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一艘装载着73万桶原油的俄罗斯油轮周二停靠在古巴港口，给古巴运来了今年1月份以来的首批原油。

TOPEKA — Transgender activist Samantha Boucher tried her best to get arrested Tuesday for using the second floor women’s bathroom in the Kansas Statehouse in defiance of a new state law that criminalizes bathroom use based on gender assigned at birth. Capitol Police declined. Boucher’s plans for civil disobedience turned into a statement about the […]

Córdoba mira a su pasado para interpelar al presente al conmemorar el 900 aniversario de Ibn Rushd, figura clave del pensamiento universal cuya vigencia trasciende siglos y fronteras.

伊朗战争以及霍尔木兹海峡的封锁，导致石油价格暴涨，让很多国家承受通货膨胀的压力。但中国的情况是，中国深陷通货紧缩的困境，那么，伊朗战争是否有可能帮助中国摆脱通货紧缩，进而成为伊朗战争的经济赢家呢？

The people and policies that control how humans treat the natural world are increasingly dominated by a small class of elite political entities and corporations, argues our guest, political ecologist Bram Buscher at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, on this week’s Newscast. This power, he says, is concentrated on platforms that have no allegiance to […]

As the McGovern Park Senior Center remains closed, some residents who frequented it are left with uncertainty and feeling isolated. The post ‘They abandoned us and left us to dry’: Residents struggle with closure of McGovern Park Senior Center appeared first on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

The U.S. Forest Service will move its headquarters from Washington, D.C. to Salt Lake City as part of an agency-wide reorganization, federal officials announced Tuesday. The post USDA to move Forest Service HQ from DC to Salt Lake City appeared first on Montana Free Press.

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter to get the latest.This is a breaking story, and will be updated.President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued a second executive order on elections, this one giving the U.S. Postal Service unprecedented oversight over who is voting by mail, a move certain to draw legal challenges. The order, titled “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,” says that states must send the U.S. Postal Service a list of voters “to whom the State intends to provide a mail-in or absentee ballot” 60 days before any federal election, and directs the Postal Service to create “unique ballot envelope identifiers, such as bar codes” for those voters. The Postal Service would only be authorized to deliver ballots from people on the list.States would be allowed “to routinely supplement and provide suggested modifications or amendments” to its list of mail voters. Separately, the executive order also directs the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to work with the Social Security Administration and use other federal databases to create a list of all adult citizens residing in each state and send it to the state’s chief election official, though it noted that voters would still be required to register to vote in accordance with state law.While signing the executive order Tuesday evening, Trump told reporters at the White House that the order was about ensuring voter integrity. “We want to have honest voting in our country, because if you don’t have honest voting, you can’t have, really, a nation.”Experts said the order will be immediately challenged and that, practically speaking, even if it weren’t, it would be difficult to implement before the November election. “The president has no power to direct the creation of any of these lists or to restrict the delivery of mail ballots to any given list,” said Danielle Lang, vice president for voting rights at the nonprofit Campaign Legal Center, which represented plaintiffs suing over Trump’s first executive order on elections. Trump issued his first executive order on elections just over a year ago. Among other things, it attempted to require registering voters to provide documented proof of citizenship and prohibit the counting of mail ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive afterward. However, federal courts have repeatedly ruled the president lacks the authority to rewrite election law and have so far blocked the order’s major provisions.Lang said those court rulings “provide a clear roadmap” for challenges to this one. Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution gives states and Congress the power to make laws governing elections, not the president. Despite that, the White House has promised for months that a second executive order on elections was forthcoming, sparking widespread speculation about what it would include. The order Trump issued Tuesday was less sweeping than some had expected. Rick Hasen — a professor of election law at the University of California Los Angeles — said the executive order is “pretty mild, given what could have been, but it’s still unconstitutional and not something that could really be implemented in time.”Asked whether the U.S. Postal Service and Department of Homeland Security could realistically implement the changes in time for the November election, Hasen was blunt: “No way.” He added that if the administration attempted to move forward anyway, “If they try and do it, courts would stop it.” Even in the absence of immediate court intervention, he warned the effort “is going to conflict with all kinds of state laws that provide for a late sending of mail-in ballots to newly eligible voters and to voters who simply put in a late request.”More fundamentally, Hasen emphasized that the proposal misunderstands the constitutional structure of election administration. “The fundamental point is that the constitution doesn’t give DHS any power over elections,” he said. “The power to run state elections rests with the states. The power to run federal elections rests with the states,” except where Congress chooses to act — and, he noted, “the president is not Congress.”Trump has tried passing his election agenda through legislative means, but so far he hasn’t had much success. Two bills that would require documented proof of citizenship to register to vote, the SAVE Act and the SAVE America Act, have passed the House but stalled in the Senate, where the filibuster rule effectively means legislation needs 60 votes to pass. The president has repeatedly called on Republican senators to eliminate the filibuster and pass the legislation, which he has said is his top priority, but they’ve so far been reluctant to do so.Republicans have had a bit more luck changing election law in GOP-led states, multiple of which have passed proof-of-citizenship requirements and moved mail-ballot receipt deadlines up to Election Day. But Trump, who has long railed against mail voting, has repeatedly signaled that piecemeal action would not be enough. He has previously posted on social media that he would “lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS” and said in February that “Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.”Nathaniel Rakich is Votebeat’s managing editor and is based in Washington, D.C. Contact Nathaniel at nrakich@votebeat.org. Votebeat Editor-in-Chief Carrie Levine and Editorial Director Jessica Huseman contributed.

