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Prokuroria Publike ka kërkuar arrest shtëpiak për gjykatësin e Apelit Gjoko Ristov, pasi në shtëpinë e prindërve të tij u gjetën 350 mijë euro të fshehura në mur, ku ai dyshohet për korrupsion, raporton Portalb.mk. “Sot, prokurori i lëndës e intervistoi gjykatësin e dyshuar dhe i paraqiti provat e mbledhura mbi të cilat bazohet dyshimi […]

New Mexico governor signs executive order banning CYFD from housing youth in government offices while waiting on foster care

Rais wa Tume ya Ulaya Ursula von der Leyen, leo Jumanne, ameahidi jibu "kali" kwa vitisho vya mara kwa mara vya Donald Trump kuhusu Greenland na ushuru.

Рэгістрацыя хатніх сабак і катоў — абавязковая працэдура, якая займае мінімум часу і праводзіцца бясплатна. Дзяржаўнае выданне «Гродзенская праўда» нагадала, як зарэгістраваць хатнюю жывёлу, а рэдакцыя Hrodna.life паглядзела, якія змены наконт утрымання жывёл уступілі ў сілу ў гэтым годзе. Як зарэгістраваць хатніх жывёл Згодна з Правіламі ўтрымання хатніх сабак і катоў, уладальнікі абавязаны зарэгістраваць гадаванца [...]

സാനിറ്ററി നാപ്കിനുകൾ വഴിയുള്ള പാരിസ്ഥിതികപ്രശ്‌നങ്ങൾക്ക് പരിഹാരമായാണ് മെൻസ്ട്രുവൽ കപ്പെന്ന ആശയം. അഞ്ചു കോടി രൂപയാണ് പദ്ധതിക്കായി വകയിരുത്തിയിട്ടുള്ളത്.

വനാതിർത്തികളിലും മനുഷ്യവാസ മേഖലകളോട് ചേർന്ന പ്രദേശങ്ങളിലുമുള്ള അപകടസാധ്യത മുൻകൂട്ടി തിരിച്ചറിഞ്ഞ് സമയബന്ധിത ഇടപെടൽ സാധ്യമാക്കുകയാണ് ലക്ഷ്യം.

തെരുവുനായ്ക്കളെ അത്രയധികം സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നുണ്ടെങ്കിൽ അവയെ സ്വന്തം വീട്ടിൽ കൊണ്ടുപോയി വളർത്തുകയാണ് വേണ്ടതെന്നും വഴിയിലിറങ്ങി കുട്ടികളെയും മുതിർന്നവരെയും കടിച്ച് പരിക്കേൽപ്പിക്കാൻ അനുവദിക്കരുതെന്നും കോടതി വ്യക്തമാക്കി.

Estudo feito por pesquisadoras francesas mostra que o comportamento da equipe médica considerado inadequado pelas pacientes, antes e depois do parto, pode estar relacionado ao aparecimento da doença.

The chair of the Alabama Senate committee overseeing the state’s General Fund has filed two bills aimed at pressuring several cities to drop a lawsuit challenging the state’s Internet sales tax, known as the Simplified Sellers Use Tax (SSUT). SB 36, sponsored by Sen. Greg Albritton, R-Atmore, would allow people living outside a city to […]

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian announced through a spokeswoman on Tuesday that he has accepted U.S. President Donald Trump’s invitation to join his “Board of Peace” initiative meant to resolve conflicts around the world.

En situaciones de emergencia como catástrofes naturales, atentados, accidentes o crisis sanitarias todo pasa demasiado rápido y la incertidumbre, el miedo o las ganas de ayudar pueden convertir un mensaje con buenas intenciones en desinformación. Estas son algunas claves para que no te la cuelen: No compartas si no estás seguro (y si lo haces, adviértelo): quien ha enviado algo "no confirmado" puede tener su mejor intención; puede que se haya equivocado, no necesariamente está intentando "colarte un bulo" sino ayudar. Las fuentes oficiales en situaciones de emergencia son básicas, pero no todas valen lo mismo: debes hacer una diferencia entre la información que ofrece protección civil, emergencias o cuerpos y FFSS y la que ofrecen dirigentes o gabinetes políticos. Cada uno cumple un papel distinto y tiene intereses, tiempos y objetivos diferentes. La falta de datos no implica que te estén ocultando algo: piensa también que en situaciones de emergencia no siempre es posible dar datos ni tener conclusiones inmediatas y las fuentes oficiales pueden no tenerlos. Eso no significa que estén ocultando algo. Las investigaciones llevan tiempo y quizá no se sepa nada seguro. Si una publicación o un contenido que te envían tiene cifras que no está dando ninguna fuente oficial ni medios de comunicación, sospecha.  Un comunicado o respuesta oficial no es una verdad absoluta: lo que dice un gabinete de prensa de un ministerio o una consejería no lo convierte en incuestionable. Mide la credibilidad que le das, y transmítelo así, con contexto. El periodismo puede contradecir a una fuente oficial y no es desinformar: una investigación periodística que contradiga a una fuente oficial no tiene por qué ser un bulo y en muchas ocasiones son esas investigaciones las que desmienten a fuentes oficiales interesadas. Antes de dar algo por falso sólo porque contradice a una fuente oficial, conviene fijarse en cómo se ha obtenido esa información y qué fuentes la respaldan. Ayúdanos a frenar los bulos: si te llega una información sospechosa, avísanos:  Por  WhatsApp al 644 229 319  En la Buloteca.  En este espacio no solo nos alertas, también nos ayudas a verificar y resolver posibles bulos.

