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Slovenia approves law to legalize assisted dying for terminally-ill adults
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Slovenian lawmakers became the first Eastern European country to legalize a law on Friday to allow medically-assisted suicide for terminally-ill adults, in a shift in regional end-of-life policy.
The country’s lawmakers passed the bill following a closely watched parliamentary vote with 50 votes in favor, 34 against and three abstaining. The vote also focused on a national referendum demanding expanded end-of-life rights.
The legislation comes after a consultative referendum last year in which 55% of voters supported the right to end-of-life autonomy. While the move is being praised as historic, the law’s implementation will not be immediate as the procedures and oversight mechanisms are still being developed.
The law applies to terminally ill adults who are experiencing unbearable suffering with no prospect of improvement. In order for candidates to qualify, they must be mentally competent and have already exhausted their available treatment options. Individuals suffering solely from mental illness will be excluded from eligibility. The patient has to provide informed, voluntary, and repeated consent. It is believed that the process may require evaluation by multiple medical professionals.
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Slovenian lawmakers approved a law to allow medically-assisted suicide for terminally-ill adults. (Reuters)
Although it is being hailed as a landmark move, it will not be immediately implemented as the detailed procedures and oversight mechanisms are still being finalized.
«This is a victory for compassion and dignity,» said one lawmaker in support of the bill. A civil rights group opposed to the law referendum to overturn the measure.
A civil rights group opposing the new law pledged on Friday to seek public backing for a potential attempt to force a referendum on the measure.
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Lawmakers passed the bill with 50 votes in favor, 34 against and three abstaining. (Getty Images)
Several other countries, including Canada, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Australia and Colombia, have legalized the so-called death with dignity.
Last month, Britain’s parliament voted to legalize assisted dying, although the bill must still clear the upper chamber of parliament.
Several other countries have legalized so-called death with dignity. (Getty Images)
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In the U.S., 11 states allow medical aid in dying: Delaware, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont and Washington. Lawmakers in some other states are considering similar legislation.
Washington, D.C., also permits physician-assisted suicide.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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The Israeli military’s latest wave of airstrikes in Iran dealt a serious blow to the country’s brutal internal security apparatus, opening the door for a potential uprising.
During the strikes, Israel «dropped dozens of munitions on the Basij and internal security command centers that are subject to the Iranian terror regime,» the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Wednesday. «The targeted command centers were used by the Iranian regime to maintain control throughout Iran and maintain the regime’s situational assessments.»
Since the start of Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. has hit nearly 2,000 targets as it carries out a sweeping military campaign aimed at dismantling the regime’s security apparatus and neutralizing threats. Adm. Brad Cooper of U.S. Central Command confirmed the number of targets hit in a video message.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Basij militia, Iran’s volunteer paramilitary force, were behind the violent crackdown on protesters in January. The bloody crackdown saw regime actors firing on crowds and conducting mass arrests of Iranian protesters. Some had seen the protests as a sign that regime change in Iran was getting nearer, though it did not occur.
Smoke rises from central Tehran following reported U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran’s capital, on March 3, 2026. (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Israeli and U.S. officials have hinted at the possibility of regime change in Iran as both countries take aim at Tehran’s military and security sites.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video message announcing the launch of Operation Epic Fury, which Israel calls Operation Rising Lion, that it was time for Iranians «to rid themselves of the yoke of tyranny.» Similarly, President Donald Trump said in a message to the Iranian people on Feb. 28 that «the hour of your freedom is at hand.»
«When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be, probably, your only chance for generations,» Trump said.
Plumes of smoke rise following reported explosions in Tehran on March 3, 2026, after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in joint U.S. and Israeli strikes on Feb. 28, 2026. (Negar/Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
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«America is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force. Now is the time to seize control of your destiny, and to unleash the prosperous and glorious future that is close within your reach. This is the moment for action. Do not let it pass,» the president added.
Ali Vaez, director of the Iran project at the International Crisis Group, told The Wall Street Journal that the path to regime change through foreign airstrikes and popular uprising on the ground has «a bet that rests on no clear historical model.» Vaez also warned that the idea «ignores the resilience of entrenched authoritarian systems like the Islamic Republic.»
The IDF said on Monday that Israel had hit headquarters, bases and regional command centers that belonged to the regime’s internal security apparatus.
«These bodies were responsible for, among other things, suppressing protests against the regime through violent measures and civilian arrests,» the IDF said.
