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WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance said Thursday the Trump administration would stand by the federal immigration officer who shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis the day prior.  Vance defended the immigration officer’s actions as “self-defense” and berated journalists for covering the story, including by reporting that on-the-scene videos contradicted claims from the Trump […]

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance said Thursday the Trump administration would stand by the federal immigration officer who shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis the day prior.  Vance defended the immigration officer’s actions as “self-defense” and berated journalists for covering the story, including by reporting that on-the-scene videos contradicted claims from the Trump […]

美國總統特朗普在《紐約時報》周四發表的訪談中宣稱，應由他的中國同行習近平自己來決定北京對台灣的行動，但他又補充說，他將對(台海)現狀的改變 “非常不滿”。

美国总统特朗普在《纽约时报》周四发表的访谈中宣称，应由他的中国同行习近平自己来决定北京对台湾的行动，但他又补充说，他将对(台海)现状的改变 “非常不满”。

This is a developing story and will be updated. Federal agents reportedly shot and injured two people in east Portland on Thursday afternoon, according to the Portland Police Bureau. Police had few immediate details to share about the incident, which occurred the day after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a woman […]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House approved a bipartisan bill Thursday to resurrect the enhanced tax credits that expired at the end of last year for people who purchase their health insurance from the Affordable Care Act marketplace. The 230-196 vote sends the legislation to the Senate, where Republican leadership is unlikely to put it on […]

Ocorridos nesta quinta-feira (8) em diversas cidades do país, os atos Brasil nas Ruas pela Democracia, que relembraram e condenaram a tentativa de golpe de estado do dia 8 de janeiro de 2023, também incorporaram diversas manifestações contra o ataque dos Estados Unidos à Venezuela e o sequestro do presidente Nicolás Maduro. Na maioria dos […] Pelo Brasil, protestos contra ataque à Venezuela marcam atos que relembram 8 de janeiro apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.

Less than 48 hours after the Montana Supreme Court stopped a first-of-its-kind constitutional measure that would prohibit corporations from spending money on political candidates or ballot issues, the Transparent Election Initiative in Montana resubmitted a revised proposal that its leaders said honored the court’s ruling and simplified the motion. The organization also submitted a similar […]

Las protestas que comenzaron en el Gran Bazar de Teherán se han extendido a nivel nacional en medio del colapso de la moneda y enfrentamientos con víctimas fatales.

ཉིན་ལྟར་ཐོན་བཞིན་པའི་བོད་དང་ཨ་རིའི་གསར་འགྱུར་ཁག་དང་། འཛམ་གླིང་གསར་འགྱུར་ཁག་རྒྱང་སྲིང་ཞུས་པ་ཕུད། དེ་མིན་དམིགས་བསལ་ལེ་ཚན་ཁག་ཅིག་རྒྱང་སྲིང་ཞུ་བཞིན་ཡོད།

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Education has introduced the Returning Education to the States Waiver, granting states greater flexibility in using federal funding. Iowa is the first state to receive approval for the waiver. The department claims that the waiver is flexible and will reduce compliance costs, allowing almost $8 million to be redirected from bureaucratic red tape to the classroom over four years. Iowa is the first state in the nation to receive federal approval to redirect federal resources from compliance to the classroom in its innovative Unified Allocation Plan. State funds from several Elementary and Secondary Education Act programs are combined into a single block grant of about $3.8 million for 2024 and 2025, allowing the state to support statewide professional learning, including literacy and instruction for English learners, at no cost to schools. State education leaders plan to use the redirected funds to expand support for literacy training, strengthen their teacher pipeline and narrow achievement gaps. This will allow Iowa’s reporting requirement to reduce administrative work and provide flexibility that supports innovative solutions that focus on classroom instruction for students while ensuring transparency and accountability. “We are grateful to each of the administrators, teachers, and Iowans whose experience and expertise shaped Iowa’s innovative Unified Allocation Plan, which reflects our collective focus on accountability for student outcomes,” Iowa Department of Education Director McKenzie Snow said. “Alongside them and the U.S. Department of Education, we look forward to continuing our work to refocus federal resources on their true purpose–the success of all learners.” The Department of Education confirmed in an email to The Center Square that it is currently working with six other states on waiver requests. Since the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress results, the administration has taken strides to improve student outcomes in math and reading scores. The waiver is part of the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and shift greater control to the states. “Granting Iowa’s waiver illustrates the Trump Administration’s commitment to returning education to the states by empowering state leaders, who know their students far better than bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., to have more discretion over federal education dollars,” Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in a statement.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House approved a bipartisan bill Thursday to resurrect the enhanced tax credits that expired at the end of last year for people who purchase their health insurance from the Affordable Care Act marketplace. The 230-196 vote sends the legislation to the Senate, where Republican leadership is unlikely to put it on […]

This is a developing story and will be updated. Federal agents reportedly shot and injured two people in east Portland on Thursday afternoon, according to the Portland Police Bureau. Police had few immediate details to share about the incident, which occurred the day after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a woman […]

