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El Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) reveló los datos de la Encuesta Nacional de Empleo (ENE) para el trimestre octubre-diciembre de 2025. En este sentido, la tasa de desocupación en el trimestre fue de 8,0%, con una baja a doce meses de 0,1 puntos porcentuales (pp.), debido al alza de la fuerza de trabajo, igual … Continua leyendo "Chile cerró el 2025 con un desempleo del 8,0% y una alza de la informalidad" The post Chile cerró el 2025 con un desempleo del 8,0% y una alza de la informalidad appeared first on BioBioChile.

Зврши јавната дебата за реформскиот закон за високите раководни функции во која експертите и јавноста ги посочија недостатоците во, како што го нарекува власта, „историското решение за департизација на администрацијата“. Од вкупно 1.347 институции, со овој закон ќе се бираат директори само во 49.

Den seneste meningsmåling fra Ekot er katastrofal for Liberalerna. Med 1,4 pct. ligger partiet langt under Riksdagens spærregrænse på 4 pct.  Splittelsen inden for partiet over samarbejdet med Sverigedemokraterna udpeges af mange som en medvirkende faktor, og sagen forventes at komme i fokus igen i valgåret 2026. Ekos seneste meningsmåling, som månedligt offentliggøres af Indikator […]

Jusqu'à 1 700 milliards d'euros, c'est ce que pourraient coûter à l'Europe les PFAS. Aussi appelés les polluants éternels, ils sont très prisés de l'industrie et on les retrouve désormais partout. La Commission européenne a souhaité y voir plus clair et a commandé une étude pour évaluer le fardeau qu'ils représenteront à l'avenir pour les populations.

Irán ha incorporado 1.000 drones a su arsenal en medio de las amenazas del presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, de atacar al país persa si no accede a negociar. “Los vehículos aéreos no tripulados (UAV) recién incorporados se han desarrollado en línea con las amenazas de seguridad emergentes y las lecciones operativas aprendidas de la reciente … Continua leyendo "Irán incorpora 1.000 drones a su arsenal en medio de las amenazas de Trump" The post Irán incorpora 1.000 drones a su arsenal en medio de las amenazas de Trump appeared first on BioBioChile.

A third Nashvillian has died due to carbon monoxide poisoning in the aftermath of a winter storm that has left hundreds of thousands without power. Officials urge residents not to use portable generators indoors and caution that the impact of the storm will be felt for several more days. The post Nashville Officials Announce Third Storm-Related Death and Deny NES Turned Away Line Crews appeared first on Nashville Banner.

