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Education through storytelling and school programs helps students connect wildlife conservation with climate action, encouraging practical steps such as rainwater harvesting, reducing forest fires, and sharing knowledge within communities.

The tragic plane crash that occurred on April 27, 2026, west of Juba, killing all The post Opinion | Beyond the plane crash: A call to rethink aviation safety appeared first on Radio Tamazuj.

Friends of Big Bear Valley, the nonprofit behind the popular nest livestream, announced the results of a public naming contest Friday.

“Town meetings are the last real piece of democracy in this country.”

လုပ်ငန်းခွင်မလုံခြုံမှုနဲ့ အလုပ်သမားအခွင့်အရေး ချိုးဖောက်ခံရမှုတွေအပါအဝင် လုပ်ခလစာအနည်းဆုံးရတဲ့ နိုင်ငံဖြစ်နေ။

SB 397 restricts activities of immigration officers and allows lawsuits against agents for constitutional violations, among other provisions.

In southwest Albuquerque, where Route 66 and the Rio Grande intersect, a political newcomer is challenging a Democratic incumbent who won his first election 30 years ago to represent District 14 in the New Mexico House of Representatives.

دونالد ترامپ می‌گوید که از تازه‌ترین پیشنهاد جمهوری اسلامی راضی نیست و مطمئن نیست که به توافق خواهند رسید یا نه.

Le pape Léon XIV a nommé vendredi 1er mai évêque de Virginie-Occidentale un ancien migrant sans papiers aux États-Unis, après avoir critiqué la guerre en Iran et la politique de Donald Trump sur l'immigration.

Washington — Serokê Amerîkayê Donald Trump îro Înê ragihand ku ewê hefteya bê bacên gumrigê yên ser otombîl û kemyonên ku ji Yekîtîya Ewrupayê derbasî Amerîkayê dibin zêde bike. Trump li ser platforma Truth Social got, “Bi kêfxweşî radigihînim ku, ji ber ku Yekîtîya Ewrupî bi Peymana Bazirganîyê ya ku me bi tevahî li hev kiriye pêgir nabe, ezê hefteya bê bacên gumrigê yên ser otomobîl û kemyonên ku ji Yekîtîya Ewrupî derbasî Amerîkayê dibin zêde bikim.” Serokê Amerîkî anî ziman ku, “bac dê...

O presidente da Ucrânia, Volodymyr Zelensky, anunciou nesta sexta-feira (1°) uma reforma no exército que prevê a introdução de desmobilização gradual e salários significativamente mais altos para os soldados destacados na linha de frente da guerra contra a Rússia.

The legal challenge, filed in Middlesex County Superior Court, comes at a time of heightened scrutiny over data centers and their role in powering artificial intelligence both around the country and within the Bay State.

Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has filed a lawsuit in a Moscow court to seize the assets of Vadim Moshkovich, founder of Rusagro, the Russian business news outlet RBC reported, citing the case file.

The Mid-America Regional Council will handle the work through a $400,000 contract with the local organizing committee for the games. The post MARC tapped to administer $59.5M in World Cup security funding appeared first on The Beacon.

Pensionet, ose sigurimi i pensioneve, kanë qenë një çështje shumë e diskutueshme në Gjermani për vite me radhë. Këtë herë, edhe Kancelari Friedrich Merz (CDU) hapi një debat serioz në këtë drejtim, raporton DW. “Sigurimi shtetëror me ligjor i pensioneve, në rastin më të mirë, do të ofrojë vetëm siguri bazë për pleqërinë. Nuk do të jetë më […]

Информационный дайджест "Время Свободы с Андреем Шароградским". Пятница, 1 мая 01:10 Будет ли объявлено перемирие между Россией и Украиной на время празднования Дня Победы в России 02:55 В Магаданской области на угольном разрезе 8 человек оказались под завалом из-за обрушения породы 04:10 Возможно ли продолжение военной операции США против Ирана без одобрения Конгресса 08:44 Какие факторы позволяют Ирану продолжать блокировать Ормузский пролив 15:14 Как блокада Персидского залива...

Информационный дайджест "Время Свободы с Андреем Шароградским". Пятница, 1 мая 01:10 Будет ли объявлено перемирие между Россией и Украиной на время празднования Дня Победы в России 02:55 В Магаданской области на угольном разрезе 8 человек оказались под завалом из-за обрушения породы 04:10 Возможно ли продолжение военной операции США против Ирана без одобрения Конгресса 08:44 Какие факторы позволяют Ирану продолжать блокировать Ормузский пролив 15:14 Как блокада Персидского залива...

