Un paziente infettato da Shamonda è deceduto in ospedale a Lione. È il primo caso documentato documentato: fino a ora, questo virus era considerato non trasmissibile all’uomo. A darne notizia sono le autorità francesi. Il ministero della Salute ha reso noto che il paziente presentava una “grave immunodepressione” ed è deceduto all’inizio di ottobre. Sulla base delle attuali conoscenze su questo virus, proseguono, ad oggi non è stato identificato alcun rischio per la popolazione generale. L’ipotesi è quella di una contaminazione vettoriale del caso, tramite la puntura di un moscerino del genere Culicoides nella Francia orientale, territorio in cui è stata segnalata la circolazione del virus negli animali nella primavera ed estate del 2026.
La Commissione Europea sta “monitorando attentamente la situazione”, ha dichiarato la portavoce dell’esecutivo Ue per la Salute Eva Hrncirova. “Siamo in stretto contatto – continua – con l’Ecdc, l’Efsa e le autorità nazionali competenti per comprendere le potenziali implicazioni per la salute umana e animale. Il Laboratorio di riferimento dell’Ue (Eurl) per la salute pubblica è stato attivato ed è pronto a supportare gli Stati membri con analisi di laboratorio, qualora necessario”. “Le autorità francesi stanno indagando sulla questione in via prioritaria, con il supporto delle agenzie dell’Ue”, conclude. Anche l’infettivologo Matteo Bassetti ha commentato la notizia su X: “La scoperta apre una nuova fase delle indagini su un virus conosciuto da decenni negli animali. Shamonda, abbreviato in Shav. Nessun allarme, ma dovrà essere cercato questo virus quando ci si imbatte in sintomi compatibili”, ha commentato su X l’infettivologo Matteo Bassetti.
Il virus Shamonda è un orthobunyavirus trasmesso agli animali da moscerini ematofagi del genere Culicoides. È stato individuato per la prima volta in Nigeria a metà degli anni ’60 ed è stato segnalato sporadicamente nei bovini in Africa occidentale, orientale e meridionale, nonché in Giappone. Nell’estate del 2026 è stato identificato per la prima volta in Europa in allevamenti bovini. I bovini sono considerati l’ospite primario tra le specie animali che possono essere infettate. Casi sporadici di infezione in piccoli ruminanti ed equini sono stati identificati anche quest’estate in Francia. Le autorità sanitarie francesi hanno inoltre informato gli organismi sanitari internazionali, l’Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità e il Centro europeo per la prevenzione e il controllo delle malattie.
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Federal authorities conducted predawn raids across Southern California on Thursday, busting suspected fraudsters, including a cardiothoracic surgeon, accused of stealing nearly $2 billion through sham substance abuse programs, unnecessary surgeries and phony hospice care.
In total, 15 people, including six medical professionals, were charged over $1. 8 billion in fraudulent claims submitted to government and private health insurance programs, the Justice Department said.
"These charges include the largest sober home fraud scheme the Department has ever prosecuted and a scheme involving unnecessary invasive procedures that was detected through data analytics," said Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division.
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"Our message is simple: if you steal health care dollars from the American taxpayer or abuse your position to harm patients, we are coming for you — and the data will lead us to you."
Among the defendants are Dr. Harold Tabaie, 78, of Anaheim, a cardiothoracic surgeon, and his business partner, Hany Malek, 61, a Tarzana chiropractor.
Both are charged in an alleged $135 million scheme to bill Medicare for medically unnecessary atherectomies, invasive arterial procedures using a bladed catheter to clear plaque.
Prosecutors allege Malek posed as a medical doctor to diagnose patients with arterial disease and recommend atherectomies, even though the patients did not have the condition.
Tabaie then performed the procedures, sometimes repeatedly on patients for whom previous operations had already failed, according to officials. Authorities noted that several patients suffered extreme pain and discomfort as a result.
Malek also faces charges for allegedly submitting fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan applications in 2021. He allegedly fabricated a 25% revenue loss for his business to secure loan funds, which he then spent on personal expenses, family credit cards, other ventures and rare coins.
