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The measles crisis in western Texas has claimed the life of another child, the second death in a outbreak that has burned through the region and infected dozens of residents in neighboring states.The boy, an 8 -year -old girl, died early on Thursday morning of "measles pulmonary insufficiency" in a Lubbock hospital, in Texas, according to the records obtained by the New York Times. His death is the second confirmed by measles in a decade in the United States.The hospital, part of the UMC health system, said on Sunday that the girl was not vaccinated and had no underlying health conditions.The first death in the outbreak of Western Texas was an unvaccinated child who died in February. Another non -vaccinated person died in New Mexico after having a positive test for measles, although offici...

It is suspected that more than 100 chemical arms sites remain in Syria, leave behind after the fall of the longtime president, Bashar al-Assad, according to the main international organization that keeps track of these weapons.This number is the first estimate of its kind as a group, the organization for the ban on chemical weapons, tries to enter Syria to evaluate what remains of the notorious military program of Al-Assad. The figure is much higher than what Mr. Al-Assad has ever recognized.The sites have been involved in the research, production and conservation of chemical weapons is suspected. Al-Assad used weapons such as Sarin and chlorine gas against Syrian rebel and civil fighters during more than a decade of civil war.The number of sites and if they are guaranteed, it has been a m...

Shortly after the arrival of the new administration, things began to disappear from the White House website.They were not only the partisan political platforms that generally disappear during a presidential transition. Information pages on the Constitution and previous presidents, in various forms since President George W. Bush was in office, all vanished.Thousands of other government web pages had been removed or modified, including content on vaccines, hatred crimes, low -income children, opiate dependence and veterans, before a court order temporarily blocked part of the radical cancellation. A database of the Department of Justice that monitors the accusations and criminal convictions related to January 6, 2021, the attack on the Capitol was removed. The database segments disappeared, ...

While the Trump administration moves to dismantle the safeguards of international public health, extract funding from the local health departments and legitimize health disinformation, some experts now fear that the country is preparing the foundations for a long -term rebirth of measles.If federal health officials do not change course, large multistate outbreaks such as the one he has torn through western Texas, jumping into neighboring states and killing two people, can become the norm."We really opened the door so that this virus will return" said dr. Thomas R. Frieden, former director of the Centers for the control and prevention of diseases.In order for a outbreak to occur in the United States, the virus must first be imported into the country and must reach a large and not vaccinated...

A video, discovered on the cell phone of a paramedian that was found together with 14 other help operators in a mass tomb in the Gaza at the end of March, shows that the ambulances and the fire truck in which they were traveling were clearly marked and had the lights of the emergency signal when the Israeli troops hit them with a burst of shots.Palestine Red Crescent Society officials said on Friday in a press conference at the United Nations moderated by the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent companies that had presented the registration of almost seven minutes, obtained from the New York Times, to the United Nations Security Council.An Israeli military spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani, declared at the beginning of this week that the Israeli forces did ...

On Friday, a Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih, a city of central Ukraine, killed at least 16 people, including six children, and wounded more than 50, said local officials. It was the last of a series of Russian attacks on urban centers in the last few days, despite the continuous interviews of ceased fire, which have caused significant civil victims.Serhii Lysak, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk region, which includes Kryvyi Rih, said on social media that the missile hit a residential neighborhood, with a playground nearby. Other officials warned that the victims' balance could increase while the rescuers continued to look for rubble for the victims.On Friday the Russian Ministry of Defense recognized the missile strike on Kryvyi Rih. He claimed that the missile had targeted a restauran...

In una mattina recente, ho bussato alla porta d'ingresso di una bella casa a due piani a Redwood City, in California. In pochi secondi, la porta era aperta da un robot senza volto vestito con un body beige che si aggrappava alla vita e alle gambe lunghe.Questo snello umanoide mi ha salutato con quello che sembrava essere un accento scandinavo e mi sono offerto di stringere la mano. Mentre i nostri palmi si incontravano, diceva: "Ho una presa ferma".Quando il proprietario della casa, un ingegnere norvegese di nome Bernt Børnich, chiese un po 'di acqua in bottiglia, il robot si girò, entrò in cucina e aprì il frigorifero con una mano.L'intelligenza artificiale sta già guidando auto, scrivendo saggi e persino scrivendo codice informatico. Ora, umanoidi, macchine costruite per assomigliare agl...

Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced wide -ranging cuts at federal health agencies, including Food and Drug Administration, which would eliminate duplicative services and paper drug dealers.But in the interviews with more than a dozen members of the current and ex -FDA staff, a different picture of the effects of the vast scope of the layoffs emerged which in the end would reduce the workforce of the 20 percent agency. Among these are experts who have sailed a labyrinth of laws to determine if an expensive drug can be sold as a generic at low cost; laboratory scientists who have tested food and drugs for contaminants or fatal bacteria; specialists of the veterinary division that investigate the transmission of avian influence; and researchers who have monitored television a...

For years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has been tried for corruption, even if the conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria supervises.It is now blocked in a separate stall situation with the contrast authorities of Israel, a police investigation that has renewed opposition requests for its resignation.Known as "qatargate", the case depends on the affirmation that the media consultants of Netanyahu were paid by a Qatar representative to promote the interests of Qatar in the Israeli media. This statement made many Israelis angry because he created the perception of a conflict of interest; For years, Qatar has hosted Hamas leaders.The recent efforts of Mr. Netanyahu to fire the head of the Shin Bet, the Israeli internal security agency, has aggravated the fury. It was the bet Shin...

An envoy of the Kremlin met at the White House on Wednesday with the senior helper of President Trump on negotiations in Russia, Steve Witkoff, according to a person in Washington with the knowledge of the interviews. The Russian correspondent, Kirill Dmitriev, said online on Thursday that he had been to Washington to meet the officials of the Trump administration.Mr. Dmitriev's visit is the first time in years in which it was known that a high Russian official traveled to the United States for interviews with American counterparts. Dmitriev is the head of the sovereign Wealth Fund Russo and the special representative of Vladimir V. Putin for investments and economic cooperation. His counterparty, Mr. Witkoff, a real estate businessman who is also the special correspondent of Mr. Trump for...