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USA-Russia, la tensione è alle stelle: Trump sposta due sottomarini nucleari dopo le minacce di Medvedev

USA-Russia, la tensione è alle stelle: Trump sposta due sottomarini nucleari dopo le minacce di Medvedev

L'escalation verbale tra USA e Russia si trasforma in azione militare. In risposta alle "parole provocatorie" di Medvedev, Trump ha ordinato lo spostamento di due sottomarini nucleari. La diplomazia per l'Ucraina è a un punto critico. L'articolo USA-Russia, la tensione è alle stelle: Trump sposta due sottomarini nucleari dopo le minacce di Medvedev proviene da Scenari Economici .

Trump administration proposes rule change to end abortion at Veterans Affairs facilities

Trump administration proposes rule change to end abortion at Veterans Affairs facilities

The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center in New York City. / Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 1, 2025 / 16:19 pm (CNA). President Donald Trump’s administration is proposing a rule change that would prohibit medical centers operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) from performing both surgical and chemical abortions in most cases and from providing counseling that encourages abortion. The proposed regulatory change, submitted by the VA on Aug. 1, must undergo a 30-day public comment period before it can be adopted. Under the proposal, abortion would only be allowed when the mother’s life is at risk. The text also clarifies that women can still receive all necessary treatments for ectopic pregnancies and miscarriages. In an explanation provided with the rule change proposal, VA regulators note that Congress created the department to provide “only needed medical services to our nation’s heroes and their families.” It states that unless the mother’s life is at risk, “abortion is not a ‘needed’ VA service.” From 1999 — when the VA established its first medical benefits package — through September 2022, the department did not offer abortion or pro-abortion counseling. It was not until after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed states to restrict abortion that President Joe Biden’s administration changed the regulation to permit broad abortion coverage at the VA. The Biden-era rule permits the VA to perform abortions if “the life or the health” of the woman is endangered by the pregnancy, which broadly extends to both physical and mental health. The new Trump administration proposed rule would create a more strict standard, only permitting abortion “when a physician certifies that the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term.” Under the Biden-era rule, the VA can also perform abortions in cases of rape and incest, which are self-reported and not verified. The Trump administration’s proposed rule change would not permit the VA to perform abortions in these instances. The VA’s explanation of the proposed rule change notes that prior to the Biden administration’s shift, the VA “had consistently interpreted abortion services as not ‘needed’ medical services and therefore not covered by the medical benefits package.” It states that the Biden-era rule is “legally questionable.” “This proposed rule restores VA to its proper role as the United States’ provider of needed medical services to those who served, delivered on behalf of a grateful nation,” the explanation reads. A spokesperson for the VA said in a statement provided to CNA that the prior administration’s shift was “politically motivated” and that “federal law and long-standing precedent across Democrat and Republican administrations prevented VA from providing abortions and abortion counseling.” “[The] VA’s proposed rule will reinstate the pre-Biden bipartisan policy, bringing the department back in line with historical norms,” the spokesperson added. When the Biden administration adopted the rule to expand abortions at the VA, the archbishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, Timothy P. Broglio, condemned the rule as “morally repugnant and incongruent with the Gospel.” “I implore the faithful of this archdiocese to continue to advocate for human life and to refuse any participation in the evil of abortion,” Broglio said at the time.

Con il West Nile rispuntano i virologi. Crisanti: "Malattia innocua"

Con il West Nile rispuntano i virologi. Crisanti: "Malattia innocua"

Grande attenzione per il virus West Nile. Aumentano i casi e si contano 9 morti in Italia, con i focolai più attivi nelle province di Latina e Caserta. A 4 di sera, il talk di Rete 4, si rivede una vecchia conoscenza del Covid, il microbiologo Andrea Crisanti nel frattempo diventato senatore con il Pd. L'esperto minimizza l'allarme: "Su cento infezioni una sola è sintomatica, e su cento infezioni sintomatiche soltanto una sola è mortale. Quindi di fatto è una malattia tutto sommato innocua, con una mortalità bassissima dell'1 su 10.000". Per Crisanti il paragone con altre malattie trasmesse dalle zanzare è impossibile. "Se pensiamo alla dengue", la febbre emorragica diffusa in Sud America, "che presenta una mortalità del 3%, è molto ma molto più seria". Il virus del Nilo Occidentale "è una malattia che sicuramente si può evitare con le giuste misure di prevenzione, che devono essere implementate ad aprile. Quindi, nelle regioni interessate, ad aprile bisogna mettere trappole, bisogna ogni settimana o due settimane raccogliere trappole, verificare se le zanzare nelle trappole hanno virus e a quel punto iniziare il processo di disinfezione", afferma il microbiologo.