A group of men inspects the ruins of a police station struck amid the U.S.–Israeli military campaign in Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
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It is unclear who will lead Iran after the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed on the first day of the operation. Since then, Israel and the U.S. have made it clear that regime leaders chosen to replace him would be targets. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned on Wednesday that anyone chosen to replace Khamenei would be considered «a target for elimination» if they continued to threaten Israel, the U.S. and regional allies.
The killing of key leaders might not be enough to cause an uprising, as the regime has a monopoly on weapons in most of Iran, the WSJ reported, adding that Basij militants are still patrolling the streets.
Fox News Digital’s Morgan Phillips and Efrat Lachter contributed to this report.
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Gorsuch name-checks Founding Fathers who were ‘habitual’ drinkers in SCOTUS fight over marijuana users
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Justice Neil Gorsuch spent a portion of the Supreme Court’s oral arguments this week exploring what a «habitual drunkard» is as part of a case centered on whether a drug user is allowed to own a gun.
Gorsuch questioned a Department of Justice lawyer on how gun restrictions for habitual drunkards in early American history compared to today’s law restricting drug users from owning guns. The DOJ was required to point to a strong historical comparison to prove the modern law was constitutional, and it chose to use the founding-era laws about habitual drunkards.
«The American Temperance Society, back in the day, said eight shots of whiskey a day only made you an occasional drunkard,» Gorsuch said.
A habitual drunkard, Gorsuch said, had to «double that.»
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch speaks at the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California, on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)
The conservative justice pointed to the Founding Fathers’ drinking habits to convey his skepticism about the DOJ’s argument that a habitual drunkard was similar to a modern-day drug user and that both were worthy of being disarmed.
«John Adams took a tankard of hard cider with his breakfast every day. James Madison reportedly drank a pint of whiskey every day. Thomas Jefferson said he wasn’t much of a user of alcohol. He only had three or four glasses of wine a night,» Gorsuch said.
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«Are they habitual drunkards who would be properly disarmed for life under your theory?» Gorsuch said.
The case, U.S. v. Hemani, centered on a Texas man who had been charged after the FBI discovered he possessed a handgun and smoked marijuana every other day. The law at issue, 922(g)(3), gained national attention after President Joe Biden’s son Hunter was convicted under it for possessing a gun in 2018 while addicted to crack cocaine.
Hunter Biden (C), son of President Joe Biden, arrives at the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in Wilmington, Delaware, on October 3, 2023. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
«We don’t even know the quantity of how much he uses every other day. What if he took one gummy bear with a medical prescription in Colorado?» Gorsuch asked. «Let’s say he had one to help him sleep every other day. Disarm him for life?»
The DOJ argued the man, Ali Hemani, illegally owned the gun while a habitual user of marijuana and that he was rightly charged for it. Second Amendment advocates are closely watching the case. The National Rifle Association and Gun Owners of America are supporting Hemani, while several Democratic states are backing the DOJ in the case, setting up strange alliances in a test of what exceptions to gun ownership are allowed by law.
An attorney for Hemani argued to the Supreme Court that the DOJ could not adequately define what a habitual drug user was.
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«The only historical tradition it has offered is one of imposing restrictions on habitual drunkards,» the lawyer said. «That entire line of argument rests on a category mistake because the laws to which the government points applied only to habitual drunkards, not to habitual drinkers.»
The DOJ, meanwhile, downplayed the implications of the law, saying in court papers that it would impose only a «limited, inherently temporary» restriction on a drug user that the person could remove by curtailing drug use.
«This restriction provides a modest, modern analogue of much harsher founding-era restrictions on habitual drunkards, and so it stands solidly within our Nation’s history and tradition of regulation,» DOJ lawyers wrote. «And habitual illegal drug users with firearms present unique dangers to society—especially because they pose a grave risk of armed, hostile encounters with police officers while impaired.»
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Gorsuch was among several justices to express skepticism of the DOJ’s argument, though the justices could keep their ruling narrow and only address Hemani’s case.
The high court is expected to issue a decision by the summer.
Fox News’ Bill Mears contributed to this report.
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Crece la tensión entre España y EE.UU.: la tajante respuesta de Pedro Sánchez ante la amenaza de Trump de cortar las relaciones comerciales
El presidente del Gobierno español, Pedro Sánchez, eligió un mensaje contundente para enfrentar la presión de Donald Trump: “No a la guerra”.
Así, el mandatario español se plantó ante el enojo del expresidente estadounidense, que reclamó el uso de las bases militares de Rota y Morón para lanzar ataques contra Irán y recibió una negativa rotunda desde Madrid.