El guiso murciano de trigo o trigoentero es una de las recetas más identitarias de la gastronomía rural murciana; de origen campesino y ligado a la cocina de aprovechamiento, se prepara con este cereal, garbanzos y verduras de temporada El plato típico de Murcia que es perfecto para el invierno: la receta para prepararlo en casa Aunque algunos de ellos tienen como ingredientes la carne de cerdo, de pollo o conejo, los caracoles, el bacalao u otros pescados, el recetario clásico murciano también han dejado hueco a platos de cuchara elaborados a base de legumbres, verduras y cereales como el arroz con habichuelas, la olla gitana, el potaje con acelgas o el guiso de trigo murciano, que se puede cocinar con o sin ingredientes de origen animal. El guiso de trigo murciano, también conocido como trigoentero, es una de las recetas más identitarias de la gastronomía rural murciana. De origen campesino, nacido de la necesidad de los tiempos de crisis y ligado a la cocina de aprovechamiento, se prepara con trigo entero —de ahí su nombre—, garbanzos, pencas de acelga o de cardo y, en algunas ocasiones, también con costillejas o tocino. Es una receta típica del jueves santo, cuando se cocinaba exclusivamente con el cereal y las verduras de temporada. Como indica su nombre, la base del plato será el trigo entero, remojado previamente durante horas para ablandarlo; si es posible desde la noche anterior a su elaboración. Para cocinarlo, no hay que tener prisas, cuanto más tiempo esté guisándose más rico quedará. Es un plato que pide hacerlo a fuego lento, cocinándolo durante varias horas para que el trigo alcance la textura deseada, el caldo espese bien y se asienten correctamente todos los sabores. El primer paso, escoger los ingredientes El primer paso para tener éxito en esta receta es escoger bien el cereal que vamos a utilizar. Es crucial hacerse con trigo en grano de buena calidad, que se puede adquirir en algunos supermercados o tiendas de barrio, herbolarios o mercados locales, incluso a granel. Optar por la espelta puede ser también una buena opción, una variedad antigua que se asemeja mucho al que se utilizaba en sus orígenes. Además del trigo, hay que llenar la cesta de la compra con algunas verduras de temporada, muchas de ellas con un toque de sabor dulce, como la chirivía, el nabo, la calabaza totanera o las cebollas. Y para acompañar el plato, unas cuantas vainas de habas de la huerta murciana, para tomar en crudo entre cucharada y cucharada, un gesto muy popular en comidas y almuerzos. A fuego lento Para preparar este plato necesitarás en primer lugar remojar el trigo al menos durante doce horas, y dos o tres horas de cocción en olla normal. Toma nota de estos ingredientes para una versión vegetariana del plato y para seis raciones: 400 gramos de trigo entero Un puñado de garbanzos secos, que también necesitarán su remojo Dos patatas grandes Una chirivía Un nabo Un puñado de judías verdes Un cuarto de calabaza totanera Un par de pencas de acelgas o cardo Una cebolla Dos dientes de ajo Una hoja de laurel Un tomate maduro Una cuchara de postre de pimentón, unas hebras de azafrán y sal al gusto Agua No hay una única forma de preparar este plato, ni una lista cerrada de ingredientes. Se puede cocinar solo con una legumbre, los garbanzos, o añadirle también alubias blancas secas, dependerá de la zona donde se consuma. Lo mismo pasa con las verduras, al ser una receta de aprovechamiento y utilizar verduras de temporada, puede variar de una casa a otra, según lo que tengas en la despensa o lo que encuentres en el puesto más cercano. Muchas recetas incluyen, por ejemplo, la alcachofa. Lo primero que vamos a hacer es verter agua fría en una olla y añadir el trigo y los garbanzos para cocer hasta que empiecen a estar tiernos, más o menos una hora y media. Mientras, prepararemos las verduras. La cebolla y los ajos los picaremos finamente, y el resto de los vegetales los troceamos en pedazos medianos. Vamos a hacer un sofrito con la cebolla, el ajo, el tomate rallado y el pimentón para darle sabor al guiso. Una vez estén tiernos el trigo y los garbanzos, adicionamos el sofrito a la olla y empezamos a incorporar las verduras también. Las primeras serán la patata, las pencas, el nabo, la chirivía o la calabaza. Transcurridos quince minutos podemos añadir también las judías verdes y las alcachofas si las vamos a incluir en el guiso. Lo cocinaremos todo al menos otra media hora más, removiendo de vez en cuando y vigilando que no se quede corto de caldo. Hay que supervisar todo el proceso. Antes de servirlo es conveniente dejarlo reposar un poco de tiempo, cuanto más mejor, porque permitirá que los sabores se aposenten bien y queden mejor integrados; incluso de un día para otro. Para disfrutar de una experiencia gastronómica popular, acompaña con las vainas de habas.

Belle Meade, one of Nashville's wealthiest areas, has been without power, with blocked roads, and a sewage system that is filling up tanks with no place for the waste to go, while rumors of looters and scams have been circulating on social media as a result of last weekend's winter storm. The post In Belle Meade, Power Outages and Sewer Issues Could Stretch into Next Week appeared first on Nashville Banner.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota’s senior senator and the state’s most accomplished vote-getter, launched her campaign for governor Thursday, hoping to make history as the state’s first female governor after a failed attempt in 2020 to become the nation’s first female president. Klobuchar planned to launch her campaign Jan. 26, but she delayed it after federal […]

While licking their wounds after Republicans’ decisive victory in 2024, Democrats have vowed to double down on one particular issue in the next election cycle: affordability.  Heading into 2026, the cost of groceries, electric bills, mortgage payments and health care remain top of mind for many. While President Donald Trump maintains his administration is delivering […]

A bill empowering Indiana's governor to deploy a "military police force" of Indiana National Guard members throughout the state now heads to the Senate.

