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Claim: An online blog claims Guinea’s president has vowed to take the disputed Liberia-Guinea land by force. Verdict: False. Multiple AI detection tools show the video is AI-generated. Full Text Amid an ongoing land dispute along the Liberia-Guinea border in Foya, Lofa County, an online blog posted a video claiming that Guinea’s president said he …

An Oregon couple has sued a kennel founded by Iditarod winner Susan Butcher, saying they were injured during a 2024 dogsled tour. Randall and Philippa Hall filed suit in Fairbanks Superior Court on Thursday against Trail Breaker Kennel of Fairbanks.  According to the complaint, the Halls were riding in a sled basket during a tour […]

(The Center Square) - The Colorado House voted on a flurry of bills to end the week, approving two major gun regulation bills, a bill on education and another one on car licenses. Legislators voted 34 to 28 Friday in favor of HB26-1126, the Requirements for Firearms Dealers bill. The bill now goes to the Senate. It passed during a day that saw a lot of deliberations on firearms. Rep. Anthony Hartsook, R-44th District, was joined by many other Republican representatives who spoke in opposition to HB26-1126, or the Requirements for Firearms Dealers bill. “​​[These] requirements to firearm dealers will have one net result: It will drive costs up,” said Hartsook, adding that it will drive business out of the state. “The secondary and tertiary impacts of that are your small businesses. Some of them will look at it and go, ‘This is no longer cost-effective. I can't keep doing this because I'm losing money.’ ” “Small businesses are the engine of Colorado. Small businesses are the engine of America,” Hartsook said during the floor session. “Every single time that we place a requirement on any industry, it has a fiscal cost to it. It has a financial repercussion.” The bill requires background checks for not just the gun dealer, but also employees and people who have a say over store policy. Dealers would also need to get a permit to transfer firearms in or out of the state. The bill would additionally require record-keeping for all firearms in a gun dealership, which currently only applies to select weapons. The bill also allows for increased penalties to gun dealers by the state and higher standards of gun security at the store. “Nearly every gun in the United States begins as a legal gun purchased by a consumer from a licensed gun dealer,” said Rep. Emily Sirota, D-9th District, at the House hearing, speaking in support of the bill. “Oftentimes, however, firearms can end up trafficked, used in crime or in the hands of individuals prohibited from possessing a firearm.” Sirota said the bill did not seek to hurt local Colorado businesses, but was instead focused on limiting illegal guns on the market. “That is why we are here. We are just fixing some of these gaps in record keeping.” The other major gun bill under consideration, SB 26-004, the Expand List of Petitioners for Protection Order bill, was passed on a 39-24 vote and now heads to Gov. Jared Polis. The Democrat is expected to sign the law, which was supported by the Democratic majority in the House and Senate. SB 26-004 expands who could petition for extreme risk protections. Professional and personal relationships, such as family members and teachers, can already file Extreme Risk Protection Orders for individuals who they believe to be a high risk of danger to themselves or others, which temporarily removes their access to firearms. This bill would allow institutional petitioners such as health care facilities and schools. “This bill in itself will cause harm, and in my opinion, voting for it will as well,“ said Rep. Rebecca Keltie, R-16th District, in opposition. The House passed another bill unanimously with 63 votes with no discussion and two members excused from voting: HB 26-1299, Reducing Regulatory Burden on Education Providers. The bill was introduced by two Republicans and a Democrat. The legislation aims to simplify some of the more bureaucratic parts of public education. The bill eliminates the requirement for a written policy on student use of paper or computers for standardized state tests. And the legislation would send missing child alerts to the state Department of Education, instead of each school district. The car license bill, HB26-1102, or the Funding for Colorado DRIVES Account bill, also passed with no discussion Friday, receiving a 40-23 approval, moving it to the Senate. The bill would allow for the transfer of vehicle licenses between cars, giving Colorado drivers the option to petition to keep a car’s license after it changes ownership.

