Caracas, January 9, 2026 (venezuelanalysis.com) – US President Donald Trump hosted executives from major Western energy corporations at the White House on Friday after touting a US $100 billion investment plan in Venezuela’s oil industry. The Trump administration has moved to claim control over the Caribbean nation’s most important economic sector in the wake of the January 3 bombings and kidnapping... The post Trump Administration Hosts Oil Executives, Insists on Sweeping Venezuelan Oil Concessions appeared first on Venezuelanalysis.

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Caracas, January 9, 2026 (venezuelanalysis.com) – US President Donald Trump hosted executives from major Western energy corporations at the White House on Friday after touting a US $100 billion investment plan in Venezuela’s oil industry. The Trump administration has moved to claim control over the Caribbean nation’s most important economic sector in the wake of the January 3 bombings and kidnapping... The post Trump Administration Hosts Oil Executives, Insists on Sweeping Venezuelan Oil Concessions appeared first on Venezuelanalysis.

The state of Alaska is preparing to give away millions of dollars worth of gravel to public corporations, a move that would amount to millions of dollars in assistance to some of the state’s biggest construction projects. According to a Q&A posted by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, the beneficiaries could include the proposed […]

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The state of Alaska is preparing to give away millions of dollars worth of gravel to public corporations, a move that would amount to millions of dollars in assistance to some of the state’s biggest construction projects. According to a Q&A posted by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, the beneficiaries could include the proposed […]

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LINCOLN — Citing soaring housing costs, Nebraska’s new treasurer is pushing a proposal designed to help first-time home buyers achieve homeownership. Legislative Bill 938, the First-Time Homeowner Savings Account Act, was introduced Friday by State Sen. Bob Hallstrom of Syracuse on behalf of State Treasurer Joey Spellerberg. Spellerberg took the reins of treasury in November […]

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LINCOLN — Citing soaring housing costs, Nebraska’s new treasurer is pushing a proposal designed to help first-time home buyers achieve homeownership. Legislative Bill 938, the First-Time Homeowner Savings Account Act, was introduced Friday by State Sen. Bob Hallstrom of Syracuse on behalf of State Treasurer Joey Spellerberg. Spellerberg took the reins of treasury in November […]

عباس میلانی: بیش از ۴۰ سال جمهوری اسلامی سعی کرده است با تجدد بجنگد

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عباس میلانی: بیش از ۴۰ سال جمهوری اسلامی سعی کرده است با تجدد بجنگد

حمایت کامل معاون رئیس جمهوری آمریکا از معترضان در ایران

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The Trump administration and some Democrats have drawn divergent conclusions from bystander video of the fatal shooting of a woman in Minnesota by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. How can one side say the agent was "recklessly using power" and the other determine he "fired defensive shots"? Experts told us it's common for people to view the same video differently, and that the early evidence isn't enough to reach definitive conclusions. The post Politicians Reach Different Conclusions on Minnesota Shooting Video appeared first on FactCheck.org.

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The Trump administration and some Democrats have drawn divergent conclusions from bystander video of the fatal shooting of a woman in Minnesota by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. How can one side say the agent was "recklessly using power" and the other determine he "fired defensive shots"? Experts told us it's common for people to view the same video differently, and that the early evidence isn't enough to reach definitive conclusions. The post Politicians Reach Different Conclusions on Minnesota Shooting Video appeared first on FactCheck.org.

Revitalization of a bridge over the I-5, connecting Barrio Logan and Logan Heights, is bringing new life to the structure.

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Revitalization of a bridge over the I-5, connecting Barrio Logan and Logan Heights, is bringing new life to the structure.

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سازمان اوقاف؛ کشوری در دل ایران

