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The U.S. House of Representatives’ Ethics Committee has recommended the censure of Rep. Chuck Edwards for violating the House Code of Official Conduct by “failing to adhere to the spirit of rules prohibiting sexual harassment of and unwanted advances to House staffers.” According to the report, Edwards plied two young female staffers with lavish gifts […] The post In cringeworthy detail, House Ethics panel urges censure of Chuck Edwards for sexual harassment of 2 female staffers appeared first on Asheville Watchdog.

The supporters of a citizen initiative to put a graduated income-tax system in the Colorado constitution said Monday that they had submitted more than 157,000 signatures to the Colorado secretary of state’s office as they seek to qualify for the November ballot. The groups making up the Protect Colorado’s Future campaign had said in advance […]

The trial to determine whether the City of Bakersfield must re-evaluate how it operates the Kern River was bumped another eight months to October 4, 2027, at a court hearing on Monday. The case was set to be heard in February next year, but the parties agreed to move it back as the state Supreme […]

On an August evening in Interior Alaska, the sun hangs low over the hills as a bumblebee makes its final foraging trip of the season. The fireweed is fading, the nights are cooling, and the bee will soon retreat underground to overwinter. Moments like this — quiet and easy to overlook — capture the delicate […]

The Stockton City Council unanimously appointed outside attorney Donald A. Larkin as interim city attorney on Monday, turning to a law firm already under contract with the city while officials prepare to search for a permanent legal chief. Stockton council appoints local Donald Larkin as interim city attorney is a story from Stocktonia News, a rigorous and factual newsroom covering Greater Stockton, California. Please consider making a charitable contribution to support our journalism.

In a stark reversal of its controversial new policy, the Sarasota City Commission voted unanimously to suspend its new extended parking hours during a marathon meeting on Monday. The move came after intense pushback from residents, business owners and other stakeholders in Sarasota’s downtown and St. Armands Circle. Commissioner Jen Ahearn-Koch, who is running [...] The post Sarasota reverses extended parking hours after intense pushback appeared first on Suncoast Searchlight.

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The 2026 North Texas Job Fair on Aug. 6 will host more than 650 employers offering over 66,000 positions.

(The Center Square) – The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted to advance bipartisan legislation that would prevent the U.S. Department of Education from transferring several major education offices to other federal agencies. In a 13-9 vote, a bipartisan bill S.5046, sponsored by U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, with two Republican cosponsors - Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska - would prohibit the department from moving programs administered by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Office of Postsecondary Education and the Office of Indian Education through interagency agreements. This response from the HELP Committee follows a letter signed by 86 Democrats in the House Education Committee to also block the transfer, The Center Square previously reported. In that letter to the department, the lawmakers said the Trump administration's proposal to move programs to a different agency violates congressional authority. Collins said in a statement that these transfers are misaligned with their program purposes and that the change “fundamentally misunderstands” the intent and history of the programs within the department. “The quality of our schools directly corresponds to students’ success and the strength of our economy,” Kaine said in a statement sent to The Center Square. “I am glad that the HELP Committee passed my bipartisan legislation to stop the Administration from spinning off specialized agencies within the Education Department, including those supporting special education, to other departments that are not equipped to administer them.” The Department of Education pushed back on responses stating that the system has failed students. “The era of coddling a failed status quo must end,” Education Department Press Secretary Savannah Newhouse told The Center Square. “It is an insult to American families — and downright malpractice — that Washington politicians are rushing to protect a system where roughly 30% of our nation’s students are proficient in math and reading. The needs of the system cannot be more important than the needs of the kids.” Newhouse said Education Secretary Linda McMahon has provided Congress with "a proof of concept" demonstrating how partner agencies can administer the programs more effectively and said it is premature to halt the effort before it has the opportunity to reduce bureaucracy and improve services for students, families and educators. The bill now moves to the full Senate for consideration. The Center Square contacted the offices of Collins and Murkowski for comment but did not receive a response.

Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools.Everything looked business as usual for the first day of school at Hawkins Mill Elementary, a Memphis public school tucked in a woodsy Frayser neighborhood. Students lined the halls wearing customary white and red. The garden out back sprouted almost ripe tomatoes and eggplants. Posters featuring the school mascot — a hawk, of course — decorated the walls. But the environment was new to some students, who were rezoned to Hawkins after their neighborhood school closed in the spring. Five Memphis-Shelby County schools shut down at the end of last year, sending over 1,200 students to new buildings on Monday. Hawkins Mill was the third stop on Superintendent Roderick Richmond’s first-day tour, which also included Westwood High, newly expanded to include students from the closed Chickasaw Middle, and Kirby Middle School, which returned to district control this year from the failed state-run Achievement School District. “We want to make sure those schools are off to a good start,” Richmond said Monday. MSCS leaders are facing increased scrutiny this year as the state takeover of Tennessee’s largest public school district continues to play out in federal court. If the takeover is upheld by the judge, a nine-member oversight board appointed by Tennessee Republicans would be charged with improving academic performance and district operations by seizing control of key decisions like budgeting and school closures.Superintendent Roderick Richmond toured four MSCS schools on Monday to kick off the 2026-27 academic year.Richmond plans to shutter up to 10 more schools in the next two years, citing high building repair costs and chronic underenrollment as the driving factors. MSCS enrollment declined by over 9% in the past decade, far outpacing state trends.Kirby and Hillcrest, the district’s two newest additions, have not yet reached enrollment capacity. Kirby has 346 students registered out of 425 seats, while Hillcrest has 311 students registered out of 420 seats, Stacey Davis, the district’s enrollment manager, said.But MSCS’ overall enrollment is slightly higher this year, at nearly 106,000 as of Monday morning. That’s a couple thousand more than last year’s early number of just over 103,000 but below the district’s projections for this year, Richmond said. Teacher vacancies stayed relatively steady from the beginning of last school year to this year. Richmond said Monday that around 300 teaching positions are empty, with offers out for 70 of those roles. That leaves about 230 vacancies without pending offers, compared with 226 last August. “So if we start to add and subtract, I think we’re on pace where we’d like to be,” Richmond said, despite missing his goal of having fewer than 100 vacancies by the start of this year.As it did last year, the district is filling teacher vacancies with virtual instructors hired through a $4.7 million contract with Proximity Learning. The contract, reapproved in May, paid for close to 100 virtual instructors in the 2025-26 school year, according to district documents. Bri Hatch covers Memphis-Shelby County Schools for Chalkbeat Tennessee. Reach Bri at bhatch@chalkbeat.org.

La rumba congolaise, inscrite au patrimoine culturel immatériel de l’humanité par l’Unesco en 2021, continue de faire vibrer bien au-delà des frontières de la République démocratique du Congo. Dans la diaspora en France et en Belgique, une nouvelle génération d’artistes et de créateurs fait résonner cet héritage musical pour le faire évoluer en y mêlant ses propres influences et son époque. Reportage sur ces jeunes qui font de la rumba un art en mouvement, par Tom Schneider.

El siniestro afectó a inmuebles del sector céntrico del poblado, entre ellos un reconocido almacén y restaurant. El combate de las llamas se complicó debido a la falta de agua en la localidad, los vientos y la distancia desde Calama. Este artículo Emergencia al interior de Calama: incendio en Ayquina consumió tres inmuebles y dejó una persona lesionada fue publicado originalmente en El Diario de Antofagasta.

Races in five states Tuesday have more than a dozen Native candidates running for public office The post August primaries kicking off for Native candidates appeared first on ICT.

(The Center Square) – Emma Heming Willis, wife of movie star Bruce Willis, joined lawmakers in the California Capitol on Monday to push for passage of a bill that would track cases of frontotemporal degeneration, the type of dementia her husband has. The bill Emma Heming Willis advocated for, Senate Bill 1047, authored by Sen. Roger Niello, R-Fair Oaks, would require the California Department of Public Health to collect data on FTD. The department already collects data on Huntington’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s and multiple sclerosis, among other illnesses. SB 1047 was placed in the Assembly’s suspense file on July 1, right before the Legislature adjourned for their one-month summer break. The Legislature reconvened on Monday and has one more month to pass bills before it adjourns for the rest of the year. At that point, any unpassed bills in the Assembly effectively die without a vote on that chamber’s floor. “If we add FTD to the neurodegenerative disease registry, we don’t just count California patients,” Emma Heming Willis said at a press conference held in the Capitol on Monday. “We build a dataset that biotech researchers here in California need to find treatments and a cure.” The bill would require data about FTD to be collected in the state’s Neurodegenerative Disease Registry Program and prolongs operation of the program to Jan. 1, 2032. The program was previously meant to sunset on Jan. 1, 2028. According to a legislative analysis of the bill, paying for the program would cost $2.7 million a year in general fund revenues. That would include paying for staff and information technology. FTD, also referred to as Pick’s Disease, is a group of brain disorders caused by degeneration or nerve cell loss in parts of the brain behind the forehead or around the ears, according to the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration. Patients with this disease experience loss of function in those parts of the brain, which can result in personality changes, apathy, unexplained struggles to make decisions, movement, speaking and understanding words. Family members of people who show those symptoms often can’t get answers from doctors when they question what illness is causing their loved ones to experience these symptoms, Meghan Buzby, director of advocacy and volunteer engagement for the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration, said on Monday. “Unfortunately, for many California families, those are not hypothetical questions,” Buzby said at the press conference. “They’re the reality of a long, frustrating road toward a diagnosis of FTD.” Research published by Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology show that therapies to treat FTD are limited, but recent advances are preliminary and there still remains no cure for the disease. Willis, who said her husband was first diagnosed with FTD in 2022, acknowledged there is no treatment that will slow down or stop her husband’s illness. However, tracking cases of FTD can help in research for a cure and could even help those diagnosed with related illnesses, she said. “Research focused on genetic FTD offers great hopes for finding treatments,” Willis said. “What we learn from one can be the key to treating another, like ALS or Alzheimer’s. But this can only happen when people with FTD are diagnosed and counted, and we know the true scale of how many people are affected.” (ALS is also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.) Willis also answered a question from The Center Square inquiring about condition of her husband, who starred in movies such as the "Die Hard" films and "The Fifth Element." “I think he’s doing as well as he can with a very unkind disease,” Willis said.

