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READ MORE Ana Kristina Silva and Phillip KohKwe Hsu were married June 30 at the Upper Montclair Country Club in Clifton, N.J. Phil Passantino, who was ordained by the Sanctuary of the Beloved, performed the ceremony. Mrs. Silva-Hsu, who is 39 and works in New York, is an instructional coordinator for the New York City Department of Education Division of Early Childhood Education. She graduated from Pace University and received two master’s degrees, one in early childhood special education at Bank Street College of Education, and the other in education administration at Hunter College. She is a daughter of Susan Silva and Dr. Rogelio Silva of Henderson, Ky. The bride’s father is a psychiatrist in private practice in Henderson. Her mother is a licensed clinical social worker for Silva and Associates, a private family practice in Henderson. Mr. Hsu, 51, is a senior vice president and private banker in New York for City National Bank. He graduated from Columbia and received an M...

READ MORE Pallavi Thatai and Philip Cantin Law were married June 30 at St. Mary’s Parish in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. The Rev. Dan Stevenot, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony. The couple met at the University of Pennsylvania, from which they graduated. On May 24, Mrs. Law, 27, received an M.B.A. from Harvard, where she was a Baker scholar. In September, she will begin working as a vice president of Serent Capital, an investment firm in San Francisco. She is a daughter of Dr. Lata Chandi Thatai and Dr. Deepak Thatai of Lexington, Mass. The bride’s father is the chief cardiologist at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Mass. Her mother is a hematologist and oncologist at the Lahey Medical Center in Burlington, Mass. Mr. Law, 28, is a senior associate at Trilantic Capital Partners, an energy-focused investment firm based in Austin, Tex. In August, he is to begin working as a vice president of Kaltroco, an investment firm in San Francisco. Art...

READ MORE Sintering uses high heat to compact powder materials into a solid form. Widely used in industry, ceramic powders are typically compacted at temperatures of 1472 degrees Fahrenheit or higher. Many low-dimensional materials cannot survive at those temperatures. But a sintering process developed by a team of researchers at Penn State, called the cold sintering process (CSP), can sinter ceramics at much lower temperatures, less than 572 degrees F, saving energy and enabling a new form of material with high commercial potential. “We have industry people who are already very interested in this work,” said Jing Guo, a post-doctoral scholar working in the group of Clive Randall, professor of materials science and engineering, Penn State. “They are interested in developing some new material applications with this system and, in general, using CSP to sinter nanocomposites.” Guo is first coauthor on the paper appearing online in Advanced Materials . The idea of tr...

READ MORE Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston developed and tested a treatment on rats and found it effective in reducing the animals’ cravings. Their findings are in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry . When someone habitually misuses drugs, their brain chemistry is changed in ways that make it harder for them to quit taking drugs despite negative consequences. Once someone has developed this brain disorder, their mind pays sharper attention to cues that encourage drug use, making it harder for them to abstain. Serotonin, a brain chemical that transmits information between neural regions, is a key player in these changes. There are currently no medications available to correct this chemical imbalance. UTMB pharmacology and toxicology professors Jia Zhou, Kathryn Cunningham and their colleagues found that the serotonin 2C receptors in drug addicts do not work as well as they should. They designed, synthesized and pharmacologically evaluated a serie...

READ MORE Mr. Konyndyk said that selecting Mr. Isaacs as a candidate had been “unwise” given the controversy over his statements on migrants and climate change. The bigger problem, he added, was the Trump administration’s views on asylum rights, travel bans and migration policies. “The world was unlikely to support a U.S. candidate to lead the global migration body under those circumstances,” he said. Diplomats said that Mr. Isaacs had credible field experience in handling humanitarian crises, but that his candidacy had suffered from his lack of experience with intergovernmental and diplomatic relations at a time when the organization is increasingly engaged in shaping global policy on migration issues. With a budget of about $1.6 billion, the organization provides aid to people fleeing conflict and disasters, and it often comes to the assistance of migrants who are attempting perilous journeys in search of a better life. The agency has around 9,000 staff m...

READ MORE Ilhan Omar , a Somali-American state legislator, is running in the Democratic primary on August 14 for Minnesota’sFifth District, an open seat that, like the ones Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and Ms. Tlaib are seeking to fill, is solidly Democratic. She has attracted progressive activism locally and national support from immigrant-rights groups newly mobilized against President Trump’s travel ban, which blocks most travelers from Somalia. The bigger questions are about Democratic women running in places that are historically Republican — and that’s most Democratic women running this year. Stacey Abrams has created excitement around the possibility of electing the nation’s first black female governor — in Georgia, no less. But yes, Georgia, where white voters have been stingy about supporting black candidates and voters have dashed the hopes of a string of promising Democrats for governor. New Jersey’s 11th District has been solidly Republican f...

