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Two stories involving grieving families this year offer contrasting lessons for journalists covering death and loss. The post The ethics of care: Lessons from two stories of grief in Brazil appeared first on LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center.

President Donald Trump is planning to fly to Alaska next week for a rally intended to boost the re-election campaigns of U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan and Rep. Nick Begich III. According to the Trump 47 Committee, an operation of the Republican National Committee and Trump’s Save America PAC, Trump will speak at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday […]

(The Center Square) – A new law in California adds accountability measures for insurance companies to ensure policyholders’ information isn’t sold or distributed to third parties. The law - Senate Bill 354, introduced by Senate President Pro Tempore Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara - establishes new standards for the collection and use of policyholders’ personal information. In particular, insurance companies and their third-party service providers are prohibited from selling the personal information of their customers, keeps them from sharing personal information without the customer's consent and requires companies to have policies for when personal information will be deleted. This law updates the state’s 50-year-old regulations regarding insurance customers’ information, according to Limón’s office. “Californians should not have to wonder who has their personal information,” Limón said. “SB 354 gives consumers control of their most sensitive data and holds insurers and their vendors accountable for protecting that data.” Limón’s office did not respond to The Center Square's request for further comment. According to the bill analysis, the California Department of Insurance reported that the law will cost $34,500 a year to implement in both fiscal year 2026-27 and 2027-28. That amount could be offset by fines collected from insurance companies and third-party service providers, and the department might have to spend more money to hire staff to carry out enforcement and administrative activities related to the law. Insurance Commissioner Richard Lara sponsored SB 354 because, he said, Californians deserve to know how their personal information is being collected, used and shared. Lara said Californians deserve meaningful protections when companies fail to follow the law. “This new law brings California’s insurance privacy protections into the modern era by giving consumers greater transparency and control over their personal information while creating clear, enforceable standards for insurers and the third parties they work with,” Gabriel Sanchez, strategic communications chief for the California Department of Insurance, told The Center Square via email. “Commissioner Lara’s goal is straightforward: Californians should be able to engage with the insurance marketplace with confidence that their personal information is being handled responsibly and that there is accountability when it isn’t.” Lara was not available for an interview for this story. In written comments before SB 354 was passed, opponents warned the bill would create complex regulations that would conflict with current rules for the insurance industry. “As a result, consumers that do business with a particular entity that is subject to both frameworks will not have one set of rights, but rather they will need to navigate between the regimes which will depend on the specific data at issue with regard to a specific transaction,” the California Chamber of Commerce wrote in opposing comments in the bill analysis. “By expanding the law in this way, we are concerned that any entity that touches personal information could potentially be implicated, including cloud-computing companies, document management platforms, payment and wire service providers, communication platforms, customer relationship management providers, and similar vendors.” The California Chamber of Commerce was unreachable on Thursday. Several insurance companies The Center Square reached out to this week also did not respond.