(The Center Square) - A fight over water rights is heating up in south-central Washington. The Columbia–Snake River Irrigators Association is calling on state leaders including Governor Bob Ferguson to intervene and force the Washington State Department of Ecology's Office of Columbia River to expedite a groundwater project after years of permitting stalls. The delays have postponed permanent farmworker housing projects in central Washington. Mercer Ranches, a prominent, family-owned agricultural operation spanning over 12,000 acres in the Horse Heaven Hills region, applied for water rights to use groundwater in 2020, but the application then changed to include farmworker housing. “The program that they would have received the water from requires them to show that using that water would not have lasting impacts on the Columbia River,” said Emily Tasaka, media relations for the Department of Ecology’s Office of Columbia River. “We wanted to do everything that we could to get this application to a place where it could be approved.” Darryll Olsen is board representative for the Columbia-Snake River Irrigators Association and told The Center Square the groundwater permit was fully mitigated. “It's an extremely small permit, and our technical experts have all looked at it and said there is no problem with this permit, either with an impairment or hydraulic continuity, or demand,” said Olsen. “It’s just been one delay after the next. I mean nothing can get done either on the managerial side or on the technical side.” Tasaka with OCR told The Center Square the next step is for Mercer Ranches to submit a work plan. "Once the initial aquifer testing is done, and we can show that there are no impacts, then we can issue the temporary water right permit. So right now, we have not received that work plan from Mercer, but once they submit it to us, we can approve it.” Olsen said OCR has repeatedly changed the rules and excuses for the delays. “Management at Office of Columbia River has failed. There's just no other way to put it. And the technical side that they're supposed to be managing has failed because there's no technical issue. We have provided them with the technical information to be able to make a sound decision,” Olsen said. He added that Ecology is undermining what Ferguson has said he wants done with permanent farmworker housing. “The project awaiting Ecology’s action would provide new, permanent homes that agricultural workers would own—a model of dignified, stable housing that strengthens rural communities and supports the workforce that drives Eastern Washington’s agricultural economy. Every day of delay is another day these workers go without the housing they deserve,” noted a July 30 news release from the Columbia-Snake River Irrigators Association. Olsen added that Director Larry Matson with Ecology’s OCR, who is responsible for the decision has canceled recent meetings aimed at a resolution, “including a meeting intended to finalize permit conditions.” Matson fired back via email to The Center Square. “The ball is in Dr. Olsen’s court. We are waiting for CSRIA to submit the work plan (item #6 in their preliminary permit). The work plan must be submitted and approved prior to the start of aquifer testing.” That response received a chilly reply from Olsen. “Larry apparently forgot that OCR was supposed to issue a real permit three years ago; and he canceled the recent meeting to discuss the 'work plan.' All three of CSRIA's 'licensed' PEs, hydrologist, questioned why the overreaching preliminary permit was issued, without technical review by other well-qualified experts, with far more experience that Larry's hydrologists.” “His 'go to hell' attitude reflects his management style,” wrote Olsen. “Larry is in cover his butt mode, but the fig leaf does not fit.” The Center Square reached out to the office of Governor Ferguson for comment about the permitting dispute but did not receive a response.

