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Wisconsin Watch reporter Brittany Carloni reflects on her first six months in the Capitol as Gov. Tony Evers delivers his final State of the State. The post As the Tony Evers chapter of Wisconsin history draws to a close, a new chapter is just beginning appeared first on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

விதை-விவசாயம்-உணவு என்ற சங்கலியை ஒட்டுமொத்தமாக கார்ப்பரேட்டுகளின் பிடியில் கொண்டுசெல்வதற்கான அடித்தளமாகவே இம்மசோதா கொண்டுவரப்பட்டுள்ளது. இது விவசாயிகளின் பிரச்சினையாக மட்டுமல்லாமல், ஒட்டுமொத்த இந்திய மக்களும் எதிர்கொண்டுள்ள பேரபாயமாக முன்னெழுந்துள்ளது.

Kolwezi, capitale mondiale du cobalt, en République démocratique du Congo (RDC)… Des habitants du quartier Dilungu, au nord de la ville, vivent toujours sous l’emprise de la société Ruashi Mining, du groupe chinois Jinchuan. Quatre cas de saignement du nez viennent d’être enregistrés, dans ce quartier où les résidents se plaignent déjà de la pollution de l’air.

The U.S. Secret Service says a North Carolina man entered a secured area of Mar-a-Lago early Sunday morning armed with a shotgun and a can of gas. The suspect, identified as Austin Tucker Martin from Cameron, N.C., was ordered by law enforcement to put down his weapons. The 21-year-old reportedly put down the gas can, […]

O Irã reafirmou seu “direito à autodefesa” em caso de um ataque americano, ao mesmo tempo em que declarou, no domingo (22), que há uma “boa chance” de chegar a um acordo com os Estados Unidos, com novas negociações previstas para a próxima semana.

Iowa Down Ballot with Dave Price 2/21/26 by Iowa Writers Collaborative Laura Belin of Bleeding Heartland and Kathie Obradovich of Iowa Capital Dispatch join Dave to recap another busy week in Iowa politics including Funnel Week in the Iowa Legislature. Read on Substack Host Dave Price, Laura Belin and I talk tariffs, round up some […]

Karwanekî alîkarîyên mirovî yê Kenal 8 a herêma Kurdistanê şeva borî gihîşte bajarê Kobanîyê. Rojnamevan Delîl Remedan, ji Dengê Amerîkayê re ragihand ku “ev karwan ji 17 kemyonan pêk tê, ku bi dehan ton alîkarî vedihewîne, di nav de jî, 15 ton betanî, 15 ton birinc, 40 ton ard,15 ton derman, û 5 ton ava vexwarinê.” Remedan ku peyamnêrê Kenal 8 e li Kobanîyê dibêje ev Alîkarî hatine radestkirin bo komeleya Mezopotamyayê ku dê bi erka belavkirinê rabe. Berpirsa Komeleya Mezopotamyayê ya...

Hungaria do ta bllokojë paketën e ardhshme të sanksioneve të Bashkimit Evropian (BE) ndaj Rusisë, tha ministri i Jashtëm hungarez të dielën, transmeton Radio Evropa e Lirë. Hungaria është duke bërë përpjekje ta shtyjë Ukrainën ta rifillojë rrjedhën e naftës ruse përmes një tubacioni që furnizon rafineritë hungareze. Dërgesat e naftës ruse për në Hungari dhe Sllovaki […]

