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A federal judge blocked the law known as the Texas Dream Act in June after it was challenged by the Trump administration and state officials declined to defend it. The post Appeals court rejects effort to defend Texas law offering in-state tuition for undocumented students appeared first on El Paso Matters.

The fund is in its second year of focusing on investing in community organizations and building leadership.

PLUS: Dems ask to thin the Senate herd. The post Can Republicans undistrict Montana’s Native vote? appeared first on Montana Free Press.

Seventeen of Montana’s Democratic legislators signed onto a letter Wednesday asking for one of two U.S. Senate candidates to drop out of the race to unify support against the Republican candidate.  A three-way race featuring Democrat Alani Bankhead and independent candidate Seth Bodnar against Republican Kurt Alme “substantially increases the likelihood of a Republican victory […]

Colorado’s secretary of state and voter advocates say they stand by Colorado’s election system and workers following the Trump administration’s latest attempt to target election officials. The U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter earlier this week that threatens criminal prosecution of election officials who allow noncitizen voting. The department confirmed to Democracy Docket that […]

House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch said it would be “premature” to call for indicted Rep. Carol Ammons, D-Urbana, to resign, arguing that “she's entitled to due process" and, repeating a common refrain among Democratic legislative leaders, that “the court system is the proper place for that to happen.”

Board chair Cheryl Bean said AI image of Black WNBA players in floaties, which petitioners view as offensive, was meant to be humorous.

اندی برنام، که به احتمال زیاد به زودی به جای کی‌یر استارمر مستعفی بر کرسی نخست‌وزیری بریتانیا تکیه خواهد زد، متعهد شد نیروهای مسلح و صنایع دفاعی این کشور را تقویت کند.

Officials at the U.S. Forest Service are proposing new management plans for eastern Oregon’s Blue Mountains that include potentially tripling the amount of logging across 5.5 million acres in the next decade. The Forest Service published a draft of proposed changes to the 35-year-old Blue Mountain Forest Plan last week. It would allow more logging, […]

The Trump administration’s take on monopolies, mega-mergers and related activity, among the most important economic actions available to a government, often has been buried under many of the other national headlines in the last year and a half.  But the Oregon attorney general’s office — with counterparts in other states — may be about to […]

Why I fight to share our stories and uplift Indigenous voices The post REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: ‘Safe enough to sing’ appeared first on ICT.

(The Center Square) - Nearly three weeks after the Washington State Democratic Party adopted a controversial party platform that supports reparations and made anti-Israel statements, Democratic Party Chair Shasti Conrad told The Center Square they are excited to be leading the nation with their platform. “Proud that it appears to be that we're the first state in the country to take up making sure reparations were a part of our platform," Conrad said. "It was very much driven by our black caucus and members of the Democrats for diversity and inclusion group. I feel like all credit goes to them." More than 1,000 participating delegates at the Spokane conference voted unanimously to approve the party platform, which includes the study and implementation of reparations. “I think that folks recognize that, you know, justice needs to be served and we need to address the long term effects of slavery in this country and we need to make sure that we're doing everything we can to uplift the descendants of the African American community, not just in Washington State, but in the entire country,” she said. In recent years, Washington lawmakers have provided funding to study and implement reparations programs. In 2025, lawmakers earmarked $300,000 in the state budget for a study to explore the “history and impact of slavery” in the U.S. and focus on the geography of the Washington and Oregon territories. The study is considering possible cash payments, policy reforms, state-level investments and recommendations to reform state law. Truclusion of DuPont was selected as the contractor for the study. They began work in January of this year and as of the end of June, they provided a progress report to the Washington Department of Commerce, stating they had completed four monthly informational sessions, launched two community surveys, began collecting research data and developed a community engagement work plan. The next community informational meeting is July 10 at noon. The Reparations Study is expected to be completed on June 30, 2027. Washington Democrats also adopted an anti-Israel position in their new party platform, including language blaming the Jewish state for rising antisemitism, which has not gone over well with Jewish members of their own party. Those platform additions were reportedly made without consulting members of the Democratic Jewish Caucus. Senator Jesse Salomon, co-chair of the caucus, told Jerusalem News Syndicate “As co-chair of the Jewish legislative caucus, I heard nothing about this from the state party. It is very disappointing that they would speak for us without including us.” Conrad told The Center Square they have heard those concerns. “We never want any members of our community to feel that anything that's in our platform is something that causes them harm or pain or anything like that. So certainly, we take the concern seriously.” She said there were opportunities and deadlines for members to provide feedback going into the convention. “We did on our side everything that we could to try to include our Jewish caucus members to include the perspectives of Jewish community members and making sure that we had a platform that didn't harm them,” said Conrad. “But truly it was driven by our delegates….and it passed basically unanimously.” Washington Republican Party Chair Jim Walsh of Aberdeen told The Center Square, Washington Democrats are in desperate trouble with this platform. “They’ve been hijacked by radical, irrational leftists. There’s no other way to say it. They are communists and they’re pushing a Vladimir, Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Saul Alinski agenda,” said Walsh. “It’s one of the ironies that they demand reparations to people but at the same time they want to open the borders to open immigration. It is inherently and internally inconsistent,” he added. As to the anti-Semitic platform policies, Walsh says it’s more evidence the Democratic party has been hijacked by radicals. “Blaming Israel for the violence in the Middle East. Saying they brought it on themselves when they were attacked by terrorists. It’s crazy stuff and a testament to how the party has been commandeered by communists.”