دفتر کمیساریای عالی حقوق بشر سازمان ملل متحد اعلام کرده است که افزایش قابل توجه شمار اعدام‌ها در ایران در سال ۲۰۲۵، برغم کاهش جرایم منجر به اعدام در جهان، موجب رشد آمار کلی اعدام‌ها در پهنۀ جهانی شده است. به‌ گفتۀ این نهاد، حکومت جمهوری اسلامی از مجازات مرگ به‌عنوان «ابزاری برای ارعاب دولتی» استفاده می‌کند.

The American Farm Bureau Federation, along with soybean and specialty crop farm organizations, has asked congressional leadership for economic support to “fill in the gap of remaining losses for both field and specialty crop farmers.”  The letter follows a December announcement from the Trump administration of a $12 billion one-time package to offset farmer losses […]

Nevada is looking for ways to break away from a decades-long dependence on California fuel as the Golden State experiences refinery closures — including the back-to-back closures of two major oil refineries. In October, Phillips 66 produced its final barrel of fuel at its Los Angeles facility, citing regulatory pressure, rising costs, and declining gasoline […]

Doorashooyinkii Baarlamaanka ee ka qabsoomay Benin 11-kii Jeenawari 2026 ayaa dhaliyey jug ballaadhan ka dib markii Isbahaysiga Mucaaradka ee dalkaasi si weyn ugu guul darraystay in ay wax kuraasi ah

Here’s what the new dietary guidelines actually mean for school meals.

(The Center Square) – One year ago Tuesday, President Donald Trump told the nation its “golden age” had arrived, promising to spend his second term restoring stability at home and abroad through deportations, tariffs, and cutting government waste. “For American citizens, January 20th, 2025, is Liberation Day,” he said during his inaugural address inside the U.S. Capitol. “It is my hope that our recent presidential election will be remembered as the greatest and most consequential election in the history of our country.” After 365 days and 225 executive orders, where does progress stand on some of the president’s more notable priorities? Immigration After taking office, Trump promptly declared a national emergency at the southern border and began vigorous deportation proceedings. “All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came,” Trump said. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security reported millions of immigrants have either been deported or self-deported since Trump took office. In March, Trump instituted the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to go after alleged members of Tren de Aragua, a transnational crime organization based in Venezuela. “[Tren de Aragua] has engaged in and continues to engage in mass illegal migration to the United States to further its objectives of harming United States citizens, undermining public safety, and supporting the Maduro regime’s goal of destabilizing democratic nations in the Americas, including the United States,” Trump wrote in the March executive order. The order has led to several military strikes on alleged drug boats and the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. “As commander in chief, I have no higher responsibility than to defend our country from threats and invasions, and that is exactly what I am going to do. We will do it at a level that nobody has ever seen before,” Trump said. Energy During his address, Trump also said he would declare a national energy emergency and use deregulation to open pathways for increased oil and gas production. Since his address, the Environmental Protection Agency, Transportation Department and other federal agencies have reduced regulations for companies to procure more oil and gas. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy estimated that deregulation from his agency alone would save $600 million. The Trump administration also revoked electric vehicle standards, particularly in California. “We will build automobiles in America again at a rate that nobody could have dreamt possible just a few years ago,” Trump said. Trade President Trump also began to roll out his trade policies with foreign nations during his inaugural address. “Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens,” Trump said. The administration quickly established the External Revenue Service to collect tariffs and other foreign revenues. Trump used powers under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to implement his desired tariff rates. He also announced tariffs on specific goods, no matter where they came from. This included a 25% tariff on foreign-made cars and 50% for steel and aluminum. Several businesses quickly challenged Trump’s authority to issue tariffs under the Emergency Economic Powers Act. He has repeatedly begged for a favorable ruling from the court’s justices. "The TARIFFS are responsible for the GREAT USA Economic Numbers JUST ANNOUNCED…AND THEY WILL ONLY GET BETTER!" Trump wrote in a social media post. "Also, NO INFLATION & GREAT NATIONAL SECURITY. Pray for the U.S. Supreme Court!!!" Federal Workforce Trump’s inaugural address also formally introduced the Department of Government Efficiency, an agency designed to root out “waste, fraud and abuse” in the federal government. The agency spearheaded mass firings, with some estimates suggesting around 300,000 federal workers were laid off. As of January 2026, the department, often called DOGE, estimated that it has saved $215 billion in mass layoffs and the elimination of grant funds across. "President Trump created the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to bring accountability and transparency to federal spending, ensuring taxpayer dollars are spent wisely and effectively — and it has already saved taxpayers billions of dollars," the White House said. DEI Trump also promised to end federal policies that "socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life." Over the last several months, his administration has cut millions in federal grants for diversity, equity and inclusion projects. He has proposed eliminating a $315 million grant for early education facilities and $77 million for teacher training programs that included topics on critical race theory. Trump has been affirmed along the way as he implements these cuts. In August, the U.S. Supreme Court rescinded an order from a Boston judge that blocked $783 million worth of cuts made by the National Institutes of Health on gender identity and diversity, equity and inclusion. The high court's majority said the lower court judge did not follow its spring decision allowing the Trump administration to cancel education grants. "When this court issues a decision, it constitutes a precedent that commands respect in lower courts," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote.