In a separate case, Nathan Young, 39, and his father, David Young, 71, were charged with operating a $1.6 billion substance abuse scam.
Authorities allege the father-son duo trafficked drug addicts from across the nation to dozens of Los Angeles rehab centers. Federal prosecutors said the vulnerable patients were recruited by "body brokers" Honey Phipps, 42, and Cody Phipps, 36, both of Greenville, Texas.
Body brokerage is the illegal practice of receiving kickbacks to refer insured individuals to specific rehab facilities. Once patients arrived, no actual treatment was provided.
Instead, the Youngs allegedly recycled patients through their facilities to continuously bill insurance companies, even ordering staff to drug patients with sedatives to "knock them out" if they attempted to leave.
The duo also allegedly offered drugs to patients, cut them off from communication with family members, prevented them from accessing their belongings and physically blocked them from leaving the facilities to continue billing their insurance policies.
When Nathen Young was informed that a patient wanted to leave detox so he could smoke marijuana, Young instructed that the patient should be given what he wanted, off-site from the detox, to keep him there, prosecutors said.
"It is especially egregious when doctors and other health care professionals, who pledged to do no harm, resort to petty greed and criminality," said First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli. "Every dollar drained out of our private and public health insurance systems is one less dollar available to those who truly need it."
The sweep also targeted several other major healthcare fraud schemes across the region. In one instance, defendants were charged with stealing more than $140 million by falsely certifying non-terminally ill patients for hospice care.
In a separate prescription fraud scheme, Christina Mareik, 61, of Whittier, was charged for her role in allegedly submitting thousands of bogus prescriptions for high-reimbursement generic drugs to Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid program.
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Additionally, Dr. Hassan Badday, 48, of Los Angeles, and Dr. Robby Ayoub, 52, of Huntington Beach, were charged with taking illegal kickbacks from a Houston laboratory marketer in exchange for ordering unnecessary Medicare genetic tests.
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The man accused of ambushing two Philadelphia police officers, killing one and wounding another, now faces federal charges.
Eric Lewis, 35, is accused of fatally shooting Philadelphia Police Officer Shane Seiber and wounding his partner. He faces a range of state charges, among them murder, homicide of a law enforcement officer, attempted murder, 10 counts of attempted homicide of a law enforcement officer, aggravated assault, terroristic threats and other related offenses.
In addition to the state-level charges, Lewis on Thursday was indicted on federal charges of interstate commerce by robbery, discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, possession of a firearm and ammunition by a felon, theft of a firearm that has moved in interstate commerce, and possession of a stolen firearm and stolen ammunition.
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If convicted, the charges bring a statutory maximum of life in prison and a minimum of 10 years.
At a news conference on Thursday, David Metcalf, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, said that Lewis wasn't allowed to carry a gun under U.S. law.
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"Under federal law, Eric Lewis is not allowed to possess a firearm. He is a convicted felon under federal law. He is certainly not allowed to steal a firearm, and under federal law, he is certainly prohibited from using any firearm to rob, shoot, and kill a police officer, as a result of those actions," Metcalf said.
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Braden Peters, 20, better known as the "looksmaxxing" influencer "Clavicular," walked up to court with a barking dog ahead of his arraignment in a Massachusetts courtroom on Thursday.
Peters appeared in Orleans District Court and entered a not guilty plea on charges relating to an alleged rape. A court clerk confirmed to Fox News Digital that he posted $10,000 bail relating to the charges.
The incident allegedly involved a 17-year-old victim that occurred in 2025 at his family's Cape Cod home.
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Former criminal defense attorney and Fox News Contributor Ted Williams said Peters arriving at court with a dog was not necessarily unusual.
"I don't think it's really out of the ordinary for a defendant to show up at court and the dog is left outside on a leash at a specific location or left with a person," Williams told Fox News Digital.
Williams said the dog could have served as a source of support for Peters ahead of the court appearance.
"There are people who are more attached to their dog than they are attached to a human being, believe it or not, and that may be just his support mechanism — the dog," Williams said.
