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Division on US Campuses Over Gaza Escalation; Jewish Communities Ramp Up Security

Hamas' calls for solidarity events worldwide raise safety concerns for Jews. From Washington state, Natasha Mozgovaya is on a U.S. campus where tensions were visible.

US House at Standstill Over Speaker Debate

Republican Scalise struggling to win votes to become speaker of the House of Representatives

Hamas-Israel Escalation and the Control of Narrative 

Hamas supporters used the crisis to push anti-Israeli, anti-U.S. propaganda on social media platforms

Russia Reinvents the Inventor of Penicillin – The Great Soviet Scientist Ermolyeva 

Penicillin was discovered by Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming, Australian pathologist Howard Florey and British biochemist Ernst Boris Chain, for which they received a Nobel Prize. 

Pakistan Military Rescues Two Children from Dangling Cable Car

Seven students and one teacher have been stuck in the cable car since 7 a.m. (0200 GMT) when they were traveling to school in a remote mountainous area in Battagram, about 200 km north of Islamabad, officials said

Russia-Imposed History Textbooks Teach Lies to Students in Occupied Ukraine

Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports the new textbooks are to be distributed across Russia, including in Ukraine’s Donbas, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, which are currently under Russian occupation

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Image-Based AI Tools Can Help Sow Mistrust in Elections, Report Finds 

Experts are concerned about the role AI-generated propaganda may play ahead of the 2024 US presidential election