Pontifical Academy for Life will address tech advances and environment, its president says

Pontifical Academy for Life will address tech advances and environment, its president says

Monsignor Renzo Pegoraro is the new president of the Pontifical Academy for Life. / Credit: ACI Stampa Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 1, 2025 / 15:56 pm (CNA). The new president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Monsignor Renzo Pegoraro, says the Church has plans to address a number of pressing matters surrounding human dignity, including artificial intelligence (AI), health systems, and the environment. When Pegoraro stepped into his new role, he said Pope Leo XIV recommended the academy continue a dialogue “with experts from various disciplines on the challenges facing humanity on the theme of life and the quality of life in different contexts.” The academy will also continue its focus on “issues related to the beginning and end of life as well as environmental sustainability, equity in health care systems, the right to care, health, and essential services.” In an interview with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Catholic News Service, Pegoraro said as “we live in a difficult landscape … and human life on the planet is truly challenged,” the Catholic Church “has a wealth of wisdom and a vision to serve everyone in order to make the world a better and more livable place.” Technology and AI Pegoraro said that “all facets of society” must be involved in the “debate” regarding technology. “Really, everything can be addressed if all of society — policymakers, governments, the Church, different organizations — put the issue of the use of technology at the forefront,“ Pegoraro said. “And the media also have a very important role in disseminating information and subject matter on this.” As AI advances at fast rates, Pegoraro said, the Pontifical Academy for Life “can make an important contribution to the development of the papal magisterium, in line with all the dicasteries.” The academy, with Catholic Physicians Throughout the World , will organize an international meeting in Rome in November on “AI and Medicine: The Challenge of Human Dignity.” The conference will “confront the changes introduced by AI” and “enhance the ‘Rome Call for AI Ethics,’” a 2020 document that lays the foundations for an ethical use of AI. The progress of AI and robotics, especially in the health field, is “extraordinary,” but “we must never forget that the needs of the person who is sick and in need of help are the priority,” Pegoraro said. Health systems Pegoraro shared that the Church “will address the sustainability of health systems in February 2026 , with examples from five continents and detailed studies.” Leaders will ensure that “ethical framework” will be a theme at the international congress. “We want to end up with a strong call to understand that ‘health’ and health systems must provide answers centered on life in all contexts, in all social and political realms,” Pegoraro said. “In addition to scientific knowledge, there is a need for an ethical point of view and an awareness of the questions that come from patients, from those who are sick.” Pegoraro highlighted the importance of supporting the sick through end-of-life care. The academy “promotes palliative care, always and especially in the final and fragile phases of life, always asking that there be attention to and respect for the protection and dignity of people who are frail.” When asked about “aggressive treatment and the requirement to provide food and hydration to individuals in a vegetative state,” Pegoraro said it is “very complex.” But, he said, “we need to understand how to interpret treatments so that they may support and care for sick people.” “Every situation is to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis so that they support the sick person and are not a source of further suffering,” Pegoraro said. “There are no ready-made solutions; instead, an approach of constant dialogue between doctor, patient, and family members must be fostered.” Most urgent matters According to Pegoraro, the most urgent bioethical and AI-related issue to tackle is “data management, its use, and storage, the objectives of the so-called ‘Big Companies,’” including Google, Apple, Facebook, and others. “The topic of human life must be posed by looking at all dimensions of its development, at different social and political contexts, at its connection with respect for the environment, and by scrutinizing how technologies either help us live more fully and better or [hurt us by] providing terrible tools for control and manipulation.” The topic of data is key, because “today, the wealth of big industries is the data we ourselves put on the internet,” Pegoraro said. “We need a public debate on a global scale,” he said, “a grand coalition aimed at the respect of data … The framework is clear and Pope Francis gave it to us with Fratelli Tutti , expanding on Vatican II: We are one human family, and the issues of development and life affect every one of us.”