What would be unusual, Williams said, is if the animal were allowed inside the courthouse under normal circumstances — as dogs or animals of any sort are not permitted in courts, he said.
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Peters has amassed more than 1 million followers on his Instagram account and is known for rating people's looks via livestream and providing "advice" like surgery and personal training.
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In this specific case, Fox News Digital previously reported the teenage victim told investigators she messaged Peters online looking to connect and make content – to which he allegedly sent for an Uber to pick her up and bring her to his house.
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He allegedly served her alcohol and she got drunk to the point where police said she was unable to consent to sex.
On Wednesday, Peters’ attorneys filed a memorandum asking the court to release him on cash bail, arguing he was neither a flight risk nor a danger to the community and offering to surrender his passport and have no contact with the alleged victim.
He was not jailed awaiting Thursday’s arraignment; he appeared in response to a summons and then posted bail.
READ IT: Braden Peters’ defense memorandum for his release.
In a statement sent to Fox News Digital, Peters' attorney David Meier said in part:
"Braden Peters categorically denies these allegations."
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He went on to say, "The fact that these allegations first arose in June 2026 when the complainant and her Florida attorney appeared together at the Chatham Police Department just days before filing an amended civil lawsuit seeking thousands of dollars from Mr. Peters speaks for itself."
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This is not Peters' first run-in with the law. He was previously arrested in Florida on battery charges in Kissimmee after a reported fight between two women at an Airbnb property.
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The Cape & Islands District Attorney's Office in Massachusetts did not provide a comment to Fox News Digital on Thursday's court proceeding, citing the pending case.
O STJ (Superior Tribunal de Justiça) negou, nesta quarta-feira (21), dois novos pedidos de habeas corpus apresentados pela defesa da influenciadora e advogada Deolane Bezerra, presa há cinco meses por suspeita de envolvimento com o PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital).
Segundo a defesa, o tribunal não conheceu dos pedidos por considerar que o habeas corpus foi utilizado no lugar do recurso cabível, embora o relator tenha analisado o mérito para verificar eventual ilegalidade flagrante.
Os advogados, no entanto, contestam a decisão e classificam a prisão preventiva como “desnecessária, desproporcional e ilegal”. Em nota divulgada, eles informaram que recorrerão da decisão.
Deolane foi presa em maio deste ano, no âmbito da Operação Vérnix, que investiga um suposto esquema de lavagem de dinheiro ligado ao PCC. A influenciadora é suspeita de possuir envolvimento direto com a facção e ocupar uma posição de destaque na estrutura criminosa, com ramificações empresariais, patrimoniais e financeiras.
O TJ-SP (Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo) marcou para a próxima terça-feira (27), às 13h30, um novo julgamento do pedido de habeas corpus apresentado pela defesa da influenciadora Deolane Bezerra. A sessão vai acontecer de forma presencial no Palácio da Justiça.
Em agosto, a justiça manteve a prisão preventiva da advogada, e de outros cinco réus da investigação. Na ocasião, o juiz do caso reavaliou a necessidade de preventiva após 90 dias de detenção da influenciadora.
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Apurações apontaram que Deolane tinha vínculos estreitos – pessoais e negociais – com um dos gestores fantasmas da transportadora investigada pelas autoridades.
O objetivo da Operação Vérnix, terceira fase da investigação, era expor ainda mais o esquema mais amplo de lavagem de capitais.
A influenciadora, de acordo com a polícia, passou a ocupar posição de destaque no caso em razão de movimentações financeiras expressivas, incompatibilidades patrimoniais e indícios de conexão com integrantes do núcleo de comando do PCC.
Os levantamentos mostraram ainda o uso de pessoas jurídicas, recebimentos de origem não esclarecida, circulação de valores milionários e aquisição ou vinculação a bens de alto padrão.
Para os investigadores, a projeção pública, a atividade empresarial formal e a movimentação patrimonial eram utilizadas como camadas de aparente legalidade para dificultar a identificação da origem ilícita dos recursos.
