WASHINGTON — Two leading Democrats on a U.S. House panel called on the head of an agency within the U.S. Department of Labor responsible for protecting workers’ benefits to take action to address improper health insurance claim denials, in a Tuesday letter provided exclusively to States Newsroom.   Reps. Bobby Scott of Virginia and Mark DeSaulnier of […]

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WASHINGTON — Two leading Democrats on a U.S. House panel called on the head of an agency within the U.S. Department of Labor responsible for protecting workers’ benefits to take action to address improper health insurance claim denials, in a Tuesday letter provided exclusively to States Newsroom.   Reps. Bobby Scott of Virginia and Mark DeSaulnier of […]

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WASHINGTON — Two leading Democrats on a U.S. House panel called on the head of an agency within the U.S. Department of Labor responsible for protecting workers’ benefits to take action to address improper health insurance claim denials, in a Tuesday letter provided exclusively to States Newsroom.   Reps. Bobby Scott of Virginia and Mark DeSaulnier of […]

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WASHINGTON — Two leading Democrats on a U.S. House panel called on the head of an agency within the U.S. Department of Labor responsible for protecting workers’ benefits to take action to address improper health insurance claim denials, in a Tuesday letter provided exclusively to States Newsroom.   Reps. Bobby Scott of Virginia and Mark DeSaulnier of […]

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Rhode Island’s congressional delegation announced Tuesday that the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) will receive $25 million in federal funding to grow its hybrid electric bus fleet. Funding comes from the Federal Highway Administration’s Low or No Emission Grant Program, created under the 2022 bipartisan infrastructure law. The program is meant to help transit […]

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Rhode Island’s congressional delegation announced Tuesday that the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) will receive $25 million in federal funding to grow its hybrid electric bus fleet. Funding comes from the Federal Highway Administration’s Low or No Emission Grant Program, created under the 2022 bipartisan infrastructure law. The program is meant to help transit […]

State officials are touting the free pre-K program for 4-year-olds. Across the state, about 51,000 students are enrolled

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State officials are touting the free pre-K program for 4-year-olds. Across the state, about 51,000 students are enrolled

Two Ukrainian citizens working for Russia’s FSB intelligence service are suspected of sabotaging a railway line in Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on November 18. Speaking to the lower house of parliament, Tusk confirmed two acts of sabotage against the Warsaw–Lublin railway line, which links the Polish capital to the border with Ukraine.

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Two Ukrainian citizens working for Russia’s FSB intelligence service are suspected of sabotaging a railway line in Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on November 18. Speaking to the lower house of parliament, Tusk confirmed two acts of sabotage against the Warsaw–Lublin railway line, which links the Polish capital to the border with Ukraine.

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Indiana Gov. Mike Braun on Tuesday made his most overt political threat to recalcitrant Republican state senators over congressional redistricting by saying he could look for ways to “compel” them to act and support election challengers to redistricting opponents.

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Indiana Gov. Mike Braun on Tuesday made his most overt political threat to recalcitrant Republican state senators over congressional redistricting by saying he could look for ways to “compel” them to act and support election challengers to redistricting opponents.

Fiocruz-MG aponta risco de tarifas maiores, piora na qualidade da água e do saneamento com venda da estatal ‘Processo vai na contramão da COP30’, diz pesquisador sobre privatização da Copasa em Minas Gerais apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.

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Fiocruz-MG aponta risco de tarifas maiores, piora na qualidade da água e do saneamento com venda da estatal ‘Processo vai na contramão da COP30’, diz pesquisador sobre privatização da Copasa em Minas Gerais apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.

