After the full-scale war began and Russia announced mobilization, many Russians left the country. But leaving Russia doesn’t put you beyond the reach of its security services. As Meduza has warned, some countries will extradite Russians at the request of law enforcement agencies back home. In other cases, Russians facing criminal charges at home are deported on one pretext or another. Once back in Russia, they end up in pretrial detention — as the activist Ariadna Litvinova did. And some are abducted outright, taken to Russia, and put on trial. That is what happened, for example, to Georgy Pirogov, whom the Moscow City Court sentenced in July to 23 years on charges of “treason.” Meduza recounts some of the cases in which Russians were abducted abroad.

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After the full-scale war began and Russia announced mobilization, many Russians left the country. But leaving Russia doesn’t put you beyond the reach of its security services. As Meduza has warned, some countries will extradite Russians at the request of law enforcement agencies back home. In other cases, Russians facing criminal charges at home are deported on one pretext or another. Once back in Russia, they end up in pretrial detention — as the activist Ariadna Litvinova did. And some are abducted outright, taken to Russia, and put on trial. That is what happened, for example, to Georgy Pirogov, whom the Moscow City Court sentenced in July to 23 years on charges of “treason.” Meduza recounts some of the cases in which Russians were abducted abroad.

Officials aim to address social isolation and loneliness among LGBT Angelenos young and old

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A slim majority of the Fresno County Board of Supervisors voted to delay placing the Better Roads, Safe Streets transportation sales tax measure on the ballot until staff can complete a study of the measure’s impacts — a decision that will likely preclude the measure from appearing on ballots until 2028. Supervisors Buddy Mendes and […] The post Three Fresno supervisors shut down Better Roads tax measure after tense clash appeared first on Fresnoland.

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A slim majority of the Fresno County Board of Supervisors voted to delay placing the Better Roads, Safe Streets transportation sales tax measure on the ballot until staff can complete a study of the measure’s impacts — a decision that will likely preclude the measure from appearing on ballots until 2028. Supervisors Buddy Mendes and […] The post Three Fresno supervisors shut down Better Roads tax measure after tense clash appeared first on Fresnoland.

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Declarada persona non grata por sus ofensivas “opiniones” sobre el capitán del seleccionado francés, el estilo “sans filtre” de la vicegobernadora mendocina se topa con el escándalo diplomático y los límites de la ley. “El racismo no es una opinión, es un delito” le cantaron el retruco en la lengua de Molière. Hebe Casado, antes […]

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Declarada persona non grata por sus ofensivas “opiniones” sobre el capitán del seleccionado francés, el estilo “sans filtre” de la vicegobernadora mendocina se topa con el escándalo diplomático y los límites de la ley. “El racismo no es una opinión, es un delito” le cantaron el retruco en la lengua de Molière. Hebe Casado, antes […]

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Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has asked an Orleans Parish court to subpoena the records of District Attorney Jason Williams and the special prosecutor handling her July 2 indictment as Murrill tries to have the criminal charges against her tossed.  On Monday, Murrill simultaneously filed two similar motions to subpoena a long list of internal […]

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Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has asked an Orleans Parish court to subpoena the records of District Attorney Jason Williams and the special prosecutor handling her July 2 indictment as Murrill tries to have the criminal charges against her tossed.  On Monday, Murrill simultaneously filed two similar motions to subpoena a long list of internal […]

The narrow strip of beach on the Long Beach peninsula faces erosion and flooding as climate change and El Niño push tides higher.

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El incendio que arrasó parte del municipio almeriense de Los Gallardos deja ya una cifra definitiva de víctimas mortales y abre una nueva etapa marcada por las investigaciones sobre la gestión de la emergencia.

