3 more things from Trump’s week have been reported
A federal judge has ordered the US administration to preserve records of a text message chat in which national security officials discussed plans for a US military strike against Yemen’s Houthis. The judge barred administration officials from destroying messages that were sent on the encrypted messaging app Signal earlier this month. US District Judge James Boasberg has been at odds with the administration over a separate case.
A coronaviruses assembly blocker is meant to target the viral virulence factor
Cells were infected with SARS-COV-2–mNeonGreen virus (At a final MOI of 0.1 TCID50 per cell) and compounds were added 0.5, 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8 h after infection. The samples were prepared in a 384-well plate with 0.5 mg ml1 purified recombinant SARS-CoV-2 M and 100 M of JNJ-9676 in 20 mM HEPES pH 7.5, 150 mM 0.05% GD, 0.0001% CHS, and 1% DMSO.
A human brain map of respiratory capacity
A study has shown the human brain’s mitochondrial capacity and diversity. Researchers used a tool usually used for woodwork to create 703 cubes from the brain of a 54-year-old donor who died of a heart attack. The brain’s mitochondrial capacity and diversity were compared with standard 3D images of the brain. The brain accounts for 20% of the human body’s energy usage.
The research publishing gender gap is slowly getting better
A study by Nature Index and OpenAI has shown that the gender gap in chemistry and physical sciences is widest in countries with the highest percentage of female authors. It uses chatbot ‘ChatGPT’, created by OpenAI, to infer author genders on the basis of their most likely country of origin and the name–gender association trends in that country.
Foreign spies working for Donald Trump: Opinion
There wasn’t any classified information shared in the chat group on Signal, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard has said. This comes after The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that a top Trump administration official mistakenly added him to the group chat on an app with plans to bomb Yemen. “The meetings of Principals Committee are held in the White House Situation Room,” Gabbard added.
Security experts saw the Signal attack plan being violated
US President Donald Trump’s National Security Council, in a letter to the Congress, said the White House didn’t share classified information on a chat group with a US lawmaker. This came after Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, claimed a top Trump administration official mistakenly added him to a group chat about highly sensitive plans to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen.
The Israeli Police released a Palestinian director after the West Bank incident
The director of the Oscar-winning film ‘No Other Land’, Hamdan Ballal, has been detained by Israeli police over a reported attack by Israeli settlers in West Bank’s Moussaoui village. Ballal was questioned along with two other Palestinians on suspicion of hurling stones, property damage and “endangering regional security”, police said. All three deny the accusations, their lawyer said.
The police released the director after the West Bank incident
Thousands of people on Saturday protested in Israel against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to resume war with Gaza. The protesters carried placards that read, “We will never surrender” and “How can we surrender?” The protests came a day after the Israeli military launched airstrikes on Gaza Strip in response to rockets fired at the country from the enclave.
Venezuela says it will resume accepting U.S. deportation flights
Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro has called for the return of Venezuelan migrants sent by US to El Salvador. Maduro’s comments come after the Central American country’s President Nayib Bukele said that the migrants were transferred to the CECOT prison in the country. The US had earlier invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to target alleged members of a violent Venezuelan prison gang.
Families of people deported from Venezuela are in dispute over gang claims
US President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday said that El Salvador’s prison system “runs an excellent prison system”. This comes after families of four deported Venezuelans alleged they were sent to El Salvador despite a judge ordering the deportations to turn around. The four are believed to have signed voluntary departures orders, a move that would allow them to come to the US at later time.