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Eran alrededor de las 7 de la mañana, había una densa niebla y el biólogo Gabriel Falquetto ya había visto algunos animales atropellados en la carretera ES-164 en Espírito Santo. Se dirigía a la Reserva Natural Privada Kaetés (RPPN), en la Mata Atlántica, donde trabaja monitoreando la vida silvestre y los animales atropellados en la […]

We were in a quandary, not knowing what to do, a collection of 20th century people trying to figure out an answer for a 21st century situation.

El Festival de Venecia suma a última hora a su competición a Naza, un documental sobre Gaza dirigido por Yuval Abraham y Rachel Szor, de No Other Land

El canario deja atrás tres meses sin competir y comienza el camino para recuperar el desequilibrio que lo convirtió en referencia del Dépor.

Esta historia fue publicada originalmente por CalMatters. Suscríbete a sus boletines informativos. California redujo su conteo oficial de personas sin hogar en 2025 después de años de aumentos. Ahora, los datos preliminares de 2026 indican que muchas regiones del estado continúan registrando avances. Condados de todo California informan que sus poblaciones sin hogar disminuyeron este […]

State Attorney General Gentner Drummond and former budget secretary Mike Mazzei face off to replace Gov. Kevin Stitt, who has a rough history with tribes The post Oklahoma GOP runoff features race to replace controversial governor appeared first on ICT.

Six Minnesota counties will receive state assistance to repair public infrastructure damaged by severe summer storms.

South Sudan’s Vice President Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior did not travel to Kenya on Monday The post Presidential clearance issue blocks VP Nyandeng’s Kenya trip appeared first on Radio Tamazuj.

È iniziata l’implementazione del Patto europeo su migrazioni e asilo, la radicale riforma della normativa che ridisegna le procedure applicate alle persone migranti che arrivano in Europa. Si tratta di un cambiamento di ampissima portata, che accentua la selettività dei meccanismi di accesso, la limitazione della libertà personale e il controllo della mobilità. Per prepararsi a fare i conti con questa trasformazione può essere utile interrogarsi non soltanto sul contenuto delle nuove norme, ma anche sulle categorie, i saperi e i paradigmi attraverso cui leggere questa fase da una prospettiva critica.  In previsione di un prossimo numero della rivista Controfuoco dedicato al Patto Ue, abbiamo deciso di anticipare la

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico speaks during a campaign rally in Laredo, Texas, on July 14, 2026. A major elections forecaster moved the Texas Senate race, in which Talarico faces Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton, as a toss-up, though a Democrat has not won the state since 1994. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)]]>