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This story was originally posted on IdahoEdNews.org on Nov. 18, 2025. The U.S. Supreme Court has set a date for a hearing on Idaho’s transgender athletics ban. The court will hear arguments on Jan. 13. The hearing — and the court’s ruling, likely to come later in 2026 — will resonate well beyond Idaho, and […]

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This story was originally posted on IdahoEdNews.org on Nov. 18, 2025. The U.S. Supreme Court has set a date for a hearing on Idaho’s transgender athletics ban. The court will hear arguments on Jan. 13. The hearing — and the court’s ruling, likely to come later in 2026 — will resonate well beyond Idaho, and […]

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This story was originally published by Capital & Main. A raccoon’s long-toed footprint adorned the muddy lakeshore. A killdeer screeched overhead and a fluffy-tailed coyote loped through nearby grasslands. Yet the animal that wildlife biologist Wendy Hanophy sought on a hot October day remained elusive. The northern leopard frogs she was searching for were likely bedded […]

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This story was originally published by Capital & Main. A raccoon’s long-toed footprint adorned the muddy lakeshore. A killdeer screeched overhead and a fluffy-tailed coyote loped through nearby grasslands. Yet the animal that wildlife biologist Wendy Hanophy sought on a hot October day remained elusive. The northern leopard frogs she was searching for were likely bedded […]

In the fall of 2024, a North Carolina educator’s public school hosted its 3rd annual Hispanic Heritage Celebration. Hundreds of students and their families joined together to celebrate culture and identity. Excited students practiced performances for months in advance. Families sent pictures of their loved ones long passed to add to the school’s altar that was set to be on display.… The post Perspective | From celebration to crisis, the impacts of aggressive immigration enforcement for our children appeared first on EdNC.

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In the fall of 2024, a North Carolina educator’s public school hosted its 3rd annual Hispanic Heritage Celebration. Hundreds of students and their families joined together to celebrate culture and identity. Excited students practiced performances for months in advance. Families sent pictures of their loved ones long passed to add to the school’s altar that was set to be on display.… The post Perspective | From celebration to crisis, the impacts of aggressive immigration enforcement for our children appeared first on EdNC.

The current base pay for Cal State campus presidents ranges from $370,000 to more than $500,000.

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Editor’s Note: The following is a response to the 2025 Dallas Herring Lecture by Dr. Jason Wood, delivered on Nov. 18, from Sharon Decker, former N.C. Secretary of Commerce and current senior advisor for long-term recovery for the Governor’s Recovery Office for Western North Carolina (GROW). Read It’s so nice to be with you today.… The post Perspective | Sharon Decker on leading workforce development efforts in challenging times appeared first on EdNC.

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Editor’s Note: The following is a response to the 2025 Dallas Herring Lecture by Dr. Jason Wood, delivered on Nov. 18, from Sharon Decker, former N.C. Secretary of Commerce and current senior advisor for long-term recovery for the Governor’s Recovery Office for Western North Carolina (GROW). Read It’s so nice to be with you today.… The post Perspective | Sharon Decker on leading workforce development efforts in challenging times appeared first on EdNC.

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MOUNT PLEASANT — Micah Mallace is making good on his promise to quickly focus on projects that will boost cargo at the Port of Charleston. The S.C. State Ports Authority’s board of directors on Tuesday approved a pair of grants totaling $1.5 million to help two businesses that will rely on Inland Port Greer for […]

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MOUNT PLEASANT — Micah Mallace is making good on his promise to quickly focus on projects that will boost cargo at the Port of Charleston. The S.C. State Ports Authority’s board of directors on Tuesday approved a pair of grants totaling $1.5 million to help two businesses that will rely on Inland Port Greer for […]