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(The Center Square) - Ballots are due to be mailed out this Friday in the Washington state primary, with one of the closely watched state Senate contests playing out in Whatcom County's Legislative District 42, where Democratic Sen. Sharon Shewmake is not seeking reelection and Republicans are hoping to potentially flip the seat to their side. Republicans held the seat as recently as 2021. Several Whatcom County residents will appear on the Aug. 4 ballot for the contest. Bellingham Democrat Eamonn Collins who chairs the Whatcom Democrats is hoping to advance in the primary. Collins is a science teacher at the Lummi Nation School and is campaigning on affordability and tax fairness, affordable housing, and keeping Whatcom County “proactive in the face of federal volatility,” according to a press release announcing his campaign. He did not respond to repeated requests for an interview. Bellingham Democrat and Port of Bellingham Commissioner Michael Shepard is also running and also did not respond to requests for an interview. He is endorsed by Sen. Shewmake, who is giving up the seat. He has “taught at Western Washington University, Northwest Indian College, and Whatcom Community College, working to support students and strengthen educational opportunity across the region,” according to his campaign website. Republican Blaine School Board member Erika Creydt told The Center Square she jumped into the race in part because of her concerns about healthcare systems and the economic impact on working families. “I feel like the only way these things can be fixed is an intervention at the systemic level. Our tax dollars are being sucked out of our local economies and our families wallets, and we don't get better quality services, better resources, better roads, better schools, better, standard of living,” said Creydt in a July 10 interview with The Center Square. “I was alarmed by the state income tax that got railroaded through this last short session, because I know that the people in my district and in my community don't have an extra 10% margin to be giving towards a state income tax.” The so-called millionaires’ tax is a 9.9% tax on income above $1 million dollars, or combined household income above that threshold. Many opponents believe it could eventually lead to a tax on all income levels in Washington. “They are crushing small businesses in our community, and we feel it firsthand,” said Creydt who owns and operates two mental health and community-focused enterprises in Whatcom County. “We know that some of these ideas, they can seem like a good idea in theory, maybe well-intentioned, but in practical reality implementation stage, they can really crush a small business, and we see a lot of places closing their doors. A lot of people leaving the state.” Ryan Bowman also filed to run in LD 42 without listing a party preference. Friday July 17 is the deadline for ballots to be mailed out by county election offices. Ballots are automatically mailed to all registered voters. The deadline to register online or update an address is July 27, or register and vote in person at a county voting center through Election Day. Washington’s primary format means the top two vote-getters, regardless of party affiliation, advance to the general election.

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(The Center Square) - Ballots are due to be mailed out this Friday in the Washington state primary, with one of the closely watched state Senate contests playing out in Whatcom County's Legislative District 42, where Democratic Sen. Sharon Shewmake is not seeking reelection and Republicans are hoping to potentially flip the seat to their side. Republicans held the seat as recently as 2021. Several Whatcom County residents will appear on the Aug. 4 ballot for the contest. Bellingham Democrat Eamonn Collins who chairs the Whatcom Democrats is hoping to advance in the primary. Collins is a science teacher at the Lummi Nation School and is campaigning on affordability and tax fairness, affordable housing, and keeping Whatcom County “proactive in the face of federal volatility,” according to a press release announcing his campaign. He did not respond to repeated requests for an interview. Bellingham Democrat and Port of Bellingham Commissioner Michael Shepard is also running and also did not respond to requests for an interview. He is endorsed by Sen. Shewmake, who is giving up the seat. He has “taught at Western Washington University, Northwest Indian College, and Whatcom Community College, working to support students and strengthen educational opportunity across the region,” according to his campaign website. Republican Blaine School Board member Erika Creydt told The Center Square she jumped into the race in part because of her concerns about healthcare systems and the economic impact on working families. “I feel like the only way these things can be fixed is an intervention at the systemic level. Our tax dollars are being sucked out of our local economies and our families wallets, and we don't get better quality services, better resources, better roads, better schools, better, standard of living,” said Creydt in a July 10 interview with The Center Square. “I was alarmed by the state income tax that got railroaded through this last short session, because I know that the people in my district and in my community don't have an extra 10% margin to be giving towards a state income tax.” The so-called millionaires’ tax is a 9.9% tax on income above $1 million dollars, or combined household income above that threshold. Many opponents believe it could eventually lead to a tax on all income levels in Washington. “They are crushing small businesses in our community, and we feel it firsthand,” said Creydt who owns and operates two mental health and community-focused enterprises in Whatcom County. “We know that some of these ideas, they can seem like a good idea in theory, maybe well-intentioned, but in practical reality implementation stage, they can really crush a small business, and we see a lot of places closing their doors. A lot of people leaving the state.” Ryan Bowman also filed to run in LD 42 without listing a party preference. Friday July 17 is the deadline for ballots to be mailed out by county election offices. Ballots are automatically mailed to all registered voters. The deadline to register online or update an address is July 27, or register and vote in person at a county voting center through Election Day. Washington’s primary format means the top two vote-getters, regardless of party affiliation, advance to the general election.

US President Donald Trump said air strikes on Iran will continue until he says "it's enough," as Tehran and Washington stepped up attacks in a battle to control the Strait of Hormuz, in what the United Nations called a "huge setback" for civilians in the region.

