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Every day, as Dr. Wendell Parkey enters his clinic in Seminole, a small city on the rural western edge of Texas, he announces his arrival to the staff with an anthem pumping loudly through speakers.As the song reaches a climax, he throws up an arm and strikes a pose in cowboy boots. “Y’all ready to stomp out disease?” he asks.Recently, the question has taken on a dark urgency. Seminole Memorial Hospital, where Dr. Parkey has practiced for nearly three decades, has found itself at the center of the largest measles outbreak in the United States since 2019.Since last month, more than 140 Texas residents, most of whom live in the surrounding Gaines County, have been diagnosed and 20 have been hospitalized. Nine people in a bordering county in New Mexico have also fallen ill.On Wednesday, local...

While the first phase of the ceased the fire between Israel and Hamas runs out this weekend, the future of the truce remains dark. What happens in a key strip of land along the border between Egypt and Gaza in the next week could provide an indication of how things will go on.Israel should begin to collect the troops on Sunday from the border area, known as the Philadelphi corridor, and leave it completely by the following weekend. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, has long stated that Israeli control there is a national interest of basic security, injecting uncertainty on this passage.What is Philadelphi's corridor?A strip of eight miles that divides Gaza from Egypt, the corridor of Philadelphi has emerged as an important critical point in the interviews of ceased the fire b...

On Friday, President Trump and vice -president JD Vance have loudly reproached President Volodymy Zlensky's president of Ukraine in a game of explosive television shout unlike any other place between an American president and foreign leader in modern times.Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance have chastised Mr. Zelensky for not having been grateful enough for us support in his war with Russia and tried to enlist him to make a peace agreement in all the terms that the Americans impose. With the rumors raised and the tempers that agitated, Trump threatened to abandon all Ukrainian completely if Mr. Zelensky did not go on.Speaking on the Ukrainian leader, Vance told Mr. Zelensky that he was "disrespectful" for him to come to the oval office and make his case in front of the American media and asked him to...

Tesla fired a manager who objected to a post on social media of Elon Musk, CEO, who referred to the Nazi leaders. It was the last example that public criticisms of the boss were unacceptable in the Musk commercial empire.Jared Ottmann, a manager and engineer who worked with Tesla battery suppliers, said he was fired because he criticized Mr. Musk for a X post that used the names of the Nazis such as Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Göring in a series of words."Stop your enemies of Göring," Musk wrote on January 23, adding, "bets you made a Nazi who arrived." He dotted the pole with an EMOJI laughing.Mr. Ottmann told LinkedIn in late January that he had been offended that Mr. Musk had reported "as a joke" to the Nazis who were responsible for the genocide."Starting from 2022 and especially in t...

"People will die," said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the research center on the African population and health, "but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut".The finished projects include HIV treatment programs that had served millions of people, the main malaria control programs in the worst African countries and global efforts to sweep off the polio.Here are some of the projects that the New York Times has confirmed have been deleted:A 131 million dollars subsidy to the UNICEF Polomielite immunization program, which paid for planning, logistics and delivery of vaccines to millions of children.A 90 million dollar contract with the chemonic society for bed nets, malaria tests and treatments that would protect 53 million people.A project man...

The Israeli army on Thursday released the first discoveries of its internal investigations on the colossal military bankruptcy and intelligence of 7 October 2023, describing how the high officers have significantly underestimated Hamas and then they interpreted the first warnings that was coming an important attack.The investigations tried to answer the question that confused Israel since that day, when thousands of armed men led by Hamas invaded the Israeli communities, the basics of the army and a music festival: where was the army?Israeli military officials have declared that they had spent tens of thousands of hours to be lied to the collection of intelligence of the army and his subsequent response to the attack, in which about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed and 250 took ...

The mother of an imprisoned British Egyptian activist was hospitalized and is at risk of sudden death, said a doctor, while her hunger strike to ask for the release of her son has reached 151 days.Laila Soueif, mother of Alaa Abd El Fattoh, one of the best -known political prisoners of Egypt, survived from the end of September in the water, rehydration and sugar -free slopes and coffee to push for his release from a prison in Cairo, said his family.Ms. Soueif, 68 years old, mathematics and professor who is also a British citizen, started her hunger strike after it became clear that Mr. Abd El Fattoh, 43 years old, who had served a five -year sentence, would not have been released as scheduled for September.He told the New York Times last autumn that he would not retire to his campaign to p...

Intuitive machines obtained a robot on the moon last year. The Houston company can do it again, but do you keep the spaceship in a vertical position this time?The second lander of the company, named Athena, was launched on Wednesday evening on a Spacex Falcon 9 rocket by NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It is now on a path by Aring to the moon.The space vehicle was turned on, but then several minutes of suspense followed when it was late to check -in. In the end, the probe data arrived, accompanied by relief in controlling the mission of intuitive machines.On March 6, the spaceship will try to land in Mons Mouton, a region about 100 miles from the southern pole of the moon. This will be closer to the south pole than each previous spatial vehicle is landed.When the first Lander of in...

A group of scientific experts who recommend the Food and Drug Administration on vaccine policy - and it was the goal of the criticisms of the Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - he learned on Wednesday that his next meeting to discuss the flu vaccines next year has been canceled.The FDA sent an EE -mail to the members of vaccines and to the related consultative committee of organic products on Monday afternoon informing them of the cancellation, according to a high official who is familiar with the decision. There was no reason given. The panel was to meet on March 13th.A member of the Committee, dr. Paul Offit of the Pediatric Hospital of Filadelphia, a frank critic from Kennedy, confirmed the cancellation and warned that it could interfere or delay the production of flu vaccines."It...

The people of Israel embraced them on their last trip, emerging in multitude along the funeral course for a family that had become emblematic of the country's trauma after 7 October 2023, attack.Shiri Bibas and his two young children, Ariel and Kfir, were kidnapped during the attack led by Hamas to the southern Israel, brought to Gaza and killed in captivity, according to the Israeli authorities. On Wednesday, in the midst of a national outburst of solidarity and pain, they were buried under a blue sky, not far from the border community where they had lived and from which they were seized.Through 16 months of fear and uncertainty about their destinies, the Bibas had become a symbol for many Israelis, both from the tragedy that meant that their country that day in October, when about 1,200 ...