Mingling with the top brass and world leaders at the NATO summit in Washington this week will be some fresher faces on a unique mission: social media influencers recruited to improve NATO’s image with young people. Deploying social media stars in D.C. could engage NATO at a critical moment with a generation born after the enemy it was formed to resist had dissolved, writes Taylor Lorenz.
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For people looking for a more discreet — and perhaps more stylish — way to keep tabs on their health, a ring might be just the thing. At least that’s what Samsung is hoping. The company’s “smart” ring — the $399 Galaxy Ring — is new ground for Samsung, a company that has most recently highlighted its interest in artificial intelligence and home robotics. But it’s also the first big tech company to embrace of a class of health devices that haven’t yet gone fully mainstream.
Health tracking rings are getting more popular. Samsung wants in.
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Duke University recently discontinued a 45-year-old scholarship that covered tuition, currently about $66,000 a year, and housing costs of some Black undergraduate students. In the year since the Supreme Court ruled colleges could no longer consider an applicant’s race as a factor in admissions, a growing number of schools have also applied the principles underlying the ruling to financial aid. Nearly 50 colleges and universities, mostly public institutions, have paused, ended or reconfigured hundreds of race-conscious scholarships worth millions of dollars to comply with the ruling, according to a Washington Post tally.
Many universities are abandoning race-conscious scholarships worth millions
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The dormant power plant renowned as the site of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history — Three Mile Island — may be switched back on, driven in part by the ravenous energy appetites of artificial intelligence developers. But Three Mile Island is part of a burst of fresh activity at mothballed plants as tech companies, manufacturers and energy regulators scramble to find enough zero emissions electricity to keep up with surging demand.
A nuclear accident made Three Mile Island infamous. AI’s needs may revive it.
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Envy is an emotion that emerges when we covet what someone else has, and it can feel uncomfortable. But in extreme cases, this emotion can turn malicious, causing us to bad-mouth the envied person or devalue their success. Perceiving another person as being better off can also fuel this spite and halt empathy, according to one study. A former patient envied her brother’s successful career, asking herself “Why can’t I feel happy for my brother?” Validating the feeling, practicing gratitude and expressing "sympathetic joy" can help us understand and accept envy.
Advice | When envy strikes, try these six things for better mental health
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George Stephanopoulos, the ABC News anchor who recently interviewed President Biden about his fitness for the presidential race, was caught on camera indicating that he doesn’t think Biden can serve another four years. Stephanopoulos, a former Democratic operative turned news anchor, is seen in gym clothes in a video published by TMZ when he expressed that he doesn’t think “he can serve four more years.” The remarks come days after the pivotal interview with Biden, during which Stephanopoulos firmly asked the 46th president whether he could serve another term in the wake of a shaky debate performance.
George Stephanopoulos caught on camera expressing doubts about Biden
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Suborno Isaac Bari said his first words when he was 6 months old. By age 2, he had memorized the periodic table. “He was always different,” said his father, Rashidul Bari. But he and his wife didn’t anticipate that Suborno would breeze through his education so quickly and confidently. Suborno just graduated from high school at age 12 — and he’s headed to New York University next month on a full scholarship. “It feels super good,” Suborno said in an interview with The Washington Post. “It’s really just the curiosity and spark of wanting to learn what’s behind everything.”
He graduated high school at age 12. Now he’s heading to college at NYU.
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Analysis by Ishaan Tharoor: War rages in Ukraine and across the Middle East. But at this week’s NATO summit, it’s unlikely Gaza will draw much attention. Many critics pointed to the gap between U.S. and European ire over Russia attacking Ukrainian hospitals and their relative quiescence as Israel repeatedly levels medical facilities and schools. In just a span of months, the Israeli bombardments have produced more rubble in Gaza than in multiple years of war in Ukraine. The Lancet, a respected British medical journal, calculated that the real death toll, including those missing in Gaza’s ruins and “indirect” deaths from malnutrition, disease and other conditions brought on by the conflict, could be around 186,000 people — that is, roughly 8 percent of Gaza’s population.
Analysis | At NATO summit, Gaza is the elephant in the room
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George Clooney, the Hollywood actor and top fundraiser for President Biden, called for Biden to be replaced as the Democratic nominee. “It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ��big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010,” Clooney wrote. “He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.” Clooney has long raised money for Democrats and co-hosted a star-studded fundraiser for Biden last month that raised over $28 million, according to the campaign. Despite Clooney’s fundraising for Biden, he has had some tension with the White House recently. The Washington Post reported last month that Clooney called a top Biden aide to object to Biden’s criticism of the International Criminal Court for seeking arrest warrants against Israeli leaders — a case his wife, international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, worked on. https://wapo.st/3Wh4jKD
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Retired judge David Tatel joins Washington Post Live to discuss his new memoir, his rise to becoming a judge on the influential D.C. circuit and his concerns about the direction of the Supreme Court.
Retired judge David Tatel on ‘Vision,’ D.C. circuit tenure and Supreme C… Retired judge David Tatel joins Washington Post Live to discuss his new memoir, his rise to becoming a judge on the influential D.C. circuit and his concerns about the direction of the Supreme Court.
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