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La cárcel de los gemelos, la secuela del reality de internet creado por Daniel y Carlos Ramos, de ZonaGemelos, ha vuelto a renovar su esencia con la incorporación de un nuevo recluso a la prisión, que promete sorprender a la audiencia y ofrecer un soplo de aire fresco y trastocar las dinámicas de convivencia dentro del concurso. Aunque su llegada estaba programada desde primera hora de la mañana, no fue hasta la tarde de este jueves, día 26 de marzo, cuando el actor Adrián Rodríguez, conocido por su participación en series de televisión como Los Serrano o Física o química, aterrizaba en estas instalaciones carcelarias llevando su maleta y cantando unos versos del popular tema 'Te pintaron parajitos' de Andy Rivera junto a Yandar & Yostin. De inmediato, su presencia desató una gran sorpresa entre la mayoría de participantes, quienes en ese momento permanecían recluidos en sus celdas, cumpliendo las estrictas normas del reality. "¡No me lo creo!", "qué ilusión verte" fueron solo algunas de las primeras reacciones, entre las que también se incluyeron otras como la de La Falete, quien en un inicio no sabía quién era. "Bienvenido al 'psiquiátrico' de los gemelos', le comenta Tiparraco, en tono de humor, antes de que el resto de reclusos lo acompañaran a instalarse. Aunque apenas lleva unas horas dentro del concurso, Rodríguez ya ha protagonizado algunos momentos de intimidad con la influencer La Piry, quien empezó a ganar popularidad en redes tras su paso por espacios como el show de Carlos Durán. No obstante, su inesperado fichaje por La cárcel de los gemelos — que llega a tan solo unos días de que los streamers de ZonaGemelos expulsaran disciplinariamente a La Marrash y a José tras ser acusarlos de estar en posesión de cocaína y de que varios agentes de policía se personaran en las instalaciones—, ha levantado cierto escepticismo en redes sociales por el momento personal que atraviesa. Y es que hace apenas unas semanas, a principios de marzo, Rodríguez visitaba el programa de Y ahora Sonsoles para explicar las razones detrás de su abandono por voluntad propia del centro de desintoxicación en el que estaba ingresado y en el que recibía tratamiento para acabar con sus problemas de adicción a las drogas. En este contexto, y aunque él mismo aclaró que continúa recuperándose y se mantiene desintoxicado mientras retoma su rutina, numerosos usuarios plantearon sus dudas ante su decisión de sumarse al elenco de participantes del reality. "Si se quiere rehabilitar y reconducir su carrera este no es el lugar adecuado", "Mal asunto", "¿nadie le ha podido aconsejar que no es buena idea siendo un desintoxicado meterse ahí?", expresaron.

Después de semanas de indirectas y rumores de reconciliación, ya es más que oficial: Kiko Rivera e Isabel Pantoja han retomado la relación y él lo celebra con el lanzamiento de No hay paz sin ti , su nueva canción que va dedicada a su madre. El DJ estuvo recientemente publicando fotos familiares en las que aparecía de pequeño junto a la tonadillera, e incluso con su tío Agustín, con quien se rumoreaba que tenía peor relación. Pero parece que todo eso quedó atrás, pues han acercado posturas. De hecho, diversos periodistas han asegurado que han hablado, que incluso la artista ha podido conversar con sus nietos y que Isa Pantoja podría ser la siguiente a la que Isabel se acerque. Sea como fuere, está claro que Kiko Rivera ya ve todo esto desde una nueva perspectiva , la cual ha plasmado en el último tema que estrenó este viernes. " No es solo una canción, es mi forma de sacar todo lo que llevo dentro , todo lo que a veces no supe decir con palabras. Es amor, es recuerdo, es verdad… es parte de mí", escribió el DJ en su última publicación de Instagram, en la que confirmaba que Isabel Pantoja era la protagonista del tema. La letra de No hay paz sin ti no deja lugar a dudas, pues habla de ese distanciamiento público con ella: "He dicho cosas que aún me pesan, palabras que al alma no regresan, sé que fallé cuando perdí el control y el silencio nos robó la voz ". "Ni tú ni yo supimos cómo hacerlo mejor, dos corazones peleando con el dolor", continúa la letra. " Mamá, si me equivoqué, perdóname hoy , que el amor siempre sea más fuerte que el rencor (...) No busco ganar ni tener razón, solo curar lo que rompió el corazón". Letra completa de 'No hay paz sin ti' Esta canción es para ti, mamá, porque, pase lo que pase, siempre seré parte de ti. He dicho cosas que aún me pesan, palabras que al alma no regresan, sé que fallé cuando perdí el control y el silencio nos robó la voz. Pero también hubo heridas abiertas, verdades que nunca tuvieron respuesta, Que entre el ruido y la soledad se nos rompió la mitad. Ni tú ni yo supimos cómo hacerlo mejor, dos corazones peleando con el dolor. No hay paz sin ti dentro de mí, aunque duela lo que vivimos aquí. Mamá, si me equivoqué, perdóname hoy, que el amor siempre sea más fuerte que el rencor. No hay sin ti, lo entendí, aunque el tiempo nos quiso dividir. Y entre lágrimas, verdad y cicatriz, sigo siendo parte de ti. No busco ganar ni tener razón, solo curar lo que rompió el corazón. Hubo errores que no supe evitar, y momentos que nos hicieron dudar. Si alguna vez sentiste mi distancia, era miedo disfrazado de arrogancia, porque, aunque quise huir, siempre volví hacia ti. Las heridas hablan cuando calla la voz, pero el amor nunca se fue de los dos. No hay paz sin ti, dentro de mí, aunque duela lo que vivimos aquí. Mamá, si me equivoque, perdóname hoy, que el amor siempre sea más fuerte que el rencor. Si el orgullo nos separó, que el perdón nos vuelva a unir.

La Policía Nacional detuvo este pasado jueves a un hombre, identificado como E.M.G., por la muerte violenta de un fontanero en Torrent que le habría hecho una "chapuza" en su casa, según indicaba Las Provincias . Los investigadores barajaban primeramente que la muerte de Paquito C.T., de 40 años, la noche del pasado 8 de febrero respondía a un ajuste de cuentas o a algún crimen relacionado con el narcotráfico, pero la realidad era muy diferente. Las investigaciones del grupo de Homicidios de la Policía Nacional han determinado que el crimen tuvo su origen en una disputa por un trabajo de fontanería que el presunto autor del crimen consideraba defectuoso. Según las pesquisas, el ahora detenido mantenía un conflicto previo con la víctima por una obra realizada en su cocina. En el teléfono del fallecido, los agentes hallaron mensajes en los que el sospechoso le exigía la devolución de unos 170 euros , al tiempo que profería insultos y amenazas explícitas, llegando incluso a advertirle de que podía "apretar el gatillo". Los testimonios recabados por los investigadores, entre ellos el de un testigo protegido, apuntan a que agresor y víctima habían concertado un encuentro. El sospechoso acudió al domicilio del fontanero, presuntamente acompañado por un familiar, y logró que bajara a la calle. Allí, tras una discusión, habría sacado un arma blanca con la que le asestó varias cuchilladas. El suceso ocurrió poco después de las 21:00 del 8 de febrero , en una zona donde, a escasos metros, un grupo celebraba un cumpleaños en la vía pública. Ninguno de los presentes presenció directamente la agresión, aunque varios acudieron en auxilio de la víctima tras escuchar los gritos. La investigación también situó al entorno del sospechoso en las inmediaciones del crimen. Agentes de la Policía Local de Torrent identificaron esa misma noche a un hermano del presunto homicida cerca del cruce de las calles Xenillet y Albades, donde se produjo la agresión. Además, la Policía Nacional constató que el principal sospechoso dejó de utilizar su teléfono móvil desde esa misma noche , un hecho que reforzó las sospechas sobre su implicación directa. Tras varios días en paradero desconocido, los agentes lograron localizar al sospechoso en un domicilio de Alaquàs. El pasado martes, con autorización de la plaza número tres de la Sección Civil del Tribunal de Instancia de Torrent, se llevaron a cabo cuatro registros simultáneos en distintas viviendas vinculadas a su entorno familiar en Torrent, lo que culminó con su detención el pasado martes.

