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South Dakota is on track to meet or exceed its revenue estimates by the end of the fiscal year, the Legislature’s lead budget expert said Thursday. The state is about $10 million ahead of its year-to-date target, said Jeff Mehlhaff, chief fiscal analyst for the Legislative Research Council’s. The state fiscal year ends June 30. […]

Todos os números da China são superlativos: 800 milhões de pessoas retiradas da pobreza absoluta; 40 milhões de estudantes nas universidades; mais de um bilhão de usuários de internet; 100 milhões de filiados ao Partido Comunista; 42 mil quilômetros de ferrovias de alta velocidade; 160 mil quilômetros de rodovias expressas; serviço básico de segurança médica […] Fonte

(The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s Illinois Accountability Commission has released its report on alleged abuses by federal immigration law enforcement officers in Illinois, but it remains unclear if the report will lead to prosecutions. Commission members joined Pritzker for a news conference in Chicago on Thursday. The governor said Operation Midway Blitz was a military-style assault on Illinois. “Our communities and our people were subjected to an unprecedented campaign of harassment, intimidation and brutality,” Pritzker said. The governor created the commission last October and directed it to document the conduct of federal officers during Operation Midway Blitz, examine the impact of that conduct and consider policy recommendations. Commission chair Rubén Castillo said the 204-page report released Thursday demonstrates patterns of illegal and violent conduct by federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz. According to the report’s executive summary, “Operation Midway Blitz agents regularly used force against Illinoisans without justification.” Castillo said the report would be referred to Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke. “And it should be investigated. I'm not talking about convictions. That's up to a jury. That's up to a judge,” Castillo said. The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office provided The Center Square with a statement commending the bravery of witnesses who testified before the commission. "There is no doubt that Operation Midway Blitz has traumatized and harmed our communities,” the statement said. The CCSAO said it created a protocol to support law enforcement agencies investigating federal immigration officers. “This critical guidance has been adopted by every locally elected prosecutor in the state and the Illinois Attorney General’s Office,” the statement said. The agency said, under Illinois law, it can only bring charges after receiving a completed investigation from a law enforcement agency. “At that point, we review the available evidence and determine whether criminal charges are warranted in state court.” To date, the CCSAO said it has not received a request from law enforcement to review any investigation related to on-duty conduct of a federal immigration agent. Pritzker said the report would also be sent to the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office and police departments in Chicago, Elgin, Evanston and Franklin Park. State Sen. Chapin Rose, R-Mahomet, held a press conference in Springfield on Thursday with Joe Abraham, whose daughter Katie died in a crash with a drunk driver who was in the country illegally. Rose, a former prosecutor, said state government should keep the people of Illinois safe. “We are not safe. The system that Gov. Pritzker has created has made us less safe,” Rose said. Rose said he filed Senate Bill 4196 to reopen the lines of communication between Illinois law enforcement agencies and their federal partners.

The rise of the progressive oyster farmer was unthinkable when he announced his campaign as a political unknown.

Reporters answered reader questions about health care affordability, Medicaid cuts and workforce shortages.

Members of Congress from Texas and Wyoming introduced bills recently that would grant fossil fuel companies sweeping legal immunity and shield energy producers from stricter compliance with the Clean Air Act.  Republican Harriet Hageman, Wyoming’s only member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, spearheaded legislation that would protect fossil fuel […]

A rejeição da indicação de Jorge Messias para ocupar uma vaga no Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) pelo plenário do Senado expõe o tensionamento entre os três Poderes e uma fragilidade democrática. Em entrevista ao Conexão BdF, da Rádio Brasil de Fato, a cientista política Thatiana Chicarino destaca que é preciso entender quais e de quem […] Fonte

Rising diesel and fertilizer prices are pinching Michigan corn farmers as they prep for planting season.

Moscou afirmou, nesta quinta-feira (30), que suas forças permanecerão no Mali, ao rejeitar um apelo de separatistas para sua retirada do país africano, enquanto os insurgentes, juntamente com jihadistas, lançam ofensivas ferozes contra a junta militar governante. Os ataques fizeram a vizinha Burkina Faso reforçar a segurança e, na capital maliana, Bamako, milhares foram às […] Fonte

Café com Leite é o novo livro de Emerson Alcalde, poeta vice-campeão mundial de Slam. As periferias e os dilemas contemporâneos são tratados com lirismo e engajamento. E há inspirações plurais: crise climática, América Latina, Mano Brown e até a Vila do Chaves The post O biscoito fino que veio da massa  appeared first on Outras Palavras.

The death row inmate argued that he should not be put to death because a codefendant confessed to the double murder, clearing him in the shooting.

Indigenous peoples say Alcatraz Island is a sacred space and symbol of Indigenous resistance, while abolitionists say the money proposed to rebuild the federal prison should go toward the local community Trump’s plan to reopen Alcatraz prison is inhumane and a waste of money, activists say is a story from Prism, a BIPOC-led nonprofit news outlet that centers the people, places, and issues currently underreported by national media. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our work today.

The global trade in sea cucumbers has grown since 2013 and continues to decimate the populations of many species, according to a recent study that cites “escalating impacts” and calls for stronger conservation measures. “Nowadays it’s overexploited nearly all over in the world,” Chantal Conand, an emeritus associate at France’s National Museum of Natural History […]

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Economic stress and pressure to keep generational family farms running make farming one of the jobs most prone to suicide.

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O destaque é a programação do 1º de Maio no Rio Grande do Sul, que terá mobilização descentralizada em cinco cidades: Porto Alegre, Caxias do Sul, Santa Maria, Passo Fundo e Pelotas. Organizado pela Central Única dos Trabalhadores do RS (CUT/RS) e centrais sindicais, o Festival dos Trabalhadores e das Trabalhadoras articula cultura, economia solidária […] Fonte

"There are people who are serving decades-long sentences for marijuana....They’ve been really punished for what others are making so much money off of."

A federal indictment against former FBI Director James Comey hinges on the meaning of "86." The Department of Justice said it indicates a threat of physical harm, while the more common dictionary definition is to throw out or get rid of something. The post Definition of ’86’ at the Heart of Comey Indictment appeared first on FactCheck.org.

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Senate on Thursday sent to the governor a bill that would criminalize the use of abortion-inducing drugs. House Bill 1168 would make it a felony to provide abortion-inducing drugs, such as misoprostol and methotrexate, to women knowing she is seeking to terminate a pregnancy.  It includes a fine not to exceed […]