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BIRMINGHAM — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear Wednesday gave his backing to Doug Jones a day after the former U.S. senator won the Democratic primary for governor.  Speaking to a small group of around 20 people, Beshear, who chairs the Democratic Governors’ Association, said having a Democratic governor in Alabama is possible. “The way we can […]

Students designed, budgeted and pitched designs for a meditation garden in front of Granville Lutheran School, 8242 N. Granville Road. The garden should be finished by late June. The post Ground breaks on student-designed meditation garden at Granville Lutheran School appeared first on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

College students and professors are protesting with mock funerals across Texas, saying universities are dying from political interference. School officials say they’re responding to shifting needs.

Cuba classifica como política a acusação dos Estados Unidos e reafirma sua defesa do caso Irmãos ao Resgate de 1996 em Havana Fonte

La Londra a fost inaugurată miercuri expoziția Festivalul Nova, care documentează atacul terorist Hamas din sudul Israelului unde avea loc un festival de muzică pe data de 7 octombrie 2023. Exponatele – fotografii, filme video, obiecte aparținând participanților la festival, unii executați sumar, alții luați ostatici, interviuri cu oameni care riscându-și viața au salvat pe alții – se constituie în probele a ceea ce avea să fie cel mai mare masacru împotriva unor evrei de la Holocaust încoace.

“Dime de qué presumes y te diré de qué careces”, “De humanos es errar y de necios permanecer en el error”, “Quien se excusa, se acusa”.

From Israel’s genocide to Trump’s mass deportation regime, the impunity of the powerful has broken our hearts. But as fascism consolidates, we must keep it from also breaking our brains by refusing the easy seduction of conspiracy thinking suddenly at the heart of Galindo's campaign for Congress.

Alabama primary voters chose their Republican and Democratic nominees for the state’s constitutional offices, and set up two Republican primary runoffs. John Wahl, former Alabama Republican Party Chair, and Secretary of State Wes Allen advanced to a runoff for the party nomination for lieutenant governor. There were seven candidates running in the primary for an […]

Large index-tracking funds could soon gain automatic exposure to AI giants as companies such as OpenAI edge toward public markets.

Buddy Carter lost the Republican primary race for the U.S. Senate in Georgia, finishing third behind two other candidates, despite spending $8.1 million on his campaign. The Current is an inclusive nonprofit, non-partisan news organization providing in-depth watchdog journalism for Savannah and Coastal Georgia’s communities.

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.Whether school board members should have to give 48 hours’ notice before visiting a school is a question that has split the Denver school board. One side says the 48-hour notice is a sign of respect. The other says such a requirement can get in the way of transparency.At issue is a three-sentence policy the board adopted in 2021. It says school board members should notify the Denver Public Schools chief of staff and the board liaison at least 48 hours before visiting any schools, that the superintendent can ask some of his staff to tag along, and that such visits should “not disrupt school operations.”The policy came up for a review earlier this month, and a pair of board members suggested some minor tweaks. But on Wednesday, Board Vice President Monica Hunter, a former DPS teacher, proposed a bigger change: nixing the policy’s 48-hour requirement. After several rounds of debate, the board decided to postpone the decision until next month.Hunter said earlier this month that she’s concerned the requirement could keep board members from visiting schools “that would love to have us.”“As a classroom teacher, I can tell you I had folks — from the district, even — in my classroom all the time, often with no heads up,” Hunter said. “This is just that same level of transparency. It’s not made to have a gotcha moment or to try and disrupt the day.”Board member John Youngquist, a former DPS principal, agreed. He went a step further and suggested revoking the entire policy and conducting visits “as the district had engaged for 145 years, prior to this being a policy” — an idea that didn’t gain traction.But some board members pushed back, both on Wednesday and when they first discussed the proposed changes two weeks ago. Board member Kimberlee Sia, the former CEO of a Denver charter school network, said that even if current board members promise to be courteous on school visits, the rules should be in place in case future board members are not.Board member Marlene De La Rosa said it’s disrespectful for a board member to visit a school without giving the principal advanced warning.“It implies we are trying to show up to find something that’s negative,” she said.Board President Xóchitl Gaytán said it’s especially disrespectful toward Latino principals. She used a metaphor to illustrate why, explaining that in Spanish, “tú” is used to address someone younger than yourself and “usted” is used to address elders or authority figures.“When we remove the 48-hour notice, it’s also a sign of disrespect because we’re saying, ‘I’m going to speak to you in the tú form and I’m not going to have respect for you in the usted form,’” Gaytán said.But board member DJ Torres cautioned against “speaking on behalf of a monolithic Latino community,” which he said doesn’t exist.“I’m also Latino, and that’s not a value I share,” he said. “I also value and believe deeply in transparency. … How we all experience transparency is different.”Moira Coogan, principal of the North Engagement Center and president of the Denver School Leaders Association, told the board earlier this month that the principals union supports keeping the 48-hour notice. A more informal approach to school visits “may unintentionally create confusion or operational challenges,” Coogan said.The board is set to further discuss the policy, known officially as Governance Process Policy 9.5, at its June 4 meeting. Melanie Asmar is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Colorado. Contact Melanie at masmar@chalkbeat.org.

¡Ya tenemos bastante, joder! Que uno tiene el aguante que tiene, y la paciencia, como la decencia en ciertos hemiciclos, hace tiempo que se declaró en concurso de acreedores.

El republicano intentó liberar a Mahmud Ahmadineyad de su aislamiento domiciliario para que el expresidente iraní pudiera ocupar el vacío de poder tras la eliminación del ayatolá Alí Jamenei.

The Alaska Legislature approved a broad omnibus crime bill that will increase criminal penalties for a variety of offenses and streamline victims services. The bill includes over a dozen pieces of legislation and garnered bipartisan support. The Alaska Senate unanimously passed House Bill 239 on Tuesday, after assembling the combination bill package over the last […]

Iranian monarchist groups are voicing anger over reports that FIFA intends to ban the so-called Lion and Sun flag, often used as a symbol of resistance to the theocratic rule that took over the country in 1979. The soccer association says the flag is a "political" symbol and is therefore forbidden.

GILBERT — U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in Iowa Wednesday, announced a surgeon general’s advisory on the harms of screen time for children. He said states like Iowa that have implemented restrictions on cellphone use in schools helped chart the path on national guidelines around screen time for youth. The […]

This story was produced in partnership by Inside Climate News and the Texas Newsroom, the state’s network of public radio stations. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas—Recent rainfall in South Texas has pushed off the projected date of emergency water restrictions in Corpus Christi by three months, the city announced Tuesday, amid growing hope that a powerful global […]

The training program is opening eyes about how people think about street codes, revenge and gun violence. The post A new gun violence initiative in Milwaukee hopes to train the next generation of anti-violence leaders appeared first on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

A situação da Universidade do Distrito Federal (UnDF) foi alvo de críticas durante audiência pública realizada nesta terça-feira (19), na Comissão de Administração e Serviço Público da Câmara dos Deputados. O debate, solicitado pela deputada federal Erika Kokay (PT-DF), reuniu estudantes, professores, gestores e parlamentares para discutir os impactos da precarização da universidade e denunciar […] Fonte

The National Trust for Historic Preservation included the Greater Chaco Cultural Landscape in its 2026 list of the top 11 most endangered historic places, citing the federal threat to reverse a ban on new oil and gas leasing around the site.