Em telefonema ao homólogo, nesta semana, Lula defendeu limites de atuação e representação palestina no órgão Governo vê ‘problema de legitimidade’ em Conselho de Paz de Trump e Brasil não deve participar apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.

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Em telefonema ao homólogo, nesta semana, Lula defendeu limites de atuação e representação palestina no órgão Governo vê ‘problema de legitimidade’ em Conselho de Paz de Trump e Brasil não deve participar apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.

جدیدترین موضع رئیس جمهوری آمریکا در مقابله با جمهوری اسلامی

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Ministra do Planejamento sairá da pasta para avaliar disputa ao Senado ou governos estaduais e busca definição com partido Cotada para Senado ou governo de SP, Simone Tebet poderá contar com eleitorado feminino e baixa rejeição apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.

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Ministra do Planejamento sairá da pasta para avaliar disputa ao Senado ou governos estaduais e busca definição com partido Cotada para Senado ou governo de SP, Simone Tebet poderá contar com eleitorado feminino e baixa rejeição apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.

کیانوش رزاقی، حقوقدان، از کارزار وزارت خارجه آمریکا در مورد خانواده اعضای جمهوری اسلامی می‌گوید

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Local demonstrations on Friday were part of a coordinated national shutdown, calling on people across the country to step away from work, shopping and school for the day in a collective act of protest. The post Fresno protesters say it’s ‘life or death’ as local demonstrations echo national shutdown against ICE appeared first on Fresnoland.

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Local demonstrations on Friday were part of a coordinated national shutdown, calling on people across the country to step away from work, shopping and school for the day in a collective act of protest. The post Fresno protesters say it’s ‘life or death’ as local demonstrations echo national shutdown against ICE appeared first on Fresnoland.

Late 2025 marked the most severe three-month stretch in more than a decade for the gap between what agriculture producers pay to operate and what they receive in return, according to an analysis of USDA data released Friday.  The latest data builds on a pattern that’s existed for years: U.S. farmers have faced a cost […] The post Ag producers in worst 3-month cost-price gap since 2015, new USDA data shows appeared first on Investigate Midwest.

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Late 2025 marked the most severe three-month stretch in more than a decade for the gap between what agriculture producers pay to operate and what they receive in return, according to an analysis of USDA data released Friday.  The latest data builds on a pattern that’s existed for years: U.S. farmers have faced a cost […] The post Ag producers in worst 3-month cost-price gap since 2015, new USDA data shows appeared first on Investigate Midwest.

Dados do Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública mostram que o estado registrou 834 mortes por agentes de segurança no ano passado Mortes pela polícia crescem em SP sob Tarcísio e batem recorde em 2025 apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.

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Dados do Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública mostram que o estado registrou 834 mortes por agentes de segurança no ano passado Mortes pela polícia crescem em SP sob Tarcísio e batem recorde em 2025 apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.

محمود فرهمند: سپاه پاسداران ابزار اصلی جمهوری اسلامی برای سرکوب مردم ایران و گسترش ترور در خارج است

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لنگر گرفتن ناوشکن آمریکایی در اسرائیل و توافق کردهای سوریه با حکومت دمشق

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هانا نیومن: قرار دادن سپاه در فهرست تروریستی اتحادیه اروپا صرفا نمادین نیست

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The nation’s capital will host an autorace through its streets this summer, President Donald Trump said Friday. The IndyCar race, which Trump compared to the Indianapolis 500, will take place Aug. 23, with preliminary events such as practice sessions occurring for two days before, Trump said during an Oval Office announcement.  It will be free […]

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The nation’s capital will host an autorace through its streets this summer, President Donald Trump said Friday. The IndyCar race, which Trump compared to the Indianapolis 500, will take place Aug. 23, with preliminary events such as practice sessions occurring for two days before, Trump said during an Oval Office announcement.  It will be free […]

The Lemon and Fort arrests ratchet up a trend by US officials, both local and national, to view reporters as accomplices to anti-government protesters.

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This issue of the La Mesa Courier celebrates local youth achievements: Grossmont High varsity cheerleaders qualified for JAMZ Cheer Nationals after strong performances and hard work. 8th grade students from College Prep Middle School (CPMS) led a successful "Stock the Pantry Food Drive," collecting 711 pounds of food for the San Diego Food Bank.

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This issue of the La Mesa Courier celebrates local youth achievements: Grossmont High varsity cheerleaders qualified for JAMZ Cheer Nationals after strong performances and hard work. 8th grade students from College Prep Middle School (CPMS) led a successful "Stock the Pantry Food Drive," collecting 711 pounds of food for the San Diego Food Bank.

