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This article is part of NeglectedA series of necrologists on extraordinary people whose deaths, starting from 1851, have not been reported on time.Katharine Dexter McCormick, born from a life of wealth, who aggravated the marriage, could have sat back and simply enjoy the numerous advantages that flow. Instead, he put his considerable luck - combined with his remarkable will - in making life better for women.Activist, philanthropist and benefactor, McCormick used his wealth strategically, in particular to sign the basic research that led to the development of the birth control pill in the late 1950s.Before then, the contraception in the United States was extremely limited, with prohibitions on diaphragms and condoms. The advent of the pill made it easier for women to plan when and if to ha...

Not long ago, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was setting up the European allies to resist the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He illustrated the point that a higher diplomat, R. Nicholas Burns, recently summarized as the way the United States win the global competition for power and prosperity: "Be kind to your allies".President Trump clearly has a different vision. His antagonism towards Europe has been public for decades, seeing the allies as economic competitors and geopolitical parasites. And his decision on Thursday to impose controversial rates calculated to American partners, including Ukraine-but not Russia or North Korea bare his will to fracture a transatlantic alliance that has widely maintained peace in Europe for 80 years.In combination with the demand of Mr. Trump that NATO allie...

The rates on imported vehicles entered into force on Thursday, a policy that President Trump has declared to stimulate investments and jobs in the United States, but that analysts claim that they will increase new cars of thousands of dollars.The duty of 25 percent applies to all cars assembled outside the United States. Starting from May 3, the rate will also apply to the imported cars, which will be added to the cost of cars assembled at national and automatic level.There will be a partial exemption for cars made in Mexico or Canada that meet the terms of free trade agreements with these countries. The car manufacturers will not have to pay duties on parts such as engines, transmissions or batteries that have been made in the United States and subsequently installed by car in Mexican or ...

The Israeli army pushed more deeply in the north of Gaza on the ground on Friday after having issued a series of evacuation orders that asked the Palestinians to escape, part of its growing offensive against Hamas in the Gaza strip cultivated by war.The expansion of land operations came after the Palestinian health authorities declared on Thursday that dozens of people, including the children, were killed in the Israeli strikes in a school transformed into the Tuffah district of Gaza City. On Friday, the Israeli soldiers said that the strikes were targeting militants in a command and control center in Hamas, without appointing them.The evacuation orders brought renewed difficulties to the Palestinians who had already endured the displacement of their homes and miserable conditions during t...

Carbon monoxide gas, which is invisible and odorless, can be fatal. He can kill people in their homes as they sleep, filtering unnoticed by generators. It can accumulate inside the closed garage walls, which spreads from the cars left in the running by the residents in search of heat or power in a storm.Thursday was confirmed by another fatality with illegal carbon monoxide poisoning. Miller Gardner, the 14 -year -old son of the Yankees Brett Gardner's longtime player, died of carbon monoxide poisoning while on vacation with his family in Costa Rica. The authorities said that contamination from the machinery near their room in their resort could have been fault.Although it is preventable, carbon monoxide poisoning is one of the main causes of deaths related to poisoning in the United State...

Weeks after being shook by thousands of earthquakes mainly on a small scale, the island of Santorini, the jewel in the crown of the tourist sector of Greece, is determined to return to business as usual-even if the earthquake phenomenon remains a mystery.The island dependent on tourism, who had enjoyed a strong return after the Pandemia del Coronavirus, is counting on it.The first two cruise ships of the season have arrived the last two Sundays in March and more than 40 are scheduled for this month, giving way to one year in which the union of the owners of cruise ships provided for a 10 % increase in visitors to the cruise last year.But hoteliers still expect a slower year, with falling bookings by about 30 percent than 2024."Things have woken up in the last two weeks," said Alexis Yannou...

The European Union regulators are preparing important penalties against Elon Musk X's social media platform to break a law on the point of reference to combat illicit content and disinformation, they said four people with knowledge of the plans, a move that is likely to increase tensions with the United States by targeting one of the closest consultants of President Trump.The sanctions are destined to include a fine and requests for changes to the product, they said that people, who refused to be identified by discussing an ongoing investigation. These are expected to be announced this summer and will be the first issued pursuant to a new EU law destined to force companies on social media to supervise their services, they said.The European authorities have evaluated how great is a fine to ...

Days after the United Nations accused Israel of killing 15 humanitarian workers in Gaza, the officials who recovered the bodies or made the autopsies said that some of the rescue were affected several times before being buried in a mass tomb.The Palestine Red Crescent Society, which had eight of its killed members and built the recovery mission, said that almost all 15 bodies showed firearms wounds, according to a spokesperson, Nebal Farsakh. A paramedical was found with her hands and feet related to her body, said Mrs. Farsakh."My colleagues were affected; the bodies that were recovered, many of them have multiple arms shots. We have all found thrown into a mass tomb, the bodies were put next to each other and covered with sand," said Mrs. Farsakh in a Ramallah's telephone interview.The d...

Antakya, Hatay'da hizmet veren avukatlık ofisi arayanlar için, doğru yerdesiniz. Antakya avukat ihtiyacınız olduğunda, hukuki sorunlarınız için güvenilir ve uzman bir destek almanız son derece önemlidir. Antakya'da, her alanda uzman avukatlarımız ile en doğru hukuki çözümü sunmayı hedefliyoruz. Hatay Avukat Arayışınızda En İyi Seçim Hatay avukat olarak, hem şehir içi hem de şehir dışındaki müvekkillerimize kaliteli hukuk hizmeti sunmaktayız. Ceza davalarından aile hukukuna kadar birçok farklı alanda hukuki destek sağlıyoruz. Hukuk büromuzda, her bir alanında uzmanlaşmış avukatlar görev almakta olup, her davada profesyonellik ve güven ön planda tutulmaktadır. Antakya Avukat ile Hızlı ve Etkili Hukuki Çözümler Antakya avukat konusunda deneyimli ekibimiz, müvekkillerinin en iyi şe...

In addition to large reductions in the staff of the Centers for the control and prevention of diseases, the Trump administration has asked the Agency to cut $ 2.9 billion of contracts for contracts, according to three federal officials with knowledge of the matter.The program of reducing the costs of the Administration, called the Department of Efficiency of the Government, asked the public health agency to cut around 35 percent of its expenses for contracts about two weeks ago. The CDC was told to conform by April 18, according to officials.The cuts further promise a knee tendon an agency that already moves away from the loss of 2,400 employees, almost a fifth of his workforce. Tuesday, the administration fired the scientists of the CDC focused on environmental health and asthma, injuries...