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Washington (CNN) — Capt. Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III, best known for landing safely on the Hudson River after birds disabled both of the plane’s engines in 2009, has announced he has Alzheimer’s disease.

Sullenberger, 75, posted an update to his personal website on Tuesday that said he recently found out about the diagnosis, which is in an early stage.

“My doctor, Dr. Gil Rabinovici with UCSF Medical Center, has opened my eyes to the prevalence of Alzheimer’s,” Sullenberger said in the post. “This disease, he has told me, spares no age group and impacts millions of people around the world. It is the unwanted visitor at the door.”

Alzheimer’s is a progressive brain disorder that leads to memory loss and other intellectual inabilities. The disease is the most common form of dementia. It is fatal and there is no cure, with patients experiencing severe brain damage.

Sullenberger devoted much of his career to aviation, as a commercial airline pilot, an accident investigator and US ambassador to the United Nations’ civil aviation organization. He frequently advocates for aviation safety matters following his landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson, which was dramatized in the film “Sully,” staring Tom Hanks.

“Over the years, when people would ask about the successful outcome of Flight 1549, I would say that ‘courage can be contagious,’ and on that day it helped everyone band together to get everyone off that airplane successfully,” he said. “Now we need that courage to battle this disease. I am now part of a larger community with many of you, and we will be courageous together.”

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El número de muertos por el doble terremoto que sacudió Venezuela hace casi tres semanas aumentó a 4.734, según las cifras oficiales difundidas este martes, mientras la presidenta encargada Delcy Rodríguez enfrenta críticas por la gestión de la emergencia y hace cambios en su gabinete.

El informe divulgado por Jorge Rodríguez, presidente de la Asamblea Nacional y nombrado Jefe del Estado Mayor para los Campamentos Transitorios, marca un aumento de 173 víctimas fatales con respecto al parte del lunes.

La cifra de heridos se mantiene en 16.740 desde hace varios días, mientras que se ha atendido a 33.652 pacientes en hospitales, según el reporte.

Casi 18.000 personas han perdido sus casas, pero las autoridades han dicho que ese número subirá a medida que avance el proceso de inspección de las edificaciones que no se desplomaron pero que sufrieron daños.

Según esta actualización, hay 107 refugios temporales instalados en el país, donde se atiende a casi 21.000 personas. Según los datos oficiales, 856 edificios en el país sufrieron afectaciones por los sismos del 24 de junio, de los cuales 190 colapsaron completamente. El Gobierno había estimado el fin de semana que se necesitarán 25.000 viviendas para las personas que las perdieron.

Muchos ciudadanos venezolanos han expresado su descontento y consideran lenta e insuficiente la respuesta gubernamental a la tragedia. Rodríguez ha rechazado esas críticas, sostiene que las autoridades actuaron con rapidez desde las primeras horas de la emergencia y asegura que todas las personas afectadas recibirán atención.

En medio de los cuestionamientos y la atención a la crisis, la presidenta encargada de Venezuela ha realizado varios cambios su gabinete. El más reciente fue la fusión de los ministerios de Relaciones Exteriores y de Comercio Exterior, que encabezará el diplomático Félix Plasencia como nuevo canciller.

Plasencia, quien ya ocupó la Cancillería entre agosto de 2021 y mayo de 2022 y hasta ahora se desempeñaba como encargado de negocios de Venezuela en Estados Unidos, es un diplomático de carrera con trayectoria en el servicio exterior venezolano desde la década de 1990 y es cercano a Rodríguez. Ha ocupado cargos como embajador en China y Colombia.

Analistas y personas familiarizadas con su trayectoria lo describen como una de las figuras más pragmáticas y conciliadoras del chavismo en materia diplomática, un perfil que cobra relevancia en momentos en que Caracas busca consolidar el proceso de normalización de relaciones con el Gobierno de Donald Trump.

En medio de ese proceso, la Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela, controlada por el chavismo, agradeció este martes a Washington por su respuesta tras los terremotos del 24 de junio durante el anuncio del inicio de una agenda de trabajo con una parte de la oposición con el objetivo de “promover la estabilidad, la democracia y la recuperación nacional”.

El Parlamento agradeció al Gobierno de Trump por “su acompañamiento a los esfuerzos orientados a la recuperación del país, la consolidación de la estabilidad y el fortalecimiento de las institucionalidad democrática de Venezuela”.

