The Trump administration has for the first time confiscated vessels allegedly loaded with Iran fuel in violation of sanctions, U.S. officials said, as it steps up its campaign of maximum pressure against Tehran.Last month U.S. federal prosecutors filed suit to seize the four tankers of gasoline that Iran was sending to Venezuela, the latest move…
Hunkered around conference tables at the World Health Organization’s Geneva headquarters, a group of scientists debated which of the world’s most frightening epidemic diseases deserved the greatest attention. Ebola, a ferocious killer that drains its victims of bodily fluids, made the list. So did Nipah, which makes the brain swell before most of its victims…
WASHINGTON—The Defense Department will offer in-person instruction at half of its U.S.-based schools and all of its schools in Europe during the coming academic year, a recognition of the difference in progress the U.S. and Europe have made in curbing the coronavirus pandemic. The decision, announced Thursday, is the result of a monthslong assessment of…
Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud division said Thursday it has launched a commercial service that allows millions of customers to experiment with quantum computing platforms produced by three technology companies.The launch follows a test period of about eight months of the service with academic institutions and companies including Fidelity Investments Inc.Amazon Braket, part of Amazon Web Services,…
BEIRUT—Maintenance work likely led to the explosion of a large cache of ammonium nitrate that devastated a large part of the Lebanese capital last week, a U.S. government assessment concluded, according to a person familiar with the matter. The assessment adds to the emerging picture of what caused the Aug. 4 blast that killed more…
Media mogul Sumner Redstone is remembered by his friends, business partners and competitors for his tenacity and relentlessness as he built one of the nation’s largest entertainment empires. Mr. Redstone, who turned his family’s movie-theater company into a global business spanning television, movies, radio and books that is now ViacomCBS Inc., died Tuesday at age…
America Edwards was supposed to visit Australia with her parents earlier this year, but the coronavirus pandemic scuttled the trip. To re-create the experience, she did the next best thing: She bought airplane food online. For a few dollars, Ms. Edwards purchased two JetBlue-branded snack packs that included crackers, cheese and dried fruit. Her family…
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Are fewer people filing for unemployment because the job market is getting better? Or is it because filing isn’t as worthwhile as before? The Labor Department on Thursday reported that the number of people filing new unemployment-insurance claims in the week ended Saturday fell to a seasonally adjusted 963,000, dropping below the one million mark…
As babies drop spoons and cups from their high-chairs, they come to understand the concept of gravity. To a parent, it might seem like the process takes forever, but babies typically grasp the idea in a few months. Algorithms require much more data and time to learn much narrower lessons. A handful of scientists are…