On April 21st, Virginia Democrats narrowly won a statewide special election on their scheme to radically gerrymander Virginia’s 11 congressional districts and erase all but one GOP district in a state that gave President Donald Trump 46% of the vote in 2024. The process followed by the Democrats to call the special election clearly violated the Virginia Constitution. Litigation pending before the Virginia Supreme Court should result in the nullification of the special election and put an end to the Democrats’ scheme. Whatever the outcome of that litigation, the Democrats’ gerrymandering stands as a stark reminder that leftist Democrats are prepared to violate any law that stands in the way of their relentless quest for dominating political power. The lawlessness of the Left was also on display in Virginia recently when Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed legislation passed by her fellow Democrats to bypass the Electoral College and award the state’s 13 electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote in future presidential elections, regardless of the results of the election in Virginia. The Democrat legislation makes Virginia a member of the so-called National Popular Vote Compact, an interstate agreement that the Left has pushed for years in an effort to circumvent the clear requirement in the U.S. Constitution that a state’s electoral votes be awarded to the presidential candidate who wins the most votes in that particular state. Leftist supporters of the compact argue that it is simply more democratic to add every person’s vote cast in a presidential election to one national total and award the office to the candidate who comes out on top in that count. This, they say, will eliminate the possibility of “undemocratic” election results when the Electoral College vote produces a president supported by a minority of American voters. In fact, these self-proclaimed defenders of democracy are attempting to nullify a key component of the constitutional system that defines and defends our American democracy. There is no fundamental disconnect between the Electoral College vote and the popular vote. Throughout our history, the Electoral College has been won by the candidate who also received the majority of the popular vote 90% of the time. This was the case in 2024, when Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris. More importantly, Democrats fail to acknowledge that the Electoral College is an integral part of our federal system of constitutional democracy. In 1787, delegates from the 13 states met in Philadelphia to address the inadequacies of the Articles of Confederation and, they hoped “to form a more perfect union.” Through that summer, the delegates painstakingly negotiated, drafted, and finally agreed to the Constitution that launched our experiment in republican self-government under the rule of law. The 13 states had widely divergent political and economic interests. Some, like Virginia and New York, were large, populous, and politically popular. Some, like Rhode Island and Delaware, were much smaller and less powerful. The smaller states feared that their interests would be neglected by a new government dominated by the likes of Virginia and New York. Delegates negotiated several provisions designed to address the concerns of the smaller states and keep the constitutional endeavor on track. Because of the significant powers given to the executive branch, it was especially important to the smaller states that the mechanism used to elect the president be designed to protect their interests. The mechanism finally agreed to is the Electoral College, detailed in Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution. By this mechanism, the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote in a state is awarded a number of electoral votes equal to the U.S. senators and representatives from that state. Thus, no matter how small a state’s population, it has at least three electoral votes. The candidate who wins the popular vote in enough states to secure a simple majority – currently 270 – of all the U.S. senators and representatives wins the presidency. By combining elements of democracy and federalism in this way, the Electoral College forces candidates to moderate their views to appeal to a broadly based coalition of states, regions, interests, and voters. This is just what the Framers had in mind; diffused elections that encourage compromise and foster stability. But leftist Democrats have other ideas. They see this and other constitutional provisions as structural impediments to their acquisition of ever greater political power; impediments to be circumvented. If the national popular vote determined the outcome of a presidential election, then Democrat candidates could easily swamp their Republican opponents in every contest by focusing exclusively on coastal urban strongholds of progressive radicalism and supportive election administration. For example, New York City has a population greater than 39 states. Los Angeles County has a population greater than 40 states. The Democrat compact is designed to disenfranchise voters in most of the country. The Democrat scheme to nullify the Electoral College is clearly unlawful. The compact itself will be nullified whenever its constitutionality is litigated. For now, the governor and her Democrat legislators have dramatically demonstrated, with their gerrymandering and their compact, that they have only contempt for the Virginia and U.S. Constitutions they have sworn to uphold. Virginians and all Americans should take note and scorn them.

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Superintendent Jill Underly had two events on her calendar marked “private appointment” and another at noon April 15, the day an Assembly committee meeting was scheduled to look into a 2024 standards-setting conference her department held in the Wisconsin Dells. Underly did not attend the hearing, instead sending two members of her staff who did not work in the department at the time of the conference. The calendar was released after a public records request from The Center Square for Underly’s calendar and communications during the meeting. The staff members who attended the hearing told the Assembly Committee on Government Operations, Accountability and Transparency that Underly was unavailable to attend the meeting on short notice. “We received extremely short notice on this hearing,” DPI spokesperson Chris Bucher told The Center Square on the day of the committee hearing. “The very best staff equipped to address questions about open records, from our Division of Government and Public Affairs, were in the room. If the committee sincerely wanted to ensure availability, they would not be scheduling hearings with such short notice.” Underly also failed to attend an October committee meeting on DPI’s handling of sexual misconduct from registered teachers across the state, which is now the subject of an audit expected to be released soon. The response to the public records request did not include any text messages but did include several emails from and to DPI staff members during the hearing. The response redacted Underly’s email address. DPI said that it gives lawmakers earlier notice of events than DPI received from the committee. “At the DPI, we take a very different approach,” Bucher wrote. “We make a point of providing legislators with ample notice and meaningful opportunities to engage. For example, we invited Rep. Nedweski to join Dr. Underly on a visit to a Blue Ribbon School well in advance, specifically to allow for proper planning and participation. You can find Dr. Underly promoting this collaboration and the visit with Rep. Nedweski here on her Facebook. That is what good-faith collaboration looks like.” At the hearing, DPI representatives claimed that records from the standards-setting conference in the Dells involving the 88-member committee that met were not subject to open meetings or open records disclosure because the conference was setup by vendor Data Recognition Corp. Committee Chair Rep. Amanda Nedweski, R-Pleasant Prairie, had the legislative legal affairs department read from state law that included a stipulation that a private company contracted to do public work had to follow the same record-keeping and notice process as a public entity. Also, Institute for Reforming Government General Counsel Jake Curtis testified he believed prior case law was clear that the 88-member committee constituted an Ad Hoc Committee that should hold its meetings publicly. IRG filed a complaint in Adams County Court about the meeting and plans to file a legal action on the meeting if no further action is taken by the court. “Wisconsin case law is clear,” Curtis told the committee. “... The DOJ compliance guide is extremely clear on this.”

When law enforcement leaders declare zero tolerance while incidents keep climbing, the public is owed more than reassurance. It is owed results.