(The Center Square) – This week is light on major economic releases and heavy on Federal Reserve speeches. That shifts the spotlight to the question markets actually care about right now: Has the labor market cooled enough to justify additional rate cuts, even though inflation – and inflation expectations – remain closer to 3% than 2%? The latest inflation data argues for caution. At the same time, trade policy is back in the headlines: after the Supreme Court struck down the administration’s prior tariff program, the President responded by reinstating a temporary 10% global tariff (under Section 122 authority), adding a fresh dose of uncertainty to the inflation outlook and the growth path. Inflation moved the wrong way at year-end The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge firmed in December: Headline PCE inflation rose to 2.9% year over year in December, up from 2.82% in November. Prices rose 0.4% month over month in December, up from 0.2% in November. Core PCE (excluding food and energy) also increased 0.4% m/m and is running around 3.0% y/y – still meaningfully above the Fed’s 2% goal. That doesn’t mean inflation is re-accelerating permanently. But it does mean the Fed lacks a clean “all clear” signal – and it makes the case for cutting based purely on labor-market cooling harder to defend. A 'balanced Taylor rule' suggests policy isn’t obviously too tight One way economists translate inflation and labor-market data into a policy-rate benchmark is the Taylor rule, a simple formula that links the recommended short-term interest rate to: how far inflation is from the central bank’s target, andhow much slack exists in the labor market. A balanced Taylor rule typically puts similar weight on inflation and economic slack. It matters because it offers a transparent, back-of-the-envelope way to ask: Is the current fed funds rate far above what the economy “needs,” or broadly in the right neighborhood? Using late-2025 conditions, a balanced Taylor-style framework pointed to a policy rate around the mid-3% range when inflation was cooler and labor slack had widened. But December moved the wrong way for cuts: inflation firmed while the unemployment rate edged lower. In plain English, that combination pushes the implied policy rate up, meaning the inflation/labor mix at year-end raises the threshold for future cuts rather than lowering it. Labor market cooling: yes—but the composition is a warning sign At first glance, the unemployment rate has drifted lower. But it’s happening alongside a labor-supply story that is changing too. Recent research and official estimates suggest immigration flows have cooled sharply, which can reduce labor force growth even as demand slows. More importantly, the “low-hire” dynamics are becoming harder to ignore: Job openings have fallen to about 6.5 million (December), while the number of unemployed/job seekers is about 7.5 million. That’s a meaningful reversal from the post-pandemic period when openings far exceeded job seekers. Hiring is also narrow in breadth. Job growth has increasingly been concentrated in a handful of sectors – health care and social assistance in particular – while other sectors are flat or down. That mix – openings below job seekers plus concentrated hiring – is exactly the kind of labor-market cooling that can look “fine” in the unemployment rate until it suddenly isn’t. What Fed officials are likely to emphasize this week With the data giving mixed signals, Fed speeches become the story because they reveal which risk policymakers are prioritizing. Christopher Waller (Fed governor): has argued that tariff-driven price increases can be treated as temporary and not over-weighted in policy decisions, saying the Fed can “look through” those effects when expectations are anchored. Lisa Cook (Fed governor): has emphasized that risks remain skewed toward inflation staying too high and that she wants stronger evidence inflation is on a sustainable path back to target. Austan Goolsbee (Chicago Fed): has said additional cuts are possible, but conditional on inflation clearly moving back toward 2%. Raphael Bostic (Atlanta Fed): has pointed to stronger growth as a reason inflation pressures could persist, strengthening the case for patience on cuts. Tom Barkin (Richmond Fed): has framed the policy challenge as risks on both sides of the mandate – protecting the labor market without letting inflation expectations become embedded. Jeff Schmid (Kansas City Fed): has argued it’s too soon to rely on productivity improvements (including from AI) to solve inflation, implying policy should remain restrictive until inflation clearly cools. The data that matter this week Case-Shiller home price index: Zillow’s data already pointed to cooling Home-price growth cooled into the end of 2025, and Zillow’s home value index and market reporting offered a useful preview of what Case-Shiller is likely to confirm for December. Zillow noted December was notably soft – home values failed to rise month-over-month in any of the 50 largest metros. Moderating price growth is good news for future homebuyers. Even though affordability remains stretched, the direction has improved: income growth outpaced home-price growth in 2025, and the combination of flatter prices and lower mortgage rates has made affordability less restrictive heading into spring. Producer price inflation: the pipeline check After December’s firmer PCE report, this week’s PPI release matters because it helps answer whether upstream price pressures are building again or whether December was a bump. Construction spending: strong overall, but nonresidential is doing the lifting Construction spending has been supported by nonresidential activity, including investment tied to the AI buildout. Residential construction, by contrast, has remained subdued: builders are cautious when homes take longer to sell and concessions pressure profit margins – and the forward pipeline softened, with 2025 permits down 3.6% from 2024. Bottom line The Fed is trying to thread a needle. Inflation remains closer to 3% than 2%, and December’s PCE print moved higher, not lower. At the same time, the labor market is cooling in ways that don’t show up cleanly in the unemployment rate: job openings are now below job seekers, and hiring is narrowly concentrated – a classic “low-hire” warning sign. That’s why speeches dominate this week: they will signal whether policymakers think labor-market cooling is sufficient to keep cutting or whether inflation’s stubbornness (and trade uncertainty) keeps the Fed in “hold and verify” mode a little longer.

The two leading candidates for Colorado governor broadly agree on the need to streamline construction and supercharge the state’s housing supply to bring down costs for renters and first-time homebuyers. But U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and Attorney General Phil Weiser used a candidate forum focused on the issue Saturday to spar again over whose experience […]