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October 22nd marks the National Day to Stop Police Brutality. Free DC and Pan-African Community Action (PACA) are two organizations in the nation’s capital engaged in building community and direct action against the various entities that form the policing apparatus in DC: police, FBI, HSI, National Guard, etc.
While Trump boosts their funding—much like giving a steroid to the carceral machine—Free DC and PACA are heightening the contradictions of the Trump administration’s fascist agenda by providing vulnerable communities with the resources that the government withholds and refuses to fund.
Trump’s deployment of the National Guard costs upwards of $3M daily and will total $2.9B by the end of his term. How would you spend $3M a day?
On this episode of Rattling the Bars, former political prisoner and Black Panther Mansa Musa speaks with organizers pushing back against the National Guard occupation of DC on the eve of the Black Panther Party’s 60th Anniversary.
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The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. It will be updated.
Mansa Musa:
Welcome to this edition of Rattling the Bars. I’m your host, Mansa Musa. The presence of the National Guard in the District of Columbia calls $3 million a day and an estimated $2.9 billion the next presidential election. Recently, I covered two organizations that are pushing back against their present. PACA, Pan-African, Community Action, who primarily organize in the Southeast section or the District of Columbia, Anacostia area, and Free DC. Take a look. We’re at the Black Workers Wellness Center. I’m talking to Alex from the Pan-African Community Action, PACA. And today they’re having political education form because of the anniversary, the 60th year anniversary of the Black Panther Party. And we’re doing political education in its roles form. So Alex, tell our audience a little bit about PACA.
Alex:
We’re a group of African and black people organizing in Southeast DC for power. We’re trying to build up institutions that are made up of just ordinary working class people, working class black people. We’re trying to build up alternative institutions that are able to challenge the preexisting institutions that are currently failing us. We see failing healthcare. We see funding going towards police and national guard. At the same time, we’re seeing cutting off from SNAP benefits, disinvesting from education affecting black children. And so we believe in a power shift and the only way to achieve that power shift is through building up a mass movement. And we’ve been organizing down here for 10 years.
Oliver:
When we look in our communities, we see occupying police forces. We see education we don’t control. History we don’t define. We see institutions we don’t have, whether it’s healthcare, whether it’s housing, whether it’s transportation. So the colonization we’re experiencing domestically, the Panthers saw that as linked to the anti-colonial struggles taking place around the world.
Huey P. Newton:
In America, black people are treated very much as the Vietnamese people or any other colonized people because we’re used, we’re brutalized. The police and our community occupy our area, our community as a foreign troop occupies territory.
Mansa Musa:
Earlier today, we was in free DC downtown where they was protesting the occupation by the National Guard.
Keya Chatterjee:
We want to be really clear that it is time for these armed soldiers to leave DC and leave our community. We’re in the middle of an election right now. We’ve seen them standing in front of polling locations, standing in front of ballot boxes. We’ve seen them at our schools. We’ve seen them all over our transportation system for all over a year. It is time for the guard to leave. I mean, from August 11th to January of 2029, can you imagine? It’s billions of dollars. It is a clear effort to violate our rights and to suppress dissent and we’re not going to stand for it.
Mansa Musa:
They’re blocking both sides of the street. They’re at the top on third street, third DC, and at the bottom of third and constitution. They’re definitely representing the right to civil disobedience.
DC resident 1:
Nobody in DC wants them. They’re a hassle to us and they don’t do anything good and they’re taking a lot of our money and they make the city feel unsafe because of their presence. So I’m not interested in having them here any longer.
DC resident 2:
And I think the National Guard are making our streets less safe. They’re scaring people away from U Street Corridor, which is such a vibrant place where young people like to come and gather and they are chasing everybody out of our city and our businesses and it’s not good for us.