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.Three school board candidates who were passed over for a vacant seat on the Pueblo District 70 school board sued the board Monday, asking the court to order a new vote to fill the seat. They also asked the court to declare that the Pueblo 70 school board violated Colorado’s open meetings law several times over the last seven months, including by not clearly describing agenda items related to Riverstone Academy, an elementary school that backers have called Colorado’s “first public Christian school.”The lawsuit is the third one this year related to Riverstone. The lawsuit alleges a pattern of violations that started last summer when the school board voted to allow Riverstone to open within district boundaries and continued with the controversial appointment of a fourth candidate to the school board in February.Monday’s lawsuit was filed in Pueblo County District Court by attorney Eric Maxfield on behalf of Jonathan Lewis, Tara Stroesenreuther, and Adolph Vigil, three of four candidates who vied for an open seat on the school board over the winter. The school board president appointed the fourth candidate, Suzie Carnes, to fill the seat in February. At the heart of the latest lawsuit is the idea that the public’s business must be conducted in public. Emails obtained by Chalkbeat show that Riverstone was created at the behest of a conservative law firm seeking a test case on the question of public funding for religious schools. Attorney Brad Miller, whose law firm represents Pueblo 70, outlined that goal in an email to the five-member board and superintendent last June. The school board president at the time, Anne Ochs, wrote back within minutes, and the topic was added to the next meeting agenda.Monday’s lawsuit alleges that the school board hid Miller’s plan from the public at two June meetings by using generic, jargon-laiden language to describe the Riverstone matter. This failed “to provide full notice regarding the proposed Board approval of a publicly-funded Christian school within D70, created for the purpose of manufacturing a Supreme Court test case in hopes of striking down Colorado’s ban against using public funds for religious education,” the lawsuit says. Reached by email on Tuesday, Miller did not comment about the lawsuit. The lawsuit also alleges that placing the Riverstone vote on the board’s consent agenda on June 24 was a violation of open meetings law. Consent agendas allow public bodies like school boards to group routine, uncontroversial issues together for a vote with no debate. Board members can request that items be removed from the consent agenda and voted on separately. That didn’t happen with Riverstone.Voting on Riverstone as part of the larger consent agenda constituted an “unlawful rubberstamp of a prior, non-public decision,” the lawsuit says. Riverstone Academy originally operated in this building, but moved temporarily to Christ Church Pueblo West in February. The lawsuit says that the Pueblo 70 school board continued to violate open meetings law over the winter. That was after three new members were elected in November and after Ochs resigned in December, when a district parent criticized her for hiding key facts about Riverstone’s creation and failing to disclose a conflict of interest.According to the lawsuit, School Board President Ann Bennett, one of the board members elected in November, violated the law by abruptly leaving a meeting on Feb. 10, the date the board was supposed to select a new member to replace Ochs. Before Bennett left, the board had deadlocked on picking a new member with repeated 2-2 ties. Then board Vice President AJ Wilson fell ill and was helped out of the room. That left three board members and the possibility that a candidate Bennett didn’t support — Lewis, Stroesenreuther, or Vigil — could be appointed in a 2-1 vote. “Faced with losing the vote, in a ‘personal power move’ that broke her pledges to follow state law and to respect the Board, Bennett illegally fled the un-adjourned meeting to break quorum and prevent a vote,” a motion accompanying the lawsuit states.Quorum refers to the minimum number of members needed for a public body to take votes on public business. This education co-op quietly opened a Christian public school. Does Colorado need more guardrails?Several days after the Feb. 10 meeting, Bennett announced in a letter to the community that she’d appointed Suzie Carnes the vacant seat. Under Colorado law, school board presidents can appoint a new member if the board can’t agree on a candidate after 60 days.The lawsuit alleges that the “non-public and unilateral appointment of Carnes” and her swearing in during an “un-noticed” meeting on Feb. 25 violated the open meetings law.In a motion for a preliminary injunction filed along with the lawsuit, the plaintiffs ask the court to order the three Pueblo 70 school board members who were present when Wilson became ill to resume the Feb. 10 meeting that was never adjourned and vote in a candidate to fill the vacancy. That motion also asks that Carnes be ordered to cease serving as a board member while that process plays out. The lawsuit also wants the Pueblo 70 board to pay the three plaintiffs’ legal fees.District Superintendent Ronda Rein said by email that the lawsuit could divert funds from student programming“The board acts on the guidance of their attorney, and any legal proceedings would require the district to cover attorney fees,” she said. “There are more constructive ways to hold the board accountable than through a lawsuit.”While Miller’s law firm continues to represent Pueblo 70 school board, the district could soon be represented by a different firm. Rein, who will retire at the end of June, recently put out a request for proposals for attorneys to represent the district. Rein said four firms responded, including Miller’s.Riverstone is still in the midst of another lawsuit. In February, the school and its authorizer filed a religious discrimination lawsuit against the state over the possibility that the school’s public funding could eventually be clawed back.Forging Education, the Christian nonprofit group that operates Riverstone, also filed a lawsuit against Pueblo County in January, after county officials ordered the school to close its building over safety concerns. School officials voluntarily closed the building and moved the school to a temporary location shortly after. Ann Schimke is a senior reporter at Chalkbeat. Contact Ann at aschimke@chalkbeat.org.

