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Over the last year, the Trump administration’s campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives has had a major effect on the landscape of both TK-12 schools and higher education, even in California.

Milwaukee’s homeless providers and others are working together to ensure safety during extreme cold. The post Milwaukee homeless providers increase capacity as temperatures hit subzero levels appeared first on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

Three top attorneys who recently left the County Counsel’s Office signed deals calling for each to receive more than $239,392 following their departures. The post Three Ex-County Lawyers Departed with Payouts appeared first on Voice of San Diego.

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy is expected Thursday evening to detail his plans for a long-term plan to balance Alaska’s expenses and revenue. “There will be a temporary, seasonal sales tax concept put forward for discussion with the legislature,” Dunleavy said Wednesday during a cabinet meeting open to reporters.  Will state lawmakers approve that idea? “I […]

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Sabi plan que trefosissètz per saupre la fin del raconte. Me desencusi, mas Jornalet a pas encara tornat inventar lo fulheton quotidian, coma al temps d’Alexandre Dumàs, Onorat de Balzac, Juli Vèrne o Maurici Leblanc… Aprèp aver lisat sul glaç e s’èsser copada la cambeta lanceta, la formigueta rescontrèt lo solelh, la nivol, la paret, la mirga, lo gat, lo bròc e lo fuòc. Li cal anar ara veire l’aiga. Continua llegint

La Dictada Occitana torna aquest dissabte 31 de genièr amb una edicion especiala que confirma la vitalitat d’un eveniment plan enrasigat. Creada fa 29 ans, la Dictada Occitana es un eveniment singular: una dictada en lenga occitana realizada simultanèament dins 38 vilas d’Occitània e dels Païses Catalans, amb de participacions tanben a París. Dins la majoritat de las vilas participantas, la dictada se tendrà al meteis moment, dins un esperit de convivéncia e de partatge lingüistic. Continua llegint

An appeal would be costly and unlikely to change the outcome, including the removal of Superintendent Mark Ramirez, trustees said.

Education department rejects claims that immigrants are given preference

Mayor says their electricity meters will be blocked until they settle their debt

Hanan Relief Group must raise funds to avoid scaling back programs that thousands of refugee families rely on. The post Refugee support nonprofit Hanan Relief Group faces funding crisis appeared first on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

Damasco avanza sobre las áreas kurdas, asume el control de las cárceles del ISIS y recibe señales de respaldo de EE UU, mientras amenaza a las SDF con una nueva ofensiva contra sus últimos bastiones si no aceptan integrarse al Estado central.

Días después del siniestro que hasta ahora deja 43 muertos, el operativo sigue trabajando sin tregua bajo el enigma sobre las causas y el balance final de una de las mayores tragedias ferroviarias en España en décadas.

State and local officials say they’re better prepared than they were five years ago when Winter Storm Uri blanketed the state, killing hundreds and leaving scores without power and water.

Democratic state Sen. Steve Conway, a liberal lion and unapologetic voice for labor throughout a 34-year career in the Washington state Legislature, announced Wednesday he will not seek reelection this fall. “This will be my last session in the Legislature, and I can tell you, it was a hard decision,” he told colleagues on the […]

