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In one case that could have important implications for access to abortion in the United States, a Texas judge on Thursday ordered a New York doctor to stop the prescription and send pills for abortion to patients in Texas And to pay a penalty of over $ 100,000 for having provided drugs to a woman.The case is expected to reach the Supreme Court and become a fundamental test in the growing battle between the states that prohibit abortion and the states that support the rights of abortion. In essence, he puts Texas, which has an almost total ban on abortion, against New York, which has a "telemedicine abortion shield law" intended to protect abortion suppliers who send drugs to patients in other states.These shield laws have become a key strategy for the rights of abortion since the Supreme C...

Hamas said on Thursday that he was ready to release Israeli hostages this weekend, as established by the Gaza fire agreement, after the fragile agreement was at the top this week, pushing more pessimism on his future.Mahmoud Mardowi, a Hamas official, said in a text message that the exchange of hostages for prisoners was destined to go on on Saturday until Israel confirmed its end of the agreement. He said the mediators had told Hamas that Israel said he was busy in the agreement.Israel did not immediately comment on this and other statements by Hamas who described diplomatic progress. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, consulted himself with the security garments in the south of Israel on Thursday afternoon, said his office.Egypt and Qatar, next to the United States, interrup...

For President Vladimir V. Putin, a phone call marked a turning point as great like any battle in his three -year war.In a long call on Wednesday, President Trump delivered a message to Mr. Putin who encapsulated most of how the Russian leader sees today's world: that Russia and the United States are two great nations that should negotiate fate directly of Ukraine and also move on to the participation of fating each other uniformly. Heavier global affairs.It was the clearest sign that Mr. Putin, despite the disastrous failures of Russia at the beginning of his Ukrainian invasion at the beginning of 2022, could still emerge from the war with a redesigned map of Europe and an expansion of the influence of Russia in it.The call came on the same day when the secretary to defense of Mr. Trump, P...

X agreed to pay in the $ 10 million interval to resolve a cause intended by President Trump on the 2021 suspension of his account on the social media platform, according to a person informed on the matter.The company, then known as Twitter, removed Mr. Trump from his platform after the revolt of the Capitol of the United States on January 6, 2021, citing his inflammatory places and claiming that they could lead to more violence. Trump sued, claiming that Twitter and other technological companies that removed his accounts had made him censor unjustly.Elon Musk, now the owner of X and a nearby director of the president, has restored the Trump account shortly after acquiring the company in 2022. Mr. Musk launched his support behind Mr. Trump, giving more than $ 250 million to His campaign and...

Tuesday the official n. 2 of the National Institutes of Health has resigned and retired from the government service Tuesday, in another sign that the Trump administration is remodeling the public and biomedical research institutions of the nation.The official, dr. Lawrence A. Tabak, dentist and researcher, was long considered a constant force and had resisted the presidential transitions. In a letter that Dr. Tabak sent to colleagues Tuesday, he gave no reason for his decision. A person who is familiar with the decision said that Dr. Tabak had confronted a reassignment that he considered unacceptable."It was a huge privilege to work with each of you (and your predecessors) to support and promote the Nih critical mission," wrote Dr. Tabak.Dr. Tabak resigned in a turbulent time for instituti...

Finding in the fickle hair of President Trump, Jordan and Egypt are moving with speed - and the uncertain perspectives of success - to dissuade, distract him and distract him from the forcing them to take the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.For the two Arab governments, which consider Trump's proposal that assume two million Palestinians as an existential threat, the strategy seems to be to appease the President of the United States with offers to work together to reconstruct Gaza, bring peace to the region and expand humanitarian aid efforts. This could help them buy time, analysts say - perhaps enough for Mr. Trump to discard the too complicated idea or to recognize the strategic and safety disadvantages of the destabilization of two of the closest allies in the United States in the reg...

March Fogel had promptly traveled to and from Russia many times before his fateful last return to the country in August 2021. He had taught history for almost a decade, mainly to diplomats children, at the Anglo-American school in Moscow.But entering Russia in front of what he had decided would have been his last year of teaching at school, Mr. Fogel was arrested and accused of smuggling drugs - less than an ounce of cannabis he used to treat chronic back pain. In June 2022, he was sentenced to a high security prison at 14; In Russia, minor phrases have often been given to the condemned killers.After pressing the United States government, Mr. Fogel, now 63, was released on Tuesday after three and a half years of custody.He and his wife Jane had been retired global adventurers, having lived...

Just over a year ago, a group of researchers from the Sheffield Hallam University in England has published a relationship that documented the potential links of a Chinese clothing company with forced work. The members of the British Parliament mentioned the relationship in view of a November debate that criticized China for "slavery and forced the work from another era".But Smart Shirts, who is a manufacturer's associate and creates clothing for the main labels, has filed a cause for defamation. And in December, a British judge issued a sentence: the case would have gone on, which could lead to the payment of the university.The preliminary discovery in the case against the University is the last of a series of legal challenges that have enhanced Think Tanks and universities that seek human...

A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked the National Institutes of Health from the cutting of funding for research in 22 states that presented cause at the beginning of the day claiming that the plan would empty studies on cancer treatments, Alzheimer's, diseases cardiac and a series of other disorders.The financing cuts, announced at the end of Friday, would have had a effect on Monday. But the general lawyers of Massachusetts and another 21 states have sued. They argued that the Trump administration plan to cut $ 4 billion in general -not cost such as "indirect costs"-has violated a 79-year law that governs the way in which administrative agencies establish and amminist the regulations."Without relief from the action of Nih, the avant -garde work of these institutions to treat and ...

Limit. Hungry. Wound. Tortured. These are the conditions that some hostages kept in Gaza have yet to face, according to the information that their families have declared that they received from the Israeli military and security officials after Hamas released three prisoners on Saturday as part of an agreement of ceased on fire.The hematic aspect of three hostages released in a ceremony in Gaza organized by Hamas last weekend - Eli Sharabi, 52 years old; O Levy, 34; And Ohad Ben-me, 56 years-and the details of their captivity have relatives of remaining prisoners who play the alarm for the urgent need for the continuation of the agreement of ceased the fire. The urgency arrives while the militant group said on Monday that the next exits of hostages would indefinitely postpone, set for Satur...