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter to get the latest.Election reporting gets complicated fast. A breaking story can suddenly require a working knowledge of an obscure state law, a county’s ballot-handling procedures or a voting system you’ve never encountered before — and the person who knows the answer may not be someone you already know how to reach.That’s why Votebeat is bringing back the Expert Desk for the 2026 midterms.The Expert Desk is completely free and entirely on the record. It gives journalists covering elections direct access to roughly 100 vetted experts in election administration, election law, voting technology, misinformation, and related fields. Reporters can ask questions in Slack, get help finding the right source, check their understanding of unfamiliar processes, and pressure-test reporting before publication.Sign up here to participate in the 2026 Expert Desk.We first tried this in 2024. The Desk ultimately brought together 471 journalists from 56 newsrooms and 93 experts. Reporters asked everything from urgent questions about voting-machine problems to highly specific questions about polling-place rules, mail ballots, and state election procedures. Experts could answer directly, point reporters toward someone better suited to help, or build on one another’s responses.The return of the Desk comes as a relief for Tory Wegerski, an investigative producer for KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh. She said the venture was crucial to her election coverage in 2024. “The Expert Desk kept me from losing my mind and I am deeply glad they’re back,” Wegerski wrote in a text message.She wrote the Expert Desk was “indispensable” because the 2024 election in Pennsylvania was hectic and constantly changing. The Expert Desk provided access to people who could help her coverage.“From the former Secretary of State who could answer my questions about the mail-in ballot law because she’d helped write it, to other journalists from Pennsylvania and beyond who provided sanity checks, the Expert Desk connected me with incredible resources for my reporting and I was able to keep my viewers up to date and informed thanks to them,” Wegerski wrote.Aidan Hughes, a data journalist and faculty member at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism within the University of Maryland, also joined the effort in 2024. He wrote in an email that the Expert Desk was a valuable resource when he covered Maryland’s congressional races for the first time.“It was a relief to know that if a niche question came up during my reporting that was important to get just right, there was a supportive community of experts and other journalists eager to point me in the right direction,” Hughes wrote. Hughes wrote that he’ll be turning to the Expert Desk again alongside his students as he teaches a journalism course in the fall that focuses on election data. A University of Washington study of the 2024 Desk found that participating journalists valued the speed of responses to their questions, access to hard-to-find local and specialized expertise, and the ability to gut-check their reporting. The researchers found that the Desk increased the “speed and credibility” of journalists during important moments.“In journalism, particularly in public-interest and misinformation contexts, these findings suggest a promising path toward strengthening the infrastructures that help support a more informed public,” they wrote. Reporters also learned by watching other journalists ask questions and reading the answers they received. Participants gave the Desk an average recommendation score of 8.8 out of 10. The study has been accepted for publication in “Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.”How to use the Desk Using the Desk is simple: Journalists post questions in Slack, where Votebeat community editor Zack Newman will help route them to the experts best positioned to answer. Responses in the Desk are on the record and visible to all participating journalists, so reporters can benefit not only from their own questions but from conversations happening across the network.This year, the Desk will also include a separate AI-powered research tool designed to help reporters search election codes and related source material. It will answer questions using a curated library of documents and provide citations so reporters can check the underlying material themselves. The AI tool will remain clearly separate from the human Expert Desk: Its responses are a research aid, not a quotable source, while experts will remain available to interpret the material, answer follow-up questions and provide on-the-record guidance.We’re also investing more in the human side of the Desk this year. Zack will monitor questions, connect reporters with the right experts, and help keep conversations moving as election coverage intensifies.You don’t need to be an election specialist to join. You don’t need to know much of anything: In fact, the Desk may be most useful when you suddenly find yourself covering an election question you’ve never encountered before.If you’re a journalist covering the 2026 elections, sign up for the Expert Desk here. We’d be honored to help make this hectic season a little bit easier.Jessica Huseman is Votebeat’s editorial director and is based in Dallas. Contact Jessica at jhuseman@votebeat.org.Zack Newman is the Expert Desk’s community editor and is based in Denver. Contact Zack at znewman@votebeat.org.

