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In an unexpected move, President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Pete Serrano, a former state attorney general candidate from Pasco, to be the next U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington.  Serrano now leads the federal prosecutor’s office in eastern Washington in his dual roles of first assistant U.S. attorney and special attorney to […]

Se jogava lo primièr torn de la fasa finala de l’NRL. An acabat lor sason los Lapinons dominats sus lor pelena per Newcastle 10-20 e los Vaquièrs batuts a Cronulla: 16-26. Se qualifican dirèctament per las mièjas finalas: los Dalfins que prenon lo pas en fin de partida suls neozelandeses 26-16 e las Pantèras al tèrme d’una partida sarrada que baton los Polets 19-12. En partida de barratge, qualificativa per las mièjas finalas, dissabte, los Polets reçaupràn las Làmias e, dimenge, es dins l’Eden Park d’Auckland de 50 000 plaças que los neozelandeses aculhiràn Newcastle. Continua llegint

Aqueste còp lo debat suu sarra-cap es tornat. Lo Rassemblement national a anonciat que, un còp au poder, interdiseré a las hemnas d’aver un carrat suu cap per carrièras. S’aquò es quitament pas possible d’un punt de vista practic, a totun ahuecats los hialats sociaus. M’agrada lo debat quan es apasimat, e èi podut intercambiar dambe partidaris de l’interdiccion. Vesi en çò d’eths (que respècti) tres arguments màgers: L’argument de la laïcitat. Continua llegint

Youssef E., un jovenòme de 29 ans, moriguèt al començament de julhet, qualques jorns après èsser ronçat pel sòl per un foncionari de la polícia nacionala a Carcassona, çò rapòrta Mediapart. Lo ministèri public de Carcassona dobriguèt dimenge passat una enquista judiciària contra aquel agent per «violéncias volontàrias». Un vidèo que vira suls rets socials mòstra cossí lo jove es bandit violentament pel sòl jols uèlhs de qualques policièrs municipals, dont lo brigadièr-cap principal en examen après los prepauses racistas revelats la setmana passada per Midi-Libre. Continua llegint

Apenas 9%, ou 20 dos 227 parlamentares que compõem a Frente Parlamentar Mista de Educação destinaram emendas parlamentares para a área, segundo reportagem publicada na Folha de S.Paulo. Ao Conexão BdF, da Rádio Brasil de Fato, o colunista Daniel Cara, professor da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade de São Paulo (USP), afirma que os dados […] Fonte

De regenerar tejidos dañados a fabricar estructuras biológicas: la medicina explora una frontera que hasta hace poco parecía ciencia ficción.

OMAHA — The head of U.S. Homeland Security was in Omaha Monday nurturing partnerships he said helped send roughly $120 million in federal disaster aid to Nebraska since 2025, and to seek feedback on cutting costly “red tape” in the reimbursement process. At another stop in the state’s most populous city, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne […]

Paulo Borba Casella é um dos signatários de carta em apoio ao ministro Edson Fachin Fonte

Here’s a question you’ve probably never asked yourself: Why does Nauru Airlines exist? There’s a simple answer – Australia’s offshore detention regime. Australia’s “resettlement” program in Naoero requires air transport, and Nauru Airlines is the only airline that flies to Naoero, so our government needs Nauru Airlines to keep the offshore regime up and running. But Nauru Airlines isn’t viable as a commercial airline.

