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As families anxious that they’ll lose vital services for their kids with disabilities at the end of the month gathered at the Capitol, Republican Rep. Neal Carter told them that Republicans are “on their side.”  That was right after he compared the impending funding lapse at the Arizona Division of Developmental Disabilities, which could leave […]

An appeals court on Thursday upheld a former Democratic state legislator’s conviction for  a child sex crime. Otoniel “Tony” Navarrete was a state senator representing a west Phoenix legislative district when he was arrested in 2021 and charged with seven felonies for child sex crimes after allegedly molesting and forcing oral sex on two boys. […]

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, returning to the Denver area Thursday after he was confirmed as a member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet, repeatedly minimized the consequences of climate change when speaking to reporters during a press conference.  Wright, founder of Denver-based fracking services company Liberty Energy, spoke to employees at the Department of […]

Jakina, zinema aretorik baduzue zuen inguruetan, ezinbestekoa zaizue En fanfare eta Hard Truths filmak ikustea, bertan agertzen diren pertsonaiak haragi-hezurreko-zeluloidezko bete-beteak baitira, eta bai zineman bai bizitzan humanismoa zertan datzan erakusten baitute eder asko, galanki eta fidel. Bide bertsutik ibiliko da gaur bertan Donostian hasiko den Giza Eskubideen Zinemaldia. Muga bihurturiko Bidasoko bi aldeetan bizi/bizirauten/hiltzen diren gizakien alde egiten duen Asier Urbietaren Faisaien irla-rekin jarriko da abian, baina nik bihar eta etzi izango diren bi film handietara nahi dut zuen atentzioa ekarri. Batak Vlny/Waves du izenburu, eta Txekiako Errepublika-Eslovakiatik datorkigu. Bestea Anul Nou care n-a fost/ The New Year That Never Came da, eta Errumaniatik iritsiko zaigu; ederki dakizue zuek banpiro nagusiaren lurretan egiten den zinema Europako kasik guztien gainetik dagoela. Txekiar-eslovakiarra den horrek, bada, beste hainbatek nola betikoek negu gorri bilakatu zuten udaberri batera itzultzen ditu begiak, belarriak, bihotza, akordua; Pragan loratu zen hartara. Pragan, bai. Orain turistek setiatu eta hartutako hiri horretan, non bisitariek jantzitako made in China-ko kamisetetan txekiar herriak sekula ulertu/onartu ez zuen Franz Kafkaren irudi kaskarra agertzen den, non kanposantu juduaren harrien artean bira turistikoak egiten diren, han, 1968ko urtarrilaren 5ean (Errege Gauean, alegia) hasi zen esperantzaz gainezka udaberria. Pariseko 68ko maiatzak baino askoz luzeago iraungo zuena, abuztuaren 21ean ilunduko, gautuko, ustelduko zena (zutena). Sobietar Batasuneko agintariek ez zuten, ordea, gogoko ez libertatea ez udaberria. Kateak eta negu hotza nahiago. Abuztuaren 21 hartan Varsoviako Ituna sinatua zuten Ekialdeko hainbat herrialdetako tankeak sartu ziren Pragan Pragako Udaberria/ Pražské jaro/: Pražská jar. Bai. Loraldi hartan, askok sinetsi egin zuten