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Una semana después de la polémica entrevista de Manuel Cortés , Raquel Bollo ha estallado tras los ataques de Gloria Camila contra el artista. La televisiva, que prefiere mantenerse al margen de la relación que mantuvieran Cortés y Gloria Camila, ha defendido a su hijo y ha sido tajante con la hija de Ortega Cano . "Me suena muy mezquino , porque cuando el argumento está vacío es cuando entramos en el ataque. Esto se llama ruido, y hay gente que lo sabe hacer muy bien en televisión", ha sentenciado Raquel Bollo, que ha aclarado que su intención "no es atacar a Gloria, al contrario de lo que hace ella". La hija del torero ha expresado que Manuel Cortés "no es artista" por haberse sentado a hablar en ¡De viernes! , palabras a las que Bollo no ha dudado en responder. "A Manuel lo que lo puede desacreditar es su trayectoria, su público y el tiempo, no un discurso tuyo diciendo que tendría que estar en su casa y que un artista no se sienta. Porque, por esa regla de tres, ¿tu padre no es torero? Porque yo lo he visto por muchos platós", ha sentenciado. Raquel Bollo ha continuado defendiendo a su hijo y su carrera profesional: "Hay muchos artistas que no son Alejandro Sanz que cantan muy bien y que suenan muy bien, pero que no han llegado donde él. Y hay personas que han llegado muy alto y desafinan cariño". Antes de que se pudiera malinterpretar, la televisiva ha aclarado que con estas palabras no se hacía referencia indirectamente a Álvaro García: "Yo aquí no voy contra su pareja, ojo. Cada uno tiene su trayectoria y cada uno tiene su música". Aunque puede "entender el dolor" de Gloria Camila, Raquel Bollo no acepta que la hija de Ortega Cano haya negado siempre su relación con Manuel Cortés. "Por muchas veces que se diga una mentira no se va a convertir en verdad", ha expresado. Sobre los comentarios de los que aseguran que la intención de Manuel Cortés al dar la entrevista para ¡De viernes! era manchar el nombre de Gloria Camila, Raquel Bollo también ha sido muy contundente: "Te puedo asegurar que quien lo conoce sabe perfectamente que no fue con esa intención para nada". "Para él no fue la entrevista más agradable y él no se sentía cómodo , pero tenía una necesidad porque no han dejado de ponerle la etiqueta de despechado, de interesado. Eso fue lo que más le molestó", ha añadido la televisiva.

Maxi Iglesias y Aitana Sánchez-Gijón han ocupado el foco mediático en la última semana tras hacerse públicas las imágenes en las que dejaban entrever su posible romance . En Fiesta han dado una exclusiva relativa a la expareja del actor. "Donde caben dos, igual caben tres", ha comenzado expresando Saúl Ortiz, que ha podido hablar con el entorno más cercano de la exnovia de Maxi Iglesias, con la que rompió su relación a finales de 2025. "Me cuentan que la exnovia de Maxi Iglesias , con la que ha estado un año y pico, lo está pasando bastante mal" , ha asegurado el colaborador de Fiesta . "Sospecha que esta relación o este contacto íntimo venga de incluso antes de que terminara su relación" , ha añadido Ortiz. Aunque aún hay "muchas incógnitas" en torno a este posible romance, la misma persona le ha trasladado al colaborador de Telecinco una importante información. "Una información que te he pasado a tu móvil Emma, porque es tan fuerte que no sé ni como decirlo", ha asegurado. "Me cuentan que durante el rodaje de Velvet , la serie en la que coincidieron Maxi y Aitana, la relación era tan íntima y tan cómplice que ella entraba al camerino de Maxi de una manera muy cómoda , lo dejamos ahí", ha desvelado Saúl Ortiz. Aurelio Manzano ha intervenido, confirmando la información de su compañero. "Muchas personas que trabajaron en esa serie y que yo conozco han levantado el teléfono y han confirmado que había mucha química", ha sentenciado el tertuliano. "Él siempre ha mostrado su admiración por ella, y viceversa, ahora se ha hecho realidad", se ha sumado Emma García .

LaLiga pasa por el Metropolitano. Tras la derrota del Real Madrid ante el Mallorca (2-1), el FC Barcelona tiene la oportunidad de ampliar su ventaja en la lucha por el título frente al Atlético de Madrid en el Metropolitano, un partido que llega justo antes del duelo entre ambos en los cuartos de final de la Champions League.

Prime Minister Meloni is the first EU and NATO country leader to visit the region since the war began.

In a statement, the US State Department has accused Hamideh Soleimani Afshar of being an 'outspoken supporter' of Iran.

New video shows the moment multiple US-Israeli strikes hit the B1 bridge in Iran's northern Alborz province on Thursday.