(The Center Square) - Nevada legislators passed a sweeping bill, which took effect Nov. 18, to prevent the next state cyberattack. Experts recently explain what the bill means for Nevada’s future online safety. After the 2025 cyberattack, the Legislature passed Assembly Bill 1 during last fall's special session to expand the state’s cybersecurity efforts. It includes plans to expand the cybersecurity workforce and centralize the state’s online defenses. “Cybersecurity is always a war between the attacks and defenders – all this effort is just raising the bar,” Yoohwan Kim, told The Center Square. “It's never perfect, but it's a good approach. If we don't raise the bar, there will be more attacks, so we make it more difficult to attack us.” With AB1, the thinking is, Nevada will elevate itself to the next level in cybersecurity. A handful of other U.S. states have introduced similar measures in recent years, many in an effort to centralize cyber defenses and thwart attacks more quickly. The attackers from 2025 have never been publicly identified by the Nevada state government, but experts from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said it was unlikely to have been a targeted attack. “It could be just low hanging fruit, [where] they send out the attack everywhere, whoever it catches will become the victim,” said Kim. “They didn't care [who they attacked], as long as they can grab some value from the data - like a social security number or a bank account, they don't care," Kim added later. The Nevada state government first found the cyberattack in August, but it likely began in May with an accidental ransomware download by a state employee, as per the state. “In most data breaches, the average case takes 180 days to even notice that there is a data breach in the system,” UNLV computer science Professor Ju-Yeon Jo told The Center Square. Nevada’s 2025 hack, by comparison, was sniffed out in less than 90 days. While the attack was widespread, much of the immediate impact did not come directly from the attackers, but from how the Nevada government handled the hack. The weeks-long closure of the DMV website and some of the department’s functions, for example, was ordered by the state in an effort to root out the issue. “ From the very beginning, I have been clear our top priority is restoring services that Nevadans depend on every day. That has not changed,” Gov. Joe Lombardo said in a news conference during the cyberattack. “This kind of recovery is never easy," the Republican governor said. "It requires patience, precision and constant vigilance. But I want Nevadans to know we are making real headway, and every day brings us closer to full restoration.” The UNLV experts said that despite the weeks-long process to return state services, they thought Nevada did a good job responding to the attack. “If you're flying and there’s a problem in the engine of the plane, would you rather land at the nearest airport and have the mechanic come and fix it?” said Greg Moody, director of cybersecurity programs at the UNLV. “Or do you rather say, ‘Hey, there's a mechanic on the plane, let's strap 'em onto the wing of the plane and have them fix it while we're still flying?” Moody told The Center Square. “The safest way to stop the issue was to do a full system check,” added Moody. “The best way to make sure that stops happening is to just cut off all access.” Legislators say local attacks, which the UNLV experts said happen all the time, would be dealt with more systematically under AB1’s proposed changes. Currently, data across Nevada cities, counties and the state are kept separate from each other and managed by their different agencies. Cyber threats are also reported locally, which the state is looking to change with the Security Operations Center. The SOC would be a center to run various local and state data through to be combed for potential threats. “If they're getting weird signals or information that someone's trying to engage in an attack against them, rather than informally sharing it through networks, discords, emails or phone calls, we'd have a formalized process where they can share such data,” said Moody. “Then they would alert other agencies saying, ‘Someone's running this attack against me, they might run it against you’, so it makes for a better response.” AB1 also outlined plans to create a Cybersecurity Talent Pipeline Program to train future cybersecurity workers in the state and build out the workforce to fight future attacks. The UNLV experts said it was still unclear how the state would employ this program. They added that they were working with the government to encourage training for applied knowledge beyond textbooks. “We provide some student manpower that can be mentored by some of the state workers so they can start working in cyber during their pathway,” said Moody. “Much like you have a medical student who works in a hospital before they finish their medical program.” The UNLV experts did not say when Nevadans would likely first see AB1 in action, stressing that some of the processes could take a while to get under way. One element of cybersecurity that is already well underway is the use of artificial intelligence. AI has become synonymous with cybersecurity, according to the UNLV experts. “It's already happening, AI tools are used by hackers, but also the defenders,” said Jo. “We already use AI tools and then those tools save a lot of money, like a few million dollars per data breach case.” Unlike many other university departments, UNLV computer science already offers around 10 AI and machine learning courses. “We love AI,” said Moody. Nevada’s statewide cybersecurity in 2025 was the biggest in the state’s history and could have compromised data for millions of residents. Fortunately, the state said, the issue was fully contained. But the UNLV experts warned next time could come with much more serious consequences – from altered voting data to mass credit card data theft. “It was an unwelcome incident, but it creates some cultures, and it is a kind of a warning sign for a lot worse cases,” said Jo.

The governor’s final budget proposal includes a big boost to school funding despite a cloudy economic outlook.  The post The Learning Curve: Newsom’s Latest Budget Proposal Boosts Community Schools appeared first on Voice of San Diego.

The Tucson City Council directed the city manager and attorney Wednesday to craft an ordinance barring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from staging or carrying out civil immigration enforcement on city property. Mayor Regina Romero opened up the discussion saying it’s important that residents feel safe on city property, regardless of their immigration status.  “We’ve […] The post Tucson moves to block ICE use of city property appeared first on AZ Luminaria.

In a rambling speech, the US president appears to be cooling on his bid to buy Greenland, but still had plenty of fire for a lot of people.

