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La emergencia genera un despliegue de al menos seis unidades del Cuerpo de Bomberos hasta la intersección de Avenida O’Higgins con Salvador Reyes, sector conocido como Parque Brasil. Este artículo Voraz incendio moviliza a Bomberos al sector Parque Brasil de Antofagasta fue publicado originalmente en El Diario de Antofagasta.

The ACLU of Ohio is calling on Mayor Bibb and Cleveland City Council not to renew its Flock contract.  The post Mass surveillance does not equal safety: Opinion  appeared first on The Land.

Li Parlamentoya Ewrupayê jinên Îranî û yên Kurd hatin ba hev û pirsên demokrasî, pirsgirêk û paşeroja welatê xwe gotûbêk kirin.

El Rey de España y la presidenta mexicana se han reunido en Palacio Nacional en un encuentro breve pero simbólico que marca el fin de una etapa de tensión bilateral.

The government’s proposed workplace safety reforms aim to create simpler rules for employers. Critics argue they may also move risk onto workers.

Os povos indígenas habitam o Cerrado há milênios e são parte intrínseca de seu ecossistema. A presença dos povos indígenas hoje não é uma força externa que altera a paisagem, mas sim um componente fundamental de seu equilíbrio. Leia mais no artigo. O post A crise do Cerrado em revisão: – 9. O papel das terras indígenas apareceu primeiro em Amazônia Real.

Proposed legislation would expand subsidies for small modular reactors despite unresolved questions about cost, safety, waste disposal, and taxpayer liability.

The Fresno City Council on Thursday approved a policy to help streamline the building approval process for proposed developments that set aside at least one-fifth of their housing units to lower-income households.  In short, developers who present the city with a housing proposal with at least 20% of their total units priced for low-income rental […] The post Fresno City Council passes legislation to make it easier to build affordable housing  appeared first on Fresnoland.

Scientists don’t know enough about the food habits of less social bees. Here’s why that urgently needs to change.

Acker publicly said he was sorry for the distraction and hurt he caused and wanted to be accountable.

Peninsula Beacon highlights: Navy redevelopment plans for the NAVWAR campus could reshape Old Town with high-rise mixed-use development, despite neighborhood concerns. Harbor Island West begins a $70 million marina modernization. A look back explores Ocean Beach's short-lived Wonderland amusement park, while inside stories highlight Liberty Station and local sports honors.

(The Center Square) - All Nevada hospice and home health providers are set to be reviewed over the next six months due to what officials call “elevated fraud risk." A temporary pause on hospice and home-health care licenses issued by the state and a six-month moratorium on new enrollments for Nevada Medicaid was officially approved and implemented on June 11. “We expect to have a more legitimate network of providers and an efficient system for validating new providers and detecting fraud so that patients needing hospice care are provided the services they expect and deserve to receive,” Josh Meny, press secretary for Gov. Joe Lombardo, said, answering The Center Square's questions by email. “Conducting site visits and checking these facilities helps protect patients and families by helping identify bad actors and unsafe facilities,” Meny added. Over the past few years, there has been a rapid increase in licensure and enrollment for hospice and home health providers, according to Chloe Chism, spokesperson of the Nevada Health Authority. Chism said the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services identified Nevada as a state with an “elevated fraud risk” for hospice providers. According to Meny, there are currently 209 hospice and home health providers enrolled in the Nevada Medicaid program. Each one will be subject to an onsite review, the Nevada Health Authority said in a prior press release. “Over the next six months, state staff will be conducting extensive onsite reviews of all Medicaid-enrolled hospice and home-health providers to identify any instances of potential Medicaid billing and payment fraud that require immediate attention and action,” the press release said. Patients currently receiving care should not be affected by the temporary pause, according to Chism. “The temporary pause does not affect Medicaid eligibility for recipients, Medicaid coverage for hospice and home-health services, or hospice and home health providers currently enrolled and in good status with Nevada Medicaid," Chism said, answering The Center Square's questions by email. "Members who receive hospice and home health services through Nevada Medicaid should not see any change to their coverage or access to care.” The Governor’s Office and the Nevada Health Authority said they could not comment on the amount of money at stake in the fraud investigations. “The state believes action was critically needed to protect scarce taxpayer dollars that fund these lifesaving healthcare programs,” Chism said. According to Meny, all allegations of fraud that Nevada Medicaid deems credible are referred to the state Attorney General’s Office and the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. "As the person who actually won back $40.9 million and dozens of convictions cracking down on Medicaid fraud for Nevada, let me set the record straight: Joe Lombardo is using Medicaid fraud to justify his despicable political ploy of taking away dying Nevadans' health care to appease Donald Trump,” Attorney General Aaron Ford said in a statement posted on X. Ford is the Democratic candidate challenging Lombardo, a Republican, in the Nov. 3 election for governor. As the result of a federal investigation, a Las Vegas woman, Marizel Yukee, was charged with money laundering in an alleged $906 million scheme to defraud Medicare and Tricare in Texas earlier this week, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas. “The indictment alleges Yukee, through four mobile wound clinics she owned in four different states, targeted elderly Medicare patients, many of whom were terminally ill in hospice care,” the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a press release. The Center Square reached out to Ford's office, but the attorney general declined an interview.

