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During his Senate confirmation hearings to be Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. showed up as a supporter of vaccines. But in office, he and the agencies he leads have taken large -scale measures, sometimes thin to undermine trust in the effectiveness and safety of vaccines.The National Institutes of Health has interrupted the funding for researchers who study the hesitation of the vaccine and hoped to find a way to overcome it. He also canceled the programs destined to discover new vaccines to prevent future pandemics.The centers for the control and prevention of diseases have set aside an advertising campaign for the flu. Kennedy said in an incorrect way that scientists who recommend the CDC on vaccines have "serious and serious conflicts of interest" in promoting products and yo...

The British laws that limit what the police can say about criminal cases "is not suitable for the era of social media," said a government committee in a report published on Monday in Great Britain which highlighted how much the uncontrolled disinformation fueled the disorders last summer.The violent disorder, fed by the far right, hit several cities for days after a teenager killed three girls on July 29 in a SWIFT themed dance lesson in Southport, England. In the hours following the stabs, false statements that the striker was a Muslim immigrant without documents spread rapidly online.In a relationship that examines the unrest, a parliamentary committee stated that the lack of information from the authorities after the attack "created a void in which the disinformation was able to grow". ...

The Trump administration is not surrendering on the giants of technology.On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission will face off in court for the statements that the social media giant has eliminated nascent competitors when he purchased Instagram and WhatsApp. And on April 21, the Department of Justice will support that a federal judge should force Google to sell its web browser Chrome to limit the power of its research monopoly.Both cases, which contributed to setting a new antitrust control era, were presented during the first term of President Trump. They were advanced by the Biden Administration, which also intended Monopoly legal actions against Amazon, Apple and the business of Google advertising technology.Investors in Silicon Valley and Wall Street hoped that Mr. Trump could show mo...

When Yona Schnitzer, a Marketing writer of Tel Aviv, participated in the traditional meal of Seder Pasqua, said a special prayer for the return of all the hostages still held by Palestinian militants in Gaza.He had thought that their freedom would be assured by Easter of 2025, but this did not happen."It has become so normalized that there are hostages in Gaza," said Schnitzer, 36 years old. "It's surreal and heartbreaking."On Saturday evening, the Israelis observed the beginning of the Jewish Easter, the Jewish Festival of Liberty, for the second time since 7 October 2023 led by Hamas, he turned on the war in Gaza. The holiday is usually a celebration of the biblical history of the ancient Israelites freed from slavery in Egypt, with families gathering to tell that story, sing songs and e...

In a speech broadcast at the Food and Drug Administration Maryland campus on Friday morning, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. showed up as a secretary to the health of the nation with a tortuous speech that touched everything, from birds to prey to pollution in the Erie LakeKennedy told the agency staff members, in the grip of the loss of 20 percent of their workforce under his review of the health and human services department, to courageously avoid the impulse to protect the companies that regulate.The layoffs, voluntary departures and cuts in funding have already decimated divisions that regulate the supervision of tobacco, the process of approval of drugs, the milk and cow's test test for avian influence and food safety that monitors and protects consumers from diseases of food origin.In his obse...

Jonathan McDowell is a reference expert for everything Spaceflight. Thousands of subscribers have read his report on the monthly space and many more people have seen it on cable news and other multimedia platforms that explain unexpected events in orbit.But this has always been his secondary concert: for 37 years, Dr. McDowell was a specialist in X-ray astronomy at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysics Center. At the beginning of this year he announced that he retired from the role and also leaving the United States for Great Britain.The decision was partly pushed, he said, from the ongoing pressures on the budget of federal science, made more complicated by political changes by the inauguration of President Trump."It simply does not seem that the opportunities will be there to be an effect...

At the end of a three -hour audition last month, Senator Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, took sides of a group of Republicans in a highly contested debate. He voted to advance the Genius Act, a bill supported by the cryptocurrency industry."It is clear that digital activities are here to stay," said Gallego after the hearing of the Senate Banking Committee. By breaking from the best democrat of the Committee, he defined the bill a "step in the right direction".The vote, from 18 to 6, was only preliminary, advancing a bill that will require the approval of the entire Senate. But in the world of cryptocurrencies, it was celebrated as a moment of claim.Gallego is part of an increasingly influential cohort to the congress: beneficiaries of the size of the cryptocurrency industry. During a ...

A short handshake can be the most probable result of the preliminary diplomatic interviews set for Saturday between American and Iranian officials.It would probably be enough to keep the discussions and potentially lead to the first official face to face between the two countries since President Trump abandoned a historical nuclear agreement seven years ago.The interviews, which will be held in Oman, will act as a sensation session to see if the Trump administration and the Iranian clerical government could move to complete negotiations to limit Iran's nuclear program.Both sides come with great distrust, given that Mr. Trump moved away from the 2015 agreement that Iran had mediated with the United States and other world powers and slapped harsh penalties on Tehran during his first term.Mr....

A shift in the atmosphereThe return flight of Mrs. Petrova from Paris landed in Boston on the evening of February 16. While the plane sat on the asphalt, he sent back and forth with Dr. Peshkin, trying to confirm how the package should manage in the customs. But at that point, the passengers were already archiving by the plane, he said, and Mrs. Petrova interrupted the conversation.Initially, said Mrs. Petrova, her return seemed normal. At Passport Control, an officer examined the J-1 visa that Harvard had sponsored, identifying it as a biomedical researcher. The officer stamped the passport, admitting it to the country.So, while heading towards the luggage complaint, a border patrol officer approached her and asked her to look for her suitcase. All he could think was that the embryos cham...

It seemed to be a perfect game: the best French footballer agrees to act for his hometown. And for a while it was.Kylian Mbappé was the star attraction that the main French team, Paris St.-Germain, had planned to build for the years to come. His owners, an arm of the Qatar government, reported him in Paris from Monaco in 2017 for about $ 200 million, a record agreement for a teenager and at the time the second highest tax ever in football.The goals have been scored, the trophies were guaranteed, Mbappé became one of the most famous athletes in the world and the link between the player and the club has been forged. Then the problem came.Mbappé, who is now 26 years old, had since childhood dreamed of playing for Real Madrid of Spain - the royalty of football - and his possibility arrived in ...