A row of chairs is seen through a hole left by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes Friday at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) 2026-04-04T08:47:12Z TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The U.S. military on Saturday searched for a missing pilot shot down over a remote area in Iran , while President Donald Trump remained silent on the incident but reminded Tehran of his Monday deadline to open the Strait of Hormuz: “48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them.” !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(e){if(void 0!==e.data["datawrapper-height"]){var t=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var a in e.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r=0;r The U.S. warplane, identified by Iran as a F-15E Strike Eagle, was one of two attacked on Friday, with one service member rescued. Iran has promised a reward for whoever turns in the missing pilot. It’s the first time the United States lost aircraft in Iranian territory during the war, now in its sixth week, which could further pressure Trump to end the fighting. Iran’s joint military command on Saturday claimed it also struck two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters the day before, but The Associated Press could not independently verify that. freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? "apnews_story_feed" : "apnews_story_feed_dynamic"; freestar.newAdSlots({ placementName: thisPlacement, slotId: randId }, customChannel); }); The war began with joint U.S.-Israel strikes on Feb. 28 and has killed thousands, shaken global markets , cut off key shipping routes and spiked fuel prices . 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It’s the fourth time the facility was targeted. The head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation, Rosatom, said that 198 workers were being evacuated. AP AUDIO:US and Iran race to find missing crew member from downed military plane AP correspondent Julie Walker reports one US service member is still missing after his plane was shot down over Iran. freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? 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But the Pentagon notified the U.S. House Armed Services Committee that the status of a second service member wasn’t known. In a telephone interview with NBC News, Trump said that what happened wouldn’t affect negotiations with Iran. Separately, Iranian state media said a U.S. A-10 attack aircraft crashed in the Persian Gulf after being struck by Iran’s defense forces. A U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive military situation said that it wasn’t clear if the aircraft crashed or was shot down. The crew’s status was not immediately known. An anchor on a channel affiliated with Iranian state television urged residents to hand over any “enemy pilot” to police, a first in the war. 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Oracle Corp., based in Austin, Texas, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The Guard has accused some large U.S. tech companies of being involved in “terrorist espionage” operations against the Islamic Republic and called them legitimate targets. Amazon Web Services facilities in the UAE and Bahrain were hit in earlier drone strikes. freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? 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In Gulf Arab states and the occupied West Bank, more than two dozen people have died, while 19 have been reported dead in Israel and 13 U.S. service members have been killed. In Lebanon, more than 1,400 people have been killed and there have been more than 1 million displaced people . Ten Israeli soldiers have died there. ___ Gambrell reported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Magdy from Cairo. Associated Press writers Munir Ahmed in Islamabad; Dasha Litvinova in Tallinn, Estonia; and Konstantin Toropin, Seung Min Kim, Will Weissert, Michelle L. Price, Lisa Mascaro and Ben Finley in Washington, contributed to this report. SAM MEDNICK Mednick is an AP correspondent for Israel and the Palestinian Territories. She focuses on conflict, humanitarian crises and human rights abuses. Mednick formerly covered West & Central Africa and South Sudan. twitter SAMY MAGDY Magdy is a Middle East reporter for The Associated Press, based in Cairo. 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A patron passes a painting inside the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, N.M., on June 10, 1997. (AP Photo/Eric Draper, File) 2026-04-04T04:02:49Z For generations, human beings have wondered: What would alien life from another planet be like? But we rarely ask the opposite: What would they think of us? It’s a question that can produce some, well, uncomfortable answers if you happen to be an earthling. “If I were looking at Earth from a distance, I would be pretty disappointed,” theoretical physicist Avi Loeb says. “Most of our investing is dealing with conflicts to prevent other people from killing us or us killing others. Look at the Ukraine war over a little bit of territory. That is not a sign of intelligence.” The debate on whether little green men or UFOs are among us escalated in February when former President Barack Obama, responding to a podcaster’s question, said aliens are “real,” but he ”hasn’t seen them” and “they’re not being kept at Area 51.” President Donald Trump later announced on social media that he was directing release of government files because of “tremendous interest.” freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? 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About half of U.S. adults said UFOs reported by people in the military are “definitely” or “probably” evidence of intelligent life outside Earth. “We don’t want to think this is the only place in this extraordinarily and incomprehensibly large universe where life and intelligence and even technology have emerged,” says Bill Diamond, president and chief executive of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. “It sort of says about humans, ’We don’t want to be alone.’” freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? "apnews_story_feed" : "apnews_story_feed_dynamic"; freestar.newAdSlots({ placementName: thisPlacement, slotId: randId }, customChannel); }); Something is up there. But what? Americans have been fascinated by the thought of life outside this planet following the recovery of debris in 1947 near Roswell, New Mexico. The military initially said the material was from a flying disc, only to reverse course and tell the public it was from a weather balloon. Hollywood ran with it. Flying saucers, little green men and eventually humanoid gray aliens became part of popular culture. April 5 even is celebrated annually throughout the iconic “Star Trek” franchise as “First Contact Day” to mark the date in 2063 when humankind, in “Trek” canon, first made contact with Vulcans. Much in the popular culture suggests any aliens might be aggressive. Priscilla Wald, who teaches about science fiction at Duke University, has a theory as to why. “It seems to me it’s a reflection on who we are, that we’re projecting onto aliens the way we treat each other,” Wald says. “So the aliens are coming down, they want to conquer us, they’re violent. Who does that sound like? It sounds like us.” freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? "apnews_story_feed" : "apnews_story_feed_dynamic"; freestar.newAdSlots({ placementName: thisPlacement, slotId: randId }, customChannel); }); In 2024, the Pentagon released hundreds of reports of unidentified and unexplained aerial phenomena. However, that review gave no indications that their origins were extraterrestrial. On two separate occasions, Debbie Dmytro saw things in the sky over Michigan’s southern Oakland County. The greenish object Dmytro says she saw March 1 in the sky over Royal Oak, Michigan, looked like neither plane nor helicopter. Dmytro, a 56-year-old medical professional, acknowledges that it could have been some type of commercial or delivery drone. What she saw in 2023 in the same general area north of Detroit is not so easily explained. “Four yellow lights, yellowish golden lights and they were all flying very, very low,” Dmytro remembers. She says the lights were about 100 feet (30 meters) up at their nearest. “I’ve never seen anything so low without any noise and flying in complete uniformity,” she says. “Is it something man-made? Is it something that’s not manmade? Who knows?” freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? 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UFOs, the term for unidentified flying objects, has in recent years given way to UAP — unidentified aerial phenomena or unidentified anomalous phenomena. “Absolutely, there are such things” as UAPs and UFOs, says Diamond, whose SETI — Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence — seeks to explore, search and understand the nature of life and intelligence in the universe. “People observe things in the sky that they can’t immediately identify or recognize as either human engineering such as planes or drones or helicopters, or animals, such as birds, and therefore they don’t know what they are,” Diamond says. freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? "apnews_story_feed" : "apnews_story_feed_dynamic"; freestar.newAdSlots({ placementName: thisPlacement, slotId: randId }, customChannel); }); Time for the truth Like so many, Dmytro wants to know what the government knows. “I think there’s more information out there. I’m open to learning more,” she says. “I have an open mind. It’s always about scientific proof.” Retired Rear Adm. Timothy Gallaudet says evidence clearly shows there are UAP zipping around the airspace and in the oceans. “The nonhuman intelligence that operates them or controls them are absolutely real,” Gallaudet says. “We’ve recovered crashed craft. We don’t know if they’re extraterrestrial in origin.” Gallaudet worked as acting administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He participated in a 2024 congressional hearing on UAP disclosure and says the release of government files promised by Trump is something people find of interest. He just hopes the president follows through. There are billions of galaxies in the universe and each has billions of stars, so the likelihood life developed elsewhere is fairly high, according to University of Michigan Astronomy Professor Edwin Bergin, who teaches about looking for life elsewhere. He believes that if intelligent beings navigated vast distances to reach Earth they would make themselves known — despite humanity’s penchant for creating chaos. “I would think that they would look at us like we were crazy ... but they would come out,” he says. “I mean, why come here otherwise unless you’re going to sit and observe.” Loeb, director of the Institute for Theory & Computation at Harvard and head of the university’s Galileo Project for the Systematic Scientific Search for Evidence of Extraterrestrial Technological Artifacts, believes in the likely existence of extraterrestrials. “They might be laughing at us,” he says. “They might be watching us ... to make sure we will not become predators, that we will not become dangerous to them.” In the interest of national security Much of the government’s secrecy around UFOs and UAP is tied to national security concerns, according to Diamond. “We have pretty advanced technologies, satellite, ground-based that are for various purposes mostly national security and defense that are pointing at the sky or things on board aircraft,” Diamond says. “Sometimes these pick up objects. The technology behind it is sensitive and protected.” Government data, including a “trove ” of UAP video the Navy is sitting on, should be shared with scientists for research and a better understanding of the characteristics of the objects, says Gallaudet, who spent 32 years in the Navy and viewed classified UAP video. “When you look at these things in our airspace having near collisions with our aircraft, that’s a real valid concern,” he says. “We are just not sure of what they are and what they intend to do with their interaction with humanity. That could be a national security threat, or not.” “When has ignorance ever been a good national strategy?” Gallaudet asks. “Whether it be scary, harmful or not, or a mix, I think seeking the truth is in our best interest.” Meanwhile, Diamond doesn’t think any “true alien encounter could be kept secret.” “If any civilization has mastered interstellar travel, they have technology and capabilities beyond our wildest comprehension,” he says. “If they want to interact, they will; if they don’t, they won’t. If they want to be seen, they will be, and if not, they won’t be!” 获取更多RSS： https://feedx.net https://feedx.site

