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PIERRE — Gov. Larry Rhoden vetoed a bill Monday that would effectively ban lab-grown meat in South Dakota, but also suggested a moratorium on the products as a compromise approach. The vetoed bill is sponsored by Lesterville Republican Rep. Julie Auch, who proposed the legislation with concern for what she called “the takeover of the […]

လွှတ်တော် ၄၀ ရာခိုင်နှုန်း အလိုအလျောက် ကိုယ်စားလှယ်နေရာအတွက် ကြေညာသည့် စာရင်းတွင် ဗိုလ်ချုပ်နှစ်ဦးခေါင်းဆောင်။

Konnor Ralph, a 23-year-old freestyle skier from Helena, qualified for the Olympic men’s freeski slopestyle event on Feb. 7 and will compete in the final beginning at 8:30 a.m. Mountain Time on Tuesday, Feb. 10. The games mark his first Olympic appearance. He is the first Helena native to be selected for a U.S. Olympic team in more than 50 years. The post Montanan Konnor Ralph makes Olympic freestyle skiing debut appeared first on Montana Free Press.

El primer ministro del Reino Unido se enfrenta a una creciente oposición dentro de su propio partido tras nuevas críticas por su gestión de la crisis. El líder laborista de Escocia y algunos diputados piden su dimisión.

A bill that would bar the practice of jailing people who can’t afford to pay sobriety program fees sailed through a South Dakota House of Representatives panel Monday morning at the Capitol in Pierre. All 12 members of the House Judiciary Committee present for the meeting — including some lawmakers who’d opposed an earlier effort […]

စစ်အာဏာမသိမ်းခင် ရွှေ ၁ ကျပ်သား ၁၃ သိန်းမှ ၅ နှစ်အတွင်း သိန်း ၁၀၀ ကျော်အထိ ၇ ဆ ကျော်မြင့်တက်လာ။

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump decided to exclude Democratic governors from a traditional annual meeting at the White House and to disinvite several others from a black-tie dinner, according to the White House, the governors and the National Governors Association. The National Governors Association organizes the bipartisan winter gathering that usually includes a working meeting […]

Diez días después de su fallecimiento, se ha sabido que la actriz murió a causa de un coágulo pulmonar derivado de un cáncer que había mantenido en la más estricta intimidad, coherente con una trayectoria personal siempre alejada del ruido mediático.

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Michigan’s free newsletter here. Two of the three people accused of fraud in a 2022 signature-gathering scandal were found guilty Monday, bringing an end to a nearly four-year saga that kept a number of candidates off the ballot due to phony signatures on their nominating petitions. The convictions are a rare occurrence. Accusations of fraud — fake signatures, misleading statements, and more — permeate nearly every major election in Michigan, but people are almost never prosecuted, let alone punished, for it. A Macomb County jury found Shawn Wilmoth and Willie Reed guilty of multiple felonies, including conducting a criminal enterprise and several counts of election law forgery. Jamie Wilmoth-Goodin, the third person accused, was found not guilty. Ahead of the 2022 election, five Republican gubernatorial candidates and three judicial candidates used firms owned and operated by Wilmoth and Reed to collect the signatures they required to qualify for the ballot. After the candidates — who included former Detroit Police Chief James Craig and 2026 gubernatorial candidate Perry Johnson, turned in their nominating petitions — thousands of their signatures were found to be fraudulent and the candidates were kept off the ballot. The Bureau of Elections released reports showing that for several candidates, signature gatherers made almost no effort to disguise the forged signatures, leading to full pages of nearly identical handwriting. Others tried to make the words intentionally illegible. In a 2023 press release announcing the charges against Wilmoth, Reed, and Wilmoth-Goodin, Attorney General Dana Nessel called the methods “sophomoric and transparent.” Wilmoth and Reed charged the candidates more than $700,000 for the signatures, Nessel said in a release Monday. It’s standard practice to hire signature gatherers to collect the 15,000 signatures needed to make the ballot as a statewide candidate. While candidates are considered responsible for the signatures, there is no indication they were aware of the wrongdoing. The scandal reshaped the 2022 Republican primary for governor, as some of the affected candidates were considered to be front-runners in the race. But Michigan’s laws around signature gathering have not changed in the time since. Signature gatherers remain powerful and largely unregulated in the state. They’re permitted to lie to potential signers, for example, and have no obligation to let someone read the petition before they sign. Michigan lawmakers have for years introduced legislation to try to address these issues. But such bills are rarely legislative priorities and tend to be pushed off. “The fraud perpetrated by the defendants robbed eight candidates of their chance to appear on the ballot, defrauded their campaigns and denied millions of Michiganders a choice in the 2022 gubernatorial election,” Nessel said in a press release Monday. An attorney for Reed declined to comment Monday evening. Attorneys for Wilmoth and Wilmoth-Goodin did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Wilmoth and Reed are set to be sentenced March 18. The most serious of the charges — conducting a criminal enterprise and using false pretenses involving $100,000 or more — each carries a maximum sentence of 20 years. Hayley Harding is a reporter for Votebeat based in Michigan. Contact Hayley at hharding@votebeat.org.

