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As courts winnow legal path to sue federal officers, attorneys search for new avenues in state law.

MEMPAWAH, Indonesia (AP) — A Japanese military transport ship docked on the island of Borneo on Thursday as part of a disaster relief mission to help fight wildfires in Indonesia that are causing a toxic haze impacting people’s health in other countries. Japan deployed 300 crew members, landing ship JS Kunisaki and three CH-47 helicopters, […]

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s two largest universities received D grades for campus free speech in a national ranking. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, known as FIRE, ranked 261 colleges across the country based on student surveys, institutional policies and responses to speech controversies. FIRE gave a national average score of a D-minus. The […]

The Sept. 23 continuation to be limited to bottler’s responses to questions raised during the Aug. 11 and 18 hearings.

Un juzgado penal de la región amazónica de Madre de Dios, Perú, anunció en reciente audiencia la condena a cadena perpetua para cuatro personas identificadas como los autores intelectuales del crimen cometido contra el defensor ambiental Roberto Carlos Pacheco Villanueva, ocurrido el 10 de septiembre de 2020. La pena, sin embargo, no será de cumplimiento […]

Prevention and education on resources help decrease suicide rate in New Mexico. One of those resources is the New Mexico 988 Crisis and Access line. (Infographic courtesy of the New Mexico Health Care Authority)

This story was originally published by Healthbeat: Public health, explained. Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here.Twenty-five years after the World Trade Center attacks in Lower Manhattan, the federal government wants to study the health effects on an overlooked demographic: children, teens, young adults, and those in utero on Sept. 11, 2001. Previous health studies have mainly focused on adults, in particular the emergency responders who rushed to Ground Zero in the hours and days after the Twin Towers crumbled on 9/11 and fell ill because of toxic exposure at the site. Hundreds of studies have looked at issues involving the lungs and upper respiratory tract, the stomach and esophagus, and various cancers — but not for younger New Yorkers. Overseen by the World Trade Center Health Program and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Youth Research Cohort is in its infancy. Those involved are trying to find eligible participants. The study, with projected funding of $50 million, comes five years after Congress directed the World Trade Center Health Program Administrator to establish the study of young people affected by 9/11. Advocates have noted the delay in bringing the effort to fruition. It is expected to kick off July 1, 2027, according to a government website announcing federal grants. The same site says research will begin once the number of people participating “grows large enough.”Forty-thousand youngsters lived in Lower Manhattan and western Brooklyn — what officials designated as the “disaster area” — during 9/11, said Dr. Matt Karwowski, chief of research at the WTC Health Program. Many schools and daycare centers, some mere steps from Ground Zero, also dot Lower Manhattan, including Stuyvesant High School and Children’s Discovery Center at the World Trade Center.Karwowski noted that children experience “environmental exposures differently than adults” and could fall ill in ways different from adults. “Children are exposed to more dust and other potential sources of exposure through just normal activities that they do, like crawling on the floor, exploring things with their mouths,” said Karwowski. CDC spokesperson Stephanie Stevens didn’t respond to questions seeking clarification on its plans to reach eligible people beyond pointing to a CDC website. Some of the 9/11 survivors may have left New York City.Others have stayed put, including Mariama James, a 9/11 health advocate who was eight months pregnant during the attacks and lived in an apartment on Gold Street in Lower Manhattan.Her daughter, who is now 24, and two other adult children suffer from respiratory issues, PTSD, and other mental health issues, James said. “She wasn’t even here, but the experience of growing up ill from an event that occurred before you were even born, and you don’t even know why you’re impacted.”In recent years, the attacks have taken on greater significance as a major public health concern as the death toll for people who died from illnesses such as cancer have surpassed the nearly 3,000 people who were killed on 9/11. Since that day, more than 96,000 people have been diagnosed with physical and mental health conditions as a result of exposure to the dust, smoke, debris, and traumatic events of 9/11, according to the WTC Health Program. The program says it has recorded more than 9,000 deaths since 9/11, but it’s not clear what role 9/11 played in those deaths.Mayor Zohran Mamdani underscored the 9/11-related public health dangers this week, as his administration released more than 170,000 pages of documents showing that the city’s air quality was much more toxic than officials said at the time. At a news conference at City Hall, Mamdani accused unnamed city and federal officials before him of lying about air quality safety. Records note that buildings less than a mile from the World Trade Center found evidence of asbestos.The World Trade Center Program was born 10 years after 9/11In 2011, Congress passed the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, which created the WTC Health Program to provide healthcare to more than 140,000 responders and survivors nationwide who fell ill because of exposure to the 9/11 attack sites in Lower Manhattan, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania.In December 2022, Congress directed the WTC Health Program Administrator to establish the research cohort of young people willing to participate in studies on the health and educational impacts of 9/11 on children, teens, and young adults up to age 21, including those who were in utero during the attacks. The program will study people who were in those age groups and were physically present south of 14th street in Manhattan or in Brooklyn from Sept. 11, 2001 to July 31, 2002.Karwowski didn’t say how the program arrived at the geographical boundaries for the study. Efforts since the congressional order to get the Youth Research Cohort up ran into delays and more recently, cuts from the Department of Government Efficiency. The turbulence included the termination and rehiring of Dr. John Howard, head of National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, or NIOSH, and director of the World Trade Center Health Program. Howard has served as administrator since the program was established in 2011.The staffing shortages at the WTC Health Program drew the attention of a group of New York and New Jersey members of Congress, all of them Republican. In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., they raised concerns at the WTC Health Program, citing “devastating medical consequences” that threatened 9/11 responders and survivors. Health advocate Lila Nordstrom said efforts to promote the Youth Research Cohort, including a talk by a physician at a recent panel on 9/11 at Manhattan’s Mount Sinai, bode well.“This newest call seems promising,” said Nordstrom, a youth advocate who was a student at Stuyvesant High School on 9/11 and parlayed that experience into a life of healthcare advocacy as the founder of an organization called StuyHealth. “I think everyone’s feeling really hopeful about it.” Trenton Daniel is a reporter covering public health in New York for Healthbeat. Contact Trenton at tdaniel@healthbeat.org or on the messaging app Signal at trentondaniel.88.

