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Il 4 marzo, un incaricato di Trump presso il Dipartimento degli Affari dei Veterani ha diffuso un promemoria per la leadership senior. L'agenzia, ha affermato, "si sarebbe trasferita in modo aggressivo" per migliorare l'efficienza, con un "obiettivo iniziale" di tagliare la forza lavoro ai livelli del 2019.La mattina dopo, qualcuno ha pubblicato una copia di questo promemoria di "riduzione in vigore" a un gruppo Reddit chiamato VeteransAffairs, una comunità online di 19.000 membri. La copia era difficile da seguire, una sequenza di foto scattate sul memo su uno schermo, ma il messaggio era abbastanza chiaro: circa 80.000 posti di lavoro sarebbero stati tagliati.Domande e commenti si sono riversati, alcuni sconcertati, alcuni frenetici. L'agenzia aveva mezzo milione di dipendenti in ospedal...

Joan Draft worries dementia. Her mother lived with Alzheimer's disease for 14 years, the last seven in a residence for memory care and her maternal grandfather also developed dementia."I am 100 % convinced that this is in my future," said Mrs. Dethop, 70 years old, retired lawyer in Thornton, Collo.Last year, he spent almost a whole day with a neuropsychologist, subjected to a vast evaluation. The results indicated that his short-term memory was fine-che found "shocking and comforting" -and who tested the average or higher in each cognitive category except one.It is not reassured. "I saw Alzheimer's as was," said his mother's long decline. "The memory of what he has passed is deep for me."The prospect of dementia, which includes Alzheimer's disease and a series of other cognitive disorders...

If it were not obvious that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by Israel believes he has an ally in his battle against the country's attorney general, his judges and even the head of his home security service, clarified on Wednesday evening."In America and Israel, when a strong right -wing leader wins the elections, the Deep State on the left wears the judicial system to counter the will of the people," he wrote in a post on social media. "They don't win in either of the two places! We are strong together."The Defiant, Trumpian Blast was the last proof of the fact that Mr. Netanyahu and President Trump are managing the same playbook book to achieve surprisingly similar goals: to neutral the judiciary, dismantle a supervision system that puts a check on their authority and discredit the prof...

Investigators developed the burnt remains of a power sub -setting near the Heathrow airport in London on Friday, looking for the cause of a spectacular flame that closed the most crowded travel hub of Europe for most of the day and raised wider questions about British energy infrastructures.Energy officials and experts said that a defect in a transformer with 275,000 volts that crossed it probably aroused a huge oil -powered fire that interrupted the airport and tens of thousands of nearby houses from the electricity grid. The systems designed to prevent such a apparently failed fire and the size of the fire seemed to prevent a second transformer in the vicinity of restoring electricity.But the mystery of what caused that fault first remained far from resolved by the end of Friday, even if...

In a Netflix documentary released in January, Bryan Johnson, a tech entrepreneur turned longevity guru, walked people through his morning routine. After tracking his sleep, he would wake up early to conduct audio therapy and hair therapy, do an hour of exercise and take 54 different pills with a drink called “the green giant,” he said.Mr. Johnson also talked about his long-life start-up, Blueprint, which sells health supplements, blood-testing equipment and other products tied to his personal diet and recommendations.“By doing Blueprint, one of the key objectives is to achieve the lowest possible biological age,” he declared. He added that his health regimen had “reversed my biological age 5.1 years.”The Netflix feature was a breakout moment in Mr. Johnson’s five-year campaign to become th...

The Food and Drug Administration declared on Thursday that it would delay 30 months as a requirement that food companies and the expense quickly trace the food contaminated through the supply chain and pulled it from the shelves.Tested to "limit the disease and the death of food origin", the rule asked for companies and individuals to keep better records to identify where they were grown, packed, elaborate or buildings. It was intended to enter into force in January 2026 as part of a reference food safety law in 2011 and was advanced during the first term of President Trump.Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health, expressed interest in chemical safety in food, moving to ban food dyes and on Thursday by debuting a public database in which people can trace toxins in food. But other ac...

He expected that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Thursday would formally fired the head of the Shin Bet domestic Intelligence Agency, despite the street protests and the escaped for the move that further launched a country deeply divided still in war.The Israeli cabinet should have convened for a night vote on the dismissal of the boss Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, a few days after Mr. Netanyahu had announced his intention to ignore him, citing a lack of personal trust between them.It comes after Israel's military resumed a fatal campaign in Gaza who has raised concern among many Israelis for the destinies of the hostages still held in the Enclave. Sirene warning of missile fire arriving from Gaza sent Israelis to the Tel Aviv area running for the coverage on Thursday for the first t...

An analysis made this week of Russian attitudes towards a possible ceased the fire with Ukraine suggests that the Russian public is ready to end the war, but skeptical of any concession that Moscow may have to do.In combination with a new survey in Ukraine, the analysis of a company based in Massachusetts, Filterlabs, shows how difficult the sale of the terms of a peace agreement is, both for the Russian and Ukrainian public.While the two countries have a war, there is little appetite for the main concessions for government war goals, such as the requests of Russia of territorial concessions or the desire of Ukraine to integrate with the West."As with all things related to Ukraine/Russia, the picture is complicated, although from Borderlands to big cities, there is one through the line: th...

Elon Musk said last month that the Federal Government was engaged in "absolutely crazy" activities, supporting without evidence that he had distributed $ 100 billion to people without social security numbers.Two days after the comments of Mr. Musk, one of his key lieutenants, Steve Davis, started pressing the administration of social security for information. Davis defined the leaders of the agency to insist that he offers a young engineer from the so -called Department of Musk government efficiency at database that contained sensitive information on the Americans.Davis's question was "unprecedented", Tiffany Flick, a former social security official, said in a sworn declaration this month for a cause intended by federal employees who tried to block access to data. He added that Mr. Davis c...

During his first term, President Donald J. Trump revealed a bold initiative to end the HIV epidemic in the United States by 2030 by focusing on 57 jurisdictions with the most urgent needs.The plan, which Trump announced in 2019 to a speech on the state of the Union, surprised the defense groups. But it was widely praised and successful.By 2022, the plan had demolished new infections at a national level of 30 percent in teenagers and young adults and about 10 percent in most other groups.This time, the position of the Trump Administration on the HIV seems to be much otherwise.The Department of Health and Human Services is now considering closing the HIV prevention division of the Centers for the control and prevention of diseases and moving some of its activities to a different agency, acco...