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El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump , elogiará los logros militares estadounidenses en la guerra de Irán y fijará el fin de la operación en unas dos o tres semanas en su discurso de este miércoles a la nación, según confirmó la Casa Blanca a Efe. El mandatario realizará una "actualización sobre el progreso de la Operación Furia Épica" , que comenzó el pasado 28 de febrero, y que, según insisten desde la administración, "está cumpliendo o superando todos sus objetivos". Entre esos objetivos, se encuentran "la destrucción de misiles balísticos, la aniquilación de su armada , asegurar que sus grupos terroristas afines ya no puedan desestabilizar la región y garantizar que Irán nunca pueda obtener un arma nuclear", señalan las mismas fuentes. Además, añadieron que se espera que Trump "reitere el plazo de dos a tres semanas para concluir la operación", tal como ya ha indicado estos últimos días. A lo largo de este miércoles ha habido mucha especulación sobre el contenido del discurso del presidente, que llega en un momento delicado en el que su popularidad está bajo mínimos . Promedios nacionales recientes sitúan a Trump en torno al 37–43% de aprobación y cerca de 55–59% de desaprobación. Trump afirmó este miércoles que Irán le ha solicitado un "alto el fuego" y señaló que considerará esa posibilidad una vez que el estrecho de Ormuz haya sido reabierto. "El nuevo presidente del régimen iraní, mucho menos radicalizado y mucho más inteligente que sus predecesores, ¡acaba de pedir un alto el fuego a los Estados Unidos de América! Lo consideraremos cuando el estrecho de Ormuz esté abierto , libre y despejado", aseguró en la plataforma Truth Social, sin especificar a qué líder iraní se refiere.

Alfred García vuelve a sembrar la duda entre sus seguidores sobre su posible paternidad. Si hace unos días el cantante publicaba un vídeo en el que se veía una ecografía en movimiento y un texto en el que aseguraba que llega "una de las eras más ilusionantes" de su vida, ahora ha ofrecido más detalles sobre este enigmático mensaje. Lo ha hecho a través de otra publicación en su Instagram, donde ha compartido una imagen de otra ecografía —que se parece a la misma del anterior post — junto al nombre de un niño. " Qué ganas de que conozcáis a Mateo" apunta el finalista de Operación Triunfo 2017 en el texto con el que acompaña a la fotografía. "Y sí, ya tiene su primera canción dedicada", añade a su mensaje. Esto ha generado todavía más dudas sobre el tema, pues hay quienes le han dado la enhorabuena por que va a ser padre, pero otros consideran que es una estrategia de marketing para anunciar un disco. Precisamente, la segunda opción fue barajada por Javi Hoyos cuando el cantante compartió el primer vídeo. "Sospecho que es el anuncio de una nueva era musical. En ningún momento lo dice realmente, sino que habla de 'una de las eras'. ¿Y quiénes suelen utilizar siempre ese término? ¡Los cantantes! ", expuso el presentador de D corazón . Por el momento, el artista catalán no ha ofrecido más datos al respecto. Hace ya casi un año que lanzó su disco T'estimo es te quiero , el cual estuvo presentado en una gira por España, por lo que tendría sentido que quisiera embarcarse en un nuevo proyecto dentro de su carrera musical.

Esta es la predicción del horóscopo por signo del zodiaco para el jueves 2 de abril de 2026. Consulta tu signo en 20minutos.es. Aries Hoy comienza el periodo más importante de la Semana Santa, que para ti será muy favorable en el caso de que decidas viajar, o realizar cualquier otra actividad diferente a las habituales. Sin embargo, estos días estarás más impulsivo o apasionado de lo normal, y debes cuidarte de choques o conflictos con tus seres queridos. Tauro Al fin llega el periodo más importante de la Semana Santa, que para ti va a ser muy satisfactorio, gracias al influjo de Venus y Júpiter. Te esperan días felices y placenteros; aunque, en muchos momentos, en tu interior no te sentirás bien del todo, por motivos sentimentales o familiares. De todos modos, serán días favorables. Géminis Por fin llega el periodo más importante, y bonito, de esta Semana Santa, y tú estarás entre los más beneficiados del zodiaco para que puedas disfrutar felizmente de estos días. Tanto si estás solo, o con tu pareja u otros seres queridos, al fin vas a poder dejar atrás problemas y tensiones, para vivir unos días placenteros y felices. Cáncer Al fin llegan las vacaciones de Semana Santa y vas a poder liberarte de las tensiones y preocupaciones de tu día a día. Pero van a ser unos días muy activos para ti, solo que te dedicarás a hacer cosas que de verdad te apetecen y enriquecen. Muy favorable para los viajes, donde, en algunos casos, encontrarás, súbitamente, el amor. Leo En estos días centrales de la Semana Santa no solo podrás disfrutar de momentos llenos de felicidad, sino que también vas a tener algún gran acontecimiento inesperado, que supondrá la llegada de algo que deseabas desde hace mucho tiempo; podría ser una de las personas que más quieres y se hallaba lejos desde hace tiempo. Virgo Una de las cosas que más te cuestan siempre es relajarte, olvidarte de los problemas y obligaciones y disfrutar de lo bueno de la vida. Ahora tienes una gran oportunidad en estas vacaciones de Semana Santa, que comenzarán hoy, pero las influencias de los planetas confirman que otros acontecimientos pueden llamar tu atención. Libra Estos días de vacaciones de Semana Santa, que empezarán hoy mismo, se presentan sumamente positivos para ti, ya que van a coincidir con la realización de una gran ilusión, que tienes desde hace tiempo y por la que has luchado con toda tu alma, de carácter personal o íntimo. Se acerca un cambio grande y muy positivo para ti. Escorpio Las vacaciones de Semana Santa, que van a comenzar hoy, se presentan altamente importantes, y positivas para ti, desde el punto de vista sentimental y familiar, tanto si esos días consolidas una relación que ya empezaste hace algún tiempo, como si ahora aparece una persona en tu vida, para darte todo lo que siempre deseaste. Sagitario A partir de hoy comienzan los momentos más destacados y vacacionales de la Semana Santa, que van a ser muy importantes para ti, gracias a las influencias favorables del Sol y otros planetas. Puedes ser días felices y placenteros, pero debes cuidarte del riesgo de tensiones o discusiones con tus seres más queridos o con tu pareja. Capricornio A partir de hoy comienzan días muy placenteros y positivos para ti, coincidiendo con la etapa central de la Semana Santa, en los que vas a poder gozar de un verdadero descanso y momentos felices junto a tus seres más queridos, gracias a la influencia armónica y favorable de los planetas. Muy favorable para los asuntos del corazón. Acuario A partir de hoy comienza el momento central de la Semana Santa, que lejos de ser unos días de descanso y relax, serán todo lo contrario para ti, lo que no significa que te lo vayas a pasar mal, sino que desplegarás una intensa actividad, tanto en lo físico como lo intelectual, aunque, en este caso, relacionada con asuntos personales tuyos. Piscis De hoy en adelante, vas a vivir los momentos más importantes de la Semana Santa, que pueden ser más felices y placenteros de lo que han sido estos últimos años anteriores, gracias a los tránsitos favorables de Venus y Júpiter. También se presentará muy favorable para viajar; muchos de los cambios positivos se relacionarán con viajes.

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NASA successfully launched four astronauts into space on Wednesday evening, for a 10-day flight to the moon.

