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The governors of six of the seven of the Colorado River Basin states plan to meet Friday in Washington, D.C., in an attempt to break a stalemate in Colorado River water negotiations.  Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has invited all of the governors and their negotiators to meet in the nation’s capital as states approach a […]

Ellison said his meeting Wednesday with Hogan was “cordial,” that he was glad for the talk, but that no deal had been reached. The post AG Ellison on Homan meeting: ‘I did not negotiate’ or offer any compromise on keeping Minnesotans safe appeared first on MinnPost.

University of New Orleans students and alumni are in favor of the school’s transfer from the University of Louisiana System to the LSU System, but both groups are concerned the 68-year-old institution could lose its identity in the transition.  More than 1000 UNO students and 300 alumni were surveyed on their thoughts about the switch, […]

Reçu à l'Élysée jeudi 29 janvier 2026 à l'occasion d'une visite à Paris, le président tchadien Mahamat Idriss Deby a acté, en compagnie d'Emmanuel Macron, le début d'une nouvelle ère dans les relations entre Paris et Ndjamena, elles qui ont connu un coup de froid en 2025. En cause : la rupture par les autorités tchadiennes de l'accord militaire entre les deux pays. La décision avait conduit au départ des derniers soldats français stationnés au Tchad, il y a un an exactement.

Members of the Trump administration have ordered National Park Service staff change or remove signs and exhibits at two NPS locations in Montana due to their focus on climate change and settlers’ treatment of Native Americans. According to the Washington Post, which first reported on the latest orders on Tuesday, those orders went out to […]

Tiempo de lectura: 3 minutosLos magistrados de la Cámara de Amparo y Antejuicio de la Corte Suprema de Justicia realizarán el 3 de febrero una audiencia pública para evaluar la solicitud de arresto domiciliario del periodista Jose Rubén Zamora, detenido por 1280 días. La diligencia busca definir de manera definitiva el amparo que garantiza su derecho a la presunción ... Read more

(The Center Square) – A former Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting Sonya Massey at her Springfield home in July 2024. After a jury convicted Sean Grayson of second-degree murder Oct. 29, Judge Ryan Cadigan handed down the maximum allowed sentence Thursday. Sonya Massey's cousin, Sontae Massey, said her cousin’s death is a permanent reminder of what happens when power is exercised without humanity. AG APPLAUDS RULING ON EV INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul says he applauds a federal judge’s decision that the U.S. Department of Transportation illegally withheld around $1 billion in National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program funding from Illinois, 19 other states and the District of Columbia. The ruling follows a lawsuit filed in May 2025. Raoul said the decision ensures that Illinois can continue its transition to a clean energy future by investing in electric vehicle infrastructure using funding approved by Congress. MICROMOBILE SAFETY INITIATIVE Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has announced a new campaign to address the rise of electric bikes, scooters, skateboards and unicycles on streets and sidewalks. Giannoulias said the “Ride Safe, Ride Smart, Ride Ready” campaign combines public education, updated driver training and a push for modernized safety laws. The secretary cited a 300% increase in crashes involving micromobility devices from 2019 to 2022.

El 10% de los hogares más ricos de España controla casi la mitad del valor de la vivienda, mientras que la mitad más pobre apenas llega al 12,5%. Esta brecha, en aumento desde 2011, convierte a la vivienda en un reflejo claro de la desigualdad patrimonial.

MISSOULA — NorthWestern Energy earned praise for its blue-collar workers and its reliability — but not much else — at a meeting it hosted about the future of electricity in Montana. At the public meeting in Missoula, Andrew Wilcox, a professor of geosciences at the University of Montana, said the monopoly utility did an “outstanding” […]

Belum usai penanganan bencana di Sumatera yang menewaskan lebih 1.000 orang, longsor menerjang Jawa Barat, 24 Januari lalu. Hingga Kamis (29/1/26) Tim SAR serahkan 56 kantong jenazah untuk selanjutnya proses identifikasi.  Sebagian masih dalam pencarian, sekitar 700 warga tercatat mengungsi.  Organisasi lingkungan desak audit lingkungan. Banyak pejabat berdatangan ke lokasi bencana di Kampung Pasir Kuning […] The post Longsor Cisarua, Organisasi Lingkungan Desak Audit Lingkungan appeared first on Mongabay.co.id.

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After nearly two decades with only Republicans, voters seated 2 Democrats on the Georgia Public Service Commission. Tim Echols, outgoing Republican commissioner, reflected on his 15 years at the PSC and how climate change fits into the commission's work. The Current is an inclusive nonprofit, non-partisan news organization providing in-depth watchdog journalism for Savannah and Coastal Georgia’s communities.

(The Center Square) – The Arizona Senate Thursday passed a resolution calling for state Attorney General Kris Mayes to resign over her comments saying it’s legal to shoot masked federal officers. The vote was 17-13 along party lines. Republicans voted for the resolution. Democrats voted against it. Mayes, a Democrat, made her comments after the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis. The resolution marks the first time the Senate has called on an attorney general to step down, according to the Senate’s Republican majority. "The Attorney General publicly suggested Arizonans could invoke self-defense laws against law enforcement officers," said Senate Majority Leader John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, who sponsored Senate Resolution 1036. The resolution calls on Mayes to retract her comments, issue accurate guidance on Arizona law and resign. "Her statements were wrong, dangerous and fundamentally inconsistent with Arizona law,” Kavanagh said in a statement emailed to The Center Square and other media. “When the state's top law enforcement officer implies that police officers may be lawful targets, the Senate has a duty to act." Things won't go well for any Arizonan who attempts to invoke the "Stand Your Ground" law against an officer, the majority leader said. Kavanagh previously told The Center Square that Mayes’ comments about people being able to legally “shoot law enforcement officers if their faces are covered and they’re wearing non-traditional SWAT-type uniforms is false.” State law doesn’t allow Arizonans to shoot law enforcement officers, Senate President Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, said Thursday. "Insinuating otherwise is unacceptable coming from the state's chief legal officer," Petersen said in a statement. "Our responsibility is to protect public safety and make the law unmistakably clear." Petersen is running for attorney general against Rodney Glassman and Greg Roeberg in the Aug. 4 Republican primary. The winner will run in the Nov. 3 general election against Hobbs, who's running unopposed for the Democratic nomination. State Senate and House Democrats have rallied in support of Mayes. But Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat who is running for reelection this year, called the attorney general’s comments “inappropriate” and said Mayes should retract them, according to media reports. The controversy started when Mayes said during a TV interview that the state’s Stand Your Ground law says “if you reasonably believe that your life is in danger and you’re in your house or your car or on your property, that you can defend yourself with lethal force.” She told 12News that she wasn’t giving people a license to shoot an officer, but asked how anyone would know someone is law enforcement unless they’re clearly identified as such. Mayes said Sunday in a video that the "idea that [she] would want the life of any member of law enforcement put in danger is wrong and offensive, and it is an outright lie." She noted she appreciates the work by Arizona law enforcement who keep the state safe, but would not be deterred from criticizing the Trump administration for "its ongoing abuses of power." Democrats in the Arizona Senate and House defended Mayes at a news conference Thursday morning at the Capitol in Phoenix and in written statements. “I trust my own ears,” said Lela Alston, the Senate’s Democratic Caucus chair. “Attorney General Mayes was issuing a warning that guns and this ICE regime can be a lethal combination, especially when ICE’s conduct violates the rule of law and legitimate law enforcement tactics. "Alex Pretti’s murder has shown that our Attorney General’s concern is valid," Alston said. Senate Minority Whip Rosanna Gabaldon said “masked and often unidentified ICE officers” drag people off the street with no probable cause and seize children and put them in detention centers. She accused ICE officers of entering homes without valid judicial warrants and now murdering U.S. citizens.

