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The U.S. Supreme Court says it’ll overview a decrease court docket determination that might make the abortion capsule mifepristone much less accessible.The listening to is ready for subsequent 12 months and would be the court docket’s first abortion case hearing because it overturned Roe v. Wade. If the Justices uphold the decrease court docket ruling, sufferers would now not be capable of entry mifepristone by mail, even in states the place abortion is authorized. Physicians may nonetheless prescribe misoprostol, a drug normally used with mifepristone however is secure to take by itself.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to overview a decrease court docket determination that might make mifepristone much less accessible.

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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to overview a decrease court docket determination that might make mifepristone much less accessible.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin started his year-end convention at present. It’s the primary time he is fielding questions from Russian residents for the reason that nation’s invasion of Ukraine.

• Putin canceled final 12 months’s occasion when Russia’s invasion was not going effectively, NPR’s Charles Maynes reviews on Up First from Moscow. Russian forces saved getting pushed again following its preliminary invasion. The proven fact that he is on stage now’s proof Putin is feeling more confident about Russia’s prospects, Maynes says. 

The House voted alongside celebration traces yesterday to formalize the Republican-led impeachment inquiry into President Biden. All GOP representatives supported the vote, which was supposed, partially, to give committees more authority to issue subpoenas. House Republicans allege that Biden and his household took funds from overseas adversaries however haven’t but introduced direct proof.

The Federal Reserve left rates of interest unchanged yesterday. Forecasts by Fed policymakers present that, on common, they suppose they’re going to be capable of lower interest rates by nearly one point subsequent 12 months and one other full level by 2025. Though one other fee hike shouldn’t be anticipated, policymakers didn’t rule it out.

Deep dive

Smoke billows after an Israeli strike on north Gaza on November 22, 2023. Israel says it’s utilizing synthetic intelligence to search out targets.

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Smoke billows after an Israeli strike on north Gaza on November 22, 2023. Israel says it’s utilizing synthetic intelligence to search out targets.

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Israel’s navy says its AI system, named “the Gospel,” helps it quickly determine enemy combatants and tools whereas lowering civilian casualties. But critics warn the system is unproven and will provide technological justification for killing thousands of Palestinian civilians. Since the Oct. 7 Hamas assaults, Israel has struck greater than 22,000 targets in Gaza. Since the non permanent truce ended on Dec. 1, Israel’s Air Force has hit greater than 3,500 websites.

• The Gospel crunches knowledge from all kinds of sources to quickly advocate targets to a human analyst, who then relays them to the navy. It can achieve this at the very least 50 instances sooner than human intelligence officers. 
• But AI techniques are solely nearly as good as their coaching knowledge. Critics query whether or not the out there knowledge is sweet sufficient to place human lives on the road. Without correct coaching, some say it is near “indiscriminate targeting.”
• Israel’s use of AI is probably going a style of issues to return. Modern militaries acquire extra knowledge than they will successfully analyze and want to AI to provide them an edge. Some consultants say totally autonomous AI weapons are solely a matter of time.

Picture present

Costume design for « Demoiselles de la nuit », 1948, Leonor Fini, Gouache on paper

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Costume design for « Demoiselles de la nuit », 1948, Leonor Fini, Gouache on paper

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Leonor Fini, an ignored Surrealist artist, is lastly getting her due almost 30 years after her dying. Her charming, typically gender-bending photographs have been featured on the Art Basel honest in Miami final week. She was artistically concerned with famend Surrealists like Ernst and Dali. But the motion’s founder, French author André Breton, did not settle for her as certainly one of them. See some of her works and skim extra about her profession.

3 issues to know earlier than you go

The present had a particular opening tune, however that is not the thriller followers have been trying to resolve.

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The present had a particular opening tune, however that is not the thriller followers have been trying to resolve.

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1. A thriller that is eluded X-Files followers for greater than twenty years is lastly solved. One of the writers of a country-western love music taking part in within the background of a season 6 episode has come forward to identify the music.
2. A brand new research suggests some songbirds sing a lot as a result of they do not have a alternative. They could must exercise their vocal muscles commonly to provide top-quality songs.
3. Many Americans lit their Christmas bushes and menorahs this month. Some within the U.S. are indulging in unconventional traditions, like lighting lobster trap trees and watching Santa surf.

This publication was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi.