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In a Boston V.A. hospital, six social workers are conducting phone and telehealth visits with veterans from a single, crowded room, clinicians say. In Kansas City, providers are planning patient care while facing each other across narrow, cafeteria-style tables in a large, open space, according to staff members.And in South Florida, psychiatric nurses have been treating veterans with mental health conditions in a hallway near a bathroom, sitting down with them in a makeshift medical bay jury-rigged out of filing cabinets and a translucent screen.“People walking by can hear everything that’s going on,” said Bill Frogameni, an acute care psychiatric nurse at the Miami V.A. hospital and director of the local chapter of the National Nurses United union, referring to the patient intake setup in...

A ballistic missile launched by Yemen struck near the main terminal of Israelian international airport near Tel Aviv Sunday, after the military were unable to intercept the bullet apparently aimed at one of the most sensitive locations in the country.The strike, conducted by the Houthi militia supported by Iran, caused a temporary flight suspension. There were no immediate reports of victims.Israel's army said that several efforts have been made to intercept the missile and that an impact has been identified in the area of ​​Ben Gurion airport. The military added that the episode was in the revision phase.Magen David Adom's emergency ambulance service said he was dealing with four people who were mild or moderately injured by the explosion and by two other wounds while running for ...

Larmata Gahs, known not officially as Bud, was a 20 -year soldier in the American army who had fought for a year when he and his unit entered the Dachau concentration camp just outside Monaco in 1945 for the first time.His unit - the 42nd infantry division - had seen a heartbreaking fight since he started fighting in France. But, he said, freeing the concentration camp was completely different."When we opened the doces to Dachau, only then did we really understand what we had fought for," said Gahs, 100 years old, to a crowd that included survivors, families and dignitaries in Dachau Sunday.When he and his unit crossed the doors, Mr. Gah met prisoners so malnourished, sick and mistreated that they seemed as soon as you live. Along the way, the soldiers had found piles of bodies inside the ...

The members of a South Texas community that served as the center of the missile launching company of Elon Musk, Spacex, voted on Saturday to formally establish a new city called Starbase, creating one of the long -standing dreams of Mr. Musk.Everyone except six of the 218 people who voted were supported by incorporating the city of Starbase, according to the County of Cameron, who administered the vote.There were 283 eligible voters, said Remi Garza, electoral administrator for county.The community, known to the locals like Boca Chica, covers about 1.5 square miles on a spit of land that is touched against the Mexican border.Spacex broke into the ground in 2014 and since then it has become the central hub of the company and the launch site, as well as the seat of hundreds of its employees....

A first example of Elderspeak: Cindy Smith was visiting with her father in her living apartment assisted in Roseville, California. A helper who was trying to induce him to do something - Mrs. Smith no longer remembers what - he said: "Let me help you, honey"."He just looked at her - under his thick eyebrows - and said:" What do we get married? "" Smith, who made a nice laugh, said, said. His father was then 92, a retired county planner and a veteran of the Second World War; Macuular degeneration had reduced the quality of his vision and used a walking for movement, but remained cognitively acute."Normally it wouldn't have become too icy with people," said Mrs. Smith. "But he had the feeling that he had grown up and was not always treated as one."People almost understand what "Elderspea...

Israel will mobilize thousands of reserve soldiers to strengthen his campaign against Hamas in the Gaza strip, the military announced on Saturday evening, since the country seemed ready to expand its offensive in the Palestinian encycling.The call suggested that the Israeli government was preparing to move the tactics in an attempt to force Hamas to accept its terms for the end of the war. It is not clear if this would have been successful, since Hamas has fought a certain insurrection through more than a year of Israeli operations in Gaza. The security cabinet of Israel, chaired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, met on Sunday to formally sign on the expansion of the campaign in Gaza, said an Israeli official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to spea...

The oil producing countries are preparing for a rough lap this year, with a precipitous drop in prices at the lowest levels in four years seen as the initial and alarming sign of impending turmoil.A price drop benefits each country that tries to cut the fuel bill. But in the nations that produce oil, the lowest prices can feed economic problems and sometimes political disorders, since governments cut spending.Analysts who had already foreseen the lowest oil prices due to the demand for softening between an increase in global production said that the possibility of a tariff commercial war and the overall climate of uncertainty could deepen the manufacturers' troubles."The strong dive at a price and overall volatility are sending a very strong signal that the global economy will be shock...

With its horse-trodden roads, endless fields of almond blossoms and cowboy heritage, the 20,000 person town of Oakdale, Calif., fits the American West of imagination. And for decades, its media diet was classically all-American, too.Nightly news broadcasts played on living room televisions. Copies of local newspapers lined doorsteps on Sunday mornings. The town even had two media outlets dedicated to rodeo and horse roping news.But that version of Oakdale is a thing of the past.First the nearby newspapers shrank, and hundreds of local reporters in the region became handfuls. Then came the presidential elections of 2016 and 2020, and the pandemic; suddenly cable networks long deemed trustworthy were peddlers of fake news, on the right and the left.By the 2024 election, when its county, Stan...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of the health of the nation, said that facing a "epidemic" of a chronic disease would be a milestone of his agenda to make America healthy, often invoking alarming statistics such as an urgent reason to reform public health in this country.On Friday, President Trump published a proposed budget that asked to cut the financing of the centers for the control and prevention of diseases of almost half. Its center of chronic diseases has been entirely foreseen for the elimination, a proposal that has been a shock for many state health officials and citizens."Most Americans have a sort of disorder that could be considered chronic," said dr. Matifadza Hlatshwayo Davis, director of the health of the city of St. Louis.Of the proposed cuts, he said: "How do you re...

On Friday in what Israeli leaders said that Israeli leaders felt for the government to protect Druse's minority after a new wave of sectarian violence.More than 100 people have been killed this week in clashes involving a number of parties, including Sunni Muslim extremists not completely under the control of the government, the forces of the new government and the fighters of the country's minority of the country.The Israeli strike has been the last of a series of attacks on Syria in recent months aimed at preventing weapons and territory near the borders of Israel to fall into the hands of hostile forces. But it was also a reminder that the new Syrian government has little resorted as well as condemning the attacks as it struggles to gain control over a fractured country and unif...