California disciplinary records show officers who used racist, sexist and anti-LGBTQ language often kept their jobs after agencies sustained misconduct findings.

Mexican journalists who investigate alleged ties between politicians and drug cartels explain how they verify leaked information, avoid being manipulated and safely cover organized crime networks. The post Recent U.S. court cases breathe new life into Mexico narcopolitics reporting appeared first on LatAm Journalism Review by the Knight Center.

Detroit's newly appointed health director Ali Abazeed is taking on the city's most pressing health challenges — from childhood asthma to climate disasters — with a Health in All Policies approach that puts equity at the center of city decision-making.

The doubling of bread prices in Iran is yet another indicator of the deteriorating state of the economy as ordinary Iranians describe cutting meat, skipping meals out, and struggling to buy their children toys.

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said he will push legislation...

La ley SB 153 ha entrado en vigor. ACLU advierte sobre el impacto en la comunidad inmigrante, señalando las incertidumbres que aún persisten en cuanto a su implementación y aplicación. La entrada SB 153 de Carolina del Norte: implementación de la ley migratoria es incierta; expertos piden prepararse se publicó primero en Enlace Latino NC. SB 153 de Carolina del Norte: implementación de la ley migratoria es incierta; expertos piden prepararse was first posted on junio 25, 2026 at 7:00 pm.©2024 "Enlace Latino NC". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at paola@enlacelatinonc.org

La ley SB 153 ha entrado en vigor. ACLU advierte sobre el impacto en la comunidad inmigrante, señalando las incertidumbres que aún persisten en cuanto a su implementación y aplicación. La entrada SB 153 de Carolina del Norte: implementación de la ley migratoria es incierta; expertos piden prepararse se publicó primero en Enlace Latino NC. SB 153 de Carolina del Norte: implementación de la ley migratoria es incierta; expertos piden prepararse was first posted on junio 25, 2026 at 7:00 pm.©2024 "Enlace Latino NC". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at paola@enlacelatinonc.org

Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S.Parceling out key Education Department functions to other agencies does not represent an end run around Congress, top officials said Thursday, even as they declined to say what might trigger the need for congressional approval. In a 20-minute video interview with Chalkbeat, assistant secretaries Kirsten Baesler, Kimberly Richey, and Kelly Rogers pushed back against criticism from education advocacy groups, Democratic lawmakers, and even some Republicans. They argued these changes will be good for students and families in tangible ways — saying that they will improve services for children with disabilities, strengthen civil rights protections, and boost academic outcomes. In a number of cases, though, they offered only limited specifics on how moving around offices would make a practical difference.Baesler, the former North Dakota schools chief, oversees K-12 programming, which is now under the Department of Labor. Richey oversees civil rights, which will be working more closely with the Department of Justice. Rogers runs the special education arm, which has been moved to the Department of Health and Human Services. They reiterated the idea that a series of interagency agreements will provide proof of concept that the federal government can best support education without an actual Education Department.And they said the changes underway are responsive to parent and educator complaints about the status quo — but they could not name leaders or groups not already in the Republican camp who support specific changes, such as moving special education oversight to Health and Human Services.Here’s what we heard from Education Department leaders:Officials deny going around CongressBaesler responded with an emphatic “absolutely not” when asked if the interagency agreements are a way to dismantle the department without getting congressional approval. “We know that dismantling or the dissolution of the Department of Education will take an act of Congress,” she said. “Our whole intent is to provide evidence to our congressional members of the House and the Senate that this is actually a more efficient and effective way to yield stronger student academic outcomes. … We’re not going around but working with.”Kirsten Baesler, Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary EducationBaesler compared the 14 interagency agreements that have farmed out duties the law assigns to the Education Department to six other departments to times she ran a pilot program in North Dakota before asking state lawmakers to change policy or approve new funding.But the administration has not treated the effort as a small pilot — it has outsourced several of the largest arms of the agency. After months of limited pushback, some lawmakers are speaking out.Last week, Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Republican chair of the Senate education committee who has stepped up his criticism of the administration since losing his primary, promised a committee vote on a measure that would prevent special education from moving to HHS. And on Thursday, Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, a Michigan Democrat who serves on the House education committee, introduced articles of impeachment that accuse McMahon of “willful intent to unilaterally dismantle and eliminate the Department of Education.” Schools will get federal money on time this yearBaesler said federal money will go out to states and school districts on July 1, as is typical. Last summer, the Office of Management and Budget held back some $7 billion that school leaders had been counting on to hire staff and set up programs for the upcoming school year. The money was only restored after outcry from Republican lawmakers and state chiefs. This year, the Office of Management and Budget has used an obscure procedure to delay placing money in the necessary accounts for some federal grant programs. The affected accounts involve a smaller pot of money than last year’s withholding. Baesler said school districts will not experience a repeat of last year’s delays.Officials could not name parents who pushed for special education changesRogers laid out the case for the most contentious of recent changes: moving special education oversight to HHS. In listening sessions, Education Department officials heard from parents that their children often need services and support outside of school. She said partnering with HHS will improve services from infancy into adulthood. The ultimate goal, she said, is better long-term outcomes.While disability advocates have stressed that students with disabilities are students first, Rogers said parents said their children are more than just students. That means Health and Human Services is a better place to meet their needs, she said.But asked to name a disability rights group or individual who wanted special education to move to HHS, Rogers could not do so. “I don’t have that information right now on who said what, but we took in all the feedback and made the ultimate decision,” she said.Administration touts state flexibility, even though some leaders aren’t feeling itSimilarly, Baesler said she believes the changes to K-12 education will empower states and local districts and ultimately improve student academic outcomes.But asked to name a Democratic-appointed or aligned education leader who feels empowered by the administration’s changes, Baesler could not do so. She cited Vermont’s education chief, who was appointed by a Republican. Education leaders in Rhode Island and Washington have previously told Chalkbeat that if anything they are experiencing more federal involvement under the Trump administration.It’s still not clear how exactly civil rights enforcement will changeThe Department of Justice will take a “more active and involved role” in school civil rights complaints going forward, Richey said, while the Office for Civil Rights retains ultimate authority over civil rights enforcement. “We’re going to continue to be laser focused on complaint investigation and resolution,” Richey said.The Trump administration has laid off civil rights investigators, closed regional offices, and focused enforcement on high-profile cases involving political priorities such as transgender athletes and campus protests.Many details of the agreement are still being worked out, Richey said, but the goal is “more aggressive enforcement” and bolstering civil rights in schools. In an interview last week with conservative commentator Glenn Beck, Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Justice Department, said Justice has “cut out the middle man, which is Department of Education investigators and lawyers.” “Ninety-nine percent of the work is going to be done here,” she said.Erica Meltzer is Chalkbeat’s national editor based in Colorado. Contact Erica at emeltzer@chalkbeat.org.