When a whooping cough outbreak hit Vanuatu in 2025, health workers turned to a simple global target — 7-1-7 — to sharpen their response. The lesson: outbreak tools work best when grounded in locally embedded knowledge.DisclosureThe 7-1-7 work described in this article has been supported through internal Burnet Institute Catalyst funding and a 7-1-7 Alliance Adoption Grant. About the author/sAleesha KaluluAleesha Kalulu is a Research Officer at Burnet Institute with experience in infectious disease surveillance, outbreak preparedness and applied research in Pacific Island settings, particularly Vanuatu.Wendy WilliamsWendy Williams is a Senior Research Officer at Burnet Institute with experience in public health surveillance, outbreak response and health research in Vanuatu and the Pacific. Prior to joining Burnet, she worked with the Vanuatu Ministry of Health and The Pacific Community (SPC), supporting surveillance, emergency preparedness and field epidemiology training programs at national and regional levels.

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When a whooping cough outbreak hit Vanuatu in 2025, health workers turned to a simple global target — 7-1-7 — to sharpen their response. The lesson: outbreak tools work best when grounded in locally embedded knowledge.DisclosureThe 7-1-7 work described in this article has been supported through internal Burnet Institute Catalyst funding and a 7-1-7 Alliance Adoption Grant. About the author/sAleesha KaluluAleesha Kalulu is a Research Officer at Burnet Institute with experience in infectious disease surveillance, outbreak preparedness and applied research in Pacific Island settings, particularly Vanuatu.Wendy WilliamsWendy Williams is a Senior Research Officer at Burnet Institute with experience in public health surveillance, outbreak response and health research in Vanuatu and the Pacific. Prior to joining Burnet, she worked with the Vanuatu Ministry of Health and The Pacific Community (SPC), supporting surveillance, emergency preparedness and field epidemiology training programs at national and regional levels.

OurStoryBridge shares a story from Keene community member Betsey Thomas-Train about uncovering her roots in the area

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Discontent brewed in Emporia for weeks before an arrest was made. A string of factory closures and layoffs had rocked the close-knit community, and a proposal to rezone 1,000 acres […] The post ‘It’s almost never worth it’: lessons after Emporia’s viral public meeting on data centers appeared first on KLC Journal - A Civic Issues Magazine from the Kansas Leadership Center

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Discontent brewed in Emporia for weeks before an arrest was made. A string of factory closures and layoffs had rocked the close-knit community, and a proposal to rezone 1,000 acres […] The post ‘It’s almost never worth it’: lessons after Emporia’s viral public meeting on data centers appeared first on KLC Journal - A Civic Issues Magazine from the Kansas Leadership Center

Un operativo conjunto entre Aduanas, PDI y el Ministerio Público permitió decomisar más de 350 kilos de cannabis ocultos en un camión cisterna en Ollagüe, culminando con la detención de tres involucrados en Antofagasta. Este artículo VIDEO | Golpe al narcotráfico: incautan más de 350 kilos de cannabis y detienen a tres personas en la región de Antofagasta fue publicado originalmente en El Diario de Antofagasta.

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Un operativo conjunto entre Aduanas, PDI y el Ministerio Público permitió decomisar más de 350 kilos de cannabis ocultos en un camión cisterna en Ollagüe, culminando con la detención de tres involucrados en Antofagasta. Este artículo VIDEO | Golpe al narcotráfico: incautan más de 350 kilos de cannabis y detienen a tres personas en la región de Antofagasta fue publicado originalmente en El Diario de Antofagasta.

La cantante, compositora, actriz, empresaria y filántropa fallece en Nashville después de más de seis décadas de carrera, con más de 100 millones de discos vendidos y una infancia marcada por la pobreza convertida en una de las historias de éxito más extraordinarias de EE UU.

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La cantante, compositora, actriz, empresaria y filántropa fallece en Nashville después de más de seis décadas de carrera, con más de 100 millones de discos vendidos y una infancia marcada por la pobreza convertida en una de las historias de éxito más extraordinarias de EE UU.