After a recent measles exposure at St. Peter’s Health emergency department in Helena, public health officials are urging the public to avoid unannounced medical visits if they suspect they might have the highly contagious disease. The post Health officials stress safety measures after Helena measles exposure at local hospital appeared first on Montana Free Press.

Enclavado en el corazón de la costa gallega, donde el Atlántico marca el ritmo del paisaje y de la vida, el Museo de Artes do Gravado á Estampa Dixital de Artes se alza como un inesperado epicentro cultural.

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New federal data shows ICE arrested more than 14,000 people in the L.A. area in 2025.

The finance panel endorsed a 1.75% surcharge on the capital gains earnings of single filers with annual income that exceeds $1 million.

El equipo de De la Fuente despierta en la segunda mitad, pero no encuentra el gol.

(The Center Square) – The federal government is preparing to return an estimated $166 billion in tariff revenue after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's sweeping import taxes. As Customs and Border Protection develops a new system to process the massive payouts, the decision has reignited debate over the future of tariffs in the U.S., with fresh legal challenges already mounting against alternative duties imposed by the president. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been developing a refund process for businesses and importers who paid the duties. The trade court judge overseeing the process has requested regular progress reports from officials to ensure timely completion. The agency previously told the court it expects the first phase of the new refund system to be ready by mid-April. Brandon Lord, executive director of trade programs at Customs and Border Protection, said the four-part refund system is nearing completion, with some components nearly ready and others still in progress. In the first phase of the refund process, Lord estimated that CBP could process about two-thirds of the refunds. He did not specify the issues delaying the remaining refunds or provide a timeline for when those would be addressed. More than 26,000 importers have registered with the CBP for electronic refunds as of March 26. Those importers account for 78% of the tariff payments or deposits. Lord estimated the principal amount was about $120 billion. Earlier this month, Judge Richard Eaton of the Court of International Trade ordered CBP to start processing refunds with its existing system. However, CBP proposed a new process that could accept refund applications as soon as next month and would not require importers to file lawsuits. The refund update comes nearly a year after Trump rolled out the highest U.S. import taxes in nearly a hundred years in April 2025. On April 2, 2025, which the president dubbed "Liberation Day" for American trade, Trump put tariffs on every U.S. trading partner. Almost immediately, states and small businesses challenged Trump's interpretation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. In February, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the president's tariffs under the 1977 law, dealing a major blow to the second-term Republican's economic agenda. Even as CBP prepares to issue refunds, Trump has unilaterally reimposed tariffs using alternative legal authorities. Hours after the Supreme Court’s ruling, he invoked Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 to impose a 10% tariff on all imports, a move that states and small businesses have already challenged in court. Trump has proposed using tariff revenue to fund $2,000 rebate checks for most Americans and to boost military spending. He has also suggested that tariffs could eventually help shift the income tax burden away from American households. Trump has said he wants to use tariffs to restore manufacturing jobs and pay down the national debt. Trump imposed tariffs to address trade practices around the globe that he said have hurt Americans. The president has said the tariffs could encourage businesses to build U.S. manufacturing capacity to avoid paying tariffs, potentially bringing back manufacturing jobs lost to lower-wage countries in decades past.

Washington has long been a global leader in technology. From cloud computing and e-commerce to clean energy innovation, the state has played a central role in defining our modern digital economy. But in today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, Washington has a critical choice: stay ahead of the curve or get left in the dust. While […]

The public interest group, Bring Back the Kern, is launching a competition for residents to use artificial intelligence to generate images of a flowing Kern River through Bakersfield, where it […]

O presidente colombiano Gustavo Petro sancionou a lei estatutária da Jurisdição Agrária e Rural, criando um sistema judicial especializado para resolver conflitos por terra e ampliando o acesso à justiça para camponeses, povos indígenas e comunidades negras no país. A medida é considerada um passo central para a implementação da Reforma Rural Integral prevista no […] Fonte

Más allá de los titulares y los análisis geopolíticos, el cine y las series se han convertido en una vía accesible para asomarse a la compleja realidad de Irán.