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La dirección nacional de los populares recula su postura después de la declaración del expresidente y cree que no pasará factura un escándalo “que pasó hace muchísimos años”, mientras el Gobierno aprovecha su testimonio para emplazar a Feijóo a responder.

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La dirección nacional de los populares recula su postura después de la declaración del expresidente y cree que no pasará factura un escándalo “que pasó hace muchísimos años”, mientras el Gobierno aprovecha su testimonio para emplazar a Feijóo a responder.
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Representantes dos dois países se reuniram nos Estados Unidos nesta quinta-feira (23) Fonte
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سەرۆک دۆناڵد ترامپ ڕۆژی پێنجشەممە ڕەتیکردەوە ئەمەریکا لە ململانێکان لەگەڵ ئێران چەکی ئەتۆمی بەکاربهێنێت و هەروەها پێداگری لەسەر ئەوە کرد کە هیچ فشارێک نییە بۆ ئەوەی پەلە بکات بۆ ڕێکەوتنێکی خراپ لەگەڵ ئێران. ترامپ لە وەڵامی پرسیاری پەیامنێرێکدا بە ئاماژەدان بە ئۆپەراسیۆنە سەربازییە هاوبەشەکەی ئەمەریکا و ئیسرائیل کە لە 28ی مانگی دوو دەستیپێکرد، وتی "بۆچی من چەکی ئەتۆمی بەکاربهێنم؟ ئێمە بە تەواوی و بە شێوەیەکی زۆر ئاسایی و بە بێ چەکی ئەتۆمی لەناومان بردوون." وتیشی "نەخێر، من بەکاری ناهێنم...
سەرۆک دۆناڵد ترامپ ڕۆژی پێنجشەممە ڕەتیکردەوە ئەمەریکا لە ململانێکان لەگەڵ ئێران چەکی ئەتۆمی بەکاربهێنێت و هەروەها پێداگری لەسەر ئەوە کرد کە هیچ فشارێک نییە بۆ ئەوەی پەلە بکات بۆ ڕێکەوتنێکی خراپ لەگەڵ ئێران. ترامپ لە وەڵامی پرسیاری پەیامنێرێکدا بە ئاماژەدان بە ئۆپەراسیۆنە سەربازییە هاوبەشەکەی ئەمەریکا و ئیسرائیل کە لە 28ی مانگی دوو دەستیپێکرد، وتی "بۆچی من چەکی ئەتۆمی بەکاربهێنم؟ ئێمە بە تەواوی و بە شێوەیەکی زۆر ئاسایی و بە بێ چەکی ئەتۆمی لەناومان بردوون." وتیشی "نەخێر، من بەکاری ناهێنم...
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آقای هاکبی گفت حزبالله مثل آن «بچه خشنی» است که به پنجره همه «سنگ پرتاب میکند» میکند و رئیس جمهوری آمریکا میخواهد آن بچه را از محله بیرون کند.
آقای هاکبی گفت حزبالله مثل آن «بچه خشنی» است که به پنجره همه «سنگ پرتاب میکند» میکند و رئیس جمهوری آمریکا میخواهد آن بچه را از محله بیرون کند.
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Washington — Wezîrê Derve yê Amerîkayê Marco Rubio red dike ku Amerîka dê rê nede lîstikvanên tîma futbola Îranê vê havînê beşdarî Kupaya Cîhanê bibin. Rubio roja Pêncşemê di dema civîna karbidestên Amerîkî ligel balyozên Îsraîl û Libnanê de li Koşka Sipî got: "Amerîka negotiye ew nikarin werin. Pirsgirêka ligel Îranê ne ya lîstikvanan e, lê ya gelek kesên din e ku ewê bi xwe re bînin, ku hinek ji wan girêdayî Pasdarên Şoreşa Îslamî ne." Wezîrê Dervê yê Amerîkayê herwiha diyar kir "emê...
Washington — Wezîrê Derve yê Amerîkayê Marco Rubio red dike ku Amerîka dê rê nede lîstikvanên tîma futbola Îranê vê havînê beşdarî Kupaya Cîhanê bibin. Rubio roja Pêncşemê di dema civîna karbidestên Amerîkî ligel balyozên Îsraîl û Libnanê de li Koşka Sipî got: "Amerîka negotiye ew nikarin werin. Pirsgirêka ligel Îranê ne ya lîstikvanan e, lê ya gelek kesên din e ku ewê bi xwe re bînin, ku hinek ji wan girêdayî Pasdarên Şoreşa Îslamî ne." Wezîrê Dervê yê Amerîkayê herwiha diyar kir "emê...
