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Emily Scolnick is a 2026 Dow Jones News Fund intern at the Pennsylvania Capital-Star. Senate Democrats emphasized dignity for workers in their push for an increase in Pennsylvania’s minimum wage Wednesday.  The state House has passed legislation to raise the minimum wage three times in the last four years, most recently in March. This version […]

Next year’s National Defense Authorization Act has made its way to the House floor, and has some Democrats and conservatives alike rallying against a provision that critics in Congress say would embroil the U.S. in unprecedented levels of military integration with Israel. The measure, Section 224 of the House Armed Services Committee’s version of the... The post In Congress, a measure to tighten U.S.-Israel military ties sparks backlash on both sides of the aisle appeared first on The Forward.

Another debate has heated up over changing the election of board members to U-M, MSU and Wayne State to governor-appointed. But experts say that is not what matters most.

As Sun Tran drivers threaten to strike over safety, the Tucson City Council approved funding Tuesday for a new transit ambassador program and increased police patrols, the first year of a safety plan backed by $43 million in voter-approved transit funds. In 2015, when Sun Tran drivers went on strike for 42 days, driver safety […] The post Tucson approves transit ambassador program and more police patrols amid Sun Tran strike threat appeared first on AZ Luminaria.

Mayor Steve Patterson touted improvements to accessibility and streets during his tenure. The city will pay $7k for a July 4 party Uptown.

Latvia canceled a Riga concert by rapper Xzibit after authorities learned of his recent performances in Russia, the Baltic news website Delfi reported. The show had been scheduled for September 19. Latvian authorities notified the organizers that the concert would not be permitted to go forward once they learned of Xzibit’s concerts in Russia.

Sabemos que el fútbol es un juego de centímetros, pero cuando el reloj se detiene y el destino de una nación se reduce a un manchón blanco a once metros de la portería, esos centímetros se transforman en kilómetros de soledad. El penal mundialista no es una prueba de técnica; es un ejercicio de supervivencia […]

A genealogical search led to a national struggle to protect historic Black cemeteries from neglect, development, and white supremacist vandalism.

When ex-Typhoon Halong flooded the Western Alaska village of Kipnuk last fall, a mass evacuation followed. Homes were displaced, with some 90% of the village’s structures destroyed, according to Gov. Mike Dunleavy. Most people made the difficult decision to leave the village. In the end, 19 people stayed behind, determined to see Kipnuk rebuilt — a […]

A Copa do Mundo que começa nesta quinta-feira (11) difere das anteriores por ser, talvez, a mais antipática de todas as realizadas no período pós-guerra. Essa é a opinião da jornalista Zoe Alexandra, diretora de notícias do site estadunidense BreakThrough News. “Tem essa sensação de que essa é uma Copa diferente das outras. Não é […] Fonte

Los observadores internacionales que acompañaron los procesos de elección en nuestro país coincidieron en que hubo avances en el relevo institucional de este año, pero advirtieron que persisten las presiones de grupos de poder y las debilidades estructurales que afectan la independencia de las designaciones. Por Alexander Valdéz  En el marco de la finalización de ... Read more The post Observadores señalan que “hay continuidad de poderes fácticos” tras elecciones de segundo grado appeared first on Prensa Comunitaria.

Em 28 de junho, a Casa de Cultura Municipal M’Boi Mirim recebe a 3ª edição da Batalha de Trancistas, evento que celebra a criatividade, a ancestralidade e a potência da cultura negra periférica na zona sul de São Paulo. A iniciativa reúne cinco trancistas em uma competição de tranças artísticas, destacando o trançado como expressão […] O post Batalha de Trancistas celebra cultura negra na zona sul de São Paulo apareceu primeiro em Agência Mural.

Material descartado exige reciclagem especializada e levanta debate sobre responsabilidade ambiental dos fabricantes O post Campanha transforma resíduos das figurinhas da Copa em doações para crianças com câncer apareceu primeiro em Mídia NINJA.

Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to get the latest news about the city’s public school system delivered to your inbox.Newark Public Schools will receive $400,000 from the state to expand high-impact tutoring in the 2026-27 school year to help K-12 students who are struggling in math and reading. Newark has already implemented high-impact tutoring, a model that relies on small group tutoring sessions with the same tutor three times a week. The district has also implemented tutoring before and after school, in the summer, and through its Saturday Academy programs designed to address pandemic learning loss and speed up academic recovery. The new funding will build on the district’s work to offer high-impact tutoring and continue its use of artificial intelligence to tutor students with teacher oversight. The state Department of Education allocated $7.5 million through the third round of the New Jersey Learning Acceleration Program grant to 55 school districts and charter schools statewide. The grant was created to support students disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. It targets school districts where student proficiency rates in English and math for grades 3 to 8 remain below 50%. In Newark, New Jersey’s largest public school system, student performance in statewide math and reading tests last spring stayed below state averages but inched closer to pre-pandemic levels. In 2025, only 34% of Newark Public Schools’ students in grades 3-9 passed the state’s English Language Arts test, while 21.1% of students passed the math test. Research says the high-impact tutoring model works better than after-school tutoring programs, but as the push to expand those efforts continues, school districts are still struggling to staff, finance, and schedule the programs. In 2023, Superintendent Roger León said that federal COVID relief dollars were the district’s “saving grace” in expanding summer and tutoring programs. But as that money ran out, states like New Jersey and Tennessee budgeted money to continue paying for high-dosage tutoring. Newark has received over a million dollars since 2023, when the grant was first created, according to the state education department. The district also implemented Khanmigo, an AI chatbot developed by online learning giant Khan Academy that acts as a tutor for students and an assistant for teachers. Newark leaders said they decided to expand Khanmigo in 2024 after students who used it during its pilot phase in the 2023-24 school year showed improvements in their math scores. The expansion was backed by a grant from the Bill Gates Foundation. But experts have said that more research is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of AI in education, even as they gain popularity among school districts. And Khan Academy founder Sal Khan has admitted AI tutoring hasn’t motivated students or reached the level of success some had predicted. In April, Newark Public Schools became the first district in the nation to receive the Khan Academy Award for Excellence and Innovation for its districtwide implementation of Khanmigo. Jessie Gómez is a reporter for Chalkbeat Newark, covering public education in the city. Contact Jessie at jgomez@chalkbeat.org.

Local officials in hurricane-prone states are expressing concerns over the Trump administration’s ability to respond to their disaster needs. But the interim leader of the Federal Emergency Management Agency says it’s adequately staffed with the ability to hire more emergency response workers if needed.  Robert Fenton Jr., FEMA’s interim director, is in New Orleans this […]

Seleção Brasileira aposta em 9 novatos na Copa 2026, mesclando juventude e experiência para buscar o hexa O post De Endrick a Ancelotti : os estreantes do Brasil em Copa apareceu primeiro em Mídia NINJA.

Pela segunda vez este ano, o uniforme de uma equipe esportiva do Haiti é censurado por celebrar sua luta por independência. Desta vez, a Fifa exigiu que o país omita referências à luta anticolonial no uniforme que os haitianos vão usar para disputar a Copa do Mundo dos Estados Unidos. A fornecedora de material esportivo […] Fonte

In the wake of the recent Louisiana v. Callais decision, the Supreme Court ruling that gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, Southern state lawmakers moved quickly to redraw district lines and strengthen Republican advantages.

tate and federal officials established an approximately 12-mile quarantine around the Eunice residence where the case in a dog was confirmed. Officials are continuing surveillance to determine if further New World screwworm flies are breeding, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told members during a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing Tuesday.

