UN officials say several thousand civilians were killed in the RSF takeover of El Fasher, the Sudanese army’s only remaining stronghold in the Darfur. Only 40% of the city’s 260,000 residents managed to flee the onslaught alive, thousands of whom were wounded, the officials said. The RSF and their allied Arab militias, known as Janjaweed, overran El Fasher on Oct. 26 and rampaged through the city. Under the convention, a genocide determination could be made even if only one of the five were met. The RSF has been supported by the United Arab Emirates over the course of the war, according to UN experts and rights groups.

Bhattacharya will stay on as head of the NIH and will also serve as the head of the CDC until President Donald Trump can appoint a permanent leader. Prior to joining the Trump administration, Bhattacharya worked as a health economist and professor at Stanford University Medical School. As head of the NIH, Bhattacharya has seen pushback from hundreds of staffers. In June, some NIH scientists published what they called the Bethesda Declaration, named for the location of the NIH. As the head of the NIH, Bhattacharya has spoken extensively about restoring American’s faith in the federal government’s approach to health and science.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, looks round as he leaves after attending the Easter Matins Service at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England, April 20, 2025. via Associated PressAndrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, according to reports. AdvertisementUS Congress released as huge dossier of information about the dead paedophile Jeffrey Epstein at the end of last month. AdvertisementThames Valley Police said in a statement: “As part of the investigation, we have today arrested a man in his sixties from Norfolk on suspicion of misconduct in public office and are carrying out searches at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk. “We will not be naming the arrested man, as per national guidance. Advertisement“It should be noted that ‘misconduct in a public office’ has a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

The 2020 election’s contribution to humanity’s history of gullibility continues through Sidney Powell, a former Trump post-election lawyer. Five days after the election, she appeared on Fox News to say there had been “massive and coordinated” malfeasance to “delegitimize and destroy” Trump votes, and “manufacture” votes for Joe Biden. The Trump administration has offered no intelligible national security rationale for Gabbard’s Georgia grandstanding. They examined all 187 counts in the 64 court challenges filed in multiple states by Trump and his supporters. In Arizona, the most exhaustively scrutinized state, a private firm selected by Trump’s advocates confirmed Trump’s loss, finding 99 additional Biden votes and 261 fewer Trump votes.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday testified before a jury for the first time about accusations that social media, including Instagram, harm children’s mental health. The outcome of her lawsuit could affect the hundreds of other cases by families who say their own children have been harmed or even died because of social media. Meta, for its part, denies the accusations and says it’s implemented numerous measures to safeguard young users. Later, Lanier showed an email that he said was sent by a Meta employee to Zuckerberg. Rodriguez was the first of more than 1,500 individuals to file a civil case against the social media platforms; her suit’s outcome could depend in part on how the jury in Kaley’s suit decides.

U.S. District Court Makes Its Ruling - OutKickBad movies— Nick S. asks:Have you ever walked out of a movie theater due to a bad film? And thankfully, Mrs. Screencaps doesn't care about seeing romantic comedies which saves us unnecessary trips to the movie theater. Robert Duvall. In this movie, Duvall is the prototypical bad youth coach so focused on winning he trades his own grandson, complaining the kid is just a "benchwarmer." — Chris in Nebraska wants to share memories:Wanted to piggyback off of John in Milford, MI's email about Robert Duvall.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino, center, attends the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace on Thursday. “Virtually everyone is the head of a country other than Gianni, but he’s the head of soccer. Later in his remarks, the president announced that FIFA would be pledging over $75 million for “soccer-related” projects in Gaza. “I think they saw that I got screwed by Norway, and they said, ‘let’s give him a peace prize,’” Trump added. President, we’ll unite the world here this summer during the World Cup, but if we truly want to unite the world, we need peace,” Infantino said during his own remarks.

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They lost their houses in last year’s Eaton fire. “Those are the days I’m down just because there’s insurance, there’s loans, there’s contractors, there’s permits, there’s inspections,” she said. It looks like countryside and a few houses here and a few houses there and it really seemed very magical and hopeful,” Huneven said. “And those mountain views we have now, without all the houses in the way,” Zack said. Once again, Zack wrote, Altadena’s future will be determined by “who stays, who leaves, and who moves here.

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And the contest will not only choose a mayor; it will also illuminate what kind of Democratic city Los Angeles is. Similarly, former LA schools superintendent Austin Beutner looked to fill the narrow lane for rich, white guys in Los Angeles races. Her challenge to Mayor Bass is from the mayor’s left, not her right. Los Angeles Councilmember Nithya Raman speaks at the National Coming Out Day 2024 event in Los Angeles on Oct. 11, 2024. In Los Angeles, even voters who don’t approve of Karen Bass’ work as mayor like her.

Jesse Jackson this week has sparked a flurry of remembrances about his decades-long career as a civil rights champion and political figure. It’s timely, therefore, to recall an episode from his up-and-down relationship with Jerry Brown, whose celebrity was comparable during the heyday of the 1970s and 1980s — particularly one day in 1979. Listening to Jackson and Brown bantering about politics and philosophy was worth the trip. When Brown made his third White House bid in 1992, his relationship with Jackson became an issue. Like Brown and Jackson, he, too, made an unsuccessful bid for the presidency.

Kevin Stitt arrived in Washington this week with invitations to two White House meetings from an angry President Donald Trump. Days later, Stitt told governors the White House had reversed course and invited all governors to the Friday morning meeting. Trump and Stitt have a history of disputesThe unraveling of the governors’ White House visits was the latest example of Trump battling with Democratic state leaders. After Stitt informed governors that the White House wasn’t inviting Democrats to the Friday morning business meeting, Trump called the Oklahoma governor. Two days later, Stitt told governors that all governors were being invited.

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An employee fills an ice cream cone at the Häagen-Dazs shop opening in Sylt, Germany in 2015. - Franziska Krug/Getty ImagesNestlé has thawed on ice cream. The world’s biggest food and drinks maker said Thursday that it was in “advanced negotiations” to sell its remaining ice cream business to its joint venture partner, Froneri. “We cannot drive (growth) the same way that Froneri can.”Froneri was created a decade ago by Nestlé and UK ice cream maker R&R. Unilever spun off its ice cream unit in December, creating the largest ice cream business in the world — The Magnum Ice Cream Company — because it wanted to focus on fewer products.