For several months, the waters around New Ireland province in Papua New Guinea have been causing illness, skin irritation and the death of sea life, according to communities living along the east coast of the island. In December 2025, residents say they began noticing that fish and other marine life were turning up dead along […]

Tiempo de lectura: 4 minutosEste viernes 20 de marzo, la nueva magistratura del Tribunal Supremo Electoral asumió sus funciones sin ceremonia pública pero sí ausencias y temor a los procesos que pueda emprender el Ministerio Público contra los exmagistrados salientes que avalaron las elecciones generales de 2023 en medio de una judicialización del proceso electoral.   Por Isela Espinoza La ... Read more The post El fantasma de la persecución en el cambio de magistratura del Tribunal Supremo Electoral  appeared first on Prensa Comunitaria.

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Early Tuesday morning, March 17, 2026, social media got flooded with news of Guinean Soldiers re-entering Liberia’s territory to re-hoist their flag on Liberia’s soil. The speculation was prompted by a livestream from SPOON  TV in Lofa. The reporter on the livestream stated that Guinean Soldiers have crossed into Liberia to claim a parcel of …

The U.S. Forest Service has initiated a revision of the Tongass National Forest plan.  At stake is whether the Forest Service will continue to shift its management strategy in support of a resilient climate, thriving Indigenous cultures, healthy fisheries, recreation, tourism and forest restoration — or whether it will backslide and try to bring back […]

El ministro de Relaciones Exteriores, Francisco Pérez Mackenna, participó hoy en la reunión de cancilleres de la Comunidad de Estados...

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Officials at the Denton university announced Thursday that they would be eliminating, merging or consolidating 85 undergraduate and graduate degrees, minors and certificates.

