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Das muitas frases ditas sobre Frei Sérgio Antônio Görgen durante a celebração de sua despedida, na Paróquia São Boaventura, em Imigrantes (RS), uma se destacou como síntese de sua vida. Proferida por Frei Olávio Dotto, Ministro Provincial dos Franciscanos do Rio Grande do Sul, ela ecoou fundo e permanece ressoando em nós: “Frei Sérgio morreu […] Frei Sérgio morreu de tanto viver apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.

Nashville Electric Service has restored power to 98 percent of Davidson County households affected by the winter storm; the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled that Metro must release certain records related to the Covenant School shooting; Vanderbilt University has launched a $50 million campaign to raise funds for women's athletics; and more. The post Feb. 5: NES Repairs Update; Tennessee Court of Appeals Rules on Covenant School Shooting Documents appeared first on Nashville Banner.

Across the Americas soaring temperatures are endangering thousands of children and teenagers lacing their boots to play the beautiful game The post Football in sun and without shadow: How extreme heat puts tomorrow’s stars at risk appeared first on Dialogue Earth.

Imagen difundida en redes con indicios de haber sido generada con inteligencia artificial Entre los más de 3 millones de documentos desclasificados por el Departamento de Justicia sobre el caso Epstein no hay constancia de esta supuesta imagen grupal que se habría tomado en la isla de Jeffrey Epstein. Aunque hay informes que vinculan a ciertas figuras como Hillary y Bill Clinton o Gates con Jeffrey Epstein, hasta la fecha no hay pruebas que los vinculen con la red de explotación infantil. Además, como ya te hemos contado en Maldita.es, que un nombre aparezca entre los documentos no quiere decir que se le acusa de cometer algún delito.

Eleven Democrats are vying for their party’s nomination in the race to succeed Gov. Mikie Sherrill in the House of Representatives. The GOP primary has one candidate.

Народы Поволжья всё чаще оказываются в фокусе разговоров о войне — из-за непропорционально большого количества установленных погибших из этих республик, языковой ассимиляции и утраты автономий. В конце января 2026 года Бюро Парламентской ассамблеи Совета Европы (ПАСЕ — главный консультативный орган Совета Европы, созданный в 1949 году и объединяющий парламентариев из 46 стран для защиты демократии, прав человека и верховенства права. ПАСЕ принимает резолюции, мониторит выполнение...

Kryetari i Tetovës dhe një nga drejtuesit e VLEN‑it në Qeveri, Bilall Kasami, ka deklaruar se projekt‑ligji për arsimin e lartë në Maqedoninë e Veriut, aktualisht në debat publik, ka si qëllim kryesor përmirësimin e cilësisë së arsimit, dhe jo të vendosë se sa universitete duhet të ketë ose si të organizohen ato. Ai theksoi […]

Tennessee lawmakers have advanced a DoorDash-backed bill that would allow low-speed autonomous delivery robots to travel on certain roadways, granting them access to crosswalks and bike lanes and doubling the existing speed limit. The post Tennessee Legislature Looks to Allow Delivery Robots in Bike Lanes, Roadways appeared first on Nashville Banner.

An Alabama House Committee heard two bills Wednesday regarding geographical name changes in official state documentation. HB 2, sponsored by Rep. David Standridge, R-Hayden, would change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and require all state and local entities to adopt the name change. “Florida has made it into […]

A state official Wednesday briefed lawmakers on the state’s plans to spend just over $200 million in federal grants meant to partially offset Medicaid cuts, mostly on rural health and workforce. Kenneth Boswell, director of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA), told a group of lawmakers that make up the Alabama Rural […]

A 60-day legislative session can be a cruel thing if you’re hoping to see a bill passed.  Many policy ideas in the Washington Legislature met their end less than a month in, as they failed to pass the first key deadline on Wednesday to remain in play.  Passage of those that survived is far from […]

Africa has 11 percent of the world’s population and 24 percent of the global disease burden, yet only 3 percent of the world’s health workers and less than 1 percent of global health expenditure.

Legislation letting cryptocurrency into public pension investments — and tackling crypto ATM scams — was heard in committee, with votes expected next week.

