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Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly joined Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand in Des Moines Thursday, saying her tenure shows it is possible to be an effective Democratic governor while working with a GOP-controlled state Legislature. Joining Sand in person at the Iowa State Education Association headquarters, Kelly said when she was first elected in 2018, Kansas […]

Claim: A Facebook user claims that Information Minister Jerolinmek Piah confirmed that Liberia’s Representative to the United Nations, Lewis Brown, walked out in protest during the Israeli Prime Minister’s speech. Verdict: False! No record supports the claim, and Information Minister Jerolinmek Piah has denied it. Full Text: At the recently concluded UN General Assembly Conference, […]

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A new report paints a dark picture of the state of global wildlife—but also highlights flickers of light where some populations are on the upswing.  Over the past half-century, populations of thousands of vertebrate species across the globe have decreased in size by 73 percent on average, according to the “Living Planet” report published Wednesday […]

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A interferência do governo Donald Trump nas questões internas do Brasil, incluindo o processo eleitoral, não começou agora, mas ainda na campanha do republicano, em 2024, quando o então senador trumpista Marco Rubio já sinalizava que o Brasil seria um perigo por integrar o Brics, bloco que, entre outras coisas, propõe a desdolarização e, portanto, […] Fonte

Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name.In its first meeting in months, the Memphis state takeover board unanimously approved key contract processes and staffing decisions in an effort to demonstrate to a federal court that it is ready to seize control of Tennessee’s largest school district. But the politically appointed body hit a snag when deciding whether to adopt work done by an outside consulting firm while the takeover was temporarily blocked this summer. Tense debate about that consulting firm, MGT, delayed the rest of Thursday’s meeting by an hour. The oversight board faces pressure to prove its ability to assume control of Memphis-Shelby County Schools in the coming days. On Monday, Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw signaled in an order that the MSCS state takeover could begin as soon as the board figured out key operational processes. The oversight board was supposed to start its tenure on July 1, but Crenshaw blocked its work in a temporary order he said Friday was never meant to be long term. Chair Billy Orgel said he scheduled Thursday’s meeting in direct response to that order. “We need infrastructure in place, which in the simplest is emails, websites, and points of contact,” Orgel said. “We’ve got a large task in front of us, and this affects the whole community.” Oversight board members unanimously approved rules for their own operations, including a requirement to appoint a point person to communicate with the elected MSCS board. They also unanimously adopted committee names and a contract and expenditure approval process submitted by national consulting firm MGT. Under state law, the oversight board is responsible for approving all MSCS contracts above $50,000. It will also have final say on the annual budget and charter school applications, neither of which the board discussed on Thursday. The board has not yet set a standing meeting location or time.Tennessee Republicans pushed to establish the state appointed board in Memphis as a way to improve academic performance and district governance, which they said is largely dysfunctional. A forensic audit revealed $54 million of potential spending abuse from 2021-24, mostly from one custodial contract. Board member Dedrick Brittenum harkened to those audit findings while questioning the ethics of using work from MGT. He said the board should go through a proper procurement process before committing to a drafted $1 million memorandum of understanding with the group. “It just seems like we’re barreling through on something that hasn’t had the proper thought and deliberation,” Brittenum said. “It seems to me we need to develop processes and procedures before going headlong into this type of situation.”Orgel scolded Brittenum during the debate over MGT, saying board members are not to “challenge people that are our guests here today and treat them with any amount of disrespect.”Rajeev Baljaj, an MGT senior advisor, said the group began gathering research and drafting bylaws for the oversight board in July. That work was all above board, Orgel said, because local philanthropy paid for it – not the oversight board itself. While no one officially confirmed who paid for MGT, Orgel mentioned local philanthropy as a source – including Seeding Success, a Memphis education nonprofit that has been advocating for the state takeover for over a year. MGT also worked as a consultant during the state takeover of Houston public schools, which Tennessee Republicans say they hope to use as a model for MSCS. All board members excluding Brittenum voted to accept the work done by MGT at no cost to the body. That included drafting the board’s bylaws and the contract approval processes, both approved by the board Thursday. The oversight board also unanimously approved the job description for an executive director, which will be posted in the coming days, and opened the legal counsel position for applications amid two ongoing lawsuits against the takeover. MSCS and Shelby County leaders filed another lawsuit in the local chancery court Wednesday, using similar arguments to their ongoing federal case that the takeover law is unconstitutional and violates voter and elected officials’ rights. The lawsuit calls for a permanent injunction that prohibits the state from “implementing, enforcing, or giving any effect to” the takeover. State board members voted to start drafting a grant application to fund the legal counsel and executive director positions using $1 million in funding already set aside for the board by the Tennessee Department of Education. Bri Hatch covers Memphis-Shelby County Schools for Chalkbeat Tennessee. Reach Bri at bhatch@chalkbeat.org.

