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NEWARK — Gov. Mikie Sherrill took multiple shots at President Donald Trump on Tuesday after she was sworn in as New Jersey’s 57th governor on a stage at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Sherrill, 54, a Democrat who is just the second woman in history to be chief executive of the Garden State, never […]

Days after news leaked of a criminal investigation of Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over their handling of immigration enforcement in Minnesota, the U.S. Department of Justice has delivered subpoenas to the offices of Walz and Frey, as well as St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison and Hennepin […]

In a win for President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, a recent court ruling has cleared the way for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to resume using states’ Medicaid data to find people who are in the country illegally. The case is ongoing. But for now, immigrants — including those who are in the country legally […]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump doubled down over the weekend on threats to acquire Greenland, saying he would place a 10% tariff on eight European countries that object to his plans and posting several times on social media. Trump’s insistence that the United States gain control of the Arctic island from Denmark came just days […]

Game wardens with the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks are seeking information from the public about an illegally killed wolf near Gardiner in December. According to an FWP press release, officials received a mortality signal from a wolf collar in the Jardine area late last month. They found the collar had been cut […]

Late last year, the Oregon Departments of Agriculture and Environmental Quality proposed the long-overdue renewal of a permit that regulates how hundreds of the state’s factory farms manage their mountains of livestock waste. Unfortunately, their draft falls seriously short. Factory farms are well known for dumping massive amounts of pollution into the environment, which can […]

Президент Володимир Зеленський повідомив у вечірньому зверненні, що в Києві на вечір 20 січня без електропостачання залишаються понад мільйон споживачів, світла немає у понад чотирьох тисячах багатоповерхівок

شبكة بيئة ابوبي، تونس 20 كانون الثاني/يناير 2026 وقالت كنزي عزمي، مسؤولة الحملات الإقليمية في غرينبيس الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا: وأكدت عزمي أن “مجتمعاتنا تتحمّل تبعات أزمة لم تُسهم إلا بقدرٍ ضئيل في التسبّب بها. فتونس لا تتجاوز مسؤوليتها عن 0.05 بالمئة من إجمالي الانبعاثات التراكمية العالمية لثاني أكسيد الكربون مقارنة، على سبيل المثال، بالولايات المتحدة والتي وحدها مسئولة عن ما يقارب 20 بالمئة من الإجمالي العالمي عبر التاريخ.” وأضافت: “هذه الكوارث ليست عشوائية أو ظواهر طبيعية، بل هي نتيجة مباشرة لتغيّر المناخ الناجم عن عقود من التوسّع في استخدام الفحم والنفط والغاز. تواجه بلداننا اليوم تحدّيًا ملحًّا في جهود مواجهة تغيّر المناخ من ناحية التمويل لجهود التكيّف والمحاسبة. الذي لا يمكن أن يتم من دون محاسبة المتسببين في الأزمة. فالملوِّثون التاريخيون لديهم مسؤولية رئيسية في أزمة المناخ بسبب انبعاثاتهم الممتدّة واعتمادهم المستمر على الوقود الأحفوري. ” وختمت عزمي بالقول: “نطالب الملوِّثين التاريخيين بتحمّل مسؤولياتهم لخساراتنا المتتالية بعد كل كارثة مناخية عبر الإنهاء السريع للاعتماد على الوقود الأحفوري، وخفض الانبعاثات من المصدر، وتوفير التمويل المناخي للتكيّف والخسائر والأضرار لدولنا . إن منع المآسي المستقبلية ممكن، ولكن يتطلّب تحرّكًا مناخيًا عاجلًا، لا مزيدًا من التأجيل.” ظهرت المقالة العاصفة هاري تضرب تونس وتكشف الكلفة الإنسانية للتقاعس المناخي أولاً على بيئة أبوظبي.

Pilotari izana, politikan egindako ibilbideagatik eta euskal kulturaren aldeko lanagatik nabarmendu zen.

The new rules apply to 60,000 TABC license holders, like convenience stores and restaurants. The Department of State Health Services is also working to finalize its own rules for smoke shops.

