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Kimberly Dorris wasn’t expecting to see a letter from the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office in her mailbox on Monday. Dorris, 59, had just voted by mail in Arizona’s July 21 primary election from her Scottsdale address. So she was surprised to open the notice and read “HAVE YOU MOVED?” at the top. The letter went […]

(The Center Square) – California’s strict pollution and clean air laws will remain in place, at least for now, after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit against the Trump administration. For decades, the Clean Air Act has allowed California to set tougher emissions rules for cars, ships and other vehicles than the rest of the country, using special permissions known as waivers. While many Republican and Democratic presidents have granted these waivers to California, Republican President Donald Trump has objected out of concern that Golden State rules are harming consumers and the economy. In June, Trump and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin sought to reclassify four Clean Air Act pre-emption waivers as rules subject to congressional repeal. Soon after, California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Gov. Gavin Newsom, both Democrats, and California’s Air Resources Board filed a lawsuit calling the federal EPA’s efforts an “unlawful attempt to circumvent administrative procedure and attack state emissions rules.” The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, granted the preliminary injunction on Wednesday. While this is a temporary win for California, Bonta called it “a key victory” against the Trump administration. “When it comes to environmental integrity, posterity demands that we act,” said Bonta in a press release. “The bottom line is that California is taking many steps forward to protect the environment and public health while President Trump is taking six steps back.” When asked to comment, the White House referred The Center Square to the EPA, which said it is considering mediation appeal options. Meanwhile, Larry Behrens of Power the Future, a nonprofit dealing with energy issues, said the costly emission standards are typical for the Golden State. “California already pays the highest prices in America for nearly everything, yet Gavin Newsom and Rob Bonta are fighting to preserve mandates that will make life even more expensive,” the Power the Future communications director told The Center Square. “President Trump and Administrator Zeldin are right to challenge a system that allows California’s costly mandates to spread far beyond its borders.” While admitting that the injunction is a “setback for affordability and common sense,” Behrens added that it “does not change the fact that Californians are paying the price for the green agenda.” For several years, California has had the highest gas prices in the nation. That was true again Thursday, with the California's average at $5.78 a gallon. The national average is $4.14, according to AAA.