Locals inspect a damaged house following floods, landslides and thunderstorms in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Sibghatullah) 2026-04-04T13:13:37Z KABUL, Afghanisan (AP) — Widespread flooding, landslides and lightning strikes triggered by heavy rain and storms across Afghanistan have left 77 people dead and 137 injured over the past 10 days, the country’s Disaster Management Authority said Saturday. More rain has been forecast for the coming days throughout Afghanistan, and the authority warned the public to stay away from river banks and areas prone to flooding. So far this year, dozens of people have died due to extreme weather in Afghanistan, an impoverished country that is highly vulnerable to extreme weather events . Earlier this year , heavy snowfall and flash floods left dozens of people dead across the country. The recent toll includes 26 people killed over the past 48 hours, the disaster authority said. Overall, 793 homes have been completely destroyed and a further 2,673 have been damaged, while floods and landslides have destroyed 337 kilometers (about 210 miles) of roads, it said. freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? "apnews_story_feed" : "apnews_story_feed_dynamic"; freestar.newAdSlots({ placementName: thisPlacement, slotId: randId }, customChannel); }); Businesses, agricultural land, water wells and irrigation canals have also been damaged, with more than 5,800 families affected overall, the authority said. Several highways connecting the country’s capital to the provinces have also been damaged by floods and landslides, forcing travelers to take long, circuitous routes to reach Kabul, Public Works Ministry spokesman Ashraf Haqshinas said Saturday. They include the Kabul to Jalalabad highway, which is the main route linking the capital to the Pakistani border and eastern Afghan provinces. 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El Real Madrid tiró por la borda una oportunidad de oro de presionar al Barça y perdió en Mallorca (2-1). En el día en que Mbappé volvió al equipo titular y Vinícius descansó, los hombres de Arbeloa desperdiciaron una buena cantidad de ocasiones de gol. El grave error de Camavinga al filo del descanso, donde el galó al dejó rematar a placer a Morlanes, fue el principio del fin para el Real Madrid, sin apenas reacción en la segunda parte . Los blancos cortocircuitaron en el segundo tiempo, con solo dos disparos a puerta en los siguientes 45 minutos. El cabezazo de Militao pareció rescatar un punto en el minuto 87, pero Muriqi dejó los tres puntos en casa con un gol agónico en el descuento. El primer tiempo inició con mucho ritmo en un Real Madrid con rotaciones. Sin Vinícius Júnior en el frente de ataque, Mbappé protagonizó las primeras acciones ofensivas de los blancos, aunque Pablo Torres neutralizó su remate en el último instante. Los bermellones, agobiados por el descenso, reaccionaron a través de las arrancadas de Luvumbo y la amenaza eterna de Muriqi. El futbolista angoleño no llegó por los pelos a un centro del kosovar, con quien se intercambiaría papeles en la siguiente jugada. Sin embargo, Rüdiger ganaría todos los duelos al delantero local , con lo que el Real Madrid resistió de pie las acometidas baleares. A partir del ecuador del primer tiempo, los blancos tomaron el mando del choque , protagonizando las mejores ocasiones, como un cabezazo de segunda línea de Manuel Ángel a centro de Mbappé, y forzando una versión imperial de Leo Román bajo palos. Mbappé se lamenta tras fallar un gol. (EFE/Cati Cladera) El Real Madrid, sin pegada El combinado de Arbeloa, como viene siendo habitual, colocó una gran cantidad de futbolistas por delante de balón (Güler, Manuel Ángel, Camavinga, Brahim y Mbappé ), pero pagó cara su falta de pegada . Primero Mbappé perdonó un mano a mano frente a Leo Román tras un envío quirúrgico de Güler y poco después, el propio delantero galo no pudo superar al portero balear tras un buen pase de Camavinga al espacio. Camavinga cometió un grave error. (EFE/Cati Cladera) Esa sería una de las pocas acciones destacadas del galo en el primer tiempo. El Real Madrid zarandeó al Mallorca de lado a lado sin encontrar el gol . Con Rüdiger como bombero en el área propia, Güler apareció en el área rival para rematar el centro de Trent Alexander-Arnold. El turco se topó con un fantástico Leo Román, autor de las esperanzas bermellonas en el choque. Al filo del descanso, dos desbarajustes dieron oxígeno al Mallorca. Camavinga, señalado Primero Morlanes remató por encima del travesaño y después el propio centrocampista local aprovechó la falta de disciplina de Camavinga para llegar al área y fusilar a placer a Lunin. Al descanso, el Real Madrid había firmado un partido notable, pero el fallo en defensa y la ausencia de pegada dinamitaron su plan. Arbeloa salió con los mismos hombres en el segundo tiempo y el Mallorca, como ya sucediera en la primera parte, presionó a los blancos. El Real Madrid salió al trote y sin energía , pero Mbappé buscó revitalizar a los suyos con un disparo que Leo Román despejó. En el minuto 59, Arbeloa tomó cartas en el asunto con un triple cambio que dio entrada a Militao , Vinícius y Bellingham y sentó a Manuel Ángel, Camavinga y Huijsen. El brasileño no tardó en encarar a Maffeo y hacerle un caño mientras Mbappé disparaba a las nubes. Morlanes, autor del tanto de la victoria. (EFE/Miquel A. Borràs) Los blancos se estiraron más y el repliegue se debilitó, con lo que el Mallorca empezó a encontrar más huecos al contragolpe. Mojica y Luvumbo sacaron tajada frente a un Real Madrid que vivía al límite en defensa. Sin tanto del empate, Pitarch entró por Güler en el minuto 71 y Mastantuono hizo lo propio por Brahim en un Real Madrid que no reaccionaba lo suficiente. El bagaje ofensivo, más allá de las intentonas de Vinícius, se quedaría en un disparo desviado de Tchouaméni hasta el minuto 87, donde Militao remató con un martillazo el córner de Alexander-Arnold. El brasileño quiso salvar un punto en Mallorca, pero los de Arbeloa se volcaron en ataque en los minutos finales y ahí fue donde Muriqi, héroe local, dio la puntilla con un gol que desató sus lágrima s y sacó al Mallorca del descenso.