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. New York City schools will get a traditional snow day on Monday as the area braces for 18-24 inches of snow and blizzard-like conditions, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Sunday. In a surprising move, the school system will not pivot to remote learning as it did last month. The state granted it a waiver to have an old-school snow day, Mamdani said. “We believe that there are a unique set of extenuating circumstances,” the mayor said about the request for the waiver. The city is enacting a travel ban from 9 p.m. Sunday to noon on Monday as part of declaring a state of emergency, Mamdani said. New York City had stopped having traditional snow days in 2020, deciding that schools could instead offer remote learning to help meet the mandated 180 instructional days as more holidays have been added to the calendar. And as holidays have crowded the calendar, the city has relied on state regulations that allow certain professional development days to count toward the total number of instructional days. This year, the city is counting four such days as instruction, leaving students in class for just 176 days this year. But the city was able to get the OK for one more day off without having to pay a fiscal penalty, the mayor said. It’s the second major storm in less than a month. But Sunday’s storm — expected to be the most serious in a decade — threw some wrenches, making it more complicated for schools to make sure students were prepared with devices at home. The storm’s late-breaking nature meant that school leaders didn’t get communications from the Education Department until Friday night. Officials told principals they would get overtime pay to open up their buildings over the weekend to distribute devices to students in need. But since schools had been out all week on midwinter recess, some families and educators were out of town, making it harder to spring into action. “Timing is everything,” schools chancellor Kamuel Samuels said on Sunday. “Students and staff have been out of buildings for the last week, and many are still out of town and out of the country. Given this, along with the severe nature of this weather event, we do not believe providing remote instruction tomorrow would be effective.” Samuels said his high school junior approved of the move for a traditional snow day. Snow days, whether traditional or remote learning, can be hard, however, on some families who need child care or for students who rely on schools for hot meals. “Having a traditional snow day is the right decision,” said Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers. In a message to union members, he wrote that the UFT joined the city’s call for a waiver on the 180-school day policy. “New York State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa granted the waiver for several reasons including the fact that a travel ban will be in effect in the city, and that students and staff are unlikely to have the equipment they need for a day of remote learning,” Mulgrew wrote. While the Education Department acknowledged “minor hiccups” during January’s remote day, there didn’t appear to be widespread issues. That day, however, may have benefited from the fact that a big chunk of students were already scheduled to be off: Only about 500,000 of the city’s nearly 900,000 students were required to report to virtual classrooms since high schools and schools serving grades 6-12 had a staff development day. City officials said they had been working with IT vendors to conduct load testing to ensure systems are fully ready for remote learning and that they recently completed load testing for up to 1.2 million logins. The city had faced a technical meltdown from two years ago when snow forced schools to go remote and many students and teachers were unable to log on, despite efforts to practice in advance. Instead of grappling with potential tech issues, Mamdani had a message for students about the snow day: “To kids across New York City, you have a very serious mission, if you choose to accept it.” Alex Zimmerman contributed. Amy Zimmer is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat New York. Contact Amy atazimmer@chalkbeat.org.

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There’s an old saying that demographics are destiny. What’s happening now in California underscores that truism.

Levels of bacteria can rise significantly in ocean waters, especially near storm outlets that discharge urban runoff.

Noruega encabeza el medallero final de los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno de Milán-Cortina d’Ampezzo 2026 con un récord de 18 medallas de oro y 41 medallas en total, después de que haya concluido la competición este domingo. El país escandinavo logró, además, 12 medallas de plata y 11 de bronce en 116 pruebas, en otra … Continua leyendo "Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno 2026 cierran con dominio noruego: así quedó el medallero de la cita" The post Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno 2026 cierran con dominio noruego: así quedó el medallero de la cita appeared first on BioBioChile.

In his article, “Nigeria Is Wrong on South Sudan, and the Continent Should Say So,” The post Diplomacy is not rebellion: A rebuttal to Dr. Sunday on Nigeria’s role in South Sudan appeared first on Radio Tamazuj.

O Sambódromo do Anhembi, em São Paulo, voltou a ser palco de arte e samba no pé nesse sábado (21) durante o desfile das campeãs do carnaval paulistano. Mesmo com chuva, a celebração reuniu nove escolas na avenida. As cinco primeiras colocadas do Grupo Especial retornaram ao sambódromo ao lado da campeã e da vice-campeã […] Enredos sociais e diversidade marcam desfile das campeãs no carnaval de São Paulo apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.