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House before signing an executive order Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) 2026-04-01T21:59:21Z WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to address the nation Wednesday evening about the war against Iran , a pivotal moment at home and abroad as he seeks to amass extraordinary power to prosecute the military operation and his second-term agenda. Trump started the day as the first sitting president to show up for a U.S. Supreme Court hearing, a stunning reach of the executive into the affairs of the judicial branch. He is preparing to end it with his first primetime address from the White House about a war he launched on his own, bulldozing past Congress . On an early spring night when many Americans may be looking upward as Artemis II astronauts lift off for NASA’s historic return to the moon, Trump will refocus attention back to him — and to the conflict with Iran that has killed more than a dozen U.S. service members and appears to have no easy exit in sight . 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); }); A watchful world awaits Trump’s speech Thousands of additional U.S. troops are heading to the Middle East. Gulf allies are urging Trump to finish the fight , arguing that Tehran hasn’t been weakened enough. And yet Trump himself predicted the U.S. will be done “within maybe two weeks.” The president’s address to a watchful nation — and world — will offer him an opportunity to outline his next steps: Will he declare victory and signal a readiness to move on from Iran? Or is the president preparing for a ground invasion by American troops — to retrieve Iran’s enriched uranium or secure the Strait of Hormuz — that could launch the U.S. into another potentially lengthy war in the Middle East? Trump is fast approaching the 60-day mark when he must seek approval from Congress under the War Powers Act to continue any military operations. Mixed messages about an escalating war and hopes for diplomacy The Trump administration’s stated goals for the war, and how it ends, have expanded and shifted . The administration has said it launched the U.S.-Israel campaign on Feb. 28 to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon, erode its ballistic missile stock and crush its navy. The bombing campaign quickly killed Iran’s top leadership, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , but regime change it is not. Khamenei’s son has been installed as the new leader. 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); }); What happened next appeared to throw the Trump administration’s plans off-kilter: Iran’s swift and relentless retaliation, bombing its Gulf state neighbors and jamming the global oil supply in the Strait of Hormuz , which sent energy prices soaring and left next steps uncertain. Trump has berated U.S. allies for not doing their part in the conflict, even as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he would convene a diplomatic summit to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz after the fighting ends. Trump is not expected to announce the imminent start of peace talks in any venue, according to a U.S. official briefed on elements of the speech, which remains a work in progress. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to preview the speech. But that could also change. 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); }); Uncertainty about what Trump will do about NATO Virtually every country in the world has an interest in what Trump will say, even those geographically far removed from the conflict and facing higher energy prices as a result of the war and Iranian retaliation. The Trump administration has criticized traditional U.S. allies for not stepping in to help in the fight, with some European countries preventing use of their airspace and bases, and being reluctant to help secure the Strait of Hormuz, where one-fifth of the world’s oil normally passes. Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have suggested that NATO will need to be reconsidered once the Iran war is over. Trump himself has gone so far as to say he is “seriously considering” withdrawing from the military alliance, which has been a bulwark of transatlantic unity and security since the end of World War II. Trump told Reuters before the speech that he plans to use the address to express his frustrations with NATO members. The president, however, cannot simply withdraw from NATO on his own, without a legal fight. After Trump’s first term, then-President Joe Biden signed into law legislation that would prevent any president from leaving NATO without congressional support. The provision, part of a sweeping defense measure, was led in part by Rubio, a Republican senator at the time. 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’re going to have to re-examine the value of NATO and that alliance for our country,” Rubio said Tuesday in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity. “Ultimately, that’s a decision for the president to make, and he’ll have to make it.” A crisis within NATO, which appears to be building, and public taunts from Trump about U.S. partners will be welcomed by historic rivals Russia and China, which have long sought to break or at least stem the influence of the alliance that they regard as a threat to their own territorial and political agendas. Ukraine will be watching warily as Trump’s policies have significantly reduced U.S. support for its defense against Russia’s invasion. 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); }); Political ramifications at home Trump, who ran as the “America First” president vowing not to drag the country into endless wars, has yet to fully address the political pushback he faces from his own base of supporters over the Iran conflict. The U.S. economy is roiling, the financial markets are swinging with Trump’s various pronouncements about the war effort, and Americans are facing pain at the pump as the cost of living rises. While the president often describes the inflationary high prices as a momentary setback, it’s all feeding into a rocky November midterm election. Some of the sharpest criticism he’s faced in the early days of the Iran war has come from once-loyal media figures in the MAGA-universe, including Tucker Carlson. MICHELLE L. PRICE Price covers the White House. She previously covered the 2024 presidential campaign and politics, government and other news in New York, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. She is based in Washington. twitter mailto

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, March 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) 2026-04-01T22:58:50Z WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Wednesday rescinded a rule that DHS expenditures over $100,000 be personally approved by his office, ending a widely criticized policy implemented by his predecessor Kristi Noem that critics said put a particular burden on the Federal Emergency Management Agency ’s work aiding disaster response and recovery. The decision marks the first major action by the new Homeland Security leader, sworn in last week , to change a policy implemented by Noem, whom President Donald Trump fired in March . Mullin’s move is expected to ease a spending bottleneck that lawmakers and states said delayed disaster response and recovery funds, though those impacts are unlikely to be widely felt until after the end of the DHS shutdown, now in its 46th day. A DHS spokesperson confirmed that Mullin rescinded the rule Wednesday, telling The Associated Press the secretary “re-evaluated the contract processes to make sure DHS is serving the American taxpayer efficiently.” CBS News first reported Mullin’s decision. 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 spokesperson said Mullin’s action will streamline the contracting process and allocate aid more efficiently. The International Association of Emergency Managers praised Mullin’s decision. “We appreciate Secretary Mullin’s common-sense approach to this matter, and we look forward to working with him,” said Josh Morton, president of IAEM-USA. Noem issued a directive last June requiring that she personally approve any Department of Homeland Security expenditure over $100,000. Critics said the rule undermined FEMA in particular, an agency that routinely issues contracts and reimbursements well over that amount in its work preparing for and responding to natural and manmade disasters across the U.S. The policy created “an untenable situation for emergency managers,” Morton said, and a bottleneck that also hindered mitigation and preparedness programs, “putting Americans at increased risk from disasters.” 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); }); A recently released report by Democratic members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee found the approval rule had delayed at least 1,000 FEMA contracts, grants or disaster reimbursements by September. The policy came under scrutiny after news reports linked it to unstaffed call centers and delays deploying FEMA Urban Search and Rescue teams to Texas during deadly floods last July, and brought sharp rebuke from some state officials and lawmakers, especially Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, whose state is still recovering from devastation wrought by Hurricane Helene in 2024. “You’ve failed at FEMA,” Tillis told Noem at a Senate hearing the day before she was fired. About $2.2 billion in recovery and mitigation dollars were in the DHS approval queue Wednesday, according to FEMA data seen by the AP. “It’s got a great mission, and I think people at FEMA want to do their job,” Mullin told lawmakers at his March confirmation hearing, sparking cautious hope that he would ease the tumult experienced at the agency under Noem. 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); }); Mullin said he would keep the agency ”adequately staffed” after it lost over 2,400 employees last year, and said he was already considering nominees for a permanent FEMA administrator, which the agency still lacks. Trump has repeatedly floated the idea of eliminating FEMA, saying as recently as Tuesday that the agency is “very expensive and it really doesn’t get the job done.” Michael Coen, FEMA chief of staff during the Obama and Biden administrations, said, “Hopefully this a step toward transparency and stability between FEMA and states.” DHS is reviewing other policies across the agency, pausing the purchase of new warehouses for immigration detention this week as it reviews contracts signed under Noem. Lifting the spending approval rule will not necessarily mean a rapid flow of FEMA reimbursements to states, tribes and territories, as the agency is still impacted by the DHS fund impasse, now the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. While FEMA disaster response and recovery activities are paid out of a non-lapsing Disaster Relief Fund, that money is running low, a FEMA official warned lawmakers in a House hearing last week, with about $3.6 billion remaining. The DHS appropriations bill would add just over $26 billion to the fund. Republican lawmakers on Wednesday signaled an agreement to end the shutdown could be reached in the coming days . GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Gabriela covers philanthropy’s role in disaster resilience and recovery. She is based in San Diego, California. instagram mailto

This image from video provided by Johns Hopkins University in March 2026 shows a digital twin of a heart belonging to a patient with an irregular heartbeat being used to simulate treatment approaches. (Johns Hopkins University via AP) 2026-04-01T21:01:53Z WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists created virtual replicas of patients’ diseased hearts so precise that blocking a dangerous irregular heartbeat in these digital “twins” showed doctors how to better treat the real thing. One of the first clinical trials of these custom models suggests it might improve care for ventricular tachycardia , a notoriously difficult-to-treat arrhythmia that is a major cause of sudden cardiac arrest, blamed for about 300,000 U.S. deaths a year. The study, by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, was a small first step. The Food and Drug Administration allowed the digital twin technology to guide treatment for just 10 patients, and much larger studies will be needed. But the results reported Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine come as doctors increasingly are exploring how a technology long used in aerospace and other industries might be harnessed for better health, too. 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); }); Dr. Jeffrey Goldberger, a heart specialist at the University of Miami who wasn’t involved with the study, experimented with more rudimentary iterations 15 years ago and praised the new findings. “This is what we envisioned,” he said. Doctors have long used 3D models, both physical and computer-generated ones, to simulate disease and practice techniques. But Hopkins biomedical engineer Natalia Trayanova said true digital twins predict how a real organ can react to different treatments. Her lab is pioneering colorful interactive models developed with an advanced MRI scan and other data from each patient. “We treat the twin before we treat the patient,” Trayanova said. “Did it work? And if it did, are there new things that arise” that will require more or different care? The heart’s electrical system powers our heartbeat. Ventricular tachycardia is a super-fast heartbeat triggered when an electrical wave short-circuits in the organ’s bottom chambers, the ventricles, and prevents them from pumping blood out to the body. 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); }); “You see this heart that is basically quivering,” Trayanova said. Medication can help but the main treatment is ablation, when doctors thread catheters to the heart to burn misfiring tissue. But it’s a bit trial-and-error, as patients spend hours under anesthesia while doctors determine where to aim. Repeat ablations are common, and many patients have an implanted defibrillator as backup. Enter Trayanova’s digital twins of patients’ ventricles. Colors swirl on a computer screen – blue, green, yellow and orange – showing how the heart’s electrical wave moves across the chamber’s healthy areas before getting stuck on damaged tissue. It’s trapped in a circular motion that she compares to the swirl of a hurricane. “It allows me to recreate the functioning of the patient’s organ and then predict what is the best way to ablate,” she said. The technology locates a dysfunctional region where the electrical wave repeatedly hits. Virtually ablating it will show if that solves the problem or if another arrhythmia forms that also will need zapping. “Then we poke it again,” she explained. 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); }); Trayanova’s team created customized ablation targets for each of the 10 study participants. Cardiologists transferred them to a mapping system they use as a guide and aimed just at those targets instead of hunting their own. More than a year later, eight patients had no arrhythmias while two experienced only a single brief episode while they were healing -- better than the treatment’s typical 60% success rate, said Dr. Jonathan Chrispin, a Hopkins cardiologist and the study’s lead author. All but two also stopped their anti-arrhythmia medicine. More importantly, cardiologists may burn away less tissue by targeting “specifically the areas that we think are critically important,” Chrispin said. “We could potentially make these procedures shorter, safer, more effective.” The Hopkins team hopes to study the digital twin approach in a larger study with other hospitals, and has begun a trial using it to treat a more common type of irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation. Other researchers are studying digital twins for cancer care. ___ The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content. LAURAN NEERGAARD Neergaard is an Associated Press medical writer who covers research on brain health, infectious diseases, organ transplantation and more. She is based in Washington, D.C. mailto