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Relatives grieve an Iraqi soldier killed in a strike Wednesday on a military clinic in western Iraq's Anbar province, during a mass procession inside the shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf, Iraq, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil) 2026-03-27T06:16:00Z DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel launched a wave of strikes on Iran early Friday ahead of a planned U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss attacks on Iranian civilian infrastructure, while Iran and the United States appeared at a diplomatic impasse, setting the stage for more potential escalation as the first month of the Middle East war neared its end. Israel’s attack Friday on targets “in the heart of Tehran” came after the country said it would be “intensifying” its strikes on Iranian weapons production facilities, but there was no immediate information on what was hit. Smoke also rose over Beirut, although Israel did not immediately report hitting the Lebanese capital, while air raid sirens sounded in Israel as the military said it was working to intercept Iranian missiles. Iran kept up its attacks on its Gulf Arab neighbors, with incoming drones and missiles reported in both Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. 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 U.S. has been pushing Iran to start talks on a 15-point proposal for a ceasefire, but at the same time has ordered thousands more troops to the region, possibly in preparation for a military attempt to wrest the Strait of Hormuz from Iran’s tight grip. After Wall Street’s worst day since the war began, Asian shares mostly fell Friday over growing doubts about the chances of de-escalation. Oil prices rose again, the Brent crude, the international standard, at $107 a barrel in morning trading, up more than 45% since Israel and the U.S. attacked Iran on Feb. 28 to start the war. US pushing diplomatic solution but sending more troops to the region Iran’s stranglehold on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, has caused growing concerns of a global energy crisis, and appears part of a strategy to get the U.S. to back down by roiling the world economy. A Gulf Arab bloc said Thursday that Iran is now exacting tolls from ships to ensure their safe passage through the waterway. Trump envoy Steve Witkoff said Washington has delivered a 15-point “action list” to Iran for a possible ceasefire, using Pakistan as an intermediary. The list includes restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program and re-opening the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has rejected the U.S. offer and put forth its own five-point proposal , which includes reparations and recognition of its sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz. 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); }); As the diplomatic efforts went on, a group of U.S. ships drew closer to the region with some 2,500 Marines. Also, at least 1,000 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne — trained to land in hostile territory to secure key territory and airfields — have been ordered to the region. As American and Israeli attacks on Iran continued, the U.N. Security Council scheduled closed consultation on Iran for Friday in New York, according to two U.N. diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity because the meeting is not public. They added that Russia had asked for the meeting on U.S.-Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure in the country, that the United States, which holds the Security Council presidency, had scheduled it. 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); }); Deaths continue to climb, primarily in Iran and Lebanon Since the war began, more than 1,900 people have been killed in Iran, according to the Health Ministry. Eighteen people have died in Israel, while at least three Israeli soldiers have also been killed in Lebanon. At least 13 American troops have been killed. Four people in the occupied West Bank and 20 in Gulf Arab states have also died. Authorities said more than 1,100 people have died in Lebanon. In Iraq, where Iranian-supported militia groups have entered the conflict, 80 members of the security forces have been killed. ___ Rising reported from Bangkok. Associated Press writers Giovanna Dell’Orto in Miami and Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report. JON GAMBRELL Gambrell is the news director for the Gulf and Iran for The Associated Press. He has reported from each of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Iran and other locations across the world since joining the AP in 2006. twitter instagram mailto DAVID RISING Rising covers regional Asia-Pacific stories for The Associated Press. He has worked around the world, including covering the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine, and was based for nearly 20 years in Berlin before moving to Bangkok. twitter mailto

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives at Paris-Le Bourget Airport, in Le Bourget, France, early Friday, March 27, 2026, to take part in the G7 foreign ministers' meeting. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool Photo via AP) 2026-03-27T04:05:01Z WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in France to meet his Group of Seven counterparts Friday after President Donald Trump attacked NATO countries over a reluctance or refusal to take part in the Iran war , a conflict that some of America’s closest allies have met with deep skepticism . Rubio will have a hard time trying to sell the other top diplomats from G7 countries on the U.S. strategy for the Iran conflict , to which almost all nations have raised objections. Trump’s vitriolic comments about NATO during a Cabinet meeting Thursday will make it an even tougher task. Of the G7 nations — besides the U.S. — Britain, Canada, France, Germany and Italy are members of the transatlantic military alliance. Japan is the only one that is not. Rubio left Washington for the G7 meeting outside Paris just hours after Trump complained bitterly about NATO countries not stepping up to help the U.S. and Israel in the Iran war. 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); }); “We are very disappointed with NATO because NATO has done absolutely nothing,” Trump said. Rubio has work to do to smooth things over with allies like those in Europe that have faced criticism or outright threats from Trump and others in his administration. The Europeans are still smarting over Trump’s earlier demands to take over Greenland from NATO ally Denmark and are concerned about U.S. support for Ukraine in its war with Russia . The conflict in the Middle East has added another point of tension. “Frankly, I think countries around the world, even those that are out there complaining about this a little bit, should actually be grateful that the United States has a president that’s willing to confront a threat like this,” Rubio said at the Cabinet meeting. Trump has complained about lack of support from allies Asked by reporters about the reception he was expecting to get, Rubio said before his flight to France that he was looking forward to gathering with his G7 counterparts and that “we’re going to have great meetings.” He later posted on X that he would be meeting in France with “world leaders about the security concerns we share around the world and opportunities to address the situation in the Middle East and the Russia-Ukraine war.” Trump has complained that he has not been able to rally support behind his war of choice in Iran and that NATO and most other allies have rejected his calls to help secure the Strait of Hormuz , where Iran’s chokehold has disrupted oil shipments and pushed up energy prices. “We’re there to protect NATO, to protect them from Russia. But they’re not there to protect us,” Trump said Thursday. He later added: “I never thought we needed them. I was more doing a test.” 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); }); Before the U.S. leader’s comments, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte reiterated the increase in defense spending by alliance members — which Trump has urged — saying Europe and Canada had been “overreliant on U.S. military might” but a “shift in mindset” has taken hold. Rutte said NATO has been clear that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and has “long recognized the threat Iran’s missile program posed to allies and their interests. And what the United States is currently doing is degrading those capabilities, both the nuclear and the missile.” 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); }); G7 host France has been skeptical of the Iran war France is hosting the G7 meeting at a historic abbey near Versailles and has been highly skeptical of the war. The chief of the French defense staff, Gen. Fabien Mandon, complained this week that U.S. allies had not been informed about the start of hostilities. “They have just decided to intervene in the Near and Middle East without notifying us,” Mandon said. “We acted immediately, surprised by an American ally, who remains an ally, but who is less and less predictable and doesn’t even bother to inform us when it decides to engage in military operations. This affects our security. This affects our interests.” However, 35 countries joined military talks hosted by Mandon on how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz “once the intensity of hostilities has sufficiently decreased,” France’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. Rubio said that with Iran threatening global shipping, countries that care about international law “should step up and deal with it.” 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); }); Similar sentiments to Mandon’s have been expressed by other allies that also worry about the U.S. commitment to Ukraine as the Iran war closes in on four weeks. “We must avoid further destabilization, secure our economic freedom and develop perspectives for an end of and the time after the hostilities,” German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said Thursday. “Our joint support for Ukraine ... must not crumble now. That would be a strategic mistake with a view to Euro-Atlantic security.” Wadephul said he expected “that we can define a joint position” on the Middle East. “Of course, this is about ending this conflict as quickly as possible, but also ending it sustainably, and that means bringing about security in the Strait of Hormuz and ensuring overall that the Iranian regime, which in the past has behaved negatively enough, is also curtailed in the future,” Wadephul said. ___ Associated Press writers Lorne Cook in Brussels, John Leicester in Paris and Geir Moulson in Berlin contributed to this report.

Nurto Madey, a mother displaced by drought, holds her daughter inside her makeshift hut at Ladan internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Dolow, southern Somalia, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor) 2026-03-27T06:28:20Z DOLLOW, Somalia (AP) — The sound of a crying child is a sign of hope in a crowded displacement camp in southern Somalia — the most malnourished children are too weak to even cry. For the mothers in the Ladan camp in the town of Dollow , survival is the only thing on their minds — not the Iran war or how UNICEF gets the supplies to keep the place running. The displaced here have fled the drought that has ravaged swaths of this Horn of Africa nation after four failed rain seasons. Their crops and livestock devastated, they show up at the camp, often with nothing but their children. Aid workers at Ladan say the raging war in the Middle East — more than 3,000 kilometers (1,800 miles) away — has made their work harder, disrupting supplies and sending fuel costs soaring. 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); }); Raising the alarm UNICEF says it has $15.7 million worth of lifesaving supplies — including therapeutic food, vaccines, and mosquito nets — in transit or being prepared for delivery to Somalia. But those shipments now are uncertain. Transport costs could rise by 30% to 60%, and even double on some routes, while delays caused by rerouting and backlog become more likely, the U.N. agency says. During a visit to Dollow on Wednesday, Catherine Russell, UNICEF’s executive director, said the Iran war has been a “shock to the system” for the agency’s work on the ground in Somalia. “It means that we can’t get supplies in as easily, and that fuel costs are really high,” she said. “It’s another problem that we have to try to deal with, and it means that more and more children will suffer.” At the same time, more than 400 health and nutrition facilities have closed over the past year across Somalia, due mainly to U.S. funding cuts , leaving many communities without access to support. Aid agencies warn more closures could follow. All those issues have compounded the situation in Laden, where hunger threatens especially the youngest. “What we’re seeing is that children are really on the edge already,” Russell 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); }); Grim numbers In Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, the government warned last month that nearly 6.5 million people — out of the population of more than 20 million — face severe hunger as the drought worsens and conflict and global aid cuts intensify the country’s crisis. The humanitarian needs are just the tip of the iceberg as the Somali government grapples with its long-running war against the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militant group, fighting to reclaim territory from the extremists. The latest data from a report by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification , a global hunger monitoring group, estimates that 1.84 million children under the age of 5 in Somalia are expected to suffer acute malnutrition in 2026. 