Francisco de Goya murió hace casi 200 años, pero su estela sigue surcando el mapa artístico mundial. Llega incluso hasta el corazón de Kenia donde un joven Michael Armitage (Nairobi, 1984) descubrió sus pinturas negras y quedó completamente subyugado. Los Desastres de la guerra del aragonés le noquearon y deseó que su trazo pictórico -la marca, no la línea- se asemejara lo más posible. Después, toda la intención: “Sus pinturas pueden ser extraordinariamente violentas, pero enseguida te das cuenta de que no presenta solo un lado, sino ambos. Todos cometen las atrocidades. En ese sentido, no es político, sino profundamente humanista y por eso lo encuentro increíblemente convincente. Me siento perseguido por él de una manera muy positiva”, señala con una sonrisa ante los periodistas. El artista keniano, de padre británico y madre de ascendencia kikuyu, se encuentra en Venecia donde se acaba de inaugurar una gran exposición, The promise of change (150 lienzos) en el imponente Palazzo Grassi de la Colección Pinault, una de las más grandes del mundo. Símbolo de que Armitage es hoy uno de los más cotizados pintores de arte contemporáneo del planeta. Y es en estos cuadros donde enseguida se vislumbra esa influencia goyesca por los personajes antropomórficos sátiros (medio humorísticos) y por toda esa violencia y tensión. El artista no escatima en temáticas turbulentas, desagradables y trágicas como la migración, la represión de los manifestantes en su país en las elecciones de 2017, la prostitución impuesta, la difícil homosexualidad en África o la situación de las mujeres africanas, pero a la vez se palpa la fragilidad, la humanidad de los personajes. Y después, sí, es arte figurativo, pero no es una línea clara, hay marcas, sombras, un trazo más expresionista: lo que el genio de Goya inauguró mucho antes de que llegaran las vanguardias. 'Kampala Suburb' sobre los peligros que atenazan a la homosexualidad en África (2014) Es una exposición que golpea al visitante. Y además no lo hace mediante el cliché (o el manoseado artivismo). Va al hueso, a la víscera, al sentimiento real. No hay impostura aquí. Además, para el occidental es muy reconocible por todas las referencias, no solo Goya. Por aquí aparece el Greco, Tiziano (tiene una Venus del espejo impactante) o, ya más adelante, el mismísimo Gauguin (sobre todo con los colores). “Creo que lo que muestra Gauguin en sus pinturas es cómo se veía a sí mismo, que era como los salvajes, pero era su intento de encontrarse a sí mismo”, resalta. "Nunca pienso en las reacciones de la gente, si algo es bello o no, pero sí sé que lo que hago es con un sentido de involucración del que observa" Se notan los estudios que Armitage realizó en Reino Unido -asistió a la Slade School of Fine Art de Londres , expuso en la galería White Cube londinense donde los cazatalentos del arte se fijaron en él-, y cómo se nutrió de pintura occidental, también con la mitología griega. Hay una Antígona (2018) que revela la desigualdad de género en África con desnuda brutalidad. “Quería mostrar cómo hay una parte de la sociedad que valida a las mujeres según estén casadas o no y con quién. Había leído las Metamorfosis de Ovidio y conocía la historia de Antígona y cómo ella se resistió a los intentos de su tío de casarla. Pensé que este mito era una forma de entrar en esta temática”. 'Antígona' (2018), una denuncia de la situación de las mujeres africanas La fragilidad (y combatividad) femenina también se observa en Conjestina (2018), sobre Congestina Chang una campeona mundial de boxeo, que fue hospitalizada por un episodio psicótico del cual se aprovecharon terriblemente los medios de comunicación (la grabaron en esa situación). “Cuando busqué quién era me di cuenta de que era una figura extraordinaria, una boxeadora increíble y que los problemas psicológicos que tenía eran exhibidos para entretenimiento de la audiencia. Por eso quise implicarme y pensar cuál era mi posición en esto”. Influencia africana Pero lo que ha hecho a Armitage una figura relevante en el actual mercado del arte no es solo la parte occidental sino su conjunción con la africana oriental. El artista creció en Nairobi en una comunidad de artistas como la escultora Chelenge Van Rampelberg , que era la madre de uno de sus amigos, o Miki Shugu , del cual los padres de otro amigo tenían multitud de cuadros. También creció viendo la obra del ugandés Peter Molindwa o los escultores Mukonde , de Mozambique. Y todo eso se refleja en los cuadros, que además están pintados sobre un material muy especial llamado Lubugo , que también consigue que sus colores sean tan llamativos. Lubugo, el material que Armitage utiliza para sus lienzos “Desde el mismo comienzo quise que mis pinturas tuvieran mucho reflejo de África oriental. Me pasé cinco años investigando, probando diferentes materiales, hasta que me encontré con esta tela de corteza en un mercado turístico y luego me llevó otro par de años antes de que tuviera el pequeño momento eureka de tratarla como cualquier otro lienzo. Tuve que estirarla, pegarla, prepararla… Por otro lado, me interesaba su pérdida de función y propósito. Cuando me encontré con el material estaba siendo vendido como un posavasos, algo en lo que pones tus bebidas, absorbe tu cerveza, mientras que en sus orígenes reales, que estaban en Uganda, era usada como un sudario para envolver a los muertos y enterrarlos. Así que me interesaba esa especie de pérdida de significado, pero también que podría significar un lugar, una cultura”, explica. Y que, en definitiva, era pura África. Un centro propio en Nairobi Armitage vive actualmente en Indonesia de donde es su mujer. Tiene su taller cerca de la capital de Bali, Ubud (aunque sus cuadros no están en el Museo de Arte de allí), y ahora por primera vez expone en su ciudad natal donde él mismo ha creado el Nairobi Contemporary Arts Institute . Es la primera vez que sus compatriotas ven a un artista que ya está siendo reclamado en medio mundo y cuyas obras se cotizan en más de dos millones de euros. La influencia de El Greco también es notable “No lo creé para hacer mi exposición. Es una exposición que empezó en el Kunsthaus de Bregenz (Austria) y luego viajó allí. Lo creé preguntando a artistas y aficionados al arte en Kenia qué sentían que necesitábamos. Y me dijeron: un tipo diferente de educación superior y un espacio de arte sin ánimo de lucro. Y pensé, bueno, quizá en esta etapa siento que puedo contribuir a eso. Porque tenemos un museo nacional, pero su enfoque no es el arte contemporáneo. Sí tenemos galerías, pero son galerías comerciales. Así que ahora intento hacer cuatro exposiciones al año pensando en estos huecos: una exposición individual para un artista joven, una retrospectiva, una exposición internacional, y una exposición comisariada desde fuera de nuestra organización. También tenemos una colección permanente que ahora está alrededor de 140 obras. Al principio pensé que sería principalmente para artistas, pero van también muchos niños, estudiantes, porque tenemos un programa educativo bastante fuerte”, señala el artista que se ha convertido en uno de los grandes mecenas con este centro en su país. Belleza y horror También esto ha sido parte de la educación con la que creció. “Lo hice alrededor de artistas que tenían una responsabilidad hacia su comunidad, que pensaban que participar era importante en la sociedad, en la comunidad”, comenta. De ahí que haya creado un centro artístico y que las temáticas tengan este estímulo político y humanista. Tiene algo que te obliga a mirarlas y que, a la vez, escuece. “Me tomó tiempo llegar a ellas. Sobre las pinturas de la migración, primero intenté hacer una pintura en 2015, pero pronto me di cuenta de que era terrible. Necesitaba tiempo para llegar a un lugar emocional desde el cual abordar esto. Fue cuando dejé el Reino Unido y me mudé a Indonesia que me encontré a mí mismo. Comprobé que la gente continuaba intensificando la demonización de migrantes y refugiados. Poco a a poco lo fui asumiendo y fui haciendo esas pinturas”, cuenta. Sus pinturas sobre la migración son impactantes. Aquí el homenaje al niño Aylan El estupendo catálogo de la exposición incluye un texto de Salman Rushdie que señala que la respuesta al horror de este mundo está en la belleza. El propio trabajo de Armitage es una mezcla de belleza y horror. “Bueno, creo que la belleza es subjetiva Estoy más interesado en mirar. Hago pinturas que están quietas, son silenciosas, no dicen nada a menos que alguien lo escriba o tengas a alguien como yo parloteando sobre ellas. Nunca pienso en las reacciones de la gente , si algo es bello o no, pero sí sé que lo que hago es con un sentido de involucración. Por tanto, no pienso tanto en una idea de belleza sino en hacer cosas que sean visualmente involucrantes”. Y lo consigue. De los cuadros de Armitage no se sale indemne. Por eso es hoy uno de los más solicitados del mercado. Y, una vez más, Goya tiene la culpa.

El presidente del Partido Popular, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, y el líder de Vox, Santiago Abascal, retomaron el contacto tras las elecciones autonómicas en Castilla y León y acordaron mantener nuevas reuniones para avanzar en la formación de gobiernos en Extremadura, Aragón y Castilla y León, según ha explicado el dirigente popular en una entrevista concedida a Servimedia. Feijóo señala que ambos dirigentes convinieron que sus equipos negociadores se reunirían de forma inmediata , especialmente en Extremadura , donde las delegaciones se citaron días después en Mérida para continuar trabajando en un acuerdo programático. En este proceso participó también el secretario general del PP, Miguel Tellado. De acuerdo con el relato del líder popular a Servimedia, las conversaciones entre PP y Vox se han intensificado en las últimas semanas en el contexto del ciclo electoral autonómico, hasta el punto de consolidar un canal de comunicación más fluido entre ambas formaciones. En contraste, Feijóo reconoció que mantiene desde hace más de un año una ausencia total de contacto con el presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez , con quien no logra cerrar acuerdos desde su último encuentro en marzo de 2025, centrado en el gasto en defensa. Asimismo, indicó que un intento posterior de reunión para abordar cuestiones internacionales quedó aplazado y no se ha retomado desde entonces. PP y Vox avanzan en Extremadura pero descartan un acuerdo antes de Semana Santa: "Imposible" Ana Belén Ramos Tellado ha viajado hoy a Mérida para reunirse junto a Guardiola con Vox. Ambas partes admiten "avances" y se emplazan a nuevas reuniones en los próximos días. Bambú fija entre sus prioridades "el fin de Mercosur" Durante la entrevista, Feijóo ha evitado detallar el contenido concreto de su conversación con Abascal , aunque subrayó que los resultados electorales en las tres comunidades implican, a su juicio, un mandato claro hacia la conformación de gobiernos de centroderecha. En este sentido, advierte que no alcanzar acuerdos supondría defraudar a los votantes. El dirigente popular ha trasladado que el resultado de las urnas o bliga a las fuerzas políticas a facilitar gobiernos liderados por el PP con el apoyo de Vox, al considerar que la alternativa socialista obtuvo unos resultados especialmente negativos, mientras que Vox consolidó su posición como tercera fuerza. A su entender, ignorar ese escenario dificultaría ofrecer estabilidad institucional. En esa línea, Feijóo sostiene que los ciudadanos no comprenderían un bloqueo político tras haber sido convocados a las urnas, insistiendo en que el objetivo debe ser garantizar la gobernabilidad. Incluso advirtió de que los votantes penalizarían la falta de acuerdo entre ambas formaciones. El líder del PP traslada también que su partido asume el mandato electoral y sitúa en Vox la decisión sobre la fórmula de apoyo a los futuros ejecutivos autonómicos , ya sea mediante su entrada en los gobiernos o desde fuera de ellos, así como la eventual asignación de consejerías. Respecto a las negociaciones en Extremadura , Feijóo indica que desconoce los detalles específicos de los puntos de fricción, aunque sí precisó que los equipos del PP están evaluando la viabilidad legal y presupuestaria de las propuestas planteadas por Vox , con el objetivo de determinar su encaje en el marco competencial autonómico. En este contexto, recuerda que los acuerdos deben ajustarse tanto a la legislación española como a la europea, descartando la posibilidad de asumir propuestas que excedan las competencias de las comunidades autónomas. Pese a las dificultades, ha expresado su confianza en que las negociaciones prosperen, apelando a la responsabilidad de ambas formaciones. El presidente del PP también ha atribuido parte de la ralentización de los contactos a la coincidencia con la Semana Santa, aunque insiste en que la situación no puede prolongarse indefinidamente. Según trasladaba, percibe avances en las posiciones de ambas partes y cierto optimismo en el desarrollo de las conversaciones. En relación con las acusaciones de Vox sobre supuestas maniobras del PP para obstaculizar las negociaciones, Feijóo muestra su sorpresa y rechaza tales afirmaciones, defendiendo que su actuación debe ser juzgada por sus decisiones y no por acusaciones que niega haber protagonizado. Asimismo, ha evitado entrar en confrontaciones con Vox, argumentando que su prioridad es propiciar un cambio político en España y asegurar la estabilidad en las comunidades autónomas, sin desviarse hacia polémicas partidistas. Por último, Feijóo ha defendido la presencia de Miguel Tellado en las negociaciones, al considerar que, como secretario general del partido, está legitimado para participar en cualquier proceso de diálogo. Según explicó a Servimedia, Vox no ha vetado formalmente su intervención, pese a algunas críticas públicas. El líder popular concluye trasladando que la ciudadanía demanda soluciones y estabilidad frente a las disputas políticas, por lo que reafirma su intención de centrarse en garantizar la gobernabilidad, respetar el resultado electoral y ofrecer una alternativa política sólida.