Durante la etapa franquista, se difundió el rumor de que el empresario y animador estadounidense había nacido realmente en Almería Hitchcock no quería música en la escena, pero Bernard Herrmann insistió: así fue como la banda sonora de 'Psicosis' cambió el cine como protagonista a Walt Disney, el creador de Mickey Mouse y pionero de la industria de animación estadounidense. Durante años, se difundió el rumor de que este empresario había nacido andaluz y que, siendo un bebé, emigró al otro lado del charco, donde se convirtió en ciudadano estadounidense. El rumor empezó a raíz de un artículo publicado en la revista cinematográfica Primer Plano el 27 de octubre de 1940, bajo el título “Walt Disney nació en Mojácar y se llama José Guirao Zamora”. La noticia explicaba entonces que aquel hombre era hijo ilegítimo de Isabel Zamora y un médico local, el doctor Guirao, familia que emigró a Estados Unidos y que acabó al servicio de la familia Disney en una granja de Missouri.  Los padres de José murieron repentinamente y los Disney acogieron al niño, al que cambiaron de nombre y llamaron Walter. No es la única teoría sobre cómo Disney acabó en Estados Unidos siendo español. Otro de los rumores aseguraba que fue su madre Isabel la que, con miedo del estigma social por ser madre soltera, decidió emigrar y entregó al niño en adopción a la familia Disney, quienes habrían ocultado su verdadero origen. En la década de 1940, dos periodistas estadounidenses visitaron Mojácar y revisaron los archivos parroquiales donde José habría sido bautizado con el objetivo de encontrar pruebas que respaldaran la teoría del Disney español. Aunque no encontraron evidencias concluyentes, toda la investigación reavivó el interés por esta leyenda urbana.  Durante mucho tiempo, la prensa de nuestro país dio por buena esta versión, y el propio Walt Disney tuvo que negarlo en octubre de 1957 después de que el periodista Manuel del Arco le preguntara al respecto. La biografía oficial del empresario y animador nunca ha dejado de sostener que este nació el 5 de diciembre de 1901 en Chicago.  ¿Walt Disney está congelado? La leyenda de Mojácar no ha sido la única que ha rodeado a este personaje, siendo una de las más comentadas la que tiene que ver con su muerte. Disney falleció el 15 de diciembre de 1966 como consecuencia de una insuficiencia circulatoria provocada por el cáncer de pulmón que padecía. Y entonces nació el rumor: su cuerpo fue congelado antes de su muerte para resucitarlo en el futuro. La disparatada teoría se alimentó por las circunstancias del fallecimiento. La familia no quiso organizar una capilla ardiente ni un funeral multitudinario, además de que muy pocas personas llegaron a ver el cuerpo del empresario. Uno de los que siempre desmintió aquel rumor fue su sobrino Roy. “¿De donde viene la leyenda? De las ganas de que Disney viviese... ¡Ojalá! De nuestra ansia de inmortalidad”, aseguró en 2004.

Marshall Ramsey: This week's catastrophic ice storm has crippled my new hometown of Oxford. I’ll never forget the gruesome, demonic cacophony of trees breaking, transformers popping and thunder.