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); }); Fending for their lives In Ladan, spread across the town’s dusty outskirts, rows of makeshift shelters stretch under the harsh sun, fragile structures of plastic sheets and torn fabric held together by sticks and thorn branches. The camp is home to about 4,500 households. “We just want our children to survive,” said Shamso Nur Hussein, a 20-year-old widow with three children. She fled their village in the Bakool region after losing all her farm animals. Her cooking hearth at the camp — three stones and ash — was cold, with no sign of a recent fire. “Since morning we have only had black tea,” she told The Associated Press at the camp. At the hospital in Dollow, mothers sat shoulder to shoulder on narrow beds holding frail children, some too weak to cry while others let out soft whimpers. Liban Roble, a nutrition program coordinator, said the hospital used to see mainly “moderate cases.” “Now we are receiving children in extremely critical condition — severely malnourished, weak, and in some cases almost skeletal,” he 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); }); Supplies running low Roble said the hospital has only supplies to treat the malnourished “until mid-April or the end of April.” “If new stock doesn’t arrive, more children will deteriorate and potentially die,” he said. At Ladan’s nutrition center, health workers weighed children and dispensed a peanut-based paste, squeezing it into the children’s mouths. It’s a lifeline, a means to prevent rapid decline of the malnourished children, nurse Abdimajid Adan Hussein said. “Their weakened bodies make them vulnerable to pneumonia, diarrhea and other illnesses,” Hussein said. Community leaders say support is already falling short. “We used to receive assistance from humanitarian agencies, but that stopped in September 2025,” said Abdifatah Mohamed Osman, Ladan’s deputy chairman. “Now the little support we get is mainly therapeutic food for malnourished children.” ___ For more on Africa and development: https://apnews.com/hub/africa-pulse The Associated Press receives financial support for global health and development coverage in Africa from the Gates Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content. 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El Banco de España ha vuelto a mejorar su previsión de crecimiento para España, incluso a pesar de las dificultades derivadas de la guerra en Oriente Medio. La entidad ha subido en una décima su proyección para 2026, hasta el 2,3%, en comparación con la que hizo hace tres meses. Su justificación es que la economía cerró 2025 con un ritmo superior al que esperaba el BdE y que el paquete de medidas anticrisis aprobado por el Gobierno de Pedro Sánchez compensará el impacto del conflicto. La fecha de corte para los supuestos sobre los que se elaboran estas proyecciones son del 11 de marzo y, desde entonces, los precios energéticos se han seguido tensionando. En concreto, el Banco de España calcula que el decreto de medidas aportará 0,3 puntos al crecimiento este año. De esta forma, prácticamente neutralizará los 0,4 puntos que prevé de impacto negativo por la guerra. En concreto, la entidad calcula que las rebajas de impuestos a la energía generarán 0,15 puntos de crecimiento, mientras que las subvenciones y ayudas directas a empresas y profesionales aportarán 0,14 puntos adicionales. El director de Economía del Banco de España, David López Salido, ha valorado de forma positiva el paquete de medidas: "Aparece en un momento adecuado, es una respuesta rápida y es acotado en el tiempo, pero es deseable que hubiese tenido más focalización en la población más vulnerable". La décima adicional de crecimiento se debe al dinamismo que venía mostrando la economía española antes del inicio de la guerra. El crecimiento del PIB del cuarto trimestre, con un avance del 0,8% , superó las previsiones que tenía el Banco de España. Además, los datos de las primeras semanas de enero llevan al BdE a estimar un crecimiento de entre el 0,5 y el 0,6% en el primer trimestre del año. De esta forma, los datos económicos previos a la guerra obligan al BdE a incorporar dos décimas adicionales al crecimiento, dando como resultado la revisión al alza global de una décima. El Banco de España también cree que las medidas diseñadas por el Gobierno permitirán contener el avance de la inflación y que el IPC medio del conjunto del año será del 3%. El paquete de medidas anticrisis evitaría una subida de la inflación 0,5 puntos superior. También mejora su previsión de tasa de paro, que caería por debajo del 10% por primera vez en casi 20 años (desde 2007). La OCDE rebaja el crecimiento de España al 2,1% por la guerra en Irán y eleva la inflación al 3% C. Dolz El escenario central asume que el mayor crecimiento de los precios se registrará en el segundo trimestre del año, con un descenso progresivo a partir del verano. La eurozona sale especialmente perjudicada de la crisis por su dependencia energética El BdE también señala que la inflación antes de la guerra estaba siendo más persistente de lo que esperaba, principalmente por los servicios. El dinamismo de la demanda en España está presionando a la inflación al alza, lo que muestra una persistencia superior a la del resto del continente. Antes del inicio de la guerra, el BdE ya contaba con subir en 0,6 puntos su previsión de inflación. El principal canal de contagio de la crisis energética a España es el mayor coste de las compras de gas y petróleo. El BdE ha revisado al alza el crecimiento de las importaciones de bienes y servicios en algo más de un punto (del 3,6% al 4,9%). Sin embargo, también mejora la previsión de exportaciones gracias al nuevo impulso que recibirá el turismo, pasando del 2 al 2,4%. En conjunto, el Banco de España cree que la capacidad de financiación de España apenas se verá afectada por la guerra respecto de las previsiones anteriores y mantendrá un holgado superávit exterior del 3,2% del PIB. El impulso fiscal pondrá en riesgo el cumplimiento de las reglas fiscales . El Banco de España eleva en dos décimas su previsión de déficit, al 2,3% del PIB. Sin embargo, el indicador que ahora valora la Comisión Europea es el del gasto computable (primario neto de medidas de ingresos). El BdE alerta de que es posible que el Gobierno excediera el límite de gasto ya en 2025 y anticipa que seguirá siendo así en 2026 y 2027. Esto pone a España ante el reto de aprobar ajustes para evitar la apertura de un expediente comunitario. Escenarios de riesgo El Banco de España también incorpora a sus previsiones de crecimiento escenarios de riesgo que contemplan el impacto económico de una crisis energética más larga. Es el mismo ejercicio que ya hizo el Banco Central Europeo la semana pasada. El BCE anticipa una recesión e inflación al 6% si la guerra en Oriente Medio se enquista Javier Jorrín Aunque no es su escenario base, el BCE alerta del potencial disruptivo de la guerra a medida que se suman días de conflicto y se destruyen infraestructuras energéticas El escenario adverso, que contempla una subida más intensa del petróleo a corto plazo y una vuelta a la normalidad algo más lenta (con el barril en unos 80 euros a final de año), restaría una décima al PIB , que crecería un 2,2% este año. En el escenario severo, con un barril que llegaría a cotizar en 140 euros y que se mantendría por encima de los 110 euros hacia finales de año, el impacto sobre el PIB sería de 0,4 puntos este año y de 0,6 puntos, en 2027. En cuanto a la inflación , el escenario adverso implicaría casi un punto más de IPC este año, hasta el 3,9%; pero caería hasta el 2% ya en 2027. Por el contrario, en el escenario severo la inflación casi se duplicaría este año, hasta el 5,9% y seguiría en el 3,2% en 2027. El escenario severo muestra una rápida traslación de los costes energéticos a la inflación, pero se descarta el riesgo de una recesión o de una caída trimestral del PIB. El dinamismo y la solidez de la economía, sumado al paquete anticrisis del Gobierno, dan margen a España para absorber el shock sin sufrir una caída de la producción, según los cálculos del Banco de España.

La portavoz del PP en el Senado , Alicia García, ha anunciado este viernes que la comisión de investigación sobre el estado de la red ferroviaria tras el accidente de Adamuz (Córdoba) citará al actual ministro de Transportes, Óscar Puente, y a su antecesora en el cargo Raquel Sánchez . También intentarán llamar al exministro José Luis Ábalos y su exasesor Koldo García Izaguirre, ambos en prisión preventiva. En una rueda de prensa desde el Senado, la portavoz 'popular' ha detallado el plan de trabajo que ha propuesto a la comisión de investigación sobre la red ferroviaria y que sacará adelante gracias a su mayoría absoluta. " La actuación del Gobierno ha sido claramente insuficiente. El señor Puente ha estado más centrado en el relato que en la gestión, más reactivo que responsable y más pendiente de la confrontación que de resolver problemas", ha denunciado Alicia García. Además de Puente, Ábalos y Raquel Sánchez, el PP también ha incluido en el listado de comparecientes a la exsecretaria de Estado de Transportes Isabel Pardo de Vera, y al actual secretario de Estado de Transportes, José Antonio Santano. La jueza de Adamuz exige explicaciones a Adif por la sustitución de 36 metros de carril en el lugar del accidente Carlos Rocha. Sevilla La magistrada de instancia de Montoro da cinco días al Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias para que identifique a la empresa suministradora y los motivos que llevaron a cambiar la infraestructura También citará a la directora general de Transporte por carretera, Elena María Atance; al director general del sector ferroviario, Carlos María Juárez ; a la secretaria general de transporte terrestre, Rocío Báguena ; al subsecretario de Transportes, Rafael Guerra Posadas ; al director del observatorio para la atención de las víctimas de accidentes de transportes, Fernando Moreno , y al exsecretario de Estado de Transportes Pedro Saura . Cada vez más tiempo El PP ha diseñado un tiempo de intervención de mínimo cincuenta minutos por grupo parlamentario para interrogar a los comparecientes en este foro, algo que ya ocurre en la comisión de investigación del 'caso Koldo'. La novedad de esta comisión sobre la red ferroviaria es que los portavoces pueden disponer de un segundo turno de intervención de 5 minutos , algo que no ocurre en ningún otra investigación parlamentaria en el Senado. Además, el PP sí que ha querido asegurarse ser el primer grupo parlamentario que interrogue a los comparecientes y posteriormente vayan los demás por orden de representación. Más de 70 comparecientes Los 'populares' han planteado un listado de comparecientes de hasta 73 personas en las que también figuran nombres destacados como el consejero de Vivienda, Transportes e Infraestructuras de la Comunidad de Madrid, Jorge Rodrigo, así como a sus homólogos en las distintas regiones del PP. Sobre las infraestructuras en Cataluña , el PP ha citado a la consellera de Territorio de Cataluña, Silvia Paneque; al secretario de Movilidad Manel Nadal; al comisionado de la Generalitat para el traspaso de Rodalies, Pere Macías ; y al consejero delegado de la empresa mixta Rodalies de Catalunya, Oscar Playá. Y de las empresas operadoras, han citado al presidente y al CEO de Iryo; a la directora general de Ouigo España, y a distintos responsables de Renfe. También han hecho lo mismo con varios cargos de Adif. Piden información En el plan de trabajo, el PP también requiere todas las comunicaciones que se produjeron los días del accidente de Adamuz , así como toda la documentación de todas las obras que se hicieron en este tramo. Del mismo modo, piden las diligencias que está llevando a cabo la Fiscalía Europea "por el posible fraude de fondos europeos", los informes remitidos a los juzgados "sobre contratos amañados en el seno de Adif" y los expedientes que justifiquen los cambios en las velocidades de los tramos.