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.The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday night blocked the U.S. Postal Service from imposing new restrictions on voting by mail this November, delivering a fatal blow to President Donald Trump’s attempts to inject more White House control over the midterm election.In a brief, unsigned ruling, the court kept in place a lower court’s freeze on the restrictions. “The Government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge” to the lower court’s ruling, the justices wrote. Under the proposed restrictions, the Postal Service would have been able to block delivery of ballots that weren’t on a prereviewed list or met specific design requirements. But as a result of Monday’s decision, mail voting in the 2026 election will largely function the same way it has in previous elections.The ruling leaves open the question of whether the restrictions are legal overall and can be implemented in future elections. But the structure of the decision suggests that a majority of the justices are skeptical. Only two justices — Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas — joined a dissent arguing that the rules were likely to be upheld and should be allowed to proceed for the upcoming election. In a concurrence with the main decision, Justice Brett Kavanaugh also wrote that “there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service’s statutory authority” but that “state and local election officials do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections.”How we got hereThe Supreme Court ruling marked the culmination of a frenzied, monthslong legal battle over Trump’s effort to impose tighter restrictions on American elections, even though some states have already sent out mail ballots and people have begun to return them.It began in March, when Trump issued an executive order meant to restrict mail voting. Trump’s order directed the U.S. Postal Service to set up a new system that would allow the agency to block delivery of mail ballots to voters not on a list presubmitted by state election officials. It quickly prompted a slew of lawsuits by 23 Democrat-led states, voting rights groups, and Democratic organizations that temporarily put the brakes on the effort. In June, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani found that some of the order’s key provisions were unconstitutional and blocked them from going into effect for this year’s elections. The Trump administration fought Talwani’s decision and brought the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. In late August, the Supreme Court lifted Talwani’s injunction against the order on narrow procedural grounds, finding it had been issued prematurely because the Postal Service had not yet issued the final rules when she blocked the agency from enacting its plan. But shortly before the Supreme Court justices ruled, the Postal Service unveiled its final rules in a 95-page plan. The court’s order meant it would quickly go into effect, creating widespread confusion among election officials. But Talwani again put the Postal Service plans on hold.The Postal Service rules require states to use a new online federal government system to send it a list of all voters who should receive mail ballots, though that portal is not yet available. The Postal Service would refuse to send ballots to anyone not on the list. Ballot envelopes would also have to meet new design standards, including unique barcodes that have to be checked by the Postal Service.A bipartisan group of elections officials across the country have warned that they have neither the time nor money and resources to comply with the new rules if they were to be put in place for the November election. Some states said their laws would prevent them from following the Postal Service rules. Others said they didn’t have the time to redesign their ballot envelopes.In court filings, the Trump administration argued that the Postal Service plan was a legal effort by the federal government to prevent voter fraud in the election. The Postal Service defended its efforts as a nonpartisan attempt to ensure people could vote by mail if they wanted to this fall.“Regardless of political party or perspective, we share a common goal: ensuring that Americans can have confidence that their election mail will be handled securely and delivered reliably should their election officials choose to use the mail for ballot delivery,” the Postal Service said in a statement. A USPS whistleblower warns of disenfranchisementThe Trump administration rules created significant unease within the Postal Service. In early September, an anonymous whistleblower within the agency came forward to describe the system as “secretive, rushed, chaotic, and fundamentally flawed.”The whistleblower warned that the Postal Service had not done proper testing on the system and that it could prevent millions of Americans from receiving mail ballots this November.One of the biggest concerns raised by the whistleblower was the possibility that the Postal Service system could reject millions of mail ballots from reaching voters.As planned, the Postal Service system would take a random sample of bulk mail ballots going to voters to make sure the envelopes all contained required information, including special bar codes tied to each voter. If the computers found that one ballot failed the check, even if it was a mistake, the Postal Service system would reject all the ballots in the mailing and send them back to the state.That, the whistleblower account warned, could lead to a “catastrophic failure” that prevents millions of Americans from voting. Voting rights groups and the coalition of states and the District of Columbia renewed their legal fight in Talwani’s court after the Postal Service issued its final rules at the end of August, arguing that the president had no authority to try and regulate mail ballots. Talwani agreed. In her 11-page decision, she concluded that Trump’s proposals were an unconstitutional attempt to usurp powers from the states over elections.“The court is unaware of, and no party has proffered, any delegation Congress has made that would permit the USPS to regulate election mail,” Talwani wrote.Read more Votebeat coverage of Trump’s executive order on elections:Trump issues second executive order on elections, giving U.S. Postal Service unprecedented control over mail voting, March 31, 2026Trump administration sued by states over mail voting executive order, April 3, 2026One line in Trump’s order would reshape how long states have to store election records, April 6, 2026We still have questions about Trump’s new executive order on elections, April 6, 2026USPS proposal to carry out Trump’s executive order could create new barriers to mail voting, May 29, 2026Trump’s moves to erect voting hurdles face race against the clock, June 15, 2026Federal judge blocks key pillars of Trump executive order restricting mail voting in 2026 election, June 25, 2026Trump administration asks federal judge to quickly lift ban on planned mail voting restrictions, July 2, 2026Trump is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow new mail ballot restrictions in the 2026 midterms, Aug. 3, 2026Federal judge blocks Trump’s efforts to restrict mail-in voting nationwide, Aug. 11, 2026Supreme Court lifts 1 of 2 blocks on Trump’s mail-voting executive order, Aug. 24, 2026Election officials wrestle with uncertainty amid legal battles over Trump mail ballot restrictions, Aug. 26, 2026Dion Nissenbaum is Votebeat’s senior national reporter and is based in Houston. Contact Dion at dnissenbaum@votebeat.org.

