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COLUMBIA — More than 550 people have been sickened with measles in three Upstate counties, the state health department said Friday. The number of cases exploded in the beginning of the new year, with 148 reported in the past week. Since Jan. 7, the case count has more than doubled, according to the health department. […]

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Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has arrived in the northern city of Las Anod to attend the inauguration of the first president of the North East Administration, who was elected last year.

TOPEKA — A push in the Kansas Legislature for greater transparency in the way Kansas Supreme Court Justices are selected furthers a revolt against the current merit-based system. An attorney and Republican legislator teamed up to introduce Senate Bill 299, which would force the Kansas Supreme Court Nominating Commission to make public most of its […]

A implementação do acordo comercial entre Mercosul e União Europeia terá como horizonte a redução de desigualdades e a prosperidade. Essa expectativa foi compartilhada nesta sexta-feira (16) pelo presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva e pela presidente da Comissão Europeia, Ursula von der Leyen, no Rio de Janeiro. Os dois se reuniram na sede do Ministério das Relações Exteriores na capital fluminense para tratar do acordo entre os blocos, que criará uma das maiores áreas de comércio do mundo, onde vivem aproximadamente 720 milhões de pessoas. A aprovação do acordo por parte da União Europeia foi anunciada na semana passada, após mais de 25 anos de negociações. Notícias relacionadas: Acordo Mercosul-UE deve entrar em vigor no 2º semestre, diz Alckmin. Brasil e Portugal querem acelerar acordo Mercosul-União Europeia. Agricultores franceses fazem novo protesto contra acordo Mercosul-UE. Lula destacou que “liberalização e abertura comerciais só fazem sentido se forem capazes de promover o desenvolvimento sustentável e reduzir as desigualdades”, disse ele, ao lembrar que comércio e investimento resultam em novos empregos e oportunidades. “Diálogo político e cooperação vão garantir padrões elevados de respeito aos direitos trabalhistas e à defesa do meio ambiente”, disse Lula. O presidente brasileiro reiterou também compromissos com meio ambiente, no enfrentamento à mudança do clima, com a igualdade de gênero e com os direitos dos povos indígenas e dos trabalhadores. >> Entenda em 13 pontos o acordo Mercosul–UE Valor agregado Lula acrescentou que, diferentemente do passado, o Brasil não se restringirá ao fornecimento de commodities – em especial, produtos agropecuários – para a União Europeia. “Não nos limitaremos ao eterno papel de exportador de commodities. Queremos produzir e vender bens industriais de maior valor agregado”, disse ele, que destacou que o acordo prevê incentivos para investimentos de empresas europeias no Mercosul, o que inclui cadeias de valor estratégicas para transição energética e transmissão digital.   O presidente da República, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, recebe a presidente da Comissão Europeia (CE), Ursula von der Leyen, para reunião no Palácio do Itamaraty antes da assinatura do acordo Mercosul - União Europeia. Foto: Tânia Rêgo/Agência Brasil “O melhor está por vir” Chefe do poder executivo da União Europeia, Ursula von der Leyen disse que todos integrantes dos blocos deverão se beneficiar com novos empregos, e que surgirão muitas oportunidades para o setor empresarial dos dois lados. “Sei que, entre nossas regiões e nossos povos, o melhor ainda está por vir”, disse ela ao iniciar o discurso. “É assim que a gente cria a prosperidade verdadeira, que é a prosperidade compartilhada. Nós concordamos que o comércio internacional não é um jogo de zero a zero”, argumentou. Ursula disse que a assinatura do acordo, que será oficializada no sábado (17), no Paraguai, é apenas o primeiro passo de algo muito positivo que está por vir. “Toda história só será contada com êxito quando as empresas começarem a sentir os benefícios de nosso acordo. Algo que deve ocorrer rapidamente”, disse. Ela afirmou que o acordo vai multiplicar oportunidades, com regras claras e previsíveis; e com padrões e cadeias de abastecimentos que, segundo ela, “servirão de rodovias para o investimento”.    A presidente da Comissão Europeia (CE), Ursula von der Leyen, durante encontro com o presidente da República, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, para reunião no Palácio do Itamaraty antes da assinatura do acordo Mercosul - União Europeia. Foto: Tânia Rêgo/Agência Brasil Agradecimento e elogios “Este acordo agora concluído é a conquista de uma geração inteira”, acrescentou a chefe europeia em meio a agradecimentos ao empenho de Lula para a consolidação do acordo. “A liderança política, o compromisso pessoal e a paixão que o senhor mostrou nas últimas semanas e meses, meu caro presidente Lula, foram realmente enormes”, acrescentou ao elogiar o direcionamento do presidente brasileiro durante as negociações.