The Center Square) — Since 2020, fraudsters have scammed at least $36 billion and as much as $3 trillion in tax money from federal entitlement programs, dwarfing the amount federal prosecutors claim was stolen in Minnesota's federal food aid scandal known as Feeding Our Future, an investigation by The Center Square found.The Center Square reviewed all the statements about entitlement fraud cases issued by the U.S. Department of Justice from 2020 to last year, which did not include many of the cases prosecuted by U.S. Attorney's offices in the various districts and any state prosecutions.Public safety net programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid lost billions of dollars to scams each year, according to a review of 2,500 DOJ statements, press releases, and fact sheets. The amount ranged from $2.7 billion in 2022 to $14.5 billion in 2025. Fraud experts said, if anything, the $36 billion figure is too low. “The number doesn’t surprise me,” said Linda Miller, president and co-founder of the Program Integrity Alliance, an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that seeks to strengthen government integrity through data, evidence, and public-sector innovation. "That’s fraud that has been identified and investigated, so it represents a fraction of the actual fraud that has occurred or is occurring. Fraud is deceptive, and most agencies lack the tools to proactively prevent it, meaning the actual amount of fraud is much higher." Entitlement fraud has been in the news since November when the Manhattan Institute published an article about mostly Somali residents indicted for defrauding at least $250 million in federal food aid programs with allegations that some of the money went to fund terrorists in al-Shabaab.Matt Weidinger, a senior fellow at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute, said in an interview that “(w)hatever the fraud that has been uncovered (in Minnesota) is doubtless a fraction of the fraud occurring nationwide.”He cited a 2024 U.S. Government Accountability Office report concluding that, based on data from 2018 to 2022, the federal government is defrauded of $233 billion to $521 billion annually. While the report examined federal spending overall, Weidinger noted that “entitlement programs constitute the bulk of federal spending and presumably fraud, too.”The public assistance that suffered the most from the fraud was Medicare and Medicaid, according to a review of Justice Department announcements. In the first half of last year alone, the agency announced that it had identified and investigated approximately $14 billion in fraud in the two federal health care programs, as well as Tricare, the health care program primarily for active-duty military, retirees, and their families.The figure is more than twice the $6 billion in fraud to federal health programs that the Justice Department identified in September 2020.The U.S. Sentencing Commission, an independent federal judicial body, concluded that from 2020 to 2024, health care fraud offenses increased by nearly 20 percent. The figures exclude improper payments, an unintentional form of government losses. Fraud prosecutions around the U.S. While government officials and experts agree that fraud in Minnesota is substantial, the $250 million figure found in the indictments would barely rank among the ten largest alleged scams from 2020 to last year. Since the Feeding Our Future scandal was announced on September 21, 2022, six other alleged frauds have been larger, with some having nearly as many defendants.Last month alone, the Justice Department announced two developments in scams centered in Maricopa County, Arizona.On Dec. 22, Gary Cox, CEO of Power Mobility Doctor Rx, was sentenced to fifteen years in prison and forced to pay $452 million in restitution for defrauding Medicare of $1 billion. According to the Justice Department, Cox and 78 co-conspirators targeted hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries and convinced them to sign up for medically unneeded pain creams and orthotic braces through misleading mailers, television ads and = from offshore call centers.On Dec. 12, Alexandra Gehrke and her husband, Jeffrey King, agreed to pay $309 million in restitution for defrauding Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare of $900 million from 2022 to 2024. Known as the “glam-flam couple,” they administered unnecessary wound grafts that were ordered because of illegal kickbacks and applied to elderly and terminally ill patients. Each has been sentenced to more than a dozen years behind bars.Earlier, two medical professionals were convicted of defrauding federal medical entitlement programs.On March 6, Dehshid Nourian, a Texas pharmacist, forfeited $405 million in assets for defrauding and laundering money from federal workers. According to the Justice Department, Nourian and two other men defrauded the Department of Labor through the submission of fraudulent claims for prescription compound creams to injured federal workers. He was sentenced to 17 years and six months in prison.In September 2021, Dr. Francisco Patino of Wayne County, Michigan, was convicted