(The Center Square) - A hotly debated gun control bill that fell just short of reaching the governor’s desk in the 2025 session has been resurrected, and proponents are determined to see it over the finish line this year. House Bill 1152 would require gun owners to put locked storage in vehicles and homes for their firearms. Chief of Staff for the Alliance for Gun Responsibility (AGR) Ryan Disch-Guzman told The Center Square the bill is the most important legislation they are backing this session. “[HB] 1152 the safe storage [bill] is probably our top priority one because it worked its way through session last time and got very close to passing and then just ran out of time,” said Disch-Guzma. “Most of our firearms that are used in crimes were stolen at some point. Most school shootings happen because of an unsecured firearm.” He told The Center Square his organization is not opposed to gun ownership, but believes public safety and public health demand regulations. “We're a high gun ownership state. You know, we're in the top 10. We're, I believe, seven or eight in terms of concealed carry, so we have a lot of firearms in Washington. We have to really practice safe storage and making sure that our communities are safely storing not only in our homes but also our vehicles. We have a lot of vehicle thefts where firearms are stolen,” said Disch-Guzma. Dave Workman is the editor-in-chief of The Gun Mag.com, and a journalist whose beat is firearms. He pushed back on Disch-Guzman’s statements. “Any “safe storage” requirement just might collide with the 2008 Heller decision on Page 58, where it states, “We must also address the District’s requirement (as applied to respondent’s handgun) that firearms in the home be rendered and kept inoperable at all times. This makes it impossible for citizens to use them for the core lawful purpose of self-defense and is hence unconstitutional.” Workman said the fact AGR acknowledges most firearms used in crimes were stolen at some point refutes their argument for further impeding lawful gun owners’ rights. “Why continue down the road on the rights of law-abiding citizens in their efforts to legally purchase firearms? For example, how does this acknowledgement justify a 10-day waiting period?” asked Workman. Another bill concerning 3-D printed or "ghost" guns received a hearing Wednesday morning in the House Civil Rights and Judiciary Committee. HB 2320 “prohibits the manufacturing of certain firearms and firearm components through use of a three-dimensional printer or computer numerical control milling machine,” according to the bill summary. Retired teacher Jane Weiss spoke in support of the bill, describing herself as "a survivor of gun violence.” "In 2014, my 19-year-old niece, Veronica Weiss, was shot and killed during a mass shooting near her campus at UC Santa Barbara. I miss her and think about her every day. I'm here in strong support of HB 2320 because untraceable home manufactured guns, known as ghost guns, make tragedies like the one that took Veronica even harder to prevent and harder to stop,” said Weiss. Rep. Jim Walsh, R-Aberdeen, who sits on the committee that considered the bill Wednesday, told The Center Square that the legislation is well-meaning, but "poorly structured and likely to fail to make anyone safer." “The main problem with the proposal is that it's overbroad, restricting many uses of 3-D printing that have nothing to do with firearms,” said Walsh. He noted many of the themes of the testifiers who support the bill admitted they've never read the Washington State Constitution. “Particularly, they were unfamiliar with Article 1, Section 24 - our State Constitution's protection of every citizen's right to keep and bear firearms, which is stronger and clearer than even the U.S. Constitution's 2nd Amendment.” Last year, majority Democrats pushed through the most controversial gun control bill in years in Washington, called the permit-to-purchase bill. Critics contend the bill is unconstitutional and that it will not be fully implemented. “Name any other constitutionally enumerated fundamental right that first requires a citizen to obtain permission from the police in order to exercise it?” queried Workman. “This mandate will almost certainly be struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional because rights are special and cannot be subject to first getting permission from the government. That’s the difference between a right and a privilege. This discussion isn’t really about guns. It’s about rights.” "For permit to purchase that we passed last year, that's incredibly important," said Disch-Guzman with AGR. "Most people who own a firearm do not train with that firearm. And that surprised and shocked me, and I think responsible gun ownership means responsibilities like that, like making sure that you're trained to use that firearm and that you are as safe with it as possible. Senate Bill 5098, restricting the possession of weapons on the premises of state or local public buildings, parks or playground facilities where children are likely to be present, and county fairs and county fair facilities, passed off the Senate floor Wednesday. One Democrat, Sen. Adrian Cortes, D-Battle Ground, joined every Republican in opposition, but the bill passed on a vote of 29 to 20.