Keya Chatterjee:
We’re going to be in all the places. We also will be over at Bard Early College at 3:00 PM today because the soldiers have been walking around with HSI and FBI in front of that school for weeks. Nobody asked you to be there. Nobody wants you there. Our DC council who we elect have been clear unanimously sending letters to every single governor saying, “Remove your troops. You are not wanted here.” At the end of the day, they say the soldiers are going to be here until January of 2029. We know why they say January of 2029, right? We’re standing here in front of the Capitol. We know what happened in January of 2021. And so what we say is that we will not tolerate that. They can’t do this without our consent. If we start collectively refusing to go to work, refusing to go to school, refusing to shop in the face of their blatant attempts to consolidate power, then they can’t get away with it.
And it’s already working. We’re already winning. What we know is that when we act collectively, it works. Even multi-billion dollar corporations have to give in to us and even this corrupt regime cannot stand if we act collectively and refuse to consent. So that’s what we’re building our way towards, neighborhood by neighborhood, person by person, training by training. We are building towards having enough collective power that they cannot get away with it.
Mansa Musa:
And in terms of y’all’s strategy about occupation, National Guard and Ward seven and eight, how do y’all see y’all being effective in terms of y’all organizing?
Alex:
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, historically Ward seven is eight has been redlined, experiences the most disinvestment from healthcare, from education, always over policing. And now we’re seeing over policing on a broad level across the entire DC, but it always starts with Ward seven and eight. It always starts with these metro stations, Anacostia, Congress Heights, Southern Avenue. We see the FBI, the DHS, the National Guard here first. And so we understand that it does affect all of DC, but it hits Ward seven and eight the hardest. This is where people experience the most oppressed conditions. There’s the most poverty down here. There’s already a heightened police presence even before the National Guard here. And so everything with the safe and beautiful task force and National Guard is just making it more violent. It’s bringing out more tension in these areas and it’s heightened the need for us to organize for ourselves too.
Mansa Musa:
What else do you want to PACA primary objectives in terms of organizing? We talking about the Black Panther Party and we know that they evolved and got to a place where they had survival programs and here we call them survival pending revolution. The ultimate goal was the programs was to turn them over to the community so they become a part of the infrastructure for revolutionary activities. So what are some of the programs y’all got?
Alex:
Absolutely. So our objectives are similar to the Panthers in the sense that we also have survival programs. We have our People’s Pan-African Wellness Front, which is a health clinic which we operate every four Sunday where we try to bring people in to volunteer and work together. We provide free blood pressure testing, glucose testing. We have activities like yoga. We have free grocery distribution, which includes locally grown vegetables and fruits. Oftentimes we have speakers come in and give lectures. So that’s just one example of a space where the community can come together and provide for ourselves, training people to become organizers for our mass movement. Another one of our programs, the Transit Solidarity Program, that’s a program we have going on this weekend where we take community donated smart trip cards, we put money on them and we distribute them at Anacostia Station. And we do this to basically heighten the contradiction between ourselves, the people coming together to provide for working class people just trying to access Metro versus the state, which is dumping upwards of $3 million a day into FBI, DHS, National Guard, MPD to occupy and patrol these stations, ticket people, $50, $100 just for trying to access the bus.
It’s ridiculous.
Mansa Musa:
As you can see, people are standing up against the military industrial complex, policing and the National Guard in the nation capital and around the country. October the 15th marked the 60th anniversary of the Black Panther Party. And one of the things the Black Panther Party stood for among many was community control over the police. As you can see, it’s the community that’s opposed to the presence of the National Guard and heavy-handed policing in the District of Columbia. We ask that you continue to look at the real news and rattling the bar and weigh in on these issues, all power to the people.
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Luana Piovani se tornou uma das famosas mais “ativas” na disputa presidencial deste ano. Na quarta-feira (21), a atriz não escondeu sua indignação ao ver que Roberto Justus havia declaro voto em Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) no segundo turno das eleições.
A loira compartilhou um vídeo do empresário em que ele conta estar preocupado com o futuro do País. “Venho aqui como pai, como avô, como empresário e como cidadão brasileiro preocupado com o futuro do meu País”, declarou ele.
Em seus stories do Instagram, Piovani afirmou que Justus é uma “péssima influência” para as mulheres da família. “Que bela bosta, Roberto Justus! Minha preguiça por você já tem outro nome: desprezo. Sempre péssima influência, pras moças tudo [sic] que te cercam”, disse.
