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The rule was an effort to ensure that the world's largest data centers would be built by the United States and its allies, rather than in the Middle East or elsewhere. Biden officials were skeptical on autocratic trends and autocratic ties of the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. They also argued that the rule would limit China's access to chips and data centers in other countries, which could strengthen Beijing's strategic and military skills.The rule, which should have come into force on May 15, allowed unlimited sales of chips to 18 allies such as Great Britain, Germany and Japan and blocked sales in China, Iran and other opponents. All other countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, India, Israel and Poland, faced limits on the number of chips...

On Monday, President Trump will sign an executive order aimed at reducing some drug prices in the United States by aligning them with what other rich countries pay, he said on Truth Social on Sunday evening.The proposal that described, which alone cannot move federal policy, is what calls a model of the "most favored nation" prices. Trump did not provide details on which type of insurance would have applied the plan or on how many drugs would have targeted, but indicated that the United States should pay the lowest price among its peat countries."Our country will finally be treated fairly and our citizens' health costs will be reduced by numbers never even thought before," he wrote in his social media post.Most likely any plan of this type will be subject to challenges in court and it ...

Hamas, the Palestinian armed group, said on Sunday evening that he would freed the last living American citizen held prisoner in Gaza, a few days before President Trump should arrive in the region for the first great foreign tour of his second term.Khalil Al-Hayya, Hamas' main negotiator, said in a statement that Hamas had agreed to free the hostage, Edan Alexander, 21 years old, after the talks with the United States. He did not say when Mr. Alexander would be released or what Hamas expected to receive in return.Raised in Tenafly, in New Jersey, Mr. Alexander, a double Israeli American citizen, moved to Israel to serve in the army after high school. During the attacks led by Hamas on October 7, 2023, the Palestinian militants kidnapped him from the military place where he was statione...

Unmedcuto a weekend of European diplomacy, President Trump on Sunday imply Ukraine to accept a Russian proposal for direct interviews rather than insisting first on a ceased the fire-as had been defined in a plan announced a day before by the European leaders during a visit to Kyiv.The leaders of France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Poland had set an deadline for Monday for Russia to accept a ceased for the 30-day fire initially proposed by the Trump-o administration faces further penalties.When President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia made a back -off of direct interviews, without mentioning a ceasefire, France and Germany rejected the proposal. Mr. Trump's correspondent in Ukraine in the talks, General Keith Kellogg, also did on Sunday, said Russia should have stopped hostilities as ...

Walking into the crowded hotel conference room, Andrew Batey looked like any other tech guy attending ETHDenver, an annual cryptocurrency conference. A venture capital investor based in Florida, Mr. Batey wore a black sweatshirt emblazoned with the logos of more than a dozen crypto companies, with names like LunarCrush and bitSmiley. He had arrived in town with some expensive footwear — a pair of Off-White Air Jordans, the type of sneaker, he said, that people usually don’t take out of the box.Mr. Batey, however, was at the conference not to network with fellow crypto enthusiasts but to fight one of them — live on YouTube. At the hotel, a short drive from the conference convention center, he was preparing for his official weigh-in, the final step before a fight the next evening in an arena...

Five mornings a week, dr. David Slotwiner, head of the Cardiology of New York -Presbyterian Queens Hospital, can be found on human hearts.But on Sunday morning, he is in a field covered in grass in a rural farm of Hackettowown, in New Jersey, standing between half a dozen sheep, whistle in his hand, teaching his border Collie Cosmo and Luna at the pack."It helps me to think about what you need to be an effective leader, even if doctors don't respond very well to the whistles," said dr. Slotwiner, 58, specialized in cardiac electrophysiology.He started coming to the farm during the Pandemia del Coronavirus, after Cosmo began to show aggression and bit his wife, Anne Slowiner, 60 years old. A coach recommended a small sheep farm in New Jersey, Wayside Farm, who trains Border Collies - an...

In the autumn of 2024, the Cardinal who is now Pope Leo XIV sat down at a large round table inside the Vatican, discussing the challenges that face the Roman Catholic Church with a cardinal from Ethiopia, archbishops of Cameroon and Kenya, a cardinal posted in Mongolia and bishops of Texas and Liberia.By joining them at the table there was a Catholic podcaster of Dallas; A company consultant from Melbourne, Australia; a university administrator of the Figi; And a parishioned of Myanmar, three of whom were women.Each person at the table, clergy or secular, were granted three minutes of uninterrupted speech."Each voice had the same value," said Susan Pascoe, company consultant, president of Catholic Emergency Relief Australia. He sat down at a table with the future Pope for the meetings, whi...

After making the space for 53 years, a rebellious Soviet spatial vehicle called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the planet's atmosphere at 9:24 in Moscow on Saturday, according to Roscosmos, the state company that manages the Russian space program.Designed to land on the Venus surface, Kosmos-482 may have remained intact during his dip. He splashed in the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta, Indonesia, said Roscosmos.Kosmos-482 was launched on March 31, 1972, but stood in the terrestrial orbit after one of his rocket boosters closed prematurely. The return of the spacecraft to Earth was a reminder of the Cold War competition that pushed visions similar to science fiction of earth powers that projected into the sun system."Remember a time when the Soviet Union was adventurous in space -...

A man from Virginia was accused of second -degree murder after shooting a teenager who was shooting a joke for Tiktok known as "Ding Dong Ditch" with two friends around 3 in the morning of Saturday, according to the documents of the court and local authorities.The SpotSylvania sheriff's sheriff's office responded to a relationship of a resident shooting during a theft with burglary and found two teenagers with gun wounds, the office declared in a note. One of the teenagers, Michael Bosworth Jr., 18 years old, died later from his wounds. The second person was treated for slight injuries and a third person in the group was unharmed, said the sheriff's office. The two friends of Mr. Bosworth were both less than 18 years old.The teenagers had been in the neighborhood to make a vide...

Funzionari della sanità pubblica nella contea di Los Angeles hanno dichiarato un focolaio di epatite A, un'infezione epatica altamente contagiosa guidata da un virus che può, in rari casi, causare gravi malattie.La condizione, che viene generalmente identificata in meno di 50 persone nella contea di La contea di Los Angeles, infettati almeno 138 persone nel 2024 e i casi sono rimasti insolitamente alti finora nel 2025. I funzionari affermano che i livelli del virus nelle acque reflue locali suggeriscono che queste cifre sono sottostimi.Ecco cosa sapere.In che modo l'epatite è trasmessa?Il virus dell'epatite A si diffonde attraverso il cosiddetto percorso orale-fecale, il che significa che viene ingerito attraverso cibo o bevande che sono state contaminate da pezzi di feci micro...