Vox ha nombrado al piraguista Cristian Toro , campeón olímpico en los Juegos de Río 2016 junto a Saúl Craviotto, como el nuevo portavoz del partido en Deportes, con el objetivo de impulsar una política deportiva basada en "el mérito, la salud y la cohesión nacional". En declaraciones enviadas a los medios, el deportista olímpico ha asegurado que afronta esta nueva etapa "con la misma disciplina , el mismo sacrificio y el mismo amor por España" que ha marcado su carrera deportiva. En este sentido, ha subrayado que representar a España en unos Juegos Olímpicos ha sido "lo más importante" de su vida, y ha defendido que su objetivo es trasladar esos valores al ámbito político . La gota que colmó el vaso de Espinosa: así se cocinó el paso adelante de los purgados de Vox Borja Negrete Espinosa de los Monteros rompió su silencio contra Abascal dos años después de su salida de la portavocía del partido, dos años en los que fuentes próximas al exportavoz acusan al partido de vetos y jugadas de 'fontanería' para silenciar sus ideas "Quiero que el deporte vuelva a se r motivo de unión y de orgullo para España , no de división ni de enfrentamiento. Quiero que el deporte se siga rigiendo por el mérito y la capacidad de nuestros deportistas, no por la ideología del Gobierno de turno ", ha afirmado. "Ya no compito con un remo en las manos, pero sigo remando con el mismo compromiso en Vox para dejar un país mejor para nuestros hijos", ha añadido. Por su parte, el secretario general de Vox, Ignacio Garriga , ha destacado que este nombramiento supone " incorporar a la política a un ejemplo de esfuerzo , disciplina y amor por España". A su juicio, Cristian Toro representa "los valores" que desde el partido quieren trasladar a la sociedad. "Sacrificio, mérito y orgullo nacional", ha citado. Espinosa de los Monteros: "Hay que ver euro por euro el dinero de Vox en un congreso a puerta cerrada" Borja Negrete El exportavoz de Vox descarta por el momento fundar un partido: "Ya monté un partido, se llama Vox y lo vamos a intentar recuperar". Lamenta la deriva ideológica de la formación y el dominio férreo de la cúpula A este respecto, ha señalado que "España necesita volver a situar el deporte en el centro de las políticas públicas como herramienta de salud, educación y cohesión social". "Frente a la utilización ideológica del deporte, Vox propone recuperar su esencia: esfuerzo, superación y unidad", ha reclamado. Medidas para el ámbito deportivo Vox también ha informado que este nombramiento se suma a los 14 portavoces nacionales sectoriales "en el compromiso de la formación de dar respuesta a las necesidades reales de los españoles". En paralelo, la formación de Santiago Abascal ha dado a conocer " diez medidas clave para transformar el modelo deportivo en España ", con el objetivo de convertir el deporte en "un pilar estratégico de salud, educación y desarrollo económico". Así, entre las principales propuestas, la formación aboga por " integrar el deporte como herramienta fundamental para prevenir enfermedades , combatir el sedentarismo y mejorar la calidad de vida de los españoles", a la vez que reclama el desarrollo de un Plan Nacional contra la obesidad infantil "que garantice el acceso al deporte desde la infancia". Tellado supervisará también la negociación en Aragón y Castilla y León pese a la incomodidad de Vox Ana Belén Ramos PP y Vox se emplazan a próximas reuniones para desenredar nudos programáticos que tensan a los conservadores en Extremadura, y con los que Bambú quiere condicionar la campaña de Moreno en Andalucía Desde Vox también quieren reforzar el deporte base "como elemento de cohesión social , reducir la carga fiscal sobre la práctica deportiva y facilitar el acceso a oportunidades educativas y laborales para los deportistas durante y después de su carrera". Así, proponen que el deporte sea un "eje central del sistema", con "un mínimo de cinco horas semanales de Educación Física y una mayor conexión entre centros educativos, clubes y federaciones". Asimismo, defiende "despolitizar el deporte y garantizar que las selecciones nacionales representen a España en las competiciones internacionales , reforzando la unidad nacional frente a las cesiones al separatismo". Por otro lado, Vox apunta hacia un "compromiso con la defensa del deporte femenino", que debe regirse "por criterios biológicos y deportivos objetivos para garantizar la igualdad real en la competición". Ya fue en Vox Madrid Toro , que nació en la ciudad venezolana La Asunción en 1992, fue campeón olímpico en los Juegos de Río 2016 en la prueba de K2 200 m junto a Saúl Craviotto, además de lograr varias medallas mundiales (platas) y europeas (oros) en pruebas de K2 200 m y K4 500 m para la selección española . Se crió en Galicia , donde empezó en el piragüismo , y más tarde estudió Fisioterapia en la UCAM . Tras su etapa deportiva ha tenido presencia programas de televisión como ' Mujeres y hombres y viceversa '. Dio el salto a la política presentándose en la lista de Vox en las municipales de Madrid de 2023 y trabajando después en el grupo municipal del partido en el Ayuntamiento de Madrid.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in France on Friday to attend the G7 foreign ministers meeting where he will deliver a clear message on U.S. priorities for the ongoing war with Iran. In the days leading up to the meeting, other members have taken markedly different approaches to the war. Nearly all of Washington’s partners — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan — have reacted cautiously to the U.S.-Israeli military campaign and declined to participate in offensive operations, even as they condemn Iranian actions. Before departing on Thursday, Rubio signaled a defiant approach to the talks: "I don’t work for France or Germany or Japan… the people I’m interested in making happy are the people of the United States. I work for them," he said in a video posted on X. The divergence has drawn frustration from President Donald Trump , who has pressed allies to contribute more, particularly in securing key maritime routes such as the Strait of Hormuz. While some countries have signaled a willingness to support defensive or maritime security efforts, they have stopped short of joining direct military strikes. TRUMP PRESSES NATO PARTNERS ON SUPPORT AS HEGSETH BLASTS HESITATION "The U.S. is constantly asked to help in wars and we have. But when we had a need, it didn’t get positive responses from NATO. A couple leaders said that Iran was not Europe’s war. Well, Ukraine isn’t our war, yet we’ve contributed more to that fight than anyone," Rubio added. "The Strait of Hormuz could be open tomorrow if Iran stops threatening global shipping, which is an outrage and a violation of international law. For all these countries that care about international law, they should be doing something about it," he said before boarding his plane to France. The remarks set the tone for a summit already marked by growing friction between Washington and some of its closest allies over how to handle the Iran conflict. Rubio has framed the stakes in stark terms. " Iran has been at war with the United States for 47 years… Iran has been killing Americans and attacking Americans across this planet," he said during a White House cabinet meeting, adding that allowing Tehran to obtain nuclear weapons would be "an unacceptable risk for the world." But even before Rubio arrived at the meeting, European officials were signaling a markedly different approach. "We need to exit from the war, not escalate this further, because the consequences for everybody around the world are quite severe," Vice President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas said during a briefing on the sidelines of the G7 on Thursday. JACK KEANE CALLS OUT NATO'S WEAKNESS AS SHIPPING CRISIS GRIPS STRAIT OF HORMUZ "It can only be a diplomatic solution … sit down and negotiate to have a way out," she added. The contrast between Rubio’s framing and Kallas’s message captures the core tension shaping the meeting. U.S. officials say Rubio is heading into the talks with a broader agenda that goes beyond Iran. According to a State Department spokesperson, who spoke to Fox News Digital on background, Rubio will use the meeting to "advance key U.S. interests" and push discussions on the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, as well as "international burden sharing" and the overall effectiveness of the G7. The U.S. is also expected to emphasize maritime security, including freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea, while urging allies to take on a greater share of responsibilities in conflict zones and international organizations, the spokesperson said. RUBIO, RATCLIFFE TO DELIVER CLASSIFIED IRAN BRIEFING TO 'GANG OF EIGHT' AHEAD OF TRUMP'S STATE OF THE UNION European officials have instead emphasized the broader risks of the conflict. France’s foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, said discussions at the G7 would build on a recent joint statement condemning Iran’s actions while also addressing maritime security concerns. He said the "discussions will provide an opportunity to revisit positions already agreed at the G7 level… including the unjustifiable attacks carried out by Iran against Gulf countries… which we condemned in the strongest possible terms." Barrot added that ministers would also focus on securing global shipping routes. "We will also have the opportunity to address maritime security and freedom of navigation… including an international mission… to ensure the smooth flow of maritime traffic in a strictly defensive posture, thereby helping to ease pressure on energy prices," he said. Kallas echoed that global framing. "All the countries in the world are one way or another affected by this war… it is in the interest of everybody that this war stops," she said. IRAN SIGNALS NUCLEAR PROGRESS IN GENEVA AS TRUMP CALLS FOR FULL DISMANTLEMENT Her remarks also pointed to the interconnected nature of the crisis. " Russia is helping Iran with intelligence… and also supporting Iran now with drones," she said, linking the Iran conflict to the war in Ukraine. That uncertainty is already affecting the structure of the summit, with officials dropping plans for a unified final communiqué to avoid exposing divisions, Reuters reported. Analysts say those differences reflect deeper structural tensions in the alliance . "Europe has criticized Donald Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ strategy towards Iran while pursuing a failed diplomatic approach that has enabled the regime to expand its terrorist networks and edge closer to nuclear threshold status," Barak Seener, senior research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital. "This reflects a lack of European capability to project power in the region, particularly in safeguarding the Strait of Hormuz." Seener added that years of reliance on Washington have left Europe increasingly exposed as the U.S. shifts its strategic priorities. "Years of underinvestment in defense and reliance on the United States have created a dependency that Washington increasingly views as a betrayal of the peace it has guaranteed Europe since the Second World War," he said. "With the U.S. placing greater value on its relationship with Israel than NATO, the result may be further erosion of the alliance, reduced support for Ukraine and rising economic pressure on Europe." He warned that the immediate test will come at the G7 itself. "Divisions over how to respond to Iran and to any U.S. request for support are likely to expose a deeper transatlantic split," Seener said. "Operation Epic Fury has showcased President Trump’s ability to assemble a coalition of allies to eliminate a common threat — in this case the Iranian regime — and stabilize international trade," Jacob Olidort, chief research officer and director of American security at the America First Policy Institute, told Fox News Digital. "The failure of Western Europe to participate in securing the Strait of Hormuz is particularly egregious because those countries depend on it more than we do," he added. "At the same time, the historic successes of Operation Epic Fury have awakened a new confidence in our Middle East partners to eradicate the threats from the Iranian regime and to work together to shape a more peaceful and prosperous region."

EXCLUSIVE: As U.S., Israeli and allied forces continue to intercept the vast majority of Iranian missiles and drones, a new report and expert analysis reveal a growing concern behind the headline success: the cost and sustainability of the defense itself. More than 90% of Iranian projectiles have been intercepted during the war, according to a report obtained by Fox News Digital from the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA), thanks to a layered regional air defense system built during years of coordination. But beneath that success lies a widening imbalance that could shape the next phase of the conflict. The report highlights a critical trend: Iran’s least expensive weapons are proving the most disruptive and are draining costly U.S. and Israeli interceptors. IRAN’S REMAINING WEAPONS: HOW TEHRAN CAN STILL DISRUPT THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ The current air defense architecture, integrating U.S., Israeli and Arab systems, has proven highly effective at stopping incoming threats. Early warning systems, shared radar coverage and pre-positioned assets have allowed multiple countries to work together to defeat Iranian missiles and drones. During a press briefing on Wednesday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, "More than 9,000 enemy targets have been struck to date … Iran's ballistic missile attacks and drone attacks are down by roughly 90%," she said, adding that U.S. forces have also destroyed more than 140 Iranian naval vessels, including nearly 50 mine layers. A surge of U.S. assets before the war, including Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), batteries, Patriot systems , two carrier strike groups and roughly 200 fighter aircraft, helped absorb Iran’s opening salvos and maintain high interception rates, according to JINSA's report. But Ari Cicurel, associate director of foreign policy at JINSA and author of the report, said focusing only on interception percentages misses the bigger picture. "Overall high missile and drone interception rates have been important but only tell part of the story," Cicurel told Fox News Digital. "Iran came into this war with a deliberate plan to dismantle the architecture that makes those intercepts possible. It has struck energy infrastructure to upset markets and used cluster munitions to achieve higher hit rates." IRAN’S DRONE SWARMS CHALLENGE US AIR DEFENSES AS TROOPS IN MIDDLE EAST FACE RISING THREATS Danny Citrinowicz, a Middle East and national security expert at Institute for National Security Studies and a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council, said that imbalance is at the heart of the problem. "There needs to be a change in the equation," he told Fox News Digital. "The Iranians are launching drones that cost around $30,000 , and we are using missiles that cost millions of dollars to intercept them. That gap is a very problematic one." He added that the same dynamic applies to ballistic missiles. "Building a missile in Iran may cost a few hundred thousand dollars, while the interceptor costs millions, especially when we talk about systems like Arrow," he said. "It’s easier and quicker to produce missiles than it is to build interceptors. That’s not a secret." This cost imbalance is feeding into a broader concern: interceptor depletion. The JINSA report warns that stockpiles across the region are already under strain. Some Gulf states have used a significant portion of their interceptor inventories, with estimates suggesting Bahrain may have expended up to 87% of its Patriot missiles, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait have used roughly 75% and Qatar has used roughly 40%. Israel is also facing mounting pressure. While officials have not publicly confirmed stockpile levels, the report notes signs of rationing, including decisions not to intercept certain cluster-munition threats in order to conserve more advanced interceptors. PENTAGON ESTIMATES IRAN WAR COST $11.3B IN THE FIRST SIX DAYS IN CLOSED-DOOR CONGRESSIONAL HEARING: REPORT Citrinowicz said that dynamics become more acute the longer the war continues. "We are now several weeks into the war , and even if the salvos are limited, the issue of interceptors becomes more significant over time," he said. Iran has adapted its tactics accordingly, shifting from large barrages to smaller, more frequent attacks designed to maintain constant pressure while gradually draining defensive resources. These persistent salvos, even if limited in size, force defenders to remain on high alert and continue expending interceptors, accelerating the depletion of already finite stockpiles. The report underscores that drones pose a unique challenge compared to ballistic missiles. Unlike missiles, which rely on large launchers and leave detectable signatures, drones can be launched from mobile platforms and can fly at low altitudes that make them harder for radar systems to detect. For example, A Shahed-136 weighs roughly 200 kilograms and launches from an angled rail mounted on a pickup truck, after which the crew can quickly relocate. That simpler launch profile makes it easier for Iran to disperse, conceal and fire under pressure, the report stated. Iran also has incorporated lessons from the war in Ukraine, deploying more advanced drones, including those guided by fiber-optic cables that are immune to electronic jamming, and faster variants powered by jet engines. These innovations complicate interception timelines and increase the likelihood of successful strikes, even against otherwise effective defense systems. INSIDE THE ISRAELI DRONE UNIT TAKING ON IRAN AND HEZBOLLAH Despite these challenges, the report emphasizes that the defensive architecture has not failed. "The architecture has held, but the trajectory is moving in the wrong direction," Cicurel said. "Reversing it requires moving assets to where the pressure is greatest, hunting Iranian launchers and drones more aggressively, and convoying ships through the Gulf." Even with high interception rates, the broader impact of the attacks is being felt. Iranian strikes on energy infrastructure and shipping have driven oil prices higher and disrupted traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, demonstrating that air defense alone cannot prevent economic and strategic consequences. The emerging picture is not one of failing defenses, but of a system under growing strain. As long as Iran can produce cheap drones and missiles faster than the U.S., Israel and their partners can produce interceptors, the balance may gradually shift. "As long as the war continues," Citrinowicz said, "the key question will be whether Iran can produce missiles faster than we can produce interceptors."