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British prosecutors have charged three suspects — ages 17, 19 and 20 — in connection with a disturbing arson attack targeting Jewish community ambulances in north London. The March 23 incident unfolded at around 1:45 a.m. in the Golders Green neighborhood, where four ambulances operated by Hatzola, a volunteer emergency service serving the Jewish community, were deliberately set ablaze in a synagogue parking lot. Hamza Iqbal, 20, Rehan Khan, 19, and a 17-year-old boy are accused of arson with intent to damage property while recklessly endangering life, according to the Metropolitan Police . Officials said two of the suspects are British citizens , while one holds dual British and Pakistani citizenship. GUILTY VERDICTS IN ISIS PLOT POLICE SAY COULD HAVE BEEN 'THE DEADLIEST TERRORIST ATTACK IN UK HISTORY' All three were arrested Wednesday at separate locations across London. They did not enter pleas and were remanded in custody following a roughly 45-minute hearing Saturday afternoon at Westminster Magistrates’ Court , according to The Standard. Prosecutors said a fourth suspect was also arrested and taken into custody at the courthouse where the three charged men were appearing, according to Reuters. UK COUNTERTERRORISM POLICE PROBE ANTISEMITIC ARSON ATTACK AS IRAN-LINKED GROUP CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer previously condemned the attack as a "horrifying" antisemitic act . "An attack on our Jewish community is an attack on us all. We will fight the poison that is antisemitism," Starmer wrote on X on March 23. A report from the SITE Intelligence Group says an Iran-backed network calling itself the Islamic Movement of the People of the Right Hand has claimed responsibility, according to Reuters . UK ARRESTS 2 OVER 'ANTISEMITIC ARSON ATTACK' AS POLICE INVESTIGATE POSSIBLE IRAN LINK Despite the claim, officials have not formally classified the case as terrorism. However, counterterrorism police are leading the investigation, Metropolitan Police said. Police in the United Kingdom previously arrested two additional men, ages 45 and 47, in the days following the attack. They were later released on bail, according to the Metropolitan Police. "I want to reiterate that the support we had from the local community since this attack took place has been incredible, and we will continue to work closely with local policing colleagues to do everything we can to keep the public safe," Commander Helen Flanagan, head of Counter Terrorism Policing London, said in a statement. The Metropolitan Police did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment. Fox News Digital's Efrat Lachter and Greg Norman, as well as Reuters contributed to this report.

Iran and its proxy terrorist militias have issued targeted threats against universities in Lebanon , and the State Department has warned Americans to get out now while commercial flights are still available, U.S. officials said. Officials said Iran has "specifically threatened" American universities across the Middle East. The U.S. Embassy in Beirut described the security situation in Lebanon as "volatile and unpredictable." "Airstrikes, drones and rocket attacks occur throughout the country, especially in the south, the Beqaa, and parts of Beirut," officials wrote in a security alert. STATE DEPARTMENT URGES AMERICANS TO LEAVE MIDDLE EAST AS AIRSPACE CLOSURES DISRUPT TRAVEL The U.S. Embassy in Beirut added that it strongly encourages U.S. citizens in southern Lebanon, near the border with Syria, in refugee settlements and in the southern suburbs of Beirut — including Dahiyeh — to depart those areas immediately. "We recommend that U.S. citizens in Lebanon who choose not to leave prepare contingency plans for emergency situations and be prepared to shelter in place should the situation deteriorate further," according to the State Department. HEZBOLLAH, IRAN UNLEASH COORDINATED CLUSTER BOMB STRIKES ON ISRAEL IN MAJOR ESCALATION Commercial flights are being offered by Middle East Airlines, operating out of Beirut Rafic Hariri airport. Officials said Americans should strongly consider departing on one of the flights "if they believe it is safe to do so." The U.S. Embassy in Beirut is providing limited passport services on an emergency basis to U.S. citizens. All routine consular services, including visa operations, are suspended until further notice. Those who have plans to travel to Lebanon should cancel them, officials said .