La NASA alista los últimos detalles para el lanzamiento de Artemis II, la misión espacial que lleva una tripulación a la órbita de la Luna por primera vez en 5 décadas. Sigue el minuto a minuto en video y texto.

El anuncio del gobierno de Trump se da a casi tres meses de la operación militar estadounidense que acabó con la captura en Caracas de Nicolás Maduro y su esposa, Cilia Flores.

Hace casi 7 años desapareció el hijo de Flores y eso la impulsó a fundar el colectivo Madres Buscadoras de Sonora.

The US president finds himself under growing pressure at home to avoid a protracted conflict.

Trump has criticised Nato members for showing a lack of support for US objectives in Iran.

Fifty-seven people were killed when two trains collided in 2023 in the worst rail accident in Greek history, with 36 accused in a trial expected to last years.

Ce mercredi 1er avril, François Sorel a reçu Jean-Louis Gassée, premier directeur général d'Apple France et successeur de Steve Jobs en 1985 à la tête de la recherche et développement d'Apple à Cupertino, Pascal Cagni, directeur général et vice-président d'Apple Europe de 2000 à 2012, Frédéric Simottel, journaliste BFM Business, et Luc Julia, co-créateur de Siri, l'assistant vocal d'Apple. Ils se sont penchés sur le success-story d'Apple, dans l'émission Tech & Co, la quotidienne, sur BFM Business. Retrouvez l'émission du lundi au jeudi et réécoutez la en podcast.

Ce mercredi 1er avril, François Sorel a reçu Jean-Louis Gassée, premier directeur général d'Apple France et successeur de Steve Jobs en 1985 à la tête de la recherche et développement d'Apple à Cupertino, Pascal Cagni, directeur général et vice-président d'Apple Europe de 2000 à 2012, Frédéric Simottel, journaliste BFM Business, et Luc Julia, co-créateur de Siri, l'assistant vocal d'Apple. Ils se sont penchés sur le success-story d'Apple, dans l'émission Tech & Co, la quotidienne, sur BFM Business. Retrouvez l'émission du lundi au jeudi et réécoutez la en podcast.

Ce mercredi 1er avril, Timothée Achéritogaray, directeur général de Sokoa, Christine Nicolas, directrice générale de Wewise Bidart (Soltea), Yann Rivoallan, président de la Fédération française du prêt-à-porter féminin, et Julien Pollet, président de Promod, étaient les invités, dans l'émission Pari ETI présentée par Patrice Bégay. Pari ETI est à voir ou écouter tous les mercredis et samedis sur BFM Business.

Ein Anwohner alarmierte am Abend die Polizei: In Vahrendorf im Norden Niedersachsens ist eine Babyleiche gefunden worden. Erste Hinweise auf die Kindsmutter liegen laut Ermittlern bereits vor.

Irans Führung ist offenbar nicht zu Friedensgesprächen bereit. Frankreich findet keine Hinweise auf Minen in der Straße von Hormus. Und: Russen evakuieren Mitarbeiter aus Kernkraftwerk in Iran. Die News.

Nach einem Besuch in Budapest hat sich eine Delegation des Europarats besorgt über die Situation in Ungarn gezeigt. Kurz vor der Wahl am 12. April sei die »Integrität des Wahlumfelds« bedroht.

CDU/CSU und SPD haben den Wählern viel versprochen. Doch laut Umfragen sind die Bürger schwer enttäuscht und haben nur noch wenig Hoffnung auf Besserung.

Der Iran-Krieg erschüttert die Energiemärkte. Während die EU massive Krisenmaßnahmen zur Stabilisierung plant, verweigert US-Präsident Trump die Unterstützung. Droht Europa nun ein dramatischer Energie-Engpass?

E‑Zigaretten gelten oft noch als weniger schädlich als Tabak - doch die Hinweise auf mögliche Krebsrisiken nehmen zu, wie eine neue Analyse zeigt. Doch warum steht eine klare Bewertung immer noch aus?

Die Regierung erwägt laut Medienberichten das Aus für die kostenlose Mitversicherung von Ehepartnern bei der Krankenversicherung. Sozialverbände und Opposition schlagen Alarm.

Neue Ära der Raumfahrt: Erstmals seit Jahrzehnten sind wieder Menschen auf dem Weg Richtung Mond. Die „Artemis-2“-Mission gilt als Schlüsselprojekt – auch im geopolitischen Wettlauf mit China. Doch Technikrisiken und ehrgeizige Ziele setzen die Mission unter Druck.

Bereits Monate vor der mutmaßlichen Gruppenvergewaltigung in einem Jugendzentrum in Berlin-Neukölln sollen Mädchen von sexuellen Übergriffen berichtet haben. Konsequenzen für die Täter blieben aus. Stattdessen sollten Mitarbeiter eine Schulung absolvieren.

Se escuchó alto y claro en el campo y por televisión . Una parte de los más de 35.000 aficionados que poblaron las gradas de Cornellà-El Prat, el estadio del Espanyol, cantó "musulmán el que no bote". Las estrofas se repitieron en la primera parte y también en la segunda , a pesar de que la megafonía del estadio catalán advirtió de que ese tipo de cánticos están prohibidos y una gran parte de la afición reaccionó con silbidos . Ahora los Mossos d'Esquadra investigan los "cánticos islamofóbicos" y las autoridades catalanas y españolas ya han condenado los salmos. De fondo, Lamine Yamal se fue abatido y eso que fue uno de los nombres propios de la noche junto a Pedri. Los dos jugadores del FC Barcelona fueron ovacionados por la afición española, pero la estrella culé, musulmana, no hizo oídos sordos a lo que escuchó. El periodista del Larguero, Javier Herráez, reconoció que el jugado r salió del estadio afectado : "He visto cómo se iba Lamine Yamal, porque aquí en la zona mixta podemos ver las caras de los jugadores, y Lamine se ha ido por la parte de atrás y se ha metido rápidamente en la zona que conocemos aquí de jugadores con una cara hasta el suelo, rápido, acompañado por un miembro de seguridad ". 🏟️🤦‍♂️ Cánticos de 'Musulmán el que no bote' y pitos al himno de Egipto en el RCDE Stadium📻 #PartidazoCOPE pic.twitter.com/DufJ5UNYRV — El Partidazo de COPE (@partidazocope) March 31, 2026 Lamine Yamal, muy afectado El crack del Barça hizo un partido bastante gris, como el resto de los titulares que disputaron el encuentro en la primera parte, y salió sustituido al descanso . El jugador del FC Barcelona no fue ajeno a lo que sucedió en la grada. El malestar de Lamine Yamal se alargó durante toda la segunda parte y tras el pitido final, ya que el futbolista español, de padre marroquí y de madre guineana, no realizó la vuelta de honor sobre el terreno de juego para saludar a los asistentes. Se le pudo ver con rostro contenido sobre el césped. Lamine Yamal, durante el partido. (Reuters/Albert Gea) El jugador del FC Barcelona no posteó ni una sola foto del encuentro disputado en el RCDE Stadium. Por su parte, Pedri condenó los cánticos y los catalogó de racistas. "No estamos de acuerdo con ningún cántico racista, no nos gusta y no lo apoyamos para nada. Tenemos que ayudar entre todos para que se erradiquen de los campos de fútbol", dijo el canario. La falta de respeto a Egipto La noche ya empezó torcida cuando, en un acto sin ningún tipo de sentido, una parte de la afición española silbó el himno de Egipto, un país con el que no existe ningún rifirrafe previo conocido. Por desgracia, la falta de respeto al himno del rival , algo que ya sufrió España en los Juegos Olímpicos por parte de los marroquíes en Marsella , se ha vuelto cada vez más habitual en el mundo del fútbol. 💥 ¡Pitos al himno de Egipto! pic.twitter.com/aU9iFbwIUf — Diario AS (@diarioas) March 31, 2026 El portavoz de ERC en el Congreso, Gabriel Rufián , llegó a señalar que "si gritas contra los musulmanes con la camiseta de un futbolista musulmán puesta no es que te molesten los musulmanes, es que te molestan los musulmanes pobres". Este periódico ha hablado con fuentes de seguridad del estadio, las cuales admiten que, a excepción de ese cántico, se vivió un "ambiente festivo". " No se expulsó del estadio a ninguna persona porque no hubo incidentes ni violencia física. La mayoría de vigilantes de seguridad no se dieron cuenta de lo que sucedió o no le dieron tanta importancia hasta que lo escucharon después por televisión y en redes sociales", explican estas fuentes. "No hubo problemas de seguridad. En otros campos también se canta 'madridista el que no bote y no sucede nada'", rematan.

