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Female tortoises are bearing the brunt of the brutal behaviour of their male counterparts, who are regularly pushing them off cliffs in North Macedonia.

A Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU) exigiu nesta quarta-feira (6) que o governo de Israel liberte, sem demora, o brasileiro Thiago Ávila e o hispano-palestino Saif Abu Keshek, ativistas capturados em uma flotilha que se dirigia a Gaza, exigindo ainda a apuração de denúncias sobre abusos físicos. A dupla permanece em uma unidade prisional em […] Fonte

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Parliament speaker Alen Simonian has accused Russia of using Armenia’s upcoming parliamentary elections to try to topple Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s government.

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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here.The White House’s newly released strategy for tackling the nation’s drug and addiction crisis calls for a number of ambitious public health approaches that some experts say are laudable but will be hampered by the administration’s own actions.The sweeping 195-page National Drug Control Strategy, published Monday, advocates for making access to treatment easier than getting drugs, preventing young people from developing addictions in the first place, increasing support for people in recovery, and reducing overdose deaths.Those broad goals are widely supported by public health researchers, addiction treatment clinicians, and recovery advocates.But accomplishing such goals will be difficult in the face of the administration’s mass layoffs of federal employees, cancellation of research and community grants, attacks on organizations and practices that serve people who use drugs, and cuts to Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for low-income people that is the largest payer for addiction and mental health care nationwide.Many components of the National Drug Control Strategy are “things that we would agree with and that we fully support,” said Libby Jones, who leads overdose prevention efforts at the Global Health Advocacy Incubator, a public health advocacy group.But there are “disconnects in what the strategy says is important and then what they’re actually going to fund,” she said of the Trump administration. “Those inconsistencies feel particularly loud in this strategy.”The White House’s National Drug Control Strategy, released every two years, is a touchstone document meant to lay out the federal government’s coordinated approach to what in recent decades has been one of the country’s defining problems.Since 2000, more than 1.1 million people have died of drug overdoses. Although deaths have decreased recently, the numbers remain elevated compared with earlier decades, and research suggests overdose death rates among Black Americans and Native Americans are disproportionately high.Psychedelics offer exciting promise for mental health – if rolled out rightThe strategy document published this week is the first of President Donald Trump’s current term. In keeping with the administration’s approach to addiction issues, it places heavy emphasis on law enforcement efforts to reduce the supply of illicit drugs. The document repeatedly refers to the ongoing “war” against “foreign terrorist organizations” — the Trump administration’s term for drug cartels — and touts increased enforcement at U.S. borders.It also outlines plans to implement artificial intelligence technologies to screen for illicit drugs brought into the country and wastewater testing to detect illegal drug use nationwide.The second half of the strategy focuses on reducing the demand for drugs through public health prevention efforts, addiction treatment, and support for people in recovery. It promotes the role of religion in recovery and calls for the widespread use of overdose reversal medications, such as naloxone.In a news release, the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy called the document a “roadmap” that will “continue dismantling the drug supply and defeating the scourge of illicit drugs in our country.”The Trump administration did not respond to requests for comment about how the strategy aligns with its other actions.In December, Trump signed a reauthorization of the SUPPORT Act, which continues several grants related to treatment and recovery and the requirement for Medicaid to cover all Food and Drug Administration-approved medications for opioid use disorder. In January, he announced the Great American Recovery Initiative, including a $100 million investment to address homelessness, opioid addiction, and public safety.However, few details have been provided about the initiative, and in January, about a month after the SUPPORT Act passed, billions of dollars in addiction-related grants were abruptly terminated and reinstated within a frantic 24-hour period.That “whiplash” left “a sense of instability and uncertainty in the field,” said Yngvild Olsen, a national adviser with the Manatt Health consultancy. She led substance use treatment policy at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA, under the Biden administration and left about six months into Trump’s second term.That insecurity was exacerbated by the president’s 2027 budget request, which proposes cuts to several addiction and mental health programs and the consolidation of key federal agencies working on those matters. Jones’ group and nearly 100 others in the field have signed a letter asking Congress to reject the proposals, as it did with similar requests last year.The national drug strategy adds new, potentially contradictory information to