وەزارەتی دەرەوەی ئەمەریکا لە پۆستێکدا لە تۆڕی کۆمەڵایەتی ئێکس، ڕۆژی سێشەممە 20ی مانگی یەک، جەختی لە پشتیوانی واشنتن کردەوە بۆ دەستڕاگەیشتنی خەڵکی ئێران بە ئینتەرنێت. ئەو وەزارەتەی حکومەتی ئەمەریکا جەختی لەوە کردەوە کە سزاکانی ئەمەریکا "حکومەتی ئێران دەکەنە ئامانج نەوەک خەڵکەکەی و هەر بۆیەش سزاکانی ئەمەریکا، مۆڵەتی D-2ی ئینتەرنێت و پەیوەندییەکان و تەکنۆلۆژیاکان کە یارمەتی خەڵکی ئێران دەدەن بۆ پەیوەندیکردن لەگەڵ جیهاندا، ناگرێتەوە." لە درێژەی نووسینەکەی وەزارەتی دەرەوەی ئەمەریکا هاتووە...

El planeta ha entrado a una nueva etapa en su relación con el agua: ya no se vive una crisis, sino una bancarrota hídrica mundial, es decir, que la disponibilidad del recurso ya no puede volver a la “normalidad” debido a décadas de sobreexplotación, contaminación y mala gobernanza que han provocado daños irreversibles en ríos, […]

