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The cases of measles in Kansas are more than doubled in the last week, bringing the counting to 20, while another outbreak in Ohio has fallen 10 people, reported local public health officials on Wednesday.There have been several large outbreaks in the United States this year, including one in the western Texas that has spread to more than 320 people and hospitalized 40. Health officials have worried that the Texas epidemic may sow others.More than 40 cases of measles have been reported in New Mexico and seven were identified in Oklahoma. In both states, health officials said that infections were connected to the Texas epidemic.In Kansas, the virus has mainly infected the children not vaccinated in the south corner -ovest of the state. Genetic sequencing suggested a connection with the outb...

Turkey was immersed in a political crisis after the authorities arrested Ekrem Imamoglu, mayor of Istanbul and a high -level rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with accusations of corruption. Ben Hubbard, head of the Istanbul office for the New York Times, explains the tumult.

A new shimmering data center is less than half a mile from the electrical substation in which a fire immersed Heathrow airport in the darkness last week. The power of the data center has also been cut that day. But nobody who entrusted themselves would have noticed, thanks to a Battery Bank and backup generators designed to start instantly.In the meantime, it has taken officials of the busiest airport of Europe close to 18 hours to bring the terminals and the slopes into operation, causing global travel delays and underlining the vulnerability of British infrastructures.It is a surprising contrast that energy experts say can be explained largely by a word: money."The data center industry is relatively young. They are more in tune with the cost of a catastrophic failure," said Simon Gallagh...

Hey, are you sure you want to send it to your group chat? Like, the thousand percent safe?I'm just checking. Because it was a strange week in the history of group chat, those apparently intimate text conversations that make back and forth between friends and family and, apparently, national security staff.On Monday, the editor of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, wrote that he had been accidentally added to a group chat on the signal of encrypted messaging app. He followed while the defense secretary Pete Hegseth took attack plans against Houthi's strongholds in Yemen and looked at other national security officials post celebratory emojis after the strikes had taken place.While the legislators of both parties of the corridor condemned the violation of security, the Americans with their unrul...

Tuesday the Senate confirmed Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health, installing a Contrrianian who has committed himself to reforming scientific financing practices as the leader of the main medical research agency in the world.The confirmation of Dr. Bhattacharya-With a party vote from 53 to 47-arriva when the Nih, with a budget of $ 48 billion, was beaten by recent cuts to staff and orders to pause or cancel vast research funding.Dr. Bhattacharya, an economist of health and medicine professor in Stanford, has largely taken questions about these cuts during a confirmation hearing at the beginning of March.He escaped in the public spotlight in 2020, when he was among the writers of an anti-blocco treaty, the great declaration of Barrington, who supported for ...

On Tuesday, the Israeli police interrogated a Palestinian director of a documentary winner of the Oscar, according to the authorities and his lawyer, after the witnesses reported that the Israeli settlers attacked him near his home on the western Israeli occasion.The police held Hamdan Ball, 37 years old, one of the directors of the film, "no other land" and two other Palestinians on charges of launching stones to Israeli vehicles and hurting a settler - accusations that all deny, according to Leah Tsemel, a lawyer who represents the dehanas.A settler, a minor was also arrested, but was released for medical care and would have been questioned later, according to the Israeli police.The details of the episode are not entirely clear. But the Palestinian witnesses and a group of American activ...

Two days after a coalition of conservatives won the German federal elections last month, the governor of Bavaria went on Instagram to say that the party was "ready for political change" and published a group framework of the probable future chancellor, Friedrich Merz, with five other leaders.The photo seemed to suggest that a changed Germany will be extraordinarily similar to the old country: it shows six middle -aged white white men sitting around a snack table. The only apparent concession to modern sensitivity was that half of them did not wear ties.Three and a half years after the only woman to serve as a retired chancellor, German national politics seems to be backsliding when it comes to diversity and gender equality. While in the United States the new administration has actively tri...

For just over two years, technological leaders on the front line in the development of artificial intelligence had made an unusual request from legislators. They wanted Washington to regulate them.The technological managers warned the legislators that generative artificial intelligence, which can produce texts and images that imitate human creations, had the potential to interrupt national security and elections and in the end they could eliminate millions of jobs.Artificial intelligence could go "badly", Sam Altman, Openi's CEO, testified to Congress in May 2023. "We want to work with the government to prevent this from happening".But from the elections of President Trump, the technological leaders and their companies have changed their melody and in some cases have reversed the course, w...

When the Biotechnological company Humacyte designed a study to see if its blood vessel raised in the laboratory worked, she decided to measure if the blood flowed freely through the high -tech tube 30 days after it was implanted in a person.With the passage of those days, some of the 54 patients in the study came across trouble. The doctors have lost the trace of one. Four are dead. Four others had an amputated limb, including one who developed a clot and an infection in the artificial ship records, Food and Drug Administration Records.Humacyte, which is exchanged on Nasdaq, considered all those patients as proof of success in talks with investors and in an article on Jama surgery.At the FDA, however, scientists counted the dead, amputations and the case lost as failures, show the register...

The mayor of Istanbul was imprisoned pending his trial for corruption accusations and removed from the position on Sunday, limping a contender potential in the next presidential elections of Turkey and the main rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.The mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, was arrested at his home Wednesday, four days before being appointed presidential candidate of the political opposition of Türkiye. He denied the accusations against him, that Mr. Erdogan's opponents called a stratagem to hinder the presidential offer of a popular politician.The court ordered that Mr. Imamoglu was imprisoned with accusations of corruption pending a trial. Public ministries accused him of leading a criminal organization and supervising corruption, rigging and other financial misdeeds at the Town Hall....