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(The Center Square) – In his proposed budget, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is predicting a shortfall of $2.9 billion. That's much less than the $18 billion shortfall projected by the Legislative Analyst's Office. Newsom, who released his 2026-27 budget Friday, expects much higher general fund revenues than the LAO, a nonpartisan agency. The Democratic governor’s proposed budget estimates that general fund revenues will exceed $42 billion over the 2025 budget, fueled mainly by higher cash receipts, higher stock market levels and an improved economic outlook. “The biggest difference in the factors and forecasts is that the LAO incorporated significant risk of a stock market downturn in their forecast,” Joe Stephenshaw, the director of the California Department of Finance, said during a news conference announcing the governor’s budget. “We do not do that. "We don’t build in downturns into our forecast," Stephenshaw told reporters Friday at the Capitol in Sacramento. "We do know that if there is a stock market correction to the tune of about 20%, that will have an impact on our revenues in the budget window to the degree of up to $30 billion.” The LAO previously released a budget outlook that projected an $18 billion budget deficit in 2026-27. While LAO representatives weren’t able to answer most questions from The Center Square, analysts in the office are reviewing the governor’s proposal and expect to release an assessment on Monday. “The administration’s revenue estimates are notably higher than ours,” Carolyn Chu, one of two analysts to work on the Legislative Analyst’s Office budget review in November, told The Center Square on Friday. “You see that play through in the deficit estimates.” Overall, the governor’s proposal projects a $348.9 billion budget for fiscal year 2026-27, fueled by an optimistic economic outlook. The higher state revenues would in large part be funded by high company valuations of big tech companies, particularly in the realm of artificial intelligence, according to the governor’s proposal. However, the Pacific Research Institute, a Pasadena-based think tank, has a more skeptical view of the economy’s performance, its economist told The Center Square on Friday. “The LAO says we’re going to have an $18 billion deficit. [The governor] says we’re going to have a $3 billion deficit,” Wayne Winegarden, an economist with Pacific Research Institute, told The Center Square. “The difference is because he’s saying we’re going to have lots of revenue from AI. We have surging revenues from income taxes because of AI, and that’s going to end, possibly, because who knows the future? We should be saving more of that money because we have difficult times ahead.” The governor’s budget would allocate $101.5 billion to health, $17.6 billion to transportation, $41.5 billion to human services, $18 billion to corrections and rehabilitation, $27.4 billion to higher education, $90.2 billion to K-12 education and $52.4 billion to other expenditures, according to the proposal. Notably, federal expenditures are expected to decrease, leaving California on the hook for $1.1 billion in increased costs to Medi-Cal, California’s version of the federally-funded Medicaid program, according to the proposal. An additional $300 million is expected in additional costs to the state for CalFresh. “He’s trying to put lipstick on a pig and say that the deficit’s not what it really is,” Sen. Tony Strickland, R-Huntington Beach, told The Center Square on Friday. “What I get out of this is revenues are way up, and what that really points out is California doesn’t have a revenue problem, it has a wasteful spending problem. Yet again, another year where the governor is proposing to spend more than what we take in.” The chair of the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee, however, said he thought that the governor’s budget was more accurately based on current economic circumstances than the November Legislative Analyst’s Office report. “I was pleasantly surprised that we might be able to do a status-quo budget, and what’s missing is extensive cuts,” Sen. John Laird, D-Monterey, told The Center Square on Friday. “It means we can continue existing levels of service into the next year with the governor’s budget.”

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(The Center Square) – In his proposed budget, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is predicting a shortfall of $2.9 billion. That's much less than the $18 billion shortfall projected by the Legislative Analyst's Office. Newsom, who released his 2026-27 budget Friday, expects much higher general fund revenues than the LAO, a nonpartisan agency. The Democratic governor’s proposed budget estimates that general fund revenues will exceed $42 billion over the 2025 budget, fueled mainly by higher cash receipts, higher stock market levels and an improved economic outlook. “The biggest difference in the factors and forecasts is that the LAO incorporated significant risk of a stock market downturn in their forecast,” Joe Stephenshaw, the director of the California Department of Finance, said during a news conference announcing the governor’s budget. “We do not do that. "We don’t build in downturns into our forecast," Stephenshaw told reporters Friday at the Capitol in Sacramento. "We do know that if there is a stock market correction to the tune of about 20%, that will have an impact on our revenues in the budget window to the degree of up to $30 billion.” The LAO previously released a budget outlook that projected an $18 billion budget deficit in 2026-27. While LAO representatives weren’t able to answer most questions from The Center Square, analysts in the office are reviewing the governor’s proposal and expect to release an assessment on Monday. “The administration’s revenue estimates are notably higher than ours,” Carolyn Chu, one of two analysts to work on the Legislative Analyst’s Office budget review in November, told The Center Square on Friday. “You see that play through in the deficit estimates.” Overall, the governor’s proposal projects a $348.9 billion budget for fiscal year 2026-27, fueled by an optimistic economic outlook. The higher state revenues would in large part be funded by high company valuations of big tech companies, particularly in the realm of artificial intelligence, according to the governor’s proposal. However, the Pacific Research Institute, a Pasadena-based think tank, has a more skeptical view of the economy’s performance, its economist told The Center Square on Friday. “The LAO says we’re going to have an $18 billion deficit. [The governor] says we’re going to have a $3 billion deficit,” Wayne Winegarden, an economist with Pacific Research Institute, told The Center Square. “The difference is because he’s saying we’re going to have lots of revenue from AI. We have surging revenues from income taxes because of AI, and that’s going to end, possibly, because who knows the future? We should be saving more of that money because we have difficult times ahead.” The governor’s budget would allocate $101.5 billion to health, $17.6 billion to transportation, $41.5 billion to human services, $18 billion to corrections and rehabilitation, $27.4 billion to higher education, $90.2 billion to K-12 education and $52.4 billion to other expenditures, according to the proposal. Notably, federal expenditures are expected to decrease, leaving California on the hook for $1.1 billion in increased costs to Medi-Cal, California’s version of the federally-funded Medicaid program, according to the proposal. An additional $300 million is expected in additional costs to the state for CalFresh. “He’s trying to put lipstick on a pig and say that the deficit’s not what it really is,” Sen. Tony Strickland, R-Huntington Beach, told The Center Square on Friday. “What I get out of this is revenues are way up, and what that really points out is California doesn’t have a revenue problem, it has a wasteful spending problem. Yet again, another year where the governor is proposing to spend more than what we take in.” The chair of the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee, however, said he thought that the governor’s budget was more accurately based on current economic circumstances than the November Legislative Analyst’s Office report. “I was pleasantly surprised that we might be able to do a status-quo budget, and what’s missing is extensive cuts,” Sen. John Laird, D-Monterey, told The Center Square on Friday. “It means we can continue existing levels of service into the next year with the governor’s budget.”