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Just under three years ago, the Food and Drug Administration deemed 19 peptide drugs too unsafe to be dispensed by compounding pharmacies, which mix components of approved drugs to create bespoke medication for people who have trouble taking commonly available products. Now, under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the agency is poised to reverse itself. That’s despite few clinical studies supporting the effectiveness or safety of these peptides, which are amino acid chains meant to help regulate functions in the body and have become popular among fitness and longevity enthusiasts. In February, Kennedy said the FDA acted illegally in 2023 when it categorized 19 peptides as too unsafe for compounders, whose final products aren’t tested or approved by the FDA. Kennedy, who described himself as a “big fan” of peptides, has used the therapies himself. “It was illegal because they’re not supposed to do that unless there’s a safety signal,” Kennedy said on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast , referring to adverse events related to medications. “And they didn’t have a safety signal. They’re not allowed to look at efficacy. They’re not allowed to say, ‘Well, we don’t believe these are efficacious,’ or whatever. They can only look at safety.” But three former FDA officials closely familiar with how the agency created the criteria to assess the peptides in the first place say Kennedy has mischaracterized their work. The agency’s 2023 decision to ban certain peptides was supported by numerous documented safety concerns, they said. FDA regulations also require the agency to assess both safety and effectiveness before approving a substance for compounding. “It would be a disruption of the societal pact we have had since 1962 that drugs will be studied to see if they work before they are marketed in the U.S.,” said Janet Woodcock, a former FDA acting commissioner. If Kennedy justifies reversal of the previous work by suggesting there were no safety concerns, it would give a false imprimatur of safety to more than a dozen unapproved, untested drugs, the officials said. There’s been little new science on the 19 peptides since the FDA’s 2023 decision to categorize them as unsafe. But demand for the drugs has exploded as influencers have flooded social media with promises of sculpted physiques, glowing skin, luscious hair, rapidly healing injuries, youthful energy and blazing sex lives. Ads on Meta platforms claim peptide users can get a range of health benefits. Obtained by ProPublica The demand has given rise to a burgeoning gray market, where wellness spas, multilevel marketers and telehealth websites ply the public with vials of “research grade” peptides labeled “not for human use.” “More people want to use them,” said Lauren Colenso-Semple, a muscle physiology researcher and science communication specialist who follows scientific studies of peptides as part of her work. “That’s what’s changed.” FDA-approved peptide drugs such as insulin and oxytocin have been available for decades. Newer ones such as semaglutide and tirzepatide, broadly known as GLP-1s, have exploded in popularity for weight loss and have shown promise for treating other conditions , such as addictions and neurodegenerative and liver diseases. The popularity of these drugs has led the public to become more comfortable with injectables and has helped drive attention to other gray-market peptides. Last year, at a Las Vegas conference promising radical life extension, two women became critically ill after being injected with peptides the FDA had categorized as unsafe. Although Nevada regulators investigated and fined the health practitioners involved in administering the peptides, investigators weren’t able to determine the exact cause of the reaction. The doctor who ran the booth where the women became ill said he didn’t believe that the peptides caused their reactions but apologized for the incident and said he would review his practices. The Alliance for Pharmacy Compounding, one of the largest industry associations lobbying for the FDA to change its stance on peptides, acknowledges it knows little about the safety of individual peptides being sold to the public. (Its CEO says it is an advocacy organization, not a scientific one.) But the group argues the public would be safer if peptides were handled by regulated compounding pharmacies instead of the gray market. The FDA should forgo the usual human clinical trials in order to bring about this shift, a spokesperson for the alliance said. “Where we don’t have research, clinical trials, what we’ve got a ton of, is, shall we say, testimonials, patient affidavits, attesting to the wonders of the drug,” said Scott Brunner, the alliance’s chief executive officer. “And RFK Jr. is one of those testifiers.” On the Rogan podcast, Kennedy wasn’t clear on exactly how the FDA would let compounders start dispensing peptides, describing it only as “some kind of action” to make “about 14” peptides “more accessible.” Nor has he specified which peptides he wants to make available. (Neither the FDA nor HHS responded to ProPublica’s requests for more information.) But several regulatory shortcuts exist and, ultimately, Kennedy could simply declare the ingredients are legal. “He has all of the authority,” said Woodcock, likening such a declaration to former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ unilateral 2011 reversal of the FDA’s decision to lift age restrictions on the emergency contraception Plan B. (A judge ultimately found Sebelius’ move to be arbitrary and capricious and nullified it.) “The secretary can do anything they want.” A commercial for a GLP-1 drug appeared on television screens at a bar in Los Angeles during the Super Bowl LX broadcast. The Food and Drug Administration has approved peptide drugs such as semaglutide and tirzepatide, known as GLP-1s, and they have exploded in popularity for weight loss and shown promise for treating other conditions. Jill Connelly/Bloomberg/Getty Images The Bulks List The FDA’s road to regulating compounding pharmacies — and by extension the peptides they seek to dispense — has been long and tedious. Much of the regulatory fight has focused on which ingredients compounders should be allowed to use. Under a 1997 law, the first passed by Congress to regulate the industry, compounders can only use ingredients that are a component of an approved drug, have what’s known as a USP monograph (essentially a third-party certified recipe for a drug used mainly by manufacturers of generics), or are listed as approved substances by the FDA. This FDA list, known as “the bulks list,” is at the center of the ongoing peptide debate. Litigation and pressure from the industry and lawmakers delayed for decades the creation of the bulks list, leaving compounders in limbo on scores of substances, not just peptides. “Everything was a fight. It was a huge fight,” said one former FDA official who has spent more than 30 years working on compounding policies. The former official asked not to be named to avoid a public debate with the industry. The need for the list took on new urgency in 2012, when more than 60 people died from fungal meningitis infections contracted from a drug produced at a compounding facility and dispensed to hundreds of people. Congress passed another law further regulating large compounders that sell medications to doctors’ offices and hospitals rather than individual patients. The new law also prompted the agency to move more quickly on establishing the bulks list. The FDA asked the industry to nominate substances for inclusion on the list. It did so, nominating thousands of ingredients, including, for example, purified water and asparagus. “They put in everything,” the official said. “Literally thousands of nominations with absolutely no justification for why it needed to be there.” Each substance would have to be reviewed individually before it could be added to the bulks list. The agency would have to solicit public comment and an advisory committee of health and pharmacy experts would have to review the FDA’s research. Reviewing them “was a massive effort. The agency proceeded glacially, but really we were speeding as fast as we could,” the official said. In 2017, under pressure to move more quickly, the FDA came up with an interim solution. It substantially narrowed the list of nominated ingredients, quickly reviewed each remaining substance and placed them into three categories. The first was substances with enough of a safety track record that the agency felt comfortable letting compounders use them while the final list was assembled. The second category included substances considered too risky for compounding. And the third included those without enough supporting information for the FDA to make an informed decision and therefore wouldn’t be used for compounding. This categorization didn’t constitute a formal regulation; rather the agency was using its discretion not to go after compounders who used ingredients it deemed safe — those from the first category. In 2023, the FDA placed 19 peptides in Category 2, which already included a handful of substances the agency considered to be dangerous. This is what Kennedy has called “the war on peptides.” In explaining its decisions, the FDA pointed to well-established research in peptide drug development that injectable peptides carry the risk of causing immune reactions. Such reactions can range from responses with “no clinical manifestations” to irritating rashes to life-threatening conditions such as anaphylactic shock, which constricts breathing and impairs motor function. Peptides occur naturally in the body but break down quickly after serving their purpose. Peptide drugs, on the other hand, are manufactured to last longer in the body to create a therapeutic response, such as controlling appetite or promoting the growth of new blood vessels, bone density or muscle. “Now that it’s been tweaked to make it something else, the immune system can recognize it as foreign and there’s the potential issue of having an unwanted immune response,” Colenso-Semple said. The manufacturing process can also introduce impurities — like bacteria or heavy metals — into peptide drugs. They also are sensitive to environmental conditions and can change chemical composition if stored at the wrong temperatures or shaken too vigorously, increasing the risk of an immune response or decreasing their effectiveness. And when a substance is injected, as opposed to taken orally, it bypasses most of the body’s natural defenses. The risk of an immune response is common to peptide drugs in general. But individual peptides also present specific potential risks. The FDA reviewed data to assess these risks and found limited human studies on a few peptide therapies; most have only been studied in animals or in clinical populations like HIV patients. What human data the FDA did find for individual peptides indicated the potential for harm. Subjects in studies of six individual peptides — growth hormone releasing peptide-2, ibutamoren mesylate, ipamorelin, CJC-1295, AOD-9604 and melanotan II — experienced adverse events, including death. (It wasn’t proven whether the deaths were caused by the peptides or by something else.) Ultimately, the FDA decided not enough data existed to allay the known safety concerns. “Of course any adverse event can be a flag,” said another former FDA official who worked in the compounding division when the peptides were categorized as unsafe. The former official asked not to be named because they work in public health and don’t want to antagonize the current administration. “Also, if there is no clinical data for a substance, and an awareness that the substance has the propensity for harm, that could make it an appropriate placement on the Category 2 list.” Attendees are taught how to draw blood during a “peptide rave” in San Francisco last year. Jason Henry/The New York Times/Redux Are They Safe? Putting the peptides on the unsafe list didn’t change much for compounders. Because those peptides aren’t components of an approved drug and don’t carry a USP monograph, compounders weren’t allowed to dispense them anyway. “All that did was put an exclamation point on it,” Brunner said. In the months after the FDA’s announcement, his organization repeatedly warned its members not to dispense peptides. But the listing prompted at least two peptide companies to sue the FDA, arguing it was dragging its feet on creating the bulks list of allowed compounding substances. To date, only six substances have made it through the process to be put on the list, none of which are peptides and none of which are injectables. As the lawsuit wound its way through federal court, the FDA agreed to accelerate the review of four peptides named in the lawsuit: CJC-1295, AOD-9604, thymosin-alpha and ipamorelin acetate. It also decided to move forward on two other peptides not listed in the complaint: kisspeptin and ibutamoren mesylate. Online marketing claims these peptides help with, among other things, weight loss, muscle-building, anti-aging, insomnia, tissue repair and sexual dysfunction. Marketers also claim thymosin-alpha, one of the more studied peptides, can help with immune function, Lyme disease and COVID-19. In the final months of the Biden administration, the FDA convened the expert advisory committee and presented its research on the six peptides. In reports up to 158 pages long, the agency detailed the science behind the immune response risk in synthetic peptides, listed documented adverse events associated with the drugs and summarized the limited research on human subjects. In each case, the FDA recommended against putting the peptide on the bulks list for compounders. “I can’t imagine anybody looking at this data and being comfortable” making these available to the public, Colenso-Semple said. The peptide industry was given just 10 minutes before the committee to present arguments that the six peptides were safe. Speakers offered anecdotal evidence from their own and others’ practices. Even though peptides can’t legally be used by compounders, many were dispensing the drugs because the FDA has been lax in enforcing its regulations. “Many of the peptides that have been placed on Category 2 have been used successfully by thousands of our practitioners treating hundreds of thousands of patients who utilize these compounds to energize cellular function and give the body what it needs to help address sickness and disease, including obesity, diabetes and addiction,” said Dan DeNeui, CEO of one of the peptide companies that sued the FDA. His wife, Terri DeNeui, a nurse practitioner and founder of their company Evexias Health Solutions, presented information from a survey of 508 patients treated with various peptides that said 19% reported uncomfortable side effects and less than 1% experienced an adverse event. They also contended peptides would be more safely dispensed by regulated compounders than on the gray market — the argument now being made by the Alliance for Compounding Pharmacies. The active ingredients in the drugs would be manufactured at an FDA-registered facility subject to inspection, and compounders are overseen by state boards of pharmacies to ensure sterile conditions. That’s “a heck of a lot better than what many consumers are doing,” getting advice in chat rooms and “ordering some substance that purports to be a peptide and may or may not be,” Brunner told ProPublica. While that argument addresses quality-control concerns associated with the gray market, it doesn’t confront the fundamental question of whether peptides are safe. “They’re totally unapproved drugs,” said one of the former FDA officials. “Would you let a pharmaceutical company do this? No. No way.” In the end, the advisory committee sided with the FDA and endorsed its initial decision that the six peptides were too risky to be dispensed to the public. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has vowed to end the “war on peptides.” Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg/Getty Images What Happens Now? Unhappy with the advisory committee’s decision, the compounding industry has amplified its argument that the FDA review process for the bulks list is broken. The advisory committee had few working compounders on it and didn’t give those who opposed the decision on peptides enough time to present its arguments, industry advocates say. With a new administration, whose health secretary has used peptides himself and is trying to advance alternative health practices, they see an opportunity. They hope the FDA will appoint more members with compounding experience to the committee and ease enforcement on peptides while it continues the established regulatory process. “Given the scale of demand — demand that is going to be met, if not by a state licensed compounding pharmacy, then by the black and gray markets — we believe the lens that the FDA is using related to these peptides, at least some of the peptides, is the wrong lens,” Brunner said. “They’re wanting research, clinical trials. They’re wanting a certain amount of certitude that, frankly, is appropriate for most drugs, but not for this moment.” Regulatory shortcuts exist that would allow the FDA to skip the more laborious approval process. The FDA could simply remove the peptides from Category 2, those it considers unsafe. It could place them in Category 1, allowing them to be used in compounding. Or it could announce it’s changing its enforcement strategy and not going after compounders who work with these substances. None of that would be safe for the public, Woodcock contends. Congress intended for the FDA to “refer to a substantive body of evidence about the safety and effectiveness” of ingredients put on the bulks list, she said. “This wasn’t supposed to be a route for unapproved drugs to get into the market,” she said. “Not even Congress was thinking that.” The post RFK Jr. May Reverse a Peptide Ban He Calls “Illegal.” Former FDA Officials Say He Mischaracterized Their Work. appeared first on ProPublica .