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La paciencia de Donald Trump parece estar llegando a su fin con el conflicto que ha desencadenado junto con Israel en Irán y que se ha expandido por Oriente Medio. En declaraciones a periodistas en el Despacho Oval, el mandatario ha asegurado a última hora de este martes que Estados Unidos podría finalizar su participación en la guerra " en dos o tres semanas ". Según Trump, "es irrelevante" si Washington consigue o no negociar una salida pactada con Irán. El republicano tampoco ha mostrado interés por la situación en la que quedaría el estrecho de Ormuz si EEUU se retira del conflicto. Trump ha dejado claro que no es asunto suyo lo que ocurra en este enclave estratégico para el comercio marítimo y, al ser preguntado por una posible reapertura, ha respondido que "Francia, China y otros países" tendrán que "arreglárselas por sí mismos". En la misma línea, Marco Rubio ha señalado durante la madrugada que su país está "más cerca de la meta" para acabar con la guerra, aunque ha indicado que "no será hoy o mañana" y tampoco ha descartado que unas negociaciones con el régimen iraní puedan resultar en un acuerdo . En una entrevista en la cadena de televisión Fox, el secretario de Estado de EEUU ha defendido también que las acciones militares de su país han evitado que Irán desarrolle nuevas armas con las que pueda atacar a sus vecinos en los próximos años. Está previsto que esta noche Donald Trump se dirija a la nación para hacer un "importante" anuncio al respecto, según ha informado la portavoz de la Casa Blanca. Karoline Leavitt no ha dado más detalles sobre el contenido del mismo, pero ha publicado este aviso en redes sociales poco después de que el presidente estableciese la nueva fecha límite de "dos o tres semanas" para salir de la guerra . Trump quiere que Europa se ensucie las manos en Ormuz mientras afirma que la guerra llega a su fin M. Redondo Donald Trump ha arremetido directamente contra los países que considera que no le han apoyado en la guerra y ha instado a UK a que lidie con la crisis en el estrecho Los mercados han celebrado las señales de que Washington está preparado para acabar con el conflicto. Las bolsas europeas han abierto la sesión con importantes subidas y el precio del barril de Brent , el petróleo de referencia a nivel internacional, ha llegado a bajar de los 100 dólares. La referencia estadounidense, el West Texas, también se mantiene durante la mañana por debajo de ese nivel, en torno a los 98 dólares. Precisamente, las declaraciones de Trump se han producido después de que el día anterior el precio de la gasolina en EEUU alcanzase la cota psicológica de los 4 dólares por galón, un nivel no visto desde 2022 en el país . De igual forma, el diésel estuvo a punto de tocar los 5,5 dólares por galón. El presidente estadounidense se ha mostrado durante estas semanas de conflicto muy sensible a las tensiones que la guerra ha provocado en los mercados , que ahora toman respiro tras sus últimas declaraciones.

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En una carta a los afiliados, Garriga responde ante la crisis interna que afronta el partido y, frente a los reproches a Génova, tiende la mano a los barones 'populares' para pactar gobiernos autonómicos  Leer

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La misión Artemis 2 ya viaja al espacio. Los cuatro astronautas han despegado con éxito en su viaje rumbo a la Luna , la primera vez que los humanos se acercan a su satélite natural en más de medio siglo. Los cuatro tripulantes de la misión Artemis 2 de la NASA, el piloto Victor Glover, el comandante Reid Wiseman y los especialistas Christina Koch y Jeremy Hansen, han despegado a las 0.35 (hora peninsular española) a bordo del Sistema de Lanzamiento Espacial, el cohete más potente que haya llevado humanos al espacio en toda la historia de la exploración espacial. La humanidad está de nuevo rumbo a la Luna .

La imagen hace enmudecer a cualquiera. Un cohete descomunal se levanta lentamente hacia el cielo en completo silencio, en una tarde de clima perfecto, mientras espesas nubes y brillantes llamaradas salen de su cola. Pasan segundos eternos hasta que se escucha el primer rugido de los motores, después transformado en una atronadora sucesión de explosiones mientras la lanzadera está ya muy alta en el cielo azul, y los periodistas gritan y vitorean a los cuatro tripulantes de la primera misión a la Luna en más de medio siglo. Seguir leyendo

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Erstmals seit mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert sind wieder Menschen in die Nähe des Mondes unterwegs. „Wir gewinnen im Weltraum“, sagt US-Präsident Donald Trump.

Er war einer der Wal-Helfer an der Ostseeküste: Till Backhaus, Umweltminister von Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, geht das Schicksal des Tieres nah. Auch deshalb machte er die Rettungsaktion zur Chefsache.

In Görlitz entsteht ein beispielhaftes Wärmenetz: grenzüberschreitend und klimaneutral. Biomasse und Solarthermie spielen dabei die zentrale Rolle.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday touted new momentum toward ending the country's war with Russia after a high-level call with President Donald Trump ’s envoys, pointing to progress on a U.S.-backed security deal. Zelenskyy announced in an X post that he and his officials had a "positive" conversation with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, along with Sen. Lindsey Graham , R-S.C., and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte with talks centered around forging a "dignified peace." "We agreed to strengthen security guarantees, and I have already instructed our team to promptly update the documents so that the security guarantees for Ukraine are strong, the prospects for post-war reconstruction are real, and everything is doable," Zelenskyy wrote. WITKOFF AND KUSHNER SCHEDULED TO MEET PUTIN IN MOSCOW He emphasized Ukraine needs clear agreements so that its citizens understand exactly how international partners will respond to deter any renewed Russian aggression. "We need strong, shared positions, and Ukraine’s contribution to this strength is unquestionable," Zelenskyy wrote. "… I expect that the teams will work substantively in the coming days so that we can all feel progress. A trilateral format — a leaders’ format — all of this is necessary." TRUMP CONFIRMS HE INVITED PUTIN TO JOIN HIS BOARD OF PEACE: 'HE'S BEEN INVITED' In a subsequent video, Zelenskyy reported Russia launched a massive wave of more than 700 drones Wednesday, including "shaheds," targeting Ukraine's energy sites, food warehouses and residential buildings across multiple regions. Although Ukrainian forces intercepted roughly 90% of the incoming drones, Zelenskyy condemned the bombardment as Russia's direct response to Ukraine's proposal for an Easter ceasefire. He noted that a halt in fighting during the holidays was intended to be a signal that diplomacy could be successful. Beyond the U.S. and Europe, Zelenskyy said Defense Minister Rustem Umerov is working to secure long-term defense contracts with several Middle Eastern nations , including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain and Turkey.