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(CNN) — Darline Graham, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s younger sister, was sworn into the Senate on Tuesday to serve out the remainder of her brother’s term after his sudden death over the weekend.

She was appointed to the seat by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and will remain in the Senate until January 2027. Graham is the first woman to represent South Carolina in the Senate. As she serves out the remainder of her brother’s term, a special primary election will take place August 11 to replace the late Republican lawmaker in November’s general election to determine who will next hold the seat for the upcoming six-year term.

Asked by CNN how she is doing and what the moment is like for her, Graham said, “Hanging in there, appreciate you being here,” as she left the Senate floor following her official swearing in.

Graham, 62, has not previously held elected office but has a long history of public service in the state of South Carolina. She has served as a commissioner for the South Carolina Commission for the Blind and has long worked with people with disabilities.

After their parents died within 15 months of each other, she became orphaned at age 13 in 1976. Lindsey Graham — the first in his family to attend college, and a member of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps — became his sister’s legal guardian.

The siblings were close their entire lives, Darline Graham told CNN’s Dana Bash in a 2015 interview after her brother launched his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. “Even when my parents were alive, they worked really long, hard hours running a small business. So even then, he was a caregiver to me,” she said.

Lindsey Graham, a longtime Republican from South Carolina and ally of President Donald Trump, died following an aortic dissection, according to a preliminary finding from the Washington, DC, medical examiner. He was 71.

Throughout US history, governors have at times chosen family members to take over Senate seats for their loved ones, frequently with a spouse picked to step in. Former Vice President Hubert Humphrey’s wife is one example; Muriel Humphrey filled her husband’s Senate seat after he passed away, as did Hattie Caraway after her husband died in office in 1931. Caraway went on to become the first woman elected to the Senate in her own right in 1932.

Lincoln Chafee was appointed to fill his father’s Rhode Island Senate seat. Sen. Lisa Murkowski was appointed by her own father to take over his Senate seat after he became Alaska’s governor in 2002 — a controversial decision at the time.

The Senate chamber during Graham’s swearing in on Tuesday was a testament to the respect her new colleagues held for her late brother. Almost every Republican seat was filled, and many Democrats attended as well. Jared Kushner and Special Envoy Steve

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Washington (CNN) — Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh on Tuesday offered his most detailed account yet of the sweeping changes he’s ushering in at America’s central bank and the philosophy behind them.

Warsh appeared before the House Financial Services Committee to deliver the Fed’s semiannual Monetary Policy Report, a routine overview of the central bank’s affairs in recent months. He is scheduled to appear before the Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday.

The new Fed leader repeated many of the themes from his first news conference last month, after officials voted to hold their benchmark lending rate steady for the fourth consecutive meeting. That included his commitment to bringing inflation under control and his plan to establish five task forces review factors affecting monetary policy.

In his exchanges with House lawmakers on Tuesday, Warsh provided new details on how the task forces will present their findings. He was also pressed repeatedly on his views about the Fed’s political independence, the potential economic impact of AI and the lessons he drew from serving as a Fed governor during the 2008 global financial crisis.

Here are key takeaways from Warsh’s first congressional testimony, as policymakers navigate stubborn inflation and mounting geopolitical risks:

More details on his reforms

In his post-meeting news conference last month, Warsh announced task forces that will study and give recommendations on improving the following areas related to US monetary policymaking: communications; balance sheet policy; economic data; productivity and jobs; and inflation frameworks.

On Tuesday, Warsh said the task forces will share their findings “first with the decision makers,” who are the 19 members of the Federal Open Market Committee, the Fed group that sets interest rates. Then Warsh himself will present that to the public.

Warsh also explained that any proposed policy changes to the Fed’s $6.7 trillion balance sheet will be telegraphed to the public before any actual changes are made.

“If there were a change in balance sheet policy, we would preview it, explain it, debate it, and no changes in balance sheet policy would happen without good advance notice to the likes of this committee and broadly, financial markets,” Warsh said.

The Fed’s balance sheet became a major monetary policy tool during the Great Recession, when the central bank bought massive quantities of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities to support the economy. Critics argue the expansion has pushed the central bank beyond its traditional remit.

‘We’re honored to be independent’

Warsh was pressed several times as to whether he believes in the Fed’s ability to set interest rates without political interference.

Democratic Rep. Nydia Velázquez of New York asked Warsh if he works for Trump, to which the Fed leader responded: “We’re an independent central bank.”

“We’re honored to be independent,” he told Velázquez. “Outside the four walls