Quase metade dos processos registrados pelo Plantão Judiciário no Rio de Janeiro, durante o recesso de final de ano, foram relativos a medidas protetivas previstas na Lei Maria da Penha, segundo o Tribunal de Justiça do Rio. Das 18h do dia 19 de dezembro de 2025 às 11h de 6 de janeiro deste ano, foram despachados 4.027 processos na capital fluminense. As medidas protetivas corresponderam a 47%. Além dessas medidas, foram registradas autorizações de viagens para crianças e adolescentes, internações hospitalares, alvará de sepultamento, busca e apreensão de menores, internações em hospitais, mandados de prisões, alvará de soltura, habeas corpus e representações por prisões cautelares. No interior do estado, que abrange as regiões de Niterói, Rio Bonito, Duque de Caxias, Petrópolis, Itaguaí, Volta Redonda, Nova Friburgo, Itaocara e Campos dos Goytacazes, foram registrados um total de 2.277 processos. Descumprimento O país registrou uma taxa de 18,3% de descumprimento de medidas protetivas de urgência em 2024, o que corresponde a um total de 101.656 registros nas delegacias de polícia. Os números foram divulgados pela primeira vez pelo Anuário Brasileiro de Segurança Pública em julho de 2025 e revelam uma falha no sistema de proteção à mulher, com um crescimento de 10,8% nas violações em relação a 2023. De acordo com o levantamento, a cada 10 mulheres com proteção judicial, quase duas tiveram a medida desrespeitada pelos agressores. Os casos de descumprimento somaram 101.656 no ano passado, contra 87.642 em 2023. As medidas mais comuns concedidas pela Justiça incluem a proibição de aproximação e contato com a vítima, além do afastamento do agressor do lar.

Washington mueve ficha y llama a las grandes petroleras, incluida Repsol, para decidir quién reconstruirá —y controlará— el crudo de Venezuela.

(The Center Square) – In California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s final State of the State address Thursday, the potential presidential candidate positioned himself as an alternative to what he described as “purposeful chaos” in Washington, D.C. “In Washington, the president believes that might makes right, that democracy is a nuisance to be circumvented.” the San Francisco native said before a joint session of the Legislature in Sacramento. “Purposeful chaos is emanating from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.” Newsom’s State of the State address follows a November interview with CBS Sunday Morning in which he said he would consider a presidential run after the 2026 midterm elections in November. However, some believe the governor's speech at the Capitol was meant to position him to campaign. “I think it was more of a campaign speech than a State of the State speech,” Sen. Tony Strickland, R-Huntington Beach, told The Center Square. “He wants to launch his campaign for president, and he doesn’t have a great record, so he’s trying to put lipstick on that pig.” Among the issues Newsom addressed in his speech were the 52 lawsuits filed against the federal government by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, the state’s economy, artificial intelligence, education, labor, law enforcement, firefighters and the Los Angeles wildfires in January 2025. But he also addressed concerns about the state’s tax policy. “We built one of the most progressive tax systems in the nation,” Newsom said during the speech. “One that asks high-income residents to pay a little bit more without punishing those who are making a little bit less.” He also addressed California’s budgetary challenges starting this year, which the Legislative Analyst’s Office projected in November would result in an $18 billion shortfall for the 2026-27 fiscal year. The deficit is caused by obligations to pay for school and community college funding mandated by Proposition 98, which California voters passed in 1988, and debt and reserve deposit requirements, according to previous reporting by The Center Square. The state’s budget woes are expected despite $11 billion in revenue gain made in the last year, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office report. The governor’s proposed budget will be announced in a press conference Friday in Sacramento. “[We are] mindful, as we should be, of the nature of our state budget and the longterm structural challenges,” Newsom told legislators during his speech. “We’re going to rebuild our reserves, $7.3 billion, pay down our longterm pensions, and of those obligations, over $11.8 billion will be met in the next few years, including $3 billion just in next year’s budget.” A Democratic legislator who spoke to The Center Square on Thursday said Newsom’s speech illustrated that California is still a strong, resilient state with a competitive economy. “Overall, I was pleased he was able to dispel some of the myths people have been putting out about California,” Assemblymember Rhodesia Ransom, D-Stockton, said at the Capitol. “He did a good job of reminding us that California is strong and California is resilient, and people are not flocking to leave California. There are still people coming here, we’re still innovative, and I thought he did a good job of showing the strength of California and why we are still one of the largest economies.” But Ransom said she was surprised Newsom didn't address the fentanyl crisis. According to CalMatters, it killed 5,942 people between September 2021 and September 2022 alone. Republican reactions to Newsom’s speech included concerns that he was taking credit for actions he didn’t take and that he was reusing a speech he gave more than a decade ago. “I believe Gov. Newsom was gaslighting the legislature,” Assemblymember David Tangipa, R-Fresno, told The Center Square. “There was nothing we heard today that really showed how California is actually leading the nation other than monumental failures. The only areas that actually have been doing better are not because of the governor’s policies.”

GurIta bukan hanya hewan yang terkenal dengan kecerdasan dan kemampuan kamuflasenya yang luar biasa. Bagi Indonesia,  satwa moluska dari kelas Cephalopoda ini merupakan salah satu produk andalan ekspor. Permintaan pasar luar negeri tinggi terhadap gurita.  Indonesia salah satu eksportir gurita dunia. Gurita Indonesia mengalir ke berbagai negara seperti Jepang, Italia, China, Amerika Serikat. Kondisi ini […] The post Gurita dari Laut yang Terjaga appeared first on Mongabay.co.id.

法新社周四在南非開普敦附近觀察到，中國和伊朗的軍艦已抵達當地，準備參加大金磚國家的聯合軍事演習。一名參與此次海上演習的官員表示，俄羅斯艦艇也將加入此次軍事演習。

法新社周四在南非开普敦附近观察到，中国和伊朗的军舰已抵达当地，准备参加大金砖国家的联合军事演习。一名参与此次海上演习的官员表示，俄罗斯舰艇也将加入此次军事演习。

法國世界報東京通訊員梅斯梅爾(Philippe Mesmer)周四刊出文章表示，中國不滿日本在台灣問題上的立場，因而不斷對日本採取報復措施,現在開始打擊日本的工業。