(The Center Square) - An advisory committee is finalizing a report this week outlining ways the state can reduce skyrocketing lawsuit payouts and liability when children under Washington state supervision are harmed or killed. But critics say the Tort Study Committee failed to include members with true lived experience, including survivors of child abuse, as required by state law. In the one-year period between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026, the state paid $537 million in settlements and jury verdicts, with most of the cases originating from claims against the Department of Children, Youth and Families. Cases include an early June settlement where the state agreed to pay nearly $80 million to settle multiple lawsuits filed on behalf of two adopted Pierce County children who survived injuries in their biological parents’ care while under the supervision of DCYF. State Rep. Darya Farivar, the Seattle Democrat who sponsored legislation requiring inclusion of people affected by such abuse be seated on state task forces and committees, took issue with the committee's composition. In a Sept. 28 email to Governor Bob Ferguson, Farivar addressed her concerns. “I am concerned that the Committee’s current direction risks losing sight of the underlying crisis: children and people with disabilities continue to experience abuse while under the care and supervision of the state," she wrote. "Our focus should be on developing thoughtful legislative, legal, and administrative solutions that prevent harm in our child welfare, education, disability services, and corrections systems and strengthen accountability when the state fails to protect those in its care." The response from Debbie Driver, legislative director for Ferguson’s office, suggested the makeup of the committee met the conditions of the legislative proviso. “Your concern regarding missing voices from the table is an issue the Committee is not only aware of but is currently considering including in a recommendation to the legislature that any policy proposal includes a broad representation of claimant voices. Committee representation, however, reflects the direction per the proviso,” wrote Driver. Farivar replied and said that answer failed to address what she sees as the current committee's lack of proper representation. “If the Committee intends to proceed despite the absence of lived-experience representation, I strongly urge that any minority report be permitted to include a full dissenting opinion including the basis for disagreement with the majority's recommendations and the individuals who are dissenting.” Two employees with the Washington State Association for Justice told The Center Square the Tort Reform Committee went about its mission with the wrong focus. “I was on a committee for multiple years called the sexual assault forensic examination working group," said Leah Griffin, deputy government affairs director for WSAJ. "And as a survivor representative on that group, had a lot of input into laws that we passed to end the rape kit backlog, to do better trainings for police and investigators to have protocols for hospitals. We did all that great work, and having survivor voices on that committee was essential in that process.” Those on the committee included personal injury attorneys, state and local government representatives, and victim advocates, but Griffin cited the statute that says you can’t have victim advocates take the place of actual victims on these committees. “The Legislature passed the Nothing About Us Without Us Act that made it law that there had to be representatives with lived experience on any committee or advisory group that the legislature passed,” Griffin said. Washington State Association for Justice Government Affairs Director Kelli Carson said not putting victims at the center in a discussion of tort reform defeats the entire purpose. “Almost everyone in this discussion just talks about paying out all this money, with very little recognition for the fact that a jury found that entity to be legally liable for a really terrible harm….this discussion could be happening thoughtfully in a nuanced way, where we lead with harm prevention,” Carson said. “To a lot of these people in the conversation, I would encourage you when you're having these conversations to assume that someone you're talking to is probably a survivor,” said Carson. Five members of the committee signed onto a minority report obtained by The Center Square ahead of the final majority report being delivered to lawmakers. The minority report echoed the concerns raised by Griffin and Carson. “The most critical changes needed for legislators to help reduce the government’s exposure to liability is to take steps to ensure governmental entities hurt fewer Washingtonians, and particularly to reduce the risk of childhood abuse and neglect in our state,” read the report. The Center Square reached out to members of the committee who did not sign onto the minority report, but did not receive a response before publication.

Australia’s welding industry has accused the Reserve Bank of making it harder for manufacturers to lift productivity, arguing higher interest rates are strangling investment in the technology and training needed to improve it.

A cop facing misconduct charges in the 2024 death of a Queens teenager experiencing a mental health crisis will dodge a disciplinary trial because the NYPD failed to notify the police oversight panel he had put in his papers to retire. Police Officer Salvatore Alongi is one of two cops the Civilian Complaint Review Board […] The post Tisch Blames ‘Human Error’ After Officer in Win Rozario Shooting is Allowed to Retire appeared first on The City Reporter.

While the federal government remains mostly silent on the widely-witnessed and apparently ongoing anti-immigrant crackdown in Fresno and other parts of California, local watch groups and advocates estimate that around 70 people have been detained in Fresno and Madera this week. Huy Tran, executive director of SIREN told Fresnoland that the preliminary estimate comes from […] The post ‘Stay home.’ Anger and fear mount over the latest anti-immigrant crackdown in Fresno County appeared first on Fresnoland.

