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Georgia’s State Security Service (SSG) said it detained a wanted suspect at the Georgia–Armenia border over alleged links to a ‘sabotage’ plot it claimed was intended to carry out during the 4 October 2025 protests in Tbilisi. The detainee is believed to be Beka Chulukhadze, a Georgian fighter in Ukraine, who had denied the allegations before his detention. The SSG said on Friday that the detainee was charged with acquiring and storing large quantities of firearms, ammunition, and explosives. T

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When Oregon lawmakers in 2013 passed a law establishing some of the state’s earliest guidelines for public drone usage, not a single state or local agency was using drones. The law prohibited the use of armed drones and restricted their use in law enforcement surveillance to cases involving a search warrant or life-threatening emergencies, such […]

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The largest single piece of housing legislation to come out of Congress since at least 1990 is now law, despite President Donald Trump’s refusal to sign it.  The law is meant to kick start more housing construction across the country and features a grab bag of regulatory tweaks, pilot programs and targeted loans and grants.  Though […]

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The Center Square) – Millions of taxpayer dollars have slipped through Tennessee’s fingers in an economic development program that pays huge cash grants to private companies promising new jobs, an investigation by The Center Square found. The state has recourse when those promises fall flat and has clawed back $92 million from companies that failed to deliver on pledged job numbers, but more than $20 million remains uncollected, state data shows. Recouping funds takes years and can be futile if companies dissolve, file for bankruptcy, or wage battle through protracted litigation. In an interview last month, Economic and Community Development Commissioner and Deputy Governor Stuart McWhorter characterized clawbacks as "rare" within the state’s FastTrack grants program. But the state's own tracking spreadsheet, obtained by The Center Square through a public records request, shows Tennessee's economic arm has spent years chasing money back from dozens of companies that fell short of their job pledges. McWhorter's department has pursued 71 companies since 2016. In total, the 71 had been handed $169 million in grants through Tennessee’s FastTrack program, aiming to create more than 24,000 jobs combined. Actual jobs created by the companies: About 7,400. Under FastTrack, employers who create at least half of the jobs they promised can keep part of their grant money, so not all the money doled out to underperforming companies can be recovered. The spreadsheet shows the state has managed to recoup $92.4 million from 55 companies and is still fighting for more. Just last month McWhorter's department sent a demand letter to Novonix, a Chattanooga battery materials company that received a $3 million FastTrack grant in 2021 by promising 290 jobs, but only created 85 jobs, the state contends. The department gave Novonix 45 days to return the money. Novonix did not respond to a request for comment for this story. "The real question that I think most people are interested in is, do you enforce the clawback provision?" McWhorter told The Center Square. "And the answer is yes, we do. It’s not something that anyone enjoys doing. It’s not a conversation that people enjoy having." Justin Owen, president and CEO of the Beacon Center of Tennessee and a fierce critic of FastTrack, said government shouldn't be using tax money to pick business winners and losers in the first place. "This is part of the problem with corporate welfare," said Owen, whose Nashville-based nonprofit advocates for market-based policies and helped push a 2013 law mandating clawback agreements for all companies receiving economic development grants. "Markets are notoriously messy, obviously, and companies fluctuate," he said. "They hire people, they lay people off. That's just part of the way it works, and today's winner may be tomorrow’s loser." Failures and disappointments Including Novonix, 18 companies accused of failing to live up to jobs promises owe the state $20.1 million, including $8.8 million still owed in judgements obtained against eight companies that fought back in court, according to state’s data. The sum also includes $6.1 million that's tied up in litigation and owed by five companies, the state says. One of those companies is SmileDirectClub, a Nashville-headquartered teledentistry company that sold teeth aligners and faced class-action lawsuits alleging false advertising and damage to teeth. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2023, but not before receiving almost half of a total $10.05 million awarded FastTrack grant. Economic and Community Development can only pursue $3.5 million through bankruptcy court, because it didn't have a signed performance agreement attached to the other $1.4 million, department spokeswoman Lindsey Tipton wrote to The Center Square in an email. The SmileDirectClub bankruptcy is just one in a long list of disappointments contained in the state’s internal spreadsheet, obtained earlier this month through a request filed under the Tennessee Open Records Act. The Center Square has been examining corporate accountability under FastTrack, in light of a controversial $30 million grant awarded to Starbucks this year for its new southeast corporate office in Nashville, and sought specific information about which companies have been asked to return funds and how much has been paid back. Among the failures: The state has a judgment Textile Corporation of America, which obtained a $3 million grant in 2017 to build a manufacturing plant in Pikeville, promising to create 1,000 jobs. The company created zero jobs, with the owners, twin brothers Karim and Rahim Sadruddin, pleading guilty to federal charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Prosecutors said the scheme involved fake invoices, falsified records, and misspent funds. The brothers were sentenced to 50 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution. So far the company has paid back around $1 million of that FastTrack money, the state data shows. The state awarded $4 million to MIA (Made in America) Seating in 2013, but Economic and Community Development says it created only 82 of 510 promised jobs at an ergonomic office chairs and seating plant in Clinton. The project was later moved to Union City. The company fought the state in court, lost, and has yet to make any payments on a $3.4 million judgment obtained in 2024, the state's spreadsheet reports. Daily interest is accumulating. The Center Square reached out to a company representative about this story but did not receive a response. Other funds handed over to private enterprise may be gone for good. A 2024 audit by the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury examined clawbacks and found $7.9 million in taxpayer money declared uncollectible from seven companies that went bankrupt or dissolved. The audit did not identify the companies, so it's not clear if the figure overlaps with companies included on the state's spreadsheet. $92 million collected FastTrack launched in 2012 and is the state's main apparatus for sweetening development deals—and edging out competing states—by making cash payments directly to companies. The program draws from general funds, meaning every Tennessean helps pay for the grants through sales taxes. Data posted on Economic and Community Development’s website, tracking grants from 2018 to present, shows nearly $767 million awarded to about 585 companies in that timeframe. That would be $100 per Tennessee resident. But it's unclear how much of that money was actually paid out, and how much may have been returned without a clawback process. Of the $92.4 million collected from 55 companies, 35 of them created less than half of the jobs they promised. Thirteen of those created no jobs at all, and out of those, four finished their contracts with fewer jobs than they started, giving them negative jobs numbers, according to the state data. Owen, of the Beacon Center, said FastTrack needlessly entangles taxpayer money into companies' hiring decisions. "Companies aren't coming here and expanding here because we're giving them handouts," Owen said. "They're coming here and expanding here because of our policies, because of our tax structure and those types of things. That's what we should be doubling down on." State Rep. Ryan Williams, R-Cookeville, said Tennessee needs FastTrack grants, though. They're one of the few tools for growing the tax base in a state with no income tax, he said. "Whenever we add a job, we're adding a sales taxpayer," Williams said. "So when you look at it from an incentives basis, yes, we're distributing well-fought-for dollars from our citizens into these businesses. But the goal here is to look at … what do we think our return on that investment is going to be through those utilization taxes that we have, because we have no income tax?" Sliding scale for clawbacks Under the accountability agreements that companies sign with the state, clawbacks are calculated on a sliding scale according to how much a company comes up short. According to a template contract provided by McWhorter's staff, a company that creates less than 90% of its pledged new jobs must repay a proportional amount of the grant award while a company that creates less than 50% must repay the entire grant. McWhorter told The Center Square the accountability agreements give companies years to meet their jobs goals, so clawbacks take as long or longer, "five, six, seven, eight years in some cases." He said the risk of a deal going bad factors into how the state vets companies before awarding grants. "Things don’t go as planned most of the time, but you want to align with companies that can figure that out," McWhorter said. "They have the deep pockets to pivot, they can weather storms. Because what we don't want is a company that doesn't have the ability to do that, and then they're saying, 'Hey, we're out of resources. We can't do anything about it. And guess what, we're out of money."