This story was co-published with the Arizona Mirror, an independent, nonprofit news outlet that covers Arizona politics and government and is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization. Sign up for the Arizona Mirror’s free newsletter here.Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Arizona’s free newsletter here.Kimberly Dorris wasn’t expecting to see a letter from the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office in her mailbox on Monday.Dorris, 59, had just voted by mail in Arizona’s July 21 primary election from her Scottsdale address. So she was surprised to open the notice and read “HAVE YOU MOVED?” at the top. The letter went on to inform her that county officials had received information suggesting her address may no longer be current.Dorris wasn’t alone. Thousands of Arizonans have received similar notices in recent days, even though many have not moved. More than a dozen told Votebeat and the Arizona Mirror that they were longtime voters who had lived in their homes for years or even decades.Officials said the notices generally do not cancel a voter’s registration or impact voting eligibility. But anyone who received one should check to make sure their address is correct. If it is, nothing needs to be done. If it isn’t, you should get in touch with local election officials to correct it.The confusing mailing appears to have stemmed from flaws in state and some county officials’ implementation of a new state law. Here’s what to know.What does the new state law say?The law requires Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, to compare the state’s voter registration database to the state’s driver’s license database each month. His staffers are then required to inform county recorders if they find discrepancies in a voter’s residential address or citizenship status.Supporters of the law, which passed as House Bill 2243 in 2022, said its purpose is to improve maintenance of the voter rolls and catch ineligible voters, including people who had moved to a new address. In a May 2022 letter to then-Gov. Doug Ducey, a coalition of conservative groups wrote that the law would ensure it was “easy to vote, and hard to cheat” in Arizona.But opponents worried it could disenfranchise some voters and noted that the state already had voter list maintenance measures in place.Ducey, a Republican, ultimately vetoed an early iteration of the bill, saying the wording was too vague and could lead to “bad actors” attempting to disqualify voters for discriminatory reasons. But a second attempt, penned by then-Rep. Jake Hoffman of Queen Creek, earned his signature at the very end of the 2022 legislative session. Hoffman, a Republican and a leader of the state legislature’s far-right Freedom Caucus, is now a state senator.Democrats said the underlying bill was still “very problematic.” Several voting rights groups immediately challenged it in court, delaying its implementation until earlier this year.I haven’t moved. Why did I receive a letter?The issue comes down to what counts as a discrepancy between the state’s voter registration and driver’s license databases.When staff at the secretary of state’s office compared the two data sets, the voter registration database flagged minor variations in voters’ addresses as potential changes that needed to be reported to local election officials.For instance, a voter might have an address that includes an apartment or unit number. If that’s listed in one database as “Unit 1,” and in another as “# 1,” that voter would be flagged. Many voters whose addresses had not changed were therefore included in the report that the secretary’s office sent to county recorders.Thousands of Arizona voters recently received notices such as this one, dated July 31, 2026. Some of the letters, which are linked to a new state law, went to voters who hadn’t moved because of flaws in state officials’ address comparison process, sparking confusion.Judy Keane, a spokesperson for the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office, said the report also caught voters with small address differences, such as “lane” versus “LN,” and abbreviated street directional prefixes, such as “N” versus “North.”“The notices were not sent in error, nor were they the result of a mistake by the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office,” she said in a statement. Keane added that her office, headed by Recorder Justin Heap, a Republican, does not have access to the Motor Vehicle Division’s records and relies on the secretary’s office to provide address comparison information.How many people got this notice?At least 149,776 voters statewide received the letters, according to data gathered by Votebeat and the Arizona Mirror.Nearly all of those notices were sent to voters by the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office. Keane said the letters were mailed to voters in the county between July 31 and Aug. 15.Mohave, Greenlee, Graham, and Navajo counties said they had also recently mailed similar notices to voters. Graham and Navajo sent 33 and 114 letters, respectively. Mohave and Greenlee did not immediately provide counts.Some other jurisdictions, including Gila County, said they were actively “processing” the data but had not sent out notices yet.I got this notice. What should I do?Keane said the notices generally will not impact a voter’s eligibility or cause their registration to be canceled.“It simply advises the voter of the information provided to us so they can verify it and update their registration if necessary,” she said.Voters should check the notice they received. Notices mailed as a result of the state law should be labeled “Confirmation Notice — MVD — In State Mover” in the bottom-right corner. (If you received a different notice, you might have different instructions to follow.)Then, make sure your address is correct. If it is, no response is required. If not, you should contact your local election officials to update your address in your voter record.Sometimes, election mail is marked undeliverable by the U.S. Postal Service. Keane said that can lead officials to initiate the lengthy voter removal process. But if that happens to you, local officials will send another notice attempting to confirm your address before taking steps to alter your registration status.If you’re concerned about your registration status, be sure to double-check it at My.Arizona.Vote by Oct. 5. That’s the state’s voter registration deadline for the general election.If you have additional questions, reach out to your local election officials. Votebeat and the Arizona Mirror may also be able to help if you run into an issue. Reach us at aztips@votebeat.org and info@azmirror.com.Were there ways around this problem?Keane said her office sent the notices in two batches. About 142,000 notices went out between July 31 and Aug. 1, she said. Roughly 7,500 more were mailed on Aug. 14 and 15. That second batch, she said, was “significantly reduced due to filtering performed by our office for that month.” But it’s unclear whether her office took steps to filter the first batch, too. Keane said in a statement that her office had generally “taken proactive steps to reduce unnecessary notices by removing repeats and false positives where we are able to identify them.” But she did not directly respond to questions about what that filtering process looked like or whether it was applied to the first, larger batch of notices.The Arizona Mirror and Votebeat also reached out to counties across the state to gather information about how they handled the report from the secretary’s office. Those that responded largely said they had combed through the list to remove false positives or held off on sending notices at all because they lacked the bandwidth and staffing to do so ahead of the November election.Yavapai County was among those that did not plan to immediately mail letters. Recorder Michelle Burchill, a Republican, said her office needed to manually compare the address discrepancies flagged by state officials before sending out the notices. She added that one of her staffers spent a whole day exclusively going over the 30,000-line spreadsheet from Fontes’ office and “got through about 10% of it.” A preliminary review of the list suggested that about half of the address changes reported to her office were false positives.“This may end up being a useful endeavor, but initially it is a heavy lift for the counties,” Burchill said.Keane said counties were “required” to send notices to voters on the list provided by the secretary’s office. But there’s no requirement in state law that the county recorders do anything with the address data. Still, Burchill said officials statewide would likely want to use it to ensure “good list maintenance.” Her office planned to process the report after the election, once it received “a workable list,” she said.Gila County Recorder Wendy Mannigel-Smith, a Republican, said in an email that her office needed to “physically investigate each voter record.” She said recorders statewide felt they should be able to work with the state to “come up with a more efficient way of handling the data.”Calli Jones, a spokesperson for the secretary’s office, said in a statement that recorders had specifically requested a “straight look” at the address changes, without any additional coding. After counties received their first report from the secretary’s office in May, she said, many began requesting improvements to the address comparison process, including Maricopa County.Jones said her office had yet to make changes to the state’s voter registration database that could produce a more detailed and accurate report. But she noted that “most” counties were not processing the reports provided by her office before the general election — and, in a phone call, said it was “up to them” and “entirely” their decision whether to do so before improvements could be made.“This is a new report and another possible source for list maintenance, but it is messy and counties need to work to come to [a] consensus about what they want the report to say and how they want it delivered to them,” she said.Sasha Hupka is a reporter for Votebeat based in Arizona. Contact Sasha at shupka@votebeat.org.Jerod MacDonald-Evoy is a reporter for the Arizona Mirror based in Phoenix. Contact Jerod at JerodMacEvoy@AzMirror.com.

