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President Trump floated by changing the name of the Persian Gulf in the Arab Gulf before a trip to the Middle East next week, a move that raged Iran and its people."I will have to make a decision," Trump said in the oval office on Wednesday. "I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. I don't know if the feelings will be injured."Last week, the Associated Press reported that Trump planned to announce the rebirth on his tour in various Arab countries, which have been pressing for change for years.The turquoise blue water has been called the Persian Gulf by at least the 550 BC, when the Persian dynasty of Ciro the Great ruled an empire that crossed India at the edges of Western Europe. The ancient Persia is now the modern Iran and all its southern coast extends along the Persian Gul...

Five mornings a week, dr. David Slotwiner, head of the Cardiology of New York -Presbyterian Queens Hospital, can be found on human hearts.But on Sunday morning, he is in a field covered in grass in a rural farm of Hackettowown, in New Jersey, standing between half a dozen sheep, whistle in his hand, teaching his border Collie Cosmo and Luna at the pack."It helps me to think about what you need to be an effective leader, even if doctors don't respond very well to the whistles," said dr. Slotwiner, 58, specialized in cardiac electrophysiology.He started coming to the farm during the Pandemia del Coronavirus, after Cosmo began to show aggression and bit his wife, Anne Slowiner, 60 years old. A coach recommended a small sheep farm in New Jersey, Wayside Farm, who trains Border Collies - an...

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 ...