sozialismoa (benetakoa) alaia, librea, partekatua izan zitekeela. Sinetsi egin zuen jendeak hitz egiteko eskubidea lortuko zutela. Sinetsi zuten beste aldean zen mundura (ziren munduetara) irekitzerik izango zela. Sinetsi egin zuten inork ez zuela rock and rolla debekatuko. Sinetsi zuten dena ezberdina izango zela. Mota guztietako iluntasunen kontra egin zuten borroka itxaropen sutsu horrekin. Beldurrez baina irmo, deliberatu, kontent. Irrati bat izan zuten beti alde. Český rozhlas (Irrati txekoslovakiarra), 1923. urtean sortua. Zentsurari iskin egiten, komisario politikoen aginduak ez betetzen, polizia despistatzen ziren iaioak, eskarmentu handikoak, abilak bertan lan egiten zutenak. Herriak konfiantza erabatekoa zien. Sobietar Batasuneko agintariek ez zuten, ordea, gogoko ez libertatea ez udaberria. Kateak eta negu hotza nahiago. Abuztuaren 21 hartan Varsoviako Ituna sinatua zuten Ekialdeko hainbat herrialdetako tankeak sartu ziren Pragan, zimeldu/zapuztu/birrindu behar zuten udaberri hura faxismo hutsa zela aldarrikatuz. Jendeak, Tiannmenen bezala, aurre egin zien tankeei. Tianannmenen nola, tankeek herritarrak zapaldu zituen dolurik, damurik gabe. Babeslekuetan irratia entzuten zuten hiritarrek. Elizetan, ikastetxeetan, non-nahi. Český rozhlas irratia, jakina asko. Inbasoreak jakitun ziren. Inbasore guztiek ez dute begiko lekukorik. Irratia zen (eta den) Vinohradech auzora hurbildu ziren panzerrak. Jendeak, armarik gabeko jendeak inguratu zituen korazatuak. Kateatu ziren ziento bat irratiaren egoitzako atarian. Maskaltzen ari zen udaberriaren notiziya ematen, transmititzen jarraitzen zuten kazetari eta teknikari finek bitartean. Nabariak ziren eskaileretan soldaduen oinkadak, fusilen kolpeak ere... ahots batek «hemen daude» esan zuen mikrofono piztuaren aurrean. Bazekiten ez zegoela ezer egiterik. Libertatearena bilakatua zen ereserki nazionala jarriz, moztu zen saioa. Betiko? Ezta pentsatu ere. Asmatu zituzten manerak teknikariek, eta arerioaren beraren uhinak eta bitartekoak erabiliz jarraitu zuten zuzeneko informazioa pasatzen. Amaiera denok dakigu, zimeldu zen abuztura arte iraun zuen udaberria, herria salbatu nahian, Batasun Sobietarrak jarritako baldintza zorrotzak onartu behar izan zituzten herriarekin batera libertatea ekartzen saiatu ziren politikari txekoslovakiarrek. Hori guztia, erritmo bizi batez, kamera lepoan harturik, benetako irudiak fikzionatuekin maisuki nahasiz kontatzen du emozioz blai den film galdu ezinezkoak. Errumaniakoak, berriz, 1989ko abendura garamatza. Erori berria da Berlingo Hesia eta Nicolai Ceaucescu diktadoreak ezingo du 1990. urtearen hasiera ospatu, Gabonetan fusilatuko baitute emaztearekin batera. Garaiak ari dira aldatzen herrialdean baina oraindik ere klaustrofobiko samarra da barruko eta kanpoko ingurunea. Bogdan Mureşanu zuzendariak ezin hobeto islatzen du ihes ezin hori, pelikularen formatu hertsi eta estu horren bidez. Bada zinemaldi bat Donostian. Egia, bertan udaberria negutzen da askotan, baina zinemak loretan jarraitzen du. Vlny / Waves filmeko fotograma bat. BERRIA

