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Though recent federal rulings have cast uncertainty over voting by mail with Utah’s November general elections around the corner, clerks — at least for now — are preparing for business as usual.  “Any dramatic change at this point really is extremely impractical,  and it’s very risky to introduce any changes this late into the election […]

A central Arkansas county agreed this week to pay $275,000 to the former library director who was fired after speaking against local conservatives’ push to limit children’s access to books. Saline County announced Thursday it had reached a settlement with Patty Hector, who had been the county library’s executive director when she was fired in […]

تازه‌ترین آمارها نشان می‌دهد کسری روزانه بنزین در ایران در روزهای اوج مصرف به ۲۳ میلیون لیتر می‌رسد. محدودیت واردات و کاهش ذخایر نیز توان حکومت برای جبران کمبود را کاهش داده است. مقامات جمهوری اسلامی نگران نارضایتی‌های عمومی هستند.

One of our area’s true “musical treasures” kicks off its 2026-27 season with “The Sixties.” The Folk Orchestra of Santa Barbara (FOSB) is beginning its tenth year of merging traditional folk instruments with orchestral strings for a combination that is literally unique in the United States. “The Sixties” will live again on Friday, September 18 […] The post Folk Orchestra of Santa Barbara announces sixties-era concert series appeared first on Santa Barbara News-Press.

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest news on Chicago Public Schools.The Chicago school board for the second time postponed a controversial proposal to steer an estimated $5.5 million to Chicago Arts High School, formerly known as ChiArts, a once privately run school the board voted last year to absorb to avert its closure.The extra money would come on top of $5.7 million already earmarked in the budget passed in July for its transition to a district-run school. School board members who back the proposal say the added money would allow the campus to more fully preserve its conservatory model, in which students receive hours of training from professional artists alongside each day’s academics. But district officials cautioned they would have to dip into funding for some of CPS’s 72 other, generally less intensive arts schools — a move that critics said would be unfair and damaging to other schools. Supporters on the board said the extra dollars would tide the school over for a year until it cultivates philanthropic backing for its conservatory — a push that curtailing its arts offerings could undermine. Under the proposal, the school would keep more of roughly 70 teaching artists involved with its conservatory last school year. The push comes after months of vocal lobbying of the board by students, parents, educators, the Chicago Teachers Union, which represents them, and other backers — and at a time of intense fiscal stress for the deficit-plagued district. “I know this is not the same school people signed up for,” said board member Michilla Blaise. “We need to step up and make sure an extremely successful school continues to be extremely successful.”Blaise authored the resolution to provide more funding and moved to table it until the board’s Sept. 10 meeting, saying conversations with district officials are ongoing. Blaise’s resolution includes no dollar amount, but the district estimates it would take $5.5 million to provide the additional staff it calls for.District officials have balked at the proposal. In an internal memo obtained by Chalkbeat, Superintendent Macquline King told board members that CPS had already delivered on its promise to preserve the conservatory model “to the greatest extent practicable.” She noted that other arts high schools received $53,000 on average for their arts programming this year. And even with the backing of a now-dissolved foundation that actively fundraised for the school, its previous model had ultimately proved unsustainable, King wrote.Chicago Arts High School’s total 2026-27 budget is $14.4 million. With an additional $5.5 million, per-pupil spending at the school would increase to almost $40,000, compared with a district average of about $20,000 — a cost supporters say makes sense for an intensive, specialized program preparing students for arts careers. Under the district’s existing plan, the school’s nine-hour day was shortened by 50 minutes, to what CPS said was still longer than many comparable schools nationally. The district said it created 20 positions for resident artists, whom the school could eventually share with other area campuses.At Thursday’s meeting, King said transitioning the school to district management had been a “herculean effort.” The school will now offer eight Advanced Placement classes as well as online courses for about 200 students who are not on track to graduate. Officials said preliminary enrollment this week is down almost 40 students, to about 500, in line with districtwide decreases. “We needed to create a new school and adjust the model to ensure long-term sustainability and academic rigor,” King said. In her memo, King had urged board members to weigh their decision in the context of already substantial resources that CPS devoted to absorbing five campuses of the Acero charter network — more than $13 million so far — as well as millions more to deal with fiscal trouble at the now defunct EPIC Academy High School and the ASPIRA charter school network, which closed its campuses in recent years. In an open letter to the board, Joe Ferguson, the head of the Civic Federation, had urged the board to reject the additional money, arguing that siphoning the funding away from other schools would set a “dangerous” precedent. “This is the worst kind of Chicago parochialism — favoring one small but vocal group over the needs of the many,” he wrote.At Thursday’s meeting, board member Che “Rhymefest” Smith, who is an advocate for more robust arts education across CPS, once again voiced opposition to granting Chicago Arts High School more resources, saying many schools in his South Side district had not received any additional funding for arts programs. He said pushing for more resources for one favored program to the possible detriment of others “borders on corruption,” a comment for which board President Sean Harden censured him. Blaise said she believes the idea that steering more dollars to Chicago Arts High School would siphon off resources from other campuses is “preposterous.” She noted the school’s students are predominantly Latino and Black and come from across the city. “The narrative that this is some kind of specialty program for rich white kids is completely false,” she said.Mila Koumpilova is Chalkbeat Chicago’s senior reporter covering Chicago Public Schools. Contact Mila at mkoumpilova@chalkbeat.org.