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Under Washington’s constitution, an officeholder elected to a partisan position who vacates their seat — through removal or resignation, say — must be replaced by someone of the same political party. But what happens when the official who needs replacing did not state a party preference in their declaration of candidacy? On this question, the […]

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Under Washington’s constitution, an officeholder elected to a partisan position who vacates their seat — through removal or resignation, say — must be replaced by someone of the same political party. But what happens when the official who needs replacing did not state a party preference in their declaration of candidacy? On this question, the […]

هانا نیومن: مذاکره با رژیم جمهوری اسلامی را آزمودیم؛ اما بیش از هر زمانی دیگری مردم را سرکوب کرد

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(The Center Square) – Officials with the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association are concerned about efforts to raise property taxes on California’s homeowners, a representative of the organization told The Center Square this week. The trepidation that the state’s homeowners might see property taxes go up stems from transfer-tax loopholes, the proposed billionaires’ tax and the state’s budget deficit, according to organization officials and a letter sent earlier this month by the group to its members. The letter explained that California used to have a small 0.11% transfer tax on the transfer of ownership when property changed hands, which was kept from increasing by Proposition 13. A series of court decisions in the years after Prop. 13 passed in 1978 then allowed “charter cities” to institute their own transfer taxes that were much higher than the 0.11% limit imposed by Prop. 13, according to the letter from the well-known taxpayers organization. “We have a situation in California where there’s not only a state budget deficit, but all the cities and counties are under pressure because of pension obligations and liability judgements,” said Susan Shelley, vice president of communications for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. “They’re under tremendous budget pressure, and they’re all looking for tax increases," Shelley told The Center Square. "So we’ve seen more and more of what we consider to be unconstitutional taxes being enacted anyway.” The proposed billionaires’ tax, too, is causing concern at the taxpayers association. The effort to pass the tax is sponsored by Service Employees International Union – Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW). The proposal is to impose a one-time 5% tax on California residents whose wealth exceeds $1 billion, according to documents from the California Attorney General’s Office and previous reporting by The Center Square. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has voiced his opposition to the measure, according to multiple news reports. “This is an entirely new kind of tax,” Shelley told The Center Square. “This is not a tax on income. This is not a tax on sales. This is not a tax on capital gains. This is a tax on existing property.” It's no consolation that the tax only affects those with $1 billion or more in wealth, Shelley continued. “Once they put this in place, where everyone has to tell the government everything they own and what its value is every year, then there’s a mechanism in place to tax retirement funds, home equity, possessions,” Shelley told The Center Square. “That’s never happened in America before, where people’s possessions would be taxed just because they own them. We are very concerned about that, and we believe it would totally come down to the middle class very quickly.” Also at issue is the state’s projected $18 billion budget deficit, which the Legislative Analyst’s Office reported in November. While Newsom released a budget proposal earlier this month that puts the state’s deficit at only $2.9 billion, the LAO said the multi-year deficits caused by the governor’s budget would prove to be alarming, as previously reported by The Center Square. “We’re very concerned about the long-term effect of so much debt at the state level,” Shelley told The Center Square. According to a database compiled by the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation, California had an effective property tax rate of 0.70% of a home’s assessed value in 2023, the last year for which data was available. The state with the highest property tax rate is Illinois, with a 1.83% property tax rate, according to the database. New Jersey, Connecticut, Nebraska, Vermont, New Hampshire, Texas, Ohio, New York, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Rhode Island, Minnesota, South Dakota, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Maine, Alaska, Maryland, Missouri, Oregon, Oklahoma, Georgia, Indiana, Virginia, Washington State, Florida and Kentucky all had at least marginally higher property tax rates than California, the Tax Foundation data show. Lawmakers who sit on tax-related committees in the California State Legislature, as well as dozens of homeowners’ associations across the state, did not return calls to The Center Square or were unavailable to answer questions.

