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A Montana judge has mooted the state’s would-be TikTok ban before it could block a single viral video. On Feb. 20, U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy concluded the case, which challenged the law’s constitutionality, and which had been paused since Molloy temporarily blocked its implementation in 2023. The post The first-in-the-nation TikTik ban that wasn’t appeared first on Montana Free Press.

Commission hears of sweeping disruptions to daily life in the Chicago area caused by immigration raids.

Las concentraciones convocadas el pasado fin de semana en España evidenciaron una constante: mucho ruido digital y escasa materialización en la calle.

El equipo italiano no culmina la remontada ante el Bodo/Glimt y los colchoneros resisten con pegada: en este torneo no existen rivales pequeños.

From shopping carts suspended upside down to art in every nook and cranny, this is not the same 99 Cents Only store you used to buy your cleaning supplies at.

A defendant wanted jury selection in his trial restarted because of the ex-governor’s order restoring jury rights to some ex-offenders. The New Jersey Supreme Court denied his request.

Après des mois d’enquête, des parlementaires américains ont présenté, lundi 24 février, à la Maison-Blanche un rapport consacré à la prétendue persécution des chrétiens au Nigeria. Porté par des élus de la droite chrétienne, le document réitère des accusations jugées « infondées » par plusieurs observateurs et appelle à des sanctions ciblées contre certains individus et groupes, accusés d’entraver la liberté religieuse dans le pays. Ces recommandations font suite à une enquête de terrain et à une série de consultations menées fin 2025, à la fois au Nigeria et à Washington, par des membres du Congrès américain.

El lanzamiento de Claude Code, la herramienta de inteligencia artificial de Anthropic, provocó la mayor caída bursátil de IBM en dos décadas y encendió el debate sobre si la IA está empezando a devorar negocios tecnológicos históricos antes incluso de reemplazar empleo

La noche de este martes, los encargados de abrir el Festival de Viña fueron Jesse & Joy, el conocido dúo mexicano que está por tercera vez en la Quinta Vergara. Para esta ocasión, los hermanos hicieron una entrada diferente, con Jesse desde el escenario y Joy apareciendo en la galería, junto al público, haciendo un … Continua leyendo "Desde galería y con fuertes coros: así fue la épica entrada de Jesse & Joy en el Festival de Viña" The post Desde galería y con fuertes coros: así fue la épica entrada de Jesse & Joy en el Festival de Viña appeared first on BioBioChile.

Rencana perluasan kebun sawit untuk bioenergi yang Presiden Prabowo Subianto sampaikan terus menuai kritikan. Terlebih, di tengah bencana melanda berbagai daerah hingga kini termasuk penanganan kerusakan pasca bencana besar di Sumatera lalu belum juga selesai. Berbagai kalangan mengingatkan,  bahaya dan risiko kalau mengubah hutan dan lahan di Papua untuk kebun sawit. Bagi Prabowo, ekspansi sawit […] The post Ekspansi Sawit di Papua Berisiko, Bukan Solusi Energi appeared first on Mongabay.co.id.