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Eusko Jaurlaritzak sarean jarrirako Itzuli (itzultzaile automatiko neuronala) oso tresna praktikoa eta erabilia da. Baina badu mugatxo bat, 4.000 karaktere arteko testuak pasatzen ahal zaizkio, ez luzeagoak. Bada, bada garapen bat muga hori gainditzeko, Itzuli API bidez kontsultatzen duen Zital programatzaile eta hackerraren itzultzaile garapena: itzultzaile-neuronala.zital.eus

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Gobernuz kanpoko erakundeek eta 170 entitate sozialek dei egin diete herritarrei helburu sozialen laukitxoa markatzera. Horrek bideratuko baitu errenta aitorpenen 0,7a gizartean zaurgarrien dauden herritarrak laguntzera: gizarte ekintzetara, garapenerako nazioarteko lankidetzara edota adinekoekin lanean ari diren entitateetara, adibidez. Enpresek ere gauza bera egin dezakete sozietateen gaineko zerga ordaintzen duten unean.

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Jon Maia Soriak Frankismoan Ondarroara joan zirenei buruzko 'Berriz etorriko zera' dokumentala zuzendu du, eta maiatzaren 9an [zapatua] estreinatuko da udalerriko frontoian.

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Ante las tomas del Liceo de Aplicación, Instituto Nacional y Liceo 1 Javiera Carrera por parte de estudiantes, el Servicio...
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(The Center Square) – A business plan is due soon for California’s High-Speed Rail Authority detailing funding gaps and explaining its plans to find the money. Assembly Bill 377, which was passed and signed into law in 2025, requires the agency that operates the state’s as-yet unbuilt high-speed rail to include funding information, including financial gaps in the Merced-to-Bakersfield segment, to the Legislature in the agency’s annual business plan. Under the bill, the business plan has to include details such as an estimate of the gap in funding and a strategy to fix it. Ahead of the report required by May 1, the agency released a draft business plan that shows a commitment of $1 billion a year through 2045 from the state’s cap-and-trade program, also known as cap-and-invest. According to the most recent cost estimates from that report, the San Francisco-to-Bakersfield segment is projected to cost $60.34 billion. The San Francisco-to-Palmdale segment would cost more: $96.73 billion. That plan also says that the High-Speed Rail Authority wants to use the cap-and-invest money to attract private investors to the project. The projected cost for the Merced to Bakersfield segment is $34.76 billion, according to the draft business plan. That section of the rail, which the authority called its “first priority” in that plan, is expected to get $39.3 billion in funding through 2045. The Center Square reached out to the authority to ask questions, but no one was available to go on the record about why the allocation would exceed the projected cost. However, the High-Speed Rail Authority’s Office of the Inspector General called the business plan “objectively incomplete" despite its 121 pages. A letter from the office cited concerns such as the fact that the Merced-to-Bakersfield segment is shorter than required by current law and that there is no station in downtown Merced. “The main reason we ran [AB] 377 was mainly to get answers and clarity,” Assemblymember David Tangipa, R-Fresno, told The Center Square. “So if the inspector general can’t get the information that they need, how do we expect the people to get the information that they need to decide what they want to do with this project?” With the third-most expensive infrastructure project in the history of the world, Tangipa said, there should be more transparency. “This is something the rail authority has to answer to,” Tangipa told The Center Square. “There is a reason why people are asking for more transparency on this. They want to know where their money is going.” The latest estimate for how much the high-speed rail is supposed to cost puts the price tag at $126 billion, well over the $33 billion it was projected to cost when California voters approved the high-speed rail in 2008. The system was supposed to be completed in 2030, but is now projected to be finished in 2040. Another bill introduced this year, Assembly Bill 1608, aims to require the High-Speed Rail Office of the Inspector General to publish reports of audits or reviews on its site and submit a copy of that report to the Legislature. The bill would also make those reports, or sections of them, confidential if the inspector general determines that releasing certain information would pose a substantial risk to the project. “It’s the same things that our California State Auditor are allowed to keep exempt, as well,” Assemblymember Lori Wilson, D-Suisun City and author of AB 1608, told The Center Square on Thursday afternoon. “That is those involving information security, physical security, fraud detection controls and pending litigation.” The High-Speed Rail Authority Office of the Inspector General has to conduct a review every 120 days to determine if that information still has to be kept confidential, Wilson told The Center Square. “They have to provide a justification for keeping it confidential,” Wilson added. “Our California State Auditor and other IGs [inspectors general] don’t have those provisions.”