this confusing landscape.Increasing access to treatment at odds with Medicaid cutsOne of the most significant public health goals in the strategy, mentioned at least half a dozen times, is to make it easier to get treatment than it is to buy illegal drugs.National data underscore the necessity: More than 80% of Americans who need substance use treatment don’t receive it.The administration’s actions on health insurance may make it difficult to improve that statistic.Medicaid is the main source of health care coverage for adults with opioid use disorder. When implemented, the Medicaid work requirements in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act are projected to strip that coverage from about 1.6 million people with substance use disorders.The last time Medicaid rolls were purged — after Covid-era protections expired — many people who had been receiving medication treatment for opioid addiction stopped it and fewer people started treatment, according to a study published last year.Olsen, who is also an addiction medicine doctor, said she loves the strategy’s emphasis on making treatment readily available to anyone who wants it. But she said that’s “hard to really imagine when now people may have to pay for it themselves because they may be losing their Medicaid insurance coverage.”One analysis estimated the upcoming Medicaid changes could lead 156,000 people to lose access to medications for opioid use disorder and result in more than 1,000 additional fatal overdoses per year.An addiction counselor’s ‘aha’ moment: When even saving a life isn’t enoughPeople with private insurance may be affected, too.The Trump administration has refused to enforce Biden-era regulations aimed at bolstering mental health parity, the idea that insurers must cover mental illness and addiction treatment comparably to physical treatments. And recently, the administration said it would redo those regulations altogether, raising fears that addiction treatment could become increasingly unaffordable.The administration did not respond to specific questions about how it reconciles its actions on Medicaid and parity with the goal of increasing treatment.Prevention efforts may be hampered by funding, staff cutsThe strategy highlights preventing addictions before they begin as one of the keys to reducing demand for drugs. It calls for “promoting a drug-free America as the social norm” and implementing school and community-based programs that are backed by science.“Investing in primary prevention, before drug use starts, saves lives and resources,” it says, citing several studies about the cost-effectiveness of such programs.Yet, the president’s budget proposes cuts to these types of programs, and federal layoffs have decimated the agencies that would implement such work.The White House’s most recent budget request proposes cutting roughly $220 million from SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and nearly $40 million from the Drug-Free Communities program.Since the new administration started, SAMHSA has lost about half of its staff, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is down about a quarter. “It’s not clear to me that they’re really going to be able to have the funds or the people to be able to carry that out,” Olsen said of the strategy’s prevention goals.Another wrinkle appears in the strategy’s discussion of marijuana. The document points to marijuana use as one of the drivers of increasing drug use disorders and reports that “convergent evidence from multiple sources” suggests cannabis use increases the risk of psychosis. It calls for developing new tools to treat marijuana withdrawal and addiction.However, just two weeks ago, the White House moved to reclassify medical marijuana to a lower tier of scheduled substances and is moving to hold a hearing to do the same for marijuana broadly.“The administration, on the one hand, is moving in a direction of liberalizing access to cannabis,” Jones said, “but at the same time, in the strategy, it talks about the dangers of doing so.”“There’s a disconnect there that just makes you question: Which one do you believe?” she added.The administration did not respond to specific questions about its marijuana policies.‘Rhetoric over reality’ on test strips to detect fentanylOne of the more surprising elements of the National Drug Control Strategy comes in the last paragraph of the final chapter. It focuses on public drug-checking programs, which often involve using test strips to help people who use drugs determine whether there are more-dangerous substances, such as fentanyl or xylazine, in the batch they bought. That helps them determine whether or how to safely use those drugs.“Rapid test strips and similar technologies that detect fentanyl and other drugs are an important tool that should be legal,” the strategy document says.However, SAMHSA announced in a recent letter that it would no longer pay for test strips, as part of the Trump administration’s “clear shift away from harm reduction and practices that facilitate illicit drug use.”The administration has similarly attacked harm reduction programs in an executive order and its budget requests. It did not respond to specific questions about how this position interacts with the drug control strategy.Regina LaBelle, a Georgetown University professor who served as acting director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy during the Biden administration, wrote about the contradiction in a blog post: “It is the height of rhetoric over reality to champion a tool while simultaneously cutting off the funding used to acquire it.”This story was originally published at KFF Health News, Healthbeat’s national reporting partner.

