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One teenager has spent hours perched in a threatened oak in protest. The district’s goal is to finish the work before students return from summer break.

Georgia Republicans have chosen Congressman Mike Collins to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff in November. The Associated Press called the runoff election for Collins at 8:37 p.m. Collins received a last-minute endorsement from President Donald Trump, who threw his support behind the congressman two days before the election and after early voting had already […]

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Ce mardi 16 juin 2026, les présidents Alassane Ouattara et John Dramani Mahama animaient, à Abidjan, un sommet de l’Initiative Cacao Côte d’Ivoire-Ghana. À travers ce sommet, les deux premiers producteurs mondiaux de cacao (ils représentent 60% de la production mondiale), se serrent les coudes. Les deux chefs d’États veulent initier une réponse « coordonnée » face au contexte mondial volatile.

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Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S.Education Secretary Linda McMahon had a message for parents of students with disabilities on Tuesday as she announced seismic shifts to federal special education oversight: “I’ve heard you.”In listening sessions and at school visits, McMahon said thousands of parents described struggles to get their children the services to which they’re legally entitled. Moving special education oversight out of the Department of Education, she wrote in an op-ed for Fox News, will reduce red tape and open opportunities. McMahon may have heard parents, many advocates said Tuesday, but she didn’t listen. “It is accurate what they said today, that they spent six months talking to people, but we’ve been very consistent in our message that we didn’t want this to happen,” said Jennifer Coco, interim executive director for the Center for Learner Equity and a parent of students with disabilities.Agency officials announced Tuesday the department will move oversight of special education to the Department of Health and Human Services and aspects of civil rights enforcement to the Department of Justice through interagency agreements without approval from Congress. The Department of Education touted holding multiple listening sessions with hundreds of parents, educators, and special education directors.But some of those same people said the decision flies in the face of what they’ve told McMahon and agency leaders. They raised concerns about dysfunction across special education programs nationwide, but they did not want the department to fracture the system even further.“To remove that federal oversight piece in an already fragmented system, it just feels like an extra blow to parents of kids with disabilities who are already dealing with so much,” said Jillian Benfield, whose son Anderson, 11, has Down Syndrome and attends public school in Florida.Some conservative organizations say the steps the Trump administration has taken to dismantle the Education Department will be positive for students with disabilities, arguing too many layers of bureaucracy limit opportunities.A senior department official said the changes would not change students’ rights and would instead lead to more effective services for students and families, with more coordination of services for young children and adults. But many advocates said they are worried about how much is at stake in these agency agreements and what could be lost in the transition, particularly because the Office for Civil Rights — where the bulk of the case load involves complaints from students with disabilities — has also been upended.Calling it the “next step in a lawless decimation” of an agency created by Congress, Catherine Lhamon, who ran the civil rights office in the Education Department under Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, said the new structure may ensure dollars will flow from one agency to another, “but rights will not flow to anyone.”“It’s incredibly dangerous for the rights of kids in schools to learn on an equal basis,” she said.Parents worry federal shifts could trickle down to their childrenLanya Elsa is the parent of two children who are deafblind. She is a special educator who helps support families while they pursue school accommodations.Program officers with the Department of Education oversee multiple state and federal programs for students who are deafblind, she said. And parents with children with those disabilities worry these programs will be the next to be cut or shifted away from the Department of Education.“If my kids were born 40 years ago they would have been put in an institution,” she wrote in a text message. “Instead they have college degrees and are working. That’s why many of us are uneasy about moving oversight away from education.”Benfield and other parents also are skeptical of the department’s argument that shifting responsibilities to other agencies is an efficient choice.“There’s already so much as a parent of a kid with a disability that you have to navigate, so many different systems,” she said. “Now, where are parents going to go? You’re just making an already complex system more complicated for parents.”In addition to tangible impacts on families, disability advocates say moving the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services to the Department of Health and Human Services reinforces stigma by associating disability with an agency dealing largely in healthcare and medical issues.Robyn Linscott, director of Education and Family Policy at the Arc of the United States said it’s notable that other K-12 functions were moved to Labor, ostensibly because the long-term goal of education is a good job, while special education was not. “I think it can’t be overstated enough that the way we think about students with disabilities and the messages we send about the potential of students with disabilities really matters,” she said. “And the irony that we’re talking about this 50 years after IDEA is not lost on me. The idea that it’s OK to segregate students with disabilities, that they can’t learn with other students, really concerns me.”Shifting agency duties to Health, Justice departmentsLinscott said Tuesday’s announcement caught many advocates off guard, even though the idea has been discussed since the early months of the Trump administration and even earlier in Project 2025. Advocates had spoken repeatedly with senior administration officials and thought their message might be heard. “Despite the number of families sharing the difficulty their students were having accessing services, not a single person said moving OSERS to HHS was the way to approach this,” Linscott said. “Not a single parent, advocate, or educator said that.”But Coco recalled one meeting where agency officials were explicit that these functions would move out of the Education Department.“It wasn’t a question of whether this should be done or whether it was right —- that had already been predetermined,” she said. “The question that’s been lingering is, well, where are they going to move it to?”Asked what problems the Education Department was trying to solve and how services would improve through moving functions to other agencies, a senior department official said that McMahon “has been very clear about the final mission of the U.S. Department of Education,” referring to promises to dismantle the department entirely. Moving oversight to other agencies allows the federal government to meet its legal obligations, the official said.While HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised in a press release to “help every child reach their full potential,” advocates worry about how a department led by him will approach special education. Kennedy has spent over a decade spreading misinformation about autism, and 13% of students served under IDEA fell under the autism category, according to federal data from the 2022-23 school year.McMahon tried to reassure parents their children will be treated as students, not patients. “IDEA, as an education law, ensures that a child’s disability isn’t viewed as a medical condition that needs to be treated,” she wrote.Advocates’ concerns are compounded by moving special education and civil rights enforcement to different agencies. Having the two under the same roof meant the department had multiple ways to communicate with schools about how to best serve students, said Eric Duncan, director of P-12 policy for the progressive advocacy group The Education Trust. “The Office for Civil Rights is not just a punitive office,” Duncan said. “It’s really to support the systemic issues that are affecting why certain students are overly disciplined or referred for certain things, why students are in settings where they’re not comfortable or aren’t able to learn because of their specific challenges.”The Department of Justice can’t replicate the work done by the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, Lhamon said. It’s a “totally different agency,” she said, whose work ranges from helping entire school communities resolve issues to answering “any mom’s question about whether civil rights have been violated.” Lily Altavena is a national reporter at Chalkbeat. Contact Lily at laltavena@chalkbeat.org.Erica Meltzer is Chalkbeat’s national editor based in Colorado. Contact Erica at emeltzer@chalkbeat.org.