Serokê Demkî yê Sûriyê Ehmed Şer'i û Fermandarê HSD'ê Mezlûm Ebdî pêşwazî li biryara Amerîkayê kir ku Sûriyê ji lîsta welatên piştgirên terorê derxist. Emced Kurd ji Qamişlo qala reaksyon û nêrînên ser mijarê dike.

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State law enforcement officials broke ground Tuesday on a new forensics laboratory that they hope will improve the state’s already-fast processing of criminal forensics evidence.  And they hope that the $29 million forensics laboratory, based at Idaho State Police’s Headquarters in Meridian, will streamline lab services that are tapped by local and county law enforcement […]

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State law enforcement officials broke ground Tuesday on a new forensics laboratory that they hope will improve the state’s already-fast processing of criminal forensics evidence.  And they hope that the $29 million forensics laboratory, based at Idaho State Police’s Headquarters in Meridian, will streamline lab services that are tapped by local and county law enforcement […]

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They are the first confirmed measles-related deaths in the nation this year, and come amid the country’s largest outbreak of measles in decades.

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They are the first confirmed measles-related deaths in the nation this year, and come amid the country’s largest outbreak of measles in decades.

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El corredor esloveno firma una cabalgada en solitario de cincuenta kilómetros.

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El corredor esloveno firma una cabalgada en solitario de cincuenta kilómetros.

Court convicts two former leaders of the group that organized yearly candlelight vigils of “inciting subversion.”

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Un tornado de fuerza excepcional atravesó Pomas (Aude) y, en apenas dos minutos, dañó unas trescientas viviendas, dejó treinta y nueve heridos y obligó a evacuar el municipio ante su gran capacidad destructiva.

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Un tornado de fuerza excepcional atravesó Pomas (Aude) y, en apenas dos minutos, dañó unas trescientas viviendas, dejó treinta y nueve heridos y obligó a evacuar el municipio ante su gran capacidad destructiva.

دوندلد ترامپ: جمهوری اسلامی ایران معترضان را حتی زمانی که اعتراض نمی‌کنند در سطوحی بی‌سابقه می‌کشد

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Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools.A top committee of Tennessee educators wants lawmakers to include special education prekindergarten students in the state’s public school funding formula. The recommendations follows pleas from school boards and superintendents who say they’ve been saddled with the price tag of an unfunded mandate because federal and state laws require local school districts to serve students with disabilities as young as 3.“The problem is, they’ve legally compelled us to serve kids for whom they’re not proportionally funding us,” said Bob Nardos, the executive director at the Libertas School, a Memphis charter school, during a TISA Review Committee meeting this month.Lawmakers established the committee last year. Made up of top education officials and public school leaders from around the state, the committee is tasked with recommending revisions to the state’s overarching K-12 funding formula and will issue its first report later this fall. A survey completed this summer showed the majority of committee members ranked special education pre-K funding as a top priority, in addition to revising how the state identifies economically disadvantaged students. “Early childhood education is widely recognized as an important factor in long-term academic success,” committee member Ron McPherson said in the summer survey. McPherson serves as the finance director at Knox County Schools. Reworking TISA, the state’s funding formula, would require legislative action. The formula currently only funds Tennessee K-12 students. “Change the rules about who we’re required to serve, or fund us for the kids we’re required to serve,” Nardos said, noting that his school has an “acute population” of special education students with “severe” needs.It’s not clear how much weight the TISA Review Committee’s recommendations will carry with state lawmakers. A previous legislative effort to fold these pre-K students into public school funding stalled in 2025, likely over funding concerns. The legislature estimated that fully funding the programs could cost the state more than $159 million annually.On Thursday, state Board of Education Chairman Bob Eby sent a formal list of TISA recommendations to Gov. Bill Lee.The pre-K funding recommendation wasn’t included in the official list, but Eby noted it at the end of the letter. “​​This topic, being outside the K-12 formula, was omitted from the list, as it is not necessarily authorized by the statute creating this Committee; however, we wanted you to know of this high level of interest from the committee members,” Eby wrote.West Tennessee school leaders said last year that they’ve encountered “fundamental” misunderstandings of how special education pre-K programs work and are funded, even among state officials responsible for education oversight.Tennessee has an $18 million grant fund for special education pre-K costs. But district leaders say the grant program is less stable than recurring funding streams, and it’s still not enough to cover the costs of their special education pre-K classrooms. “Yes, the grant program exists, and I’m very grateful for it,” Nardos said. “But it’s not actually proportional to the need.”Special education costs for pre-K classes can balloon quickly, school leaders say. Lakeland School System in Shelby County currently has 29 special education students to whom it is federally required to offer pre-K services, including specialized teachers and therapies. But these students must also be educated alongside general education peers to meet federal and state class size and inclusivity regulations. Lakeland is serving an additional 30 general education students in those pre-K classrooms as peer models for its 29 special education students.Lakeland’s 59 students are spread across four classrooms, each with a special education teacher and two special education assistants. The cost to run those classrooms? More than $621,000, according to data provided by the district. The district is receiving $15,058 in federal funding and another $124,660 from the Tennessee special education preschool grant, which together cover about 22% of Lakeland’s total costs. That means Lakeland must dip into its TISA funding — calculated and intended for K-12 students — to pay the remaining $481,282.Other district officials said the existing funding models do not factor in the costs of peer students and the enrollment increases they bring. “That’s where we’re getting in a bind,” said TISA Review Committee member Eddie Pruett, the director of schools at Gibson County Special School District. “We have to provide this, and don’t have the funding we need to do it with.”Melissa Brown is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Tennessee. Contact Melissa at mbrown@chalkbeat.org.

