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Sekelompok burung biru laut ekor blorok (Limosa lapponica) menyisir dataran tambak berlumpur di pesisir Pantai Lampulo, Kota Banda Aceh, Aceh. Kaki rampingnya melangkah dengan hati-hati sambil sesekali menusukkan paruh untuk mencari makan. Tak jauh dari situ, ada burung trinil kaki merah (Tringa totanus) tengah  mematuk-matuk lumpur basah, bergerak maju secara perlahan dan menyapu setiap area […] The post Burung Migran di Pesisir Banda Aceh Perlahan Hilang appeared first on Mongabay.co.id.

HOT SPRINGS — Persistent, drizzling rain didn’t keep dozens of people from rallying against a proposed uranium drilling project in the southern Black Hills on the first day of a weeklong hearing to decide on a permit application. Law enforcement officers and vehicles flanked the parking lot and theater doors Monday at the Mueller Civic […]

Solide qu’atz ausit parlar d’aqueste Canon français, una societat creada en 2021 per Géraud de la Tour e Pierre-Alexandre de Boisse. Qu’organizan taulejadas un pauc de pertot dens l’exagòne que, plan sovent, son l’encausa de debats politics. Sustot pr’amor que lo miliardari de dreta extrèma Pierre-Édouard Stérin, coneishut per sas miras economicas e politicas, entrèc dens lo capitau. Continua llegint

Per l’esquipa de Vilagalhenc-Argon, resèrva de Carcassona XIII, s’agís d’amalgamar de jogaires locals, de jogaires que n’an acabat de lor carrièra en Elèit 1 e de juniors o seniors novèls qu’ensajan de montar de nivèl. La mescla s’es realizada ongan dins l’esquipa de Cabardés qu’a prepausat un jòc dobèrt e dinamic combinat amb una defensa de fèrre. Atal, lo club a finit primièr de la fasa de classament, una sola desfaita en campionat, la victòria en Challenge Aillères e a jogat una mièja finala de la Copa de França. Continua llegint

Los sistèmas educatius dels Païses Catalans travèrsan actualament un periòde de fòrta conflictualitat. En Catalonha, al País Valencian e dins las illas Balearas, de milièrs d’ensenhaires se mobilizan per denonciar la degradacion de l’escòla publica, la precarizacion de las condicions de trabalh e la manca de mejans dins los establiments escolars. Los ensenhaires insistisson sul fach que las protèstas respondon pas unicament a de revendicacions salarialas, mas tanben a la volontat de defendre un modèl educatiu public, accessible e enrasigat dins la lenga del país. Continua llegint

Maryland's newest state park, the 1,042-acre Freedman’s State Park near Gaithersburg, honors the legacy of the Howard family, who owned the land after emancipation from slavery, and became major contributors to Black communities in Maryland.

El mandatario Joseph Aoun intenta sostener una compleja vía diplomática con Tel Aviv mientras los ataques continúan sobre territorio libanés y Hezbolá mantiene sus operaciones armadas a pesar del alto el fuego impulsado por EE UU.

O Ministério Público da Bolívia emitiu, nesta segunda-feira (18), um mandado de prisão contra o secretário-executivo da Central Operária Boliviana (COB), Mario Argollo, acusado dos crimes de incitação pública ao crime, terrorismo e outros. Argollo é um dos rostos visíveis das intensas mobilizações antineoliberais que vêm ocorrendo na Bolívia nas últimas semanas, reunindo professores, agricultores, […] Fonte

La Jolla won a heart-stopping 7-6 thriller at Lincoln on May 15 to capture an elusive City League baseball championship.

El Gobierno de Venezuela sostiene ahora que el empresario colombiano nunca fue legalmente venezolano pese a que ejerció como diplomático, ministro y votante durante años.

El séptimo arte es una herramienta para contar historias, entregando un impacto cultural y social en diversos ámbitos. Existe una enorme cantidad de películas esterilizadas por personajes con diferentes profesiones, siendo el Periodismo uno de los más populares. Acá en El Diario de Antofagasta elegimos 3 películas protagonizadas por una Periodista. “El diablo viste a […] Este artículo ¿Las viste? 3 películas clásicas cuyo protagonista es una Periodista fue publicado originalmente en El Diario de Antofagasta.

