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The question left many workers who hurried.Most of the workforce of the office for the financial protection of consumers had recently been put on leave while Musk gutted the agency and was asked not to work, leaving them without results to be reported, said a worker. Mr. Musk's allies in the government suggested using artificial intelligence to identify budget cuts and workers of different agencies worried that their answers would be evaluated by the AIThe approach echoed to a Mr. Musk adopted with managers and employees on Twitter. In April 2022, Mr. Musk joined the Board of Directors of the Social Media Company, but at the time he quarreled with Parag Agrawal, his CEO, for his public criticisms of the Company. When Mr. Agrawal asked Mr. Musk not to publish harmful things on Twitter, Mr. ...

Israel and Hamas on Sunday accused each other that they had violated the cessation of Gaza's fire already fragile after Israel delayed the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners who should have been exchanged for hostages.The office of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said that the prisoners would have been freed until the release of further hostages "was insured", and Hamas has undertaken to let them go without "humiliation ceremonies".Growing tensions come after a week of mutual recriminations and tense nerves on both sides. The delay has raised more questions about the future of the ceasefire for Gaza, with a temporary six -week respite that will expire on March 1st.There is still no clarity on a possible extension or even if serious negotiations have started. Some ...

The Germans voted for a change of leadership on Sunday, delivering the greatest number of votes in a parliamentary election to the conservative centrists, with the far right in second place, and reproaching the left government of the nation for its management of the economy and immigration.The first returns and output surveys almost certainly mean that Friedrich Merz, leader of Christian Democrats, will be the next chancellor in the country. But he will need at least one or - in the possibility that the Germans hoped to avoid - two coalition partners to govern."We won it," said Merz to the supporters of Berlin on Sunday evening, promising to quickly form a parliamentary majority to govern the country and restore a strong German leadership in Europe.The elections, which took place seven mon...

It was 45 seconds too late, but the teacher had a plan.A gunman had just barraged her classroom with an AR-15, killing two students and injuring four others before turning to a classroom across the hall. The bullet-riddled walls were crumbling. Ceiling tiles were falling. If the shooter came back to kill more of her students, the teacher decided, she would stand up and shout, “We love you.”The teacher was Ivy Schamis, whose husband would be waiting at home with a Valentine’s Day dinner; whose son was planning a wedding she couldn’t imagine missing; whose curriculum for this class — History of the Holocaust — had just moments earlier stirred a discussion about hate on campuses.We love you. These would surely be her final words, Ms. Schamis thought. She knew her plan was futile — irrational,...

Hezbollah was preparing a strength show Sunday with an elaborate and tentular funeral for its assassinated leader, Hassan Nasrallah, an event that the militant group supported by Iran Spera Relive his image porn in Lebanon After the last war with Israel.Tens of thousands of people from all over the country and in the region are expected on Sunday afternoon, including dignitaries from Iran. It will begin from the largest sports stadium in Lebanon on the southern suburbs of the capital, Beirut, which has been adorned with two -storey high posters of Nasrallah and slogans that promise to carry on the Shiite Muslim resistance that led against Israel.After the stadium service, Mr. Nasrallah will be buried in a dedicated site nearby that will be transformed into a sacred sanctuary for the leader...

In the days following the Vatican on 6 February that Pope Francis had bronchitis and would have limited his activities to his residence, he continued to keep a private public per day with groups of nuns, pilgrims and leaders of the bases.On February 9, he chaired an outdoor mass in Piazza di San Pietro, where the wind was so strong that he made him explode the white zocker from his head. He could not end his homily, passing it on to an assistant and saying: "I have difficulty breathing".Three days later, to his weekly audience on Wednesday, the sick Pope had a helper to read his speech. But then he tightened his hand with dozens of prelates, many protruded to whisper the greetings and took photos with Spanish faithful, Milanese military recruits and nuns from the order of Mother Teresa.Two...

The good news for cryptocurrency investors came shortly after 8 on Friday: Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency market in the United States, had reached an agreement with US regulators to reject a cause that had hung the industry for years.But in a few hours, the cryptocurrency market has fallen into a new crisis. At 10:51, bybit, another exchange of cryptocurrencies leader, said he had been violated - with analysts in the sector that estimate the loss of almost $ 1.5 billion, the largest theft in the history of cryptocurrencies.The prices of Bitcoin, Ether and other important cryptocurrencies have collapsed. The price of Coinbase shares also decreased by 8 % by the end of the day.This contrast with a divided screen was a significant example of the cryptocurrency state in 2025. Although Pr...

While reality is located as the United States are drastically decreasing its foreign assistance to developing countries, an urgent conversation is starting between governments, philanthropists and global health and development organizations.It focuses on a crucial question: who will fill this gap?Last year, the United States contributed to about 12 billion dollars to global health, the money that financed the treatment of HIV and the prevention of new infections; Children's vaccines against polio, measles and pneumonia; Clean water for refugees; and tests and drugs for malaria. The next largest funding is the Gates Foundation, which provides a fraction of this amount: his Global Health Division had an $ 1.86 billion budget in 2023."The gap that has been filled by the United States cannot ...

Archaeologists found a tomb of Pharaoh near the Egyptian Valley of the Kings, the country's ministry of antiquities announced this week, in what officials called the first excavation of a real tomb since Tutankhan's reach was brought.The newly identified tomb belonged to Thutmose II, which is believed to have reigned around 1480 AC was "the last real tomb that disappeared of the 18th dynasty", said the Egyptian ministry in a note.The excavation was a joint project of Egyptian and British researchers who began in 2022, when the entrance and the main corridor of the tomb were found.Archaeologists initially thought that the tomb belonged to a real consort, due to its position near the burial places of the real wives and that of Thutmose II's wife, Hatshepsut, who took the throne alone after h...