ترامپ و سازمان ملل متحد در سال نخست دور دوم ریاست جمهوری

Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to get the latest news about the city’s public school system delivered to your inbox. Gov. Mikie Sherrill, the first female Democratic governor in New Jersey history, was sworn into office on Tuesday in Newark and pledged to address concerns about safety, education, and economic stability for all the state’s residents. The ceremony took place at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, one of the few times that a governor’s inauguration has not taken place in Trenton, the state’s capital. During her time as a U.S. congresswoman, Sherrill represented the state’s 11th Congressional District, which includes parts of Essex County. The scene outside of NJPAC was lively on Tuesday as dozens of state and city leaders and Sherrill supporters eagerly awaited her first remarks as governor. During her address, Sherrill, the first female veteran to serve as governor and second female governor in state history, spoke about her commitment to New Jersey and its residents, emphasizing the importance of family and personal support in her journey to becoming governor. She made few mentions about education during her remarks. “We’re going to fight for housing families can afford, for good schools, safe streets, and ending skyrocketing utility costs,” Sherrill said Tuesday. In Newark, education advocates hope Sherrill’s administration will deliver on campaign promises such as working toward equity in schools, boosting student performance, and expanding the state’s Intradistrict Public School Choice Program. Those issues are prevalent in Newark Public Schools, the state’s largest public school system, along with concerns over outdated school buildings, rising costs, student attendance, segregation, and support for the city’s most vulnerable students. Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell, the first pastor to hold the office, was also sworn in on Tuesday and brings years of experience in K-12 schools and higher education to the role. “It was justice that led me to serve on a school board and eventually to lead a college because I believe education is the key to opportunity and the foundation of a fair society,” Caldwell said. Sherill’s administration has not yet released details about her education priorities this year. On the campaign trail, she pledged to invest in tutoring, student mental health, and equity in schools, largely echoing policies laid out by former Gov. Phil Murphy. Last Friday, Sherrill announced Lily Laux, a former deputy commissioner for the Texas Education Agency, as her pick for the state’s education commissioner. Laux was also a candidate for commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Laux will focus on improving literacy outcomes, expanding access to pre-K, increasing mental health resources, modernizing and stabilizing the school funding formula, and investing in high-impact tutoring, according to a state press release. Education advocates want Sherrill to focus on Newark’s needs In Newark, city leaders are closely watching to see what Sherrill’s administration will tackle first. Education advocates and nonprofits told Chalkbeat last week they want Sherrill to fund updates to schools, focus on early childhood education, desegregate schools, and provide more resources for families of students with disabilities. Vivian Cox Fraser, president and CEO of the Urban League of Essex County, said she is “eager” to work with Sherill and her administration on school segregation and hopes the new governor will address the state’s long-standing school segregation lawsuit filed in 2018 and is pending in the courts. “Segregation has been an issue in the state for far too long. We hope Sherrill’s administration will make progress in the case,” Fraser said. “I am optimistic, you know, but at the same time, I also feel it’s important to hold everyone accountable, and hold the new administration accountable too.” During her campaign, Sherrill expressed support for tackling segregation in schools, and one approach she has supported is the expansion of the state’s Interdistrict Public School Choice program, which allows students to attend a public school in a different district. A coalition of students in Newark has also said investing in school infrastructure should be a top priority for the incoming administration, as many public school buildings date back to the 1920s. Last year, a group of more than 100 organizations called on the state to fund the state’s school construction program and updates to buildings in Newark and 30 other high poverty districts. The group of organizations also called on the state to provide more funding to the Schools Development Authority, the state agency responsible for funding construction projects in Newark and 30 other high-poverty school districts. Last year, the state promised to replace 13 of the district’s oldest school buildings and build a new University High School in the South Ward, but those projects require funding for the SDA to begin the work. Sherrill has made no mention of financing the SDA yet. Newark has operated under local control since 2020, following 25 years of state oversight. Since then, the district has encountered challenges in alleviating overcrowding in schools, raising state test scores, assessing the effects of anti-Blackness in the school system, and providing support for its students with disabilities and English language learners. Historically, the district has struggled to get students with disabilities the services they are owed. Nadine Wright-Arbubakrr, founder of Nassan’s Place, a nonprofit supporting students with disabilities and their families in Newark, said Sherrill should bring grassroots organizations like hers “to the table” to offer their experiences in supporting the city’s most vulnerable families. Specifically, she wants the state to create a special services unit “dedicated to families with special needs” such as those looking for food pantries, shelter and emotional support. Wright-Arbubakrr also said she hopes Sherrill’s administration will provide more representation for cities with a high number of Black and Latino residents. “Let’s help more families so that we can make sure the quality of life that these children and these parents can be fulfilling, because the reality is right now, all you’re seeing is parents in crisis,” Wright-Arbubakrr said. Tafshier Cosby, chief executive officer for Parent Impact, a nonprofit parent advocacy group, agreed that parents need more support, specifically to help their students navigate post-pandemic academic challenges. Cosby said parents “would really love to see the New Jersey Department of Education put together recommendations for high-quality and culturally relevant curriculum.” She hopes Sherrill’s administration will take steps to boost student performance in literacy and math. “With us looking forward, and as we think about technology, we also have to think about critical skills and kids being able to develop those skills,” Cosby said. “We definitely have to focus on how math is part of that conversation.” During Murphy’s last State of the State address, he recapped his top education initiatives during his eight-year term, such as expanded full-day kindergarten, increased school state aid to districts, including Newark, fully financing the school funding formula, and a new law requiring schools to adopt phone-free policies. Sherrill has also expressed support for modernizing the state’s school funding formula and enforcing Murphy’s phone-free schools law. Jessie Gómez is a reporter for Chalkbeat Newark, covering public education in the city. Contact Jessie at jgomez@chalkbeat.org.

Newly filed campaign finance documents show that all $1.55 million raised by a campaign seeking to eliminate the recreational marijuana industry in Massachusetts came from a national dark-money group that’s also funding a similar campaign in Maine.

