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Senior Russian Officer Killed in Car Explosion Near Moscow
The general’s death is the latest in a series of fatalities involving Ukraine’s opponents inside Russia. The authorities in Kyiv had no immediate comment.
Senior Russian General Killed in Car Explosion Near Moscow
The general’s death is the latest in a series of fatalities involving Ukraine’s opponents inside Russia. The authorities in Kyiv had no immediate comment.
“A senior Russian military commander was killed on Friday in a car explosion in a Moscow suburb, investigators said, the latest in a series of apparent assassinations targeting Ukraine’s opponents inside Russia that have come as cease-fire talks show few signs of progress.
The Investigative Committee of Russia, the country’s equivalent to the F.B.I., issued a statement identifying the officer as Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a senior figure in the Russian military. The investigators said that they had opened a criminal inquiry into the explosion, which took place in the town of Balashikha, east of Moscow.
The explosion came the same day that Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy, met with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at the Kremlin for another round of high-profile negotiations over ending the war in Ukraine and re-establishing the bilateral relationship between Russia and the United States. …”
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“… Musk never received the briefing. Defense officials had been raising ethics concerns about presenting the information to President Trump’s ally in part because of his extensive commercial interests in China. But the internal confusion about whether Musk would be told about the programs highlights disarray at the top levels of the Pentagon early in Hegseth’s tenure.
It also is at odds with assertions by Hegseth and Trump that there were no plans to share China-related sensitive information with Musk. …”
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“… Doughty’s sharp criticism of the Trump administration is particularly notable because he issued a series of major decisions in favor of Trump and his allies in recent years, most notably backing conservatives in legal challenges to the Biden administration’s efforts to rein in what it claimed was misinformation on social media platforms about vaccines and certain politically charged topics.
Indeed, some conservatives considered Doughty so likely to be in their camp that they filed lawsuits in his judicial division in order to have a strong chance the cases would be assigned to him. …”
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The MOCA is not difficult, unless you have cognitive decline. Folks with normal cognition frequently get a couple of points off because they aren’t taking it seriously, but they never find it difficult. Also, Drs, therapists, nurses, etc. don’t administer the MOCA unless they suspect a problem.
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In a reversal, the Trump administration restores funding for women's health study
“… The decision was made because the National Institutes of Health, which funds the Women's Health Initiative, or WHI, has "initially exceeded its internal targets for contract reductions," Nixon said. "We are now working to fully restore funding to these essential research efforts."
The Trump administration has demanded that all federal health agencies cut their spending on contracts by at least 35%, undergo massive layoffs and terminate hundreds of research grants. …”