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US President Donald Trump said air strikes on Iran will continue until he says "it's enough," as Tehran and Washington stepped up attacks in a battle to control the Strait of Hormuz, in what the United Nations called a "huge setback" for civilians in the region.

(The Center Square) – Violent offenders will have a hard time qualifying for mental health diversion under two California bills introduced this year. One bill, Assembly Bill 46, would allow judges to determine if an offender’s release to seek mental health treatment would endanger the community. It would also require a mental health diagnosis within five years of the offense for an offender to qualify for mental health diversion, according to a legislative analysis. The Legislature passed the bill, and Gov. Gavin Newsom signed it into law in June. “We want to see judges in California empowered by law to use their discretion when appropriate to deny mental health diversion to defendants seeking that program,” Garrett Hamilton, a deputy district attorney for the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office and a member of the California District Attorneys Association’s legislative committee, told The Center Square on Tuesday. “It’s almost impossible to keep defendants out of that program when they apply. It’s created an environment where judges don’t feel like they can deny it, even when they want to.” Assemblymember Stephanie Nguyen, D-Elk Grove, who authored AB 46, was not available for an interview this week. However, a similar bill, Senate Bill 1373, authored by Sen. Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield, also aims to give judges more discretion over who qualifies for mental health diversion. “Judges were saying they didn’t have discretion before, and that they would have to divert anybody to mental health diversion, which really is not good,” Grove told The Center Square. “After they completed their classes, there would be no evidence of them even having these crimes behind them, and it would be like a free wipe of their slate. These individuals who committed crimes against children could go and get jobs in a daycare facility.” Grove’s bill was introduced in February with a press conference that featured speakers who advocated for reform to California’s mental health diversion program to keep violent offenders of crimes against children from walking away from their crimes after seeking mental health treatment. The state’s mental health diversion program was established in 2018 with Assembly Bill 1810. That bill aimed to give those with mental health problems the ability to seek treatment. Those who successfully completed treatment got their criminal charges dismissed under that law. Grove pushed certain crimes to be excluded from a defendant's consideration for mental health diversion. These included child abuse and endangerment, killing a child age 8 or younger, as well as human trafficking and corporal injury. Ultimately, amendments to the bill took out all these exclusions – a necessary step for the bill to move forward, Grove said. “We didn’t want to a judge to have discretion. We wanted those things to go to court,” Grove told The Center Square on Monday. “We had to eliminate those, but we were able to keep the evidentiary hearing.” The evidentiary hearing would allow both the prosecution and the defense to present evidence before a judge rules on a defendant's eligibility for mental health diversion, Grove said. The next hearing for Grove’s bill is expected to be scheduled in August after the Legislature comes back from its summer break. Officials with district attorney’s offices across the state told The Center Square on Tuesday that while Nguyen’s bill, AB 46, is not a perfect fix, it is much-welcomed legislation that allows judges more discretion to determine who would be a good fit for mental health diversion and who would just abuse it. “The concern is that mental health diversion is misused,” Matthew Greco, San Diego County deputy district attorney and author of the California Criminal Mental Health Manual, told The Center Square. “It’s broken, and it incentivizes people whose crimes weren’t caused by their mental health to either fabricate mental health disorders or to use mental health disorders as an excuse.” An official with the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office, Chief Deputy Shin-Mee Chang, told The Center Square that she thought it was unfortunate that the list of ineligible crimes under AB 46 did not include some crimes such as attempted murder. “So maybe SB 1373 will accomplish that, but it remains to be seen,” Chang said. All of the sources interviewed by The Center Square said it was hard this early on to tell if either Nguyen’s bill or Grove’s bill would increase or decrease taxpayer costs. However, according to a bill analysis of AB 46, the bill could cause additional costs for courts because staff would need time to determine a defendant’s eligibility for mental health diversion. Those additional dollars could come from the state’s Trial Court Trust Fund or the state’s general fund. None of the groups who registered opposition to Grove’s or Nguyen’s mental health diversion bills responded to The Center Square's request for comment on Tuesday.

