Senate Democrats have a dilemma: help the GOP pass a funding bill or bring about a government shutdown
US President Donald Trump has said that Democrats need to decide if they’re going to support the House bill funding the government or if they’ll shut it down. “We can pass a 30-day clean extension to allow Republicans to negotiate…in order for us to have a functioning government,” he added. Schumer had earlier said that the bill should be passed with bipartisan support.
A judge says that federal workers who were fired must be offered back their jobs
A US judge has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal employees fired in recent weeks after finding federal agencies acted unlawfully. “A single judge is attempting to unconstitutionally seize the power of hiring and firing from the Executive Branch,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
Australia will not retaliate against the U.S. tariffs
India will reduce tariffs on several goods, including Harley-Davidson motorcycles, from February 13 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet US President Donald Trump, the Commerce Ministry said. The move comes after China imposed retaliatory tariffs onHarley-Davidson motorbikes and motorcycles from the US and Canada. Earlier, South Korea had declared an “emergency response mode” over US’ 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.
During the Neolithic period of the eastern Maghrib, the foragers had high continuity of their ancestry
Researchers have used old mitochondrial DNA from archaeological sites in the Middle East to reconstruct the identity of the ‘Afalous’, a group of Paleolithic humans. They claim that the ‘Afalous’ and their descendants are the first ancestors of humans to settle in the southern Mediterranean region. They also claim to have established a direct connection between the ‘Afalous’ and the Neanderthals.
A model of Artificial intelligence is reaching into the physical world
Google DeepMind has announced a new AI-powered robot called Gemini Robotics that it claims can be trained without human help. It was trained on the data from thousands of hours of real, remote-operated robot demonstrations. It’s “a small but tangible” step towards human-assisted robot control and robotic Propagation, Alexander Khazatsky, an AI researcher at CollectedAI, said.
Republicans have a plan to avoid a government shutdown
Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student and leader of large solidarity protests at the university last year, faces deportation after he was arrested on Tuesday by US immigration officials. A lawyer for him has said that he is innocent of any wrongdoing. Khalil was arrested for allegedly violating a law that allows the deportation of foreign nationals who “endorse or espouse terrorist activity”.
Nearly 1,300 Syrians were killed in 72 hours of clashes and revenge
Over 400 people have been killed in the conflict between Syria and Turkey, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Fighters affiliated with the Syrian government have killed most of the civilians in the conflict, it added. The Syrian government said that it has rejected “undocumented allegations accusing government forces of committing violations” and will hold to account those found to have harmed civilians.
bones were used one million years earlier than thought
Researchers have found a 1.5 million-year-old bone tool at the Olduvai Gorge in China’s Shandong province. The tool was one of several discoveries that suggest Human ancestor Homo erectus used bones as tools, the researchers said. “This shows Homo erectus had the capability to do things that no other species was able to do,” an expert said.
The wet and dry seasons are connected by the Amazon rainforest
A model based on advanced research model of the Amazonian Deforestation has been developed to track the amount and type of precipitation. Water vapour tracer 25 was used to create new variables in order to track the amount and type of precipitation. The WRF model was used to create new variables for water vapour tracer 25 in order to track the amount and type of precipitation.
We use the past for clues about what will be said in the address
US President Donald Trump will deliver his final address to a joint session of the US Congress on Tuesday, as part of the State of the Union address. Trump’s last State of the Union speech was in 2019. He is expected to discuss his administration’s plans for 2020 and his vision for the country in his address.