(The Center Square) – A business plan is due soon for California’s High-Speed Rail Authority detailing funding gaps and explaining its plans to find the money. Assembly Bill 377, which was passed and signed into law in 2025, requires the agency that operates the state’s as-yet unbuilt high-speed rail to include funding information, including financial gaps in the Merced-to-Bakersfield segment, to the Legislature in the agency’s annual business plan. Under the bill, the business plan has to include details such as an estimate of the gap in funding and a strategy to fix it. Ahead of the report required by May 1, the agency released a draft business plan that shows a commitment of $1 billion a year through 2045 from the state’s cap-and-trade program, also known as cap-and-invest. According to the most recent cost estimates from that report, the San Francisco-to-Bakersfield segment is projected to cost $60.34 billion. The San Francisco-to-Palmdale segment would cost more: $96.73 billion. That plan also says that the High-Speed Rail Authority wants to use the cap-and-invest money to attract private investors to the project. The projected cost for the Merced to Bakersfield segment is $34.76 billion, according to the draft business plan. That section of the rail, which the authority called its “first priority” in that plan, is expected to get $39.3 billion in funding through 2045. The Center Square reached out to the authority to ask questions, but no one was available to go on the record about why the allocation would exceed the projected cost. However, the High-Speed Rail Authority’s Office of the Inspector General called the business plan “objectively incomplete" despite its 121 pages. A letter from the office cited concerns such as the fact that the Merced-to-Bakersfield segment is shorter than required by current law and that there is no station in downtown Merced. “The main reason we ran [AB] 377 was mainly to get answers and clarity,” Assemblymember David Tangipa, R-Fresno, told The Center Square. “So if the inspector general can’t get the information that they need, how do we expect the people to get the information that they need to decide what they want to do with this project?” With the third-most expensive infrastructure project in the history of the world, Tangipa said, there should be more transparency. “This is something the rail authority has to answer to,” Tangipa told The Center Square. “There is a reason why people are asking for more transparency on this. They want to know where their money is going.” The latest estimate for how much the high-speed rail is supposed to cost puts the price tag at $126 billion, well over the $33 billion it was projected to cost when California voters approved the high-speed rail in 2008. The system was supposed to be completed in 2030, but is now projected to be finished in 2040. Another bill introduced this year, Assembly Bill 1608, aims to require the High-Speed Rail Office of the Inspector General to publish reports of audits or reviews on its site and submit a copy of that report to the Legislature. The bill would also make those reports, or sections of them, confidential if the inspector general determines that releasing certain information would pose a substantial risk to the project. “It’s the same things that our California State Auditor are allowed to keep exempt, as well,” Assemblymember Lori Wilson, D-Suisun City and author of AB 1608, told The Center Square on Thursday afternoon. “That is those involving information security, physical security, fraud detection controls and pending litigation.” The High-Speed Rail Authority Office of the Inspector General has to conduct a review every 120 days to determine if that information still has to be kept confidential, Wilson told The Center Square. “They have to provide a justification for keeping it confidential,” Wilson added. “Our California State Auditor and other IGs [inspectors general] don’t have those provisions.”
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Serviço da Prefeitura do Recife só realizará atendimentos previamente agendados pelo sistema Conecta Recife Fonte
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From comedian Anne Edmonds, Bad Company doesn’t quite know who it is for, and doesn’t understand the people it is making fun of.
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From comedian Anne Edmonds, Bad Company doesn’t quite know who it is for, and doesn’t understand the people it is making fun of.