Президент Украины Владимир Зеленский предупредил, что, по данным разведки, российские войска готовят новые массированные удары, призвав партнеров ускорить поставки ракет для ПВО

(The Center Square) – Maine Republican leaders are blaming a new "sanctuary" law for heightened scrutiny from the Trump administration as the state braces for an influx of ICE agents. Second-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and other top Maine Democrats have issued public warnings in the past week that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities may soon be descending on the state's two largest cities, Portland, and Lewiston, as part of second-term Republican President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. Mills said federal authorities have refused to say whether they are planning enhanced immigration law enforcement in the state. But Republican lawmakers say Mills' decision to allow a bill limiting cooperation between Maine law enforcement and federal immigration authorities to become law has put the state in the Trump administration's crosshairs. In a statement, Senate Republican Leader Trey Stewart, R-Aroostook, said the governor's decision not to veto the bill "handcuffs" local law enforcement from helping federal authorities apprehend potentially dangerous individuals. "This is what happens when you have a governor who puts political brinkmanship over the safety of Maine citizens," he said. "Her actions place law enforcement and the general public at heightened risk." Assistant Senate Republican Leader Matthew Harrington, R-York, said the potential visits by federal agents is "self-imposed and self-created" by the state's Democratic leadership. "When federal law enforcement is able to coordinate with local law enforcement, efforts can be more targeted; and situations like this can be avoided entirely," Harrington said. "The best thing for our communities would be for local law enforcement to be able to share their valuable insights with their federal partners." In December, Mills allowed the bill – approved by the Legislature of majority Democrats – to become law without her signature and strongly criticized the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. She also repealed an executive order issued in 2011 by then-Republican Gov. Paul LePage, which called for fostering more cooperation between state and federal officials on immigration enforcement. Democrats who backed the "sanctuary" state bill said allowing local police to cooperate with ICE operations makes communities less safe because it dissuades people from reporting crime for fear of deportation. They say the new law won't restrict federal officials from apprehending dangerous criminals in the state. Republicans blasted Mills for not vetoing the bill, saying it will make the state less safe and potentially impact millions of dollars in federal grant funding the state receives from the federal government, with the Trump administration threatening to freeze funding for "sanctuary" states and communities. Last month, Maine border control officials say they apprehended an "unprecedented" number of individuals over the past year even as illegal crossings along the U.S.-Canada border plummet. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Houlton Sector said of the 725 individuals apprehended included members of criminal gangs like MS-13, SATG, and Tren de Aragua, as well as an individual with an Interpol Red Notice for murder.

O Irã tem sido palco, há dias, de manifestações populares contra o custo de vida, com protestos violentamente reprimidos pelas autoridades. Diante da situação, que já resultou na morte de milhares de pessoas, os Estados Unidos ameaçam sancionar não apenas Teerã, mas também todos os países que mantêm relações comerciais com a República Islâmica. A pressão exercida pelo chefe da Casa Branca chamou a atenção para a situação contraditória da economia iraniana, que, apesar de viver oficialmente sob pesadas sanções internacionais, está longe de se encontrar isolada do ponto de vista comercial.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened Friday to place tariffs on Greenland and any country that opposes his efforts to take over the Arctic island, as members of Congress from both political parties were in Europe to assure allied nations that lawmakers won’t go along with his plans.  “I may do that for Greenland too. […]

O acordo comercial entre a União Europeia e o Mercosul será assinado neste sábado (17) em Assunção, no Paraguai, com a presença da presidente da Comissão Europeia, Ursula Von der Leyen. Ela fez escala no Rio de Janeiro nesta sexta‑feira (16), onde se encontrou com o presidente brasileiro Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