Arlington will conduct targeted ground spraying Tuesday and Wednesday around Douglas Court and North Cooper Street.

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Après 40 ans d'absence, le drapeau irakien a flotté dans un stade du Mondial ce mardi 16 juin 2026. Un évènement unique à Boston. Et la diaspora a fait le déplacement pour voir les Lions de la Mésopotamie tenir la dragée haute aux Norvégiens, qui signaient eux leur retour après le Mondial 98 en France. Les rouge et bleu se sont imposés 4-1, et prennent la tête du groupe I devant la France.

Sanções e crise energética agravam sistema de saúde e afetam diretamente crianças e acesso a cuidados básicos Fonte

The Roach Institute of Athlete Engineering will connect athletes and academics to study performance, movement and recovery.

(The Center Square)- An analysis by the Downtown Seattle Association argues that Seattle's payroll tax on major corporations is yielding negative consequences five years after its implementation. The study cites neighboring Bellevue as evidence of the economic expansion and employment opportunities Seattle has forfeited. Seattle's central business district has seen a decline of roughly 30,000 positions since 2020, alongside a 48% plunge in commercial real estate values, the report said. Conversely, it said, Bellevue — which does not impose an equivalent levy — boosted its employment numbers and enjoyed a 7% increase in property values. Dubbed JumpStart, the Seattle measure was enacted in 2020 and took effect the following year, targeting the payrolls of Seattle's largest corporations, such as Amazon and other tech firms. Jon Scholes, the Downtown Association’s President and CEO, said in an interview with The Center Square that the city of Seattle’s budget rises each year, and the city makes up the difference by taxing companies. “And that’s not the signal that we know has been productive over the last five years when it comes to creating new jobs in Seattle, keeping employers and attracting new ones,” he said. Employers owe the tax this year if their 2025 payroll exceeded $9,074,409 and have at least one employee who earns $194,452 or more. Rates for 2026 range from 0.746%–2.557% by payroll and wage tiers. Big companies like Amazon end up paying the most. The tax is projected to bring in $388 million this year, a figure revised downward by $76 million from earlier estimations due to a reduction in high-paying jobs in the city, according to a city budget document. The association report comes as the city budget season approaches and Mayor Katie Wilson and the City Council grapple with how to fill an estimated $140 million shortfall for 2027 and up to an almost $500 million deficit by 2029, estimates show. Wilson, who ran as a Democratic socialist in 2025, said she is looking for new sources of progressive revenue, including potentially imposing new business levies. At the same time, she said at the annual state of downtown dinner on March 11, sponsored by the Seattle Downtown Association, that she understood how Seattle’s downtown was put at a competitive disadvantage because of the lack of business taxes in Bellevue. In a statement on Tuesday, Wilson lauded the tax. "Seattle's JumpStart Payroll Expense Tax is a key reason the city successfully bounced back from the worst economic impacts of COVID," she said. Scholes said that while the policy initially bolstered municipal revenues, it was short-lived and revenue has started declining. “We predicted that at the time, and were sort of dismissed and ignored,” he said. Wilson, in her statement, advised against attributing the commercial core's struggles to a single variable, noting that the revenue prevented severe budgetary cutbacks that would have further hindered the local economy. She instead pointed to broader economic factors, including national inflation and high interest rates, as well as remote work trends and tech sector restructuring, which have disrupted metropolitan areas nationwide. Amazon’s migration toward Bellevue actually began before JumpStart, sparked by a brief corporate head tax in 2018 that Seattle leaders passed but quickly nullified. The e-commerce giant has expanded its Bellevue staff from a few thousand seven years ago to roughly 15,000 workers as part of a regional hub strategy. Amazon officials did not respond to requests for comment, JumpStart is part of a broader shift in Washington's fiscal landscape, which has drawn criticism from corporate leaders Earlier this year, the legislature passed and the governor signed into law, a 9.9% levy on high earners making over $1 million. Rather than demanding a full cancellation of the Seattle city payroll tax, the business association is advocating for no new taxes. Scholes said the city cannot approve any new taxes on businesses. “I think it seems every year there’s a new tax or regulation that are being proposed or implemented,” he said. Scholes said businesses need a stable operating environment when they decide to invest, so they can predict what will happen over a five- to ten-year horizon. Seattle’s latest business tax began being paid this year, aimed at creating new affordable housing through an organization called the Social Housing Developer. Companies that pay employees more than $1 million per year contribute 5% of the salary in excess of $1 million toward the housing. The jumpstart tax was also designed to finance affordable housing and environmental initiatives. But the revenue has increasingly been diverted to cover municipal deficits. This year, nearly half of the funds — roughly $201 million — were moved to support basic city operations, according to city budget records.