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Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox.In response to explosive growth in publicly funded home-school enrichment, including sports camps and martial arts lessons, Colorado lawmakers are seeking not only to apply the brakes, but to reverse the trend. The powerful six-member Joint Budget Committee unanimously agreed Wednesday to draft a bill to curtail the power of one public education co-op that has authorized scores of home-school enrichment programs in recent years. The Monument-based co-op, Education reEnvisioned Board of Cooperative Education Services, or ERBOCES, has enrichment programs all over Colorado. The bill would limit the geographical reach of such co-ops, allowing them to authorize programs only in their member school districts. In the case of ERBOCES, which has two member districts, the bill would stem the flow of tens of millions of public dollars that pass through the co-op to home-school enrichment programs in other places.Statewide, around 19,000 students participate in part-time public school programming at a cost of more than $100 million a year. Most are home-schooled students who attend one day of enrichment classes a week at traditional public schools, charter schools, or through ERBOCES programs. ERBOCES authorizes more than 50 home-school enrichment programs, many outside its two member school districts. Last summer, it also authorized a controversial “public Christian school” outside its member districts. The co-op’s home-school enrichment programs are run by private contractors and include state-funded offerings critics say are essentially extracurricular activities, such as horsemanship, taekwondo, and golf. One ERBOCES contractor advertises skiing, swim lessons, and canyoneering trips.Colorado pays generously for homeschool enrichment. Funding cuts and stricter rules may be coming.The proposed bill wouldn’t address all lawmakers’ concerns about the ballooning footprint and cost of publicly funded home-school enrichment, but it would take aim at the group they describe as the biggest offender in terms of exploiting loopholes in state law. As lawmakers consider placing guardrails on home-school enrichment through law, the State Board of Education is also looking to change state rules governing the kinds of enrichment classes and schedules that would be eligible for public funding. While lawmakers on the Joint Budget Committee agreed Wednesday that their proposed bill should reign in ERBOCES, they didn’t finalize the timetable for the new restrictions. Some members said home-school enrichment programs that operate outside ERBOCES’ two member districts — District 49 in El Paso County and the Elizabeth district in Elbert County — should be prevented from accessing public funding before the 2026-27 school year.Others, including Rep. Rick Taggart, a Republican from Grand Junction, pushed for a six-month grace period so families who’ve already signed their kids up for ERBOCES home-school enrichment programs next fall won’t be left in a lurch, at least through December. “I don’t want to hurt the students,” he said. Ken Witt, executive director of ERBOCES, expressed similar concerns in an email to Chalkbeat on Thursday. “If these programs are axed long after most families have already made their enrollment decisions for the upcoming year, these families will have to scramble to try to find the supports they need to confidently educate their children,” he said. “Many will not find the support they need, because no other program exists within their area.”Witt said thoughtful engagement with stakeholders is critical and hasn’t yet occurred. Lawmakers and legislative staff noted that allowing ERBOCES to operate all of its current programs just for the first semester next year might not work because of how and when the state tallies enrollment and distributes funding. The Joint Budget Committee opted to start the bill-drafting process and decide timing details in the coming weeks. It’s unclear how many of ERBOCES’ home-school enrichment programs are based outside the group’s member districts, but under the proposed bill it’s likely that dozens would either lose public funding or need to ask their local school district or BOCES to be their authorizer to continue receiving it. ERBOCES’ website contains only a partial list of its enrichment programs, and the co-op’s staff declined to provide Chalkbeat with the full list. For now, Joint Budget Committee lawmakers have paused an effort to reduce state funding for home-school enrichment programs. Currently, the state pays half the full-time public school student rate for each home-school enrichment student — about $6,000 — even though those students typically attend about a quarter of the hours. Both home-school parents and school districts have pushed back against the potential funding cuts in recent weeks. School districts benefit from the more generous funding for the programs they authorize.Lawmakers on the Joint Budget Committee indicated they may eventually return to the funding cut proposal and expressed frustration over resistance from school district leaders. Sen. Jeff Bridges, Democrat of Greenwood Village, asked how district leaders can explain to parents of full-time public school students that they’re paying twice as much per hour for home-schooled students in enrichment programming than for traditional students. “How do they justify that to their parents?” he said. “Number two, how do they expect us to justify to the people of Colorado that we’re paying for ski tickets?”Ann Schimke is a senior reporter at Chalkbeat. Contact Ann at aschimke@chalkbeat.org.