Mientras la Comisión Europea presenta distintas opciones para endurecer las medidas contra las políticas de Israel, Irlanda se sitúa a la vanguardia al impulsar su propio veto nacional y reclama a Bruselas que vaya “más allá”.

سالگرد واقعه کوی دانشگاه تهران؛ ۱۸ تیر سال ۷۸ چه‌ تاثیری بر مسیر جنبش دانشجویی ایران داشت؟ گفت‌وگو با منوچهر محمدی

Democrats in a south Fargo legislative district have endorsed a candidate for a North Dakota House seat that had been held by Liz Conmy, who died in a plane crash in April.  However, the candidate, Cara Cody-Braun, will not appear as a Democrat on the November general election ballot.  Cody-Braun intends to collect signatures to […]

Este beneficio busca apoyar el proceso de práctica de cientos de estudiantes en la región. Revisa si cumples con el perfil y asegura tu postulación antes de que termine el plazo. Este artículo ¡Atención estudiantes de Antofagasta! Abren postulaciones para la Beca Práctica Técnico Profesional fue publicado originalmente en El Diario de Antofagasta.

Sign up for our free monthly newsletter Beyond High School to get the latest news about college and career paths for Colorado’s high school grads. On the way back from the College National Finals Rodeo, graduate student Justise Jones and her assistant coach discussed a pertinent question: Where have all the cowboys gone?Of about 30 athletes on the Colorado Mesa University rodeo team, only four are men, even though they have traditionally dominated the sport. The team’s ratio is an extreme example of an underexamined trend: fewer rural men are attending four-year colleges.Even when men join the team, Jones said, “it’s really tough to get boys to stick around.” While experts say rural men often don’t need a college degree to make a living in their communities, they also worry the men will miss out on opportunities for increased economic mobility, greater civic engagement, and access to healthcare. Researchers also worry that fewer rural men in college might weaken the health of rural communities by reducing the skilled workforce and decreasing the tax base.National college data shows rural residents are less likely than urban and suburban residents to earn a bachelor’s degree, and men attend college at lower rates than women. At Colorado Mesa in Grand Junction, about 54% of students are women. The school tracks the counties and regions students come from but doesn’t specifically classify students as rural. However, many students come from rural areas of Colorado. Nationally, there is a significant lack of data on rural students.Some Colorado Mesa academic programs are drawing more interest from rural men. They include CMU Tech, the college’s two-year, open-admission school that offers vocational programs such as welding and electric line work. Research has shown a sense of belonging on campus also helps attract students to college. The rodeo team helps embody that idea. The team was established at CMU as a club in the 1970s before becoming a varsity sport in 2018.The annual school rodeo has become one of the university’s largest events. The event also features a barbecue competition called the Maverick Meat Up where President John Marshall smokes free food for students and community members. “Rodeo week is probably the most stressful week,” said Wylee Mitchell, a female rodeo athlete who recently graduated from Colorado Mesa. “But it is the best experience that I had while in college.”But rodeo coach Branden Edwards said some of the roadblocks to attracting rural men have been financial, and he wants more scholarships to help offset the costs of attending college. He also said he often has to negotiate with rural men about what college can offer them, while recruiting women tends to be easier.“A lot more of the women that we’re recruiting are wanting to go into business, education, accounting, or nursing,” he said. “So Mesa is the dream come true for them.”University of Kentucky professor Ty McNamee, who studies rural colleges and students, said the rodeo team’s experience mirrors what he’s seen across the country. McNamee and several colleagues are studying why gender in rural areas factors into the likelihood of going to college.His research shows that men often feel more pressure to provide for their families, place less value on a college degree, and are less likely to enroll if they come from lower-income households.The women on Colorado Mesa’s rodeo team back up what Edwards and McNamee have seen in how expectations and culture can shape whether a student goes to college.For Jones, who is from Canada, college was an expectation. That’s not always the case in families where men are expected to work or help on a farm or ranch. “That’s just kind of like the way it goes,” Jones said.For McKenzie Betts, a 20-year-old senior from rural Alaska, going to college wasn’t necessarily about whether she could make a living in a rural area. She saw college as a gateway to create options for herself, no matter where she lives.“The value of higher education is that it sets you apart when it comes to looking for your job in your career field, and it gives you a head start,” she said.Edwards, who is from rural Colorado and graduated from CMU, said many rural men can make a living by working hard and having an entrepreneurial mindset.But he also tries to communicate to prospective student athletes that he’s been afforded many opportunities because of his college education, even if he’s no longer working in the field he studied.“College is just a great doorway into giving you options and how you want to make a living,” he said. “How you want to affect people and how you want to meet change.”Jason Gonzales is a reporter covering higher education and the Colorado legislature. Chalkbeat Colorado partners with Open Campus on higher education coverage. Contact Jason at jgonzales@chalkbeat.org.

The private company that runs a Tacoma immigrant detention center must allow state inspectors inside after years of refusing, a federal judge ruled Thursday.  But U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin Settle ruled the Florida-based operator of the Northwest ICE Processing Center, The GEO Group, doesn’t need to admit officials from the state Department of Health […]

The teenager was booked in jail on July 1 after he was arrested in connection to a killing at a south Jackson apartment complex. A video circulating on social media showed his limp and bloodied body being kicked while he lay on the floor.

美加墨世界杯首场四分之一决赛9日在波士顿体育场打响。连续两届闯进八强的摩洛哥队多么盼望能够“爆冷”，比赛上半场，法国虽然掌控着攻势，但始终未能打破摩洛哥的防线。第28分左右，法国队获得珍贵的点球机会。但对方守门亚辛·布努（Yassine Bounou）扑出来点球，使得上半场仍维持在0：0。