held Dr. Biden's hand as they marched across a blue carpet to the ceremony with the Macrons as military planes zoomed overhead. Addressing the crowd first, Macron hailed what he called “a bond of blood shed for freedom” between the United States and France. He directly addressed some of the veterans on stage, individually and by name, thanking them for…

14 Jun

Christophe Deloire, who fought for threatened journalists, has died at the age of 53

295Politics

Christophe Deloire, whose nonpartisan organization to protect journalists saved dissidents from prison and championed a diversity of viewpoints in the profession around the world, died Saturday in Paris. He was 53 years old. The cause would be complications due to brain cancer, according to Reporters Without Borders, the media group of which he has been general secretary for 12 years. Deloire, who was himself a journalist and author, lobbied publicly and worked behind the scenes to promote a free press in countries that muzzled journalists. He helped negotiate freedom for those who had been threatened with arrest, imprisoned or held…

14 Jun

Sony Pictures Acquires Alamo Drafthouse in Lifeline to Cinema Chain

295Business

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Sony bought Alamo from Altamont Capital Partners and Fortress Investment Group, as well as the chain's founder, Tim League. Mr League said the cinema chain was “more than thrilled” with the deal. This comes at a time of financial difficulty for the Alamo and the film industry as a whole. Many of Alamo's franchised locations filed for bankruptcy and closed this month, making Sony's move a potential lifeline for the struggling chain. Alamo filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2021 before a private equity firm intervened. The theaters will continue to operate under…

14 Jun

FDA reviews MDMA therapy for PTSD, citing health risks and study flaws

295Health

Research like the current research into MDMA therapy has blocked support from various groups and lawmakers in both parties for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, a condition that affects millions of Americans, particularly military veterans who are at enormous risk of suicide . No new treatments for PTSD have been approved for more than 20 years. “What's happening is really a paradigm shift for psychiatry,” said David Olson, director of the Institute for Psychedelia and Neurotherapy at UC Davis. “MDMA represents an important step for the industry because there is a real lack of effective treatments and people need…

14 Jun

How the Reds’ Joey Votto became a social media star

295Sports

The outburst, which Votto and Jim Day, the reporter on the sidelines of the Reds broadcasts, had been reminiscing for weeks – even on the team plane, which confused quite a few members of the Reds staff – has gone viral: one of the funniest characters of baseball had acted again. Votto, 40, who didn't embrace social media until March 2020, now regularly posts content to an audience of more than 300,000 followers on Instagram and X, formerly known as Twitter. Like the attack on Russo, Votto's posts are carefully conceived and executed. Last winter, she posed in a flamboyant…

14 Jun

The new ChatGPT offers a lesson in AI hype

295Technology

The bot then spawned an even bigger Waldo. Subbarao Kambhampati, a professor and AI researcher at Arizona State University, also put the chatbot through some testing and said he didn't notice any notable improvements in reasoning compared to the latest version. He presented ChatGPT with a puzzle involving blocks: The answer is that it is impossible to arrange the blocks under these conditions, but, just as with previous versions, ChatGPT-4o consistently found a solution that involved moving block C. With this and other reasoning tests, ChatGPT was occasionally able to take feedback to get the right answer, which is antithetical…

13 Jun

How the Israeli mission to save four hostages unfolded

295Politics

Israeli troops have overrun much of Gaza since their ground invasion began in late October. But they managed to save only seven living hostages in three separate military operations, with around 120 prisoners remaining in Gaza. Several proposed rescue missions did not go ahead for fear that hostages or law enforcement would die in the process, according to two Israeli defense officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive operation. In December, Israeli special forces attempted to rescue a hostage from Hamas captivity, according to the two defense officials. Sahar Baruch, an Israeli hostage, was killed during…