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Margot Friedländer, a survivor to the Holocaust who spent more than 60 years in exile (as he saw it) in New York City before returning to Germany in 2010 and finding his voice as a champion of the memory of the Holocaust - the work that made it a celebrity for the young Germans and made him land on the cover of the German vogue last year - died on Friday in Berlin. He had 103.His death, in a hospital, was announced by the Margot Friedländer Foundation, an organization that promotes tolerance and democracy."It helps me to talk about what happened," he told members of a UNICEF club in 2023. "Young people help me because they listen to. They don't make him back anymore. I share my story for all of you."Mrs. Friedländer and her husband Adolf - known in America as Eddie, for obvious reasons...

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...

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...

Public health officials in the county of Los Angeles have declared a highly contagious hepatitis A outdoor outbreak, a virus that can, in rare cases, cause serious diseases.The condition, which is generally identified in less than 50 people in the county of La County Los Angeles, infected at least 138 people in 2024 and the cases have remained unusually high so far in 2025. The officials say that the levels of the virus in the local waste water suggest that these figures are underestimated.Here's what to know.How is hepatitis transmitted?The hepatitis A virus spreads through the so-called oral-fecal path, which means that it is ingested through food or drinks that have been contaminated by pieces of microscopic feces by an infected person. It can also spread in close contact with someo...

The ascension of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost to the Papacy marks an extraordinary moment for American leadership on the world scene at a time when President Trump has transformed the reputation of the country abroad and fueled the distrust among the longtime allies.But while two Americans now sit in positions of a huge global influence, Pope Leo XIV can offer the world a different vision of the US values ​​from the first approach of Mr. Trump's America, who has performed through rigid rates, imperialist reflections and vast cuts to foreign aid.When it was presented in the world, the new Pope - who speaks five languages ​​and is a naturalized citizen of Peru - underlined his pluralistic background, making it speak in Italian (which represents his new electoral college) and Spanish (...

On a frigid day in early January, as she worked in her office in the Boston suburb of Billerica, Mass., Siyu Huang received a two-word text message.“Spinning wheels,” it said. Attached was a short video clip showing a car on rollers in an indoor testing center.To the untrained eye there was nothing remarkable in the video. The car could have been getting its emissions tested at a Connecticut auto repair shop (except it had no tailpipe). But to Ms. Huang, the chief executive of Factorial Energy, the video was a milestone in a quest that had already occupied a decade of her life.Ms. Huang, her husband, Alex Yu, and their employees at Factorial had been working on a new kind of electric vehicle battery, known as solid state, that could turn the auto industry on its head in a few years — if a ...

The roads looked like Gaza. Houses reduced to rubble, walls cut by bullet holes, roads torn by Bulldozer. The neighborhood after the neighborhood was deserted.But this was not Gaza, a territory devastated by the war between Israel and the Hamas militant group, where tens of thousands have been killed and hunger chases the population. It was occupied, another Palestinian territory in which the Israeli army unexpected control in the wider repression of the militancy there in a generation.The outlines of the new offensive were taking place during a recent visit of the New York Times journalists in the city of Jenin, among the densely populated neighborhoods that have been eliminated since an operation started in January. In one of those areas, over 10,000 people lived until recently. Now, it ...

Donald Trump is the face of these cuts, but the cruelty of his administration is not the only story. After jumping upwards in the 2000s, global health donations have grown very slowly in 2010. Filantropy culture has also changed in some way, with the age of the pledge to give - in which hundreds of richest people in the world have promised to give more than half of their great fortunes to charity - giving first to the starting movement called effective altruism and then to a new era of extremely wealth. from altruism that from grandeur. After the divorce of the Gates in 2021, Melinda eventually left the Foundation to establish his philanthropy; Warren Buffett, a longtime supporter, recently announced his plans to leave most of his remaining fortune in the hands of a charity trust that his ...

Now that the white smoke is finally floated by the fireplace above the Sistine chapel to report that a new pope has been chosen, there will still be a short wait before the identity of the next pontiff becomes clear.Based on what happened when Pope Francis was elected in 2013, it probably takes at least an hour before the designated cardinal appears on a balcony of the Basilica of San Pietro to announce, in Latin, "Annunio Vobis Gaudium Magnum: Habemus Papam" - "I announce a great joy: we have a Pope."The cardinal (for this reason, Cardinal Dominique Mamberti of France is therefore announced the identity of the chosen Pope and the name he will adopt as a pontiff. The last time, Francis came out on the balcony about 10 minutes after the announcement of his identity.(If Cardinal Mamberti wer...

Openi said last Wednesday that he had hired Fidji Simo, CEO of Instacart, to take on a new role that manages the teams of activities and operations of the artificial intelligence company.In a blog post, Sam Altman, CEO of Openai, said he would remain responsible as head of the company. But the appointment of Mrs. Simo as CEO of applications would have freed him to concentrate on other parts of the organization, including research, computer and security systems, he said."We have become a global product company that serves hundreds of millions of users all over the world and growing very quickly," Altman said in the blog post. He added that Openai had also become a "infrastructure company" which provided artificial intelligence tools on a large scale."Each of these is a huge effort that coul...