Has Gov. Dan McKee closed the gap with his Democratic primary opponent, Helena Buonanno Foulkes, as a WPRI-TV 12 poll published Tuesday indicates? Or, is the incumbent trailing by an even more significant margin while Foulkes picks up support from previously undecided voters? The latter is the finding of a University of New Hampshire poll […]

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Para financiar as quimeras da IA, acumulam-se dívidas trilionárias. Não há lucros para pagá-las e a concorrência chinesa amplia a incerteza. Um barril de pólvora espera uma fagulha – como a alta dos juros, ou a quebra de uma mega-empresa The post O cassino financeiro à espera do novo crash appeared first on Outras Palavras.

کاخ سفید با انتشار ایمیلی از سازمان زمین‌شناسی ایالات متحده، خبر داد که این سازمان نام «دریاچه انتاریو» را به «دریاچه آمریکا» تغییر داده است.

A second Roman Catholic priest from the Diocese of Des Moines has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over alleged delays in work authorization permits. Father Nipin Thakidipurathu Scaria, a citizen of India who now resides in Des Moines, is suing Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration […]

A natural gas leak at an Enbridge Line 5 construction site in Iron County, Wisconsin forced evacuations Tuesday after a truck rolled over an excavation area, releasing gas into the air.

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez on Thursday filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice seeking records related to allegations that Drug Enforcement Administration agents knowingly let fentanyl flow into the state.

Nate Gilliam says that Wisconsin can’t address the growing and disproportionate harm being caused by climate change to marginalized communities if it continues to invest in a carceral state. The post Opinion: Climate change and Wisconsin’s carceral cancer appeared first on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

Dozens gathered at Pearl Park in in Minneapolis on Thursday to drop off food, plant trees and assemble care packages for homeless youth in memory of the children and families scarred by the deadly mass shooting at the Church of Annunciation one year ago. The public remembrance took place a mile from Annunciation Catholic Church […]

A Mississippi State student was detained, but not charged, after an employee reported that he had threatened to blow up the financial aid office. The student's attorney said the arrest was dangerous and unjustified.