During this year’s legislative session, our lawmakers face a difficult choice: Should Washington state cover the devastating funding cuts brought down by the Trump administration? Unfortunately, as the 60-day session nears its halfway mark, it looks more and more like Democrats in this Washington are neglecting to defend us from the attacks coming from the […]

Captura del vídeo que circula que muestra rostros distorsionados.Captura del vídeo que circula que muestra etiqueta de IA y la R de “Oficina de Extranjería” distorsionada. Esta misma cuenta ha compartido otros vídeos hechos con IA de migrantes, como este de una mujer con hiyab agradeciendo a Pedro Sánchez la “regularización masiva” y que afirma que “todos tenemos papeles” y están tramitando la tarjeta sanitaria, que ya hemos desmentido en Maldita.es.  Por otro lado, algunos contenidos han afirmado que se han formado filas de “pakistaníes” en varios consulados de Pakistán en España, no en las oficinas de Extranjería, para trámites como la carta de antecedentes penales que será necesaria una vez que inicie el proceso de regularización extraordinaria de personas inmigrantes en España, que de momento, se encuentra en fase de audiencia pública.

El actor recibió el Oscar honorífico en la ceremonia de los premios de la Academia de 1972 El actor de Mr. Bean carga contra el personaje más importante de su carrera: “Es egoísta, no me gusta como persona” historia del cine. Los 22 minutos de aplausos que se llevó El Laberinto del Fauno de Guillermo del Toro en el Festival de Cannes en 2006 batieron el récord del certamen. Aunque otros títulos como Fahrenheit 9/11 de Michael Moore, o Mud con Matthew McConaughey, consiguieron 20 y 18 minutos de aplausos respectivamente, ninguna película ha conseguido en estos 20 años superar al filme del director y guionista mexicano. El resto de galas de premios, como no podía ser de otra forma, tienen su propio ranking de ovaciones y, en el caso de los galardones que entrega la Academia de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas, el primer puesto se lo lleva Charles Chaplin. A sus 88 años, el actor recibió el Oscar honorífico en 1972, en una ceremonia que será recordada por el enorme cariño que la sala le brindó al cómico que alcanzó la fama en la era del cine mudo. El actor, que ya había sido nominado a cuatro premios Oscar en 1941 por su película El gran dictador, consiguió entonces el reconocimiento que merecía: fue ovacionado por nada más y nada menos que 12 minutos, marcando el récord de tiempo de aplausos en la historia de estos prestigiosos galardones. Una disculpa por parte de Estados Unidos En cierto modo, aquella ovación puede entenderse como una disculpa de Estados Unidos, país del que Chaplin se tuvo que exiliar tras ser acusado de comunista. El actor se estableció en el país en 1913, cuando firmó su primer contrato con Keystone Studios e inició su carrera en el cine. Fue allí donde creó a Charlot, el personaje más emblemático de toda su trayectoria.  “Quería que todo fuera una contradicción: los pantalones anchos, el sombrero pequeño, los zapatos grandes... Añadí un pequeño bigote que pensé que añadiría edad sin ocultar mi expresión. No tenía ni idea del personaje. Pero en el momento en que me vestí, la ropa y el maquillaje me hicieron sentir la persona que él era. Empecé a conocerlo, y para cuando subí al escenario ya había nacido por completo”, explicó el actor en su autobiografía. Pero junto con el éxito llegaron también sus primeros problemas políticos. Estados Unidos lo tenía en el punto mira desde el estreno de Tiempos modernos, película en la que hizo una crítica feroz al sistema capitalista y a la deshumanización de los trabajadores. Poco después, el gobierno le insistió para que no exhibiera El gran dictador, la sátira sobre Hitler y el régimen nazi. Nada detuvo al intérprete. A esto se sumaron las acusaciones de simpatizar con el comunismo, que llegaron a tal punto que el FBI incluso le revocó el permiso de residencia mientras Chaplin estaba de gira en Londres. Aunque el gobierno no tenía pruebas de aquello y es probable que hubiera logrado entrar en el país si lo hubiera solicitado, el actor decidió exiliarse a Suiza en 1953, donde residió hasta el final de su vida. Con aquellos 12 minutos de aplausos, la industria estadounidense reconoció, aunque tarde, el legado de uno de los actores más importantes de todos los tiempos.

”Dacă nu reușim să asigurăm o guvernare mai dreaptă, mai justă până în mai-iunie dispare orice suport pentru acest guvern. Limita suportabilității a fost depășită”. Avertismentul vine de la  liderul UDMR, Kelemen Hunor, și îi este adresat chiar șefului Guvernului.