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(The Center Square) – In a letter sent to California legislators, leaders of the nonprofit organization Stand With Survivors urged state officials to refrain from passing laws that they said would roll back rights of child sexual abuse survivors. According to the letter, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, along with the California State Association of Counties, have pushed for liability reform laws to reduce liability for public agencies named in lawsuits involving allegations of child sexual abuse. “The California legislature is considering rolling back many well-established survivor rights in California that would severely limit survivors’ ability to hold sexual predators of minors accountable for their actions,” Stand With Survivors CEO Caroline Heldman wrote in the letter sent last week to California lawmakers. “We see this as a direct assault on hard-fought survivor rights.” The letter was addressed to Senate President Pro Tempore Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara, and Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, D-Salinas. Heldman wrote the that thousands of cases of child sexual abuse occurred in juvenile detention facilities owned and operated by Los Angeles County. The letter also goes on to state that public entities like the county Board of Supervisors are trying to reduce liability for lawsuits over alleged abuse. A bill that passed in 2019, Assembly Bill 218, widened the statute of limitations for lawsuits in child abuse cases. Through a spokesperson, Rivas declined to speak with The Center Square on Friday. And Limón was unavailable. Since the passage of Assembly Bill 218, thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in which allegations of sexual abuse of children were involved, Heldman wrote in the letter. “It’s the largest single instance of survivors getting justice in the age of Epstein, in the age of Weinstein and Cosby,” Heldman told The Center Square on Friday. “It was a watershed moment for survivors.” Because of the large influx of lawsuits over allegations of sexual abuse of children in Los Angeles County facilities, Heldman said, public officials are now concerned about budgets being drastically diminished and efforts are moving forward to lobby for a rollback of survivors’ rights. “Stand With Survivors has been really direct that we don’t want these secret meetings in Sacramento to happen without us,” Heldman told The Center Square. “Decisions are being made about survivors, so we need to be in the room. The response shouldn’t be to roll back survivor rights. The response should be to acknowledge the gravity of the situation.” In the March 12 letter, Heldman also called on the California Attorney General Rob Bonta to investigate Los Angeles County for allowing the abuse of children to occur over so many decades in county-run juvenile detention facilities. Juvenile facilities run by counties aren’t the only public agencies that could be at fault, according to victims’ rights advocates. “In many cases, there are enablers, so school principals or other types of entities, you have situations where a principal is either going to shift an individual or a sex offender to another school rather than take appropriate action,” Hermina Nedelescu, co-founder of Prosopon Healing, one of the organizations named in the Stand With Survivors letter, told The Center Square on Friday afternoon. According to a survey summary of Assembly Bill 218 compiled by the California State Association of Counties, counties have spent $105 million on legal defense. County agencies throughout the state face a known liability of $12.4 billion for these types of cases. That is based on the known liability estimate of 19 out of 58 counties in California, and excludes estimates of liability for lawsuits that have yet to be filed. Those dollar figures are a conservative estimate, according to the survey summary. Law firms who filed lawsuits on behalf of plaintiffs are expected to be paid $3.7 billion to $4.9 billion of those costs, according to the California State Association of Counties. Those expenses don’t include interest on judgment obligation bonds that counties needed to finance settlements or or awards for damages paid to plaintiffs in child sexual abuse cases. “It’s clear to any impartial observer that the system is broken, and it’s sending counties toward insolvency,” Ben Adler, the association's director of public affairs, wrote in an email to The Center Square on Friday. “Counties are committed to negotiating an agreement that both ensures justice for survivors and maintains core public services.” While advocating for the continued enforcement of the state’s victims’ rights laws like AB 218, Nedelescu said there must be a way to hold agencies accountable without financially decimating schools and other publicly-funded entities. “We don’t want schools to be destroyed or dismantled,” Nedelescu said. “But there’s got to be a different way where you protect survivors and their voice as well as making sure these structures don’t get completely dismantled.” According to advocates of liability reform law, public entities like county and city government agencies or school districts are often unable to defend themselves in cases involving the sexual abuse of children because California state law requires that juvenile records be destroyed after five years to ensure confidentiality. The Los Angeles Unified School District recently borrowed $250 million to settle claims of sexual abuse. A district spokesperson told The Center Square that AB 218 led to an "unprecedented number" of sexual abuse cases. In a response sent via email to The Center Square on Friday, a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors said that while AB 218 gave survivors the opportunity to seek justice, there have been unintended consequences that resulted in fraud. “Too much of the money is going to excessive legal fees instead of reaching victims,” Supervisor Janice Hahn, who represents Los Angeles County’s 4th District, wrote to The Center Square. “We need to get this right. There has to be a path forward that preserves access to justice for survivors while having better protections for tax dollars and ensuring that compensation goes where it belongs – to those who were harmed, not to bad actors or disproportionately high attorney fees.” Other organizations referenced in the Stand With Survivors letter, including the Female Composer Safety League, Survivors.org, Global Hope 365 and the Sexual Predator Accountability Institute, did not respond to The Center Square on Friday.

法國世界報周五指出，美國與中國在公共衛生與醫學研究政策上的差別日益顯著：特朗普政府不斷採取行動，打擊醫學研究以及兒童疫苗的使用；而中國則試圖通過現代的和科學的方法，驗證傳統醫學注射劑的有效性與安全性。美國與中國形成“反疫苗”與“重科學”的鮮明對照。

法国世界报周五指出，美国与中国在公共卫生与医学研究政策上的差别日益显著：特朗普政府不断采取行动，打击医学研究以及儿童疫苗的使用；而中国则试图通过现代的和科学的方法，验证传统医学注射剂的有效性与安全性。美国与中国形成“反疫苗”与“重科学”的鲜明对照。

Tiempo de lectura: 3 minutosFrancisco Mateo Mateo fue detenido en Ixcán, Quiché, el 17 de febrero, por una orden de detención por asesinato, pero la resolución dictó falta de mérito. Sin embargo, el juez lo ligó a proceso por el delito de encubrimiento propio. Mateo enfrentará su proceso en libertad condicional. Por Adaluz García Francisco Mateo Mateo, originario de ... Read more The post Defensor del territorio en Huehuetenango queda ligado a proceso por encubrimiento propio  appeared first on Prensa Comunitaria.