Our reporting started, like much of our work, in a spreadsheet. As I parsed through federal court data, I noticed something odd: Within months of President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2025, prosecutors began filing obscure charges related to trespassing on military property — so many, in fact, that more cases were filed in 2025 than in the prior decade. Nearly all of these charges originated from cases along the U.S. southern border, where last spring, the White House designated large swaths of land as national defense areas. Putting them under military authority allowed troops to play an unprecedented role in apprehending undocumented immigrants; federal soldiers are generally barred from enforcing the law on domestic soil. If you were caught in one of these zones, the government could also now prosecute you for breaking federal laws, including one enacted in 1909 to keep spies away from arsenals. In an investigation we published recently, my co-reporters Perla Trevizo, Abe Streep, Pratheek Rebala and I dug into what experts say is a major flaw afflicting these prosecutions that threatens to ensnare people for crimes they did not commit: Migrants didn’t know the land they were crossing now belonged to the armed forces. And many judges have ruled that you can’t be guilty of trespassing on military land if you had no idea you were on it. Since April of last year, we found, at least 4,700 immigrants already charged with entering the country illegally faced these military trespass charges; at least one had to wait in jail for more than a month to stand trial. Most of the charges didn’t stick. In fact, we found that in 60% of the resolved cases, the trespass charges were dropped or dismissed. Yet prosecutors kept filing them. Download the full data used in our analysis on our GitHub page. Military Trespass Cases Under Trump Administration Skyrocket Note: Counts are of unique cases in which charges were filed under 50:797 (“Penalty for violation of security regulations and orders”) and 18:1382 (“Entering military, naval, or Coast Guard property”). Source: Federal Justice Center’s Integrated Database. Agnel Philip/ProPublica As we visited courtrooms in West Texas and New Mexico and pored through case records, it became clear how hard it would be to prove that someone knowingly trespassed on military land. Some couldn’t read. At least one person didn’t speak English or Spanish. The small signs are spaced far apart and easy to miss, and many migrants were arrested far away from them. A Justice Department spokesperson said the prosecutions have deterred unauthorized border crossings and cartel activity. And prosecutors have argued in court that illegally crossing is enough to prove criminal intent for the military trespassing charges. Senior officials in the U.S. attorney’s offices handling trespass cases declined repeated interview requests. In November, Perla, Abe and I set out to report throughout southern New Mexico and West Texas to see for ourselves what information we could gather about where the zones were and how they were marked. Abe and I arranged a ride-along with Doña Ana County Sheriff Kim Stewart, whose New Mexico agency shares jurisdiction with Border Patrol and the military in one of the zones.  A sergeant from her office drove us along a dirt road that parallels the border as she pointed out 12-by-18-inch red and white signs opposite the fence. She told us her office hadn’t received specific information about where the military zone boundaries were; all they had were the signs. Even in broad daylight, it was difficult to read the words on them unless we got within a few feet. Small signs like this are posted around the national defense areas, but their size and placement often make them difficult to see. Paul Ratje for ProPublica and The Texas Tribune On another outing in New Mexico — this time with the photographer Paul Ratje — I went to a spot in Sunland Park where Ratje said he’d previously taken photos of the border fence. The 2-acre dirt lot sat less than a mile from residential neighborhoods and a popular Italian restaurant. From the lot, we could see more red and white signs along the nearby border road. While we were taking pictures, a pickup truck with a Border Patrol livery approached us. I was surprised to see that inside, instead of Border Patrol agents, there were two Army soldiers. The soldier in the passenger seat pointed to the signage along the border road and told us not to go past there. The border road was part of the defense area, he told us, though the lot we were standing in wasn’t. The next day, Perla and I returned to the same location. This time, a Border Patrol agent drove up. The lot was part of the defense area, he told us. When I pointed out that I had been given conflicting information the previous day, the agent said he was told by the military that people couldn’t be in this area. We left. (An Army spokesperson said that the base responsible for the defense area in New Mexico published a map in December; the lot was not included in it.) My interactions with Border Patrol and the military had so far only added to our confusion about these areas. Later that day, Perla and I drove south to a stretch of border fence along the Rio Grande near Tornillo, Texas. We saw a Border Patrol van near a gate in the fence. We thought we’d try to ask where the defense area was. Before we could do that, another Border Patrol van pulled up to us. Soldiers, including one with a rifle strapped across his shoulder, emerged from both vehicles. Another soldier told us he was “not at liberty to discuss” the national defense area’s exact location.  Read More The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law The response bewildered us. We asked him how we were supposed to know whether we were trespassing. He shrugged. (Spokespeople for U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Defense did not directly answer questions about these interactions.) As we got back into our rental SUV, Perla and I wondered: If we, as reporters who investigate things for a living, couldn’t get a straight answer on where these military zones were, how did the government expect people crossing the border to do better?  In the four months between our reporting trip and the publication of our investigation on March 16, the government continued to file military trespassing charges in more than 1,300 cases. And it’s established new military zones, too, in Arizona, California and Texas. The post Why We Went Looking for National Defense Areas Along the U.S. Southern Border appeared first on ProPublica .