روسیه به جمهوری اسلامی هشدار داد: از پیمان منع گسترش تسلیحات هسته‌ای خارج نشوید

Embora a progressão de pena envolvesse um forte esquema de vigilância, juiz do caso apontou “risco de fuga” Fonte

آکادمی سوئد جایزه نوبل ادبیات ۲۰۲۶ را به آن کارسون، شاعر و پژوهشگر ادبیات کلاسیک کانادایی، اهدا کرد. آکادمی از آثار خلاقانه او در پیوند دادن ادبیات معاصر با سنت‌های کلاسیک یونان و ساخت فرم‌های تازه ادبی تقدیر کرده است

Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name.On her popular TikTok channel last year, a Colorado Springs teacher suggested parents keep their kids home from school during an upcoming one-day teacher strike. She cautioned that children attending school that day could end up in large classes staffed by central office employees with no teaching experience. That social media post in the fall of 2025 was the start of a year-long legal saga that led officials in Colorado Springs District 11 to remove Angelica Givler-Viers from her fifth grade classroom, recommend her firing, and after a judge’s recommendation last month, agree to retain her. “I am super excited that I get to go back with the kids,” Givler-Viers told Chalkbeat. Angelica Givler-Viers taught fifth grade before she was removed from her classroom in 2025 for social media posts.More than two weeks after the school board’s vote on the matter, she’s still waiting to find out where she’ll be teaching and when the assignment will start.The case, which pitted a union activist against a conservative-leaning school district that has become less union-friendly in recent years, raised questions about when employee free speech rights cross the line to insubordination and workplace disruption. It also made clear the cost of adult conflict to students. The 10-year-olds in Givler-Viers’ class at McAuliffe Elementary watched as she was removed from the classroom on Oct. 6, 2025, just two months into the school year. They lost a veteran teacher with years of positive evaluations and, because of the rules of her administrative leave, never got the gift bags with snacks and books she later left for them. Givler-Viers’ case, which started with an anonymous parent complaint about her social media posts, was handled through a process laid out by a state law called the Teacher Employment, Compensation and Dismissal Act. It involved a multi-day virtual court hearing in June with testimony from both sides. Last month, Daniel Tom, an administrative law judge in the state’s Office of Administrative Courts, issued a 37-page recommendation in the case. He said Givler-Viers’ social media posts were “protected First Amendment speech” and that the district didn’t provide evidence that her comments were false or disrupted the school environment by lowering school attendance on the day of the strike. He recommended the district retain Givler-Viers. Tom cited testimony from a school psychologist working at McAuliffe during the strike that bore out some of what Givler-Viers had said in her Tik Tok post and three subsequent social media posts. The psychologist said the day was chaotic, students had more behavior issues than usual, and some central office employees who served as subs had never been in a classroom before. He also noted that while McAuliffe Elementary had a higher absence rate than other schools in the same region of the district, five other district elementary schools had even higher absence rates that day. The one-day strike, which was called to protest the loss of the teacher union’s collective bargaining agreement, didn’t cause safety problems, according to testimony cited in Tom’s recommendation.One of the sticking points in the case was a provision in the district’s employee handbook that was added three weeks before the strike — after Givler-Viers took an August 2025 training to verify she understood the handbook. The new provision in the computer and social media use section said employees shouldn’t post “content that materially disrupts the school environment or interferes with the delivery of educational services.” District officials cited that provision as part of the rationale for Givler-Viers’ removal. Tom said in his opinion it’s possible that Givler-Viers only reviewed the earlier version of the handbook, not the one with the added provision about disrupting the school environment.District officials said that employees were alerted about an FAQ addressing the change on Sept. 15.In his recommendation, Tom also found that a “no-contact” order barring Givler-Viers from district property and preventing her from interacting with students, parents, or district employees while she was on leave was “unconstitutionally overbroad.” He called various instances where she violated the order’s terms — stepping onto district property next to a public sidewalk while she gave a speech, for example — technical and trivial.Tom’s opinion served as a non-binding recommendation to the District 11 school board. On Sept. 23, the board voted 4-3 to allow Givler-Viers to return to the classroom on a probationary basis for one year. Board members indicated that she will also have to take training related to communication or respect in the workplace.Givler-Viers, who said she did union work and read 135 books during her year on leave, said she would have preferred to be reinstated without probation — an option the board rejected in a 5-2 vote. “This is not the perfect outcome … but this is kind of in the middle,” she said. “I can take trainings if it makes them happy.”Read judge Daniel Tom’s opinion in the case below: Ann Schimke is a senior reporter at Chalkbeat. Contact Ann at aschimke@chalkbeat.org.