Two stories involving grieving families this year offer contrasting lessons for journalists covering death and loss. The post The ethics of care: Lessons from two stories of grief in Brazil appeared first on LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center.

President Donald Trump is planning to fly to Alaska next week for a rally intended to boost the re-election campaigns of U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan and Rep. Nick Begich III. According to the Trump 47 Committee, an operation of the Republican National Committee and Trump’s Save America PAC, Trump will speak at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday […]

(The Center Square) – A new law in California adds accountability measures for insurance companies to ensure policyholders’ information isn’t sold or distributed to third parties. The law - Senate Bill 354, introduced by Senate President Pro Tempore Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara - establishes new standards for the collection and use of policyholders’ personal information. In particular, insurance companies and their third-party service providers are prohibited from selling the personal information of their customers, keeps them from sharing personal information without the customer's consent and requires companies to have policies for when personal information will be deleted. This law updates the state’s 50-year-old regulations regarding insurance customers’ information, according to Limón’s office. “Californians should not have to wonder who has their personal information,” Limón said. “SB 354 gives consumers control of their most sensitive data and holds insurers and their vendors accountable for protecting that data.” Limón’s office did not respond to The Center Square's request for further comment. According to the bill analysis, the California Department of Insurance reported that the law will cost $34,500 a year to implement in both fiscal year 2026-27 and 2027-28. That amount could be offset by fines collected from insurance companies and third-party service providers, and the department might have to spend more money to hire staff to carry out enforcement and administrative activities related to the law. Insurance Commissioner Richard Lara sponsored SB 354 because, he said, Californians deserve to know how their personal information is being collected, used and shared. Lara said Californians deserve meaningful protections when companies fail to follow the law. “This new law brings California’s insurance privacy protections into the modern era by giving consumers greater transparency and control over their personal information while creating clear, enforceable standards for insurers and the third parties they work with,” Gabriel Sanchez, strategic communications chief for the California Department of Insurance, told The Center Square via email. “Commissioner Lara’s goal is straightforward: Californians should be able to engage with the insurance marketplace with confidence that their personal information is being handled responsibly and that there is accountability when it isn’t.” Lara was not available for an interview for this story. In written comments before SB 354 was passed, opponents warned the bill would create complex regulations that would conflict with current rules for the insurance industry. “As a result, consumers that do business with a particular entity that is subject to both frameworks will not have one set of rights, but rather they will need to navigate between the regimes which will depend on the specific data at issue with regard to a specific transaction,” the California Chamber of Commerce wrote in opposing comments in the bill analysis. “By expanding the law in this way, we are concerned that any entity that touches personal information could potentially be implicated, including cloud-computing companies, document management platforms, payment and wire service providers, communication platforms, customer relationship management providers, and similar vendors.” The California Chamber of Commerce was unreachable on Thursday. Several insurance companies The Center Square reached out to this week also did not respond.

