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The region’s first state park in 25 years, Palo Pinto Mountains is about 80 miles west of Fort Worth.

FRANKFORT — Republicans on the House budget committee approved a revised state budget proposal Wednesday that removes a spending cap that was raising worries of sharp increases in health insurance costs for public employees and retirees The executive branch budget will allocate $30 billion in General Fund revenues toward K-12 schools, universities, health care, prisons, […]

KATHMANDU — Nepal signed an agreement with the LEAF Coalition on Jan. 23, becoming the first country in Asia to secure a deal expected to potentially deliver $55 million in carbon finance to support forest-dependent communities. However, carbon trade experts and forest group members say that ensuring the money reaches communities remains a challenge, as […]

“When the rain stops, we wipe our desks and continue with the lesson”

Se cercatz dins lo Dico d’Òc la forma occitana majoritària es lo francisme “departament”. Un solet, lo diccionari occitan vivaroalpenc d’Andriu Faure marca tres possibilitats, laissa la causia:  “despartament, despartiment, departament.” La forma francesa occitanizaia es la darriera en arribaia. Aquò nos deu pausar mai d’una question. Lo pès de la lenga francesa sus l’occitan. Continua llegint

Ai cercat dins l’ombra L’èrba dau camin E la pèira lissa Coma un pergamin Max Roqueta     Te seguissèm, Max, sus de camins que gardan ton agach[1]. Arribam a Argelièrs a l’ora ont lo vilatge se revelha doçament jos un treslutz que sembla sortir de tos libres. Los ostals sospiran.Una odor fresca e terrosa emana del sòl. Foguèt aquí que tas paraulas pertocantas prenguèron vam. Continua llegint

Lo quotidian L’Humanité a reveladas de convèrsas intèrnas entre de militantas del collectiu ultradrechista Nemesis —que se proclama feminista— e de membres de divèrses gropusculs neonazis a Lion qu’indicarián la volontat de coordenar d’accions violentas contra de militants esquerristas. Segon lo jornal, los messatges —datats d’octòbre de 2025 e obtenguts del telefòn d’un dirigent del grop Audàcia Lion— mòstran cossí se discutissiá la possibilitat d’atraire d’activistas antifaissistas a una universitat de la vila amb d’accions de propaganda, dins la tòca que d’autres militants i anèsson per s’i batre. Continua llegint

Eth Parlament de Catalonha qu’aprovèc agèr dimèrcles era lei sus era reconeishença dera Val d’Aran, impulsada pes grops deth PSC, de Junts, d’ÈRC, des Comuns e dera CUP. Eth tèxte vò refortir eth ròtle deth Parlament coma garant der autogovèrn aranés e assegurar qu’era singularitat deth país occitan de cap de Garona age ua aplicacion practica laguens der encastre legislatiu catalan. Continua llegint

Dünýäniň dürli regionlarynda we Türkmenistanda şu günki bolan we bolup duran soňky wakalar barada gysgaça habarlar.

KATHMANDU — Bigger hydropower plants, wider roads and more transmission lines: These are the promises major political parties in Nepal are presenting to win votes in the country’s general elections, scheduled for March 5, a quick scan of the cover illustrations used in their manifestos suggest. The images show that despite rising climate risks across […]

Iowa senators approved a number of bills Wednesday related to citizenship verification using federal information. The Senate approved Senate File 2203 in a 34-13 vote Wednesday, requiring the secretary of state to verify the citizenship status of each registered voter using the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database. If a person is not […]

Officials praised Sgt. Jason Whelen’s nearly two decades of service with the sheriff’s office and described him as a proud husband and devoted father to four children. San Joaquin County sheriff’s sergeant died suddenly Tuesday after on-duty medical emergency is a story from Stocktonia News, a rigorous and factual newsroom covering Greater Stockton, California. Please consider making a charitable contribution to support our journalism.

