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The death toll from the crash of a cargo plane that crashed on takeoff on Tuesday after one of its engines broke loose at Louisville airport in the east-central United States has risen to 12, according to a new report published on Wednesday evening, which still mentions several missing persons.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. said Thursday that the U.S. would oppose a World Health Organization (WHO) statement on chronic diseases, arguing that it defended abortion and a “radical gender ideology”.

According to the U.S. daily Washington Post, U.S. health authorities are considering establishing a link between paracetamol consumption in early pregnancy and the risk of autism in children.

A senior White House official confirmed on Friday that Donald Trump was preparing to impose a $100,000 fee on H1-B work visas, which he has had in his sights for years. These visas allow foreign workers with specific qualifications (scientists, engineers and computer programmers, among others) to come and work in the United States, and are issued overwhelmingly to Indian nationals.

A man sentenced to death for the 1990 murder of his parents-in-law and sister-in-law was executed on Wednesday in Florida, in the southeastern United States.