The following is a list of drug-related deaths as reported by the King County Medical Examiner. The Center Square does not independently verify this information. The full list can be found here. Total number of drug-related deaths since TCS tracking began May 26: 89 JULY 6 26-01195: Michael Ryan McCray 38 years / Male 05/03/2026 Acute fentanyl intoxication. The injury occurred at a residence in Seattle, and the manner of death was ruled an accident. 26-01758: Justin Tyler Baker 38 years / Male 07/03/2026 Acute drug intoxication including methamphetamine. The injury occurred at a residence in Auburn, and the manner of death was ruled an accident. 26-01767: Calvin Jake Barksdale 72 years / Male 06/28/2026 Acute combined drug intoxication including fentanyl and methamphetamine. The injury occurred at a residence in Seattle, and the manner of death was ruled an accident. 26-01771: Maria A Sagiao 40 years / Female 07/05/2026 Anoxic encephalopathy, acute combined methadone, fentanyl, amphetamine and unspecified benzodiazepine intoxication. The injury occurred at a residence in Auburn, and the manner of death was ruled an accident. 26-01774: Jason J. Kollman 57 years / Male 07/04/2026 Acute combined drug intoxication including fentanyl, methamphetamine and ethanol. The injury occurred at a vehicle in Seattle, and the manner of death was ruled an accident. JULY 7 26-01775: Colten Sterling Davis 23 years / Male 07/02/2026 Acute drug intoxication including fentanyl. The injury occurred at a residence in Seattle, and the manner of death was ruled an accident. 26-01777: Mark Allen Silva 46 years / Male 07/05/2026 Acute combined drug intoxication including fentanyl and methamphetamine. The injury occurred at a sidewalk in Seattle, and the manner of death was ruled an accident. JULY 8 26-01779: Joseph Patrick Bailey 58 years / Male 07/03/2026 Acute combined drug intoxication including fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine. The injury occurred outdoors in Seattle, and the manner of death was ruled an accident. 26-01787: Liliana Doreen Mellor 36 years / Female 07/06/2026 Anoxic encephalopathy, acute combined drug intoxication including fentanyl and methamphetamine. The injury occurred at a garage in Seattle, and the manner of death was ruled an accident. 26-01792: James "Carrieanne" Edward Griebling 66 years / Female 07/04/2026 Acute combined drug intoxication including fentanyl and cocaine. The injury occurred at a residence in Seattle, and the manner of death was ruled an accident. 26-01803: Yadwinder Singh Brar 45 years / Male 07/04/2026 Anoxic brain injury, cardiac arrest, acute combined cocaine and ethanol intoxication. The injury occurred at a residence in SeaTac, and the manner of death was ruled an accident. JULY 9 26-01130: Simrandeep Singh Bajwa 38 years / Male 04/29/2026 Acute combined methamphetamine and methadone intoxication. The injury occurred at a residence in Burien, and the manner of death was ruled an accident. 26-01265: Larry Thomas Lattig 45 years / Male 05/14/2026 Acute methamphetamine intoxication. The injury occurred at a vehicle in Renton, and the manner of death was ruled suicide. 26-01796: Desiree Marguerite Baird AKA Guiles 46 years / Female 07/07/2026 Acute combined drug intoxication including fentanyl and methamphetamine. The injury occurred at a residence in Auburn, and the manner of death was ruled an accident. 26-01797: Michael Aaron Olney 34 years / Male 07/07/2026 Acute mixed drug intoxication including fentanyl and unspecified benzodiazepine. The injury occurred at a sidewalk in Seattle, and the manner of death was ruled an accident. 26-01808: Judy Elaine Gooch 65 years / Female 07/08/2026 Acute drug intoxication including methamphetamine. The injury occurred at a residence in Kirkland, and the manner of death was ruled an accident. JULY 10 No drug-related deaths reported.