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s Global Checkup in your inbox a day early. Hello from Nairobi. Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of seeing Mahmood Mamdani launch his new book, Slow Poison, here in the city. The book traces Ugandan history, particularly the bizarre and violent reign of Idi Amin and the long rule of Yoweri Museveni (who entered his fourth decade in power in sham elections held just this month.) It’s a great read. Mamdani is one of East Africa’s most respected political scholars and, in a curious bit of trivia, he’s also the father of Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s new mayor. My name is William Herkewitz, and I’m a journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. This is the Global Health Checkup, where I highlight five of the week’s most important stories on outbreaks, medicine, science, and survival from around the world. With that, as we say in Swahili: karibu katika habari — welcome to the news. U.S. pulls out of the WHO The United States officially pulled out of the World Health Organization on Thursday, making good on the Trump administration’s yearlong pledge, Al Jazeera reports. (One complicating factor not in the Al Jazeera coverage: The United States still owes WHO roughly $260 million … money it’s unlikely to pony up.) As a reminder, the WHO is the United Nations body that coordinates global disease surveillance, sets health standards, and helps countries respond to outbreaks. Is the U.S. pullout mostly symbolic, or will it reshape global health in real ways? I reached out to Gavin Yamey, director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health at Duke University, to discuss. Yamey is exceptionally clear: The pullout will “have major consequences for both the United States and the WHO itself.” On the American side, “the U.S. has shot itself in the foot,” he says. “It has now made itself much more vulnerable to disaster and devastation when the next epidemic or pandemic hits. Outbreaks don’t respect national borders,” and now “the country will no longer have access to crucial data about emerging health threats.” For context, before the exit, “if there was an overseas outbreak, the [U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] would play a critical role in the scientific discussions and deliberations convened by WHO on the status of the outbreak, the risk of spread, and the best way to contain and control the outbreak. Now, having left the WHO, the U.S. will be excluded from these crucial conversations,” blunting its ability to track fast-moving outbreaks and advise at home in real time, Yamey says. On the WHO side, Yamey says the loss is twofold. The WHO is losing “some of the finest expertise in the world” at the CDC, but the deeper blow is financial. “The U.S. was the single largest donor to the WHO,” he says. Without American dollars, “the organization will be weakened in its ability to carry out its critical activities. And there is no other body on the planet that does, or can do, what the WHO does. There’s no other body that has the same global reach, representation, legitimacy, and ability to convene experts and determine best scientific practice. Its activities are the bedrock of global health,” he says. “By weakening the WHO, the U.S. has made the world less safe — which in turn makes the U.S. less safe.” (I promised you, after last week’s optimistic report, we were in for a heavy dose of reality.) But Yamey also wanted to make one other point explicit, especially for American readers: The United States is leaving WHO after weakening its own public health system. He says that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services, “arguably one of the world’s most extreme and dangerous anti-vaccine activists and conspiracy theorists … has spent the last year dismantling the U.S. federal public health system and its vaccination systems. He has fired hundreds of critically important federal public health workers, massively weakened the CDC, interfered with the CDC’s science-based guidance, and rolled back vaccination, even as vaccine-preventable diseases are returning.” His takeaway? “Even without exiting the WHO, the U.S. has over the past year greatly weakened its own domestic capacity to deal with health threats, and leaving the WHO makes a bad situation immeasurably worse,” Yamey said. A Nipah virus outbreak India is facing an outbreak of deadly Nipah virus in the eastern state of West Bengal, which borders Bangladesh, the Global Times reports. Authorities have quarantined nearly 100 people and confirmed five cases, including infections among health care workers at a hospital near Kolkata. Disease breakdown: Nipah virus is an animal-borne disease that typically originates in fruit bats and can either spread directly, through proxy animals such as pigs, or through close contact with an infected person’s bodily fluids. There is no treatment or vaccine. It can cause fever, muscle pain, and respiratory distress, which often moves to a deadly inflammation of the brain. In past outbreaks, 40% to 75% of those who contracted the disease died. The outbreak has spooked several countries in the neighborhood across South and Southeast Asia. This includes Thailand, which has begun “screening air passengers arriving from India for possible Nipah virus infection;” Nepal, which “heightened nationwide alertness to prevent the possible entry of the Nipah virus;” and China, which is “strengthen[ing] quarantine and control measures for people entering China from India.” Some context: Nipah is a scary disease, but it’s not new. It was identified in the late ’90s, and the virus has surfaced repeatedly over the past decades. In Bangladesh, for example, small spillover events appear “almost every year,” according to the WHO, and usually involve only a handful of cases. The takeaway? The travel screening and alerts across South and Southeast Asia are not panic moves. They are the global health system clicking into gear. Nipah is highly deadly and so carefully treated and monitored … but history suggests outbreaks like this are usually stopped before they spread far. Neither screw nor worm; still horrible OK, fair warning: This next one is fairly gross. As Healthbeat reported earlier this month, North America is experiencing a resurgence of a flesh-eating fly larva known as the New World screwworm. (Despite the name … it is not a worm.) The situation is dire enough that the United States Department of Agriculture has announced $100 million for “innovative projects” to fight the parasite. The parasite is the larval stage of a blowfly that burrows into open wounds and feeds on living tissue. It was once endemic across much of the southern and southwest United States, Mexico, and Central America. It was largely eradicated from the ’60s through the late ’90s. Before that, the screwworm caused massive losses in livestock (the big threat) and, on rare occasions, infected humans. How was it killed off? The eradication relied largely on a suite of partially U.S.-funded programs that released millions of sterile male flies to crash the wild populations. It worked so well that the insect all but disappeared … until now. The parasite has crept back through Central America and has reached as far north as about 70 miles below the U.S.-Mexico border. Why is it back? We lapsed in the sterile fly release program, essentially. According to a report published in September by the American Veterinary Medical Association, the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted sterile fly production in Panama, reducing the releases that normally keep wild screwworm populations in check. (The report also notes that the closure of U.S. and Mexican fly factories in previous decades left current control efforts with basically just the Panamanian facility.) For the sake of all of our nightmares … let’s get these facilities up and running again. A million missing midwives The world is facing a shortage of nearly 1 million midwives across 181 countries, The Guardian reports. This data come from a new study in the science journal Women and Birth. No surprise here, but the medical care shortage is not evenly spread. Nearly half of the global gap is in Africa, with large midwife shortages also concentrated in the Eastern Mediterranean and parts of the Americas. The report notes that the problem is not just a lack of training, but “a failure in many countries to employ trained midwives where they were needed.” Why does this matter? Beyond childbirth, midwives handle much of the frontline work in pregnancy and postpartum care across much of the developing world. When they are absent, the researchers warn, preventable complications and deaths rise quickly. The study does offer a small silver lining. It estimates a modest reduction in the roughly million-person gap by 2030 as more midwives are trained each year. The problem is that population growth in the hardest-hit regions largely keeps pace with those gains. Even under the researchers’ most optimistic scenarios, hundreds of thousands of midwives will still be missing, well into next decade. What’s the takeaway? It’s hard to pick one. Obviously, this is a complicated amalgam of training and medical staffing issues across very different countries. Still, one conclusion is that this is a solvable problem the world is choosing to tolerate, even though midwives remain one of the most cost-effective ways to keep mothers and babies alive. AI: Revolutionizing the ‘unsexy’ parts of drug development? Artificial intelligence has yet to tackle the core of drug development: actually discovering new, breakthrough medicines. (To be fair to AI, it’s been busy with more important work, like producing goofy songs about Chimpanzees and Borsht.) But AI is quietly speeding up some of the more banal parts of the drug R&D process. According to a Reuters report from the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, drugmakers are using AI to recruit patients for clinical trials, pick trial sites, and draft regulatory paperwork. This “unsexy stuff,” as the Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries CEO Richard Francis put it, is shaving weeks off slow and expensive work, and is where AI “makes a difference,” in the industry today, he says. One interesting vignette from the article: Novartis said it used AI to cut a four- to six-week site-selection process for a massive heart-drug trial down to a single two-hour meeting. (Which, let’s be real, maybe says more about their corporate meeting culture than the power of AI.) Of course, it’s still an open question of how much (or if!) these incremental time savings will actually translate into faster drug approvals or lower costs for patients. I’ll see you next week. William Herkewitz is a reporter covering global public health for Healthbeat. He is based in Nairobi. Contact William at wherkewitz@healthbeat.org.