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. Most Colorado school board members are elected by voters across the entire school district. So voters who live in the south part of a district often get to decide who represents the north part of the district, a setup that some state lawmakers said makes little sense. But an attempt to change that system failed on Tuesday. Senate Bill 57 would have required elections to be more localized. Instead of electing school board members at large, as it’s called, the bill would have restricted the pool of voters to those who live in the cities or neighborhoods that the candidate would represent, similar to how Colorado elects its state representatives and congresspeople. “It kind of doesn’t make sense to me that we have elections at large when we have candidates geographically distributed,” state Sen. Mark Baisley, a Woodland Park Republican, told a legislative committee Tuesday. “Let’s have them elected locally where they can actually focus their time and their resources for their elections.” Baisley is one of the most conservative members of the state legislature. He quipped at the hearing that he found himself “in the unusual position” of agreeing on this issue with the American Civil Liberties Union, which often champions progressive causes. The co-sponsor of the bill was state Rep. Bob Marshall, a Democrat from Highlands Ranch. Colorado Common Cause, a liberal-leaning nonprofit, testified in favor of the bill at a short hearing before the Senate State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee. The committee has a reputation as a “kill committee” because most bills don’t make it out. Dillon Rankin, an intern for Colorado Common Cause, said at-large elections can lead to unrepresentative and discriminatory results. A majority of seats are often won by candidates who agree with a majority of voters, leaving no room for minority opinions, he said. The powerful Colorado Association of School Boards opposed the bill. Matt Cook, the organization’s director of public policy and advocacy, said state law already allows school districts to change the way they elect school board members if voters agree to it. But Cook said he didn’t know how many districts had. The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office said it doesn’t track it either. The bill would have only applied to school districts with 6,500 students or more. That’s just 28 of Colorado’s 186 districts. Of the 10 largest districts, only the very biggest — the 89,000-student Denver Public Schools — uses a different system. Two of Denver’s school board members are elected at-large. The other five are elected only by the voters who live in the neighborhoods the members represent. Teachers unions were also opposed to the bill. Rob Gould, president of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association, said Denver’s system leads to politicized and costly elections. In last November’s election, candidates and outside groups spent $2.35 million on ads, mailers, consultants, and other expenses, according to Chalkbeat’s tally, making it the most expensive Denver school board election ever. “This dynamic discourages everyday educators, parents, and community members from running because they feel they cannot match the financial and political scale of these campaigns,” Gould said. Colorado’s second-largest school district, the 74,000-student Jeffco Public Schools, has at-large elections. Brooke Williams, the president of the Jeffco teachers union, said it’s already hard to recruit candidates. Changing how they’re elected would make it harder, she said. Two members of the Senate State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee said they agreed with the idea behind the bill, noting that more localized elections lead to more political and racial diversity among elected officials. But they said they were worried about the details, including how some school districts might draw the voting maps. “We might see gerrymandering as a result of this proposal,” said state Sen. Katie Wallace, a Democrat from Longmont and chair of the committee. The kill committee quickly dispatched the bill, voting it down along party lines. The two Republicans voted yes and the three Democrats voted no. Melanie Asmar is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Colorado. Contact Melanie at masmar@chalkbeat.org.

El ministro de Seguridad Pública, Luis Cordero, se refirió a la controversia generada en torno al proyecto de cable submarino entre China y Chile, luego que se conociera que el ministro de Transportes y Telecomunicaciones, Juan Carlos Muñoz, autorizó inicialmente el proceso para luego rectificar la medida. La autoridad enfatizó que el Ejecutivo recaba información … Continua leyendo "Gobierno recaba información de seguridad tras advertencia de EEUU por cable submarino" The post Gobierno recaba información de seguridad tras advertencia de EEUU por cable submarino appeared first on BioBioChile.

Con ediciones en Papudo, La Serena y Zapallar, el Run and Sand cerró un verano 2026 ampliamente positivo. El circuito se posicionó no solo como un evento deportivo, sino como una plataforma concreta de impacto ambiental en el borde costero. A lo largo de este periodo, el formato combinó running en la arena con acciones … Continua leyendo "Run and Sand 2026 consolidó circuito deportivo con huella positiva: medallas con mallas recicladas" The post Run and Sand 2026 consolidó circuito deportivo con huella positiva: medallas con mallas recicladas appeared first on BioBioChile.

دموکرات‌های سنای آمریکا پس از برگزاری یک نشست محرمانه درباره ایران هشدار دادند که کشور در «شرایطی جدی» قرار دارد و از دونالد ترامپ، رئیس جمهوری ایالات متحده خواستند توضیح دهد چگونه قصد دارد بن‌بست بر سر برنامه هسته‌ای تهران را حل کند.

