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The world is depleting its freshwater far faster than nature can replace it, pushing many regions into “water bankruptcy,” according to a new report from the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH). The report compares Earth’s hydrological system to a household’s finances. Rivers, rainfall and snow represent annual income, while glaciers, […]

La serie Voces desde el territorio reúne artículos de opinión escritos por pueblos indígenas de todo el mundo. A través de estos comentarios, compartimos nuestras realidades y reflexiones sobre temas urgentes que marcan nuestro tiempo: la destrucción ambiental, nuestra relación con la naturaleza y la injusticia sistémica. Escribimos desde el corazón de nuestras comunidades, donde […]

An Alabama House committee Wednesday approved legislation that would prevent courts from extending youthful offender status to anyone under the age of 19 charged with murder. HB 11, sponsored by Rep. Phillip Pettus, R-Killeen, reduces the threshold for youthful offender status for those crimes from 19 to 16 for those  charged with murder or capital […]

В 2026 год Франция вступила без закона о государственном бюджете, поскольку раздробленные парламент страны, где ни у одной политической силы нет большинства, не смог согласовать главный финансовый документ страны. Премьер-министр Себастьен Лекорню, обещавший добиться компромисса в парламенте и голосования в поддержку бюджета, взял свое слово обратно. На этой неделе он объявил о решении применить «силовой» метод — статью 49.3 Конституции, которая позволяет правительству утверждать законы без обсуждения и голосования парламента. При этом кабинет министров неминуемо подвергается риску получить вотум недоверия. Комментаторы полагают, что у правительства Лекорню есть все шансы устоять и избежать отставки решением парламента, благодаря ряду бюджетных уступок Социалистической партии.

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Пра гэта паведаміў Сяргей Навумчык.

The CRMP was adopted to counteract the effects of climate change on pilot sites in Ocean Beach, Pacific Beach, Mission Beach and La Jolla.

With a synchronized tap from run-of-the-mill hammers on metal plates resting on the ground, researchers kneeling in nine fields across four continents believe they’ve hit upon more than just the earth beneath their feet. “Waiting for it,” someone said. And then, “Waveforms!” “Excellent, waveforms!” another said, as the tiles on screen reveal EKG-like sets of […]

Agents followed the woman home after she dropped off a child at school, a daughter said.

Project Jupiter, a massive data center planned for southern New Mexico, has been approved through a rushed and opaque process that obscures its enormous carbon emissions, water use and pollution impacts from the public. The post Opinion: Project Jupiter is a  generational disaster appeared first on El Paso Matters.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump took his case for acquiring Greenland to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland on Wednesday, urging European leaders to begin negotiations while appearing to rule out a military takeover of the Arctic island.  Trump insisted during a 75-minute, wide-ranging speech that Greenland represents “a core national security interest” that “would […]

As fossil fuel-based carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise to record levels, a new analysis shows that a majority of these emissions can be traced back to a shrinking number of large corporate entities.  Just 32 companies accounted for over half of global fossil carbon emissions in 2024, according to a report published Wednesday by […]

States like Canada have long known the current system of international rules-based order is a “fiction,” Carney said.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump took his case for acquiring Greenland to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland on Wednesday, urging European leaders to begin negotiations while appearing to rule out a military takeover of the Arctic island.  Trump insisted during a 75-minute, wide-ranging speech that Greenland represents “a core national security interest” that “would […]

San Diego should track homelessness year-round, not just one night for the Point-in-Time Count. Otherwise, we don't know the true extent of homelessness.

(The Center Square) – In the past 5 years, the state of Illinois has found more than 1,000 instances of taxpayer funded overpayments to child care providers. In a response to a public records request by TCS, the Illinois Department of Human Services said there were 1,004 instances of overpayments to providers and families for child care funding. However, the agency said it couldn’t immediately say which were fraud and which were not, as it would take them 167 hours to go through the thousand case files. “While reviewing the overpayment file, IDHS-[Divison of Early Chilhood] staff and/or Child Care Resource and Referral agencies may note concerns about intentional program violation or fraud in the case notes or on the overpayment referral form; however, there is no method to independently track which overpayments are intentional or unintentional in CCMS,” said Sean Reddington, associate general counsel of IDHS. A narrow request for fiscal year 2025 information is pending. In their response to the initial public records request made Jan. 2, the agency did note founded fraud cases are reported to the Illinois Department of Health and Family Services Office of Inspector General. “Specifically, [the agency] refers allegations to [HFS-OIG] when they [are] unable to determine if a program violation is intentional without further investigation,” Reddington said in an email. “In these cases, HFS-OIG is responsible for investigating the childcare benefit fraud referral and determining whether the allegation of fraud is substantiated or unsubstantiated.” The HFS Inspector General annual report for fiscal year 2025 show three substantiated provider cases and two substantiated beneficiary cases, some referred to law enforcement. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul was asked what he does with such cases. “Prosecute them, and we work with the OIG, we work with the inspector general from the federal government, [U.S. Health and Human Services],” Raoul told TCS when asked at an unrelated event Tuesday. “And so when the case is referred to us and we have the capacity to prosecute it, we prosecute. Some of the cases may go to the federal government, for prosecution or other prosecutorial agencies. But prosecute them.” The IG report for fiscal 2025 shows when including Medicaid overpayments, the estimated provider overpayments was $55.7 million. When combining child care program cases with SNAP overpayments, the IG says the established client overpayments totals nearly $317,000. Jim Talamonti contributed to this story. ###

From Zaria to Lagos, Yakubu spent three days. Along the way, he hoped, ate, and even stepped aside to relieve himself.  Home had become a stronghold of terrorists who rustled cattle, kidnapped residents, and cut farmers off from their harvests. Even children, Yakubu recalled, openly carried weapons in Funtua, the area where he grew up … The post ‘Nowhere to Shit’: Conflict, Flight, and Lagos’s Toilet Crisis appeared first on HumAngle.

Hêzên Amerîkayî dest danîn ser keştîyeke din ya neftê ya Venezuelayê ku li jêr sizayên Amerîkayê bû. Bi vê yekê, hejmara keştîyên sizakirî yên girtî digihêje heftan. Fremandarîya Başûr ya hêzên Amerîkayî îro Çarşemê ragihand ku keştîya petrolê ya bi navê Motor Vessel Sagitta li deryaya Karîbîyanî hate girtin. Fremandarîya Başûr ya Amerîka herwiha got, wê keştîyê kar “dijî biryara qedexeya Serok Trump dikir.” "Ev girtin nîşana rijdîya me ye ku bi tenê nefta ku ji Venezuelayê derdikve ew...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is scheduled to travel to Iowa on Jan. 27 to deliver a speech focused on the economy and energy, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles told reporters Wednesday.  The president is expected to begin weekly travel ahead of the midterm elections — in which the GOP is aiming to […]