A atriz ainda aproveitou para fazer menção a Daniel Vorcaro, ex-controlador do Banco Master. De acordo com mensagens obtidas ela Polícia Federal, os empresários discutiram, desde 2024, um investimento na SteelCorp, empresa da qual o apresentador é sócio.
Nas conversas, um empréstimo que poderia ser convertido em participação na companhia. Uma negociação que envolvia R$ 143 milhões e uma proposta de recompra de R$ 130 milhões. No entanto, a operação enfrentou dificuldades e gerou cobranças de Roberto.
“Vai chupar o saco do Vorcaro e passar vergonha que é o que você merece”, completou a atriz.
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A SRS Legal assessorou a Indico Capital Partners e a Lince Capital na ronda de financiamento de mais de 28 milhões de euros da Beyond Vision, empresa portuguesa que desenvolve soluções tecnológicas com aplicações nos setores da Defesa, Segurança e Indústria.
A operação contou ainda com a participação da ActiveCap e destina-se a reforçar a capacidade industrial da Beyond Vision, acelerar o desenvolvimento de soluções baseadas em inteligência artificial e apoiar a expansão internacional da empresa.
A equipa da SRS Legal envolvida na operação foi liderada por Paulo Bandeira e Solange Fernandes, respetivamente sócio responsável e coordenadora na área de Startups da firma.
“O investimento na Beyond Vision reflete a crescente relevância das tecnologias de dupla utilização e o papel do capital de risco no desenvolvimento de empresas portuguesas com capacidade de competir internacionalmente”, refere em comunicado Paulo Bandeira.
O sócio sublinha ainda que a convergência entre inovação tecnológica, indústria e defesa cria “novas oportunidades de investimento”, mas também “desafios jurídicos e regulatórios que exigem uma abordagem multidisciplinar e um conhecimento aprofundado destes mercados”.
Fundada em 2013, a Beyond Vision desenvolve sistemas aéreos não tripulados e tecnologias autónomas com aplicações civis e militares. Registada como fornecedora da NATO, a empresa atua num segmento de crescente relevância estratégica, impulsionado pelo investimento em defesa, segurança e proteção de infraestruturas críticas.
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A França relatou, nesta quinta-feira (22), o primeiro caso humano do vírus Shamonda — habitualmente encontrado em animais de criação — em um paciente que veio a falecer.
As autoridades acrescentaram que, neste momento, não há risco para a população em geral.
Suspeita-se que a vítima tenha sido picada por um mosquito portador do vírus no leste da França, região onde o patógeno circulou entre animais durante a primavera e o verão, informou o governo em um comunicado.
O ECDC (Centro Europeu de Prevenção e Controle de Doenças), sediado em Estocolmo, afirmou que está acompanhando a situação.
“O ECDC está em contato com as autoridades francesas e parceiros europeus para investigar as possíveis implicações para a saúde pública”, declarou o órgão em um comunicado.
O paciente faleceu no início de outubro e estava em tratamento para uma doença grave, o que o tornava mais suscetível a infecções do que a população em geral, informou o centro.
“Estão em andamento investigações para determinar se o vírus causou ou contribuiu para a morte do paciente, bem como a forma como a infecção foi contraída”, acrescentou o centro.
A vítima era um homem na faixa dos 60 anos que vivia na região de Lyon, no leste da França, informou o jornal local “Le Progrès”.
“Com base no conhecimento disponível sobre este vírus, nenhum risco à saúde da população em geral foi identificado até o momento”, declarou o governo.
O vírus Shamonda é transmitido por mosquitos do gênero “Culicoides” e é encontrado principalmente em bovinos, embora também tenha sido detectado em cavalos, alpacas, ovelhas e cabras, segundo a OMSA (Organização Mundial da Saúde Animal).
Ele não é classificado como uma doença sob a legislação de saúde animal da União Europeia e não está sujeito a medidas oficiais de vigilância ou controle.