Despite a strong start to the winter in Montana, snowfall stalled in January leaving much of the state significantly more barren than typical for this time of year.   With a plea to Punxsutawney Phil’s prediction of six more weeks of winter, hydrologists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service warn that while […]

In a decision that was delayed by the prolonged federal government shutdown last fall, federal fishery regulators have increased this year’s allowable harvest of Pacific cod in the Gulf of Alaska. The approximately 37.5% increase in total allowable catch was approved by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, the panel that oversees commercial seafood harvests […]

ပဲခူးတိုင်း နတ်တလင်းရှေ့ခြမ်းကို စစ်ကော်မရှင်တပ်တွေက ဖေဖော်ဝါရီလဆန်းပိုင်းမှာ ပြန်လည် ထိုးစစ်ဆင်လာ။

Conservation groups warn ‘extinction is not accidental; it is a political choice’ as they ask the Federal Court to rule on delayed critical habitat mapping

PIERRE — An attempt to make it easier to refer excess school property taxes to voters passed the South Dakota Senate State Affairs Committee with a 6-3 vote on Monday at the Capitol. Senate Bill 223, introduced by Sen. Sue Peterson, R-Sioux Falls, targets decisions by school districts to “opt out” of property tax limitations […]

Whether showing rabbits or steers, competitors took pride in the results of their hard work in feeding and tending their animals. The post Photo essay: Months of hard work pay off at McLennan County Junior Livestock Show appeared first on The Waco Bridge.

Le Soudan est de nouveau membre à part entière de l'Autorité intergouvernementale pour le développement (Igad). L'organisation régionale est-africaine l'a annoncé, dimanche 8 février. Khartoum avait suspendu sa participation en 2024 selon la volonté du général Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, chef de l'armée et président de facto, qui avait reproché à l'organisation d'avoir invité son rival, le général Mohamed Hamdan Daglo dit Hemedti, commandant des Forces de soutien rapide, à un sommet en Ouganda.

စစ်ကြောင်းထိုးစဥ် ပစ္စည်းအရင်ယူပြီး အိမ်ကို မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးဟု ဒေသခံတွေပြော။

San Joaquin transit board puts CEO on leave after bus drivers pause service to attend special meeting. After partial RTD disruption, board puts CEO on leave is a story from Stocktonia News, a rigorous and factual newsroom covering Greater Stockton, California. Please consider making a charitable contribution to support our journalism.

Educators and parents have urged district leaders to delay cuts to school and administrative positions.

A national group that tests optometrists for licensure in all 50 states is blasting Kentucky’s licensing board, saying it is failing to protect the public or ensure that eye care providers are competent as it seeks to address cases of optometrists who were improperly licensed. The state board’s  efforts allow “invalidly licensed optometrists to continue […]