A new analysis of social media activity during the opening days of Operation Epic Fury suggests that much of the online backlash and anti-Israel content may not have been driven by Americans at all. The report identified recurring narratives pushed by foreign-based accounts, including claims that the operation was a "betrayal of MAGA," "highly unpopular with the American people" and carried out " on behalf of Israel ." Sixty percent of the most viral posts on X mentioning "Iran" during the first week of the operation originated from accounts based outside the United States — despite often presenting themselves as American voices, according to research conducted by Argyle Consulting Group, a private intelligence and data analysis firm. WITH DOGS, DANCE AND UNCOVERED HAIR, IRANIANS DEFY 'UNHOLY ALLIANCE' OF SOCIALISTS, RADICALS: ‘HYPOCRITES!’ "These aren’t just random opinions," Eran Vasker, CEO and co-founder of Argyle Consulting Group, told Fox News Digital. "What we’re seeing is discourse that looks American — written in English, using U.S. political language — but is actually coming from outside the country … almost impossible for a regular user to detect," Vasker said, explaining that the accounts "look very American" and mirror domestic political language and debates. The analysis examined 100 highly X viral posts — each with more than 10,000 shares — between Feb. 28 and March 7. In total, posts containing the word "Iran" generated 98 million posts, 696.4 million interactions, and an estimated 1.5 trillion potential views, making it one of the largest online information events on record. Foreign accounts alone generated 155.6 million views, compared to 93.4 million from U.S.-based accounts, outpacing them by more than 60 million views in the sample. Even more striking, every single foreign-based post in the dataset was negative toward the operation, while the only supportive content came from U.S.-based users, Argyle found. WHY TRUMP IS DENOUNCING THE MEDIA’S IRAN WAR COVERAGE AS TOO NEGATIVE – BOOSTED BY RHETORICAL FCC BACKING JP Castellanos, Binary Defense director of threat intelligence and a former member of U.S. Central Command’s Active Cyber Defense Team, said much of the activity is focused on Israel and combines disruption with messaging. "About 42% of the attacks that we’re seeing or the claims that we’re seeing online are directed toward Israel," Castellanos said. He also pointed to doxing campaigns and AI-generated videos "trying to basically shape the information space." Much of the challenge, Castellanos said, is distinguishing real cyber incidents from inflated online claims by hacktivist groups seeking attention. "A lot of times, these are just claims that they put online," he said. BLOODY NYC KHAMENEI VIGIL REVEALS ANTI-US PROTEST NETWORK LINKED TO IRAN Researchers said the scale, consistency and geographic spread of the messaging point to a coordinated effort rather than organic global debate. Cyber threat analysts say that an online narrative campaign is unfolding alongside broader activity by pro-Iranian and aligned groups across the digital space. One of the most prominent groups to emerge in the current conflict, Castellanos said, is Handala, an Iran-linked hacking operation that has claimed responsibility for attacks on both U.S. and Israeli targets. Among the most influential voices driving engagement, seven of the top 10 accounts were based outside the United States, including accounts linked to Russia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and South Asia. U.S. authorities and cybersecurity firms have linked Handala to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security, describing it as part of a broader effort combining cyberattacks with psychological and information operations. The cybersecurity researchers told Fox News Digital Handala is part of a wider network of Iran-aligned and pro-Russian hacktivist groups that have mobilized since the start of the war, blending disruptive cyber activity with narrative-shaping campaigns online. Fox News Digital reached out to X multiple times, providing a list of the accounts in question per their request, but has not yet received a response.

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The woman, 52, lay on the exam table at a clinic in Richland, Washington. Her legs were parted and propped up. The OB-GYN, Dr. Mark Mulholland, stood between her legs, inquiring about the woman’s sex life as he had in prior visits, she wrote in a complaint filed with Washington state health care regulators. She said Mulholland had previously asked about her enjoyment of sex and if she had a boyfriend, a strange way to learn about a patient’s sexual activity, she thought. But this was her last checkup after her hysterectomy and the last time she expected to see Mulholland. “Do you masturbate?” Mulholland asked the woman during their final appointment, according to her complaint. The question shocked her. She wrote that Mulholland explained he wanted to “make sure the nerves were intact.” Then, the woman wrote, he inserted his fingers into her vagina and pumped his hand back and forth in a way she said felt “sexual and not medical.” “Does that hurt?” the woman said Mulholland asked her, before ending their visit by saying “the playroom is open” — a comment she interpreted as Mulholland clearing her for sexual activity. The woman said she left the room in shock. She made her way to the parking lot of the Kadlec Clinic-Associated Physicians for Women, climbed inside her car and sat, incredulous, she said in an interview with KUOW and ProPublica. What happened felt terribly wrong, she said. Mulholland did not respond to requests for comment for this article after being sent a detailed list of findings by email and by letter. His attorney declined to comment. What the woman didn’t know was that by the time of her exam in February 2025, the Washington Medical Commission had already received complaints from four other women since 2022 accusing Mulholland of sexual misconduct. And yet he was allowed to keep seeing patients throughout. The accounts related by the women, whom KUOW and ProPublica are not naming to protect their privacy, included descriptions of Mulholland touching them unnecessarily, using sexually charged language, or performing painful or seemingly sexual pelvic exams that involved moving his fingers in and out. The commission also gathered testimony a year before the woman’s February 2025 appointment from three of Mulholland’s colleagues with their own troubling accounts. These included hearing firsthand about or observing him telling patients they had “tight” and “pretty” vaginas, touching and slapping his patients’ legs, and aggressively pulling a patient’s pants down without permission.  Washington law allows the commission to take emergency action and suspend a doctor’s license while disciplinary proceedings are pending. The law says a suspension is defensible if it’s more probable than not that the physician poses an “immediate threat to the public health and safety.” In Mulholland’s case, the commission did not choose suspension. Instead, it issued a formal statement of charges accusing Mulholland of abuse and unprofessional conduct in April 2025 — more than a year after the commission’s investigator submitted her reports on two of the complaints for review and 11 months after Mulholland was offered an informal settlement that he apparently did not sign. Even after the commission declared its charges against Mulholland, he was allowed to keep practicing while the case proceeded. He saw patients as late as May, before he went on leave. At least 84 patients have filed lawsuits against Mulholland or his employer since the state’s investigation became public. Court filings by Mulholland’s attorney, made in response to the lawsuits, have denied wrongdoing or improper conduct toward women. He also has denied the allegations made by the medical commission and is entitled to a hearing to contest them. Emily Volland, a spokesperson for Kadlec and its affiliate, the Providence health system, said Mulholland is no longer employed by Kadlec. Volland declined to comment on the allegations against him but said via email: “We take our patient’s safety very seriously and are fully cooperating with the state in this matter.” The lawsuits against Mulholland, Kadlec and Providence are ongoing. Lawyers for Providence and Kadlec in court filings denied allegations of negligence and wrongdoing. While other news coverage has described the lawsuits and the commission’s actions in 2025, none has focused on how the state dealt with complaints against Mulholland during the three years before he agreed to restrictions on his license. The Washington Medical Commission has faced criticism in the past for its handling of sexual misconduct complaints. A 2021 Seattle Times investigation found that in 282 cases of alleged sexual misconduct since 2009, state regulators took more than a year to impose discipline. Several other states in recent years have dealt with their own high-profile cases of sexual misconduct involving OB-GYNs. On March 10, for instance, Columbia University in New York released a report detailing how a culture of silence at the institution had allowed OB-GYN Robert Hadden to abuse more than 1,000 patients over decades.  States like Ohio and Delaware have moved aggressively to make it easier to keep doctors accused of sexual misconduct away from patients. In Washington, the medical commission wasn’t the only organization that allowed Mulholland to keep practicing. A Kadlec risk management employee, through an attorney, acknowledged to the commission that the clinic had received patient complaints against the doctor and said they were investigated. (The letter did not describe the complaints but said they included “communication with patients regarding obesity.”) Mulholland’s privileges were never restricted or terminated, the statement said. When local news stories covered the commission’s charges against Mulholland in June, it unleashed a deluge of 18 new complaints in the following three months. In September, the commission placed restrictions on his license that prevented him from seeing female patients. Mulholland agreed pending a hearing on his case. “They just let him keep practicing.” A former patient of Dr. Mark Mulholland’s Yanling Yu, a former Washington medical commissioner and a patient advocate with Washington Advocates for Patient Safety, wouldn’t comment on the Mulholland case directly. But she said it’s ethically wrong to allow a doctor facing serious allegations of sexual misconduct to continue seeing any patients while an investigation is ongoing. “In an ideal regulatory system, if there has been enough or strong evidence to support the allegation, the doctor’s practice should be temporarily suspended or at least summarily restricted to protect patients’ safety,” she wrote in an email. Kyle Karinen, executive director of the Washington Medical Commission, said the agency wasn’t slow to act and that it must operate under the system lawmakers created. “I acknowledge that sometimes it takes longer than people would like, but we take that process really seriously,” Karinen said. “When we file a case and go to a hearing, we want to make sure that everybody has the opportunity to be heard on a particular topic.” The woman who saw Mulholland in February 2025 filed a lawsuit against the clinic and a board complaint against the doctor, both in August. She said she was indignant after learning about the earlier complaints. She said the commission should have taken those women more seriously. “They just let him keep practicing,” she said. 2022: The First Complaint  The first sexual misconduct allegation against Mulholland landed in the commission’s email inbox in January 2022. The author was a first-time mother who, at 41 weeks pregnant, went to have labor induced at the Kadlec Regional Medical Center. The woman said she had hoped a female doctor would deliver the baby. But Mulholland was the on-call doctor assigned the day she arrived. When she saw that the doctor was a man, she asked if the female nurse who was there could perform her predelivery cervical check instead, according to her complaint. Mulholland insisted, she said. (He later told a commission investigator that because the woman was having labor induced, he had to personally know her cervical dilation and consistency, whether the fetus was in breech position or if her amniotic sac was intact. He also said because she was experiencing high blood pressure, her delivery couldn’t wait to be rescheduled with a female doctor.) “I didn’t have a choice but to trust who was supposed to be trustworthy,” the woman said in an interview with KUOW and ProPublica. In her complaint, she said Mulholland was inappropriate. When the nurse asked her if she still had her underwear on, Mulholland joked that he still had his on too, she wrote. During the cervical check, with his fingers inside the expectant mother, he pressed in different directions, according to her complaint. The woman said Mulholland told her he doesn’t perform exams this way because it hurts. Then he showed her what he described as the correct way, she said in the complaint. “The cervical check was the longest and most painful one I have ever had,” she said in the complaint. “I