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Heat is entropy. Heat is chaos. The hotter something gets, the more kinetic energy it has: molecules vibrate, relationships change, life overheats, things die. You can see that out west right now. Last week, a heat dome formed over the Great Plains all the way out to the California coast. …

The joyful noises of dancing, acting, and music-making can usually be found within the hallways of the Juilliard School. But this week, many of those gifted student artists are taking to the streets as part of ongoing protests — including the prestigious conservatory’s first sit-in in recent memory — over …

New York City Mayoral Candidates 2021: New Yorkers have been waiting to elect Bill de Blasio’s successor for years. But with the Democratic primary now less than a month away, the race to replace the beleaguered mayor as the city emerges from one of the most trying periods in its …

Becoming mayor of New York City requires submitting oneself to a gauntlet of minor humiliations: being ridiculed for everything from your favorite subway stop, to the way you eat pizza, to the pseudonym you used to sext strangers you met online. On a recent Saturday in Manhattan’s Tompkins Square Park, …

In a ruling designed to have far-reaching effects on the world’s largest oil companies, a Dutch court has held Royal Dutch Shell liable for its contributions to climate change, finding the massive energy company’s ongoing fossil fuel operations undermine basic guaranteed human rights. The court ordered the company to act …

The first batch of 10,000 doses of 2DG medicine for curing COVID-19 patients would be launched early next week and will be given to patients: DRDO officials Bhagat Singh’s nephew Abhay Sandhu died of post-COVID health-related complications. He had been undergoing treatment at Fortis Hospital in Mohali for the past …

Centre to increase Telangana’s oxygen supply The Centre has nodded to increase State’s Oxygen requirement to an additional 200 tonnes. Supply of Remdesivir injections to be increased to 10,500 from Monday onwards. It has also responded positively on the demand to increase vaccine supply: Chief Minister’s Office, Telangana COVID cases: …

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Twenty-seven days before the first rocket was fired from Gaza this week, a squad of Israeli police officers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, brushed the Palestinian attendants aside and strode across its vast limestone courtyard. Then they cut the cables to the loudspeakers that broadcast prayers to …

Permutive announces that it has raised $ 18.5 million in Series B funding as the London-based startup works to help online publishers make money in a changing privacy landscape. CEO Joe Root, who co-founded the company with technical director Tim Spratt, noted that publishers are facing increasing regulation as web …