معین خزائلی خطاب به زندانیان سیاسی و خانواده هایشان در ایران: به هیچ وجه به وکلای تبصره ۴۸ اعتماد نکنید

El humor gráfico, con casi tres siglos a cuestas, es hoy un arte expresivo y comunicador de primer orden, que MUNDIARIO trae a su página home de la mano de Francisco Puñal Suárez.

فرماندهی مرکزی ایالات متحده «سنتکام» روز پنجشنبه ۱۲ شهریور اعلام کرد نیروی دریایی آمریکا به اجرای محاصره جمهوری اسلامی در آب‌های منطقه ادامه می‌دهد، و شمار کشتی‌های تجاری که در چارچوب این عملیات تغییر مسیر داده‌اند به ۸۷ فروند رسیده است.

La resolución se aprobó tras la victoria electoral de varios candidatos socialistas democráticos.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday in Washington, D.C., that he will travel to Alaska to campaign on behalf of incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, who appears to be facing a close race against Democratic challenger Mary Peltola.  “I will go to Alaska to help Dan Sullivan get elected. … Dan Sullivan’s a great senator,” […]

(The Center Square) — Former President Joe Biden will attend Ground Zero in New York City for the 25th commemoration of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Biden will attend the ceremony with his wife, Jill, along with other former presidents, including Barack Obama and George W. Bush and members of their families, NewsNation reported, to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, which killed 2,977 people at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and on board the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers fought back. President Donald Trump, meanwhile, is expected to attend the Pentagon ceremony, where he will deliver remarks, according to the White House. Vice President JD Vance will attend the New York City event. Other White House officials will be at the site of the Flight 93 crash, the White House said. The New York Times reported last week that Trump had wanted to make a speech at Ground Zero during New York City's 911 commemorations but backed out of attending the event after being informed that political speeches are no longer allowed at the site. The White House denied the newspaper's report, calling it "fake news." "As a proud New Yorker, President Trump has spoken about his own experiences watching the horrific events of September 11, 2001," the White House said. "On the 25th anniversary of this tragic day, the president will remember those who were killed at the hands of evil terrorists, honor their loved ones, and pay tribute to the brave first responders who put their lives on the line to rescue their fellow Americans." Trump, who was in New York City during the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, last attended the Ground Zero ceremony in 2024. He visited the Pentagon during last year's commemorations and later attended a Yankees game in his former hometown in honor of the victims of the attacks. "For more than a decade, the ceremony at Ground Zero has featured only family members solemnly reading the names of their loved ones. Elected officials of both parties have borne witness to this solemn occasion over the years, and we have been honored that every living President, including President Trump, has attended," the National September 11 Memorial and Museum said in a statement. "Of course, President Trump is always welcome." Meanwhile, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said earlier this week that he will attend the Ground Zero ceremony despite calls from critics to bar him from the event. Mamdani, New York City's first Muslim mayor, has been criticized by Jewish groups over his alignment with pro-Palestinian groups, criticism of the Israeli government, and his use of the phrase "globalize the intifada," which has been linked to acts of violence against Jewish people and acts of terrorism. Relatives of Sept. 11 victims recently launched a petition urging the National September 11 Memorial & Museum not to permit Mamdani to attend the 25th anniversary, gathering more than 80,000 signatures. The Port Authority Retired Police Association wrote to Mamdani earlier this month, urging him not to attend the ceremony, citing his "rhetoric and affiliations with groups or individuals who are antagonistic toward the United States and the men and women who protect it." "We strongly object to YOUR attendance at this year's ceremony," John McDevitt, the association's president, wrote in the letter. "We have profound concerns about your public statements, political associations, and positions that, in our view, are inconsistent with the sacrifice of the victims and the law-enforcement officers who died while protecting others."