جمهوری اسلامی، روز سه‌شنبه اسرائيل را بار دیگر تهدید کرد که در صورت ادامه حملاتش به جنوب لبنان، پاسخ سختی دریافت خواهد کرد.

Presença constante na Copa Africana de Nações, ele estará na Copa do Mundo 2026 a convite dos leopardos O post Michel Nkuka Mboladinga: o homem que virou “torcedor-estátua” na RD Congo apareceu primeiro em Mídia NINJA.

A Procuradoria-Geral da República (PGR) enviou nesta terça-feira (16) ao Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) um parecer contra o pedido de revisão criminal do ex-presidente Jair Bolsonaro para anular a condenação a 27 anos e três meses de prisão no processo da trama golpista. No documento, o procurador-geral da República, Paulo Gonet, afirma que o processo já foi encerrado e não foi apresentado pela defesa do ex-presidente nenhum fato inédito para justificar mudanças na condenação.  Notícias relacionadas:STF condena Eduardo Bolsonaro a inelegibilidade e a 4 anos de prisão.Por unanimidade, STF condena Eduardo Bolsonaro no caso do tarifaço.STF forma maioria para condenar Eduardo Bolsonaro no caso do tarifaço."O título condenatório é hígido e está assentado em vigoroso conjunto probatório. A execução da pena imposta a Jair Messias Bolsonaro foi determinada e mantida pela Suprema Corte, após a apreciação minudente das teses defensiva", disse Gonet.  O procurador acrescentou que não há razão relevante para diminuir a pena de Bolsonaro.  "As teses suscitadas pelo autor na inicial da presente ação revisional não trouxeram nenhum ineditismo a legitimar a desconstrução do pronunciamento jurisdicional definitivo, quer por contrariedade ao texto expresso da lei penal ou à evidência dos autos, quer porque fundada em depoimentos, exames ou documentos comprovadamente falsos ou, ainda, pela descoberta de novas provas", completou.  Entenda  No dia 8 de maio, a defesa de Bolsonaro protocolou uma revisão criminal no Supremo e sustentou que a condenação deve ser revista porque houve “erro judiciário”. No recurso, a defesa contestou a tramitação do processo que condenou o ex-presidente. Para os advogados, por estar na condição de ex-presidente, Bolsonaro deveria ter sido julgado pelo plenário da Corte, e não pela Primeira Turma. Os advogados também afirmaram que a delação do ex-ajudante de ordens de Bolsonaro, Mauro Cid, não foi voluntária e deve ser anulada. A falta de acesso integral às provas da investigação também suscitada. No mérito, a defesa acrescentou que não foram indicadas provas da participação de Bolsonaro nos atos golpistas de 8 de janeiro de 2023 e na liderança de um plano para planejar um golpe de Estado.   No ano passado, Bolsonaro foi condenado pela Primeira Turma da Corte, formada pelos ministros Alexandre de Moraes, Flávio Dino, Cristiano Zanin e Cármen Lúcia. Conforme determina o regimento interno do Supremo, a revisão criminal deverá ser julgada pela Segunda Turma, composta por André Mendonça e Nunes Marques, ambos indicados por Bolsonaro, além de Gilmar Mendes, Dias Toffoli e Luiz Fux. O relator do caso é Nunes Marques. Não há prazo para julgamento da revisão.  Atualmente, Bolsonaro está em prisão domiciliar temporária por razões de saúde.

Williams electric blue day gecko is a small Tanzanian reptile whose recovery shows what focused conservation can do, reports Mongabay contributor, Manuel Fonseca. Once heavily collected for Europe’s pet trade, the species is now rebounding because pressure from trade has eased, captive breeding has reduced demand for wild animals, and local people are helping restore […]

Beta-blockers block the effects of adrenaline, which is released when you’re in fight or flight mode. But they’re best known as a heart drug.