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(The Center Square) – Officials with the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association are concerned about efforts to raise property taxes on California’s homeowners, a representative of the organization told The Center Square this week. The trepidation that the state’s homeowners might see property taxes go up stems from transfer-tax loopholes, the proposed billionaires’ tax and the state’s budget deficit, according to organization officials and a letter sent earlier this month by the group to its members. The letter explained that California used to have a small 0.11% transfer tax on the transfer of ownership when property changed hands, which was kept from increasing by Proposition 13. A series of court decisions in the years after Prop. 13 passed in 1978 then allowed “charter cities” to institute their own transfer taxes that were much higher than the 0.11% limit imposed by Prop. 13, according to the letter from the well-known taxpayers organization. “We have a situation in California where there’s not only a state budget deficit, but all the cities and counties are under pressure because of pension obligations and liability judgements,” said Susan Shelley, vice president of communications for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. “They’re under tremendous budget pressure, and they’re all looking for tax increases," Shelley told The Center Square. "So we’ve seen more and more of what we consider to be unconstitutional taxes being enacted anyway.” The proposed billionaires’ tax, too, is causing concern at the taxpayers association. The effort to pass the tax is sponsored by Service Employees International Union – Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW). The proposal is to impose a one-time 5% tax on California residents whose wealth exceeds $1 billion, according to documents from the California Attorney General’s Office and previous reporting by The Center Square. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has voiced his opposition to the measure, according to multiple news reports. “This is an entirely new kind of tax,” Shelley told The Center Square. “This is not a tax on income. This is not a tax on sales. This is not a tax on capital gains. This is a tax on existing property.” It's no consolation that the tax only affects those with $1 billion or more in wealth, Shelley continued. “Once they put this in place, where everyone has to tell the government everything they own and what its value is every year, then there’s a mechanism in place to tax retirement funds, home equity, possessions,” Shelley told The Center Square. “That’s never happened in America before, where people’s possessions would be taxed just because they own them. We are very concerned about that, and we believe it would totally come down to the middle class very quickly.” Also at issue is the state’s projected $18 billion budget deficit, which the Legislative Analyst’s Office reported in November. While Newsom released a budget proposal earlier this month that puts the state’s deficit at only $2.9 billion, the LAO said the multi-year deficits caused by the governor’s budget would prove to be alarming, as previously reported by The Center Square. “We’re very concerned about the long-term effect of so much debt at the state level,” Shelley told The Center Square. According to a database compiled by the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation, California had an effective property tax rate of 0.70% of a home’s assessed value in 2023, the last year for which data was available. The state with the highest property tax rate is Illinois, with a 1.83% property tax rate, according to the database. New Jersey, Connecticut, Nebraska, Vermont, New Hampshire, Texas, Ohio, New York, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Rhode Island, Minnesota, South Dakota, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Maine, Alaska, Maryland, Missouri, Oregon, Oklahoma, Georgia, Indiana, Virginia, Washington State, Florida and Kentucky all had at least marginally higher property tax rates than California, the Tax Foundation data show. Lawmakers who sit on tax-related committees in the California State Legislature, as well as dozens of homeowners’ associations across the state, did not return calls to The Center Square or were unavailable to answer questions.

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. This news analysis was originally distributed in Votebeat’s free weekly newsletter. Sign up to get future editions, including the latest reporting from Votebeat bureaus and curated news from other publications, delivered to your inbox every Saturday. What a week of election news, huh? Attorney General Pam Bondi set off a furor when she appeared to link the aggressive immigration enforcement efforts in Minnesota to the state’s refusal to share its voter rolls with the Trump administration. The FBI searched a Fulton County, Georgia, election office, apparently as part of a criminal investigation into the 2020 election. Congressional Republicans dropped big new legislation to overhaul election administration. Against that backdrop, secretaries of state from around the country gathered in a hotel ballroom in Washington, D.C., many expressing growing unease about the implications of the Trump administration’s actions and rhetoric around the 2026 elections they’re responsible for administering in November. Multiple Trump administration officials were scheduled to address the secretaries’ conference at various points, but the plans kept shifting. Earlier this week, a spokeswoman for the National Association of Secretaries of State said Bondi — whose Justice Department has so far sued 23 states and Washington, D.C., for access to their voter rolls — and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem would potentially be added to the schedule. Later, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was added to the list of expected officials, less than 48 hours after she appeared at the FBI search in Fulton County. It wasn’t clear what they were planning to say, and some Democratic secretaries said they planned to skip the remarks. But after a crowd of secretaries of state, their staff, consultants, vendors, and media members filled the ballroom Friday afternoon, with four chairs set up on the dais, Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson, a Republican, announced that the chairs would stay empty. “Unfortunately, it appears that we will no longer be having a 3 o’clock session,” Watson said, to rueful chuckles. It wasn’t the only shift. An early agenda had called for a Thursday panel with two White House officials, as well as Harmeet Dhillon, the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, and Heather Honey, the deputy assistant secretary for election integrity for the Department of Homeland Security. Ultimately, only one official, Jared Borg of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, spoke. Borg opened by outlining the administration’s efforts to overhaul a federal database used by many states to verify voter citizenship, as well as ongoing consultations with secretaries of state on that and related initiatives. Election officials from both political parties had pointed questions. Referring to comments from Justice Department officials about states’ maintenance of voter rolls, Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, a Republican and the state’s chief election officer, said it is “problematic to publicly claim that secretaries of state are not doing our jobs and that the federal government has to do it for us.” Connecticut Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas, a Democrat, asked why the administration wasn’t answering their questions about its election initiatives. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, asked pointedly how the Trump administration squared his executive order on elections with the fact that the Constitution gives authority over elections to the states and Congress. Borg said the question would be better directed to Bondi or Noem the next day. But as it turned out, Bellows didn’t get the chance, and she wasn’t happy about it. After Watson announced the session wouldn’t happen, a small group of Democratic secretaries of state spoke to the press. “Noem, Bondi, and Gabbard are cowards for not showing up today and answering the questions from election officials from across the country about this administration’s abuses of power,” Bellows said, while secretaries of state from Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island, and Vermont looked on. Their frustrations with the Trump administration were clear. But the Democratic secretaries ended on a more upbeat note: emphasizing that NASS is still a bipartisan organization, and that their Republican colleagues are just as committed to administering a fair 2026 election as they are. “Following the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law,” Thomas said, “is not a partisan issue.” Carrie Levine is Votebeat’s editor-in-chief and is based in Washington, D.C. Contact Carrie at clevine@votebeat.org.