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(The Center Square) – Violent offenders will have a hard time qualifying for mental health diversion under two California bills introduced this year. One bill, Assembly Bill 46, would allow judges to determine if an offender’s release to seek mental health treatment would endanger the community. It would also require a mental health diagnosis within five years of the offense for an offender to qualify for mental health diversion, according to a legislative analysis. The Legislature passed the bill, and Gov. Gavin Newsom signed it into law in June. “We want to see judges in California empowered by law to use their discretion when appropriate to deny mental health diversion to defendants seeking that program,” Garrett Hamilton, a deputy district attorney for the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office and a member of the California District Attorneys Association’s legislative committee, told The Center Square on Tuesday. “It’s almost impossible to keep defendants out of that program when they apply. It’s created an environment where judges don’t feel like they can deny it, even when they want to.” Assemblymember Stephanie Nguyen, D-Elk Grove, who authored AB 46, was not available for an interview this week. However, a similar bill, Senate Bill 1373, authored by Sen. Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield, also aims to give judges more discretion over who qualifies for mental health diversion. “Judges were saying they didn’t have discretion before, and that they would have to divert anybody to mental health diversion, which really is not good,” Grove told The Center Square. “After they completed their classes, there would be no evidence of them even having these crimes behind them, and it would be like a free wipe of their slate. These individuals who committed crimes against children could go and get jobs in a daycare facility.” Grove’s bill was introduced in February with a press conference that featured speakers who advocated for reform to California’s mental health diversion program to keep violent offenders of crimes against children from walking away from their crimes after seeking mental health treatment. The state’s mental health diversion program was established in 2018 with Assembly Bill 1810. That bill aimed to give those with mental health problems the ability to seek treatment. Those who successfully completed treatment got their criminal charges dismissed under that law. Grove pushed certain crimes to be excluded from a defendant's consideration for mental health diversion. These included child abuse and endangerment, killing a child age 8 or younger, as well as human trafficking and corporal injury. Ultimately, amendments to the bill took out all these exclusions – a necessary step for the bill to move forward, Grove said. “We didn’t want to a judge to have discretion. We wanted those things to go to court,” Grove told The Center Square on Monday. “We had to eliminate those, but we were able to keep the evidentiary hearing.” The evidentiary hearing would allow both the prosecution and the defense to present evidence before a judge rules on a defendant's eligibility for mental health diversion, Grove said. The next hearing for Grove’s bill is expected to be scheduled in August after the Legislature comes back from its summer break. Officials with district attorney’s offices across the state told The Center Square on Tuesday that while Nguyen’s bill, AB 46, is not a perfect fix, it is much-welcomed legislation that allows judges more discretion to determine who would be a good fit for mental health diversion and who would just abuse it. “The concern is that mental health diversion is misused,” Matthew Greco, San Diego County deputy district attorney and author of the California Criminal Mental Health Manual, told The Center Square. “It’s broken, and it incentivizes people whose crimes weren’t caused by their mental health to either fabricate mental health disorders or to use mental health disorders as an excuse.” An official with the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office, Chief Deputy Shin-Mee Chang, told The Center Square that she thought it was unfortunate that the list of ineligible crimes under AB 46 did not include some crimes such as attempted murder. “So maybe SB 1373 will accomplish that, but it remains to be seen,” Chang said. All of the sources interviewed by The Center Square said it was hard this early on to tell if either Nguyen’s bill or Grove’s bill would increase or decrease taxpayer costs. However, according to a bill analysis of AB 46, the bill could cause additional costs for courts because staff would need time to determine a defendant’s eligibility for mental health diversion. Those additional dollars could come from the state’s Trial Court Trust Fund or the state’s general fund. None of the groups who registered opposition to Grove’s or Nguyen’s mental health diversion bills responded to The Center Square's request for comment on Tuesday.

Extreme fire conditions caused some of the 17 wildfires burning in the Superior National Forest to rapidly spread July 13-14, 2026.

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Unlike all other mammals, seals can hear both in the air and underwater. How do they do this?

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Unlike all other mammals, seals can hear both in the air and underwater. How do they do this?

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An attorney for North Dakota’s Public Service Commission said Tuesday that the agency can’t consider public safety when issuing a pipeline permit.  Attorney Zachary Pelham said while the commission must consider public welfare, that doesn’t include safety.  “Welfare and safety are two distinct things,” Pelham said during a hearing on a dispute over the permit […]

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An attorney for North Dakota’s Public Service Commission said Tuesday that the agency can’t consider public safety when issuing a pipeline permit.  Attorney Zachary Pelham said while the commission must consider public welfare, that doesn’t include safety.  “Welfare and safety are two distinct things,” Pelham said during a hearing on a dispute over the permit […]