Identificado na Nigéria em meados da década de 1960, o vírus Shamonda foi confirmado pela primeira vez na Europa no final de julho, após testes genômicos realizados em bovinos doentes no sul da Alemanha, na Suíça e no leste da França.
O boletim semanal de vigilância em saúde animal da França informou que o vírus também foi detectado na Áustria, Bélgica, Irlanda, Itália, Liechtenstein, Luxemburgo, Países Baixos, Portugal, Eslovênia, Espanha e na ilha de Jersey (Reino Unido).
O vírus provoca diversos efeitos nos animais.
Um estudo realizado em nove fazendas leiteiras francesas constatou uma queda de até 75% na produção de leite; os bovinos afetados apresentaram diarreia, fraqueza, perda de apetite e, com menos frequência, febre, informaram as autoridades francesas de saúde animal.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts released a video of alleged sham marriage mastermind Jennifer Gonzalez detailing her pay-for-play scheme which officials say netted her over $6 million.
The U.S. Attorney's Office accused Gonzalez of orchestrating fake marriages between U.S. citizens and illegal immigrants, charging the immigrants up to $40,000 per marriage.
Gonzalez can be seen on a video recorded by a witness cooperating with federal law enforcement explaining how her scheme worked.
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"They will come, I will present them to the wife, they're like, 'yes, I want them, not a problem, I'll be back in, I don't know, three weeks.' And they would leave and make me hold these girls for months," she explained.
"The payment, it's agreed by both parties, OK? This is the first initial payment for the total amount of $38,000. Now, let me calculate that real quick. So $38,000 minus $3,000," she continued, while using a calculator. "That's going to give us $35,000. And then the day of the wedding, you have to bring me, what? $12,000.
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"You and I are the ones in this contract, not nobody else. Because we don't want to get your wife and yourself into a...putting in paper about a fake marriage. You know what I mean? Does that make sense to you? Because if anything happened, we don't want them to have any proof that this was fake," she said.
Gonzalez also explained to the witness, who she believed to be an illegal immigrant, that Massachusetts was the best place to go for illegal immigrants because of its sanctuary state status.
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"Massachusetts is best place for you to be. That is a fact," Gonzalez said.
"You get health insurance. You get a lot of help as an immigrant here," she explained, adding, "Trump doesn't like this state because...the state defends us very much."
She also revealed that she stopped arranging the marriages around 2025 because of increased federal immigration enforcement.
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Gonzalez further told the witness that she owned multiple properties in the Dominican Republic, which she called "my country," and in Puerto Rico.
"Miss Gonzalez got rich off selling the American dream, all the while investing her money in another country," Leah Foley, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, told reporters during a Wednesday press conference announcing the scheme.
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While prosecutors described Gonzalez as the ringleader of the operation, authorities arrested four other co-conspirators involved in the scheme.
Fox News Digital's James Cirrone contributed to this report.
O atual e o ex-presidente da Câmara de Valongo, Paulo Esteves Ferreira e José Manuel Ribeiro, foram esta quinta-feira condenados por abuso de poder à perda de mandato por limitarem a circulação de camiões na estrada de acesso ao aterro de Sobrado em 2020.
O Tribunal de Valongo condenou ainda os dois autarcas, eleitos pelo PS, ao pagamento de 100 dias de multa, a 30 euros cada dia, e ao pagamento “de forma solidária” de 61 mil euros.
No final da leitura da sentença, que decorreu ao início da tarde desta quinta-feira, e na qual o tribunal julgou como procedente os factos constantes na acusação, os autarcas afirmaram estar “chocados” e garantiram que vão recorrer para as instâncias superiores.
Segundo a acusação do Ministério Público (MP), Paulo Esteves Ferreira e José Manuel Ribeiro ordenaram em 2020 a proibição de circulação na Estrada Municipal 606 (EM606) de camiões até ao aterro de Sobrado para levar ao seu encerramento.
As empresas responsáveis pela exploração do aterro instalado naquele concelho, a Retria e a Recivalongo, falam em prejuízos superiores a 1,5 milhões de euros, causados durante os três meses em que a medida esteve em vigor.