Por Bruno Lazzarotti Diniz Costa, Lucas Brandão, Clarice Miranda do Amaral, Maria Luiza Vilela Francisco,  Marina Diniz Ferreira Pinheiro e Miguel Coelho de Lacerda Acompanhando a dinâmica da renda e do bem-estar no Brasil, a pobreza e a extrema pobreza em Minas Gerais vêm se reduzindo desde 2022, tornando a erradicação das manifestações mais severas […] Fonte

Президент України Володимир Зеленський висловив сподівання, що до кінця місяця можуть бути перші результати щодо переговорів про завершення війни, однак він не очікує «сильних перемовин» під час періоду виборів в Росії. (вибори до Державної думи РФ заплановані на 20 вересня) «Я думаю, що у нас не буде дійсно сильних перемовин під час періоду виборів в Росії. Ми це розуміємо, але наприкінці вересня у нас буде нагода зустрітися з американською командою у Нью-Йорку. І протягом цього періоду...

A petition calling on the cosmetics retailer to end its contracts with surveillance companies has surpassed 15,000 signatures Ulta Beauty urged to remove Flock Safety cameras from stores is a story from Prism, a BIPOC-led nonprofit news outlet that centers the people, places, and issues currently underreported by national media. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our work today.

Judoca acumula títulos na base e já conquista espaço no circuito internacional O post Rafaela Rodrigues avança no circuito mundial e se destaca na nova geração do judô apareceu primeiro em Mídia NINJA.

„ნაციონალური მოძრაობის“ ერთ-ერთი ლიდერი, ანა წითლიძე აცხადებს, რომ ყოფილმა თანაგუნდელმა, ოპოზიციური პარტია „ახალის“ ლიდერმა ნიკა გვარამიამ მას 2024 წლის არჩევნების წინ უთხრა - „2028 წელს, თუ მანამდე არა, ბიძინა მე გადმომაბარებს ხელისუფლებასო“.