JOHANNESBURG — A Holy Week attack in a predominantly Christian town in Nigeria that left a reported 28 dead has led to widespread fears that more of Christ’s followers could be targeted over the coming Easter weekend. On Palm Sunday last weekend , multiple gunmen reportedly shouted a Muslim declaration as they randomly opened fire in the predominantly Christian town of Angwan Rukuba in the Jos District of Nigeria’s Plateau State. "The terrorists stormed the area in a commando style and started shooting, sporadically chanting, 'Allahu Akbar' (God is great in Arabic)," a field worker told the aid agency Voice of the Martyrs from the scene. "The area is (a majority) Christian community." AFTER TRUMP STRIKES ISLAMIST TERRORISTS, US GENERAL TRAVELS TO NIGERIA WITH MILITANTS 'ON THE RUN' Henrietta Blyth, CEO of Open Doors UK & Ireland, told Fox News Digital this Easter there are fears of more attacks against Christians in Nigeria. "Tragic events like this are all too common in Plateau State and large areas of northern Nigeria," Blyth said. "And too often they can occur on Christian holy days like this. Indeed, people in the region will remember the devastating 2023 Christmas Eve attacks in Benue state that killed over 140 people." Nigeria is ranked the seventh-worst country in the world for Christian persecution by Open Doors. The organization claims it accounts for 72% of the total number of Christian killings worldwide in 2025 . A local human rights lawyer who asked to conceal his name due to security fears, was nearby when the latest attack happened. He told Fox News Digital, "A group of people came, around 20, some on motorcycles, and started shooting." He added the area is essentially a Christian one "and for anybody to go and openly shoot at people, then it must be that that person had Christians in mind." CHRISTIANS TARGETED IN SYSTEMATIC KIDNAPPING CAMPAIGN IN NIGERIA BY JIHADI HERDSMEN, EXPERTS SAY Another local Christian resident, who also asked to withhold his name, told Fox News Digital, "I can assure you that the majority position among Christians in Nigeria is that what we are experiencing in Nigeria is Islamic expansionism, and it must be stopped, using whatever means is necessary." The human rights lawyer said there are reports of videos circulating that are threatening more attacks against Christians, adding, "Here in Jos in Nigeria, we say that there is no Christian holiday or event left on the Christian calendar that has escaped an attack by radical Islamists or terrorists in Nigeria , whether it is Christmas, Easter or Good Friday, Palm Sunday or Sunday services or whatever. We are trapped." In a statement to Fox News Digital, Todd Nettleton of the Voice of the Martyrs’ group said that, in countries like Nigeria, "Easter is often a season of peril. Holy days on the Christian calendar, including Christmas and Easter, are often times when those who hate the Gospel target our brothers and sisters in violent attacks." Open Doors’ Blythe said, "The fear of being brutally attacked will hang over millions of Christians across Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa , as they prepare for Easter, a festival that should be the most joyful moment in the Christian calendar. We will be praying that Christians around the world will be safe and free to celebrate and worship jubilantly this Eastertide." Fox News Digital reached out to the Nigerian government for comment but received no response.

President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that Iran may be seeking a ceasefire, but analysts say real power lies with hardline figures inside the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including newly prominent Commander Ahmad Vahidi. Trump did not name the Iranian figure he was referring to, but his comment likely pointed to President Masoud Pezeshkian, writing: "Iran’s New Regime President, much less Radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors, has just asked the United States of America for a CEASEFIRE! We will consider when Hormuz Strait is open, free, and clear. Until then, we are blasting Iran into oblivion or, as they say, back to the Stone Ages!!!" Experts caution, however, that Iran’s president does not control decisions of war and peace . "He clearly does not have the authority to turn on or turn off a major military conflict with the United States," Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital. TRUMP’S IRAN STRATEGY SHOWCASES ‘DOCTRINE OF UNPREDICTABILITY’ AMID STRIKE THREATS AND SUDDEN PAUSE Instead, analysts say real power lies with senior figures tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including Vahidi, Parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, and security official Mohammad Zolghadr, all of whom operate within overlapping centers of influence. Attention is turning to the new terror chief seen as an extremist pulling strings, Vahidi — a longtime Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander whose reemergence highlights a broader shift underway inside Iran’s leadership. Beni Sabti, an Iran expert at the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies, warned that even when Iran signals interest in a "ceasefire," it may not reflect a Western understanding of the term. He pointed to the concept of "hudna," describing it as "a ceasefire with deception — they stop when they are weak, rebuild their strength, and then attack again, whether against Israel or the United States." Sabti added that such pauses can become "a cycle of violence that does not end," driven by ideological motivations, and should not be interpreted as a genuine end to hostilities. At the center of that uncertainty is Vahidi, the new Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander. "He is a very violent man and belongs to a generation that fought in guerrilla warfare," Sabti told Fox News Digital. Sabti described Vahidi as part of an early cadre of Iranian operatives who built ties with militant groups in Lebanon before and after the 1979 revolution, relationships that later became central to Iran’s regional strategy. Some accounts suggest Vahidi trained in camps linked to Palestinian and Lebanese factions in southern Lebanon, helping lay the groundwork for Iran’s long-standing alliance with Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah. DESTROY THE REGIME’S POWER WITHOUT OCCUPYING IRAN: A SMARTER WAR PLAN Vahidi rose through the ranks of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and went on to serve as commander of its elite Quds Force in the 1990s, a unit responsible for overseas operations. He has been linked to some of the deadliest attacks attributed to Iranian-backed networks abroad, including the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Argentina and the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. Sabti said Vahidi was also accused of maintaining connections with al Qaeda figures following the Sept. 11 attacks, reflecting what he described as Iran’s willingness to cooperate with groups targeting Western and Israeli interests. Despite later holding positions that appeared political or bureaucratic, Sabti said Vahidi never truly stepped away from the Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s powerful military and intelligence arm, meaning his role remained closely tied to the regime’s security and operational apparatus. "He always remained part of the Revolutionary Guards — even wearing uniform," he said. "That’s common in Iran. Even when they move into politics, they stay within the force." Sabti also pointed to Vahidi’s alleged role in suppressing Kurdish uprisings in northwestern Iran in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, underscoring his longstanding involvement in internal security operations. HEGSETH REVEALS COVERT VISIT TO TROOPS FIGHTING IN OPERATION EPIC FURY Vahidi’s renewed prominence comes as Iran’s internal structure appears increasingly fragmented, with authority concentrated in overlapping and sometimes competing networks. "It’s not clear how coordinated either the military or political actions of the government of the Islamic Republic is today," Ben Taleblu said. He described Iran as "a system of men, not a system of laws," where personal ties and informal influence often outweigh formal titles. That dynamic has intensified as the war continues . "We are seeing the IRGC ascendancy… across a host of Iranian political and security institutions," he said. "This IRGC ascendancy will mean a more crass Islamic Republic, but it comes at a time when this regime is militarily less capable than ever before," he added. Sabti said Vahidi may now be more influential than other prominent figures in Tehran, including parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei . "In my view, he is more dominant right now, even if they are coordinated. This is not a time for internal competition," Sabti said. He warned that Vahidi’s rise could further harden Iran’s posture . "He brings even more radicalization into the system and may not want to stop the war, because it serves the interests of the Revolutionary Guards to continue," Sabti said. "They could become masters of the region if the United States folds — and that is very much in his interest." Trump’s suggestion that Iran is seeking a ceasefire has raised hopes of a potential diplomatic opening, but experts caution that such signals may not reflect a unified position inside Iran. "The question is what was shared with President Trump genuine, or is it wheeling and dealing of just one ambitious person?" Ben Taleblu said. "Pezeshkian clearly does not have the authority to turn on or turn off a major military conflict with the United States," Ben Taleblu said. That leaves open the possibility that any outreach could be tactical, fragmented, or even contradictory. Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.

Plombé politiquement par le conflit engagé par les Etats-Unis et Israël contre l'Iran, le président américain doit s'exprimer lors d'une allocution attendue au peuple américain.

Propulsés à plus de 5 000 km/h en direction du satellite naturel de la Terre, les quatre astronautes (trois Américains et un Canadien) de la Nasa, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch et Jeremy Hansen se sont arrachés avec succès de Cap Canaveral.

Voici les informations à ne pas manquer au 33e jour de conflit entre l'Iran, les Etats-Unis et Israël.

La Policía Nacional y la Guardia Civil han detenido a la mujer que fue condenada a prisión permanente revisable por matar a su bebé arrojándolo a un contenedor en Porto Cristo (Mallorca). Seguir leyendo...

La misión tripulada de la NASA despega en la madrugada del 2 de abril a las 00:24 (hora española) en un viaje de unos diez días alrededor de la Luna, clave para preparar el regreso humano al satélite

La compañía aeroespacial SpaceX ha presentado este miércoles la documentación para su oferta pública inicial (OPI) ante la Comisión de Bolsa y Valores de Estados Unidos (SEC). Este hecho podría ser el preludio de la mayor OPI de la historia. Seguir leyendo...

La fusée SLS s’est envolée peu après minuit, heure française, depuis Cap Canaveral en Floride.

Pendant environ dix jours, les Américains Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover et Christina Koch, et le Canadien Jeremy Hansen s’aventureront jusqu’au satellite naturel de la Terre pour en faire le tour sans s’y poser, comme Apollo 8 en 1968.

