Both the U.S. and Russia discussed an end to the war without Kyiv
Ahead of President Donald Trump’s Ukrainian summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a French expert said that European leaders hoped that the US and Europe could work together under the new Trump administration. Elie Tenenbaum, head of the Security Studies Center at the French Institute for International Relations, added that the gulf between the US and Europe on the Ukraine war crystallized for Europeans this past weekend.
There will be protests on Presidents Day
Hundreds of people across the US protested against Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Presidents’ Day by chanting, “Don’t buy swasticars” and “Elon Musk can go to Mars; we don’t need his Nazi cars.” The protests were held in more than half of the states including California, Colorado, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Hawaii.
3 top US prosecutors quit after the NYC Mayor’s corruption case was dropped
Emil Bove, the co-chief of the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, helped FBI investigate and arrest the rioters who stormed the US Capitol on January 6 last year. Bove also led efforts by federal prosecutors in Manhattan to help FBI aggressively investigate the rioters from New York region. Bove and Kevin Driscoll worked on the same case.
UM171 glues a CRL3–HDAC1/2 assembly to degrade corepressors
Our study used y1 ion-based technology for the extraction of TMT reporter ion intensities and the generation of mean-centred intensities. We also corrected the raw intensities by the isotopic distribution of each labelling (for example, TMT126 generates 91.8%, 7.9% and 0.3% of 126, 127 and 128 m/z ions, respectively). We also calculated the mean-centred intensities across samples (for example, relative intensities between sample and mean).
The workers have launched a new suit to fight the access to their data
The Electronic Frontier Foundation said it has filed a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump’s administration over the illegal use of employee records by the Pentagon’s Defence Information Systems Agency (DIDA). DIDA leaked employees’ names, email addresses and birthdates, and used the information to discriminate against trans employees, EFF said. It also alleged that DIDA had access to workers’ personal data.
Two top officials of the bureau resigned after being ordered to stop work
The Directors of Supervision and Enforcement at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) resigned on Tuesday due to stop work orders issued by the Acting Director Russell Vought. The agency has repaid $19 billion of debts to consumers who weren’t really their consumers by December 2024. “I don’t think I can serve my role effectively,” said CFPB’s Supervision Director.
The next Israeli hostage release is being delayed by Hamas
Hamas has said that it is “delaying the return of the displaced to the northern Gaza Strip, targeting them with shelling and gunfire”, and not allowing relief supplies of all kinds to enter as agreed upon. The announcement comes after US President Donald Trump said that Palestinians would not be allowed to return to Gaza under his plan for the US to take over Gaza.
Netanyahu wants Hamas to release hostages before he ends the Gaza ceasefire
Israel has warned it may resume hostilities with Hamas if its three hostages in Gaza are not released under a ceasefire deal, a report said. The hostages were released under the deal that ended a 50-day war between Hamas and Israel in October. Earlier, Israel and Hamas exchanged three hostages for dozens of Palestinian detainees and prisoners.
Security questions have been raised after Musk’s team views Treasury data
The US Agency for International Development ( USAID) on Saturday informed employees affected by President Donald Trump’s decision to shut it down that they would be reinstated until the end of Friday, February 14. However, none of them would be suspended with pay during that period, a copy of the notice seen by The New York Times said.
A 100 years of human-origins research is celebrated out of Africa
On February 7, 1925, Nature published an article on a fossil found in South Africa. The fossil was the skull of a hominin named ‘Taung’. Taung was around 3.8 years old when it died, with a brain of near-adult size and developmental maturity beyond that of a human of the same age, researchers have said.