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Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools.A top committee of Tennessee educators wants lawmakers to include special education prekindergarten students in the state’s public school funding formula. The recommendations follows pleas from school boards and superintendents who say they’ve been saddled with the price tag of an unfunded mandate because federal and state laws require local school districts to serve students with disabilities as young as 3.“The problem is, they’ve legally compelled us to serve kids for whom they’re not proportionally funding us,” said Bob Nardos, the executive director at the Libertas School, a Memphis charter school, during a TISA Review Committee meeting this month.Lawmakers established the committee last year. Made up of top education officials and public school leaders from around the state, the committee is tasked with recommending revisions to the state’s overarching K-12 funding formula and will issue its first report later this fall. A survey completed this summer showed the majority of committee members ranked special education pre-K funding as a top priority, in addition to revising how the state identifies economically disadvantaged students. “Early childhood education is widely recognized as an important factor in long-term academic success,” committee member Ron McPherson said in the summer survey. McPherson serves as the finance director at Knox County Schools. Reworking TISA, the state’s funding formula, would require legislative action. The formula currently only funds Tennessee K-12 students. “Change the rules about who we’re required to serve, or fund us for the kids we’re required to serve,” Nardos said, noting that his school has an “acute population” of special education students with “severe” needs.It’s not clear how much weight the TISA Review Committee’s recommendations will carry with state lawmakers. A previous legislative effort to fold these pre-K students into public school funding stalled in 2025, likely over funding concerns. The legislature estimated that fully funding the programs could cost the state more than $159 million annually.On Thursday, state Board of Education Chairman Bob Eby sent a formal list of TISA recommendations to Gov. Bill Lee.The pre-K funding recommendation wasn’t included in the official list, but Eby noted it at the end of the letter. “​​This topic, being outside the K-12 formula, was omitted from the list, as it is not necessarily authorized by the statute creating this Committee; however, we wanted you to know of this high level of interest from the committee members,” Eby wrote.West Tennessee school leaders said last year that they’ve encountered “fundamental” misunderstandings of how special education pre-K programs work and are funded, even among state officials responsible for education oversight.Tennessee has an $18 million grant fund for special education pre-K costs. But district leaders say the grant program is less stable than recurring funding streams, and it’s still not enough to cover the costs of their special education pre-K classrooms. “Yes, the grant program exists, and I’m very grateful for it,” Nardos said. “But it’s not actually proportional to the need.”Special education costs for pre-K classes can balloon quickly, school leaders say. Lakeland School System in Shelby County currently has 29 special education students to whom it is federally required to offer pre-K services, including specialized teachers and therapies. But these students must also be educated alongside general education peers to meet federal and state class size and inclusivity regulations. Lakeland is serving an additional 30 general education students in those pre-K classrooms as peer models for its 29 special education students.Lakeland’s 59 students are spread across four classrooms, each with a special education teacher and two special education assistants. The cost to run those classrooms? More than $621,000, according to data provided by the district. The district is receiving $15,058 in federal funding and another $124,660 from the Tennessee special education preschool grant, which together cover about 22% of Lakeland’s total costs. That means Lakeland must dip into its TISA funding — calculated and intended for K-12 students — to pay the remaining $481,282.Other district officials said the existing funding models do not factor in the costs of peer students and the enrollment increases they bring. “That’s where we’re getting in a bind,” said TISA Review Committee member Eddie Pruett, the director of schools at Gibson County Special School District. “We have to provide this, and don’t have the funding we need to do it with.”Melissa Brown is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Tennessee. Contact Melissa at mbrown@chalkbeat.org.