(The Center Square) - Spokane Valley leaders explored a menu of tax and fee increases on Tuesday as the city council grapples with growing concerns around its pubic safety contracts with Spokane County.​ Voters approved a sales tax hike last year to hire additional police officers, but the Spokane Valley City Council generally avoids raising the cost of living. While the officials haven’t yet decided whether to increase taxes or fees to balance next year's spending, several revenue options remain on the table.​ The seven-hour meeting repeatedly highlighted instability in public safety costs tied to a contract with the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office for policing services, with no estimates available yet for next year. The Valley has several other contracts with Spokane County for court services and more, but concerns are growing among city leadership over the county’s annual settle-and-adjust bills falling years behind. “We do not have what I would say [is] a reliable budget estimate from Spokane County,” City Manager John Hohman told the council on Tuesday, referencing the policing contract. “They provided estimates for 2025 and 2026 on the law enforcement contract; these are long overdue, yet… in discussion with Sheriff [John] Nowels yesterday, he believes that number is about $2 million shy of where it should be.” Agenda materials show the sheriff’s contract amounting to $38.5 million in the 2026 amended budget.​ Estimates from the county put the figure at about $32 million for 2026, but Hohman said the city has to budget conservatively if the council doesn’t receive these estimates in advance to avoid larger bills. The contract has grown by roughly 70% over the last five years, according to the city’s 2026 amended budget, from $22.6 million to $38.5 million, or about 40% based on the county’s $32 million estimate. “We're not saying that we're wanting you to [increase taxes and fees] or projecting that we need them at this point,” Finance Director Chelsie Walls told the council. “They are just in here for informational purposes.”​ Options available Walls said the first option available is the 1% annual property tax increase allowed by state law, which the council has historically rejected, resulting in some banked capacity. If the council approved the 1% increase for 2027, it would generate another $143,000 and raise taxes on a $413,000 home by $3.25.​ After years of rejecting the 1% property tax hike, city officials could exercise that banked capacity to generate another $1.38 million in revenue, raising taxes on a $413,000 property by $31.26 annually. She also laid out property tax increases that would require voter approval to generate an additional $1 million to $14.82 million, based on rates ranging from 84 cents to $1.60 per $1,000 of assessed value. Other options included increasing the utility tax by 1% to 6% to generate an additional $1.4 million to $8.4 million in revenue, raising sales taxes and hiking business license fees from $25 to $95 by 2028. “I would like to introduce the idea of giving some money back to residents,” Councilmember Al Merkel said, proposing $4 million in relief through various cuts, which not all of his peers were on board with. “If Spokane Valley can afford a larger communications department, nearly a million dollars in new IT spending, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in subsidies and administrative growth, then we can afford to give some of that money back to the taxpayers,” he wrote a press release late Tuesday night. The council has balanced minor general fund deficits over the last few years during the budget-making process, with healthy reserves sitting idle, but it's unclear whether that will continue in 2027.​ Public safety costs are driving much of that uncertainty, so the council has gone back and forth on the idea of ending the sheriff’s contract and standing up a city police force. The dais wants to explore the idea moving forward, but will likely renew the sheriff's contract with more guardrails in the meantime. The council agreed to fund a public safety director to review the city's contracts with the county. “I don't see us being compatible with [the county], which makes me kind of feel like in the next five to 10 years a divorce is coming,” Councilmember Jessica Yaeger said Tuesday about the sheriff’s contract.​ Establishing an independent police force for the city would take time and require additional resources. Jeff McMorris, senior director of finance and administration at the county, told The Center Square that his team is catching up but said separating the city and county’s law enforcement costs takes time. He said the county has new accounting software and is working to provide Valley leaders with access to it. The city and county share several sheriff’s deputies, who move between the Valley and the county's unincorporated areas, so McMorris has to allocate those costs based on their respective jurisdictions. He confirmed that the county has not provided the Valley with a cost estimate for next year's sheriff’s contract and acknowledged that the city council has discussed establishing its own police department. However, McMorris said parting ways with the sheriff’s office would result in additional costs anyway.​ “The Valley is frugal with every penny,” McMorris said, as the county faces a $30 million deficit of its own.