OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Jalen Williams, the Oklahoma City Thunder’s second scoring option, looked like a budding superstar during Game 4 of the Western Conference finals.
from 2012 to 2019. He was a member of Fico’s Smer, or Direction, party before taking the central bank job.Smer lost the 2020 general election and was replaced by a coalition government whose parties campaigned on an anti-corruption ticket.
Since that government took power, a number of people linked to Fico’s party faced prosecution in corruption scandals.Kažimír was the first minister of Fico’s government to stand trial.Slovakia is one of 20 countries that use the euro currency, and Kažimír is a member of the ECB’s governing council, its main decision-making body.
A number of people linked to the prime minister’s party faced prosecution in corruption scandals.Fico returned to power for the fourth time in 2023 after his leftist party Smer won the
In February 2024, lawmakers loyal to Fico’s new coalition government approved
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant list in 2015 instead of 2019 — and a racially biased organ test was to blame.As upsetting as that notification was, it also was part of an unprecedented move to mitigate the racial inequity. Evans is among more than 14,000 Black kidney transplant candidates so far given credit for lost waiting time, moving them up the priority list for their transplant.
“I remember just reading that letter over and over again,” said Evans, 29, of Philadelphia, who shared the notice in a TikTok video to educate other patients. “How could this happen?”At issue is a once widely used test that overestimated how well Black people’s kidneys were functioning, making them look healthier than they really were — all because of an automated formula that calculated results for Black and non-Black patients differently. That race-based equation could delay diagnosis of organ failure and evaluation for a transplant,