As editors of New York Magazine dug in their heels this week, defending the magazine’s viral “Habibi City” package published earlier this month, 14 Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewish organizations delivered an open letter on Monday night, accusing the magazine of erasing Middle Eastern Jews from its coverage. On Tuesday, Editor-in-chief David Haskell invited them to... The post Sephardic and Mizrahi groups accuse New York Magazine of erasing Middle Eastern Jews. The editor-in-chief agreed to a meeting. appeared first on The Forward.

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As editors of New York Magazine dug in their heels this week, defending the magazine’s viral “Habibi City” package published earlier this month, 14 Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewish organizations delivered an open letter on Monday night, accusing the magazine of erasing Middle Eastern Jews from its coverage. On Tuesday, Editor-in-chief David Haskell invited them to... The post Sephardic and Mizrahi groups accuse New York Magazine of erasing Middle Eastern Jews. The editor-in-chief agreed to a meeting. appeared first on The Forward.

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Following up on a yearslong promise to release information on its investigation into the Flint Water Crisis, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and the Department of Attorney General issued a report Tuesday detailing the department’s efforts to pursue justice for the individuals harmed. However, Nessel acknowledged that goal was not realized, as the individuals charged […]

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Following up on a yearslong promise to release information on its investigation into the Flint Water Crisis, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and the Department of Attorney General issued a report Tuesday detailing the department’s efforts to pursue justice for the individuals harmed. However, Nessel acknowledged that goal was not realized, as the individuals charged […]

“A ginecologia natural é um movimento de resgate da autonomia do corpo das pessoas com útero. Enxergo muito como um movimento político e também espiritual, em que a gente aprende sobre o próprio corpo por meio dos saberes tradicionais”, afirma Jéssica Caroline da Silva, 32, parteira, estudante de enfermagem e ativista indígena. Filha de pai […] O post Ativista de Parelheiros resgata saberes sobre ginecologia natural nas periferias apareceu primeiro em Agência Mural.

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“A ginecologia natural é um movimento de resgate da autonomia do corpo das pessoas com útero. Enxergo muito como um movimento político e também espiritual, em que a gente aprende sobre o próprio corpo por meio dos saberes tradicionais”, afirma Jéssica Caroline da Silva, 32, parteira, estudante de enfermagem e ativista indígena. Filha de pai […] O post Ativista de Parelheiros resgata saberes sobre ginecologia natural nas periferias apareceu primeiro em Agência Mural.

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From secret bars behind unmarked doors to cocktail lounges tucked beneath local restaurants, discover the best speakeasies in New Mexico. The post The top 8 speakeasies in New Mexico (+ how to find them!) appeared first on Good Info Newswire.

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From secret bars behind unmarked doors to cocktail lounges tucked beneath local restaurants, discover the best speakeasies in New Mexico. The post The top 8 speakeasies in New Mexico (+ how to find them!) appeared first on Good Info Newswire.