(The Center Square) – Gov. Greg Abbott is the first governor in the United States to designate two Muslim groups as Foreign Terrorist and Transnational Criminal Organizations. On Tuesday, he made the designations by proclamation citing multiple Texas laws. He designated the Muslim Brotherhood and Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as FTOs, authorizing heightened enforcement against both organizations and their affiliates. The designation also prohibits them from purchasing or acquiring land in Texas. “The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have long made their goals clear: to forcibly impose Sharia law and establish Islam’s ‘mastership of the world,’" Abbott said. "The actions taken by the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR to support terrorism across the globe and subvert our laws through violence, intimidation, and harassment are unacceptable. Today, I designated the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations. These radical extremists are not welcome in our state and are now prohibited from acquiring any real property interest in Texas.” The Society of Muslim Brothers, known as Jama’ at al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin (Muslim Brotherhood) was founded in Egypt more than 100 years ago with a stated committment to Islamic jihad (fighting unbelievers) and imposing Sharia (Islamic) law worldwide, the proclamation states. The group is connected to multiple terrorist organizations, including Hamas, and has been banned in multiple Middle Eastern countries like Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The proclamation also cites a 2009 federal case, U.S. v Holy Land Foundation, in which CAIR was named as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in a federal terrorism financing case linking CAIR to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. It also cites former CAIR board members, speakers and staff who were sentenced to prison for financing terrorism, conspiring to aid Al Qaeda and the Taliban, bank and visa fraud, financing terrorist causes overseas, violating U.S. sanctions against Iraq, and who were deported for violating federal laws. The proclamation cites multiple bills passed by the state legislature to strengthen state efforts to combat terrorism and prevent terrorist-affiliated groups from purchasing land in Texas as justification to ban Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR and affiliated groups from purchasing or acquiring land in Texas. Abbott made the designation after U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, filed a bill multiple times over the past 10 years to amend the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987 to ban all Muslim Brotherhood members from the U.S., The Center Square reported. “The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization,” Cruz has argued. Its members are “committed to the overthrow and destruction of America and other non-Islamist governments across the world, and pose an acute threat to American national security interests,” he said when introducing the bill again in July. “American allies in the Middle East and Europe have already labeled the Brotherhood a terrorist organization, and the United States should do the same, and do so expeditiously.” The bill would make Muslim Brotherhood members ineligible for visas or admittance to the U.S., revoke visas of all non-U.S. citizens who are confirmed Muslim Brotherhood members and deport them. It also requires the secretary of State to impose sanctions on all groups directly or indirectly controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood, including Hamas. CAIR, which has sued Abbott arguing his antisemitism crackdown on college campuses was unconstitutional, mocked the designation. “Greg Abbott is an Israel First politician who has spent months stoking anti-Muslim hysteria to smear American Muslims critical of the Israeli government,” CAIR said in a statement. “Although we are flattered by his obsession with our civil rights group, his defamatory proclamation has no basis in fact or law. “Unlike Mr. Abbott – who unleashed violence against Texas students protesting the Gaza genocide to satisfy his AIPAC donors – our civil rights organization is an independent voice that answers to the American people, relies on support from the American people, and opposes all forms of unjust violence, including hate crimes, ethnic cleansing, genocide and terrorism.” The Islamic group also said it is “ready to sue [Gov. Abbott] again if he attempts to turn this publicity stunt into real policy.”

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(The Center Square) – Gov. Greg Abbott is the first governor in the United States to designate two Muslim groups as Foreign Terrorist and Transnational Criminal Organizations. On Tuesday, he made the designations by proclamation citing multiple Texas laws. He designated the Muslim Brotherhood and Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as FTOs, authorizing heightened enforcement against both organizations and their affiliates. The designation also prohibits them from purchasing or acquiring land in Texas. “The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR have long made their goals clear: to forcibly impose Sharia law and establish Islam’s ‘mastership of the world,’" Abbott said. "The actions taken by the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR to support terrorism across the globe and subvert our laws through violence, intimidation, and harassment are unacceptable. Today, I designated the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations. These radical extremists are not welcome in our state and are now prohibited from acquiring any real property interest in Texas.” The Society of Muslim Brothers, known as Jama’ at al-Ikhwan al-Muslimin (Muslim Brotherhood) was founded in Egypt more than 100 years ago with a stated committment to Islamic jihad (fighting unbelievers) and imposing Sharia (Islamic) law worldwide, the proclamation states. The group is connected to multiple terrorist organizations, including Hamas, and has been banned in multiple Middle Eastern countries like Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The proclamation also cites a 2009 federal case, U.S. v Holy Land Foundation, in which CAIR was named as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in a federal terrorism financing case linking CAIR to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. It also cites former CAIR board members, speakers and staff who were sentenced to prison for financing terrorism, conspiring to aid Al Qaeda and the Taliban, bank and visa fraud, financing terrorist causes overseas, violating U.S. sanctions against Iraq, and who were deported for violating federal laws. The proclamation cites multiple bills passed by the state legislature to strengthen state efforts to combat terrorism and prevent terrorist-affiliated groups from purchasing land in Texas as justification to ban Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR and affiliated groups from purchasing or acquiring land in Texas. Abbott made the designation after U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, filed a bill multiple times over the past 10 years to amend the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987 to ban all Muslim Brotherhood members from the U.S., The Center Square reported. “The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization,” Cruz has argued. Its members are “committed to the overthrow and destruction of America and other non-Islamist governments across the world, and pose an acute threat to American national security interests,” he said when introducing the bill again in July. “American allies in the Middle East and Europe have already labeled the Brotherhood a terrorist organization, and the United States should do the same, and do so expeditiously.” The bill would make Muslim Brotherhood members ineligible for visas or admittance to the U.S., revoke visas of all non-U.S. citizens who are confirmed Muslim Brotherhood members and deport them. It also requires the secretary of State to impose sanctions on all groups directly or indirectly controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood, including Hamas. CAIR, which has sued Abbott arguing his antisemitism crackdown on college campuses was unconstitutional, mocked the designation. “Greg Abbott is an Israel First politician who has spent months stoking anti-Muslim hysteria to smear American Muslims critical of the Israeli government,” CAIR said in a statement. “Although we are flattered by his obsession with our civil rights group, his defamatory proclamation has no basis in fact or law. “Unlike Mr. Abbott – who unleashed violence against Texas students protesting the Gaza genocide to satisfy his AIPAC donors – our civil rights organization is an independent voice that answers to the American people, relies on support from the American people, and opposes all forms of unjust violence, including hate crimes, ethnic cleansing, genocide and terrorism.” The Islamic group also said it is “ready to sue [Gov. Abbott] again if he attempts to turn this publicity stunt into real policy.”