(The Center Square) - More than 20,000 ballots were rejected in Washington's August primary after U.S. Postal Service policy changes, with rural and Latino-heavy counties taking the biggest hit. However, additional expected modifications to the USPS system were dealt a major blow Monday evening, with the Supreme Court blocking proposed changes from going into effect for the fall midterm election. The halt comes as Washington dealt with thousands more uncounted ballots than previous years, with the cause of those delays still unresolved. Statewide, late postmark rejections rose 32% this August compared with the 2024 primary, according to Secretary of State data. In 19 of Washington's 39 counties, the late-postmark rejection rate more than doubled year over year, and in two counties it more than quadrupled. Mason County saw the biggest jump: compared with the 2024 primary, the late postmark rejection rate rose 329.7%. That’s followed by Stevens County (303.7%), Yakima County (268.5%), Okanogan County (263.5%) and Franklin County (206%). The chairs of each of these five counties’ Republican parties did not respond to The Center Square’s request for comment Monday. These counties share a common thread: they're rural, backed Trump in 2024, and several have sizable Latino or Native American populations that are already more vulnerable to mail-service gaps. Hispanic residents make up 52.4% of the population In Yakima County and 21% in Okanogan County per Census Bureau estimates. Okanogan County includes portions of the Colville Reservation and has an American Indian population of 8.3%. The ballot rejections come after new federal rules and cost-cutting initiatives consolidated USPS mail processing into regional hubs. Under the change, mail from post offices more than 50 miles from a distribution center is now trucked to that hub once a day instead of twice, meaning ballots can sit for a day or more before they're postmarked. In a field test, Snohomish County officials discovered that Priority Mail clearly marked as ballots could take as long as 20 days to arrive. For Hayward Evans, president of Seattle-King County NAACP, this along with more high-profile USPS changes ordered by President Trump in March reflect decades-old tactics used to keep women and Black Americans from voting. “States erected barriers: poll taxes, literacy tests, intimidation, violence and other measures designed to keep Black citizens from the ballot,” Evans said at a press conference last week with U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Secretary of State Steve Hobbs. “History teaches us that progress is not permanent unless we protect it.” In a March 31 executive order, President Trump directed states to submit lists of mail voters and also reject ballots tied to non-compliant envelope designs or unlisted voters. USPS published a final version of that rule Aug. 26, but it remains blocked for the November election: a federal judge in Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction last week after a coalition of 25 states, including Washington, sued. The Trump administration had defended the rule as a narrow, fraud-prevention measure rather than a broader restriction on mail voting. Solicitor General John Sauer told the courts the USPS's envelope-design and voter-list requirements are modest and would not involve verifying voter eligibility or blocking ballots from voters left off state-submitted lists, arguing the added scrutiny helps guard against mail fraud. White House spokesperson Lauren Bis has called the changes commonsense measures to protect the security of mail-in ballots. On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to lift the injunction, over dissents from Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. In a brief, unsigned order, the court found the administration was unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge, leaving the rule blocked for the midterms. The ruling came a day after a second judge — Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, in a parallel case in Washington, D.C. — issued his own injunction against the rule, finding no statute gives USPS the authority to enforce its key provisions. Washington Attorney General Nick Brown released a statement after the ruling. “Today’s ruling is a huge win for orderly elections this November," Brown's statement said. “State and local elections officials can now focus on what they do best—administering legitimate elections that count every eligible ballot cast. Our office will remain vigilant around any other attempts by this administration to meddle in the current election while we continue the longer court fight against the administration’s illegal attack on mail-in voting.” Uncounted votes The recent pattern of late-postmark rejections wasn't limited to Republican-leaning areas. Clallam County, which backed Kamala Harris, saw rejections rise 199%, and Whitman and Snohomish counties, also Harris counties, saw increases of 133.2% and 66.9%, respectively. The rate increases tell one story, but the raw vote totals tell another. Since Yakima County is far more populous than counties like Mason or Stevens, its jump — from 524 late-postmark rejections in 2024 to 1,750 in 2026 — is the single largest increase in ballots kept from counting anywhere in the state. Statewide, 20,267 ballots were rejected for late postmarks in the 2026 primary, up from 16,131 in 2024, creating a net increase of 4,136 rejected ballots even as about 100,000 fewer ballots were cast overall. Nineteen of the 20 counties with the largest percentage increases are smaller, more rural counties outside the Puget Sound corridor — the exception being Snohomish, which had the second-largest number of rejected ballots behind Yakima. By contrast, 10 counties saw rejection rates decline from 2024 to 2026, most among the state's larger, more metropolitan counties: King, Pierce, Clark, Spokane, Thurston, Cowlitz, Jefferson, Lincoln, Columbia and Skamania. A statewide map from the Washington Secretary of State’s office breaks down the number of rejections by county, and the reason. Washington voters will still receive their ballots by mail for the Nov. 3 general election following the Supreme Court's Monday ruling on the broader USPS rule. But the separate postmarking and transportation changes that officials blame for the primary's rejection-rate spike aren't part of that litigation and remain in place. Cantwell has called for Senate hearings on the postmarking issue and is urging voters, especially in rural areas, to use official ballot drop boxes or mail ballots as early as possible. The League of Women Voters of Washington suggests mailing one week out, and to sign up for the state’s ballot tracker.

