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The centers for the control and prevention of diseases are planning to conduct a large -scale study to review if there is a connection between vaccines and autism, federal officials said on Friday.Dozens of scientific studies have not been able to find evidence of a connection. But the CDC now falls within the secretary of health and human services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has long expressed skepticism on vaccine security and has promised to revisit data.“As President Trump said in his joint discourse to the congress, the autism rate in American children has risen to the stars. The CDC will leave nothing to intend to understand what exactly is going on, "said Andrew Nixon, spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, in a declaration on Friday. Nixon did not offer details o...

President Trump said he had sent a letter to the Iranian government trying to negotiate an agreement to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.He said the letter was sent on Wednesday and addressed to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian supreme leader. The White House did not immediately respond to a request to provide the letter or further describe its content. The Iran mission to the United Nations declared on Friday that Iran had not received this letter to date.In an interview that broadcast on Friday on Fox Business, Trump said: "There are two ways in which Iran can be managed: militarily or have an agreement. I would prefer to make an agreement, because I'm not trying to hurt Iran. They are fantastic people. "The move is a sharp pin for Mr. Trump, who in 2018 withdrew the United ...

Three Bulgarians were judged guilty of espionage for Russia in Great Britain and throughout continental Europe as part of one of the largest Russian espionage rings ever discovered by the British police.During a period of three years, the group, led by a Bulgarian IT specialist, Orlin Roussev, 47 years old, led six operations for journalists and critics of the Russian government, said the ministries, adding that they also conducted surveillance in a US military site in Germany, where they believed that Ukrainian soldiers had been trained."This case is a clear example of the growing quantity of cases of state threats with which we are dealing in the United Kingdom, in particular linked to Russia," said Dominic Murphy, head of the command of the metropolitan police counter. "It also underlin...

Listen and follow "Hard Fork"Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube | IheartradioThis week, Google has introduced a new way of looking for, which could mean that Googing as we know that it is leaving. It is called the AI ​​mode and it is essentially the company's response to the growing number of people who turn to chat robots to the search on Google.Let's move through the appearance of this new product, which can use it and what could mean for the future of the Internet. So, let's talk to the Crypto journalist of the New York Times David Yaffa-Bellany of the recent announcement of President Trump on a national cryptocurrency reserve and because the news has shocked some of the greatest supporters of cryptocurrency. Finally, we react to the vocal mail from the listeners who describe the tools ...

The Ebola epidemic in Uganda has worsened significantly and the country's ability to contain the diffusion was seriously weakened by the freezing of the Trump administration on foreign assistance, they said American officials this week.The officials, who represent a variety of health and safety agencies, carried out the evaluation during a meeting with the staff of the United States Embassy in Kampala, the Ugandan capital, Wednesday. An audio recording of the session was obtained by the New York Times.There were two other dead, the mother and newborn brother of a 4 -year -old boy who died last week, said an American official. The mother and brother died before the 4 -year -old boy, but were not identified as probable cases of Ebola until they were buried through the late contact track.Eigh...

The officials of the State State Department have developed plans to close a dozen consulates abroad by this summer and are taking into consideration the idea of ​​closing many more missions, in what could be a serious blow for the efforts of the United States government to build partnerships and collect intelligence, say American officials.The Department also plans to fire many local citizens who work for its hundreds of missions. Those workers constitute two thirds of the agency's workforce and in many countries form the basis of the knowledge of their US diplomats environments.The narrowing is part of both the widest cutting of the federal government of President Trump and its foreign policy "America First", in which the United States end or reduce the important ways to exercise global i...

Pierre Joris, poet and translator who faced some of the most difficult verses of the 20th century, making the complex work of the German poet Paul Celan in English, died on February 27 in his home in Brooklyn. He was 78 years old.His wife, Nicole Peyraffite, said that the cause was cancer complications.Joris was the author of dozens of volumes of his poetry and prose. But much of the work of his life was spent grappling with Celan's poetry, which many critics considered, in the words of a scholar, "probably the greatest European poet in the post -war period".That greatness comes with a hitch for readers, however: the diabolical difficulty of a writer whose texts were trained and deformed by the chogiol of the Holocaust - "what happened", as Celan called it. Both his parents were assassinat...

Discord, the popular social chat app with the video game community, has met investment bankers in recent weeks to discuss preparations for an initial public offer as soon as this year, two people have said who are familiar with interviews.A hypo of a famous technological society could provide a shock so necessary for private companies that weigh public lists. The volatility of the market caused by an uncertain economy, together with strong evaluations for private companies, has led to a slow start for the IPO market this year.Discord was the last time by private investors in 2021 to about $ 15 billion.People, who required anonymity because the conversations are confidential, warned that the interviews were still exploratory and that the IPO plans remained subject to changes.A spokesman for...

Postpartum depression affects about one in seven women who give birth, but it is known little about what happens in the brain of pregnant women who experience it. A new study begins to shed light.The researchers scanned the dozen brain of women in the previous weeks and after childbirth and found that two brain areas involved in the elaboration and control of emotions increased in size in women who have developed symptoms of postpartum depression.The results, published on Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, constitute some of the first tests that postpartum depression is associated with changes in the brain during pregnancy.The researchers discovered that women with symptoms of depression in the first month after childbirth also had increases in the volume of their amygdala, a brain...

When President Trump declared last month that he wanted to move all the two million residents of Gaza outside the strip into Egypt and Jordan and transform the territory into a "Riviera" on the beach for tourism, the pressure was on the Arab leaders horrified by the idea of ​​finding their great plan.On Tuesday, during an Arab emergency summit in Cairo, they put their vision: to reconstruct Gaza without forcing the Palestinians who live there. Sideline Hamas, the armed group that currently controls Gaza and appoints a committee of qualified bureaucrats to manage the strip for six months before delivering power to the Palestinian government recognized internationally in the West Bank. Then bring together the territory with the West Bank as a Palestinian state-A long-standing dream of Palest...