didn’t have a choice but to trust who was supposed to be trustworthy.” A former patient of Mulholland’s Three OB-GYNs, when presented by KUOW and ProPublica with the woman’s description of the pelvic exam, said the maneuver sounded unnecessarily painful. “That sounds strange,” said Alson Burke, an associate professor at the University of Washington who teaches medical students how to perform pelvic exams. “Saying ‘I don’t do something because it hurts’ and then doing it doesn’t make sense to me.” Commission records show that Mulholland said the allegation that his cervical exam was longer than what’s typical was absurd. “I do try to be as careful, quick, gentle, and efficient as I can be when doing a pelvic exam whether it is for gynecology or obstetrics,” he wrote in an email to a commission clinical health care investigator. “With regards to being the most painful one she ever had, for that I am surprised as well as sorry. I pride myself on trying to be as gentle as absolutely possible. I get frequent compliments on how much less uncomfortable my exams are than most other providers, male or female.” The nurse present during the woman’s exam told the commission it seemed “no longer or any more painful than these types of exams are typically.” Up until that day, the patient’s pregnancy had been a joyous experience, she said in an interview with KUOW and ProPublica. She was excited to meet her daughter and picked out the outfit she’d arrive home in. The nurse was ultimately able to line up a midwife to assist with the woman’s delivery in place of Mulholland. But her cervical exam with Mulholland made the birth experience “worse than we could have ever imagined,” the woman, now 27, said in an interview with KUOW and ProPublica. It brought about depression and anxiety, she said. “My daughter’s an only child, and I’m not sure if she ever will get a sibling because of how traumatic that was,” she told the news organizations. By the end of July 2022, the new mother’s case was closed without any disciplinary action. At the time, it was an isolated complaint in the record of a doctor who, records show, had not faced accusations of sexual misconduct with the medical commission before. Then, a little over a year later, came another complaint, this time filed by a woman who had worked with Mulholland for nearly a decade. October 2023: A Co-worker and Patient Speaks Out Illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica According to an investigator’s report, the woman said she had worked at Kadlec Regional Medical Center for nine years and her interactions as Mulholland’s colleague had always been professional. The complaint she filed in October 2023 concerned events she said took place when she was Mulholland’s patient. She’d had her fallopian tubes and the tissue lining her uterus removed and developed pain that was only present when she was menstruating. On the day of her appointment, her complaint said, she’d explained all this to Mulholland when he began a line of questioning. “Does it hurt you to have intercourse?” “No,” she replied. Then, the woman wrote in her complaint to the medical commission, Mulholland stood close to her and in a lower tone asked. “Not even when he’s deep inside you?” “No,” she said she asserted. Mulholland told the woman he needed to do a pelvic exam, according to the complaint. While examining her, the woman wrote, Mulholland used one hand to push down on the top of her abdomen and with the other hand began repeatedly and “powerfully” thrusting his fingers into her vagina. Burke, the associate professor of medicine at the University of Washington, said repeated “thrusting” is neither a technique she uses nor something she has ever observed. “The reason I wouldn’t recommend it is because it could be triggering and really uncomfortable for someone,” Burke said. “Is that actually helping you gather the information? And is the patient feeling safe in the way that you are examining them?” She said that no part of the pelvic exam should be performed in such a way that its intent could be perceived as sexual. According to the former colleague’s complaint, each time Mulholland shoved his fingers inside, he leaned in close and asked, “Is this the same as the pain you felt?” The woman wrote that Mulholland was “effectively holding her in place” on the exam table and she was unable to move to escape the pain. A medical assistant was nearby, she said. After the pelvic exam, she said, the assistant left. Mulholland told the woman that she had a “great looking vagina,” she wrote, and that he usually had to use three fingers, but with her, he could only use two. Before leaving, the woman said in her complaint, the doctor asked her if she worked out and said he could tell she did. Through an attorney, Mulholland later told the commission that he conducts all of his exams “as respectfully as possible” and that he is “very cognizant of his patient’s reactions.” The doctor was responding to a commission investigator’s December 2023 request for his version of what happened during the woman’s visit. That same month, a complaint from a third woman arrived. December 2023: Another Exam Complaint It was three weeks before the new year when the woman went to the medical commission for help. The patient, whose primary language is Spanish, had an interpreter join her in-person appointment virtually. A physician’s assistant had referred the woman to Mulholland to discuss a possible hysterectomy to relieve pain. The woman later told a commission investigator that during her appointment, Mulholland entered the exam room and introduced himself. Then he lifted the paper sheet that covered her naked lower half, looked at her genital area, then looked back at her, which made her uncomfortable. Without asking her to reposition herself, he grabbed her by the butt to move her down the exam table, she said. Mulholland’s pelvic exam was aggressive, she said in her written complaint to the commission. The investigator who interviewed her wrote that the woman said he’d moved his fingers in and out and that she felt a lot of pressure. “I yelled at some point,” she wrote in her complaint. A nurse was present but seemed fixated on the computer screen, the woman said. Before the appointment ended, Mulholland said he was “eager to see” the woman’s vagina again, laughed and then said he was looking forward to reuniting with her womb, the investigator quoted the woman as saying. When the Spanish-language interpreter on the computer screen went quiet and asked Mulholland to repeat what he said, the woman wrote in her complaint, the doctor told the interpreter there was no need to relay that last message. The woman was left in pain for 12 days after her appointment with Mulholland, she told the investigator, adding that she didn’t want others to go through what she had. In response to this complaint, Mulholland’s attorney wrote to the commission, “at no time has he ever simply moved his fingers in and out several times with this patient or any other.” (A separate report the woman filed with the Richland Police Department, which the department classified as a potential sex offense with “forcible fondling,” was closed in 14 days. The responding officer wrote that he hadn’t found facts to indicate a crime was committed “on the basis that the alleged incident occurred during a medical examination.”) The state medical commission pressed ahead with its investigations into the two 2023 complaints, both of which asserted Mulholland had moved his fingers in and out during a pelvic exam. The investigator assigned to both cases turned to Mulholland’s current and former colleagues. Two said that while some patients complained about the way Mulholland communicated with them about weight issues, they personally did not have concerns. Three other current or former colleagues, meanwhile, described problems. “The cervical check was the longest and most painful one I have ever had.” A former patient of Mulholland’s Alexis Tuck, an OB-GYN who worked at Kadlec from 2017 to 2022, said in a statement to the commission that she noticed a pattern of Mulholland’s patients switching providers because they wanted anyone “except Dr. Mulholland,” and sometimes requested her. She said that when she asked these patients about the reason behind their switch they replied: “He grabbed my belly fat and shook it in front of my husband.” “He called me fat and made fun of me.” “He told me my vagina is tight during a pelvic exam.” “He told me I have a pretty vagina during a pap smear.” “He made a comment about my vagina being tight and I talked to my mom about him. Apparently she had a similar weird experience with him.” Tuck told the commission that more than once, patients cried in her office while sharing their stories. “These accounts were consistent in their tone and content, painting a troubling picture of a physician whose behavior repeatedly crossed the line of professional and ethical conduct,” she wrote to the commission. Tuck told the commission that the woman who filed the October 2023 complaint was among those who described their experiences to her. Tuck said the woman was “visibly shaken and emotional” when she detailed what happened, which, based on Tuck’s retelling, was generally consistent with the woman’s complaint to the medical commission. Another colleague told the commission that Mulholland once told her as a patient was leaving the office, “I bet you were skinny like her when you were pregnant,” and that another time he said he thought he’d seen her driving a BMW and that she looked “hot.” Another said she found Mulholland’s comments about overweight women disrespectful. The claims against Mulholland were piling up. In February and March 2024, Britta Fischer, commission investigator, submitted the 2023 cases for review. What to do next was soon in the hands of commissioners. March-September 2024: A Decision Awaits  The medical commission takes its guidance on how to handle allegations against a doctor from Washington statutes, which prohibit physicians from engaging in a range of behavior defined as sexual misconduct. The law bans statements about a patient’s “body, appearance, sexual history, or sexual orientation” except for legitimate purposes of care. The law also bars behavior, gestures or expressions that could “reasonably be interpreted as seductive or sexual.” A doctor can’t remove a patient’s gown or draping unless it’s with a patient’s consent, during emergency care or in a custodial setting. A doctor can’t touch a person’s breasts, genitals, anus or other “sexualized body part” unless it’s “consistent with accepted community standards of practice for examination, diagnosis and treatment and within the health care practitioner’s scope of practice.” Determining whether or not behavior is appropriate can be particularly difficult when it comes to OB-GYNs, said Emily Anderson, professor at Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Healthcare Leadership and Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine. “They have access to our naked bodies as women, to our vaginas, to our breasts,” Anderson said. “They are allowed to do things that we don’t give other people permission to do, and that’s part of their job.” There are standards for physical exams. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ Committee on Ethics wrote that exams should be explained appropriately, done only with patient consent and “performed with the minimum amount of physical contact required to obtain data for diagnosis and treatment.” State medical boards can also look to patterns of behavior. Two of the three complaints against Mulholland from 2022 through 2023 mentioned movement in and out during pelvic exams, while all three described painful pelvic exams and comments the women considered inappropriate. Three colleagues also had described hearing about or witnessing him making disrespectful or inappropriate remarks, including one who said they were directed at her. OB-GYNs “have access to our naked bodies as women.” Emily Anderson, professor at Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Healthcare Leadership and Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine Anderson, in a journal article, wrote that it’s common to find repeated, lesser forms of misconduct in the backgrounds of doctors who act egregiously. “For example, sexual violations are nearly always preceded by boundary violations such as inappropriate comments or touching,” the article said. Anderson and her colleagues recommended state regulators consider restricting a doctor’s license for multiple smaller offenses. Stephanie Loucka, executive director of Ohio’s medical board, said that if patterns of misconduct exist, the process will find them — even when an OB-GYN’s actions occur under the guise of legitimate care. Ohio began its overhaul of sexual misconduct investigations seven years ago. “If a complaint gets made, we’re going to work the fact pattern from the assumption that there might be something there, and we’re going to gather the evidence and see where the evidence takes us,” she said. “And it typically takes us clearly one way or the other.” If there’s a threat of immediate harm in cases of sexual misconduct, Loucka said, Ohio moves “with a sense of urgency” to file an emergency suspension. She estimated it has taken the Ohio board from six weeks to nine months to do so. In Washington, the medical commission reviewed the investigator’s reports on  the 2023 cases and decided on what it considered an appropriate resolution. It proposed an “informal way of settling” allegations against Mulholland. A heavily redacted May 31, 2024, letter sent to Mulholland’s attorney by the commission does not reveal the terms of the settlement. But the letter said the settlement would not require an admission of “any unprofessional conduct or wrongdoing.” Although settlements appear in the commission’s newsletter with brief summaries, the letter told Mulholland that a settlement would avoid a hearing, typically a public process. All Mulholland had to do was sign. Months passed. Mulholland’s attorney asked for the information gathered about his client, and the commission sent it. A June 2024 deadline for him to accept the agreement passed, as did a subsequent one in August. Nothing in documents released by the commission indicates he signed — or that the commission took any disciplinary action. Mulholland kept seeing patients. 