Editor's note: This is the part of a series of stories that are appearing this week on the June 22 primary election in California. The stories include comments from candidates who agreed to interviews with The Center Square. (The Center Square) – As Republican and Democrats compete for the newly-drawn Congressional District 1, affordability, healthcare, the conflict in Iran and who is filling the late Rep. Doug LaMalfa's shoes are on the top of candidates' minds. Those who threw their hat in the race spoke of LaMalfa, a Republican who represented House District 1 until his death in January at age 65. “It’s a big reason that I’m running,” California Assemblymember James Gallagher, R-East Nicolaus, told The Center Square. “He was a political mentor to me and someone who represented this area very well, and so I’m honored to be running to fill his very big boots.” Gallagher, who said he worked closely with LaMalfa, said that as farmers from Northern California, they both knew the agricultural industry. Gallagher said they were both focused on fire prevention and fuels reduction, removing barriers to accomplishing fire prevention goals and finding funding for programs that helped communities affected by wildfires, and increasing water storage. Major differences between the two Northern California natives are few and far between, Gallagher added. “I don’t know that there’s a tremendous amount of difference in our views and in the things we worked on,” Gallagher said. “Our positions on things were very similar.” As of May 18, Gallagher received $672,590.60 in campaign contributions from 675 individual donors, including the Eureka Political Action Committee, which is sponsored by U.S. Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Palm Desert and who is himself running for reelection in the newly-drawn House District 40. Eureka PAC gave a total of $10,000 to Gallagher’s campaign, according to campaign filings from the Federal Elections Commission. Several other political action committees gave $5,000, including for the California Water Service Group, Mr. Southern Missourian in the House, Republican Mainstreet Partnership and the American Pistachio Growers Association. Gallagher’s nine years in the California Assembly have seen a consistent voting record of voting down new or increased taxes, as seen by his support of a bill that prevented levying a sales tax on cannabis in 2024, opposing a bill that aimed to levy a tax on managed care organizations in the state in 2019 and favoring a bill to expand the state’s earned income tax credit in 2020. However, with one of his campaign issues prioritizing strengthening public safety, The Center Square asked Gallagher if he thinks keeping taxes down and allocating more money to public safety and law enforcement are at odds with each other. “Budgets are always about what you prioritize,” Gallagher told The Center Square. “We actually spend a lot of money both in the state of California and nationally, but the question is how do you spend the money. I always think we need to make public safety a No. 1 priority.” California state Sen. Mike McGuire, D-Santa Rosa, the Democratic frontrunner for District 1, said he is most concerned about $1 trillion of Medicaid cuts ultimately hurting 3 million Californians, who are set to lose their healthcare in 2027. The implementation of those cuts are scheduled for after the midterm elections, McGuire said. “The Medicaid cuts will hit the rural hospitals harder than most,” McGuire told The Center Square. “People are scared about losing their health care and scared about losing their local hospital.” McGuire, who has supported legislation in his time as a state senator that helps fund rural hospitals, voted in favor of a 2022 measure that established an electronic cigarette tax to fund seismic safety improvements to hospitals. He also voted to pass legislation that aimed to improve infant and maternal health, as well as a 2025 measure that established a decade-long pilot program that provides standby perinatal services at rural hospitals. Additional cuts to the federally-funded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as CalFresh in California, will kick many of the state’s residents off the program, which McGuire said would take food off the table for millions of people. That could also impact community grocery stores that depend on CalFresh recipients spending their food benefit money at their store, McGuire said. “That also has an impact on local economies,” McGuire said. “Rural grocery stores are dependent on that federal assistance to make their monthly bottom line.” The rising cost of living across the country, including the increasing cost of housing and gasoline, poses affordability problems for many, McGuire said, particularly for average American families. “Trump’s tariff taxes have caused chaos throughout the country,” McGuire said. “This district, in particular, has been hit by tariffs on fertilizer, which is up $100 per ton today compared to a year ago. The American people are eating 94% of all the tariff costs associated with Trump’s tariff taxes. Foreign governments are only eating 6%.” McGuire received $990,566.23 in total campaign contributions, according to the Federal Elections Commission through May 18. The largest campaign contributor was the Resource Conservation Political Action Committee, which contributed $7,000 to McGuire’s campaign. Several other political action committees gave $5,000 to McGuire’s campaign, including the Machinists Nonpartisan League of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the Wine Institute, California School Employees Association, the American Hospital Association, the National Union of Healthcare Workers and ActBlue, a political action committee of the Democratic Party. ActBlue, which gave two $5,000 contributions to McGuire’s, also gave many other smaller contributions, including dozens of individual contributions between $5 and $4,000. Chico-based attorney Audrey Denney, a Democratic candidate for House District 1, told The Center Square that she’s running to combat a political and economic system that works for powerful corporations and billionaire donors. “We wonder why PG&E rates are going up, and why fire insurance costs so much for people’s houses, and why we can’t afford groceries and health care is getting more expensive every day,” Denney said. “Issues like rural health care and making life affordable for people who live here and managing forests to mitigate fire risk, those are all things that we talk about up here.” Denney said that while she and LaMalfa differed in their views of what policies made people’s lives better, they had a good rapport. “I remember there was a debate in 2018 between he and I, and he said, ‘Audrey and I disagree on almost everything, but we both sure do love the San Francisco Giants,’ ” Denney said. “It brings a smile to my face every time I think about it because it reminds me that even in these really divided political times we’re in, if we choose to, we can look at each other as humans first rather than people with different political affiliations.” Approximately 20 groups endorsed Denney for House District 1, including the California Democratic Socialists of America – perhaps an interesting endorsement for a candidate running to represent what is largely a conservative, rural part of California. “I honestly don’t know why they did,” Denney said. “I didn’t apply for that endorsement. They just popped me in their voter guide, and they popped me in the voter guide the same day there were ads put out that I’m a MAGA Republican.” Other stances Denney took included opposition to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is widely expected to run for president. Despite Newsom being one of the most-talked about Democratic presidential hopefuls, Denney said she would vote for someone else in the race for the White House. “I wouldn’t vote for him,” Denney said. “There’s a lot that he’s done that I don’t agree with. I think he’s the epitome of what corporate-captured establishment Democrats look like.” According to the Federal Elections Commission, Denney received $686,686.28 in total contributions through May 18. The largest contributor was a political action committee called 314 Action Impact Slate, which gave $10,010.81. While that was the largest single contribution to Denney’s campaign, 314 Action Impact Slate made another donation, this one for $7,000. Another, similar organization under the name 314 Action Fund contributed $5,000. Retired software engineer Richard T. Minner, an independent candidate for House District 1, said he wants to run for Congress because he opposed California’s mid-decade redistricting effort, which voters passed in November 2025. “Mainly, it was just when Prop. 50 went through. That put me over the line,” Minner told The Center Square. “A lot of folks are just pretty disgusted with the whole thing, so I thought I’d offer an alternative. All of Congress is Democratic or Republican, which is kind of absurd.” California’s mid-decade redistricting push, which was followed by similar efforts in other states, was disrespectful to the voters of the state, Minner added. “I’m pretty disgusted with both parties because they treat the voters with contempt,” Minner said. “It’s all about guaranteed seats. It doesn’t have to be that way.” Minner said he supports some tax breaks, particularly for corporations that do business in California. “There’s always going to have to be some reasonable exclusions from income tax,” Minner told The Center Square. “It’s the cost of doing business.” The state’s increasing affordability crisis is a natural consequence of the massive amount of income coming into California from the technology industry, Minner said, but some parts of the state are more affordable than other places. “There’s certain things you can do to mitigate supply and demand, but supply and demand is going to dominate,” Minner said. “There’s nothing you can do about that. You have all this money going in, and it’s going to go somewhere.” That’s particularly apparent in housing prices, Minner continued. “It’s kind of unfortunate, when people say nobody can afford some house, it’s like, well, somebody did,” Minner said. “It’s really an issue of extreme wealth in certain pockets, and you’ve got regular families trying to make a go of it, and they’re being forced to move. You can only do so much.” The ongoing conflict in Iran, now in its fourth month, resulted in a dwindling supply of oil coming to the United States. That corresponding result in quickly-rising oil prices has pushed gas prices in the state increasingly higher in the last few months, according to previous reporting by The Center Square. “[Iran] has been obstinate, but they’ve also got their claims to sovereignty, which are not to be just brushed aside,” Minner said. “But at the same time, it’s an undeniably repressive regime. Is what we’re doing right now the right response? I’m hoping they can sort this out and not have it escalate.” Minner has not raised any campaign funds, according to the Federal Elections Commission. Voting centers will be open May 23 to June 1 in Voter's Choice Act counties and May 30 to June 1 elsewhere. Voters should check with their counties for further details. Polls are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. June 2, Election Day. For more information, go to the Secretary of State's website, sos.ca.gov. Early election results will be published on the evening of June 2 at www.thecentersquare.com/california.

