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Emmanuel Damas, a 56-year-old Haitian asylum seeker being held in an immigration detention facility in Arizona, died from severe throat and chest infections that developed from an untreated tooth infection.  The preliminary report published by the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office concluded that Damas’ death was caused by complications from “necrotizing mediastinitis with neck and […]

Austin leaders are set to vote on a controversial $1 billion natural gas peaker plan Austin Energy says is needed to prevent outages and price spikes. The post Austin weighs controversial $1 billion natural gas-powered peaker proposal amid climate backlash   appeared first on Austin Current.

El presidente estadounidense asegura que China no enviará armamento a Teherán y desliza una posible colaboración de Pekín para rebajar la tensión en Oriente Próximo.

This story is available through The Current GA.  Carry Smith yawned as she fastened the driver’s side seat belt in her 2002 Toyota Sequoia. On a Sunday in early May, Smith headed to one of her four part-time jobs in Chatham County, part of her seven-day work week. Two years earlier, Smith suffered life-threatening injuries […]

COLUMBIA — Loan negotiations by the state treasurer’s office contributed to unplanned overages and sky-high financial penalties against the Election Commission for new voting machines, according to a report Thursday by South Carolina’s inspector general. In a statement, Treasurer Curtis Loftis denied that his office was at fault. He laid the blame squarely on the […]

Ricardo Leães destaca que Xi Jinping foi esperto ao se antecipar sobre Taiwan e não abrir qualquer espaço de diálogo Fonte

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Wisconsin’s free newsletter here.The Wisconsin Elections Commission was wrong to order Madison to remove 23 late-arriving absentee ballots from its count, a Dane County judge ruled Thursday, ordering the city to count them in the soon-to-be-certified Wisconsin Supreme Court race.The ruling comes in response to a lawsuit brought by two of those 23 voters, who alleged that the Wisconsin Elections Commission unconstitutionally ordered Madison not to count the ballots. The absentee ballots at issue arrived at the polls after 8 p.m., a delay city officials say was caused by election administrator error. State law requires that absentee ballots be “delivered to the polling place no later than 8 p.m.” on Election Day, but the lawsuit alleged that it would be illegal to disenfranchise properly cast votes over election officials’ errors.“Voters who comply with every element that is required for them to vote a special absentee vote, and then not being allowed to have the votes count, is contrary to what good law in Wisconsin has been,” Dane County Judge Everett Mitchell said from the bench.The ruling came after an hour-long back-and-forth between attorneys for the Wisconsin Elections Commission and the plaintiffs over the rights of voters when election officials commit errors.In briefs and in court, lawyers for Law Forward, who represent the plaintiffs, referenced several past rulings in the state that they say established a long-running precedent that voters can’t be deprived of their constitutional voting rights due to election officials’ errors.In court, Charlotte Gibson, a Wisconsin Department of Justice lawyer representing the Wisconsin Elections Commission, argued that the precedent wasn’t that simple — and that the onus was on both voters and election officials to ensure ballots are counted on time.In ordering Madison and Dane County not to count the ballots weeks after the election, the Wisconsin Elections Commission argued that state law simply does not permit late-arriving ballots to count, even as some commissioners expressed ambivalence about that rule and reluctance about disenfranchising voters in the process.Wisconsin Elections Commission Chair Ann Jacobs, a Democrat, said in a statement after the ruling that she was pleased Mitchell reversed the WEC decision and ordered the ballots counted. Jacobs had voted to exclude the ballots, arguing the commission was bound by state law, but said at the time that she hoped a court would overturn the decision.“As I have indicated previously, as an administrative agency we are bound by the language of the state statutes which precluded counting those ballots,” Jacobs said in a statement. “That said, it has been my firm belief that voters should not be penalized by the actions of a clerk as these 23 voters were. The right to vote should not be predicated on a clerk failing to deliver properly and timely submitted ballots.”Mitchell’s decision means the votes removed in response to the WEC order will now be added back to the count. Those aren’t necessarily the exact 23 ballots that were delivered late, though. Due to poll workers not heeding Madison Clerk Lydia McComas’ request to uniformly mark the late-arriving ballots, Madison officials conducted what’s known as a drawdown to remove 23 random voters’ ballots from the count. It remains unclear why there was such a delay between the ballots’ arrival at the elections office on Monday and their delivery to the precincts for counting. Alexander Shur is a reporter for Votebeat based in Wisconsin. Contact Alexander at ashur@votebeat.org.