El asesinato de Claudia Tacoronte, la estudiante española de 21 años que llevaba apenas un mes de intercambio en Morelos, ha vuelto a poner el foco sobre una universidad marcada por la violencia: otras tres alumnas fueron asesinadas en los últimos siete meses y sus casos siguen sin esclarecerse.

Jean Smart cerró la historia de Deborah Vance haciendo historia: ganó el Emmy por cada temporada de Hacks.

O presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) segue com 36% de intenções de voto na disputa presidencial, à frente de seu principal adversário, Flávio Bolsonaro (PL), que marca 31%, no primeiro turno, segundo a pesquisa Quaest divulgada nesta segunda-feira (14). Em um eventual segundo turno, Lula e Flávio aparecem tecnicamente empatados, com 40% e […] Fonte

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Matthew Rhys convirtió a Nile Jarvis en uno de los personajes más inquietantes de Netflix y ahora su interpretación le valió un Emmy.

جنینی که ۲۲ سال منجمد مانده بود، سرانجام به تولد یک نوزاد انجامید. یک زن ۵۴ ساله یونانی پس از از دست دادن پسرش، با استفاده از این جنین صاحب فرزند شد.

اگر صبح ورزش کنیم، می‌توانیم بقیه روز را بنشینیم؟ و آیا واقعاً باید روزی ۱۰ هزار قدم راه برویم؟ پژوهش‌های جدید نشان می‌دهند حتی چند دقیقه راه‌رفتن در طول روز هم می‌تواند مهم باشد؛ و عدد ۱۰ هزار قدم آن‌قدرها هم علمی نیست.

A failed candidate for mayor in a small Louisiana town faces federal charges for allegedly helping a noncitizen to register and vote in her 2024 election.