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The secretary of state Marco Rubio invoked the "emergency authorities" to get around the congress and send $ 4 billion to Israel, the second time in a month in which the Trump administration forced the approval process of the congress for sending weapons to the country.Mr. Rubio did not explain in a statement that announced the decision on Saturday because he was using an emergency authority. He only said that the Trump administration "will continue to use all the tools available to fulfill the longtime commitment of America for the safety of Israel, including means to counter threats to security".The officials of the State Department referred to the two congress committees in the Chamber and the Senate who examine foreign weapons on the emergency declaration on Friday. At least one congre...

Five years ago, Italian researchers published a study on the eruption of Monte Vesuvio in 79 AD. Which detailed as a victim of the explosion, presumably a male in the mid -1920s, had been found nearby in the settlement of the sea of ​​Herculaneum. He felt in front and buried by ash on a wooden bed in the college of Augustales, a public building dedicated to the cult of Emperor Augustus. Some scholars believe that man was the custodian of the center and slept at the time of disaster.In 2018, a researcher discovered black and lucid fragments incorporated inside the custodian skull. The article, published in 2020, hypothesized that the heat of the explosion was so immense that he had merged the victim's brain tissue in the glass.The forensic analysis of the chips similar to oxyidian revealed ...

Israel announced on Sunday that he was immediately stopping the entry of all goods and humanitarian assistance to Gaza, trying to enlist Hamas to accept a temporary extension of the ceased in the enclave-a move that interrupts the existing and agreed framework at the head of negotiation to negotiate a permanent structure and puts the fate of the hospitalsThe draconian arrest on goods and aid, including fuel, is likely that the conditions for about two million inhabitants of Gaza is likely, after the 15 -month war left most of the coastal enclave in ruin.The initial six -week phase of the original agreement between Israel and Hamas expired on Saturday. Although he was pierced by arrest bars and mutual accusations of violations, in the end he saw at least a temporary cessation in the fightin...

The moon will be a place occupied this year. At this moment there are three robotic space vehicles that aim to put on the surface of the moon.The first of those to arrive - The Blue Ghost Lunar Lander, built by Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, in Texas, will try to land on Sunday early.When is the landing and how can I look at it?The landing is scheduled for 3:45 oriental now on March 2nd. Firefly will begin live coverage of the landing at 2:20 on its YouTube channel.What is the destination of Blue Ghost?This mission is directed to Mare Crisio, a flat plain formed by the lava that filled itself and harden within a 345 mile wide crater sculpted by an ancient impact of the asteroids. Mare Crisio is located in the north -east quadrant of the nearby side of the moon.What is Blue Ghost taking o...

On Saturday, a group of high -profile lawyers intended a cause against Panama for the possession of migrants deported from the United States, threatening to interrupt the new policy of President Trump to export migrants from all over the world to Central American countries.The cause, intended against the Panama government before the Intemeralian Commission on human rights, appoints 10 Christian Iranian converts and 102 migrants held in a field close to a jungle in Panama as a complaints, according to a copy seen by the New York Times.The cause claims that the United States violated the Iranian group's law to kindergarten due to religious persecution and that Panama has violated national and international laws, such as the American convention on human rights, in its detention of migrants. T...

Every day, as Dr. Wendell Parkey enters his clinic in Seminole, a small city on the rural western edge of Texas, he announces his arrival to the staff with an anthem pumping loudly through speakers.As the song reaches a climax, he throws up an arm and strikes a pose in cowboy boots. “Y’all ready to stomp out disease?” he asks.Recently, the question has taken on a dark urgency. Seminole Memorial Hospital, where Dr. Parkey has practiced for nearly three decades, has found itself at the center of the largest measles outbreak in the United States since 2019.Since last month, more than 140 Texas residents, most of whom live in the surrounding Gaines County, have been diagnosed and 20 have been hospitalized. Nine people in a bordering county in New Mexico have also fallen ill.On Wednesday, local...

It was supposed to be a moment of triumph for President Volodymyr Zelensky's president of Ukraine, a possibility after weeks of maneuver for a meeting of the oval office to demonstrate American support in the bloodiest war of the European generations.Instead, the meeting revealed itself in insults. Mr. Zelensky, who had remained in his country to fight against a Russian assault and who gathered a large part of the world to support Ukraine, was left to shake his head while President Trump said he trusted Russia to support a fire.He was reproached by Mr. Trump and vice -president JD Vance as "disrespectful" for arguing that Russia represented a threat beyond Ukraine. Sometimes, a corner of Mr. Zelensky's lip it curled up while American leaders reproached him and minimized the prospects of ai...

Imagine chatting videos with a distant friend who is having lunch and your friend's sandwich seems delicious. What if I could ask your friend to immerse a sensor in the meal and give you a taste?Remote snacks approached virtual reality a little. On Friday in a newspaper in the magazine Science Advances, Yizhen Jia, a student graduated in Materials Engineering from Ohio State University, his councilor Jinghua Li and their colleagues reported having helped the flavors to the volunteers intended to represent coffee, lemonade, fried eggs, cake and fish soup.In an interview, Mr. Jia discussed a photo of hers who modeled a version of a device built by him and his colleagues, which is based on micro -phlofluidic. Folded by its lip are the ones that look like five or six sauce packages that you wo...

"People will die," said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the research center on the African population and health, "but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut".The finished projects include HIV treatment programs that had served millions of people, the main malaria control programs in the worst African countries and global efforts to sweep off the polio.Here are some of the projects that the New York Times has confirmed have been deleted:A 131 million dollars subsidy to the UNICEF Polomielite immunization program, which paid for planning, logistics and delivery of vaccines to millions of children.A 90 million dollar contract with the chemonic society for bed nets, malaria tests and treatments that would protect 53 million people.A project man...