Para a acusação, os arguidos sabiam que a EM606 “era a única via para aceder às instalações das sociedades ofendidas” e que a atividade destas “dependia na quase totalidade das matérias transportadas” pelos camiões.
De acordo com o MP, os arguidos, ao imporem a proibição, fizeram-no “com o propósito concretizado de causar prejuízo às referidas sociedades, impedindo o exercício da sua atividade e para a qual estavam licenciadas”.
A acusação relata ainda que, desde 2019, a relação entre o município e as empresas que exploram o aterro foi marcada por conflitualidade.
O presidente da Câmara de Valongo considera “injusta” a decisão judicial sobre o condicionamento da circulação de veículos pesados na EM 606 na medida em que, alega, a medida visou defender os interesses da população de Sobrado que se queixava da falta de condições de segurança na estrada municipal e do “impacto na saúde pública, no ambiente e na qualidade de vida”.
“Estou convicto, e assim me mantenho desde o início, que a decisão que esteve na origem deste processo teve sempre em conta o interesse público e a necessidade de responder às sérias preocupações manifestadas pela população de Sobrado”, argumenta Paulo Esteves Ferreira, numa nota enviada ao ECO/Local Online.
Não acredito que a autarquia e o poder político pudessem ignorar os apelos das pessoas face ao que tinha sido exposto.
O responsável sustenta que o condicionamento teve sempre em conta o interesse público e as preocupações dos habitantes, sublinhando que a autarquia não podia ignorar os apelos da população. “Não acredito que a autarquia e o poder político pudessem ignorar os apelos das pessoas face ao que tinha sido exposto”.
O autarca garante que “a decisão de condicionar a circulação de veículos pesados nunca se materializou numa proibição de circulação e nunca foi negada a passagem de viaturas que tivessem necessidade de se deslocar no troço tendo em conta as atividades económicas entre as empresas”.
“A decisão em causa nunca teve como objetivo prejudicar ninguém“, afiança na mesma nota, defendendo que o município procurou conciliar as preocupações dos moradores com as necessidades das empresas em causa.
O presidente da Câmara de Valongo garante, por isso, que irá recorrer para as instâncias superiores para defender a legalidade e a legitimidade da decisão que esteve na origem do processo.
This article was originally published by Truthout on Oct. 21, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied an emergency petition from the Trump administration, which sought a stay on a lower court’s injunction on a policy that would have denied gender-affirming care to federally incarcerated transgender people.
That policy was implemented by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) after President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January 2025 that denied the existence of transgender people. The order also directed federal agencies to take steps that would be consistent with that view, and included specific instructions for the BOP.
“The Attorney General shall ensure that the Bureau of Prisons revises its policies concerning medical care to be consistent with this order, and shall ensure that no Federal funds are expended for any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex,” the order reads.
After the BOP conformed to the order, a group of incarcerated trans people who had been receiving gender-affirming care sued the administration. The group is being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which argued that their Eighth Amendment protections against cruel and unusual punishment were being infringed upon.
A federal judge agreed, and, in August, ordered the policy to be blocked. The Trump administration challenged that finding, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld it, prompting Solicitor General John Sauer to submit an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court.
The court has regularly ruled against transgender people, allowing state bans on trans athletes’ participation in sports, ruling in favor of a ban on transgender people in the military, and upholding state laws that bar gender-affirming care for trans children and teens. Yet on Wednesday, the court denied the Trump administration’s request.
“The application for stay presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is denied,” the order read, giving no further explanation. Two justices for the court — Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas — would have granted the Trump administration’s request for a stay, the document said.
The ACLU heralded the high court’s denial of the emergency petition, stating, “This ruling affirms that federal prison officials can’t deny transgender people essential health care.”
Around 1,000 federally incarcerated trans people have also been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. The ruling means these individuals can continue receiving gender-affirming care while they remain in federal prisons or jails and the case moves forward in the lower courts.
So far this year, filings have stayed at historically low levels, never exceeding 230,000 in any single week
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