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. After an Upper West Side parent’s racist comments were caught on a hot mic at a public meeting, Black parent leaders and elected officials say they want to see both accountability for her actions and a broader reckoning from the nation’s largest school system. A student from the Community Action School was testifying in person against a plan to close the middle school at a Feb. 10 local education council meeting when Allyson Friedman, a parent at another local public school, began speaking on Zoom. “They’re too dumb to know they’re in a bad school,” said Friedman, who is a professor at Hunter College. She then appeared to misattribute and misquote Black historian Carter G. Woodson. “Apparently Martin Luther King said it: If you train a Black person well enough, they’ll know to use the back. You don’t have to tell them anymore,” Friedman said. District 3 Interim Acting Superintendent Reginald Higgins cited Woodson earlier in the meeting as part of his reflections on Black History Month. In the 1933 book, “The Mis-Education of the Negro,” Woodson described how racism in schools can perpetuate inequities. “If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door,” Woodson wrote. Friedman’s comments exploded into public view after a recording was posted online and drew rebukes from an array of elected officials and parent leaders. Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday called the remarks “reprehensible” and “indicative of the exact kind of language that makes students feel as if they don’t belong in our public school system.” A City Hall spokesperson said officials are discussing the incident with CUNY, which oversees Hunter College. Several Black parent leaders held a press conference Tuesday to condemn Friedman and call on education officials to take action to address inequities in the system. They urged the city’s Education Department to better promote its Black Studies curriculum, deploy the materials more widely, and offer more support for parent leaders grappling with anti-Black racism. “We are still fighting to be seen as human,” said Tanesha Grant, the executive director of Parents Supporting Parents NY, which organized the press conference. “Our children are still fighting to be seen as human and we will not allow or tolerate anti-Blackness in our school communities.” Several parents and elected officials said Friedman, a professor in the biological sciences department at Hunter College, should be fired. A Hunter spokesperson said the school is reviewing whether Friedman’s comments violate their policies. Friedman said in an email that she inadvertently unmuted herself on Zoom and did not intend to share her comments publicly. “As a parent, I was trying to explain the concept of systemic racism by referencing a historical example,” she wrote. “My remarks were not directed at the student speaker, and they do not reflect my beliefs or values. Regardless of context, my words were wrong and caused real harm.” Comments come at a tricky time for new chancellor The episode comes at a delicate moment for schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels, who was most recently superintendent of District 3. He built a reputation for listening to parent feedback and for his focus on integrating schools in one of the nation’s most segregated systems. Samuels helped launch the process of closing three middle school programs in the district, including Community Action School, partly due to anemic enrollment. District officials are considering moving The Center School, where Friedman is a parent, to a new building more than a mile away. The Center School, which is majority white, would share a building with P.S. 191, which is largely Black and Latino and would lose its middle school grades. Separately, the Community Action School, which predominantly enrolls students of color from low-income families, would be closed entirely. Those proposals have all generated considerable pushback, and Friedman’s comments reopened longstanding questions about equity and access in a stratified school district. Parent leaders at the Center School distanced themselves from the incident. “We want to be absolutely clear: this parent’s statement does not represent the values of the Center School community,” the school’s PTA wrote in a statement posted to its website. “Yet their words remind us that racism is not distant – it exists in our broader community, and it is our collective responsibility to confront it.” For his part, Samuels vowed to support students who were affected. “I know that district quite intimately, and we will be really leaning in and working with the school communities to make sure that we repair any harm that was done to our students,” Samuels told reporters Tuesday. Education Department spokesperson Dominique Ellison did not elaborate on what actions the city plans to take but noted that Friedman is not a department employee or parent council member. Community Action School parent Nicki Holtzman said the school has done an “incredible job” responding to the incident. “To my understanding, the kids were not told, and they’ve been protected,” she said. (The student who Friedman interrupted may not have heard the comment because they were testifying in person and Friedman was on Zoom.) Still, Holtzman worries the episode will distract from the school community’s push to keep its doors open. Several parent leaders indicated Tuesday that their frustration is much broader than Friedman’s comments. They pointed to repeated instances of systemic racism and anti-Black attitudes, including from other parent leaders. “I’ve watched people employ every archaic, toxic, stereotypical red herring they can to try to slow us down and to try to justify why it is okay to underserve a Black child,” said Erika Kendall, the Community Education Council president in Brooklyn’s District 17. “But also why it is okay to ignore and dismiss the concerns of a Black parent.” NeQuan McLean, the president of the Community Education Council in Bedford-Stuyvesant, proposed one idea for giving parent leaders considerably more power. He said local councils should have the power to sign off on mergers and closures, which usually affect schools that are struggling with enrollment and tend to have a higher proportion of Black and Latino children. On the campaign trail, Mamdani vowed to end mayoral control of schools — which gives City Hall much of the power over those decisions — but later backtracked. The councils “are community school boards that have been stripped of their power, and we need that power back,” McLean said. Alex Zimmerman is a reporter for Chalkbeat New York, covering NYC public schools. Contact Alex at azimmerman@chalkbeat.org.

Despite social media rumors to the contrary, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement does not appear to be planning a detention center in Cary. But ICE may be expanding its administrative office space there, and residents are petitioning city leaders to stop the expansion. The office space in question, a 25,000 square foot suite at 11000 […]

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The man who piloted the Israeli bobsled team to its first-ever Olympic Games defended the athlete-swapping scheme that led to the team’s removal from competition, saying in an interview with the Forward that the Israeli sporting authority blew the incident out of proportion. The Olympic Committee of Israel said it pulled the team after learning... The post Israeli bobsled captain on Olympics exit: ‘Holy endeavor’ slammed into rigid rule appeared first on The Forward.

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Democrats using Trump as cover for developer and corporate polluter agenda