Politics

Associated media - Connected media Indian Wall Street has twisted and turned. Investors in Mumbai’s Indian stock markets responded enthusiastically to the first exit polls. They went on a buying spree on Monday, driving up the prices of so-called Modi shares, those associated with the prime minister’s spending priorities or believed to benefit from his fiscal policies. When the actual voting results were tallied, those stocks plummeted. Shares of Adani Group’s flagship stock lost around 19% of their value in one trading day. The blue chip index lost about 6%, almost erasing the gains of the first five months of…

Related media - Related media In April, Ms. Pisano became the second person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig. Hers was a particularly complicated case: she suffers from heart and kidney failure and she received the organ only eight days after receiving a mechanical heart pump. Ms. Pisano was at risk of dying without the heart pump, a device implanted in patients who need a heart transplant. But there is a critical shortage of available human kidneys from donors, and her heart disease has made her ineligible to receive one. She is the first known heart…

Connected media - Related media There were streakers, kissers and wannabe prize fighters. There were arrests, threats and flying chairs. There were bruises, there was blood and there was beer. So, so much beer. There was plenty of blame to pass around: the fans, the umpires, the team officials, the managers, local broadcasters and radio hosts. Oh, and according to one Cleveland resident, the real instigator causing that evening’s mayhem? The moon. And that’s not a reference to the fans who yanked down their pants and showed Rangers players their backsides. Fifty years ago, chaos descended upon Municipal Stadium on…

Associated media - Related media A lonely man and his records Cristiano Ronaldo’s social media output, if we’re all completely honest with ourselves, peaked in 2017, when he asked us – as a species – the most penetrating question of all: have you ever related steel to steel? ‘ecology? Because, you should know, he did. Of course he did. This is Cristiano Ronaldo. And he collaborated with Egyptian Steel. However, even by those not-so-high standards, this week has been a bad one for Ronaldo. For basic context: He’s 39. He is a millionaire many times over. He is a hero…

Associated media - Associated media Monday is the first opportunity for lawmakers to ask him about his agency’s record-keeping practices. For Republicans on the committee, the hearing is also the culmination, so far, of a long campaign against American scientists and health officials who they say helped trigger the Covid pandemic. No new evidence of a pandemic emerging from a laboratory, with or without the help of American taxpayer funding, has emerged in a series of high-profile hearings over the past year. In a report on Monday, titled “Republicans’ Fauci Flop,” Democratic lawmakers said Republicans on the panel failed to…

Associated media - Associated media The niche world of hockey romance novels is gaining public attention after the wife of an NHL player criticized fans of the books who she said had made comments and videos on social media about her husband that were “predators and exploiters”. Here’s what happened when the worlds of professional sports, romance novels and TikTok collided. First there was BookTok. On TikTok, people share book recommendations and reviews under the hashtag #BookTok, and the community has become a powerful force in publishing: More than 100 authors with large followings on BookTok generated $760 million in…

Linked media - Related media Whoever succeeds Mr. López Obrador will face daunting challenges. Cartel violence continues to plague the country, displacing people en masse and fueling one of the deadliest election cycles in recent Mexican history. López Obrador has turned the government’s attention to addressing the causes of violence instead of declaring war on criminal groups, a strategy he called “hugs, not bullets.” Ms. Gálvez criticized this approach. “Enough with hugs for criminals and bullets for citizens,” he joked during the election campaign. She said he would withdraw the armed forces from civilian activities and direct them to focus…

Associated media - Related media Research such as the current MDMA therapy studies has stalled support from various groups and lawmakers in both parties for the treatment of PTSD, a condition that affects millions of Americans, especially military veterans who are at enormous risk of suicide. No new therapies have been approved for PTSD in 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 is an important step for the industry because there is a real lack of effective treatments, and…

Connected media - Linked media Helga Arnadottir, a spokeswoman, said this is the fifth evacuation order since the volcano came back to life last year. The evacuation went “as smoothly as previous ones,” Ms. Arnadottir added. It took hotel guests about a half hour to evacuate her, she said. Another 300 people had to relocate from Grindavik, a fishing town that has been largely abandoned since January after lava and earthquakes from previous eruptions destroyed parts of it. The government has offered to buy all the residential houses in Grindavik to allow the residents to move elsewhere. Almost all property…