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The Supreme Court Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The Supreme Court on Thursday overturned by a 5-4 decision a lower court order, deciding at least temporarily that the National Institutes of Health does not need to continue paying out approximately $783 million in research grants to projects that the NIH has since stopped funding. But the court, in its emergency-docket order, also left in place by a 5-4 order a lower court ruling that threw out NIH memos that enforced the administration’s policies. Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the court’s conservatives save Chief Justice…

Blake Lively’s name has appeared in headlines more often than it has appeared on movie screens recently, but she’ll be a big part of the upcoming romantic comedy The Survival List. Lionsgate confirmed to Entertainment Weekly on Thursday that it acquired the script that Lively will star in and produce. Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni played a couple in ‘It Ends With Us’. Nicole Rivelli “Against her wishes, highbrow reality TV producer Annie is assigned to a new show hosted by famous survival expert Chopper Lane,” the studio’s official description reads. “However, when a shipwreck strands them on a deserted…

Scoring three minutes after coming on is a dream impact for any substitute, which is what the rangy Polvara did.But it was not just the fact he scored but the quality of the goal itself which was so impressive. A cross was guided behind him by Adil Aouchiche, and he reacted brilliantly to get to the ball first.His awareness and agility to swivel and hit it first time off his left foot was even better, with the ball kissing the inside of the post on its way in.But Polvara did not stop there. Four minutes later, his pinpoint cross teed…

Two of the solar system’s most famous asteroids, Bennu and Ryugu, may be fragments of a single massive “parent” asteroid that was smashed to pieces billions of years ago, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals.If true, the sibling space rocks — which have both recently been visited by spacecraft that successfully returned samples of them to Earth — could shed light on how asteroid families are created and dispersed throughout our cosmic neighborhood.Bennu is a roughly 1,650-foot-wide (500 meters) asteroid recently visited by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which touched down on the space rock in 2022 and…

USAID, the “soft power” arm of the federal government that awards grants for education, health care, and environmental conservation to developing countries, was one of the first casualties of Trump’s second term. Billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) spent a weekend in early February “feeding USAID into the woodchipper,” per his post on X, because of his unfounded belief that it’s a “scam.” The move has translated into the firing of nearly all staff and the cancellation of 83% of its programs. And while the agency was best known for its health initiatives–one study estimates that…

Erik Menendez, serving a life sentence with his brother Lyle for killing their parents in their Beverly Hills home in 1989, was denied parole on Thursday, the California Board of Parole Hearings said. The brothers have been in prison for 35 years for the shotgun slayings.

Washington will not lower steep tariffs on European cars until Brussels has introduced legislation to reduce its own tariffs on US exports, maintaining pressure on the EU’s automotive industry.While the Trump administration has agreed to lower the current 27.5% US tariffs on European cars and car parts to 15%, details of a framework trade deal published on Thursday revealed the terms and conditions.Donald Trump and the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced the deal on 27 July at Trump’s luxury golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, after an hour-long meeting that followed months of negotiations.In a joint…

During this year’s Anime NYC convention, Netflix announced that Deathwatch is slated to debut on October 14th, and the series has added The Sandman’s Kirby Howell-Baptiste to its cast. Howell-Baptiste will voice Zinnia McKenna, an agent working alongside Sam Fisher (Liev Schrieber) as they’re hunted by squads of trained killers. Though it’s brief, Deathwatch’s new trailer gives you a pretty solid sense of the series’ slick and brutal action. You can also see that, tonally, the series is going to be a rather serious video game adaptation. But things are going to be a bit different for the next season…

Baby food manufacturers have been given 18 months to improve the quality of their products in England, amid mounting concerns that leading brands are nutritionally poor.The new voluntary guidance from the government calls for a reduction in sugar and salt levels in food for infants and toddlers.It also requests clearer labelling of products to address misleading marketing claims that make baby foods seem healthier than they are.This will cover products with labels such as “contains no nasties”, which are high in sugar. Others are labelled as snacks for babies, which goes against government recommendations that children aged six to 12…

Getty ImagesAward-winning rapper Lil Nas X has been arrested after an altercation with police in Los Angeles, authorities have confirmed. Police were called to Ventura Boulevard at 05:30 local time on Thursday after reports of a man walking down the street in his underwear, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said. After officers arrived at the scene, LAPD allege the Old Town Road singer “charged” at them and was placed under arrest on suspicion of battery.He was then taken to hospital for treatment for a possible overdose. The BBC has reached out to his representatives for comment.…