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“Virtyti i vërtetë nuk është thjesht të shmangësh padrejtësinë, por mbi të gjitha të mos e dëshirosh” –Demokriti

सोशल मीडिया पर एक वीडियो तेज़ी से वायरल हुआ है. दावा किया जा रहा है कि 4 मई, 2026 को पश्चिम बंगाल विधानसभा चुनाव में भारतीय जनता पार्टी की जीत... The post BJP, पत्रकार और मीडिया ने BJP की जीत का जश्न बताकर होली का वीडियो किया शेयर appeared first on Alt News.

La victoire du parti Tisza s’explique par une stratégie très efficace mêlant mobilisation de terrain, communication numérique moderne et récit fédérateur.

Lawmakers have been talking about making California more affordable for two years now. We asked our panel of experts how they would you grade their efforts so far. Continue reading the full article: Capitol WeeklyOriginal article: http://capitolweekly.net/experts-expound-affordability-2/

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A federal statute of limitations on second-degree murder poses a huge barrier to cold-case prosecution, and one victim’s family hopes to change it The post Slain infant’s family seeks end statute of limitations on second-degree murder appeared first on ICT.

(The Center Square) – Questions about more than 20 late-arriving ballots in Madison are not settled. The Wisconsin Elections Commission last month ordered the county and the city of Madison not to count 23 ballots that were delivered to polling places after 8 p.m. on April’s election day. Wisconsin law says all ballots must be at the polls before they close. On Tuesday, Dane County voted to appeal the order from the Elections Commission. Dane County legal counsel David Gault wrote in an argument for the county board of canvassers that the ballots were not technically late because election managers received the ballots the day before Election Day but didn't deliver them to the polls until later the next evening. "[Wisconin's late ballot law] should not be construed to disenfranchise an elector who has strictly complied with all statutory requirements to cast an absentee ballot. Such a construction would, in my opinion, be unconstitutional as applied to the facts of this case," Gault wrote. "The Supreme Court has held that failure on the part of election officials to perform their duties should not deprive the voters of their constitutional right to vote." The Elections Commission said that interpretation is wrong. WEC wrote in its legal argument that Dane County is relying on an old reading of state law, and that an update in the state law makes it clear that late ballots should not be counted. “There’s no discretion to do anything other than reject absentee ballots that were not cast according to those specific provisions,” WEC attorney Angela O’Brien Sharpe wrote. Which Madison voters may lose their vote is unknown. Votebeat reported Tuesday that while Madison's election clerk ordered poll workers to mark the late-arriving ballots, some poll workers did not. To offset that mistake, Madison "drew down" 20 ballots from the final vote count. Meaning the votes of people who were on-time with their ballots may not have been counted. This is not the first time that Madison has had issues with counting ballots. In the November 2024 election, Madison's now-former clerk failed to count nearly 200 absentee ballots. The ballots were discovered one week and one month after Election Day. An investigation showed Madison's clerk ignored questions about counting those ballots because she had taken time off to bake Christmas cookies.

Anticorrupción lo sopesó, pero la fiscal general del Estado, Teresa Peramato, decidió mantener la rebaja inicial en la petición de pena: siete años de cárcel.

中央社北京6日電：北京至今尚未正式宣布美國總統川普（特朗普）來訪事宜，中國外交部發言人林劍今天說，中美雙方就此事保持溝通，並指中方會對推動荷莫茲海峽（霍爾木茲海峽）局勢降溫努力。

中央社北京6日电：北京至今尚未正式宣布美国总统川普（特朗普）来访事宜，中国外交部发言人林剑今天说，中美双方就此事保持沟通，并指中方会对推动荷莫兹海峡（霍尔木兹海峡）局势降温努力。