La comisión de expertos deberá entregar su propuesta antes del 31 de octubre o, como máximo, en los primeros días de noviembre, dejando al Gobierno apenas unas semanas para negociar y aprobar una subida que pretende salga adelante antes de las elecciones del 29-N.

This summer was the hottest on record in the contiguous U.S., a staggering statistic that can leave many feeling despondent, said Shanti Devins with Climate Smart Missoula, the nonprofit group that founded Climate Solutions Week. The feeling of hopelessness that can accompany climate change awareness, Devins said, is exactly why she and her colleagues launched the annual event. One of the best-loved events is the annual fashion show featuring upcycled and sustainable designs from local makers. The post A solution to climate change? Dressing better. appeared first on Montana Free Press.

بلیت کنسرت همایون شجریان به‌صورت قسطی فروخته می‌شود. شماری از کاربران با اشاره به رواج خرید اقساطی مسکن، خودرو، لوازم زندگی و حتی سفر، اضافه شدن بلیت کنسرت به این فهرست را مورد توجه قرار داده‌اند.

آن کارسون، شاعر و نویسنده کانادایی، برای ادبیاتی که مرز میان شعر، اسطوره، اندیشه و روایت را درنوردیده، برنده نوبل ادبیات ۲۰۲۶ شد

نظرسنجی آسوشیتدپرس و نورک نشان می‌دهد ۶۴ درصد بزرگسالان آمریکایی سرعت توسعه ابرهوش را بیش از حد زیاد می‌دانند. حدود ۸۰ درصد نیز گفته‌اند حفظ کنترل انسانی بر این فناوری و حمایت از مشاغل باید از اولویت‌های دولت باشد.

در طول درمان سرطان پستان، فعالیت بدنیِ متناسب با شرایط بیمار می‌تواند به کاهش خستگی، حفظ قدرت و عملکرد بدن کمک کند؛ و تغذیه مناسب هم باید روی حفظ انرژی و عضله تمرکز داشته باشد.

台湾驻美代表处星期三(10月7日)晚间在华盛顿举行一年一度的“双十酒会”，驻美代表俞大㵢和美国在台协会执行理事蓝莺(Ingrid Larson)在活动中均表示，美台关系牢固，双方对维护台海和平与民主价值的坚持，是维系彼此关系的纽带。

Waco Independent School District was among several school districts affected by the exposure of information in August, including Social Security numbers. The post Waco ISD employee data exposed through security incident appeared first on The Waco Bridge.

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has expanded its Title VI investigation into Swarthmore College over allegations that the Pennsylvania school failed to address antisemitism on campus. The OCR is investigating the college over claims that it has not adequately responded to antisemitic propaganda on campus, which could be a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The investigation comes after a video depicting an Israeli soldier being burned was posted online near the third anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks. A Philadelphia-based group posted the video, and an account, Students for Justice in Palestine, later reposted it. “On the third anniversary of October 7th, these new allegations underscore that radicalism and antisemitism are incompatible with safe learning environments,” Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey said in a statement. Richey added that OCR would “thoroughly investigate Swarthmore College to determine whether the school violated Title VI.” Swarthmore College denies the allegations and told The Center Square that it has no control over content posted to the SJP account and that it is unclear whether those operating the account are currently Swarthmore students. “This is not the first time this account has shared deeply offensive, if not reprehensible content,” Alisa Giardinelli, the college’s assistant vice president for communications and special projects, told The Center Square. “But the college has no control over what is posted to @swarthmoresjp.” “Swarthmore College remains committed to fostering an environment free of intimidation, harassment, and discrimination," Giardinelli added. "We have not only consistently and publicly condemned antisemitism, Islamophobia, and all forms of discrimination within our community, but we have also taken measures to strengthen both our response to reports of bias on campus and our resources to support members of our community in need,”