By Adam Cancryn, CNN

(CNN) — Senior Trump aides will host anti-abortion activists for a meeting at the White House on Friday, in an effort to temper growing intra-party criticism over the administration’s priorities, a person familiar with the matter told CNN.

Anti-abortion activists have expressed deep frustration over a stalled effort to limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone, with Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser explicitly blaming President Donald Trump earlier this week: “Trump is the problem.”

Several other anti-abortion activists have also taken aim at Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, who they believe is slow-walking efforts to crack down on regulations permitting wide distribution of mifepristone.

Dannenfelser is expected to attend the Friday meeting at the White House, which was first reported by Semafor.

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, women have been able to obtain mifepristone — one of the two drugs in the medication abortion regimen — through telehealth appointments. The Biden administration finalized rules that ended the requirement that the pills be obtained through an in-person doctor’s visit in 2023, a year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe.

The Supreme Court temporarily restored telehealth and mail access to the abortion pill mifepristone earlier this week, after a lower court reinstated the in-person requirement. The “administrative stay” is far from a final decision but rather maintains the status quo for a few days while the court reviews emergency appeals filed Saturday by the drug’s manufacturer and the maker of a generic version.

Trump’s Department of Justice did not take a position on the mifepristone issue before the Supreme Court.

In a statement, White House spokeswoman Allison Schuster called Trump the “most pro-life and pro-family president in American history,” and said the administration “continues to engage with stakeholders and activists in this important community to advance the President’s pro-life agenda.”

The meeting is part of a wider-ranging effort to shore up Trump’s and Republicans’ standing with various parts of the GOP coalition ahead of the midterm elections.

Trump last month met with a group of “Make America Healthy Again” influencers who had criticized the White House over its decision to side with agricultural corporations in encouraging more production of a controversial weedkiller.

John Fritze contributed to this report.

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By Kaanita Iyer, CNN

(CNN) — The legal team of the man accused of opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last month has asked the court to disqualify top Department of Justice officials from being involved in his case, arguing there is a conflict of interest because they were present during the incident.

Lawyers for Cole Tomas Allen pointed specifically to US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s attendance at the dinner, saying there is an “appearance of partiality.”

“To guard against the unavoidable potential for individual and institutional abuse, prosecutors must endeavor to be ‘disinterested’ in the outcomes of the cases they oversee,” the filing says, adding, “A DOJ employee must recuse where he or she is a participant in the events alleged in the indictment, particularly where they are an alleged victim of said events.”

Allen’s attorneys point out that Pirro and Blanche appear to be both witnesses to the shooting and possible targets, or victims, of Allen. And the US Attorney and acting Attorney General now may approve significant developments in the case against Allen, like the charges he ultimately faces, any plea deals he may be offered, and potentially sentences the Justice Department could request if Allen is convicted, Allen’s request to the judge said.

The motion also features a quote from FBI Director Kash Patel at a news conference alongside Blanche and Pirro two days after the shooting, in which he says, “This one hits a little differently. We were all there.”

On April 26, Allen allegedly rushed through a security checkpoint armed with a shotgun while the president and top administration officials were attending the dinner on a different floor.. He faces several charges, including attempting to assassinate Trump.

Since then, Pirro and Blanche have made public comments about the case, which Allen’s lawyers point to in arguing for their disqualification.

At Allen’s initial appearance in federal court last week, when he first formally heard his charges, Pirro sat in the first row of seats in the courtroom in a section reserved for security and attorneys involved in the case.

Earlier this week, when asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper if it has been suggested to her that she should recuse herself from the case, given that she was a witness and potential target, Pirro said, “The truth is that there were 2,500 of us who were there and my ability to prosecute this case has nothing to do with my being there.”

Also citing officials’ assessment that President Donald Trump was the suspected target, the motion goes on to say: “Given U.S. Attorney Pirro’s friendship with the President and her and Acting A.G. Blanche’s attendance at the event at the center of this prosecution, the law necessitates their disqualification.”

CNN has reached out to the Justice Department for comment. Prosecutors in the case will have the ability to respond in court to the recusal request, before a judge decides if it’s necessary.

Cole is scheduled to be arraigned on Monday.

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By Kaanita Iyer, CNN

(CNN) — The Pentagon on Friday released what it says are “never-before-seen files” on UFOs after President Donald Trump directed the agency to do so earlier this year.

“The American people can now access the federal government’s declassified UAP files instantly,” the department wrote on X, referring to unidentified anomalous phenomena, the modern term for UFOs. “The latest UAP videos, photos, and original source documents from across the entire United States government are all in one place – no clearance required.”

The Defense Department said it will be “releasing new materials on a rolling basis as they are discovered and declassified, with tranches posted every few weeks.”

Interest and speculation about extraterrestrials reignited in February after former President Barack Obama said in a podcast that aliens are “real but I haven’t seen them.” He later clarified his comments, saying, “I saw no evidence during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us.”

Trump, shortly after, in a Truth Social post, directed the Pentagon and other relevant agencies to “begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs).”

On Friday, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman applauded Trump for the “effort to bring greater transparency to the American people on unidentified anomalous phenomena.”

“We will remain candid about what we know to be true, what we have yet to understand, and all that remains to be discovered,” Isaacman said in a post on X. “Exploration and the pursuit of knowledge are core to NASA’s mission as we endeavor to unlock the secrets of the universe.”

