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Hamas on Saturday released four female Israeli soldiers held hostage in the Gaza Strip, in a choreographed ceremony that was the latest sign of the group’s effort to project power despite Israel’s 470-day military campaign to dislodge them.It was the second release of hostages as part of a cease-fire deal that went into effect nearly a week earlier. Per the agreement, Israel released 200 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday who had been held in Israeli jails.A line of white buses carrying prisoners left Ofer prison in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Prisoners were also released from another facility near Beersheba in southern…

World No. 1 Jannik Sinner will face the world No. 2 in the Australian Open final this weekend. (Andy Cheung/Getty Images)The 2025 Australian Open comes to an end this weekend with world No. 1 and defending champion Jannik Sinner facing world No. 2 Alexander Zverev in the men’s final. Jannik Sinner will be looking to defend his title as Australian Open champion after beating U.S. tennis star Ben Shelton in the semis. Meanwhile, this will be Zverev’s first time reaching the final in Melbourne Park, and if he won it would be his first Grand Slam title. Zverev made it…

Editor’s note: Before beginning any new exercise program, consult your doctor. Stop immediately if you experience pain. CNN  —  Carefully cleaning exercise equipment was the norm when the Covid-19 pandemic was raging. But today you might be less attentive to pathogens, even in crowded spaces such as fitness centers. That neglect could be a problem, experts say, because gyms are rife with potentially harmful germs. Nearly 75% of swab samples taken from fitness equipment such as dumbbells, treadmills and exercise mats tested positive for Staphylococcus aureus, according to a 2018 study in the Journal of Environmental and Public Health. Staphylococcus…

“Signature Series Mom’s Pistachio,” “Suicide Bunny Mother’s Milk and Cookies,” “Jimmy The Juice Man Strawberry Astronaut” and “Killer Kustard Blueberry.” Do these sound like products for adults?. No. These are flavor names that are specifically designed to be of interest to teens, tweens and even grade school children.Targeting children through these brand names and packaging caused concern at the Food and Drug Administration, so they denied authorization to the manufacturers responsible for them: Triton Distribution and Vapetasia LLC. The FDA’s premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) denial is based upon years of unimpeachable research proving that the availability of flavored tobacco…

Some Facebook, Instagram and Threads users are wondering whether to delete their accounts after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announced changes to content rules and plans to its fact-checking program. If This article was originally published by a www.djournal.com . Read the Original article here. .

Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library (MediaNews Group file) Supervisor Laura Smith resigned from her library post on Saturday. Republican Towamencin Township Supervisor Laura Smith, who is facing national and international backlash for her now-deleted viral TikTok video mimicking an alleged Nazi salute much like Elon Musk at the Presidential Inauguration, has resigned as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library. On Saturday morning, the Board of Trustees posted an announcement to Facebook stating it has accepted Smith’s resignation, due to her conduct “that does not align with the library’s values.””The views expressed in the TikTok video…

Elon Musk has gone all berserk about the condition of his social media app, X, whose growth in recent months has not impressed him, even though the platform has seen massive traffic volume in the current election season in the US. In an internal email to his staff, he has thrown in some bombastic statements, saying that the growth of X is still stagnant, and there is a question about the company’s revenue growth. Musk to buy TikTok after poor performance of X?Elon Musk has reportedly received an offer to purchase the popular social media app TikTok’s American business, as…

Eric Gregory, 45, of Milford, resigned from the Harrison Police Department days after his arrest. This article was originally published by a www.whio.com . Read the Original article here. .

The Senate voted 59-34 Saturday to confirm Noem. This article was originally published by a www.axios.com . Read the Original article here. .

In a sports hall on the outskirts of Ramallah, three skinny men in grey prison sweatsuits and plastic sandals embraced their beaming friends before being lifted on to their shoulders and carried out into the waiting crowds.Outside the friends and families of those released gathered in anticipation, some waving flags from Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and a smaller leftwing faction, others handing out baklava. One man with a shaved head, wispy beard and sunken eyes was carried on the shoulders of the crowd chanting “long live the resistance”.“I can’t even find the words to say what I feel right…