(The Center Square) – Lawmakers held another hearing on sanctuary policies Thursday, one of a series coinciding with President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and a nationwide crackdown by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This time, the House of Representatives subcommittee focused on Fairfax County, Virginia. Just 30 minutes outside of Washington, D.C., Fairfax County is Virginia’s most populous county, with more than 1.1 million residents. The county borders one of the most diverse counties in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report, and is itself notably diverse, with more than 30% of its population born outside of the U.S. Its commonwealth’s attorney and sheriff testified before the House committee Thursday, as the locality promotes non-compliance with Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers. Another witness who testified Thursday was Cheryl Minter, mother of the deceased Stephanie Minter, a 41-year-old single mother killed at a Fairfax County bus stop in February. Abdul Jalloh, an illegal immigrant from Sierra Leone, has been charged with her murder. Jalloh is one of three illegal immigrants on trial for an alleged 2026 murder in Fairfax County, and as of early April, the Department of Homeland Security reported “illegal aliens have allegedly committed 75% of all murders in the far-left county” in 2026, as there had been four alleged murders at the time. Jalloh had been arrested more than 30 times before being charged with fatally stabbing Minter, according to DHS. “His criminal history includes more than 30 arrests for charges of rape, malicious wounding, assault, drug possession, identity theft, trespassing, larceny, firing a weapon, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and pick pocketing,” reads a DHS press release following Jalloh’s February arrest. But via its Public Trust and Confidentiality Policy adopted in 2021, Fairfax County is one of a number of localities across the country, in addition to 17 states and Washington, D.C., that seeks to protect people who have immigrated to the U.S. illegally from deportation, according to advocacy group the Federation for American Immigration Reform. Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger also signed an executive directive earlier this year effectively repealing an executive action by former Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin that called for Virginia localities’ compliance with ICE. Lawmakers questioning Stephen Descano, the Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney, contended that it was Fairfax’s so-called sanctuary policies that repeatedly allowed Jalloh back on the street. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., said that Jalloh had been arrested more than 15 times from Jan. 2023 to Feb. 2026, that Descano had “dismissed almost all of these charges” and Fairfax County Sheriff Stacey Kincaid had been instrumental in Jalloh's evasion of ICE. Jalloh concerned the Fairfax County Police Department – which operates in the county in addition to the sheriff’s department – enough that it issued a warning to Descano, according to Van Drew. “The Fairfax County Police Department became so alarmed at these decisions that they took the extraordinary step of warning Descano that Jalloh had stabbed multiple people, sexually assaulted at least one woman, and committed numerous other criminal offenses," he said. "The police then issued this grim prophecy: It is not a question of if, but rather when, he will maliciously wound – or worse – again,” Van Drew added. In a particularly tense moment during the hearing, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, questioned Descano over a statement Jordan said had been on Descano’s campaign website for six years, but was taken down not long after the House committee reached out to Descano to testify before Congress. The exchange involved the case of a 23-year-old Salvadoran national and Fairfax County resident named Marvin Fernando Morales-Ortez, who was charged in late December with second degree murder. Jordan quoted Descano as having said on his website that his office would “take immigration consequences into account when making charging and plea decisions.” “Immigration consequences were certainly part of the game here.. with Mr. Morales-Ortez,” Jordan said. Video footage had shown Ortez fleeing the home of a man who appeared to have been shot to death, and Ortez was also charged with possession of a firearm. Ortez had been released from jail the day before and had previously been charged with various crimes, including a first-degree murder charge in 2021, but Descano’s office had not prosecuted him, according to Washington, D.C., ABC affiliate WJLA. Descano said that Jordan was misrepresenting his policies by quoting the “campaign statement that was made before” he became the commonwealth’s attorney. “Why’d you change your website?” Jordan asked. Descano responded, "Because I could not believe that people were so obtuse that they could not realize what the difference between a campaign statement and an actual office policy is."

Peninsula Beacon spotlights a $32M seawall plan to curb erosion at Sunset Cliffs, sparking resident concerns over costs, timing, and impacts. Point Loma Nazarene's volleyball team, coached by Jon Scott, reached the NCAA Div. II Final Four.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Thursday to preserve telehealth access to the abortion drug mifepristone until after the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled on the merits of the high-stakes federal lawsuit Louisiana v. Food and Drug Administration. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas issued dissenting opinions. In his dissent, Thomas said the […]

A voter deposits a mail-in ballot at the drop box outside the Chester County, Pennsylvania, Government Center on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Photo by Pennsylvania Capital-Star/Peter Hall)]]>

The 7th covers Lehigh and Northampton counties and parts of Carbon and Monroe counties in eastern Pennsylvania. They include the cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton, which comprise the commonwealth’s third-largest metro area.

Cumberland Island is one of Georgia’s last truly wild places. For generations, its appeal has rested in its remoteness and isolation, not its tourist amenities. That was no accident. When Congress created Cumberland Island National Seashore, it demanded that the island be “permanently preserved in its primitive state.” Today, that promise to the public is nearly out of reach, with Cumberland at a pivotal […]

جان رتکلیف رئیس سازمان اطلاعات مرکزی آمریکا، سیا، روز پنج‌شنبه در سفری «سطح بالا» به کوبا، با مقام‌های ارشد وزارت کشور این کشور دیدار و گفت‌وگو کرد.

A tiny OC environmental group used election jostling to score a big win.

Alexander, a traveler from Stavropol Krai who was known online by the name “Sasha Kon,” was killed on May 13 in Russia’s Bryansk region by a Ukrainian drone strike, the Telegram channels Baza, Shot, and Mash reported.

美国政府周四宣布，将在2026年给联合国追加18亿美元的人道援助资金，使美国的援助总额达到38亿美元。不过，这一数字仍低于特朗普重返白宫之前的水平。

美國政府周四宣布，將在2026年給聯合國追加18億美元的人道援助資金，使美國的援助總額達到38億美元。不過，這一數字仍低於特朗普重返白宮之前的水平。

就美國總統特朗普訪問中國，法國世界報寫道，北京在盛大接待特朗普的同時，也向特朗普發出了嚴厲的警告。

就美国总统特朗普访问中国，法国世界报写道，北京在盛大接待特朗普的同时，也向特朗普发出了严厉的警告。