The Beacon has announced its role as a Founding Newsroom for the first Local News Day, a national day of action scheduled for April 9, 2026. The post The Beacon joins inaugural Local News Day appeared first on The Beacon.

Some Missouri lawmakers want to expand charter schools to more areas of the state, make it easier to switch public schools and help families afford private schools. Others want to roll back or regulate those options. The post Missouri ‘school choice’ bills to watch in 2026 appeared first on The Beacon.

An anesthesiologist and a cardiologist gave up prestigious careers to save their daughter from war. Nearly four years later, they’re still on the long road to practicing their professions in the Dairy State. The transplants: 2 doctors fled Ukraine for Wisconsin. They’re still trying to get their careers back. is a post from Wisconsin Watch, a non-profit investigative news site covering Wisconsin since 2009. Please consider making a contribution to support our journalism.

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The University of Oklahoma-Tulsa School of Community Medicine is facing an $18 million deficit this fiscal year, prompting clinic closures and staff cuts. The school shuttered a surgical clinic and issued contract non-renewals to fewer than 10 teaching physicians. Budget pressures stem from Medicaid privatization and lower reimbursement rates. The post OU-Tulsa School of Community Medicine Ends Contracts, Shutters Clinic appeared first on Oklahoma Watch.

In Lier kwamen op zondag 25 januari een tiental mensen samen voor een ingetogen herdenkingsmoment ter nagedachtenis van de slachtoffers van het geweld door de Iraanse overheid. De bijeenkomst stond in het teken van solidariteit met de Iraanse bevolking, die al geruime tijd protesteert tegen het islamitische regime van Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.