Hamilton has yet to release a list for this election.

In 2023, Australia pulled out of hosting the 2026 Games - paying the Commonwealth Games Federation $242-million USD, given the Federation the cash it needs to survive.

Tiempo de lectura: 2 minutos  Se dictó apertura a juicio en la etapa intermedia del proceso. El próximo 29 de abril se llevará a cabo la audiencia de ofrecimiento de pruebas, de acuerdo con el juez Alberto Calmo Ramírez. Prensa Comunitaria* El dirigente comunitario Domingo Francisco Simón Simón, del municipio de San Mateo Ixtatán, Huehuetenango, deberá enfrentar un juicio ... Read more

The deluge of “fake news” following the arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte over charges of crimes against humanity has been overwhelming, to say the least. The well-oiled disinformation network has yet again unleashed poisonous content. “Fake news” is a misnomer as news, based on journalism standards, shall always contain verified information. The use of […] The post Reality Check: Bulatlat’s initiative against disinformation appeared first on Bulatlat.

Kampus/Pexels Chris Flynn’s latest novel, Orpheus Nine, explores the small-town fallout of a global catastrophe: something so inexplicably cruel that it forces its characters, and us, to reassess the very point of existence. How do you continue when it seems like all hope, like any chance for a future, is gone? It’s Saturday morning in the rural Australian town of Gattan and the kids are playing football. Everything’s pretty normal. While the children play, the parents unofficially coach from the sidelines, when they aren’t sniping at each other, that is. We meet Jess, whose nine-year-old son Tyler is excelling on the field; Dirk, whose ten-year-old son Alex is also playing, despite technically being a little too old for the team; and Hayley, whose eight-year-old daughter Ebony wishes she was old enough to play. Review: Orpheus Nine – Chris Flynn (Hachette) Then, at 11am, everything changes. The children stop playing. They stand stock-still, fear on their faces, and begin to sing a line from King Lear: “As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.” And then they die. Horribly. That is, all the players except Alex. Only the nine-year-olds are affected by this terrible, inexplicable event. Helpless, Jess is forced to watch Tyler die. Dirk is spared that horror; Alex has, just a week ago, turned ten. And Hayley’s entire world is now steeped in dread, because it keeps happening. Every morning since, on the day a child turns nine, they freeze, they sing and they die. No one knows why. And no one can stop it. Chris Flynn’s novel asks: how do you continue when it seems like all hope is gone? Karli Michelle/Hachette A supernatural tipping point Orpheus Nine, or O9, as the event becomes known, is a supernatural tipping point in an already stressed and destabilised world. Its consequences are complex: a storm of social, political, religious upheaval. The novel never loses sight of these big-picture impacts, noting failures of supply chains, growing conspiracy theories and protests met with state violence. But it does so through the lens of the people of Gattan, so we experience their impact on a personal level. This is a powerful narrative choice. The big picture tends to hold us at a distance — intellectually, we can appreciate what’s going on with governments and large-scale demographic changes, and draw parallels to the world as we know it. But emotionally, it’s the “small-picture” stories of day-to-day lives that affect us. The characters are what we connect to. Their heartbreak, their anger, their fear make O9 real for us. Chris Flynn is doing something very specific with his imagined town and the characters who inhabit it. Using them, he explores individual and communal reactions to grief, across different genders, classes and life experiences. Each of the main characters feels like a “type” or a “trope”, but if you ask me, this is no accident. Flynn seems purposeful and self-aware when it comes to this use of archetypes. Jess is an Orphean, the term given to parents whose children have been taken by O9. She comes from a poor background, with deadbeat parents and an unstable childhood. In the aftermath of O9, she fights to make her voice heard in a way it never really was before. In Hayley, we have a terrified mother, willing to do anything to save her daughter. As a “Saltless”, she is engaged in a campaign against “big salt”, believing its overconsumption contributes to O9 deaths. Her “healthy eating” crusade is her response to an uncontrollable situation, though it sometimes borders on abuse. Dirk is heir to the fortune of Gattan’s wealthy family, a small-town member of the elite who seems to have it all, though his father was a monster behind closed doors. He is a Decadian: his child just missed the O9 cutoff. Conservative and traditional, he leans on his family name to assume authority over the town as the crisis worsens. These characters represent different broader social experiences, so they all react to O9 and the new world order in different ways. But more than that, as new traumas bring old ones to the surface, Orpheus Nine skips back in time to show us what made these people who they are. How we process trauma doesn’t come out of the blue. It’s a result of our histories, our childhoods, our upbringings and the people around us. Yes, Jess, Hayley and Dirk are all archetypes, but they are not reduced because of it. They don’t simply wear human masks over demographic faces. They even have the opportunity to grow and change, as the events of O9 undermine the structures of normal everyday life that would otherwise have kept them in their lane. They kill us for their sport Orpheus Nine is marketed as a supernatural thriller, but I’m not sure I agree with the category. Supernatural, definitely. But it doesn’t have the plot twists or action set pieces I’d equate with a thriller. Instead, it’s a character-driven thought experiment that touches on the myriad ways we try to cope when something terrible and unexpected comes crashing into our lives. Through community organisations, online forums, religious cults, militant groups, government conspiracies – and even down to the ingredients in the food they consume – our characters try to reestablish some certainty, some control. And don’t we all know how they feel! Thanks to COVID and the increasingly fraught state of global politics, we have all lived this. We are living it still. I read Orpheus Nine in the week after ex-cyclone Alfred hit southeast Queensland. The supply chains were still struggling to recover, and there were rumblings of conspiracy theories online. Some of us got lucky and were spared any aftereffects for no obvious reason. Others were hit hard, unexpectedly and unforecasted: homes destroyed and lives ruined. Like the “gods” of Orpheus Nine, who kill us for their sport, we are all at the mercy of an uncertain, at times uncaring, future. And we will each rise to meet it in our own way. Joanne Anderton does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

In an internal FEMA memorandum obtained by Grist, the Trump administration announced it plans to dismantle the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program.

Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox. A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Elizabeth school district to return 19 banned books to the shelves of its school libraries by 5 p.m. on Saturday. The order represents the second time U.S. District Court Judge Charlotte Sweeney has ordered the books returned to school library shelves. She originally ordered their return by March 25, but paused that deadline after the district filed a motion objecting to the books’ return. Her latest order represents the decision she made after reconsidering the issue. It’s not yet clear if the district will have to comply. A spokesperson for the Elizabeth district said by email Thursday evening that the district is renewing its emergency motion to halt legal enforcement of the books’ return and would file it with the court by midnight. Sweeney’s order and the district’s plan for an emergency motion are the latest developments in a lawsuit focused on 19 books that are primarily by or about LGBTQ people, people of color, or both. They touch on topics ranging from same-sex relationships to racism and police violence. The books include titles such as “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini, and “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas. The case began in December, when the American Civil Liberties Union sued the 2,600-student district after the school board voted to remove the 19 books from school libraries last fall. The plaintiffs in the case include two students, a chapter of the NAACP, and the Authors Guild, a professional organization for writers. In January, a middle school administrator who was fired by the Elizabeth district after calling the plan to remove school library books racist filed a civil rights complaint against the district. In her latest order requiring the return of the 19 books, Sweeney dismissed several of the district’s arguments for not returning the books, including that it would face “irreparable harm” if it was forced to do so. Instead, she holds that the plaintiffs face harm if the books are not put back on school library shelves, writing, “As the Court previously held, ‘[t]he loss of First Amendment freedoms, for even minimal periods of time, unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury.‘” Sweeney also cast doubt on the district’s arguments that school members didn’t vote to remove the books because of partisan or political motives. In fact, she cited examples where board members explicitly mentioned their conservative politics in discussing the book removals. For example, she noted that Heather Booth, who resigned from the board in January, said in an email last year to Superintendent Dan Snowberger: “It’s equally important to remember that our commitment to conservative values was a key aspect of our campaign.” If the district’s emergency motion for a stay is unsuccessful and the books must be returned on Saturday, it’s not clear how that will happen. That’s because the district discarded the original copies of the books last fall after the school district vote. The district has since received two separate donations of the removed books. The first from Greg Lopez, a former Republican member of Congress, came with conditions that limit access to plaintiffs in the case. That donation appeared to be part of a legal strategy that allowed the district to argue that it wasn’t violating the plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights as the lawsuit claimed, since the books were available to them. The second book donation came last week from a law firm — Wheeler Trigg O’Donnell — that’s working with the ACLU on the lawsuit. In a meeting on March 28, the school board rejected the gift, with one exception. The board voted to keep the book “#Pride: Championing LGBTQ Rights,” but not to return it to library shelves. Instead, they said it would remain in Snowberger’s possession. In her ruling, Sweeney critiqued the district for not stating in earlier court filings that it had destroyed the original set of banned books or that it had received a donated set of books that could only be read by a small group of people. She also called out the district for rejecting the second donation from the law firm. “The District’s decision to reject the donation and thus manufacture an injury is its own doing and will not create an irreparable harm,” she wrote. Ann Schimke is a senior reporter at Chalkbeat, covering early childhood issues and early literacy. Contact Ann at aschimke@chalkbeat.org.

SIOUX FALLS — A $729,000 consultant contract will be added to the roughly $50 million South Dakota has already spent on a stalled prison construction effort.  State officials signed a contract this week to pay a consultant to repeat and update a $323,000 prison facilities report that has framed three years of discussions on the […]

Más de 600 atletas y entrenadores que forman parte de los selectivos recibieron uniformes La entrada Reconoce BUAP la dedicación de sus deportistas aparece primero en LADO B.

Jonathan Greenblatt, the leader of the Anti-Defamation League, has walked back his organization’s previous support for President Donald Trump’s Trump campaign to detain and deport pro-Palestinian activists — thank God. “No one should minimize the hateful, violent acts committed against Jewish students,” he wrote in an April 3 essay in eJewishPhilanthropy. “But if we sacrifice... The post The ADL reversed its support for Trump’s student deportations. You should too appeared first on The Forward.

A Russian drone attack on April 3 hit residential buildings Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine, killing at least three people and injured 32, local officials said.