2018-2023: What the Hospital Knew Illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica Long before the commission’s investigator filed her report with her superiors, Mulholland’s employer had also heard repeated concerns, according to Kadlec Clinic records acquired by attorneys in a lawsuit against Providence and the clinic. The attorneys submitted the documents as an exhibit in court. (In court filings, Providence and Kadlec denied that they were negligent or that they knew or should have known about the abuse the plaintiffs alleged.) Kadlec’s records in the lawsuit show that the clinic conducted a 2018 human resources investigation into allegations that Mulholland had mocked a co-worker’s sexuality and religion, concluding that it was “more likely than not” the allegations were true. Afterward, the records say, Mulholland’s employer provided him “coaching.” Kadlec’s records also say that the clinic conducted a 2019 workplace investigation into allegations that Mulholland made sex jokes and condescending remarks, displayed discrimination toward women, and challenged a co-worker who complained about him. A labor nurse told a Providence investigator that year that Mulholland had pinched a patient’s labia while she was in labor and asked if she was hurting. A colleague told the nurse that Mulholland had done the same to another patient who was giving birth, according to the labor nurse’s account as written down by the investigator. A different colleague reported to a Kadlec workplace investigator that a patient had disclosed that Mulholland told her to “masturbate more often,” Kadlec records say. Separately, Tuck, the OB-GYN who worked alongside Mulholland, told a Kadlec investigator that a patient disclosed she felt Mulholland had assaulted her but that the woman didn’t report it because she felt no one would believe her. Following the 2019 workplace investigation, Kadlec’s records say, Mulholland’s employer concluded in 2020 that he “engaged in multiple instances of inappropriate behavior” that violated the medical center’s expectations. He was placed on a “behavior agreement” and required to take harassment prevention training. In 2022, Kadlec records show, more emails were sent to clinic leadership alleging that Mulholland was demeaning to patients and co-workers. They described a “toxic work environment” and said management failed to address employees’ concerns about the doctor. Read More Concerned About Your OB-GYN Visit? A Guide to What Should Happen — and What Shouldn’t. Tuck departed the clinic sometime that same year. She later told the medical commission she left because management failed to take action against him. Tuck raised concerns about Mulholland within an email to Chief Medical Officer Rich Meadows in July 2022, writing that patients “felt they had been insulted/assaulted” by Mulholland. Kadlec’s records in the lawsuit show that Tuck had also told a Kadlec workplace investigator in 2019 that the clinic manager, Lisa Mallory, protected Mulholland. In the statement she later gave the state medical commission, Tuck said when she brought concerns about Mulholland to Mallory, she responded, “He’s always been like that.” Mallory, in response to a request for comment from KUOW and ProPublica, said this statement was taken out of context. She declined to say more. Meadows, through a Providence spokesperson, declined to comment. In June 2023, clinic records in the lawsuit say, Kadlec took a phone call from a patient who said Mulholland shoved his two fingers inside of her so hard during a pelvic exam that she felt his knuckles slam up against her vagina and anus. “Rough, jabbing and pushing up, like he was trying to arouse me or something,” according to Kadlec’s narrative describing the woman’s complaint. She told Kadlec that she had alerted Mulholland before the exam that her vagina was prone to tearing and that she experienced vaginal pain with as little as a sneeze or a cough. Kadlec’s summary of the woman’s account said that after a rectal exam, Mulholland told the patient: “Well, you took that surprisingly well. It’s a good thing my fingers are small.” The woman said her body where Mulholland touched her was inflamed for two and a half days. When the commission eventually contacted Mallory as part of the state’s own investigation, the clinic manager acknowledged there had been complaints within Kadlec. She did not seem to give them much credence. “Dr. Mulholland has received his fair share of complaints over the years as have all the other providers here” at the Kadlec clinic, she wrote in a statement to the state board. “From what I have observed, he cares deeply for his patients and has spent his career trying to educate women on their health. They have not always appreciated how he has done that.” September 2024: State’s Investigation Resumes By September 2024, more than two years had elapsed since the state received its first complaint about a pelvic exam performed by Mulholland. Six months had passed since an investigator forwarded her report on two other pelvic exam complaints. That month, the commission learned of a new one. “During examination, he said my vagina was very dry and that my husband wasn’t doing his job,” the woman wrote in her complaint. The woman also described her interaction with Mulholland to a commission investigator. At the appointment, the woman had told a medical assistant that she was concerned about a fishy smell, she said. Upon entering the exam room, she told the investigator, Mulholland said loudly, “Hey, I heard you had a vagina that smells like fish.” When he conducted his physical examination, the woman told the investigator, Mulholland penetrated her with his fingers and was “going in and out” and touching her clitoris. The patient said she asked Mulholland to stop more than once. She was uncomfortable and what Mulholland was doing reminded her of her past sexual abuse, she wrote in her complaint. She said he eventually stopped. Next, according to an investigator’s memo outlining the patient’s interview, Mulholland asked her if she masturbated and if she used sex toys or her fingers to do so. When the patient said she did not, Mulholland encouraged her to purchase some toys and to use them alone, she said. Then, according to the memo describing the woman’s account, Mulholland rubbed her shoulder and said, “You’re too young not to have good sex.” A mandatory reporter filed a complaint supplementing the woman’s filing at around the same time. By that time, the woman’s account brought to four the number of women asserting sexual misconduct by Mulholland since 2022. Counting a woman who reported rude behavior in a submission that was not marked as alleging sexual misconduct and that the commission closed, Mulholland had been named in six complaints. Only 11 licensed physicians and physician assistants were the subject of six or more complaints in that time frame, the commission’s spokesperson said. As of last year, 41,256 people held this type of license in Washington. A week after the mandatory reporter contacted the commission, Kelly Elder, a Washington Medical Commission staff attorney, sent the two pending 2023 cases back to Freda Pace, the commission’s director of investigations. Elder asked Pace to have investigators try and reach people whose statements hadn’t been collected before. Medical commission records show that investigator Britta Fischer also began looking into the new allegation. Fischer’s inquiries produced statements from co-workers attesting to Mulholland’s good character and stating that they were unaware of any concerns raised by patients. Mulholland himself, in a statement his attorney gave to the commission, said he didn’t have a “firm recollection” of the appointment the patient described in her complaint. He said he would never tell a patient anything to the effect that her husband was not doing his job. He said he addresses masturbation with patients who complain of sexual dryness or pain during sex, and he denied stroking the patient’s shoulder in a “suggestive way.” Due to “unjustified allegations,” the statement said, Mulholland had changed the way he worked with patients. The statement said these changes included always trying to have a chaperone present instead of just during physical exams. He also started creating more physical distance from the patient during counseling and exploring “tangential issues, such as sexual health and wellbeing” only when a patient brought them up. “Dr. Mulholland is truly sorry if his previous long-standing practice patterns have caused any patient any type of duress or anguish because of misinterpretation of what Dr. Mulholland was attempting to accomplish — excellent patient care,” the statement sent to the commission said. Still, the commission also had the prior, adverse statements from colleagues and patients. In April 2025, the agency formally accused Mulholland of abuse and unprofessional conduct. (The allegations would later be amended to include sexual misconduct.) Neither the medical commission nor the Washington State Department of Health, which oversees it, posted a news release on their websites. Members of the general public could have learned of the charges — if they knew to search for Mulholland’s name on the Health Department’s “provider credential search” page. Stephanie Mason, spokesperson for the commission, said the statement of charges would also go out to anyone who subscribed to quarterly email updates from the commission. It wasn’t until a June Tri-City Herald story that the commission’s claims seemed to become widely known. The outpouring of new patient complaints that followed echoed what the commission had already heard. “Nobody was listening to me, and I did everything that I should have done.” Torryn Kerley, a former patient who sued Mulholland. Kerley asked to be identified by name for this article. Their accounts included allegations that Mulholland had peeked at their pubic hair under the sheet, physically pulled them down the exam table, used sexual language and performed extremely painful vaginal exams. Two of the women who have filed lawsuits against Mulholland or his employers told KUOW and ProPublica they attended appointments with him after the commission had received multiple complaints and before he agreed to restrictions on his license. One said she was angry she hadn’t heard about allegations against Mulholland sooner. After a hysterectomy, she was directed to see him every four months for a year for pap smears. She saw Mulholland for the last time on May 1, 2025 — two days after the commission filed its allegations against him. She learned about the commission’s case after the media coverage began. “I don’t know if I expected the lady at the counter when you’re checking in to warn you and say, ‘Hey, you’re gonna see Mulholland, and he’s had complaints,’” she said in an interview with KUOW and ProPublica. “I don’t see a company or whatever ever doing that, but it would have been nice to know. I would have picked a different doctor.” Another woman who sued, Torryn Kerley, said she was angry at Kadlec to learn of all the women coming forward in lawsuits after she had already complained to the clinic about Mulholland. “Nobody was listening to me, and I did everything that I should have done,” said Kerley, who asked to be identified by name for this article. “I reported it. I told people about it. I told doctors in the office about it.” Karinen, the medical commission director, said it’s very unusual for the commission to file a statement of charges and then get dozens of complaints in the same vein against that same doctor, as happened with Mulholland. “That’s unheard of,” he said. Mason, the commission spokesperson, cast the arrival of the new complaints as a positive outcome of the action that commissioners took against Mulholland. “That’s what opened the door to these women coming forward, because at that point, really not very many people had said anything at all, by comparison,” Mason said. No date has been set yet for a hearing in which Mulholland can challenge the commission’s allegations against him. The post An OB-GYN Was Repeatedly Accused of Sexual Misconduct. The State Medical Board Let Him Keep Practicing. appeared first on ProPublica .

