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Pumpkin nights, haunted houses and monster mashes are brewing throughout town.

Most of last week’s rainfall was observed Oct. 1, leading to floodwater rescues and sewage overflows near the Trinity River.

بهرام غیاثی: خروج از پیمان منع گسترش سلاح‌های هسته‌ای نفعی برای جمهوری اسلامی ندارد

احمدرضا حائری، از بنیان‌گذاران «سه‌شنبه‌های نه به اعدام»، برنده جایزه «فرانت لاین دیفندرز» شد

موسی شریفی، کارشناس مسائل منطقه، با اشاره به توان نظامی و تسلیحاتی عربستان سعودی می‌گوید مسئله اصلی ریاض در جنگ با شورشیان حوثی یمن، کمبود تجهیزات نظامی نیست؛ بلکه تأمین نیروی انسانی برای حضور در جبهه‌های گسترده و پیچیده این جنگ است.

As Senate Democrats begin to weigh who should lead their caucus heading into next year’s long legislative session, their current leader has taken his name out of the running. Sen. Kayse Jama, D-Portland, made history as Senate majority leader and the first former refugee and Muslim American to serve in the Oregon State Senate, originally […]

طالبان زنان را به دلیل نوع پوشش بازداشت می‌کند؛ سازمان ملل خواستار پایان تبعیض جنسیتی در افغانستان

ترامپ: گفت‌وگوهای سازنده میان ما و جمهوری اسلامی جریان دارد؛ تا پیش از انتخابات حمله نخواهیم کرد

Hamilton's leading mayoral candidates face off tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. in a debate streamed by Cable 14. You can watch the debate via the YouTube livestream provided by Cable 14 below. I, Joey Coleman, will be liveblogging throughout tonight's debate, and I invite you to join the conversation inside of the liveblog.

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.A weeklong independent investigation did not conclude whether Denver school board Vice President Monica Hunter allegedly used antisemitic language. Instead, the investigator wrote that the accusations “boil down to a ‘she said, she said, he said,’” according to the report. The seven-page report was delivered to the board on Thursday, hours before members were set to discuss the findings and possibly vote to censure Hunter at a meeting that afternoon.The report says that the only documentation the investigator found about Hunter’s alleged language was a note made by Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero after he met one-on-one with Hunter on January 27. Marrero told the investigator that Hunter warned him at that meeting not to trust board member Amy Klein Molk because she was a “Zionist bitch,” the report says. Hunter has denied that accusation. “The Superintendent’s notes, taken contemporaneously with this meeting include an entry, ‘Vice President Hunter referred to Director Klein Molk as a ‘Zionist b...’ and said she did not want to sit next to her. She also told me she had previously expressed that sentiment to Board President Xóchitl Gaytán,’” the report says. Hunter told the investigator “there is no such version where that is true,” according to the report. She said the allegations are “retaliation for what some perceive as her initiating conversations about the Superintendent’s continued employment,” and she questioned why it took so long “after she tried to fire him” for the accusations to surface, the report says. The allegation that Hunter used antisemitic language was the most serious of a slew of accusations that Gaytán levied last month against Hunter and board member DJ Torres, who resigned last week, saying the board spent too much time on “internal conflict.”The board voted on Oct. 1 to hire an outside investigator to look into the antisemitism allegation, with a report due back in seven days. A proposal to limit the investigation’s scope to interviews with just Hunter, Gaytán, Marrero, and Klein Molk was expanded at Hunter’s request to include interviews with “any witnesses necessary.”That didn’t happen. The report says that due to the tight timeline, “interviewing other individuals was not feasible.” The interviews were conducted by Denise Maes of Maes Solutions LLC, who was hired by the board’s outside legal counsel, Holland & Knight, the report says.The Denver school board has long struggled with infighting and personality clashes. This marks the third time the board has investigated one of its members in the past five years. The board previously hired outside investigators to look into allegations against former board member Auon’tai Anderson and current member John Youngquist. Investigators did not substantiate the most serious sexual misconduct allegations against Anderson. The investigation into Youngquist found that he likely exhibited bias in interactions with district staff of color but that it wasn’t deliberate. The board censured both men.This is a developing story and will be updated.Melanie Asmar is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Colorado. Contact Melanie at masmar@chalkbeat.org.

OKLAHOMA CITY — A first-in-the-nation Jewish charter school seeking to open in Oklahoma expects to enroll only 10 students — far short of original projections — in its first year of operation, according to an email the school’s leading founder sent to local faith leaders. The low enrollment goal has raised doubts about the viability […]

اخبار یک بامداد، آخرین بخش خبری روز از تلویزیون صدای آمریکاست که ساعت یک بامداد به وقت ایران پخش می‌شود و با نگاهی کوتاه به تازه‌ترین تحولات و رخدادهای شبانه، مروری فشرده بر اخبار ارائه می‌دهد و مدت آن یک ساعت است.

