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President Trump selected Susan Monarez, interim director of the centers for the control and prevention of diseases, to guide the agency permanently.The president withdrew his first candidate, dr. Dave Weldon, a few hours before his confirmation hearing. If confirmed by the Senate, Dr. Monararez, a researcher of infectious diseases, will be the first non -physical to lead the agency in over 50 years."The Americans have lost confidence in the CDC due to political prejudices and disastrous bad management", wrote the president on Truth Social, adding that Dr. Monaarez would have worked with the secretary of health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to face the epidemic of chronic diseases and restore the responsibility of the agency."As an incredible mother and public employee dedicated, Dr. Monorarez in...

While the Israeli military have expanded his offensive in the Gaza Strip, taking control of several territory in some parts of the South and North and issuing new evacuation orders, many people who had recently returned to their homes have been displaced again.The Israeli journey in the southern city of Rafah has pushed thousands of families from the Tal -ult district, near the border with Egypt, to escape on foot on Sunday before the Israeli troops completely surround the area in the afternoon.For many, the new mass movement round has reported painful memories of the previous days of the war in Gaza. The residents of such al -ults and nearby areas have declared that they had to travel a specific path in the middle of a bombing, transporting very few objects, during the sacred month of Ram...

The Netflix Reed Hastings co-founder wants more researchers and students ask deep questions about artificial intelligence and its potential to overturn human standards.To this end, Hastings gave $ 50 million to Bowdain College, his Alma Mater, to create a research initiative on "Ai and Humanity" - the greatest gift for the liberal arts college in Maine from its foundation in 1794, the school announced on Monday.The purpose of the program, said Hastings and school officials, is to make Bowdain a mecca to study the risks and consequences of the AI, the initiative also aims to help students facing emerging technologies capable of producing human texts and even producing formulas for potential new drug compounds.The idea for the program was born from the discussions in recent months between Ha...

The mayor of Istanbul was imprisoned pending his trial for corruption accusations and removed from the position on Sunday, limping a contender potential in the next presidential elections of Turkey and the main rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.The mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, was arrested at his home Wednesday, four days before being appointed presidential candidate of the political opposition of Türkiye. He denied the accusations against him, that Mr. Erdogan's opponents called a stratagem to hinder the presidential offer of a popular politician.The court ordered that Mr. Imamoglu was imprisoned with accusations of corruption pending a trial. Public ministries accused him of leading a criminal organization and supervising corruption, rigging and other financial misdeeds at the Town Hall....

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the nation health, on Saturday he instructed the leaders of the non -profit who founded to break down a web page that imitated the design of the centers for the control of diseases and the prevention site, but presented a case that the vaccines cause autism.The page had been published on an apparently recorded site on non-profit, the health defense for children of the anti-Vaccino group. Mr. Kennedy's action came after the New York Times asked for information on the page and after the news bounced on social media.The page was brought offline on Saturday evening. "Secretary Kennedy has commissioned the office of the General Consultant to send a formal question to the defense of children's health that requires the removal of their website," said the Depart...

At least three people were killed during a large attack of Russian drones in the Ukrainian capital during the night, they said local officials on Sunday, hours before the interviews mediated by the United States to discuss a partial fire would have started in Saudi Arabia.Multiple explosions shaken the capital, Kiev, during the night while the air defense units shot the arrival drones. The Ukrainian aeronautics said that Russia had launched almost 150 drones across the country and that it had knocked about 100. The statement could not be verified independently.On Sunday morning, Kiev's local authorities said that some drones and debris from others who were shot down had fallen on several buildings in the city, triggering fires. Vitali Klitschko, mayor of Kyiv, said three people were killed...

NASA made a bet a few years ago that commercial companies could bring scientific experiments to the moon with a lower budget than the agency.Last year, it was a bad bet. The first spatial vehicle financed by NASA completely missed the moon. The second has landed but has fallen.But this month, a robotic lander named Blue Ghost, built by Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, in Texas, managed from start to finish.On March 16, the mood to the Firefly mission operations outside Austin was a mix of happy and melancholy. There was nothing else to worry about, nothing to do, except looking at the company's spatial vehicle to die.At a quarter of a million miles away, the sun had already placed itself on the mare crisis, the lunar lava plain where Blue Ghost had collected scientific observations for two...

The rockets were fired from Lebanon in Israel for the first time in months of Saturday, pushing the Israeli forces to go back to the southern Lebanon sites after hours, according to which they were linked to the Hezbollah militant group.At least six people in Lebanon were killed in the Israeli bombing and other injured, according to the declarations of the Lebanese Ministry of Health, which does not distinguish between civilians and fighters. The Israeli army said she launched a second cycle of attacks on Saturday evening.The attacks were the last example of how the renewed Israeli offensive to Gaza was rippling through the Middle East. They also risk further interrupting the return of tens of thousands of displaced residents on both sides of the border that had fled more than a year of fi...

Perhaps the most lasting public moment for Mrs. Dukakis during the campaign was a matter of debate placed on her. The Moderator of the debate, Bernard Shaw of the CNN, had asked Mr. Dukakis: "Governor, if Kitty Dukakis had been raped and assassinated, would you prefer an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?""No, no, Bernard," replied Dukakis without emotion before reaffirming his opposition to the death penalty and discuss his record on crime. The analysts called the response tone, one of the worst in the history of the presidential debate, and said they had contributed to sinking the chances of Mr. Dukakis against his opponent, the vice -president George HW Bush, who continued to win 40 states and the presidency.Kitty Dukakis was embarrassed, he later told journalists. The scandalous...

When it comes to tackling global conflicts, President Trump is a man in a hurry.Even before his inauguration, the president claimed the merit of what he called a "ceased the epic fire" in Gaza. He ran to convince Ukraine and Russia to quickly embrace a break in the fighting. And with Iran, Trump wants an agreement within two months to prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon.It is the version of foreign policy of the "Flood The Zone" approach of the President to Washington, where he and his lieutenants used Blitzkrieg similar tactics to dismantle the bureaucracy, consolidate executive power and attack his political enemies. Also on the world phase, Trump embraced a haste foreign policy approach designed to quickly resolve the disputes he inherited.But his diplomatic impatience is no...