Mike Mazzei, Charles McCall and Chip Keating have loaned themselves a combined $7.6 million ahead of the June 16 primary election. Unlike individual contributions, state ethics rules don’t cap self-funding. The post Gubernatorial Candidates Rely on Personal Money to Launch Campaigns appeared first on Oklahoma Watch.

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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s Global Checkup in your inbox a day early. Hello from Nairobi. The realities of public health hit home for me this weekend. My daughter just started pre-K, a touching milestone I was repeatedly warned would bring more illness into our home. (I took this to mean perpetual sniffles.) Instead, after about a week, she shared a lovely bout of norovirus with me. 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. Vaccine conspiracies as global health policy Gavi, the global organization that finances and distributes vaccines in poorer countries, finds itself in a funding standoff with the United States, Reuters reports. For reference, “the U.S. previously contributed around 13% of Gavi’s funding,” and still has outstanding funds owed to the organization from the Biden era. The issue at hand? You might assume this is tied to America’s broader reworking of the global health budget, but… it is not. Instead, the Trump administration has told the global vaccine group “to phase out shots containing thimerosal as a condition of providing the group with funding.” If you (like me) have made it this far in your life without needing to know what thimerosal is, let me present you with the disappointing news: It is a benign preservative at the center of several vaccine/autism conspiracy theories. I reached out to Peter Hotez, director of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, and one of the world’s foremost experts on vaccine development and vaccine misinformation to get his take. He cautioned against “sanewashing” conspiracy claims or even detailing them next to mainstream vaccine science, which creates a “false equivalency,” as if both sides deserve equal weight. “The thimerosal/autism link was debunked many years ago through both large epidemiological studies and even nonhuman primate neurodevelopment studies,” Hotez said, with the overwhelming fatigue of somebody who has explained this several hundred times before. “Many of these false links were popularized by [U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s] discredited 2005 article published in Rolling Stone and Salon magazines, since retracted by the editors.” As for the ultimate impact on Gavi, it remains to be seen whether the administration follows through, or whether Gavi decides to cave to the anti-science demand. But “it’s tragic for the world’s children that now their access to vaccines and immunizations could be imperiled by this kind of pseudoscience,” Hotez said. We’re winning the worm war Guinea worm disease is on the verge of eradication, with just 10 infections reported worldwide last year, the Washington Post reports. Disease breakdown: Guinea worm (also known as Dracunculiasis) is a parasite that spreads through drinking contaminated water, or eating infected animals. I’ll spare you the gory details (because this one is a true stomach turner), but it forms a terrible worm-filled blister. Though not lethal, at its peak in the 1980s, it was endemic across 20 countries and infected about 3.5 million people per year. Four decades later, there is still no treatment beyond pain meds. The global effort to eliminate the disease has been led by the Carter Center since the 1980s. Last year’s total caseload is a drop from 15 cases in 2024 and consists of “four human cases … reported in Chad, four in Ethiopia, and two in South Sudan.” The organization reports that the global aid pullback “has not stopped the Guinea worm program at ground level.” What’s particularly incredible about the ongoing elimination project is that there is no vaccine or cure for guinea worm. This global effort’s success is largely the byproduct of sustained, committed gruntwork, with decades of programs to “educate the public, train volunteers, and distribute water filters in affected areas.” I have two takeaways: First, we are clearly winning this war against the worm. If Guinea worm cases reach zero, it would be only the second human disease ever eradicated, after smallpox. (That said, I’m still hopeful we’ll first eliminate polio before the decade is out.) Second, the last mile will be the hardest. Unlike polio or smallpox, Guinea worm also has animal hosts. Officials say the grunt work must continue, even after zero human cases. The disease can bounce back unless animal transmission (including dogs, domestic cats, and freshwater fish) is stopped, too. Still, if Guinea worm fades into history, the credit belongs to the community health workers and volunteers who kept at the slow, quiet work for decades, moving village by village. ChatDNA Last week I was admittedly a bit flippant about a story on artificial intelligence helping pharma companies speed up the “unsexy” side of drug trials. Well, this week brings a more humbling piece on AI’s promise in driving real medical advancement. Smithsonian magazine reports that researchers at Google DeepMind have unveiled a new artificial intelligence tool called AlphaGenome. The tool leverages what AI does best (processing and learning from enormous datasets) to crunch the full book of our DNA. Essentially, it’s