The Trump administration official leading an effort to loosen rules on methane pollution was an unnamed author of key industry arguments against those same rules just four years ago when he was an oil and gas lobbyist. Aaron Szabo, an assistant administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency, is listed in PDF metadata as the author of a January 2022 comment letter objecting to proposed controls on methane emissions in the oil and gas industry. The letter was submitted to the EPA by the American Exploration and Production Council, which represents some of the industry’s largest emitters of the planet-warming gas, including ConocoPhillips, Diversified Energy and Hilcorp. Szabo’s name does not appear in the document itself, but it can be found in information embedded by the software used to create the PDF file. Szabo was registered as a lobbyist for one of the AXPC’s lesser-known members, Ovintiv, when he drafted the arguments against the restrictions, which were finalized later in the Biden administration. He has also lobbied for other clients in the oil and chemicals sectors. While he did not hide that work during his confirmation last year as head of the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, he described it in terms that avoided any mention of efforts to influence climate policy: “I learned how regulated entities comply with the federal government’s thousands of regulations and policies. I also saw firsthand that the people working in these companies want to ensure the environment is properly protected.” In his current role overseeing federal climate rules at the EPA, Szabo has been soliciting input and even specific regulatory language from oil industry groups that stand to gain from watered-down methane rules, according to internal emails, calendar entries and records of closed-door conversations reviewed by ProPublica. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., the ranking Democrat on the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, pointed to Szabo’s previous lobbying as evidence that the EPA had effectively been captured by the oil and gas industry. “Now he can do Big Oil’s dirty work from inside the EPA,” Whitehouse told ProPublica in an email. As part of its plan to “unleash American energy,” the Trump administration has waged an unprecedented campaign against regulations on fossil fuels, the main cause of global warming. One of its biggest moves was to repeal the “endangerment finding” that classified greenhouse gases as pollutants — the basis for the EPA’s authority to limit emissions at all. Rather than throw out the methane rules entirely, however, Szabo’s office is working to revise them, emails and documents show. It has already delayed many of the compliance deadlines until next year. Methane, the main component of natural gas, is a climate superpollutant, responsible for one-third of the rise in global temperatures since preindustrial times, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. When it escapes into the atmosphere without being burned for energy, it can trap 80 times more heat than carbon dioxide, research shows. The oil and gas business is the largest industrial source of U.S. methane emissions, in part because of leaks from poorly maintained equipment. If it is uneconomical to collect the gas for sale, companies sometimes intentionally release it in a process known as venting. To cut down on methane discharges, President Joe Biden’s EPA imposed much stricter controls on oil and gas operations, including requiring increased monitoring for leaks and equipment upgrades. According to agency estimates, the new rules would have lowered the industry’s methane emissions by nearly 80%. And, given that the gas breaks down relatively quickly, this would have been one of the fastest ways to reduce global warming. Industry groups pushed back. In the January 2022 letter that Szabo helped to draft, the AXPC used the word “burdensome” 10 times to describe the new requirements and pushed for more “flexibility” to allow for less expensive leak-detection methods and less frequent monitoring, among other requests. The group also cast doubt on the rules’ expected climate and health benefits, highlighting what it called “the importance of communicating the significant uncertainties within the estimates.” The AXPC’s chief executive, Anne Bradbury, added in a later statement that the rules risked “undercutting US production in the near and long-term — which will lead to increased energy costs and reduced energy security.” Do you have any information we should know about Trump’s EPA, oil industry lobbying or methane pollution? Alex Cuadros can be reached by email at alex.cuadros@propublica.org and on Signal at alexcuadros.63. The AXPC failed to persuade the Biden administration to change its approach. But it renewed its push after President Donald Trump returned to office and ordered federal agencies to “suspend, revise, or rescind” any “undue burden” on domestic energy production. Szabo, after two years as a fellow at the Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute, joined the administration on Day 1 as an adviser to EPA chief Lee Zeldin. He immediately signaled that he planned to weaken the regulations he had argued against as a lobbyist. His staff met with AXPC representatives as early as Feb. 6, 2025, less than three weeks after Trump’s inauguration, to discuss its petition to “reconsider” the methane rules, according to emails and calendar entries obtained through public records requests and shared with ProPublica by Fieldnotes, a watchdog group that investigates the oil and gas industry. His staff went on to meet with them at least twice more, and Szabo himself was listed as a required attendee for a meeting with Bradbury last July. The AXPC didn’t respond to emails from ProPublica seeking comment. According to records of closed-door conversations reviewed by ProPublica, other oil industry representatives have described their meetings with Szabo and his staff as highly favorable to their interests. “Mr. Szabo assured us that the EPA is focused on these [methane] rules and doing everything that can be done to limit the damage they will cause,” the leadership of a major trade group wrote to its members last year in an internal newsletter. Lee Fuller, of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, also spoke glowingly about his meeting with Szabo’s office on a conference call with industry representatives last year. “It was one of the more fascinating meetings that we’ve ever had, just because they were suddenly willing to talk to us,” he said. “And they’re also suddenly willing to talk about things that we’ve been trying to get them to do for years, and they’ve never even let it kind of come onto the radar screen.” The IPAA declined to answer specific questions from ProPublica but linked to a September 2025 letter in which the group publicly asked the EPA for exceptions to the methane rules. Szabo’s office has even invited oil industry groups to offer specific wording for the revised rules. “We had a call several weeks back re. pneumatics on temporary equipment,” Mike O’Connor of the American Petroleum Institute wrote to an EPA official, referring to devices that are a major source of methane emissions. “EPA had informally requested input on this topic and any suggested reg. text language. We are providing the attached draft document as informal input to EPA’s inquiry.” The draft called for a number of exemptions. The shift in priorities under Szabo can also be seen in communications from the EPA itself. In a June 2025 email reviewed by ProPublica, an agency official asked O’Connor to meet and discuss alternative leak-detection methods. Echoing the language in the AXPC comment that Szabo helped to draft, the official spoke of “the additional flexibility we would like to pursue.” “I think their agenda was, from what I could tell, to do what industry wanted,” one former EPA official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe confidential discussions, said of Szabo and other Trump appointees at the agency. “Since when is it a bad thing for public officials to ask the public what they think?” the EPA said in an emailed statement, referring to Szabo’s interactions with oil industry representatives. Szabo “fulfilled all his ethical obligations to the letter. He met with EPA career ethics staff when he started at EPA to ensure he is aware of and complies with federal ethics requirements.” Szabo’s affinities are hardly a secret. He is thanked by name in the EPA chapter of Project 2025, the deregulatory blueprint for the second Trump administration. As part of the nomination process for his appointment at the EPA, he also submitted ethics disclosures listing oil, natural gas and chemicals companies he had lobbied for. Still, at his confirmation hearing on March 5 last year, he repeatedly declined to elaborate on his role in Project 2025, beyond saying he provided “general advice and thoughts” on the Clean Air Act. The post The Trump EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regulations Helped Write Oil Industry Argument Against Those Rules appeared first on ProPublica .

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