Sign up for Chalkbeat Indiana’s free daily newsletter to keep up with Indianapolis Public Schools, Marion County’s township districts, and statewide education news. The Indianapolis Public Schools board adopted a new policy on student privacy Wednesday in response to a lawsuit from the state attorney general claiming the district unlawfully impeded federal immigration enforcement. The new policy on student access, safety, and privacy seeks to ensure there is a “uniform administrative protocol” that ensures all district actions are “within the bounds of applicable law,” the board said in a resolution passed 6-0 along with the policy. But Attorney General Todd Rokita’s office is still pursuing the lawsuit. Since the lawsuit, the district has removed resources for undocumented students on its website, a move that highlights the growing impact the Trump administration’s approach to immigration enforcement is having on schools. In Indiana, lawmakers are seeking to require greater cooperation between local governments — including school districts — and federal immigration authorities. Rokita’s November lawsuit took issue with a resolution the board passed in 2017 that reminded employees not to assist immigration enforcement efforts “unless legally required and authorized to do so by the Superintendent.” It also challenged IPS guidance for staff and principals on what to do if immigration enforcement shows up on school grounds. Both documents, Rokita’s office argued in its lawsuit, violated a state law that prohibits governmental entities from restricting enforcement of immigration laws. The fight will likely continue through a Marion County Superior Court case that will weigh the rights of students against a state law restricting school districts from restricting immigration enforcement. The board last month rescinded the 2017 resolution as it floated the new student safety policy for consideration. But Rokita’s office said in a court filing on Monday that “IPS in no way repudiated the policies described” in the 2017 resolution when the board voted to rescind it. The new IPS policy directs the superintendent to develop guidelines on how staff should coordinate with legal counsel when external agencies seek information or access to students. The superintendent will also develop protocols for the protection of student records. In a statement before the vote, board President Hope Duke Star said the policy was neither a symbolic gesture nor a political statement, but rather “a governance instrument designed to bring clarity, uniformity, and accountability” on how to administer safety districtwide. “Indianapolis Public Schools serves students from many backgrounds and life circumstances. The district does not adjudicate these circumstances,” Star said. “Our fundamental charge is narrowed and more concrete: to operate schools that are orderly, predictable, and compliant with the law, therefore allowing teaching and learning to occur without undue disruption.” Attorney general says IPS hindered deportation attempt The lawsuit alleges that IPS policies hindered the deportation of a “Honduran national” who opted to voluntarily leave the country in January 2025 with his son, an IPS student. On the day of the scheduled flight, the student went to school despite his father’s wish for them to depart the country together, the complaint states. .subtext-iframe{max-width:540px;}iframe#subtext_embed{width:1px;min-width:100%;min-height:100%;} fetch("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alpha-group/iframe-resizer/master/js/iframeResizer.min.js").then(function(r){return r.text();}).then(function(t){return new Function(t)();}).then(function(){iFrameResize({heightCalculationMethod:"lowestElement"},"#subtext_embed");}); The child’s father sent a family friend to meet the student at the school to be reunited with his father, according to an affidavit of a contracted school resource officer that Rokita’s office filed earlier this month. IPS staff refused to turn over the child, who like his father was an undocumented immigrant, to the family friend, according to the affidavit. In its response to the lawsuit, the district said that the person who claimed to be a federal immigration officer — whom district staff spoke to by phone that day — did not produce any legal documentation to support the request to take custody of the student. IPS denied the allegation from Rokita’s office that the father missed his deportation flight because of the district. A district staff member allowed the student to go home with an immigration attorney in violation of district policy, according to district responses to the attorney general’s interrogation filed in court. But the district said Immigration and Customs Enforcement never came to the school, and staff never spoke with the student’s father that day. The new policy adopted Wednesday maintains that the district will continue to provide “equal access to public education” regardless of immigration status while complying with local, state, and federal laws. State law forbids a governmental body from adopting a resolution or policy that restricts cooperation with federal officials when it comes to sharing information on a person’s citizenship or immigration status. Government entities may also not restrict federal immigration enforcement “to less than the full extent permitted by federal law.” At the same time, the federal Families and Educational Rights Privacy Act, known as FERPA, restricts the ability of schools to provide student information to outside parties. And the Supreme Court’s 1982 ruling in Plyler v. Doe affirmed undocumented students’ right to a free public education. The next hearing in the case involving Rokita’s lawsuit against IPS is set for March 5. Amelia Pak-Harvey covers Indianapolis and Lawrence Township schools for Chalkbeat Indiana. Contact Amelia at apak-harvey@chalkbeat.org.