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El Pentágono publicó el viernes lo que describe como “archivos nunca antes vistos” sobre ovnis, después de que el presidente Donald Trump ordenara a la agencia hacerlo a principios de este año.

“El pueblo estadounidense ahora puede acceder al instante a los archivos desclasificados del Gobierno federal sobre los UAP”, escribió el departamento en X, refiriéndose a los fenómenos anómalos no identificados, el término moderno para los ovnis. “Los videos, fotos y documentos de fuente original más recientes sobre UAP, provenientes de todo el Gobierno de Estados Unidos, se encuentran ahora en un solo lugar. No se requiere autorización de seguridad”.

El Departamento de Defensa declaró que irá “publicando nuevos materiales de forma continua a medida que sean descubiertos y desclasificados, con la difusión de nuevos lotes cada pocas semanas”.

El interés y la especulación sobre los seres extraterrestres se reavivaron en febrero, después de que el expresidente Barack Obama dijera en un pódcast que los alienígenas son “reales, pero que él no los ha visto”. Posteriormente aclaró sus comentarios, afirmando: “Durante mi presidencia no vi ninguna prueba de que los seres extraterrestres hayan hecho contacto con nosotros”.

Poco después, en una publicación en Truth Social, Trump ordenó al Pentágono y a otras agencias pertinentes “iniciar el proceso de identificación y publicación de los archivos gubernamentales relacionados con la vida alienígena y extraterrestre, los fenómenos aéreos no identificados (UAP) y los objetos voladores no identificados (ovnis)”.

El viernes, el administrador de la NASA, Jared Isaacman, elogió a Trump por el “esfuerzo por brindar una mayor transparencia al pueblo estadounidense respecto a los fenómenos anómalos no identificados”.

“Seguiremos siendo francos sobre lo que sabemos que es cierto, lo que aún no comprendemos y todo aquello que queda por descubrir”, afirmó Isaacman en una publicación en X. “La exploración y la búsqueda del conocimiento son pilares fundamentales de la misión de la NASA, mientras nos empeñamos por desvelar los secretos del universo”.

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El brote de hantavirus en el crucero que zarpó desde Argentina, que ya causó la muerte de tres personas, ha puesto la mirada en cómo los casos han mostrado una tendencia en aumento en el país en los últimos años. Un crecimiento en parte asociado al cambio climático, las urbanizaciones en zonas silvestres y los cambios en el hábitat, según apuntan el Ministerio de Salud de Argentina y expertos consultados.

A nivel nacional, la temporada 2025-2026 muestra una cantidad de casos que se ubica “por encima del umbral de brote”, con un incremento sostenido de los casos acumulados a lo largo de la temporada, dijo el Ministerio de Salud argentino en su último reporte epidemiológico.

La temporada ya registra 101 casos confirmados, de acuerdo con los datos del último boletín epidemiológico, publicado el lunes. La cifra representa cerca del doble de los 57 casos registrados durante el mismo período de la temporada anterior.

En Argentina hay áreas de riesgo de contagio históricas en cuatro regiones geográficas: Noroeste (en las provincias de Salta, Jujuy y Tucumán), Noreste (Misiones, Formosa y Chaco), Centro (Buenos Aires, Santa Fe y Entre Ríos) y Sur (Neuquén, Río Negro y Chubut).

El hantavirus en Argentina se suele desarrollar en zonas rurales y peri rurales, donde hay sembrado, malezas altas, humedad o clima subtropical. Por eso su aparición es frecuente en zonas alejadas de las ciudades. Pero hay factores que están contribuyendo a la aparición de casos en otras zonas que no son las históricamente endémicas para el virus.

“La distribución de los reservorios, junto con la creciente interacción humana con ambientes silvestres, la destrucción del hábitat, el establecimiento de pequeñas urbanizaciones en zonas rurales y los efectos del cambio climático contribuyen a la aparición de casos fuera de las zonas históricamente endémicas”, informa el Ministerio de Salud.

El hantavirus, una enfermedad causada generalmente por la exposición a la orina o las heces de roedores, suele transmitirse a los humanos al inhalar partículas de aerosoles cargados de partículas virales de los roedores infectados.

Fenómenos climáticos extremos, como las sequías y episodios de lluvias intensas que tuvieron lugar en los últimos años, crean condiciones que permiten que el hantavirus prospere, según expertos.

“El cambio climático está influyendo en todas las enfermedades”, dijo a CNN el infectólogo Ricardo Tejeiro, miembro de la Sociedad Argentina de Infectología.

Esto influye sobre todo en que los intermediarios o transmisores del virus, ya sean los roedores en el caso del hantavirus o los mosquitos (por ejemplo, en el caso del virus del dengue), se desarrollen en zonas donde antes el clima no lo permitía.

¿Por qué? por los cambios que se generan en el hábitat, apuntan los especialistas.

“En zonas muy frías en las que no había tanta humedad, el roedor no podía desarrollarse. A medida que el cambio climático genera que la zona tenga más humedad y bajen las temperaturas, el roedor se empieza a desarrollar”, señaló el infectólogo.

Estos aspectos también afectan a otras enfermedades como el dengue, explica, una infección de la que se han reportado casos en zonas frías del sur de Argentina donde las condiciones antes no lo permitían. “El cambio climático hizo que se desarrolle el mosquito en zonas donde antes no había”, agregó Tejeiro.

Si se analiza cómo es la incidencia de la enfermedad en Argentina, comienza levemente en septiembre, va en aumento entre octubre y enero, y se retira a fi