A Florida bill replacing all allusions to “child pornography” in state statute with “child sexual abuse material” unanimously passed its first committee test on Tuesday. Filed by Rep. Jessica Baker, HB 245 argues that applying the legal term “pornography” to images of sexually battered children is inappropriate, because children cannot consent to sexual activity. “The […]

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A Florida bill replacing all allusions to “child pornography” in state statute with “child sexual abuse material” unanimously passed its first committee test on Tuesday. Filed by Rep. Jessica Baker, HB 245 argues that applying the legal term “pornography” to images of sexually battered children is inappropriate, because children cannot consent to sexual activity. “The […]

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Just 3% of corn acres and 1% of soybean acres across the state of Iowa remain unharvested, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s crop progress and condition report. Corn harvest is just slightly ahead of the five-year average and on target with 2024 harvest figures. Soybean harvest was 100% completed […]

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Just 3% of corn acres and 1% of soybean acres across the state of Iowa remain unharvested, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s crop progress and condition report. Corn harvest is just slightly ahead of the five-year average and on target with 2024 harvest figures. Soybean harvest was 100% completed […]

Most of the seats in the ornate wood-paneled courtroom of Manhattan Federal Judge Dale Ho Tuesday were filled with supporters of Mohamed Bahi, the former aide to Mayor Eric Adams who was about to be sentenced for arranging illegal straw donations for the mayor’s election campaigns. Missing from the scene was Eric Adams, the man […] The post Eric Adams Aide Sentenced in Campaign Fundraising Scheme — With the Mayor’s Absence Noted appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News.

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Most of the seats in the ornate wood-paneled courtroom of Manhattan Federal Judge Dale Ho Tuesday were filled with supporters of Mohamed Bahi, the former aide to Mayor Eric Adams who was about to be sentenced for arranging illegal straw donations for the mayor’s election campaigns. Missing from the scene was Eric Adams, the man […] The post Eric Adams Aide Sentenced in Campaign Fundraising Scheme — With the Mayor’s Absence Noted appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News.

Kremlin vem condenando as ameaças dos EUA ao governo de Maduro, mas mantém cautela e evita maior envolvimento na crise Ameaça dos EUA à Venezuela e o ‘recado’ da Rússia para Trump: qual é a posição de Moscou? apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.

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Kremlin vem condenando as ameaças dos EUA ao governo de Maduro, mas mantém cautela e evita maior envolvimento na crise Ameaça dos EUA à Venezuela e o ‘recado’ da Rússia para Trump: qual é a posição de Moscou? apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.

