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TAMPA — Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday that he has received a recommendation to designate the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) Florida, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Antifa as domestic terrorist organizations. He cited authority given to state officials through legislation had gone into effect just hours earlier. The law (HB 1471) passed by the […]

The Jackson airport and city have fought a measure the Mississippi Legislature passed in 2016 to create a regional authority to run the airport.

Estefanía Knuth, última pareja del fundador de Mango, ha declarado ante la jueza que el empresario preparaba un testamento completamente distinto que reduciría la herencia destinada a sus hijos para impulsar una fundación benéfica.

(The Center Square) - Washington state begins paying benefits on Wednesday from the mandatory payroll tax funded long-term care program, known as “WA Cares.” The program offers up to $36,500 in support for long term care services, through a mandatory payroll tax deduction of 58 cents for every $100 earned. If someone make a gross annual salary of $85,000, the WA Cares Fund will take $493.00 per year from their paychecks. “Beginning July 1, thousands of Washingtonians can access their WA Cares fund benefits to help cover the cost of an in-home caregiver, equipment, home modifications, meal delivery, and others,” said Governor Bob Ferguson during a June 30 event celebrating the WA Cares benefits launch at a home in Tukwila. “Most of us will need long-term care at some point in our lives,” Ferguson said. “I’m proud Washington is the first state in the country to offer a program like WA Cares.” Nearly a half million Washington residents are expected to need long-term care services within the next decade, according to the Department of Social and Health Services. On June 24, one week before WA Cares benefits became available, the state’s Long-Term Services and Supports Trust Commission discussed the program launch and early applications. “State officials described an application process that is moving faster than the 45 days allowed under statute. The median number of days between contribution determination and eligibility was eight days,” wrote Elizabeth New, Director & Policy Analyst Centers for Worker Rights and Health Care at Washington Policy Center in a June 24 blog post. New noted that only a small number of Washingtonians have both met contribution requirements and have health needs just three years into contributions. To be eligible, someone must contribute for at least three of the past six years and need assistance with three or more daily living activities including bathing, meal preparation or mobility issues. In a Wednesday interview with The Center Square, New said she has many concerns about the WA Cares fund. “The main guts of the program, I have trouble with. We all have life needs. I would rather see people keep more of their wages. I see this as a worker penalty,” said New. “There’s also Medicaid long-term care available to people in need. This program is not for people in need. In some cases, you have low-income workers giving 58 cents for every $100 they earn, handing it over to people with no need for taxpayer dependency.” Supporters argue the program fills a gap left by Medicare, and private insurance, which most Americans can’t afford. “A public insurance program like WA Cares gives workers a more affordable way to pay for their long-term care needs by allowing them to contribute while they are working and their income is higher. Covering all workers also keeps contributions low and once someone retires, the contributions will stop,” said WA Cares Fund Deputy Director of Operations Jennifer Ferguson during last week’s Long-Term Services and Supports Trust Commission meeting. Critics argue the benefit is too modest, capped at $36,500 lifetime, to meaningfully address long-term care costs. “This is not making Washington more affordable. It’s making it less affordable, and it’s at the hands of our state government. They say seven out of 10 people will need long-term care. That means three out of 10 people won’t, right? So, you’re paying into something that you won’t use in some cases,” said New. The WA Cares Fund website says the lifetime benefit of $36,500 will automatically increase with inflation each year. By 2033, the benefit is projected to reach approximately $43,400.

On July 1, the Department of Justice sued to overturn Virginia’s newly enacted assault weapons ban, fulfilling a promise made by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon shortly after the bill became law in May. The DOJ also sued to overturn California’s ban on firearms that can easily be modified with machine gun conversion devices.  The […]

După zile de caniculă extremă, Bucureștiul a fost lovit de o furtună care a adus, în doar câteva ore, cantitatea de precipitații dintr-o lună obișnuită. Stația Piața Victoriei 2 și multe alte străzi inundate, trafic blocat și sute de intervenții au scos la iveală o întrebare pe care o punem tot mai des: cât de vulnerabile sunt orașele noastre în fața fenomenelor meteo extreme? Climatologul Bogdan Antonescu explică la RFI, de ce astfel de episoade devin tot mai intense și cum ne putem adapta.

Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S.The U.S. Supreme Court’s Tuesday decision on transgender sports participation in some ways simply upheld the status quo. States that prohibit trangender athletes from playing on teams that match their gender identity can keep doing so — there’s no constitutional problem, the court’s conservative majority found. But states without such bans can maintain more inclusive policies. Nothing in the ruling requires that states keep transgender athletes out of women’s and girl’s sports. But that’s just one piece of the story. Advocates on both sides expect the fight in states and the courts to continue. And the Supreme Court majority’s reasoning raises new questions about the boundaries of transgender rights and gender protections more broadly.Fight over transgender athletes to continue in statesMore than 20 states still allow transgender athletes to participate on sports teams that match their gender identity, provided they meet certain criteria, and the Supreme Court ruling doesn’t change anything in those states. Bolstered by the Supreme Court ruling, people who don’t believe transgender athletes have a place in girl’s sports hope to change that through the legislative process. Voters in Colorado and Washington will also get to decide whether to adopt bans through ballot measures. Beth Parlato, an attorney with the conservative Independent Women’s Law Center, said she can now reassure lawmakers and the public that any ban they adopt is legal. Parlato said she’s also fielding calls about how the ruling might affect interstate competition when states have different standards.“As litigators, we keep making these arguments until we win,” she said. LGBTQ advocates, meanwhile, hope they can succeed in the court of public opinion in a way they didn’t with the Supreme Court.“We’ve never been favored by the laws, and we know that the courts are not the be-all, end-all,” said Shawn Meerkamper, managing attorney at the Transgender Law Center. “We’re on to the next fight.”All youth need opportunities to be physically activeSoju Hokari, a transgender athlete who described sports as a vital part of her childhood and her development as a person, said those who care about trans youth must find ways for them to get the benefits of sports, even in states with bans. That might mean creating clubs outside school or officially sanctioned teams. Hokari said everyone involved in sports has “an obligation to make sure we’re making space for trans athletes to thrive.”Writing in the newsletter QueerED, teacher and researcher Benjamin Lebovitz pointed to data from Wisconsin that showed transgender and questioning youth were much less likely to participate in sports or be physically active than their peers. That gap grew as the political debate over transgender athletes heated up, and Lebovitz fears the Supreme Court ruling will only exacerbate that withdrawal. Schools should make sure all students have access to physical education, open gym time, and intramural and club sports, and they should make co-ed teams when dividing students, Lebovitz wrote. The definition of sex remains legally ambiguousTitle IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education and athletics while allowing sex-separated sports teams. But it doesn’t define sex. Federal courts have said that sex discrimination includes discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex stereotypes — the idea that boys should be one way and girls another. Civil rights guidance from Democratic presidents supported this interpretation.Conservatives disagree. They say there’s little doubt lawmakers were thinking of biological sex when they passed Title IX in 1972. (Biological sex feels intuitive to most people in most situations, but it can be a mushy concept scientifically.)Conservatives hoped that the Supreme Court might use the Hecox v. Little and West Virginia v. B.P.J. cases that were the basis for Tuesday’s ruling to find that sex means biological sex. The justices did not go that far. And the ruling doesn’t officially endorse the Trump administration’s interpretation of Title IX, which the Office for Civil Rights has used to justify investigations into school districts and states with inclusive sports policies. Supporters of LGBTQ rights rally outside the Supreme Court during oral arguments in the transgender sports cases. Advocates say they'll work to maintain inclusive sports policies in states without bans.But Justice Brett Kavanaugh did write that sex, especially in the portions of Title IX dealing with sports, “cannot plausibly be interpreted to refer to anything other than biological sex.” Advocates and legal experts said that position could play a role in future lawsuits. Neil Gorsuch’s balancing act confuses both sidesConservative Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion in the 2019 case Bostock v. Clayton County, which found that Title VII’s protections against sex discrimination on the job also protected gay and transgender employees.In a concurrence to the sports decision, Gorsuch tried to explain how he could hold that view and still vote to uphold bans on transgender athletes. Title VII bans discrimination while Title IX allows for separation of men and women in some circumstances, he noted.“It is a mistake to assume that, just because firing someone in part because of his biological sex amounts to unlawful discrimination in violation of Title VII, sponsoring a single-sex sports team limited to biological women or girls must also amount to unlawful discrimination in violation of Title IX,” he wrote.Gorsuch seems to have pleased no one.Parlato of the Independent Women’s Law Center said Gorsuch tried to “thread a needle” but that his logic doesn’t hold up. And Meerkamper of the Transgender Law Center said “there’s no principled way” to support both the Bostock decision and the court’s new sports ruling. What’s changed, he said, is the political environment for trans rights between 2019 and 2026. Still, unlike Justice Clarence Thomas, Gorsuch didn’t call transgender identity a mental illness. SCOTUS silent on what protections transgender students haveRace and sex are protected classes, and potentially discriminatory laws must demonstrate some significant public interest to pass legal muster. The conservative majority’s opinion did not find that transgender people have similar protections. But it didn’t find that they did not have such protections either. In short, they evaded the issue.For Deborah Drake, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh, that leaves an opportunity to challenge transgender discrimination in the courts — though she has few illusions that the Supreme Court’s current justices will be receptive to those claims.But Anna Kirkland, an attorney and professor of gender studies at the University of Michigan, said it’s deeply concerning that the majority gave so much deference to state laws without requiring more evidence that women and girls are harmed when transgender athletes participate in women’s sports. Under this approach, she said, women might not have been admitted to elite military academies, for example. And it could mean other policies that only affect a small number of people who don’t conform to gender stereotypes are allowed to stand in the future.“This ruling shows how the conservative majority is narrowing what equal protection means for everyone,” she said.Erica Meltzer is Chalkbeat’s national editor based in Colorado. Contact Erica at emeltzer@chalkbeat.org.