Las redes recuerdan que, desde hace décadas, el presidente de Estados Unidos ha utilizado varios seudónimos para exaltar su figura e inventar incluso romances con modelos como Carla Bruni “Eres la peor, nunca te he visto sonreír en 10 años”: los insultos de Trump a las periodistas que delatan su machismo y afán de censura “Un tipo que decía llamarse John Barron y que sonaba muy parecido a Trump llamó a [la cadena de televisión] C-SPAN para quejarse de la decisión arancelaria de la Corte Suprema y llamar 'tonto' a [el congresista demócrata] Hakeem Jeffries”, escribía en sus redes sociales el periodista independiente estadounidense Aaron Rupar. La voz y la forma de hablar desde luego eran similares a las del presidente de Estados Unidos, pero ni él ni su entorno han confirmado que se tratara de él. Así que, sin acusar, pero por aportar más contexto, Rupar añadía: “John Barron es un seudónimo que Trump ha utilizado para referirse a sí mismo cuando habla con periodistas”. Según relató en 2016 The Washington Post, ese tal John Barron era un portavoz de Trump que, por tanto, hablaba por él cuando este no estaba disponible. Ambos tenían una voz bastante parecida. El periódico, de hecho, afirma que era él y recuerda la demanda que el entonces empresario recibió por parte de trabajadores migrantes indocumentados de Polonia que construyeron su Torre Trump y que reclamaban salarios atrasados. El abogado que representó a estos obreros explicó que un hombre que se identificó como John Barron los llamó y los amenazó si no cesaban en sus exigencias. Trump tuvo que testificar bajo juramento en 1990 y ahí afirmó: “Creo que en alguna ocasión usé ese nombre”. The Washington Post publicó, también en 2016, otro artículo titulado Donald Trump se hizo pasar por publicista para presumir de sí mismo. Esta vez se trataba de un hombre supuestamente llamado John Miller. El diario explica cómo Sue Carswell, reportera de la revista People, llamó en 1991 a la oficina de Trump para solicitar una entrevista. Carswell fue atendida por el supuesto publicista John Miller, quien le contó con todo lujo de detalles que su representado se estaba divorciando de su primera mujer, Ivana, con la que había tenido tres hijos. Miller añadió que Trump tenía tres novias: la modelo Marla Maples, con la que ya vivía y que sería su siguiente esposa, la cantante Madonna y la también modelo Carla Bruni, que, además, había dejado al cantante Mick Jagger por él. Esta historia, que Bruni siempre ha clamado que era totalmente falsa, se relata en el documental de 2017 'Donald Trump: An american dream'. El supuesto publicista también le contó a Carswell que Trump tenía una situación económica estupenda, pero que le venía bien que los medios dijeran que tenía problemas para así poder llegar a un acuerdo de divorcio más ventajoso para él. En un momento, la periodista, que estaba grabando la llamada, pensó que esa voz se parecía increíblemente a la de Trump. Hizo que varios compañeros de su medio y de otros la escucharan y todos coincidieron en que tenía que ser Donald Trump. Preguntada veinticinco años después por este asunto, Carswell aún se mostraba impactada: “Fue tan absurdo que fingió ser su propio publicista. Aquí estaba este supuesto magnate inmobiliario multimillonario, y no puede contratar a su propio publicista”. Varios periodistas de The Washington Post también entrevistaron a Trump a principios de los 90 y, después de hablar durante un rato, le preguntaron si había utilizado alguna vez el alias de John Miller. “El teléfono se quedó en silencio y luego se cortó la comunicación”, cuentan en su artículo, donde agregan que la secretaria del empresario tampoco fue capaz de recuperar la llamada. El biógrafo de Trump, Michael D'Antonio, escribió en 2015 que el padre del actual presidente, Fred Trump, ya usaba el alias Señor Green. Y a Trump aún le quedaba otro mote por explorar: el de David Dennison. En mayo de 2024, el entonces candidato a presidente fue declarado culpable en el caso de los pagos para comprar el silencio de una actriz porno, Stormy Daniels. El abogado de ella, Keith Davidson, declaró que él tuvo la idea de que Daniels firmara el acuerdo como Peggy Peterson y Trump como David Dennison, quien era un compañero que jugaba al hockey en su instituto. Según el medio Politico, a Dennison le molestó que se usara su nombre para esto.

O ministro da Saúde de Cuba, José Ángel Portal Miranda, afirmou que o sistema de saúde do país está à beira do colapso devido ao bloqueio econômico e comercial imposto pelos Estados Unidos ao fornecimento de petróleo. Em entrevista à agência Associated Press, ele alertou que o embargo ameaça a “segurança humana básica”. “Não se […] Ministro denuncia efeitos do bloqueio estadunidense na saúde de Cuba apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.

ყაზბეგის მუნიციპალიტეტის მერია, დაჩქარებული წესით, 104 605 ლარად ყიდულობს სამთოკურორტ გუდაურიდან ნარჩენებისა და ნაგვის გატანის მომსახურებას. სატენდერო დოკუმენტაციის თანახმად, მომსახურების გაწევა დაგეგმილია 2026 წლის 27 თებერვლიდან 26 მარტის ჩათვლით. „აღნიშნული პერიოდი წარმოადგენს ტურისტულად აქტიურ სეზონს, როდესაც ვიზიტორთა რაოდენობა მნიშვნელოვნად იზრდება; ნარჩენების მოცულობა ყოველდღიურად მატულობს; დასუფთავების მომსახურების შეფერხება დაუშვებელია შესაბამისად, მომსახურება უნდა განხორციელდეს...