کارلا سندز: احساس می‌کنم زمان سقوط جمهوری اسلامی فرا رسیده است؛ نگران قطعی اینترنتم

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Alaska’s capital city advised downtown residents in avalanche zones to evacuate their homes late Friday morning. Avalanche risk mounted as a result of increased snowfall, higher temperatures and forecasted rain, triggering an emergency alert.  City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Programs Manager Ryan O’Shaughnessy said the city is monitoring the risk closely and working with […]

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Alaska’s capital city advised downtown residents in avalanche zones to evacuate their homes late Friday morning. Avalanche risk mounted as a result of increased snowfall, higher temperatures and forecasted rain, triggering an emergency alert.  City and Borough of Juneau Emergency Programs Manager Ryan O’Shaughnessy said the city is monitoring the risk closely and working with […]

آمریکا از لنز دوربین - تفنگداران دریایی آمریکا در پورتوریکو

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سحر تحویلی: در ۲۴ ساعت گذشته شاهد قطعی کامل اینترنت در ایران بودیم

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سحر تحویلی: در ۲۴ ساعت گذشته شاهد قطعی کامل اینترنت در ایران بودیم

The Colorado Opportunity Caucus said its bank statements offer “evidence for complete vindication” of allegations that Democratic state legislators broke the state’s law prohibiting elected officials from receiving gifts.  Colorado Common Cause, a pro-democracy organization, filed complaints with the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission against members of the caucus alleging they accepted payment from a pro-business […]

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The Colorado Opportunity Caucus said its bank statements offer “evidence for complete vindication” of allegations that Democratic state legislators broke the state’s law prohibiting elected officials from receiving gifts.  Colorado Common Cause, a pro-democracy organization, filed complaints with the Colorado Independent Ethics Commission against members of the caucus alleging they accepted payment from a pro-business […]

دومان رادمهر: وسعت اعتراضات پنجشنبه شب در شهرهای مختلف آذربایجان بیشتر بود

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State body OKs Department of Corrections mail scanning rule, with prison reform advocates upset.

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State body OKs Department of Corrections mail scanning rule, with prison reform advocates upset.

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LINCOLN — A legislative bill introduced Friday would make the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission an elected office. Another bill would protect physicians who want to recommend the medicine. Both bills, from State Sen. John Cavanaugh of Omaha, come after a yearlong, continued fight to implement a medical cannabis system that voters approved in the 2024 […]

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LINCOLN — A legislative bill introduced Friday would make the Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission an elected office. Another bill would protect physicians who want to recommend the medicine. Both bills, from State Sen. John Cavanaugh of Omaha, come after a yearlong, continued fight to implement a medical cannabis system that voters approved in the 2024 […]

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Tiempo de lectura: 5 minutosUna madre de 37 años, de origen estadounidense, murió el 7 de enero después de que un agente del ICE le disparara. Este hecho ha dejado un ambiente de tensión y polarización en Estados Unidos.  Prensa Comunitaria* El 7 de enero a las 9:30 de la mañana agentes del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de ... Read more

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Tiempo de lectura: 5 minutosUna madre de 37 años, de origen estadounidense, murió el 7 de enero después de que un agente del ICE le disparara. Este hecho ha dejado un ambiente de tensión y polarización en Estados Unidos.  Prensa Comunitaria* El 7 de enero a las 9:30 de la mañana agentes del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de ... Read more

Presidente em exercício da Venezuela anunciou retomada dos diálogos para reabertura de postos e ligação para Lula Venezuela e EUA começam a discutir reabertura de embaixadas depois de 7 anos apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.

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Presidente em exercício da Venezuela anunciou retomada dos diálogos para reabertura de postos e ligação para Lula Venezuela e EUA começam a discutir reabertura de embaixadas depois de 7 anos apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.

LINCOLN — A financial advisor who helped Lincoln businessman Aaron Marshbanks swindle $45 million from nearly 20 banks and savings and loans was ordered Friday to pay them more than $37 million in restitution. While it’s doubtful that Jesse Hill, a Hickman financial advisor, will ever come close to paying off the financial institutions, the […]

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LINCOLN — A financial advisor who helped Lincoln businessman Aaron Marshbanks swindle $45 million from nearly 20 banks and savings and loans was ordered Friday to pay them more than $37 million in restitution. While it’s doubtful that Jesse Hill, a Hickman financial advisor, will ever come close to paying off the financial institutions, the […]