在尼泊爾和西藏發生嚴重的泥石流和山體滑坡災害後一天，國際援助仍然十分有限。目前，至少有392人死亡，超過1400人失蹤。

在尼泊尔和西藏发生严重的泥石流和山体滑坡灾害后一天，国际援助仍然十分有限。目前，至少有392人死亡，超过1400人失踪。

(The Center Square) – Twenty-two state attorneys general are questioning taxpayer funding of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine amid what the AGs call the group’s “sham”-like “independent review” of its much debated reference manual’s climate science chapter that was removed due to public concerns of political bias. The attorney's general sent a letter to a number of federal agencies as well as Congress calling out the funding. Executive director of Alliance for Consumers O.H. Skinner told The Center Square that “the National Academies has a history of bias that will not be forgotten just because it’s feigning an ‘independent’ review of the controversial climate science chapter.” “The attorneys general are right to question [the National Academies’] federal funding and seek a charter review,” Skinner said. CEO of the American Energy Institute Jason Isaac told The Center Square that "the National Academies took taxpayer money and used it to manufacture a scientific-sounding basis for climate lawsuits courts have already rejected, then timed a follow-up report to help plaintiffs in the Suncor case while locking out any rebuttal.” The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Suncor v. Boulder County Commissioners on Oct. 5. The Colorado case challenges whether Boulder officials can sue energy companies for millions of dollars in damages over greenhouse gas emissions. “Calling their own secret internal review 'independent' is a punchline,” Isaac said, referring to the National Academies. “Federal agencies shouldn't need another minute to cut off funding to an organization laundering climate activism through the National Academies' name,” Isaac said. NASEM has not yet responded to The Center Square’s request for comment. The 22 state attorneys general expressed concern that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s (NASEM) independent review of its recently removed climate science chapter “appears to be a sham, as demonstrated by NASEM’s secrecy around all aspects of the review process.” The state attorneys general noted that a similar coalition of AGs “previously called for federal agencies to cut NASEM’s funding based upon its biased climate-attribution chapter…in a judicial reference manual, because the chapter was designed to help plaintiffs in active climate cases.” NASEM refused to withdraw the chapter at the time, however, the officials wrote, despite the Federal Judicial Center doing so. “Now, over five months later, after presidential criticism and increasing public scrutiny, NASEM has temporarily removed the Chapter from its website for an ‘independent review’ of the ‘processes used to develop the chapter,’” the atorneys general’s letter said. “A truly independent review would appoint an external panel; use reviewers who are not activists, litigation participants, or NASEM employees; publish the review process and findings; identify the review’s scope; and ensure the review’s scope addresses the material criticisms of the Chapter,” the letter said. The letter noted that the climate chapter in question has been found by critics to be in possession of many misquotations, contradictions, and was in good part ghost-written by “climate plaintiffs’ attorney Michael Burger” as well as possessed other ties to climate funders, activists and litigation participants. “NASEM’s destruction of its own credibility in the Chapter and its response to criticism, combined with NASEM doubling down on propping up climate plaintiffs’ litigation theories by issuing another biased report” that the attorneys general later detail “warrant debarment or suspension by federal agencies.” “Organizations that abuse taxpayer money to prop up political causes for the benefit of donors should not receive federal agency grants,” the letter said. Led by state attorneys general from Nebraska, West Virginia, Montana, and Tennessee, other officials signing the letter to Congress and 18 various federal agencies and committees include those from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. Skinner told The Center Square that “climate lawfare is a critical tool for trial lawyers and woke activists to weaponize the courts to push policy through lawfare.” “These activists have built a huge dark-money-fueled apparatus to boost and support this lawfare and they don’t want to see this manual changed,” Skinner said. “As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments in the Suncor case, neutrality needs to be restored, and the radical left-wing apparatus behind these cases questioned at every turn,” Skinner said.

El general serbobosnio, uno de los principales responsables del genocidio de Srebrenica y el sitio de Sarajevo, ha muerto a los 84 años en un hospital penitenciario en La Haya mientras cumplía cadena perpetua.Temas principal: BalcanesLeer artículo completo

As multiple Arizona cities and towns cancel their contracts with the AI-powered license plate reader company Flock amid reports of police misuse and public outrage at the expanding surveillance state, Attorney General Kris Mayes announced her agency will be reviewing the technology and providing a report to the governor and state lawmakers.  “Technology can and […]