By Christian Edwards, Svitlana Vlasova, CNN

(CNN) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he plans to meet his US counterpart Donald Trump in Florida Sunday, as part of efforts to reach a peace deal to end Russia’s nearly four-year war in Ukraine.

Speaking to reporters Friday, Zelensky cautioned that he could not say whether the meeting would lead to a firm agreement, but said the two sides would aim to “finalize as much as we can.” Earlier on Friday, the Ukrainian leader had struck an optimistic note, writing on X that “a lot can be decided before the New Year.”

Zelensky told reporters that the 20-point peace plan hammered out by Ukrainian and US officials is “90% ready” and that he planned to discuss with Trump how Ukraine’s allies could guarantee its security in the future.

There was no immediate confirmation of the upcoming meeting from the White House. Zelensky’s announcement comes after he offered to compromise on some of the thorniest issues that have so far stalled the US-mediated peace process with Russia. It is not clear, however, whether Zelensky’s concessions will satisfy the Kremlin.

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By Katie Hunt, CNN

(CNN) — Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to unravel in 2025.

Analysis of DNA extracted from the fossil electrified the scientific community in 2010, when it revealed a previously unknown human population that had, in the distant past, encountered and interbred with our own species, Homo sapiens. This enigmatic group became known as the Denisovans after Denisova Cave in Siberia’s Altai Mountains, where the pinkie finger was found.

Despite intimate knowledge of this population’s genetic makeup, traces of which millions of people carry today, scientists knew nothing about the appearance of the Denisovans, or where they lived or why they disappeared. The discovery, and the questions it unleashed, galvanized a generation of geneticists, archaeologists and paleoanthropologists.

Some of that work paid off this year, and scientists at last put a face to the Denisovan name by extracting new clues from another well-known fossil: a prehistoric human skull that didn’t seem to fit with any known group. Now, other jigsaw pieces have begun to fall into place.

Enter ‘Dragon Man’

When the skull came to light in Harbin in northeastern China in 2018 after being stashed for safekeeping at the bottom of a well for decades, some scientists had a hunch that it might be Denisovan.

DNA sequences from the group had been detected in the genomes of present-day Asians, but not Europeans, suggesting that this region was where the Denisovans predominantly lived.

Based on its distinctive shape, the researchers attributed the skull to a newfound species they called Homo longi or “Dragon Man.” The dozen or so Denisovan fossils that had been identified since 2010 using DNA were too small and fragmentary to warrant an official species name.

Getting ancient DNA from the skull, which was estimated to be 146,000 years old, was the key to understanding whether there was a link between Dragon Man and the Denisovans. However, it proved to be tricky.

A team led by Qiaomei Fu, a geneticist and professor at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, tested six bone samples from Dragon Man’s lone surviving tooth and the cranium’s petrous bone, a dense piece at the base of the skull that’s often a rich source of DNA in fossils. However, the samples yielded no results.

But Fu, who as a young researcher had been part of the team at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, that first discovered the Denisovans, reported in June that her team had been able to retrieve Denisovan genetic material from an unexpected source: Dragon Man’s dental calculus — the gunk left on teeth that can over time form a hard layer and preserve DNA from the mouth.

That information wasn’t a slam-dunk result. The genetic material researchers had retrieved was mitochondrial DNA, which, unlike nuclear DNA, is only inherited through the maternal line, providing an incomplete picture of an individual’s genomic ancestry. This finding meant, potentially, that Dragon Man could have been a mix of two species, something that’s not unprecedented. In 2018, scientists revealed a fossilized bone from Denisova Cave that belonged to a girl with Read more

Por Dana Karni y Tal Shalev, CNN

Dos personas murieron en un ataque con atropello y apuñalamiento en el norte de Israel, informó la policía este viernes.

El sospechoso es un palestino de la Ribera Occidental ocupada, según la policía, que indicó que un peatón en la ciudad de Beit She’an fue atropellado antes de que una mujer fuera apuñalada cerca del kibutz de Ein Harod.

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Por Uriel Blanco, CNN en Español

Todo comenzó con abrigos y gorros regalados hace tres años. Aleah Arundale, mamá estadounidense originaria de Chicago, fue testigo en primera línea de la llegada de miles de inmigrantes —entre ellos venezolanos— a su ciudad. Arribaron desde Texas, enviados en autobuses como parte de una operación estatal para combatir, entre otras cosas, la inmigración ilegal.