Ce premier procès, relevant de l’État de New York, se tiendra avant un autre, prévu devant un tribunal fédéral dont la date, susceptible de changement, est pour le moment fixée au mois d’octobre.

Après des semaines de shutdown, les deux chefs des majorités républicaines au Congrès, Mike Johnson et John Thune, se sont mis d’accord pour financer le DHS, à l’exception de l’ICE qui fera l’objet d’une loi ultérieure. Un vote devrait se tenir jeudi.

Trois mois après la capture du président Nicolas Maduro, cette décision a été saluée par la dirigeante de facto comme « un pas dans la voie de la normalisation et du renforcement des relations ».

Le président américain s’est rendu à la Cour suprême, mercredi, pour assister à une partie des débats sur le droit du sol, qu’il veut remettre en cause. La plus haute institution judiciaire, dominée par six juges conservateurs sur neuf, doit se prononcer d’ici l’été sur ce dossier au cœur de l’identité américaine.

Diagnostiqué à l’adolescence dans les années 80 après des mois de dépression, l’homme au cœur du film de Kirk Jones s’attache depuis à faire connaître Gilles de la Tourette au-delà des clichés.

L’humanité travaille la vigne depuis au moins 2 500 ans, révèle une étude scientifique française qui a séquencé le génome de pépins de raisin parfois vieux de 4 300 ans. Le directeur de recherche au CNRS Ludovic Orlando explique à «Libération» que ce travail viticole précoce a permis de faire émerger des cépages conservés à l’identique pendant des siècles.

Les quatre astronautes de la mission lunaire ont quitté la Terre sous le regard de centaines de milliers d’Américains venus admirer la fusée à Cap Canaveral (Floride) et de millions de téléspectateurs. Leur voyage historique autour de notre satellite naturel doit durer dix jours.