Following the King County Regional Homelessness Authority Point-In-Time Count, that showed 4.2 percent of unsheltered individuals identified as American Indian, Alaska Native or Indigenous, Native-led organizations in Seattle point to larger concerns with data collection and called for the King County Regional Homelessness Authority to acknowledge that the data is flawed. The post Undercount of Native Homeless Population in Seattle Highlights Bigger Data Collection Concerns appeared first on Underscore Native News.

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Monday, July 13 9:30 a.m.: Open Play, for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. The Nest, 217 Columbus Road, Athens. 5 p.m.: Athens Civitan Club, The Plains Community Park Building, 65 Connett Road, The Plains. 6 p.m.: We Don’t Care Club, focused on menopause, exploring current laws, court cases, workplace rights. The Nest, 217 Columbus Road, Athens. […] The post Civic and Community Club Meetings for the week of July 13, 2026 appeared first on Athens County Independent.

Send meeting notices to info@athensindependent.com by noon on Fridays for inclusion in Monday’s Bulletin Board. All meetings are in-person only unless otherwise noted.  Monday, July 13 4:30 p.m.: Le-Ax Water District Board of Directors, Le-Ax Water Office, 6000 Industrial Drive, Athens.  5:30 p.m.: Athens City Historic Preservation Commission, Athens City Building, 8 E. Washington St., […] The post Public Meetings for the week of July 13, 2026 appeared first on Athens County Independent.

La Oficina del Fiscal de Distrito del condado de Wake quedará como la oficina con mayor déficit de personal en Carolina del Norte tras la aprobación del presupuesto estatal. La entrada El presupuesto de Carolina del Norte deja al condado de Wake con una brecha de fiscales que preocupa a funcionarios judiciales se publicó primero en Enlace Latino NC. El presupuesto de Carolina del Norte deja al condado de Wake con una brecha de fiscales que preocupa a funcionarios judiciales was first posted on julio 13, 2026 at 9:00 am.©2024 "Enlace Latino NC". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at paola@enlacelatinonc.org

После начала большой войны и объявленной в России мобилизации многие россияне покинули страну. Однако переезд в другую страну — недостаточная мера для того, чтобы защитить себя от преследования российских силовиков. Как ранее предупреждала «Медуза», ряд стран выдает россиян по запросу правоохранительных органов РФ. В некоторых случаях граждан России, на которых на родине заведены уголовные дела, депортируют под разными предлогами. Попав в Россию, они, как активистка Ариадна Литвинова, оказываются в СИЗО. Однако известны и случаи, когда россиян похищают и вывозят в Россию, где отдают под суд. Это, например, произошло с Георгием Пироговым, которого в июле Мосгорсуд приговорил к 23 годам по обвинению в «госизмене». «Медуза» кратко рассказывает о некоторых случаях похищения россиян за рубежом.

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Prošle godine, šesta po redu povorka ponosa u Sarajevu je okupila hiljade ljudi na ulicama u znak podrške queer zajednici u Bosni i Hercegovini, a atmosfera je bila vedra, svečana i ispunjena pozitivnom energijom. Source

Last year, the sixth Sarajevo Pride March brought thousands of people to the streets of Sarajevo in support of the queer community in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Source