Evento reúne sambistas do Brasil e do exterior em celebração à força feminina no samba, com homenagens e roda aberta ao público João Pessoa recebe o 8º Encontro Nacional e Internacional de Mulheres na Roda de Samba com roda aberta no Parque Parahyba apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.

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Evento reúne sambistas do Brasil e do exterior em celebração à força feminina no samba, com homenagens e roda aberta ao público João Pessoa recebe o 8º Encontro Nacional e Internacional de Mulheres na Roda de Samba com roda aberta no Parque Parahyba apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.

(The Center Square) - A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from freezing University of California's federal funding over alleged violation of anti-discrimination laws. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco issued a preliminary injunction last week. Nominated to the bench by former President Joe Biden, Lin ruled that the federal government is barred from restricting funds to UC because the university system does not "endorse the administration," the ruling stated. In her decision, Lin wrote that a UC plaintiff had provided "overwhelming evidence" that the Trump administration was "engaged in a concerted campaign to purge 'woke,' 'left' and 'socialist' viewpoints from our country's leading universities." “The undisputed record demonstrates that Defendants have engaged in coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First Amendment and Tenth Amendment,” Lin added. In August, the Trump administration froze over $500 million in federal research funding over claims of antisemitism on the college's campus. Faculty, students, and unions within the University of California system sued the Trump administration, arguing that the funding freeze at UCLA violated the First Amendment. The lawsuit was filed by the American Association of University Professors, representing those groups. "Agency officials, as well as the President and Vice President, have repeatedly and publicly announced a playbook of initiating civil rights investigations of preeminent universities to justify cutting off federal funding, with the goal of bringing universities to their knees and forcing them to change their ideological tune," Lin wrote. Her injunction also prohibits the administration from "conditioning the grant or continuance of federal funding on the UC's agreement to any measures that would violate the rights of Plaintiffs' members under the First Amendment." Over the summer, the administration demanded that the University of California, Los Angeles pay $1.2 billion to restore the frozen research funding and ensure eligibility for future grants, after accusing the school of allowing antisemitism on campus. “This represents one of the gravest threats to the University of California in our 157-year history,” UC President James Milliken said. The Trump administration has previously settled with universities after funding freezes, such as Brown University for $50 million and Columbia University for $221 million.

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(The Center Square) - A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from freezing University of California's federal funding over alleged violation of anti-discrimination laws. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco issued a preliminary injunction last week. Nominated to the bench by former President Joe Biden, Lin ruled that the federal government is barred from restricting funds to UC because the university system does not "endorse the administration," the ruling stated. In her decision, Lin wrote that a UC plaintiff had provided "overwhelming evidence" that the Trump administration was "engaged in a concerted campaign to purge 'woke,' 'left' and 'socialist' viewpoints from our country's leading universities." “The undisputed record demonstrates that Defendants have engaged in coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First Amendment and Tenth Amendment,” Lin added. In August, the Trump administration froze over $500 million in federal research funding over claims of antisemitism on the college's campus. Faculty, students, and unions within the University of California system sued the Trump administration, arguing that the funding freeze at UCLA violated the First Amendment. The lawsuit was filed by the American Association of University Professors, representing those groups. "Agency officials, as well as the President and Vice President, have repeatedly and publicly announced a playbook of initiating civil rights investigations of preeminent universities to justify cutting off federal funding, with the goal of bringing universities to their knees and forcing them to change their ideological tune," Lin wrote. Her injunction also prohibits the administration from "conditioning the grant or continuance of federal funding on the UC's agreement to any measures that would violate the rights of Plaintiffs' members under the First Amendment." Over the summer, the administration demanded that the University of California, Los Angeles pay $1.2 billion to restore the frozen research funding and ensure eligibility for future grants, after accusing the school of allowing antisemitism on campus. “This represents one of the gravest threats to the University of California in our 157-year history,” UC President James Milliken said. The Trump administration has previously settled with universities after funding freezes, such as Brown University for $50 million and Columbia University for $221 million.