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Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox.In response to explosive growth in publicly funded home-school enrichment, including sports camps and martial arts lessons, Colorado lawmakers are seeking not only to apply the brakes, but to reverse the trend. The powerful six-member Joint Budget Committee unanimously agreed Wednesday to draft a bill to curtail the power of one public education co-op that has authorized scores of home-school enrichment programs in recent years. The Monument-based co-op, Education reEnvisioned Board of Cooperative Education Services, or ERBOCES, has enrichment programs all over Colorado. The bill would limit the geographical reach of such co-ops, allowing them to authorize programs only in their member school districts. In the case of ERBOCES, which has two member districts, the bill would stem the flow of tens of millions of public dollars that pass through the co-op to home-school enrichment programs in other places.Statewide, around 19,000 students participate in part-time public school programming at a cost of more than $100 million a year. Most are home-schooled students who attend one day of enrichment classes a week at traditional public schools, charter schools, or through ERBOCES programs. ERBOCES authorizes more than 50 home-school enrichment programs, many outside its two member school districts. Last summer, it also authorized a controversial “public Christian school” outside its member districts. The co-op’s home-school enrichment programs are run by private contractors and include state-funded offerings critics say are essentially extracurricular activities, such as horsemanship, taekwondo, and golf. One ERBOCES contractor advertises skiing, swim lessons, and canyoneering trips.Colorado pays generously for homeschool enrichment. Funding cuts and stricter rules may be coming.The proposed bill wouldn’t address all lawmakers’ concerns about the ballooning footprint and cost of publicly funded home-school enrichment, but it would take aim at the group they describe as the biggest offender in terms of exploiting loopholes in state law. As lawmakers consider placing guardrails on home-school enrichment through law, the State Board of Education is also looking to change state rules governing the kinds of enrichment classes and schedules that would be eligible for public funding. While lawmakers on the Joint Budget Committee agreed Wednesday that their proposed bill should reign in ERBOCES, they didn’t finalize the timetable for the new restrictions. Some members said home-school enrichment programs that operate outside ERBOCES’ two member districts — District 49 in El Paso County and the Elizabeth district in Elbert County — should be prevented from accessing public funding before the 2026-27 school year.Others, including Rep. Rick Taggart, a Republican from Grand Junction, pushed for a six-month grace period so families who’ve already signed their kids up for ERBOCES home-school enrichment programs next fall won’t be left in a lurch, at least through December. “I don’t want to hurt the students,” he said. Ken Witt, executive director of ERBOCES, expressed similar concerns in an email to Chalkbeat on Thursday. “If these programs are axed long after most families have already made their enrollment decisions for the upcoming year, these families will have to scramble to try to find the supports they need to confidently educate their children,” he said. “Many will not find the support they need, because no other program exists within their area.”Witt said thoughtful engagement with stakeholders is critical and hasn’t yet occurred. Lawmakers and legislative staff noted that allowing ERBOCES to operate all of its current programs just for the first semester next year might not work because of how and when the state tallies enrollment and distributes funding. The Joint Budget Committee opted to start the bill-drafting process and decide timing details in the coming weeks. It’s unclear how many of ERBOCES’ home-school enrichment programs are based outside the group’s member districts, but under the proposed bill it’s likely that dozens would either lose public funding or need to ask their local school district or BOCES to be their authorizer to continue receiving it. ERBOCES’ website contains only a partial list of its enrichment programs, and the co-op’s staff declined to provide Chalkbeat with the full list. For now, Joint Budget Committee lawmakers have paused an effort to reduce state funding for home-school enrichment programs. Currently, the state pays half the full-time public school student rate for each home-school enrichment student — about $6,000 — even though those students typically attend about a quarter of the hours. Both home-school parents and school districts have pushed back against the potential funding cuts in recent weeks. School districts benefit from the more generous funding for the programs they authorize.Lawmakers on the Joint Budget Committee indicated they may eventually return to the funding cut proposal and expressed frustration over resistance from school district leaders. Sen. Jeff Bridges, Democrat of Greenwood Village, asked how district leaders can explain to parents of full-time public school students that they’re paying twice as much per hour for home-schooled students in enrichment programming than for traditional students. “How do they justify that to their parents?” he said. “Number two, how do they expect us to justify to the people of Colorado that we’re paying for ski tickets?”Ann Schimke is a senior reporter at Chalkbeat. Contact Ann at aschimke@chalkbeat.org.
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A display of 20,000 teddy bears appeared on the National Mall in Washington DC during a demonstration to call attention to the thousands of Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia since 2022. US lawmakers recently allocated $25 million to support the return and rehabilitation of those children.
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A display of 20,000 teddy bears appeared on the National Mall in Washington DC during a demonstration to call attention to the thousands of Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia since 2022. US lawmakers recently allocated $25 million to support the return and rehabilitation of those children.