On the day that federal immigration agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, I ran out of my house with my camera in hand to document the aftermath. As a visuals editor at ProPublica, I spend most of my time at my desk. But I couldn’t ignore this massive story rapidly unfolding in Minneapolis, the city I’ve called home for the past few years. The first thing I photographed that day was a woman trying to calm a man with a hug. “There was a young man right at the police tape, honestly inches away from some of the agents, and he was so angry,” she told me later. “I was getting really scared for him.” Not long after, the scene grew volatile, as federal, state and city police forces tear-gassed and detained protesters in a standoff that lasted for hours. Kristin Heiberg, I learned, is a 64-year-old technical writer, a volunteer at an animal shelter and a cancer survivor. And, like many other people here, she patrols her neighborhood with a whistle, on the lookout for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. As I’ve watched the Twin Cities rally to respond to Operation Metro Surge, I’ve wanted to see the one thing I had not: What do these people look like in their day-to-day lives? I wanted to know who they are and what motivated them to patrol their streets, drive strangers to work and provide food and rent money for the families who have been in hiding since the surge began. While media coverage has moved on, and there are fewer ICE agents on the streets, they’re still here, and my neighbors are still providing mutual aid. When I asked Heiberg who she felt was involved, she said: “Everyone in the community. Anyone with a heart.” This is how it has felt to me as well. Whether gathering with friends or ordering coffee or running into a neighbor while walking my dog, every recent conversation has led to the same place: What are you doing to meet this moment?  Each of the people I photographed scoffed at the idea that they were paid agitators, or that they were led in their efforts by state or city officials. They said they just wanted to help their neighbors. These are my neighbors, in their city, in their own words. We’re just watching out for our neighbors. If that’s a form of protest, so be it. Kristin Heiberg, who writes software user guides, patrols her neighborhood every day and attends protests and vigils. I don’t want to be one of those people that sat. I don’t want to be somebody’s history lesson. Libby Blyth is an accountant for an environmental consulting company. She drives people to work who are afraid of being spotted by ICE and delivers food to families in hiding. We’re retired. We have white privilege. We have to be the ones to stand up. Kris Allen is a retired palliative nurse practitioner. She and her husband, Ben, attend weekly prayer vigils for detained people with their church. They have protested at the federal building where ICE holds detainees and participated in sit-ins at Target stores. My parents are immigrants, and they moved here for a better life, but also to give us a better life. And we’re going to continue to support as many families as we can, especially kids. Adan Tepozteco Gavilan owns a barbershop where he and his sister, Anai, started a food drive. They have provided food to hundreds of families. It just seems so simple. My neighbors need help. And I would hope that if I was in a situation where I needed help, or if I was as scared as these people are, that somebody would help me. Elizabeth Anderson works in performing arts. She arranges for drivers to take kids to school and coordinates food delivery for more than 100 families. People are still putting themselves out there. And it’s for the sake of humanity, and our community, and showing the rest of the U.S. and the world that this is what it means to be Minnesotan. Nasrieen Habib founded Amanah Recreational Project, an organization that promotes outdoor activities for Muslim women. She redirected her organization to provide food and rent assistance. It was never a question. Once we knew what was happening, that people were being let out in the freezing cold, it wasn’t an option to leave that gate. Natalie Ehret is an attorney. She and her husband, Noah, founded Haven Watch. The organization provides coats, food, phones and rides to detainees when they are released from federal custody, often with few belongings. When they give us their worst, we are giving us our best. Shane Stodolka is a software developer. He and his roommate, Olivia Tracy, say they deliver food to more than 100 families every week. Legal immigration, illegal immigration? That’s not my call. That’s not my fight. By the time you’re my neighbor, you’re my neighbor. Norman Alston is a high school wrestling coach. When he’s not coaching, he sits outside school, watching for ICE. I need my staff to know that they’re safe. It was crazy networking … but it’s all about feeling safe and vetted. Melissa Borgmann, a cafe owner, organized rides and grocery deliveries for her staff. We’re all sort of getting through this together. We don’t have formal leaders in these groups. Jen Suek is a project manager in the health care field. She patrols her neighborhood and local schools, and she vets her neighborhood Signal chat. I think that’s the true identity of Minnesota: peaceful protesting, caring about their neighbors and stepping up to the plate. Not waiting for the government to help. Sergio Amezcua is pastor at Dios Habla Hoy church in south Minneapolis. Since early December, the church has provided food to thousands of people. I call [my friends] and I say: ‘Please think positive. This is going away very soon.’ And they say, ‘OK, thank you for staying positive.’ And then I turn off the phone, and I start crying. Jianeth Riera Lazo is the chef at a Minneapolis cafe. She helped connect friends and family members in need of food and rental assistance to people who could provide it. It’s an unspoken bond, to stick up for what’s right, knowing that something might happen to us in the meantime. … And I truly think that this will continue, this bond. Missy Dietrich is a personal trainer. She patrols her neighborhood, regularly protests at the federal building where ICE holds detainees and volunteers at a food pantry. The post “This Is What It Means to Be Minnesotan”: Why My Neighbors Continue to Stand Up Against ICE appeared first on ProPublica .

The mayor of Hammond, Indiana, says train company Norfolk Southern is reneging on a promise to partly finance the construction of a pedestrian overpass at a dangerous rail crossing that was the subject of a ProPublica investigation. And without the funding, he added, the project is dead. Officials began pursuing the overpass in 2023, after the news organization and its reporting partner, InvestigateTV, documented dozens of children crawling through, over and under trains that blocked them from getting to and from school in the city. Hammond is a nearby suburb of Chicago, the busiest train hub in the nation. At the time, the area served as a kind of parking lot for Norfolk Southern’s trains as they idled between two busy intersections — a growing problem in Hammond and railroad communities like it across the country as trains get longer. After publication, Norfolk Southern’s CEO at the time, Alan Shaw, called Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott to discuss solutions, including a pedestrian overpass. The mayor said Shaw committed to paying the full cost of the project. A spokesperson for Norfolk Southern told ProPublica the company never made any such commitment. The company would later make operational changes, such as stopping the trains in a different location to reduce the impact to Hammond and the schoolchildren. Still, one child was captured on video jumping from a moving train after Norfolk Southern said it made those changes. For a while, the overpass effort seemed to have some momentum. The company paid for engineering and design plans, and in June 2023 the city received a $7.7 million federal grant for the project. While it required a local match of $2.6 million, McDermott said Shaw agreed to pay it. The mayor said the company made no written commitment, and Shaw was fired by the railroad in 2024. Now, McDermott is accusing Norfolk Southern, under its current CEO, Mark George, of backing out of the handshake deal. “The new guy got amnesia,” the mayor told ProPublica. Shaw did not respond to messages seeking comment. A spokesperson for Norfolk Southern, which reported $2.9 billion in profit in 2025 according to its Securities and Exchange Commission filings , disputed McDermott’s claims that the company agreed to provide the matching funds but said it did provide the city with $450,000 and “assisted officials in successfully applying for a federal grant to make the city’s plan for a pedestrian bridge possible.” The spokesperson also said that the changes the company made in 2023 to reduce the impact on schools are working. “More than two years later, these changes continue to yield results, including a nearly 50% drop in blocked crossing calls into our communications center at this location,” the spokesperson wrote in an email. But local and state officials say Hammond is still seeing blocked crossings near schools. Carlotta Blake-King, the local school board president, told ProPublica that district employees saw children at a different location traversing a stopped train as they left school as recently as last week. A Norfolk Southern spokesperson acknowledged the blockage but said it was “not typical for that location.” The company said its trains normally have clear passage through that area without stopping. “We never want to inconvenience our communities with a stopped train, and we encourage everyone to always stay off railroad tracks and never attempt to cross between rail cars,” the spokesperson wrote.  McDermott said he’s also noticed Norfolk Southern’s trains beginning to block the roadways again and worries that “it will slowly but surely resume to where it was.” “I’ve already been lied to once by Norfolk Southern,” the mayor said, “so I have no reason to believe that they’re going to keep on trying to reduce the impacts upon our city.” McDermott said the community will ultimately see some relief in the form of a vehicle overpass in the area where the children routinely encounter the train. The project, however, won’t be completed until at least 2029. And while it will include a path for pedestrians, it won’t help many students, as they would need to walk at least a mile out of their way to reach it. Indiana state Rep. Carolyn Jackson, a Democrat who represents the Hammond area and has in the past introduced legislation to address blocked crossings, said she doesn’t want the community’s children to grow “up thinking that crawling under or over the train is a way of life.” Her fear is that without the bridge, “a child will be severely injured or killed in Hammond.” McDermott said he has the same fear: “I hope to God, and I pray it never happens.” The post Walkway Over Dangerous Train Crossing Is Dead After Norfolk Southern Backtracks on Funds, Mayor Says appeared first on ProPublica .

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