شبكة بيئة ابوظبي، بقلم الدكتور علي عبد القادر الحمادي، باحث في السياسات اللغوية، الإمارات العربية المتحدة، 17 يناير 2026 سمعت منظِّرًا ثقافيًّا يقول: “الخطاب الثقافي حين يستسلم للتشاؤم ينتج لغة سوداوية تُعيد إنتاج الهزيمة بدل مساءلتها”.، وسمعت تربويًّا حكيما يدرب معلِّميه وينصح: ” اللغة التعليمية الناجحة هي لغة بيضاء، واضحة، خالية من الزوائد البلاغية التي تُربك المتعلم”. وقرأت في مقال فلسفي: “تلجأ السلطة أحيانًا إلى لغة رمادية، لا تقول كل شيء ولا تنفيه، حفاظًا على هامش المناورة”، وشاهدت محللًا سياسيا وهو يدافع عن فكرته قائلًا: ” حين يتحول الخطاب السياسي إلى لغة حمراء، يصبح التحريض بديلاً عن الحجة”. لقد درج الخطاب العربي الحديث، نقديًا وإعلاميًا، على توصيف اللغة بألوانها، فصارت اللغة سوداء حين تُثقل المعنى بالتشاؤم، وبيضاء حين تتوسل البساطة والوضوح، ورمادية حين تلوذ بالغموض، وحمراء حين تُشحن بالانفعال والتحريض. إن توصيف اللغة استعمال تداولي موثّق في النقد الأدبي، والتحليل السياسي، والكتابة الإعلامية، ويقوم على استعارة مفهومية تربط اللون بالحالة النفسية والموقف الخطابي. مخطئ من يظن أن هذا الإسقاط اللوني على اللغة ترفٌ بلاغيّ، إنه ممارسة ثقافية عميقة الجذور، تعكس وعي الإنسان بأن اللغة وسيط شعوري وأخلاقي يؤثر في المتلقي كما تؤثر الألوان في النفس. فاللغة السوداوية، على سبيل المثال، لا تكتفي بنقل واقع قاتم، بل تسهم في إعادة إنتاجه ذهنيًا ونفسيًا، بينما تسعى اللغة البيضاء إلى تخفيف العبء الإدراكي عن القارئ، عبر الوضوح، والاقتصاد، والبعد عن التعقيد الاصطلاحي أو التراكيب الملتبسة. وأوكد أن إسقاط اللون على اللغة أو النص ممارسة نقدية راسخة، فقد عرف النقد العربي أوصافًا مثل القصيدة البيضاء للدلالة على الصفاء والاقتصاد، والقصيدة السوداء للدلالة على القتامة الوجودية. كما أن الخطاب الإعلامي يوصف بالصُّفرة حين يفتقد المسؤولية، فيقال: “صحافة صفراء” وتوصف بعض المؤلفات بالصفراء نقدًا وتقليلا من قيمتها العلمية، في حروب ثقافية بين التيارات الفكرية. والسؤال الذي أسعى في تكوينه بعد هذه الجولة في ألوان اللغة. أين موقع اللون الأخضر في اللغة؟ ومتى تكون اللغة خضراء؟ لا بد أن يكون للون الأخضر مكان في حلقات العلاقة بين اللون واللغة، بين الدلالة والإحساس، وبين الخطاب والواقع. وهذا حديث آخر. ظهرت المقالة اللغة الملونة أولاً على بيئة أبوظبي.

Roja Înê karwanekî leşkerî yê Amerîkî gihîşte bajarokê Dêr Hafir li rojhilatê Helebê û li wir civînek ligel fermanderên Hêzên Sûrîya Demokratîk (HSD) pêk anîn. Rojnamevan Ebdilhelîm Silêman rewşa dawî li deverê şîrove dike.