(The Center Square) – Ten days before the government funding deadline, congressional appropriators released the last four fiscal year 2026 spending bills for the U.S. House to vote on. The 771-page funding package includes a total of $1.2 trillion for the departments of Defense; Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education; Transportation and Housing and Urban Development; and Homeland Security. “At a time when many believed completing the FY26 process was out of reach, we’ve shown that challenges are opportunities,” House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., said in a Tuesday statement. “It’s time to get it across the finish line.” The bulk of the cost lies in the Defense appropriations bill, which allocates $839 billion for military personnel, research, equipment, and other activities. It also directs $13 billion toward President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” project, establishes a network of commercial factories able to rapidly transition to military equipment production, and gives military servicemembers a 3.8% pay raise. The Transportation-HUD bill includes $102 billion, with $25 billion of that going to transportation and border security. When combined with money from separate highway and airport trust funds, the Federal Aviation Administration will receive $22 billion this fiscal year, while the Federal Highway Administration will get $64 billion. The remaining $77 billion is authorized for HUD, supporting rental assistance programs, public housing funds, homelessness assistance, and mortgage insurance, among other things. One of the thornier appropriations bills, the $221 billion Labor-HHS-Education bill, includes funding for bipartisan funding priorities like early childhood education assistance, Pell Grants, rural health and job training programs, and biomedical research. And while Republicans score some wins, like $500 million for charter schools, fiscal hawks are sure to oppose the more than $5 billion meant for migrant and refugee assistance programs. While the amount is lower than was appropriated for the previous two years, it is still three times higher than funding levels during Trump’s first term. Democrats, on the other hand, have issues with the $64 billion Homeland Security bill, which many believe does not do enough to restrict the authority of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers. The most recent debates over whether ICE has overstepped its authority ignited after an ICE agent fatally shot a Minnesota woman who was allegedly trying to run over law enforcement officers with her vehicle. “I will not vote to fund DHS & ICE while they are putting Americans in danger, recklessly violating laws and decency, and refusing to be held accountable for or allow any oversight of their actions,” Sen. Cory Book, D-N.J., said. “Congress must provide checks and balances to an Administration out of control.” But with a partial government looming if the bills aren’t passed, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., encouraged Democrats to “review the bill and determine what is best for their constituents and communities.” “I understand that many of my Democratic colleagues may be dissatisfied with any bill that funds ICE. I share their frustration with the out-of-control agency,” DeLauro added. Only three of the twelve appropriations bills are currently law, but three more await Trump’s signature and the Senate will send two others to his desk next week. House leadership are hoping to advance the remaining four out of the chamber by Friday so that the Senate can pass all six once it returns next week.

As the largest nurses strike in the history of New York City marched into its second week with no resolution in sight, US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined hundreds of picketers in the bitter cold on Tuesday to support their fight for better pay and workplace protections. Last week, the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) announced that nearly 15,000 NewYork-Presbyterian, Mount Sinai, and Montefiore hospital employees had "no choice" but to go on strike after the hospitals failed to meet their demands for safe staffing, workplace violence protections, safeguards against the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare, and to maintain 100% of their healthcare benefits. Outside Mount Sinai West on 10th Avenue, Mamdani, attending his second picket, called for a "swift and urgent resolution" to the workers' demands after negotiations with the hospitals stalled last week and the chains began hiring replacement workers. — (@) "This is about safe working conditions. This is about a fair contract. This is about dignity. And today is day nine—day nine—of those demands, and I want you to know that wherever I go in New York City, I hear about the plight of our nurses," the democratic socialist mayor said. "Now is your time of need, where we can ensure that this is a city that you don't just work in but a city that you can also live in." In comments to CBS News New York, the hospital chains have scoffed at the NYSNA's demands for a 25% pay increase, especially in the wake of massive healthcare funding cuts from President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act last year. A spokesperson for NewYork-Presbyterian said its nurses—who it said earn $163,000 on average—are among the highest-paid in the city, calling demands for a pay increase "unrealistic." A Montefiore spokesperson told the network that progress on negotiations will be impossible until the nurses "back away from their reckless and dangerous $3.6 billion demands." But New York is also one of the most expensive cities in the world to live in. According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Living Wage calculator, the nurses' wages are often barely enough to meet a family's basic needs, especially for single parents with children. NYSNA, meanwhile, has said management "is threatening to discontinue or radically cut nurses’ health benefits" and has done nothing to combat severe understaffing. "We’re talking an emergency room filled to the brink,” said one of the strikers, staff nurse Morgan Betancourt. “Ninety patients, and we have maybe nine nurses.” On Tuesday, Sanders (I-Vt.) emphasized that the hospitals' sudden frugality has been of little concern when it comes to compensating hospital executives. "Don't tell me you can't provide a good nurse-staff ratio when you're paying your CEO at NewYork Presbyterian $26 million a year, the CEO at Montefiore $16 million a year, Mount Sinai $5 million a year," Sanders shouted to applause from the strikers. "Don't tell me you can't treat nurses with dignity when you're spending hundreds of millions of dollars on traveling nurses." According to the Greater New York Hospital Association, the three hospitals combined had spent approximately $100 million to pay temporary nurses as of the fourth day of the strike. Temporary staffing agencies have required hospitals to pay scabs two to three times as much as they'd pay their regular nurses, Bloomberg reported. Negotiations remain at a total standstill after breaking down last week. While the hospitals claim the union refused to budge on unreasonable demands, Jonathan Hunter, a negotiator for Mount Sinai nurses, told Spectrum News NY1, "They basically stonewalled us, presented us with nothing, and we left with nothing." The strike has left the hospital system in a state of upheaval, forcing some patients to be moved and nonemergency surgeries to be canceled. Mamdani said it's all the more reason for the hospitals to reach an agreement with their workers. "Too often when we see a strike, people forget that that is not where workers want to be," Mamdani said. "A strike is an act of last resort. What workers want is to be back at work. So what this will mean is making that possible. And so we call on every side to come back to that negotiating table. Have a swift and urgent resolution."