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(The Center Square) – Residents continue to organize against a proposed data center campus in Lower Mount Bethel Township despite developers scaling back the project. This week, Upper Mount Bethel Township officials will hear much of the same regarding a second project that’s stirred discontent in both Northampton County communities. More than 200 people packed the Aug. 17 public hearing for a proposed Ordinance 2026-01, which would establish zoning and performance standards for data centers. While a handful of speakers supported allowing the facilities under strict regulations, most urged supervisors to reject or strengthen the measure. The ordinance would amend Chapter 27 of the township zoning code to establish definitions, conditional-use requirements, and performance standards for digital and hyper-digital infrastructure facilities. Township Solicitor Mark Fisher reminded residents that the hearing concerned only whether supervisors should adopt the ordinance and, if so, whether to approve it as drafted or revised. The board of supervisors is scheduled to vote on the ordinance on Sept. 14. About two dozen people spoke, with most raising concerns about the township’s rural character, water supplies, environmental impacts, noise, health, and property values. Community opposition has also been organized by No Data Center in the LMBT, which uses a Facebook page and a website to provide updates on the proposal. A smaller group urged supervisors to regulate data centers rather than block them outright, arguing that strict local standards, technological advances, and negotiated conditions could address community concerns while preserving potential tax and economic benefits. John Callahan of Peron Development, speaking on behalf of the partners behind the proposed Lower Mount Bethel Technology Center, said the project was revised in response to concerns from residents and township officials. The new plan removes approximately 350 acres of agricultural land near Gravel Hill Road from the project footprint. It also keeps the campus south of Martins Creek Belvidere Highway and consolidates development near the existing power plants around Depues Ferry Road. According to the project’s website, the revised proposal seeks to rezone approximately 239 acres: Approximately 100 currently farmed acres on land that is already envisioned for future electric utility useApproximately 102 acres comprising the existing quarry propertyThe remaining acreage consisting of currently undeveloped land Callahan stated that the project would use closed-loop cooling without drawing groundwater or Delaware River water, and that developers would fully fund the necessary power infrastructure upgrades. He said they remain committed to “getting this right” and working with officials and residents to preserve currently farmed acreage while delivering community benefits. Longtime township resident and former official Ken Brewer reminded supervisors that they represent all the people, not just vocal opponents, and framed AI-driven infrastructure as part of the technological future that will matter most for younger generations. Ron Engle disputed claims about depressed property values, citing recent home sales near the proposed site in Upper Mount Bethel Township. He also pointed to the township’s negotiations to truck in water as an example of how local officials can condition projects to address residents’ concerns. Residents, and those in surrounding communities, raised concerns about water security, environmental impacts, noise, and health. Colleen Carroll carried several posters containing the phrases, “Protect our Land,” “Reject the Rezoning,” and “Say NO to Power Plant Expansion,” along with photos of wildlife. Carroll told The Center Square she lives on the river near the power plant in a home that has been in her family for generations. “We have enough noise from the power plant – we don’t need more in our backyard,” she added. Denise Wester, an attorney representing several residents whose homes sit across from the entrance to the power plant, said her family has two homes at that location as well. She stressed that the ordinance is not restrictive enough and needs refinement to prevent loopholes that Talen Energy and the developers could jump through. Wester suggested the ordinance require a joint study on the potential power plant expansion due to the proposed data center 12 miles away in Upper Mount Bethel Township. She urged supervisors to consider Iceotope precision liquid cooling, which she said would offer greater water protection and noise reduction than conventional closed-loop cooling systems. Wester provided The Center Square with a copy of a memo she sent to township officials that contains 21 pages of recommended changes, including additional environmental and health studies. Dominic Buscemi framed the issue as going against the Pennsylvania Constitution’s Green Amendment that states “the environment comes above everything else, including private property rights” – and he argued that allowing a data center that harms air, water, or other natural resources would violate that constitutional mandate. Buscemi warned that supervisors, as trustees of those natural resources, could face liability for approving a project that violates the amendment. He also advocates for a statewide moratorium on new data centers. Supervisor Chair David Ascani thanked everyone who spoke and closed the hearing by emphasizing his commitment not to change zoning that takes away “any of the ag land from the township, and I’m going to stick to that,” he said. Meanwhile, since 2024, Gov. Josh Shapiro has gone from fast tracking data center projects to having the “strictest guard rails in the nation.” On Tuesday, he signed an executive order implementing the Governor’s Responsible Infrastructure Development Principles, or GRID, requiring large data center projects to provide or pay for the additional power they need and meet other environmental, transparency and community standards as part of the state permitting process. Additionally, state and federal lawmakers are seeking to preserve farmland or have introduced legislation that would place a moratorium on AI data centers until strong safeguards are in place.

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Efforts to combat erosion with natural materials at Popham Beach and Sebago Lake, among other places, show how landowners must factor continued upkeep into the projects’ costs.

La ciudad de San Diego acordó pagar 6.5 millones de dólares a la viuda de un profesional de UC San Diego Health de 60 años que murió después de chocar con un bache mientras viajaba en su scooter en Sorrento Valley en enero de 2023, cuando se dirigía a una estación del tranvía. James Wadsworth, […]

El fiscal general de California, Rob Bonta, cancela la reunión con Paramount y la acusa de actuar con mala fe en las negociaciones sobre este acuerdo.

Փաշինյանի իշխանության հաշվարկով Հայաստանի ավելի քան 200 քառակուսի կմ տարածքն այս պահին գտնվում է ադրբեջանական օկուպացիայի տակ:

فرماندهی جنوبی آمریکا، ساوتکام، اعلام کرد نیروهای این کشور روز ۱ شهریور، یک شناور را در یکی از مسیرهای شناخته‌شده قاچاق مواد مخدر در شرق اقیانوس آرام هدف حمله قرار دادند.

A pilot program in West Houston is moving homeless people into hotels temporarily while they get back on their feet. Here’s what to know. The post How one West Houston program is giving homeless residents a fresh start appeared first on Good Info Newswire.