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Michigan’s free newsletter here. Anthony Forlini, the Macomb County clerk and a Republican candidate to be Michigan’s next secretary of state, said this week that he had found more than a dozen noncitizens on his county’s voter rolls — but there’s reason to be skeptical of his claims. Forlini told Votebeat on Thursday that a comparison of the county’s jury pool — specifically, the more than 230 people who have recused themselves from jury duty since September by saying they are not U.S. citizens — and the state’s qualified voter file found 15 people who were on both lists. Forlini said his data shows that “the system is flawed” and needs adjustments. But comparing two separate lists is generally a fraught way to find actual noncitizens on the voter rolls, experts say, and verifying his findings will be difficult. As other states have repeatedly found, lists of people identified as noncitizens are often inaccurate or outdated. Each year, hundreds of thousands of people become naturalized citizens, for instance, and they rarely take steps afterward to update their status with various government agencies. During a press conference Monday, Monika Rittner, a department supervisor in Forlini’s office, said that three of the 15 people flagged as potential noncitizens had voted before, including one who had voted “several times but has since been removed.” The jury pool Forlini cited comes from the state driver’s license database, which is separate from the qualified voter file (even though both are maintained by the Michigan Department of State). People do not need to be U.S. citizens to get a license or state ID in Michigan. David Becker, executive director and founder of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, and his team have looked into noncitizen voting complaints across the country and found that most allegations are the result of “misunderstandings, mischaracterizations, or outright fabrications about complex voter data,” as CEIR detailed in a July report. “It is extremely hard to compare data from a jury questionnaire to data in a QVF with certainty and without false positives,” Becker told Votebeat. “Even if you get that part right, there’s still multiple ways in which the data can be misinterpreted.” Forlini argued that his comparisons were functionally foolproof. He said his team compared names, ages, and addresses to verify that it was the same person who appeared on both lists. “The scope that we’re doing it, this wasn’t a mass-produced thing,” he said Thursday. “It was a list where we looked at each individual person.” He has since sent the idea on to other county clerks, and said many of them have thanked him for it. Forlini said Monday he was handing the information off to Macomb County Corporation Counsel Frank Krycia. On Friday, Forlini said Krycia had handed it off to law enforcement but declined to say which agencies, adding that he’d been advised not to name them while the matter was under investigation. Krycia did not return a call seeking comment. Forlini is a Republican candidate to be Michigan’s next secretary of state, although he said he was checking for noncitizen voters in his “role as a county clerk.” Doing that work was a matter of “operational efficiency,” he said. “I’m looking to make things better,” he said. In recent years, Republicans around Michigan and across the U.S. have zeroed in on noncitizen voting as a threat to American elections. An instance in Ann Arbor in 2024, where a University of Michigan student from China allegedly cast a ballot and turned himself in before fleeing the country, became a focus of Republicans looking to pass a proof-of-citizenship requirement in the state. The Michigan Department of State said it would look into the claims once Forlini’s office gives it the necessary information. “We can’t fully evaluate his claims because he hasn’t shared specific details about the list he reviewed, how it was compiled, and how he determined these people were noncitizens,” Angela Benander, a department spokesperson, said in an email. Noncitizen voting is extremely rare in Michigan and across the country. The Michigan Department of State conducted its own lengthy review of the state’s driving records and voting records last year and found that, across the state during the 2024 general election, it appeared a total of 16 noncitizens had cast ballots — 0.00028% of the more than 5.7 million ballots cast. “Our department did several rounds of validation in this review to make sure that these individuals actually cast a ballot and to verify their citizenship status,” Benander said in an email. “In each additional round of review, we found more individuals who may have initially appeared to be non-citizens but were, in fact, a U.S. citizen legally able to vote in 2024.” The state has since established “an ongoing review process” to identify possible cases as they come up. Other states that have conducted similar audits have turned up similarly minuscule numbers. Georgia, for instance, found about 20 noncitizens in its statewide voter roll of more than 8.2 million people in 2024. Hayley Harding is a reporter for Votebeat based in Michigan. Contact Hayley at hharding@votebeat.org.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened Friday to place tariffs on Greenland and any country that opposes his efforts to take over the Arctic island, as members of Congress from both political parties were in Europe to assure allied nations that lawmakers won’t go along with his plans.  “I may do that for Greenland too. […]

Washington — Generalekî xanenişîn yê Hêzên Esmanî yên Amerîkayî dibêje divê rêbertîya Îranê xembar be tiştê ku wê Serok Donald Trump bike derbarê tepeserkirina tund ya rejîma Tehranê hember xwepêşanderan. General Robert S. Spalding ji Dengê Amerîka re got ku bûyerên wekî kuştina fermandarê berê yê Hêzên Quds yên Îranî Qasim Silêmanî û girtina vê dawîyê ya dîktatorê Venezuelayê Nicolas Maduro û êrîşên dijî navendên navokî yên Îranê nîşan didin ku Trump ne tenê bi gotinan li bi kiryaran jî...