of submitting more than $250 million of false and fraudulent claims submitted to Medicaid, Medicare, and other health insurance programs.According to the Justice Department, Patino excessively prescribed highly addictive opioids to his patients at his medical clinic in Livonia, prescriptions that forced his patients to receive lucrative spinal injections. If patients refused, Patino would take away their opioid prescriptions, prosecutors alleged. While another 21 defendants were sentenced in the conspiracy, Patino received the stiffest sentence—16.5 years in prison.In December 2022, Minal Patel of Atlanta, owner of LabSolutions LLC, was convicted of defrauding Medicare of $463 million. According to the Justice Department, Patel conspired with patient brokers, telemedicine companies, and call centers to target Medicare beneficiaries with calls falsely stating that Medicare covered expensive cancer genetic tests. In August 2023, Patel was sentenced to 27 years in prison.In September 2022, Biogen Inc., a Cambridge, Mass-based biopharmaceutical firm, reached a $900 million settlement for defrauding Medicare and Medicaid. According to a whistleblower’s complaint, from January 2009 to March 2014 Biogen gave speaker honoraria, training fees, consulting fees and meals to medical professionals who spoke or attended the company’s programs to convince them to prescribe three of its drugs to treat multiple sclerosis. Biogen denied the accusations, but said it settled the case to focus on its business pursuits.As large as those entitlement frauds were, even they scratch the surface of the nearly 300 cases the Justice Department announced from 2020 to last year. Most were announcements of convictions, guilty pleas, and sentencing. They involved not only doctors and medical firms, but also universities, hospitals, corporations, bookkeepers, accountants and state agencies. Fraud experts reject the notion that scams are the natural byproduct of government contracts and oversight.In a 2023 article, Miller wrote that cabinet officials and agency leaders should be held responsible for the fraud under their watch. “Fraud is unfortunately not an issue many agency leaders prioritize,” she said in an interview, “and the number of programs that have scaled up their preventative tools and capabilities is woefully small.”Feds crack down in MNOn Dec. 18, Joe Thompson, then the acting U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, said scam artists have defrauded the state’s fourteen Medicaid programs of more than $9 billion. Governor Tim Walz, a Democrat, disputes the figure, though in October he announced that the state would delay fourteen Medicaid payments run by the state’s Department of Human Services. Since the fall, the Trump administration has seized on entitlement fraud in Minnesota, a state where Democrats occupy all the statewide elected offices and hold a narrow majority in the state senate. On Sept. 21, 2022, the Justice Department announced it indicted 47 defendants for committing $250 million of alleged fraud in a federally funded child nutrition program run by the nonprofit organization Feeding Our Future. Minnesota’s office of the legislative auditor released two detailed reports on fraud, on the federal-state childcare assistance program in 2019, and two federal food aid programs in 2024, both of which found fault with state agencies failing to detect scams earlier. Yet the chicanery did not become national news until this fall. On Nov. 19, an article by the Manhattan Institute alleged that the defendants, nearly all of whom were Somali, were sending some of the stolen entitlement money to Al Shabaab, an Islamic terrorist group fighting the government in a decades-long civil war in one of the poorest countries on earth. Two days later, President Trump announced on TruthSocial that he was terminating temporary protected status for Somalis in Minnesota, a designation given to them because the Horn of Africa nation suffered from not only civil war but also famine. The think tank's accusations of diversions of the money to terrorists have not been proven, but the scandal hit a fever pitch after conservative populist influencer Nick Shirley on Dec. 26 posted a YouTube video of Somali-run daycare centers in Minnesota devoid of children. The video received more than 100 million views. On Jan. 5, the Trump administration froze federal subsidies for childcare, social services, and cash support for poor families in five states, all controlled by Democrats, including Minnesota. On Jan. 8, Vice President J.D. Vance announced the administration would create a new assistant attorney general for fraud detection -- a position that based in the White House.While the job, which will be subject to U.S. Senate confirmation, was national in scope, Vance said the official will “focus primarily” on Minnesota’s fraud scandals.

Many officials celebrated the results of last year’s count, but it’s unclear if homelessness in the region will continue to decline in the face of funding losses.

City Hall is already in dispute over the department's current budget. Now, LAPD wants new vehicles and equipment for 2028.