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

Doris Coulson remained spirited even as her illness progressed — watching cooking shows on TV, working crossword puzzles and wheeling herself down the hallways of her nursing home to show off her granddaughter when she came to visit. Coulson had been admitted to Hillview Post Acute and Rehabilitation Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, in January 2016, after Parkinson’s disease left her at risk of choking when she swallowed. That April, the facility’s operations were taken over by Skyline Healthcare, a New Jersey-based company that was buying up nursing homes across the country. Medical records for the retired cardiac nurse, then 71, were marked “NPO” — nothing by mouth. Then that September, a nursing assistant found Coulson unresponsive and hanging off the side of her bed, her skin ashy and her breathing shallow. She was taken to a hospital in a coma and died several days later. The chief cause of death was aspiration pneumonia, according to her death certificate. “The doctors said they found scrambled eggs in her lungs,” said her daughter Melissa Coulson. Coulson’s death and the circumstances surrounding it led her family to file a lawsuit against Skyline and its owner, the New Jersey businessman Joseph Schwartz, alleging that cost-cutting at Hillview left Coulson without the care she needed. It was one of several lawsuits tied to patient outcomes as Schwartz’s empire expanded and then unraveled, with much of the chain collapsing by 2018. Schwartz didn’t contest the case, and a judge in 2020 awarded nearly $19 million in damages. Coulson’s family has never been able to collect. Schwartz had by that time relinquished all of his property in Arkansas, so there was nothing left in the state for the family’s lawyer to try to seize, nor was there enough information about assets he may hold in other states. Coulson’s civil action was one of several efforts to hold Schwartz accountable for what happened at his nursing homes. In perhaps the most sweeping move, federal prosecutors in New Jersey charged Schwartz with orchestrating a $39 million payroll tax scheme connected to his nursing home empire. He pleaded guilty last April to failure to pay the IRS taxes withheld from employees and failing to file a financial report for his employees’ benefit plan. A federal judge sentenced him to three years in prison. But Schwartz served just three months. In November, President Donald Trump granted him a full pardon, negating his criminal conviction — part of a series of clemency decisions in the president’s second term that have benefited well-connected defendants, including political allies with access to the White House and individuals like Schwartz who had spent heavily on lobbyists . Often overshadowed in the attention around Trump’s decisions is the emotional and financial devastation left behind. Few clemency decisions illustrate that more clearly than the case of Schwartz, who paid himself millions of dollars from his nursing homes while diverting tens of millions owed to taxpayers and employees, and who has failed to satisfy at least three multimillion-dollar judgments awarded to grieving families. In the Coulson case, Schwartz later claimed he never received key filings and had mistaken the complaint for the same lawsuit first filed in 2017, which he believed his insurer had already handled before it was withdrawn and refiled. And he argued the company that took over Hillside and canceled insurance coverage — not him — was the proper defendant. He also said he was representing himself, in poor health and isolating because of COVID-19 risks. A judge denied his request to put the case on hold. Kevin Marino, a lawyer representing Schwartz and Skyline, said he and Schwartz had no comment. He did not respond to a follow-up email containing a detailed list of questions. Trump has granted clemency to several figures in major health care fraud cases. In 2020, he commuted the 20-year federal prison sentence of Philip Esformes, a Florida nursing home magnate convicted in a scheme that prosecutors said involved about $1.3 billion in fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid claims. The White House cited allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, echoing claims from Esformes’ defense that prosecutors improperly invaded attorney-client privilege by reviewing documents seized in an FBI raid. Although appeals courts did not overturn the conviction based on this argument, Esformes had support from two former U.S. attorneys general. That same year, Trump commuted the sentence of Judith Negron, convicted in a $200 million Medicare fraud case . Trump’s clemency grant said the “ends of justice” did not require her to serve another two decades in prison. Lawyers for Esformes and Negron did not respond to requests for comment. Trump has also nominated nursing home owner Benjamin Landa as ambassador to Hungary. The nomination has remained in place even as a facility Landa co-owns faces a federal audit alleging there were more than $31 million in Medicare overpayments. Landa is suing the administration to block repayment. An attorney for Landa did not respond to a request for comment but has previously denied wrongdoing by his client, saying in a statement the issues identified in the audit occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic when nursing homes were in the midst of a crisis and that the company was committed to patient care. Schwartz’s case was highlighted by the far-right activist and Trump ally Laura Loomer, who had previously worked with the lobbyists Schwartz hired to press his case in Washington. Loomer published a series of posts on X that falsely claimed that Schwartz was not responsible for the tax violations, that he had been unfairly blamed for the collapse of his nursing home chain and that he had paid back “every dime.” She also accused the judge in the case of antisemitism against Schwartz, who is Jewish, though she offered no evidence. She also said Schwartz was in “extremely poor health” and that prison would be a “death sentence,” though the judge found no evidence that Schwartz was unfit for prison. Versions of Loomer’s narrative surfaced in the White House’s explanation for the pardon. A White House official said in response to questions from ProPublica that Schwartz “relied on a third-party entity” to manage tax filings, that he paid restitution, that no funds were used for personal enrichment, that the sentence was exceptionally harmful to a 65-year-old man in deteriorating health and that it was “an example of over prosecution.” But those claims are contradicted by the court record and Schwartz’s own guilty plea, in which he acknowledged responsibility for the unpaid payroll taxes. While he repaid $5 million, that covered only a fraction of what he owed. Federal prosecutors said that under Schwartz’s plea agreement, the IRS could have pursued the remaining balance — an effort that now appears far less likely following the pardon. And his three-year sentence fell in the middle of the range recommended under federal sentencing guidelines. Asked about those statements and how they square with the court record, the White House did not respond. Schwartz’s faith also became part of the Trump administration’s public celebration of the decision. Alice Marie Johnson, who has advised the White House on clemency, wrote online that the pardon meant Schwartz could now join his family for Shabbat, and weeks later, he attended the White House Hanukkah party . Schwartz paid more than $1 million to lobbyists to press the White House, the Justice Department and Congress on his behalf — including on his efforts to secure a pardon — according to lobbying disclosure forms. The White House has insisted that paid lobbyists have no influence on pardons. Loomer said she was not paid for her advocacy. She said she heard about Schwartz’s case in a group chat with members of an orthodox Jewish outreach movement, who asked her to look into it. She also pointed to her influence within the Trump administration, citing several instances in which she publicly urged specific actions that the president ultimately took. She said Schwartz approached her at the Hanukkah party to thank her. Melissa Coulson said Trump’s pardon of Schwartz reinforced her belief that justice is not applied equally. “Apparently he’s got money somewhere,” Coulson said. Her lawyer hopes to find it. Melissa Coulson and her family filed a wrongful death case against Skyline Healthcare and Joseph Schwartz over the death of her mother, Doris Coulson, who died at Hillview Post Acute and Rehabilitation Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. Houston Cofield for ProPublica From the outside, Schwartz’s operation doesn’t look like a corporate empire. The headquarters of Skyline’s fast-growing nursing home network was a second-floor office above a pizza parlor in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey. Schwartz entered the nursing home business in the late 2000s and formed Skyline to acquire and operate skilled nursing facilities, initially in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He sold a Florida-based insurance business in 2015 for $22 million, allowing him to rapidly expand Skyline. By 2017, Skyline and the related companies Schwartz controlled cared for approximately 15,000 residents in roughly 100 facilities in 11 states. In a 2017 deposition in a wrongful death suit in Philadelphia, Schwartz defended the care at his facilities as “superb” while distancing himself from day-to-day operations by saying he relied on facility-level administrators and nursing directors. The suit was settled without Schwartz admitting wrongdoing. In the deposition, Schwartz minimized reports of staffing shortages and unpaid bills as simple business “disagreements.” Asked about the facility’s one-star federal staffing ratings from 2010 to 2014 — the lowest possible score under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Five-Star system — Schwartz said he recalled having “a good star rating” and that his nursing homes had tried their hardest to provide as much staffing as possible, insisting that they were “very, very, very, very, very compliant” and that residents were “happy and satisfied.” The collapse was swift. Skyline facilities failed to make payments for food and medical supplies, and cut hours for nursing home staff. At the same time, Schwartz began to siphon money from multiple sources — overbilling Medicaid and withholding millions of dollars in payroll taxes from workers’ paychecks but never sending the money to the IRS, he admitted later. What’s more, Schwartz paid himself $5 million as what one federal prosecutor described as a “ghost employee” at some of his facilities. As conditions in the homes deteriorated, health officials in at least six states from Nebraska to Massachusetts seized or transferred control of his facilities or relocated residents. In South Dakota, a vice president who oversaw 18 Schwartz-owned nursing homes began sending increasingly desperate emails to state health officials, according to court records. Debbie Menzenberg wrote in the emails that Schwartz’s son Louis, an executive officer for Skyline, had called her to say the state “has to do something — there is no money — he told me to discharge residents???” Then Menzenberg’s emails to the state became more urgent: “I need water paid at Bella Vista and Prairie Hills today or it will be SHUT OFF — Skyline is SILENT!!!” “Disconnect notice came today for Pierre May 8 electric.” “I NEED HELP!!!!!” “CEO’s are aware of stuff going on!!!” Neither Menzenberg nor Louis Schwartz could be reached for comment. Debbie Menzenberg, a vice president who oversaw 18 Schwartz-owned nursing homes in South Dakota, sent desperate emails to state health officials seeking help as Skyline collapsed. Obtained and highlighted by ProPublica A group of employees at Skyline nursing homes across the country later filed a lawsuit alleging that Skyline withheld more than $2 million in health insurance premiums from more than 1,000 workers’ paychecks but failed to provide coverage. That left some of his employees with denied health insurance claims and mounting medical bills. Schwartz has not defended himself against the claim, and a lawyer for the employees has asked a judge to award a $2.4 million default judgment. The case remains pending in federal court in New Jersey. One of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, an activities director at a nursing home in Arkansas, said that she was left with more than $50,000 in medical bills after surgery on her back and neck. She said she couldn’t pay the bills and that the debt ultimately wrecked her credit. “They withheld over $1,000 from my paycheck for insurance premiums and did nothing with them except abscond with them,” said the employee, Margaret Gates. Under Schwartz’s ownership, residents suffered — and some died. In a lawsuit against Schwartz, Zelma Grissom’s family said the conditions at Hillview, the same facility where Doris Coulson was living, left residents without even basic care. The mother of six had entered the facility after brain surgery left her unable to move on her own and dependent on staff to turn her in bed. Grissom’s son, LeVester Ivy, said Hillview appeared chronically short-staffed. One day, Ivy said, a wound-care nurse called the family into his mother’s room and showed them a severe pressure sore that had developed after Grissom hadn’t been turned regularly. Surgeons had to cut away infected tissue, leaving a large open wound. After that, he said, her health spiraled. “She started getting infection after infection,” Ivy recalled. During one late-night ambulance transfer, he said, an emergency medical worker quietly told him how his mother had arrived. “She pulled me to the side and told me how dirty and nasty, how wet she was,” Ivy said. The family’s lawyers said she died of sepsis from the bedsores that Hillview caregivers allowed to become infected. A judge in February 2023 ordered Schwartz to pay Grissom’s family $15.7 million after neither Schwartz nor any representative challenged the family’s wrongful death claim. Schwartz later tried to overturn the ruling, claiming poor health, lack of notice and that he was merely an investor with no role in operations, but a judge rejected the effort. Ivy said the family sued Schwartz because “we wanted nobody else to go through the things we had to go through.” Schwartz has not paid the judgment, and the family’s lawyer said in an interview that he does not have enough information about Schwartz’s assets to try to recover the money. The suffering described in cases like Coulson’s and Grissom’s was not part of the tax case against Schwartz that landed him in prison. But it loomed over the proceedings when he appeared for sentencing in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, last April. Schwartz had pleaded guilty to withholding $39 million in payroll taxes from his employees and failing to send the money to the IRS. The investigation never determined where the money went. Prosecutors said they were not able to establish that Schwartz had used the money on a lavish lifestyle. But they said they never completed a forensic accounting of his finances, which moved money through more than 200 bank accounts. They said they believed Schwartz still controlled more than $50 million in assets. Doris Coulson in an October 2014 photo with her Chihuahua, Paddy Cake. Coulon’s family filed a wrongful death suit against Skyline and Schwartz and a judge in 2020 awarded them nearly $19 million in damages. Courtesy of Melissa Coulson His attorneys argued that his actions were not an attempt at personal enrichment but the result of a businessman who expanded too quickly, fell behind on bills and then made a series of financial decisions — some of them admittedly criminal. But, they argued, he was simply trying to save his company. Schwartz apologized for his conduct and told U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton that he “always tried to live the right way” and set a good example. But he acknowledged that he’d failed to do so in this instance. Wigenton said she could not understand why prosecutors had agreed to a sentence of just a year and a day. Even years into the investigation, she noted, it remained unclear where much of the money had gone. And because so many of the letters submitted on Schwartz’s behalf described him as a brilliant businessman, Wigenton said the “number of layers and businesses and LLCs that were created” made it hard to see him as someone who had been fooled or confused. “Not a single asset is in your name,” she said. “Not one.” Wigenton said the case was not merely an abstract tax case, citing the collapse of Skyline’s nursing homes and the harm to patients. She said there was a need for deterrence in sentencing. The judge sentenced Schwartz to three years in prison and ordered him to pay restitution of $5 million — the amount he had paid himself as a ghost employee — which he did. The remaining taxes were not part of the criminal sentence because prosecutors said they were used to fund his collapsing business rather than for personal enrichment. They said the IRS could try to recover the rest through a civil case. Trump’s pardon wiped away Schwartz’s federal prison sentence — and likely any IRS effort to claw back the rest of the stolen taxes. But it did not affect a separate Arkansas state conviction for Medicaid fraud and tax evasion, in which Schwartz admitted submitting false and misleading information that inflated the Medicaid rates paid to his facilities in the state. A judge in Little Rock had sentenced Schwartz to one year in state prison, ordered to run at the same time as his federal term. Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin, who had announced Schwartz’s conviction as a signature achievement, made clear after Trump’s pardon that the state prosecution stood on its own. Schwartz, Griffin said at the time, owed the state of Arkansas nine months in prison and $1.8 million in restitution. A spokesman for Griffin said last week that, after making some payments — on schedule — Schwartz owed the state about $1.2 million, which must be fully repaid by April 2027. One of the lobbyists whom Schwartz hired, Joshua Nass, worked to try to reduce Schwartz’s sentence in Arkansas. Nass declined to comment. He was later charged with attempting to extort $500,000 from a client and his son. Although the victims are not identified in the case, the circumstances match those of Schwartz. Nass was released from federal custody after posting a $5 million bond. He has not yet responded to the charge. Prosecutors said in a court filing they were negotiating with Nass for a plea deal that could resolve the case without a trial. Schwartz reported to an Arkansas prison on Dec. 29, creating an opportunity for the lawyers representing families who had won judgments against him. At the height of Skyline’s expansion, the company controlled nearly 1 in 10 nursing home beds in the state. But by the time families won their cases, Schwartz had relinquished or sold his Arkansas facilities, leaving no clear assets for lawyers to pursue. Because Schwartz was in state custody again, lawyers could serve him with court papers and ask a judge to compel him to answer questions under oath about his finances — requiring him to disclose bank accounts, companies and other assets and to turn over financial records. Those proceedings are often the first step in tracing money and identifying property that might be used to satisfy a judgment. From there, attorneys could ask courts in other states to recognize and enforce the Arkansas judgments so they could pursue assets located elsewhere. John Landis, an attorney for Reddick Law, which represents the Coulson and Grissom families, said he and another attorney representing yet another client with a judgment against Schwartz, contacted the state prison system to set up depositions of Schwartz. But the window proved too brief. The Arkansas parole board released Schwartz after just three weeks. Before they could ask a single question, the chance to follow the money was gone. The post A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing. appeared first on ProPublica .