Las temperaturas en esos momentos, recuerda Arundale en entrevista con CNN, no daban tregua: “Cuando los inmigrantes empezaron a llamar a mi puerta, ayudarles se convirtió en una nueva misión. Sabes el frío que hace en Chicago. Ves toda esta nieve. El gobernador de Texas empezó a mandar venezolanos en autobús a mi vecindario, a dos manzanas de donde mi hija va a clases de baile. De repente, aparece un autobús y la gente se baja sin zapatos ni abrigos, congelándose y sin saber dónde están”.

Regaló abrigos, gorros, ropa en general que la gente necesitara. Su casa, como ella misma dice, se convirtió en un “centro de donaciones las 24 horas” del día.

Sin embargo, desde entonces, las necesidades han cambiado. El nuevo enfoque hacia la inmigración ilegal del actual Gobierno de Donald Trump ha trastocado la vida de millones de inmigrantes mediante detenciones, deportaciones y separaciones de familias.

Arundale, que es partidaria de Trump, está de acuerdo con cerrar la frontera para frenar el flujo migratorio, pero rechaza las tácticas empleadas este año por administración federal, como las redadas en lugares de trabajo o las detenciones en sitios sensibles (como escuelas o cortes de inmigración).

“Una cosa es cerrar la frontera. Otra cosa muy distinta es sacar a una mujer a la fuerza de una guardería o llevarse a alguien (…) Es algo repugnante, es una injusticia, es tortura, y todos los inmigrantes se marchan con un miedo atroz”, señala.

Para esta ciudadana estadounidense, la fórmula es sencilla: EE.UU. debe apoyar a los inmigrantes sin antecedentes penales que ya están en el país, pues “los inmigrantes hacen grande a Estados Unidos” (o, como dijo en inglés, “immigrants make America great”, un guiño y juego de palabras al eslogan “Make America Great Again” del movimiento político encabezado por Trump).

Desde aquel 2022 cuando los autobuses llenos de inmigrantes comenzaron a llegar a ciudades como Chicago, Arundale dice que se empezó a convertir en una “línea de ayuda” para esas personas.

“Convertí mi casa en un centro de donaciones abierto las 24 horas. La gente dejaba cosas todo el tiempo al otro lado de mi cerca, y luego yo las llevaba a las comisarías o a los refugios”, comenta Arundale, que administra un negocio de joyería.

Esa sensación de ser una línea de ayuda comenzó a ser más fuerte cuando pegó una hoja de papel con su número telefónico afuera de su casa.

“Tenía muchas ganas de hablar con ellos. Así que imprimí una pequeña hoja de papel en la que ponía: ‘Hola, soy una madre del vecin

By Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN

(CNN) — During the pandemic, I did what many other people did: I bought a stationary bike. I joined the group rides, pushed through the resistance and pedaled my way to better health. A few weeks in, I started noticing something I didn’t expect — a subtle, intermittent pressure near my prostate that lingered throughout the day.

As a urologist, knowing what those sensations can sometimes signal only made me more anxious.

Was the bike irritating something important? Was this the start of chronic prostate pain or even trouble in the bedroom? The worry built up enough that I stopped riding and eventually sold the bike. That fear is something I hear from patients all the time: Is biking causing my prostate issues or erection problems? The science-based answer is that it probably does not.

In my case — and in many others — the problem wasn’t the bike or the exercise. It was my form and my mind.

The pressure your prostate feels

The prostate sits just below the bladder and wraps around the urethra. It is located deep in the pelvis, directly above the perineum (the soft area between the scrotum and anus). Anything that irritates that region, including pressure, tight muscles or prolonged sitting, can create sensations that men interpret as “prostate pain.”

Cycling concentrates your body weight on the perineum, where the pudendal nerve, key blood vessels and the pelvic floor muscles all travel. The major nerves that support erections also run along the outer surface of the prostate, which is why irritation in the surrounding tissues can feel like a prostate or sexual function problem, even when the gland itself is normal.

A narrow or traditional bike saddle can press on these sensitive areas for long periods, creating burning, pressure or a bruised feeling. That discomfort is real, but it isn’t the prostate or surrounding nerves themselves being damaged. Cycling affects the tissues around the gland — not the gland itself. This mirrors what the latest American Urological Association guidelines note: Perineal pressure and prolonged sitting are known triggers for pelvic and scrotal pain, not true prostate injury.

Prostatitis: The misunderstood condition

Prostatitis is one of the most commonly misunderstood diagnoses in my field. The severe bacterial form — the one that causes fever, chills and intense urinary symptoms — is rare. Much more often, men are told they have prostatitis, even though there is no infection. Their symptoms come