(The Center Square) – Seattle has lost some of its economic luster in the form of a slew of recently announced tech layoffs, pushing regional unemployment higher than the national average. Whether this tech sector gloom is a mere course correction or a harbinger of a more serious economic downturn remains to be seen. But there can be no doubt that the Emerald City has taken some economic hits in this new year. On Wednesday, Seattle-based Amazon announced it is laying off approximately 16,000 corporate employees globally as part of its restructuring efforts to streamline operations and reduce bureaucracy. Amazon had also previously announced it is closing all its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores, with operations ceasing by Sunday. The closures affect nearly a dozen Amazon-branded stores in the Seattle region. The company plans to focus on delivery and its subsidiary, Whole Foods. Expedia Group, the Seattle-based travel technology company, will lay off 162 employees from April 1 through April 19, according to a working adjustment and retraining notification, or WARN, filing posted by the state Employment Security Department on Wednesday. According to a WARN filing earlier this month with the state, Meta – the multinational technology conglomerate and parent company of Facebook – will lay off 331 employees across the greater Seattle area, including Bellevue and Redmond, effective March 20. The layoffs primarily affect the company’s Reality Labs division and are part of a broader 10% workforce reduction there. The Center Square reached out to the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce for comment on the layoffs and what it could mean for Seattle, but was told that “Joe and most of the leadership team are on a delegation trip to India through next week…” Joe Nguyen, a former state senator, is the president and CEO of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. “I am very nervous about what’s happening,” Nguyen told KIRO 7 about the job losses. “I think there’s a lot of uncertainty, we’re competing globally, and we don’t have an environment right now where I think the political community and the business community are working very well together.” Patrick Connor, Washington state director for the National Federation of Independent Business, worries that Seattle-centric policies – specifically high taxation, strict regulations and potential statewide expansion – are negatively affecting Washington’s economic climate. He noted that “Seattle’s economic wounds are almost entirely self-inflicted,” and worried that “the spread of these Seattle-centric policies to the rest of Washington state … is already showing similar, dire economic trends throughout our state.” The contrast between the national small-business climate and the Seattle-area economy is stark, according to Connor. “In most of the rest of the nation, small-business owners are largely optimistic,” he said. “Their biggest problem is finding enough qualified applicants to fill job vacancies. Conversely, jobs are fleeing the Seattle area, and state economic forecasters expect a zero-growth rate for job creation over the next year or two.” Data from late 2025 and early 2026 indicate a significant decline in Seattle's job market, with the metro area experiencing the second-worst drop in job postings in the U.S., down 35% since 2020, according to Metaintro. Connor singled out Seattle’s JumpStart tax, enacted in 2020, as a problem. The payroll expense tax rates range from 0.746% to 2.557%, depending on company payroll size and employee compensation levels. The tax applies to businesses with annual payroll expenses of $129,634,413 or more, targeting compensation of $194,452 or more per employee. “Seattle’s JumpStart tax on jobs has employers leaping across Lake Washington to relocate workers to the Eastside,” Connor said. “Bills to impose a similar tax statewide will have a similar effect: forcing employers to move their operations to states with friendlier tax and regulatory climates.” House Bill 2100 in the Washington State Legislature, sponsored by Rep. Shaun Scott, proposes a 5% payroll excise tax on large Washington employers for employee salaries exceeding $125,000 annually. Democrats in the Legislature are also working on a “millionaire’s tax” that would result in a top marginal rate of more than 18% for high-income earners in Seattle, based on the combined effects of several state and local tax layers, making it the highest in the nation. In the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue region, the jobless rate climbed to 5.1% in November, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, topping the national unemployment rate of 4.5%.

President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, cited “sanctuary” policies and the Biden administration’s ineffective border enforcement as the reason for the ongoing massive presence of immigration agents in Minnesota in a press conference Thursday morning.  Homan took over operations in Minnesota Monday from Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino, who was demoted after his agents […]

Apple alcanza ingresos históricos de 143.756 millones de dólares gracias al iPhone 17, con récord de ventas en China y fuerte crecimiento en servicios. Mientras tanto, su estrategia cauta en inteligencia artificial muestra cómo equilibra innovación y rentabilidad global.

The seats for districts 2, 4, 6 and 8 are on the ballot, with winners slated to take office Dec. 10 with the term ending Dec. 10, 2030.

The device consisted of a jug of gasoline and fireworks, according to a statement from Helena Public Schools. The explosive materials were discovered on private property near Dakota and Davis street, according to a police press release. The post Fireworks-and-gasoline ‘device’ causes Helena High School students to cancel anti-ICE protest appeared first on Montana Free Press.