LINCOLN — The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office confirmed it has opened an investigation into State Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh of Omaha over her removal and later return of part of an art display at the Nebraska Capitol. Sheriff Terry Wagner told the Lincoln Journal Star on Friday that an investigator had been assigned to review evidence […]

(The Center Square) – New York City lost nearly 5,000 businesses early last year as employers closed their doors or left for other low-tax states, according to a new report. The analysis comes as newly elected Mayor Zohran Mamdani pushes to hike business taxes to foot the bill for his agenda. The report, released Thursday by the Economic Development Corporation, showed more than 3,500 new businesses opened their doors in New York City during the second quarter of the fiscal year but that was offset by a loss of about 8,400 employers. That's the weakest quarter for business formation since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the report's authors said. The corporation's report is the latest to highlight New York City's shrinking business sector with employers looking to other low-tax states as Albany piles on new regulations and costs. It also comes as Mamdani seeks to draw up support for higher taxes to pay for plans for universal childcare, tuition free college and free bus service in the city. Mamdani's plans call for increasing the state’s top corporate tax rate by about half, up to 11.5% from its current maximum of 7.25%, which has caused concerns among New York City's business community. If approved, that would match the highest corporate rate in the nation next door in New Jersey. He's also called for "wealth" tax and a $30 per hour minimum wage for the city. That has fueled concerns about an exodus of major employers from the nation's largest city, with low-tax states like New Hampshire and Florida urging New York City businesses to relocate. A September report by the Public Policy Institute of New York State found that 72% of 500 employers surveyed don't think the state's economic conditions are good, and only 21% believe the state is on the right track. The group said its analysis suggests that New York has lost its competitive edge, ranking 50th in the nation for both outmigration and taxation during the 2020-22 period covered by the report. Many business leaders surveyed for the institute's report said New York’s taxes and regulations make it too expensive and difficult to run a business. The Empire State has more 300,000 regulations on the books, and employers surveyed wanted fewer state and local regulations and lower business taxes from the state, according to the report. In 2023, New York’s effective state business tax rate was 5.9%, making it the ninth-highest in the nation, the report's authors noted. The state also ranks poorly for individual income, sales, property and unemployment insurance taxes. It has the fourth highest percentage of housing-burdened households in the country, with 38.6% of households spending more than 30% of their income on housing. Those factors have contributed to outmigration, with New York losing more domestic taxpayers than any other state from 2020 to 2022, according to the report, as residents fled to New Jersey, Florida, and other low-tax states.

Presidenti amerikan, Donald Trump, tha të premten se mund të vendosë tarifa tregtare ndaj vendeve që nuk mbështesin planet e tij për të marrë nën kontroll Grenlandën, pjesë e territorit të shtetit të NATO-s, Danimarkës, raporton Radio Evropa e Lirë. “Mund të vendos një tarifë ndaj vendeve nëse nuk bashkëpunojnë për Grenlandën, sepse na duhet […]

(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump and senior health administration officials touted the $50 billion set aside in the One Big Beautiful Bill for rural health care during a round table Friday, saying it will transform the care available to rural Americans. Rural health care has long been a concern for lawmakers, as it can be difficult for hospitals and medical centers to maintain patient volumes high enough to remain financially sustainable. Rural populations also tend to be older and lower income, so rural hospitals often see a lot of patients on Medicare or Medicaid, which typically reimburse at lower rates than private insurance. The funding is the largest ever federal investment in rural health care in American history, according to the administration. It has been used to start the Rural Health Transformation Program, which will provide $50 million to states in health care improvement funds over a five-year period, from 2026 to 2030. Fifty percent of the funding is distributed equally among the states, and the states compete for the other 50%. According to Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, if rural Americans find themselves in certain “vulnerable situations,” their life expectancy is on average nine years shorter. “Your zip code will no longer dictate whether you have excellent healthcare. Your zip code will no longer be your destiny. It's not going to dictate your life expectancy,” Oz said Friday. “We don’t want rural America left behind anymore.” Oz listed some of the ways states have proposed reaching rural communities as part of this initiative. North Carolina and Pennsylvania, he said, use “regional spoke models.” “[That] means you’ve got a big hospital in the city, and they adopt or work closely with some rural hospitals to solve the challenges of fragmented care. And that actually works,” Oz said. “You share administrative back office work, you group purchase your stuff, you save money, you exchange medical records.” Where there’s a dearth of OB-GYNs in Alabama, the state is using “robots to do ultrasounds” on pregnant women, according to Oz. Delaware is creating “their first ever medical school in a rural part of the state,” Oz said, to promote health care services in rural areas. The states "gave us brilliant ideas that they’re talking with each other about,” Oz said. States’ first program awards for 2026 have already been determined and range from $147 million to $281 million, with the largest awards going to Texas, Alaska, California, Montana, Oklahoma and Kansas.