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El miércoles, Sánchez habló desde el palacio de la Moncloa y dejó clara la postura de su gobierno: “La posición del Gobierno de España se resume en cuatro palabras: no a la guerra”.
La declaración llegó después de que Trump acusara a España de comportarse “de manera terrible” en medio de la crisis con Irán.
Desde la Casa Blanca, la respuesta de Trump no tardó en llegar. El exmandatario calificó a España como un “aliado terrible” y amenazó con suspender el comercio bilateral, tildando la decisión española de “hostil”. La respuesta de Pedro Sánchez a Dfonald Trump: «No a la guerra». (Foto:REUTERS/Yves Herman).
“No vamos a ser cómplices de algo que es malo para el mundo y que también es contrario a nuestros valores e intereses, simplemente por el miedo a las represalias de alguno”, retrucó Sánchez, endureciendo el tono frente a Washington.
Sin mencionar a Trump, Sánchez acusó a “los dirigentes que son incapaces” de “mejorar la vida de la gente” de usar el “humo de la guerra para ocultar su fracaso y llenar de paso los bolsillos de unos pocos”.
Un nuevo capítulo en la relación Sánchez-Trump
El enfrentamiento entre Sánchez y Trump no es nuevo. Ya hubo roces por la negativa española a elevar el gasto en defensa al 5% del PBI, como exigía el magnate estadounidense a los socios de la OTAN, y por las diferencias sobre la ofensiva israelí en Gaza.
En este contexto, el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Israel aprovechó el respaldo de Irán a la postura española para lanzar una crítica en redes sociales: “¿Eso es estar en el ‘lado correcto’ de la historia?”, escribió en X.
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, acusó a España de comportarse como un «aliado terrible» y amenazó con suspender el comercio entre ambos países. (Foto: AP/Mark Schiefelbein).
El fantasma de Irak y la política interna española
La postura de Sánchez conecta con su electorado de izquierda, a menos de un año de las elecciones generales y en medio de escándalos de corrupción que golpean a su entorno.
El “No a la guerra” revive el lema de las masivas protestas en España contra la invasión de Irak en 2003, cuando el entonces presidente José María Aznar (PP) se alineó con Estados Unidos.
Muchos españoles vincularon esa decisión con los atentados de marzo de 2004, que dejaron 192 muertos y precipitaron la llegada de los socialistas al poder.
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Según dijo Sánchez, lejos de conseguir sus propósitos, la guerra de Irak “desencadenó la mayor oleada de inseguridad que ha sufrido nuestro continente desde la caída del muro de Berlín”.
“La guerra de Irak generó un aumento drástico del terrorismo yihadista, una grave crisis migratoria en el Mediterráneo oriental y un incremento generalizado de precios de la energía”, evocó.
Desde la oposición, el líder del Partido Popular, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, pidió “respeto” a Trump, pero acusó a Sánchez de usar la política exterior para “intereses partidarios”.
En tanto, el diario El País advirtió en su editorial que Sánchez debería “evitar la tentación de enrocarse y de utilizar la amplísima animadversión que existe hacia Trump en la sociedad española para ganar popularidad”.
Europa, dividida y bajo presión
La reacción europea ante la crisis mostró fisuras. El primer ministro alemán, Friedrich Merz, aseguró desde la Casa Blanca que intentaban “convencer” a Madrid de aumentar el gasto militar, algo que generó “sorpresa” en el gobierno español, según el canciller José Manuel Albares.
Sin embargo, la Comisión Europea salió a respaldar a España frente a las amenazas de Trump. “Nos solidarizamos totalmente con todos los Estados miembros y todos sus ciudadanos y, a través de nuestra política comercial común, estamos preparados para actuar si es necesario para salvaguardar los intereses de la UE”, advirtió el portavoz Olof Gill.
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Mientras tanto, Alemania, Francia y Reino Unido mantuvieron cautela sobre la operación militar estadounidense-israelí en Irán.
Francia y Reino Unido defendieron a Chipre, amenazada por la extensión del conflicto, pero eso no frenó las críticas de Trump al primer ministro británico, Keir Starmer, a quien acusó de “no ser Churchill”.
“El accionar de la UE ante los ataques a Irán no ha sido muy coherente”, analizó Ángel Saz Carranza, director del centro EsadeGeo. Y agregó: “No parece imposible que Estados Unidos haya pedido alineación europea a cambio de seguir apoyando con Ucrania”.
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