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OKLAHOMA CITY — A program created three years ago to make new, more affordable housing has invested $170.4 million to increase housing access across the state, a new report found. The Legislature granted $215 million to establish the Housing Stability Program initiative in 2023. The program, administered through the Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency, allocates money […]

Reservas brasileiras de materiais estratégicos são vastas. Mas, atraído pelo lucro fácil, setor privado já entrega a riqueza em estado bruto – e o governo está imóvel. Só uma decisão política, tomada a partir de mobilização social, evitará o saque The post Os porquês de uma campanha pela Terrabrás appeared first on Outras Palavras.

Sustained resistance in the form of walkouts, shutdowns, and strikes is our best way to defeat anti-immigrant policies.

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Russian forces have struck gas stations across Ukraine every day since June 17, the independent Russian investigative outlet Agentstvo reported.

(The Center Square) – Applying raises for North Carolina teachers and state workers retroactively was blocked by the Senate, says the leader of the House of Representatives. And the compromise was a one-time bonus. Discussion on Wednesday after the initial votes on the state budget – which had been due by state statute for implementation a year ago to the day – revealed more insight to the negotiations. In activity from the respective floors, the Senate passed the $34 billion spending plan 36-13 and the House 92-23. More than two dozen Democrats in the General Assembly were in favor. Not all Republicans were on board. Thursday, final votes are planned in the Senate at 11 a.m. and in the House of Representatives at 10 a.m. The governor, pending passage of both chambers, would have 10 days to sign, veto or allow 2025 Appropriations Act, known also has Senate Bill 257, to become law; day of presentation to first-term Democratic Gov. Josh Stein is Day 0. “That is what the House would have done,” said Speaker Destin Hall, R-Caldwell, answering a question of why not raises retroactive to when the budget was to be implemented. “We have one-time bonuses in this bill, along with the largest average teacher raise since 2006. I would like for it to be retroactive. “I hope we continue this path, making sure we’re keeping up with the market on teacher pay and that we’re doing the same where we need to in state government.” Teacher pay on average is to go up 8%. All state employees will get a raise of some type, including 17.7% for state troopers and 11.5% for civilian personnel within the State Highway Patrol. New taxes are in the spending plan for vape shops and prediction markets.

A new report has found that the NLRB has been far more likely to dismiss charges of unfair labor practices under Trump.

Michigan Democratic elected officials and party leaders joined Michigan AFL-CIO President Ron Bieber to call out Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers for his support of President Donald Trump’s agenda — criticizing him for supporting policies that they say have raised prices of food, housing, gas and healthcare.  “Forcing kids in our state to go […]

As communities prepare for crowded July Fourth celebrations, cities and towns across the country have revived juvenile curfews and increased police patrols in response to an apparent uptick in large teen gatherings and fights organized through social media. Communities in states including California, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia have announced or expanded […]

El brutal hecho ocurrió en julio de 2025 en la intersección de calles Raúl Cisternas con Ignacio Carrera Pinto, donde la víctima fue atacada tras una discusión particular. Pese a recibir auxilio de testigos, falleció en el Centro Oncológico Norte debido a la gravedad de la herida. Este artículo Fallo unánime en Antofagasta: 12 años de cárcel para “El Pokemón” y la mujer que le entregó el cuchillo para matar a un hombre fue publicado originalmente en El Diario de Antofagasta.

As an associate director for TRIO at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Terry Baxter is already embedded in the state’s college access and outreach world. But even he was surprised to see how many other people in... The post Perspective | Across the state, we come together for students appeared first on EdNC.

The budget allocates a total of $22 million to the North Carolina Collaboratory at UNC-Chapel Hill for research related to PFAS.