La jornada, organizada por APD con la colaboración del Clúster da Función Loxística de Galicia, Eurofirms, Gómez-Acebo & Pombo y la Autoridad Portuaria de A Coruña, reunirá el 11 de septiembre a expertos de referencia en logística, geopolítica, puertos e inversión.

A panel of judges has placed on hold a federal court order protecting an Idaho fetal medicine doctor from prosecution for abortions performed in specific circumstances.  The order means Idaho’s abortion laws are fully in effect, with only exemptions to protect the life of the mother, or in cases of rape and incest in the […]

(The Center Square) – A Pennsylvanian who once received support from President Donald Trump to run for U.S. Senate may be selected to serve as the next secretary of the Army. CBS News reported on Thursday several senior officials have said that U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s top choice to be the next secretary of the Army would be Sean Parnell, a combat veteran who currently serves as a senior advisor and assistant to the Secretary of War for Public Affairs. Reports first surfaced last week that Hegseth favored seeing Parnell in that role as chatter continued about Army Secretary Dan Driscoll’s future in the Trump administration. Driscoll’s final day serving was on Wednesday. Parnell, a native of western Pennsylvania, previously announced candidacies for two different offices in the Keystone State. In 2020, Parnell was the Republican Party nominee for Pennsylvania’s 17th U.S. House District. He narrowly lost to incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb. The following year, Parnell announced his intentions to seek the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. Trump endorsed his candidacy early on, however, Parnell dropped out of the race after losing a court battle over the custody of several of his children in 2021, according to City & State PA. During divorce proceedings, according to NOTUS, Parnell’s estranged wife alleged she endured years of rage and abuse from him, including being choked — charges he called “baseless” at the time. Just a few weeks after being sworn in for a second term, Trump announced that he was nominating Parnell to serve as the chief Pentagon spokesperson for his administration. Following the nomination, Parnell said he was honored to be selected for the position. “I must emphasize that I am the leader I am today because of the incredible Soldiers I served with in Afghanistan. Their bravery, dedication, courage & sacrifice have shaped me profoundly,” Parnell wrote on social media in Feb. 2025. “I am alive today because of them.” “I accept this position with great humility, recognizing that we are all standing on the shoulders of giants—those warriors who came before us, who sacrificed so much on behalf of a grateful nation,” he continued. “I also want to thank my wonderful wife, Melanie, & our five incredible children for their unwavering support & love. This achievement is as much theirs as it is mine. Time to get to work!” White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles will lead the process to name the next secretary of the Army, according to CBS News, adding that it’s currently not clear who is on Trump’s shortlist for the role. However, NOTUS reports that Parnell would “probably face a tough path to Senate confirmation,” saying that critics of his believe that he is “highly partisan and too closely aligned” with Hegseth.

Andrea Bough, who represented the 6th District at-large, has departed the City Council to lead the city’s economic development agency. She is being replaced by former Mayor Pro Tem Kevin McManus. The post Shakeup at City Hall: Kevin McManus is Kansas City’s newest City Council member appeared first on The Beacon.

Construction will wrap up "sometime this winter," architect says.

Missourians will vote in November on the gerrymandered congressional map muscled through the Legislature in 2025, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday. The decision puts a congressional plan before voters for the first time since 1922 and affirms that the Missouri Constitution’s provision allowing voter-initiated referenda applies to redistricting plans as well as […]

The new fee was approved with little fanfare at Thursday’s council meeting.

“الأسطورة تنويرٌ بالفعل، والتّنوير يرتدّ إلى أسطورة” ـــــ هوركهايمر وأدورنو  .  “الأسطورة تاريخٌ مقدّس؛ إنّها تحكي حدثًا وقع في الزّمن البدئي” ـــــ ميرسيا إلياده (Mircea Eliade) تأخذ “أنشودة خاتم النيبلونغ” (The Nibelungenlied) مكانها وأهمّيّتها بين أكثر الأساطير الجرمانيّة في أوروبا شهرةً واهتمامًا، وقد أبدع ريتشارد فاغنر (Richard Wagner) في إعادة بنائها فنيًّا وتوظيفها جماليًّا وفكريًّا … ظهرت المقالة ”  خاتم النيبلونغ “: أسطورة العالم المسحور بالقوة أولاً على التنويري.

စီမံကိန်း ဧရိယာနယ်မြေကတော့ ဧက တစ်သောင်းဆိုတာက အဲဒါတော့သိထားတယ်။ ကျွန်တော်တို့တောင်မှ အဲဒီထဲမှာအသိမ်းခံထားရတယ်။