Pritzker’s appearance in Dallas fuels more speculation about his White House ambitions.

დაპატიმრებული ჟურნალისტი მზია ამაღლობელი ეხმაურება „ქართული ოცნების“ ერთ-ერთი ლიდერის, შალვა პაპუაშვილის განცხადებას მის შესახებ.

O presidente russo, Vladimir Putin, viaja na noite desta quinta-feira (10) à Índia para participar da Cúpula do Brics, que será realizada de 11 a 13 de setembro. A informação foi confirmada nesta quinta-feira (10) pelo assessor presidencial russo, Yuri Ushakov. Na sexta-feira (11), Putin participará do Fórum Empresarial do BRICS. “Ele apresentará iniciativas para […] Fonte

(The Center Square) – The Trump administration appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court once again after U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued a preliminary injunction on Friday before the holiday weekend prohibiting the U.S. Postal Service from implementing new mail-in ballot rules intended for election security. Executive director of election integrity group the Honest Elections Project Jason Snead told The Center Square that “U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani's decision makes one thing clear: She is an activist judge helping the Left block a lawful order that it just doesn't like. “The Trump Administration's simple, common-sense rule would put longstanding USPS recommendations into mandatory requirements for elections,” Snead said. “But because of one federal district court judge who wants to play lawmaker, it likely won't be able to be implemented in time for the midterms, which will damage public trust in outcomes,” Snead said. In August 2026, the United States Postal Service issued a final rule entitled "Ballot Mail for Federal Elections.” This rule makes it so that “outbound federal ballot mailings that do not comply with the rule's design standards or that are addressed to individuals not on the state's mail-in and absentee participation list, as submitted to USPS, ‘will not be accepted’ for delivery by USPS,” according to Congress. Talwani’s preliminary injunction stated that it prohibits the USPS “from implementing mandatory sections of its final rule, Ballot Mail for Federal Elections … for the November 3, 2026 midterm elections.” Talwani’s team has not yet responded to The Center Square’s request for comment. This preliminary injunction replaced the “Temporary Restraining Order the Trump administration is currently asking the Supreme Court to lift,” as stated by SCOTUS Wire. After Talwani’s preliminary injunction, the Trump administration appealed again to the Supreme Court. Several months before the final rule in March 2026, Trump issued the Executive Order “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections” in which the U.S. Postal Service was given directives to “issue regulations establishing uniform standards for mail-in or absentee ballots for federal elections,” as stated by Congress. Many of these standards have been recommended but not required by the USPS. The White House Press Office has not yet responded to The Center Square’s request for comment. Talwani was nominated by then President Barack Obama in 2013 and confirmed by the Senate in 2014.

Long before modern sexual identities reached the East African coast, the Swahili shoga occupied a recognized place in women’s society, until colonialism and later Western frameworks remade them.

Florida universities deserve a “D” for their free expression policies and attitudes, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression announced in its annual 2027 College Free Speech Rankings. The nationwide average is a D-, an improvement from last year’s F average. Florida’s average is D, calculated across seven universities, six of which are public.  Florida […]

Gjykata e Lartë i ka shfuqizuar aktgjykimet e plotfuqishme kundër ish kryetarit të Komunës së Karposhit, Stevço Jakimovski, për të cilat i ishte shqiptuar dënim me burg, dhe lëndën e ka kthyer për rigjykim në Gjykatën Themelore Penale Shkup, raporton MIA. Siç njoftoi Gjykata e Lartë, në seancën e mbajtur më 9 shtator të këtij […]

The University of California Berkeley Law School’s admission practices discriminated against Asian and white applicants, the federal Justice and Education Departments alleged on Wednesday.  The federal agencies’ allegations were based on application data provided by the law school, which the Justice Department said demonstrated a bias against Asian and white prospective students, and bias in favor of Black applicants. The investigative findings are the... <span class="read-more"><a href="https://edsource.org/updates/trump-administration-accuses-uc-berkeley-law-school-of-racial-discrimination">read more</a></span>