(The Center Square) - An advisory committee is finalizing a report this week outlining ways the state can reduce skyrocketing lawsuit payouts and liability when children under Washington state supervision are harmed or killed. But critics say the Tort Study Committee failed to include members with true lived experience, including survivors of child abuse, as required by state law. In the one-year period between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026, the state paid $537 million in settlements and jury verdicts, with most of the cases originating from claims against the Department of Children, Youth and Families. Cases include an early June settlement where the state agreed to pay nearly $80 million to settle multiple lawsuits filed on behalf of two adopted Pierce County children who survived injuries in their biological parents’ care while under the supervision of DCYF. State Rep. Darya Farivar, the Seattle Democrat who sponsored legislation requiring inclusion of people affected by such abuse be seated on state task forces and committees, took issue with the committee's composition. In a Sept. 28 email to Governor Bob Ferguson, Farivar addressed her concerns. “I am concerned that the Committee’s current direction risks losing sight of the underlying crisis: children and people with disabilities continue to experience abuse while under the care and supervision of the state," she wrote. "Our focus should be on developing thoughtful legislative, legal, and administrative solutions that prevent harm in our child welfare, education, disability services, and corrections systems and strengthen accountability when the state fails to protect those in its care." The response from Debbie Driver, legislative director for Ferguson’s office, suggested the makeup of the committee met the conditions of the legislative proviso. “Your concern regarding missing voices from the table is an issue the Committee is not only aware of but is currently considering including in a recommendation to the legislature that any policy proposal includes a broad representation of claimant voices. Committee representation, however, reflects the direction per the proviso,” wrote Driver. Farivar replied and said that answer failed to address what she sees as the current committee's lack of proper representation. “If the Committee intends to proceed despite the absence of lived-experience representation, I strongly urge that any minority report be permitted to include a full dissenting opinion including the basis for disagreement with the majority's recommendations and the individuals who are dissenting.” Two employees with the Washington State Association for Justice told The Center Square the Tort Reform Committee went about its mission with the wrong focus. “I was on a committee for multiple years called the sexual assault forensic examination working group," said Leah Griffin, deputy government affairs director for WSAJ. "And as a survivor representative on that group, had a lot of input into laws that we passed to end the rape kit backlog, to do better trainings for police and investigators to have protocols for hospitals. We did all that great work, and having survivor voices on that committee was essential in that process.” Those on the committee included personal injury attorneys, state and local government representatives, and victim advocates, but Griffin cited the statute that says you can’t have victim advocates take the place of actual victims on these committees. “The Legislature passed the Nothing About Us Without Us Act that made it law that there had to be representatives with lived experience on any committee or advisory group that the legislature passed,” Griffin said. Washington State Association for Justice Government Affairs Director Kelli Carson said not putting victims at the center in a discussion of tort reform defeats the entire purpose. “Almost everyone in this discussion just talks about paying out all this money, with very little recognition for the fact that a jury found that entity to be legally liable for a really terrible harm….this discussion could be happening thoughtfully in a nuanced way, where we lead with harm prevention,” Carson said. “To a lot of these people in the conversation, I would encourage you when you're having these conversations to assume that someone you're talking to is probably a survivor,” said Carson. Five members of the committee signed onto a minority report obtained by The Center Square ahead of the final majority report being delivered to lawmakers. The minority report echoed the concerns raised by Griffin and Carson. “The most critical changes needed for legislators to help reduce the government’s exposure to liability is to take steps to ensure governmental entities hurt fewer Washingtonians, and particularly to reduce the risk of childhood abuse and neglect in our state,” read the report. The Center Square reached out to members of the committee who did not sign onto the minority report, but did not receive a response before publication.

Australia’s welding industry has accused the Reserve Bank of making it harder for manufacturers to lift productivity, arguing higher interest rates are strangling investment in the technology and training needed to improve it.

A cop facing misconduct charges in the 2024 death of a Queens teenager experiencing a mental health crisis will dodge a disciplinary trial because the NYPD failed to notify the police oversight panel he had put in his papers to retire. Police Officer Salvatore Alongi is one of two cops the Civilian Complaint Review Board […] The post Tisch Blames ‘Human Error’ After Officer in Win Rozario Shooting is Allowed to Retire appeared first on The City Reporter.

While the federal government remains mostly silent on the widely-witnessed and apparently ongoing anti-immigrant crackdown in Fresno and other parts of California, local watch groups and advocates estimate that around 70 people have been detained in Fresno and Madera this week. Huy Tran, executive director of SIREN told Fresnoland that the preliminary estimate comes from […] The post ‘Stay home.’ Anger and fear mount over the latest anti-immigrant crackdown in Fresno County appeared first on Fresnoland.

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