(The Center Square) – Michael Whatley is 30 points clear of his nearest Republican rival and has pulled within 5% of Democratic front-runner Roy Cooper in the race to win a seat from North Carolina in the U.S. Senate. Carolina Forward’s sampling from Jan. 5-7 released on Monday is closer between Cooper and Whatley than the last poll in September (Cooper by 7%), and the last poll by Carolina Journal in November (Cooper by 8.7%). Cooper leads the latest poll 47%-42% with 9% not sure. Another key race surveyed was the one seat in the North Carolina Supreme Court on the ballot. Republican Sarah Stevens led incumbent Democrat Anita Earls 42%-41% with 16% unsure. "Roy Cooper remains the frontrunner in the U.S. Senate race," said Blair Reeves, chairman of Carolina Forward. "Trump's popularity continues to sink, and combined with Cooper's enduring popularity in North Carolina, that's a tough combination for anyone to overcome." The election could set a U.S. Senate campaign spending record near or exceeding $1 billion. A campaign filing period is upcoming Jan. 31 for the 2025 year-end report. For the fourth quarter of 2025, Cooper’s campaign said it raised $9.5 million and Whatley’s team said it raised $5.1 million. The poll of 1,105 likely general voters, with 3.5% margin of error, placed Whatley (36%) well ahead of Don Brown (6%) and Michele Morrow (4%) in the Republican primary. The sampled group was split 37% unaffiliated voter registration, 32% Republican and 28% Democrats – a close representation to the state’s voting bloc. No federal or statewide office drew more than the 14 candidates seeking the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Thom Tillis. He said last year he would not seek a third term. Cooper, former two term governor from Raleigh, leads the Democrats’ primary that includes Jacksonville’s Daryl Farrow, Concord’s Justin Dues, Rocky Point’s Robert Colon, Wilmington’s Marcus Williams and High Point’s Orrick Quick. Former Republican National Committee Chairman Whatley, of Gastonia, leads the Republicans’ primary that includes Charlotte’s Margot Dupre, Durham’s Richard Dansie, Waxhaw’s Brown, Smithfield’s Elizabeth Temple, Cary’s Morrow and Garner’s Thomas Johnson. Libertarian Shannon Bray of Angier awaits in the general election. Republicans in statewide races for this decade – 2020, 2022 and 2024 – are 32-10 against Democrats, a party with significantly declining voter registrations for more than 20 consecutive years. Republicans are 5-for-5 in U.S. Senate races since losing to the late Kay Hagan in 2008. Democrats chase back to 1998 for the last time winning a Senate seat at the midterms. Carolina Forward bills itself as an “independent, statewide public policy think tank dedicated to advancing evidence-based solutions for North Carolina's most pressing challenges. The organization conducts research, analysis, and polling to inform public discourse and policy development across the state.”

La colisión de dos trenes cerca de Córdoba reabre viejas preguntas sobre la seguridad ferroviaria en España y exige una respuesta pública clara, más allá del dolor inmediato.

پیگیری اخراج دختر علی لاریجانی از آمریکا در گفت‌وگو با لادن بازرگان