Malamulele Hospital serves dozens of villages in a 25km radius but is short staffed

Da’awa: Wani bidiyo da ya bazu ya yi ikirarin cewa sojojin Amurka da Sojojin Najeriya sun ceto mutanen da aka sace a wani farmaki na haɗin gwiwa a Jihar Zamfara. Hukunci: Ƙarya. Bidiyon na ƙirƙirar AI ne. Babu wata shaida da ke nuna cewa sojojin Amurka sun shiga wani aikin ceto na haɗin guiwa a …

Da’awa: Wani bidiyo da ya bazu ya yi ikirarin cewa sojojin Amurka da Sojojin Najeriya sun ceto mutanen da aka sace a wani farmaki na haɗin gwiwa a Jihar Zamfara. Hukunci: Ƙarya. Bidiyon na ƙirƙirar AI ne. Babu wata shaida da ke nuna cewa sojojin Amurka sun shiga wani aikin ceto na haɗin guiwa a …

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Sign up for Chalkbeat Indiana’s free daily newsletter to keep up with Indianapolis Public Schools, Marion County’s township districts, and statewide education news. Indianapolis Public Schools will sell the Raymond Brandes School 65 building for $1 to a charter school that serves students with autism. The school board’s approval on Wednesday to sell the building to Dynamic Minds Academy could mark the last time the district sells a building under a state law that requires traditional school districts to provide shuttered or underutilized buildings to charters or state educational institutions for $1. The building, which was constructed on the district’s southeast side in 1961. It would provide a critical second campus for Dynamic Minds, which operates a K-12 school on the northeast side of Marion County. The school partners with the Hope Source clinic that offers applied behavioral analysis, a service known as ABA therapy that serves students with autism, for an experience that combines therapy with school. The school enrolled 135 students this year, according to state records, but it has about 160 students on its waitlist, education director Samantha Bandy told Chalkbeat last month. She anticipates the need to grow even more, as state efforts to cut Medicaid spending impacts ABA centers that rely on such funding. “We’re getting a lot more interest from families that aren’t ready for traditional public school but they’re being pushed out of their ABA center,” she said. The school plans to open in the fall of 2027 to grades K-12 and is seeking approval from Education One at Trine University, which authorizes its existing campus. The $1 sale could be the last of its kind, because lawmakers are considering a bill that would exempt IPS from the law and establish a new corporation to manage school buildings and transportation for district and charter schools. A state appeals court ruled last year that the district must sell School 65 to any interested school. Both Dynamic Minds and Damar Charter Academy — another charter school serving students with behavioral and developmental challenges — expressed interest in the building. State law dictates that if more than one charter school expresses an interest in an unused building, a committee of charter school authorizers must select which school receives the facility. IPS will list School 68 on open market The school board also voted Wednesday to list Susan Roll Leach School 68 as available for sale on the open market after no charter schools or institutions expressed interest in buying the property for $1. The building in the near eastside neighborhood, built in 1938, had the lowest overall facility quality rating in the district, according to a previous study that IPS commissioned. No charter schools expressed interest in purchasing the former Susan Roll Leach School 68 building on the east side of the district. IPS will hire a broker to oversee the building’s potential sale. The board also voted to transfer roughly 18 acres of the former John Marshall school property on the Far Eastside to the city’s parks department. IndyParks plans to use the land, which includes the school’s athletic fields, as part of its master plan for Grassy Creek Regional Park. Amelia Pak-Harvey covers Indianapolis and Lawrence Township schools for Chalkbeat Indiana. Contact Amelia at apak-harvey@chalkbeat.org.

ཨ་རིའི་རླུང་འཕྲིན་ཁང་གི་གཟའ་ཟླ་བ་ནས་པ་སངས་བར་གྱི་སྔ་དགོང་གཉིས་ཀྱི་ཀུན་གླེང་བརྙན་འཕྲིན་ནང་གསར་འགྱུར་དང་། དྲ་སྣང་གི་བོད། ཆབ་སྲིད་བཙོན་པ་ངོ་སྤྲོད། དཔེ་ཀློག་སོགས་ཀྱི་ལས་རིམ་དང་། བརྗོད་གཞི་གལ་ཆེན་མང་པོའི་ཐད་དུས་ཐོག་ཏུ་བགྲོ་གླེང་ལྷུག་པོར་གནང་བའི་ལེ་ཚན་བཅས་ཡོད་པས་དུས་ལྟར་གཟིགས་རོགས་གནང་། ཀུན་གླེང་ཐད་གཏོང་གི་དུས་ཚོད་ནི་རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་དགོང་མོའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་བདུན་དང་ཕྱེད་ཀ་ནས་བརྒྱད་པའི་བར་དང་། བོད་ནང་གི་དགོང་མོའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་བཅུ་བ་ནས་༡༠ དང་ཕྱེད་ཀའི་བར། དེ་བཞིན་ཨ་རིའི་ཤར་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་ཞོགས་པའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་༡༠ པ་ནས་༡༠...

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