Marchers set out on nine-day march to New Zealand's capital of Wellington in protest over legislation that would reinterpret a treaty at the heart of race relations in the Pacific country.

The Treaty of Waitangi was first signed in 1840 between the British Crown and more than 500 Maori chiefs, lays down how the two parties agreed to govern.

The bill would enshrine a narrower interpretation of the treaty in law.

The USS New Jersey is the first submarine in the U.S. Navy's fleet designed specifically for women.

The Navy lifted the ban on women on submarines back in 2010 .

The crew of every Navy ship has to work as a team.

The skipper believes the women submariners have brought more than war-fighting skills to his crew.

Amazon Web Services will offer free computing power to researchers who want to use its custom AI chips.

The company plans to make 40,000 of the first -generation Trainium chips available for the program.

The move comes as AWS , still the largest cloud computing company by sales, has seen a sharp challenge from Microsoft .

Costa Rica bestows highest diplomatic honor on El Salvador President Nayib Bukele for security gains.

President Rodrigo Chaves lauds efforts as his own country continues to struggle with homicide numbers.

The recognition has brought controversy in Costa Rica , long known as Central America ’s most stable democracy.

The country is wracked by violence in recent years , largely attributed to drug trafficking.

Palestinian medical officials say two Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 14 people, including two children and a woman.

Aid groups say Israel has failed to meet U.S. demands that it allow greater humanitarian access to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip .

The Biden administration last month called on Israel to “surge” more food and other emergency aid into Gaza , setting a 30-day deadline that was expiring Tuesday .

In a severely damaged structure, the team found more than a dozen families — including people with disabilities and some in urgent need of medical care — sheltering in the basement which had no electricity and was full of sewage, he said,. ___ For more Middle East news: https://apnews.com/hub/middle-east.

Current guidelines recommend that pregnant people receive a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus during weeks 32-36 of pregnancy.

Maternal RSV vaccination at least 5 weeks prior to delivery led to the most efficient transfer of maternal antibodies across the placenta to the newborn.

The findings are published in theAmerican Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology .

Dental therapists are now authorized to practice in 14 states and focus on underserved populations.

They're not full-fledged dentists, but they've received enough training to provide a limited set of dental procedures.

Dr. Donald Chi says dental therapists are not substitutes for dentists.

The sooner a lay rescuer (bystander) starts cardiopulmonary resuscitation ( CPR ) on a person having a cardiac arrest, up to 10 minutes after the arrest, the better the chances of saving the person's life and protecting their brain function.

More than 357,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen each year in the U.S. with a 9.3% survival rate.

Study identified 160,822 witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrests that occurred from 2013-2022 .

Researchers used data from the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES) The average age was 64 years old , and more than 54,000 ( about 34% ) were women.

Battle of al-Qadisiyyah took place in 636 or 637 AD, but its precise location was not previously known.

Battle marked a significant victory for Arab Muslims and enabled their expansion beyond Arabia .

Researchers from Durham University in the UK and the University of Al Qadisiyah in Iraq say they have found the site of the battle.

Report: Immigrants paid $3 billion in federal, state and local taxes in 2022 .

Immigrants make up about 5.9 percent of Wisconsin ’s workforce and account for about 11 percent of agricultural workers, 5 percent of entrepreneurs and 9.5 percent of people working in science, technology, engineering and math fields.

Report looked at immigrants with legal or protected status, but also at immigrants without legal status.

It is no mystery that unauthorized immigrants really help to uphold this system that we have that takes care of the most vulnerable and the elderly.” Wisconsin Public Radio , Copyright 2024 , Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and Wisconsin Educational Communications Board ..