For years, Utah allowed government officials to do something other states banned: ask a person who reports a sexual assault to take a polygraph test. That will change soon. Earlier this month, state lawmakers passed a bill that prohibits police and other government officials from requesting polygraph tests for alleged sex assault victims. Gov. Spencer Cox signed it into law on Thursday, and it goes into effect in May.  Experts say these tests are known to be especially unreliable with victims of sexual abuse. That’s because victims may have stress and anxiety recounting their assault that the polygraph may interpret as deception. Other states don’t allow them to be used with assault victims for this reason. It took two years and three legislative sessions for Utah state Rep. Angela Romero, the House minority leader, to get the bill across the finish line. When she first sponsored it in 2024, she cited reporting from The Salt Lake Tribune and ProPublica as she told her fellow legislators the damaging effects polygraph tests can have on people who are reporting sexual abuse.  In the case covered by the news outlets, state licensors asked a man to take a polygraph test after he reported that his therapist, Scott Owen, had touched him inappropriately. The test results indicated he was being deceptive, and that led the patient to drop his complaint. Owen was allowed to continue to practice for two more years, until others came forward with similar allegations. Owen is now in prison after admitting he sexually abused patients. Romero said in a recent interview that she was determined to bring the bill back for that former patient. “For me, it was really specifically for that one individual who was not believed,” Romero said, “and then their perpetrator went on to harm other people.” Cox signed the legislation during a small ceremony at his office, telling Romero that she “has been such a champion, and made a difference and saved lives.” The governor also nodded to The Tribune and ProPublica’s reporting driving change. Gov. Spencer Cox, signing the polygraph legislation, praised its Democratic sponsor, saying she “made a difference and saved lives.” Utah Governor’s Office Provo police began investigating Owen in 2023 after The Tribune and ProPublica published a story that detailed a range of sexual assault allegations from the man given the polygraph test, identified in previous reporting under the pseudonym Andrew, and three others.  Former patients who spoke to the news outlets said they sought Owen’s help because he was a therapist who had built a reputation as a specialist who could help gay men who were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They said he touched them inappropriately during those sessions, some of which were paid for with church funds . Half of states have laws that explicitly prohibit law enforcement from conducting a polygraph test with someone reporting a sexual assault. Some go further, barring a broader group of government employees beyond law enforcement from requiring an alleged sexual assault victim to take one. Although Romero’s bill had support from prosecutors and police each session she proposed it, there was pushback from defense attorneys and some fellow legislators who wanted to keep polygraph tests as an option because alleged sex assaults often have no other witnesses. Polygraph test results are not admissible in court because of their unreliability. But Steve Burton, with the Utah Defense Attorney Association, said in a recent legislative hearing that it is still valuable for prosecutors and investigators to consider those results before deciding whether to pursue criminal charges. “This is often one of the only things that a defense attorney can ask for or use in order to try to show that their client may be telling the truth,” he said. Romero pushed back on that idea, saying there are other kinds of interview techniques that authorities can use to help determine whether someone’s account is truthful. “This is not a way,” she said. “Especially when you’re dealing with someone who has been a victim. You could revictimize that person. And it also could discourage that person from going forward and participating in the process of criminally prosecuting their perpetrator.” “The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Gone Through” Reporting from The Tribune and ProPublica showed the damaging effects a polygraph test had on the man who reported Owen to state licensors. Andrew, who is identified by a pseudonym to protect his privacy, said he was sexually abused by therapist Scott Owen. (Objects in this image have been darkened and blurred to protect Andrew’s identity.) Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune Andrew reported Owen to Utah’s Division of Professional Licensing in 2016. As part of the investigation, licensors offered polygraph tests to both Andrew and Owen. Owen declined. Andrew agreed, recalling that an investigator told him passing would bolster what was essentially one person’s word against another’s. But the polygraph results, Andrew said, suggested he was being deceptive. Polygraph tests generally function to record signs of internal stress, which could suggest someone is not telling the truth. “I had so much trauma,” he told The Tribune and ProPublica. “And so, certainly, when they asked me questions about the particular things that happened in therapy, it’s going to elicit a very strong emotional response.” The result affected his mental health, he said, and he told an investigator he no longer wanted to pursue the complaint. In a 2016 public reprimand from licensors, Owen admitted giving Andrew hugs — touching he called inappropriate but “non-sexual.” Andrew had reported that Owen groped him, encouraged him to undress and kissed him during sessions. Officials with DOPL said they believe they responded appropriately to the complaint. But communications between Andrew and an investigator suggest that the agency’s decision not to more harshly discipline Owen rested largely on his denial and on Andrew’s polygraph results. Owen pleaded guilty to felony charges in February 2025, admitting he sexually abused two patients and led them to believe that sexual touching was part of therapy. He pleaded no contest in a third patient’s case. Andrew was among more than half a dozen men — mostly former patients — who spoke during Owen’s sentencing hearing a month later about how he had harmed them.  “The experience with Scott Owen has been the worst thing I’ve ever gone through,” Andrew said. “I don’t think he belongs in society anymore.” A judge sentenced Owen to at least 15 years in prison. He’s currently at the central Utah prison facility. A New State Task Force The state is addressing some of the shortcomings identified by The Tribune and ProPublica in another way as well: creating a task force to look into a rise in sexual misconduct complaints that state licensors say they’ve seen against licensed professionals. The task force will focus on health care, mental health and massage therapy, professions state officials say have historically received the highest percentage of sexual misconduct complaints. The news organizations reported that more than a third of mental health professionals who received discipline from licensors beginning in 2012 were accused of sexual misconduct. In 2023, DOPL spokesperson Melanie Hall said the agency was aware that certain license types “have a tendency towards certain types of violations.” The agency, she said, “takes these factors into account when investigating complaints, and takes appropriate disciplinary action when necessary.” The task force, which was announced earlier this month, will focus on suggesting changes to the law and creating resources to help victims more easily report misconduct to the state.  It also plans to develop a standardized process for sharing reports among agencies that might have knowledge of an accusation — something that is not currently legally required. The Tribune and ProPublica highlighted this gap in their reporting on Owen’s case: Although Andrew and at least two others reported Owen to DOPL, licensors never shared those reports with Provo police.  Margaret Busse is the executive director of the Utah Department of Commerce, which houses DOPL. She said in a statement that licensed professionals who engage in sexual misconduct violate not just their clients’ trust, but the public’s confidence in their profession. “These heinous acts inflict profound harm to victims and damage the reputations of entire industries,” she said. “This task force is our unequivocal declaration: Utah will hold licensed professionals accountable to protect our communities and the integrity of state-regulated industries.” The post Utah Bans Polygraph Tests for Those Reporting Sexual Assault appeared first on ProPublica .

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Mehrmals wurde der Start von Artemis 2 verschoben - nun ist er geglückt: Um kurz nach Mitternacht deutscher Zeit hob die Trägerrakete mit der Orion-Kapsel ab. Damit schickt die NASA erstmals seit 1972 wieder Menschen in Richtung Mond.[ mehr ]

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Im Mittelmeer zwischen Italien und Libyen sind 19 Migranten tot in einem Boot gefunden worden. Vermutlich starben sie an Unterkühlung. Auch vor dem türkischen Badeort Bodrum kamen 19 Migranten ums Leben.[ mehr ]

Talks, convened by the UK, will examine ‘all viable diplomatic and political measures’ to get critical waterway open Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australia will join talks with 35 nations, convened by the United Kingdom, to explore ways to reopen the strait of Hormuz, the government confirmed on Thursday. The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, announced the meeting on Wednesday, which will exclude the United States, to discuss “all viable diplomatic and political measures” to secure the waterway and restore freedom of navigation. The meeting is expected to take place at about 10pm AEDT on Thursday. Continue reading...

The quake had depth of 35km and its epicenter was 127km (79 miles) west-northwest of Ternate in Northern Molucca Sea region A magnitude 7.4 earthquake has struck the Northern Molucca Sea region in Indonesia, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake, which hit early on Thursday local time, had depth of 35km and its epicenter was 127km (79 miles) west-northwest of Ternate, Indonesia, the USGS said. Continue reading...

Prime minister urges Australians to consider using public transport and conserve fuel for ‘critical industry’ and others Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese has used a rare address to the nation to attempt to allay public fears over dwindling fuel supplies, vowing to keep petrol prices down by shoring up international supplies and ramping up local production. But the opposition has been scathing of the address, describing it as “nothing but hot air” and urging more clarity over the fuel crisis. Continue reading...