Pittsburgh Mayor O’Connor and Allegheny County Executive Innamorato called for improvement following a Pittsburgh’s Public Source report on the diversity numbers in a $1 billion sewer tunnel contract. Neither got specific. The post City, county leaders want more diverse contracting from ALCOSAN appeared first on Pittsburgh's Public Source. PublicSource is a nonprofit news organization serving the Pittsburgh region. Visit www.publicsource.org to read more.

Multidões saem às ruas e se engajam nas redes, desfazendo o mito de que é difícil mobilizar as maiorias. Bolsonarismo acena com corte radical nos serviços públicos, mas recua. Lula ainda resiste a reconquistar quem se decepcionou com governo The post Assim se encara a ultradireita appeared first on Outras Palavras.

The Iowa Utilities Commission has denied a request from Summit Carbon Solutions, the company seeking to build a carbon sequestration pipeline in Iowa, to consolidate outstanding dockets and schedule a hearing.  The IUC issued hearing schedules for two sections of pipeline in the company’s second phase of the project, but denied Summit’s request to combine […]

The department’s decision not to use a safeguard should not become the rationale for erasing it.

Desde os 14 anos, Roger Bravo, agora com 23, já sabia que queria trabalhar com cinema. Na época, uma professora passou a tarefa de gravar um vídeo na escola. “Achei aquela experiência muito legal: filmar, apresentar e ver as pessoas assistindo, rindo e se divertindo”, conta o jovem da Vila Silvia, distrito de Cangaíba, na […] O post Artistas de animação das periferias desenvolvem identidade visual própria para retratar as quebradas apareceu primeiro em Agência Mural.

Hurricane Isaias is expected to bring periods of heavy rain and wind gusts to Tennessee this weekend, according to the National Weather Service. The hurricane is expected to intensify as it nears the Gulf Coast and make landfall Friday night, then move through the Tennessee River Valley over the weekend.  While the storm is projected […]

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.Chicago Public Schools wants to standardize the fees that schools charge families for things ranging from sports uniforms and field trips to graduation. The district also wants to tweak its student fee waiver policy by adding homeless students to the list and creating a clearer appeals process for families whose requests for fee waivers are denied by their school’s principal.District leaders proposed the changes Thursday to a new Board of Education finance and audit committee, one of a handful of new board committees that will review agenda items and decide whether to recommend them for the full board to approve. The full board’s next meeting is Oct. 22. The committee voted 7-0 to recommend that the full 21-member board approve the proposed changes.The policy change is meant to create a more equitable fee structure for all schools, said Crystal Dorsey, executive director of school support in the district’s Office of Network Support. Currently, schools must establish fees at the start of each year, and principals must consult Local School Councils — as well as high school students — when creating them. They also must provide the fee schedule to families in their native languages and to staff. As part of the changes, a district-level student fee committee, led by the head of the Office of Network Support, would establish the standardized fees, which schools could request to alter.CPS is still gathering data and working on the fees, and it will collect feedback from parent leaders, Turner said. The district defines school fees as any payment tied to “a requirement for the student’s participation in any curricular or extracurricular program of the school.” School fees don’t pay for supplies such as pencils, paper, and notebooks. The district’s other proposed changes around fee waivers maintain the current definition of a school fee but removes examples of items that could qualify as a student fee that are in the current policy, such as textbooks or graduation caps and gowns. Currently, fees can be waived for students who qualify for free or reduced priced meals and children of veterans or active duty military whose income is at or below 200% of the federal poverty line, or $66,000 for a family of four. Waivers also apply to students facing extenuating circumstances such as severe illness or the impacts of a natural disaster. These appeals are granted by principals, whom the district says must base their decisions on documentation provided by the students’ families.The district is adding students living in temporary housing to the list, whom Turner noted are protected by the federal McKinney-Vento Act, which enshrines certain rights for unhoused students or those living doubled up with others.The proposed changes include a clearer process for how families can appeal if their request to have fees waived is denied: They would have 30 days to appeal via a form submitted to the district’s Office of Network Support, which will make the final decision. Parents would not be required to pay fees during this process.Angel Velez, board vice president who chairs the finance committee, asked Turner what share of CPS students are currently waived from paying fees. Turner said she didn’t immediately know. About 69% of CPS students come from low-income households, defined as income within 185% of the federal poverty line, or about $61,000 for a family of four. Velez acknowledged the fees might help schools offset certain costs, but some families find it “super difficult” to pay.“Why have it if, you know, 70-80% of our students, for example, can waive the fee?” Velez said. Reema Amin is a reporter covering Chicago Public Schools. Contact Reema at ramin@chalkbeat.org.