READ MORE (Reuters) – The National Basketball Association has set a $101.86 million salary cap for the 2018-19 season with the luxury tax level set at $123.73 million. Jun 8, 2018; Cleveland, OH, USA; Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) watches a shot during the fourth quarter against the Golden State Warriors in game four of the 2018 NBA Finals at Quicken Loans Arena. Mandatory Credit: Carlos Osorio/pool photo-USA TODAY Sports The league released the figures just hours before they go into effect at 12:01 a.m. ET on July 1, when the NBA’s moratorium period on signings starts. Teams can begin negotiating with free agent players from Sunday but not sign them until the moratorium period ends at 12:01 p.m. ET on July 6. With the cap now set, teams know precisely the amounts they can offer various players. LeBron James, who opted out of his contract on Friday and is the premier free agent on the market this year, can sign for a maximum of $206.79 million over five years...

READ MORE The San Jose Sharks are reportedly locking up one of the cornerstones of their franchise for almost another decade. Jun 12, 2016; San Jose, CA, USA; San Jose Sharks center Logan Couture (39) celebrates with teammates after scoring a goal against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the second period of game six of the 2016 Stanley Cup Final at SAP Center at San Jose. Mandatory Credit: John Hefti-USA TODAY Sports / Reuters Picture Supplied by Action Images According to multiple reports Saturday, the club and star forward Logan Couture agreed on an eight-year contract extension that will keep the Canadian in Northern California through the 2026-27 season. Couture, 29, will play the final year of his current five-year, $30 million contract next season, and then the new deal will kick in. That deal is reportedly worth $64 million over eight years. A first-round pick by the Sharks in 2007, Couture has said he never wants to leave San Jose. He has 437 points (213 goals, 224 assists) with a p...

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READ MORE The suspect : Raymond “D.J. Freez” Rowe, 49, was arrested on Monday. He has been working as a D.J. in Pennsylvania — and briefly in Southern Chile — since the late 1980s. These days, he not only performs at about 150 parties and events a year, he runs a D.J. academy, according to his website. Raymond “D.J. Freez” Rowe Credit Lancaster County Dist. Attorney, via Associated Press The path from cousins to suspect : Parabon is not saying which relatives provided the initial match, only that GEDMatch was critical yet again. Once the building of the family tree — and other research — turned Mr. Rowe into a person of interest, police collected DNA from a piece of chewing gum and a water bottle at a party where he was D.J.’ing. It matched the genetic profile extracted from semen at the scene of the murder and Mr. Rowewas arrested, startling his community. A lead in the 1981 murder of a Texas realtor The victim: In December 1981, Vi...

READ MORE (Reuters) – Anti-fascist and right-wing activists clashed in Portland, Oregon on Saturday night as violence broke out during a march in support of a conservative Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, media reported. Protesters of the right-wing group Patriot Prayer clash with protesters from anti-fascist groups during a demonstration in Portland, Oregon, U.S. June 30, 2018, in this still image taken from video from obtained from social media. MANDATORY CREDIT. Bryan Colomo/via REUTERS Scuffles broke out after anti-fascists pelted marchers from the right-wing Patriot Prayer group with eggs, water bottles and firecrackers, the Oregonian newspaper reported. The Patriot Prayer group’s founder Joey Gibson is running for the Senate. Police made a handful of arrests from both sides, and officers seized utility knives, pepper spray and clubs, according to the newspaper. A spokesperson for the Portland police could not be immediately reached for comment. Reporting by Ri...

READ MORE MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexicans vote for a new president on Sunday in an election tipped to hand power to an anti-establishment outsider who would inject a new dose of nationalism into government and could sharpen divisions with Donald Trump’s United States. Mannequins are seen in an exhibition inside National Electoral Institute (INE) headquarters ahead of the upcoming July 1 presidential election, in Mexico City, Mexico, June 30, 2018. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril Former Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has led opinion polls throughout the campaign and would be the first leftist to take the presidency in decades in Mexico if he ousts the ruling centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Runner-up in the 2012 and 2006 elections, Lopez Obrador pitches himself as the only man capable of cleaning up a political class whose credibility has been ground down by persistent graft, soaring crime levels and years of sub-par economic growth. “The new pr...

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READ MORE Story by Wayne Drash, CNN Photographs by Kayana Szymczak for CNN Updated 3:15 PM ET, Fri June 29, 2018 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what’s happening in the world as it unfolds. Newport, Rhode Island (CNN) Trevor Foltz splashes in the pool in his grandparents’ backyard. His brother and sister join in the fun, as does their father. Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/gord-downie-death-political-reaction-1.4359917?cmp=rss