Lawmakers and advocates for incarcerated Montanans discussed the possibility of adding an independent watchdog for the Department of Corrections, potentially through an ombudsman, during meetings of the Interim Law and Justice Committee this month. Following requests from prison rights advocates, the Interim Law and Justice committee added an ombudsman panel to their agenda for May […]

The University of Alaska will be required to provide advanced notice before increasing student fees and an itemized list of fees charged to students and families under new legislation passed by the Alaska Legislature.  The legislation, House Bill 176, passed the Alaska House in February and the Senate over the weekend, across bipartisan lines. The […]

Washington mantiene la amenaza de una intervención “a gran escala” mientras exige mayores concesiones nucleares y estratégicas a Teherán en unas negociaciones marcadas por la desconfianza mutua.

Saline Township official resigns, says she received death threats over the 1.4-gigawatt Related Digital data center project.

The longtime state legislator, who announced in June he wasn’t seeking reelection, will serve as an assistant secretary of defense.

O presidente dos Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, anunciou na segunda-feira (18/05) que planejava realizar um ataque contra o Irã, mas que a medida foi adiada a pedido de líderes das monarquias absolutistas do Golfo Pérsico. A declaração foi feita em publicação na rede Truth Social, na qual o mandatário norte-americano dá a entender que a […] Fonte

Cinco submarinistas italianos fallecieron en una cavidad a más de 50 metros de profundidad en el atolón de Vaavu, uno de los enclaves más espectaculares del archipiélago en el océano Índico, y un militar maldivo también murió en la operación de rescate.

El presidente andaluz defiende que los resultados electorales le permiten intentar gobernar sin socios dentro del Ejecutivo, aunque asume que necesitará pactos parlamentarios.