WASHINGTON — Judge James E. Boasberg on Thursday strongly implied there was probable cause that the Trump administration violated his orders over deportation flights carried out under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “It seems to me … that the government acted in bad faith throughout that day,” he said of March 15, when the […]

ཨ་རིའི་རླུང་འཕྲིན་ཁང་གི་གཟའ་ཟླ་བ་ནས་པ་སངས་བར་གྱི་སྔ་དགོང་གཉིས་ཀྱི་ཀུན་གླེང་བརྙན་འཕྲིན་ནང་གསར་འགྱུར་དང་། དྲ་སྣང་གི་བོད། ཆབ་སྲིད་བཙོན་པ་ངོ་སྤྲོད། དཔེ་ཀློག་སོགས་ཀྱི་ལས་རིམ་དང་། བརྗོད་གཞི་གལ་ཆེན་མང་པོའི་ཐད་དུས་ཐོག་ཏུ་བགྲོ་གླེང་ལྷུག་པོར་གནང་བའི་ལེ་ཚན་བཅས་ཡོད་པས་དུས་ལྟར་གཟིགས་རོགས་གནང་། ཀུན་གླེང་ཐད་གཏོང་གི་དུས་ཚོད་ནི་རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་དགོང་མོའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་བདུན་དང་ཕྱེད་ཀ་ནས་བརྒྱད་པའི་བར་དང་། བོད་ནང་གི་དགོང་མོའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་བཅུ་བ་ནས་༡༠ དང་ཕྱེད་ཀའི་བར། དེ་བཞིན་ཨ་རིའི་ཤར་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་ཞོགས་པའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་༡༠ པ་ནས་༡༠...

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SIOUX FALLS — Twenty people lined up Thursday at the Military Heritage Alliance to share their thoughts on South Dakota’s correctional needs with the group of lawmakers and other assorted officials tasked with finding ways to address prison overcrowding. There was talk of offender re-entry, rehabilitation and second chances. The state penitentiary in Sioux Falls […]

O tarifaço anunciado pelo presidente dos Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, poderá acelerar o processo de acordo entre o Mercosul e a União Europeia (EU). A avaliação é do presidente da Agência Brasileira de Promoção de Exportações e Investimentos (ApexBrasil), Jorge Viana.  “Eu acho que o Brasil não tem que focar em qual vantagem a gente vai tirar nisso. Até porque o presidente Lula é do multilateralismo, propõe acordos. Mas é óbvio que, qualquer analista vai ver, se os Estados Unidos conseguirem implementar essas medidas, pode ter como consequência, por exemplo, acelerar o processo do acordo Mercosul-União Europeia”, disse, em entrevista coletiva na tarde desta quinta-feira (3). Notícias relacionadas: Lula diz que governo tomará medidas para defender empresas nacionais. Centrais sindicais e patronais criticam tarifaço de Trump. Entenda a guerra de tarifas de Trump e consequências para Brasil. “Já ouvimos e vimos manifestações de líderes europeus que dizem que vão acelerar o processo de validação do acordo Mercosul-União Europeia”, acrescentou. De acordo com Viana, as novas tarifas anunciadas pelos Estados Unidos abrirão novas possibilidades comerciais para o Brasil e demais países. “Mas acho que, antes das possibilidades, vão vir as dificuldades. E é um risco grande. É algo que pode construir uma nova era. Tem alguns analistas que já falam que pode ser que os Estados Unidos podem estar abrindo agora a era da China”, acrescentou. Em média, as tarifas aplicadas por Trump foram de 10% para países da América Latina, de 20% para Europa e de 30% para Ásia, mostrando que o governo americano vê como maior ameaça os países orientais.  Apesar da taxa menor aplicada ao Brasil, de 10%, o presidente da Apex disse não ver “vantagem” para o país e afirmou acreditar que o tarifaço não será benéfico para o comércio global. “Eu não consigo enxergar vantagem nenhuma quando o mundo pode piorar a sua relação comercial. Foram os Estados Unidos que introduziram no mundo, há décadas, a ideia do livre mercado, dos conglomerados, dos acordos comerciais, foram eles que fizeram, dizendo que isso era melhor para o mundo. E, de fato, para o mundo ficar mais pacífico, você tem que ter um mundo mais transacional entre os países”, afirmou. Ele ressalvou, no entanto, que o Brasil poderá passar a receber mais investimentos, mas que a nova conjuntura será "ruim para todos". “Acho que, na incerteza, o Brasil pode ter mais investimento do que tem, mas eu não estou querendo trabalhar a tese do tirar proveito ou tirar benefício, porque um mundo inseguro, um mundo em conflito, é ruim para todo mundo, inclusive o Brasil. A tese minha é essa, vai ser ruim para todos, independente de você ganhar mais aqui ou perder ali”.