(The Center Square) – A bill permitting abortion through all nine months of pregnancy passed both the Massachusetts House and Senate and awaits the signature of Gov. Maura Healey. Opponents call it “extreme” legislation that will force taxpayers to fund abortions even late in a pregnancy and proponents stating women seeking late-term abortions will no longer have to travel out-of-state. Communications director for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America Kelsey Pritchard told The Center Square that “Massachusetts’ new abortion bill is very extreme, legalizing abortion on demand until birth, paid for by taxpayers.” Massachusetts’ Bill H.5595 – also called the Prioritizing Patients' Access to Care Act – allows “abortion through all nine months for any reason based on a doctor’s ‘professional judgment,’” Pritchard said. “Under this law the abortionist, who profits financially from performing the abortion, is the sole approver,” Pritchard said. Pritchard informed The Center Square that “second- and third-trimester abortions are brutal and barbaric, generally done by dismembering the baby or inducing labor.” “The latter may result in a live birth if the abortionist has not first delivered a lethal injection into the baby’s heart, which many admit they do not,” Pritchard said. One of Massachusetts' abortion bill sponsors, state Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa, told The Center Square she supports the legislation because she believes “medical decisions belong between patients and their doctors, not the Legislature.” Sabadosa sees the bill as ensuring “that physicians in Massachusetts can provide care based on their best medical judgment and the unique needs of each patient.” “Once signed into law, patients will no longer be forced to leave Massachusetts to receive care that should be available here,” Sabadosa said. “Massachusetts is home to some of the best health care in the nation, and this bill affirms that our physicians are best equipped to make these deeply personal and medically complex decisions,” Sabadosa said. The Center Square reached out to bill sponsor Rep. Christine Barber, House Speaker Ronald J. Mariano, chair of the House Committee on Ways & Means Rep. Aaron Michlewitz, and proponent of the bill Sen. Robin Kennedy. None responded by publishing time. The Massachusetts House of Representatives passed Bill H.5595 on July 22, with the Senate following suit on July 31. The bill now awaits Healey’s signature. Healey’s press office did not respond to a request for comment. Massachusetts’ previous abortion law allowed for the procedure as late as 24 weeks, at which point babies “are capable of smiling, reacting to loud noises, and surviving outside the womb” Pritchard told The Center Square. Pritchard noted that “the U.S. is 1 of 8 countries in the world along with China that allow abortion at any point, according to a 2024 study.” “Another study completed in 2024 shows 46 of 50 countries in Europe limit abortion after 15 weeks,” Pritchard said. “When Gov. Healey signs this bill into law, Massachusetts will join 10 states and Washington, D.C. with an all-trimester abortion policy where babies are killed after the point they can survive outside of the womb,” Pritchard said. Pritchard told The Center Square that “radical late-term abortion laws” such as Massachusetts’ are supported by only 10% of Americans and such laws “are enabled by the ‘states-only’ philosophy on abortion.” “The GOP must abandon the failed ‘leave it to the states’ position and move the country toward a national protection for unborn children across this nation – from California to New York, and now Massachusetts,” Pritchard said.

A Chula Vista community that sits next to a San Diego Metropolitan Transit System trolley station has been asking the agency to close their community off from the area for months, citing high crime.  Holiday Gardens, a residential community that sits adjacent to the H Street trolley station, has two open pedestrian accessways in a […]

The Ralston Public Schools Board of Education received updates on several district initiatives, highlighting significant growth in summer programming and efforts to improve communication with families and staff.…

Six ans jour pour jour. Ce mardi, le Liban commémore la terrible explosion du port de Beyrouth qui a eu lieu le 4 août 2020. La catastrophe a tué 235 personnes, fait 6 500 blessés et ravagé un tiers de la capitale libanaise. C’est l’une des plus grandes explosions non nucléaires de l’histoire. Après avoir été bloquée pendant de longues années à cause de l’hostilité de la classe politique, l’enquête du juge d’instruction Tarek Bitar est aujourd’hui terminée. Que sait-on de l’explosion du port de Beyrouth ? Quelles sont les zones d'ombre ? Quand aura lieu ce procès historique ?

Pesquisadores do Instituto de Problemas de Transporte Solomenko, da Academia de Ciências da Rússia, desenvolveram um algoritmo inovador. A ferramenta se adapta a diferentes modos operacionais de equipamentos marítimos e reduz a pegada de carbono em zonas costeiras. A informação foi divulgada no site do Ministério da Educação e Ciência da Rússia. O consumo de […] Fonte