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Tuesday the Senate confirmed Dr. Martin A. Makary as Commissioner of Food and Drug Administration and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health, installing two critics of the medical establishment for influential places in the midst of a Trump administration campaign to cut health costs.In a vote from 56 to 44, dr. Makary has been confirmed to guide an agency with a wide regulatory authority on the products including drugs and vaccines, putting it at the center of the safety pill safety pill and a wide range of inociations.The confirmation of Dr. Bhattacharya-Da 53 to 47, with a party-party vote placed at the head of the main medical research agency in the world, which has recently been affected by cuts to staff and orders to pause or cancel vast research fundin...

The Trump administration seems doubled on Greenland.Vice -president JD Vance announced Tuesday to be directed on the island at the end of this week, winning a controversial visit that Greenland officials have clarified that they don't want to.At the beginning of this week, the Trump administration declared that Usha Vance, the second lady, and Michael Waltz, the national security councilor, were traveling to Greenland to promote ties with the semi -autonomous territory of Denmark that President Trump wants for the United States.Officials of Denmark and Greenland immediately marked the journey as "aggressive" and part of the president of the president to obtain the island, as he recently said, "in one way or another".The White House released a statement on Tuesday afternoon by changing the ...

World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency company started by Donald J. Trump and its children, announced Tuesday that she was planning to sell a digital currency called Stablecoin, deepening the president's financial ties with the crypt while its administration relaxes the application of the sector.Stablecoin would be known as USD1, the company wrote in a social media post, without revealing when it would be on sale. Stablecoin, a popular form of cryptocurrency, are designed to maintain a constant value of $ 1, making them useful for many types of crypt transactions."No game. No expedients. Just a real stability," he published World Liberty on his X account.Stablecoin is the fourth digital currency that Trump and his commercial partners have marketed to the public in the last year. World...

The United Nations announced on Monday that he would have reduced his presence to Gaza by withdrawing about a third of his international workers there, following repeated strikes of his structures by Israel.The Secretary General António Guterres declared in a declaration that the decision to reduce the imprint of the organization to Gaza was "difficult" at a time when humanitarian needs were conceded and with the resumption of Israeli attacks were killing hundreds of Palestinians, including women and children.The withdrawal announced on Monday would be the first time since the beginning of the Hamas Israeli war in 2023 that the United Nations have reduced his workforce to Gaza, but will keep a presence there."The United Nations are not leaving Gaza. The organization remains committed to co...

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...