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Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. This news analysis was originally distributed in Votebeat’s free weekly newsletter. Sign up to get future editions, including the latest reporting from Votebeat bureaus and curated news from other publications, delivered to your inbox every Saturday. What a week of election news, huh? Attorney General Pam Bondi set off a furor when she appeared to link the aggressive immigration enforcement efforts in Minnesota to the state’s refusal to share its voter rolls with the Trump administration. The FBI searched a Fulton County, Georgia, election office, apparently as part of a criminal investigation into the 2020 election. Congressional Republicans dropped big new legislation to overhaul election administration. Against that backdrop, secretaries of state from around the country gathered in a hotel ballroom in Washington, D.C., many expressing growing unease about the implications of the Trump administration’s actions and rhetoric around the 2026 elections they’re responsible for administering in November. Multiple Trump administration officials were scheduled to address the secretaries’ conference at various points, but the plans kept shifting. Earlier this week, a spokeswoman for the National Association of Secretaries of State said Bondi — whose Justice Department has so far sued 23 states and Washington, D.C., for access to their voter rolls — and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem would potentially be added to the schedule. Later, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was added to the list of expected officials, less than 48 hours after she appeared at the FBI search in Fulton County. It wasn’t clear what they were planning to say, and some Democratic secretaries said they planned to skip the remarks. But after a crowd of secretaries of state, their staff, consultants, vendors, and media members filled the ballroom Friday afternoon, with four chairs set up on the dais, Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson, a Republican, announced that the chairs would stay empty. “Unfortunately, it appears that we will no longer be having a 3 o’clock session,” Watson said, to rueful chuckles. It wasn’t the only shift. An early agenda had called for a Thursday panel with two White House officials, as well as Harmeet Dhillon, the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, and Heather Honey, the deputy assistant secretary for election integrity for the Department of Homeland Security. Ultimately, only one official, Jared Borg of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, spoke. Borg opened by outlining the administration’s efforts to overhaul a federal database used by many states to verify voter citizenship, as well as ongoing consultations with secretaries of state on that and related initiatives. Election officials from both political parties had pointed questions. Referring to comments from Justice Department officials about states’ maintenance of voter rolls, Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, a Republican and the state’s chief election officer, said it is “problematic to publicly claim that secretaries of state are not doing our jobs and that the federal government has to do it for us.” Connecticut Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas, a Democrat, asked why the administration wasn’t answering their questions about its election initiatives. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, asked pointedly how the Trump administration squared his executive order on elections with the fact that the Constitution gives authority over elections to the states and Congress. Borg said the question would be better directed to Bondi or Noem the next day. But as it turned out, Bellows didn’t get the chance, and she wasn’t happy about it. After Watson announced the session wouldn’t happen, a small group of Democratic secretaries of state spoke to the press. “Noem, Bondi, and Gabbard are cowards for not showing up today and answering the questions from election officials from across the country about this administration’s abuses of power,” Bellows said, while secretaries of state from Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island, and Vermont looked on. Their frustrations with the Trump administration were clear. But the Democratic secretaries ended on a more upbeat note: emphasizing that NASS is still a bipartisan organization, and that their Republican colleagues are just as committed to administering a fair 2026 election as they are. “Following the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law,” Thomas said, “is not a partisan issue.” Carrie Levine is Votebeat’s editor-in-chief and is based in Washington, D.C. Contact Carrie at clevine@votebeat.org.

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ستاد فرماندهی مرکزی آمریکا به سپاه پاسداران نسبت به انجام رفتارهای تنش‌زا در تنگه هرمز هشدار داد.

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s new Federal Reserve chair pick likely faces headwinds in the U.S. Senate, as a key lawmaker opposes the administration’s ongoing criminal probe of current Fed leader Jerome Powell. Trump announced early Friday he’s tapped Kevin Warsh to lead the central bank after Powell’s term ends in May. Warsh sat on […]

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s new Federal Reserve chair pick likely faces headwinds in the U.S. Senate, as a key lawmaker opposes the administration’s ongoing criminal probe of current Fed leader Jerome Powell. Trump announced early Friday he’s tapped Kevin Warsh to lead the central bank after Powell’s term ends in May. Warsh sat on […]