meant to help scientists predict how the parts of DNA we still cannot fully explain help tell our cells what to make, and when and how to make it. The piece has a world-class explainer on the fundamental science: “DNA is made of four different units called nucleotides: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T). These letters pair up and act as an instruction manual for cells, yet only 2% of human DNA tells our cells how to build proteins, the building blocks of life. The remaining genetic code was long dismissed as “junk DNA,” but now, scientists know it plays an important role in regulating gene activation. Certain variants and mutations in the genome can lead to disease — and AlphaGenome’s goal is to predict what those changes are.” So what’s the promise? The designers of the AlphaGenome believe the tool “can help experts develop new genetic therapies and ways to diagnose rare diseases.” Especially by pointing human researchers toward complex genetic links that are hard to spot on their own. Best of all: “The new resource is freely available to other researchers, who can modify the program based on their own needs.” The tool has limitations, of course, including issues predicting the impact of DNA regions that influence each other at a great distance (meaning the segments are several hundred thousand letters away). Still, I will be looping back in the coming months. As Pushmeet Kohli, vice president of science at Google DeepMind, put it: “I think we are at the start of a new era of scientific progress, and AI is going to enable a number of different breakthroughs.” I have to admit … I believe it. We. Declare. ‘Water bankruptcy!’ The United Nations says the world has entered a new kind of water crisis, one it calls “global water bankruptcy,” Health Policy Watch reports. That means rivers, lakes, and underground sources that once bounced back after droughts or heavy use are being drained faster than they can recover. Perhaps the starkest example is the Aral sea in central Asia. In the late ’80s it was still the world’s fourth-largest lake. Today it barely exists. Not to lay it on thick, but the report hits you with some staggering facts: “More than half of the world’s large lakes have lost water since the early 1990s, over 30% of glacier mass since 1970 has disappeared in certain regions, while about 410 million hectares of natural wetlands — a land mass nearly equal to that of the European Union — have been destroyed over the past five decades.” And the human impact? Today about “4 billion people — nearly two-thirds of the global population — face severe water scarcity for at least one month every year.” The report particularly points to farmers in dry regions who pump groundwater for irrigation year after year, a practice that physically cannot continue indefinitely. What’s my takeaway? I find these reports largely overwhelming, because the solutions are not mysterious. National governments across the world need to act to protect water sources, manage them better, and plan for scarcity. Will they? Not anytime soon. Tangent here, but I’m reading What We Can Know by Ian McEwan, which is set in a future Britain after a climate collapse. In the book, historians look back on our current era as a period they call “The Derangement,” when people had clear knowledge of climate change but failed to act at the needed scale. With this report it is, uh … uncomfortably on the nose. Mosquitoes keep moving I’m leaving you this week on a story with a somewhat fascinating twist. Chile is on high alert after finding an Aedes aegypti mosquito in the capital of Santiago, reports El Mercurio, the country’s largest newspaper. Why is this such bad news? The mosquito, which is still absent from large parts of the country, is known as a major vector for a host of highly transmissible diseases including dengue, chikungunya, Zika, and yellow fever. Enough so that it’s commonly called the “dengue mosquito” or “yellow fever mosquito.” It also particularly thrives in cities, breeding in locations like flower vases, plastic bottles, gutters, and even old tires. As we reported in October, this is an insect that sticks around. “Once Aedes aegypti mosquitoes establish themselves in an area warm enough for them to survive the winter, it becomes extremely difficult to eliminate them,” Dr. Marietjie Venter, an animal-borne virus expert, told me last year. Granted, this is not the first time the mosquito has appeared in Chile. But as climate change makes the country increasingly habitable for it, health officials are worried sightings this year could signal the mosquito establishing a foothold … and introducing a perpetual risk of terrible tropical diseases. It would not take much. After all, as Chile’s head of health emergencies, Ester Alywin, warned on Friday, “a single female mosquito can lay up to 1,500 eggs in her lifetime.” What’s the twist? The singular mosquito was identified by eye by an airport staff member at a warehouse in Santiago International, then caught and then sent for analysis at a public laboratory. Readers, I’ve searched for more detail on how staff could possibly be trained well enough to recognize and capture a single, specific mosquito (!) rather than just swatting it … but I’ve come up empty. Apparently, someone took their annual public health briefings seriously. Anyhow, you’re my hero of the week, anonymous Chilean airport warehouse worker. 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.