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Andreas, warga Bantul, Yogyakarta, masih ingat kala lihat lihat anjing tetangganya jadi santapan. Caranya tidak masuk di akal, anjing itu dipaksa masuk ke karung lalu dipukuli hingga tewas. Darah rembes ke luar karung seketika setelah gonggongan berhenti. Adegan saat dia masih duduk di bangku SMP itu membuatnya bertekad tidak mau lagi mengonsumsi daging anjing. Saat […] The post Upaya Setop Konsumsi Daging Anjing di Yogyakarta appeared first on Mongabay.co.id.

Sinabi ni Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Cristina Roque na sapat daw ang P500 na noche buena para sa pamilyang may apat na miyembro. The post Reality Check: Sapat ba ang P500 pang-noche buena? appeared first on Bulatlat.

Authorities prevented fisherfolk from holding a symbolic action outside the court, underscoring what CEED’s Gerry Arances later described as the difficulty marginalized sectors face in making their voices heard. The post Fisherfolk file class suit over MT Princess Empress oil spill appeared first on Bulatlat.

(The Center Square) – The San Diego City Council on Tuesday approved the largest settlement in a death related to a police action in the U.S. since George Floyd. The council voted 8-0, with one member absent, to pay a $30 million settlement in the lawsuit that Steven Lee Wilson filed against the city over the death of his 16-year-old son, Koana Wilson. Koana, who was running out of the downtown Santa Fe train station at 8:51 p.m. Jan. 28, died after being shot in the back by a San Diego police officer. The city is paying the $30 million from its Public Liability Fund, according to a city staff report. Koana was running on the west platform of the Santa Fe train station in the 1100 block of Kettner Boulevard in downtown San Diego, according to a San Diego Police Department video, which features surveillance footage showing what appears to be another juvenile firing a gun at Koana. The surveillance footage shows Koana running, and an officer's body camera shows the officer firing at Koana when the boy runs toward him, then turns into the street. Viewer discretion is advised for the police department's YouTube video because of its graphic images and language. You can access the video at this link. According to the lawsuit, San Diego Police Officer Daniel Gold fired two shots at Koana “instantly, without warning." Koana, who the family said was running away from another shooting before being shot, was taken to University of California, San Diego Health Medical Center and pronounced dead less than an hour later. City Councilmember Henry L. Foster III commented on the settlement at Tuesday's meeting. After expressing his condolences to the Wilson family, Foster said, "Koana's life was taken while fleeing from gunshots. He found himself running into the arms of a police officer, and his life ended. This should not have happened. "This should not have happened," Foster repeated, shaking his head. "Koana should have been safe from danger." Foster noted San Diego was making national headlines with a settlement exceeding the $27 million that the city of Minneapolis paid to Floyd's family in March 2021. That came during a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and the four officers involved with his death. Officer Derek Chauvin, who placed his knee on Floyd's neck as Floyd said, "I can't breathe," was convicted of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in April 2021 by a Minnesota jury and later sentenced to more than 20 years in prison on state charges. He received an additional federal sentence for civil rights violations. "We find ourselves in another terrifying predicament when the life of a Black child has been taken at the hands of police," Foster said. "Where's the progress? Where's the 'protect and serve'? Better yet, where's the accountability? "There's no way to put a number on the loss of a life, to repair the harm and hurt to a family losing a loved one," Foster said. "As a father of a young Black man, this hurts. "This could be my son," Foster said. "If only you can understand the fear I often have when my son leaves the house." "As a city, we have to do better," the council member said. The police department's video that includes footage from Gold’s body camera shows Koana running around the corner and straight at Gold, then turning into the street as Gold fired shots. Afterward on the video, Gold yells, “San Diego police!” Then Koana falls onto the ground, and the video shifts to text explaining police and the San Diego Fire Department administered medical aid including CPR. “When officers began providing medical aid, a firearm was located concealed under clothing in the juvenile’s right thigh area,” San Diego police said in a caption in the video. The video shows police removing a handgun and later includes a photo of the gun. San Diego police said it investigated the first shooting at the Santa Fe Depot, the one that Koana was running away from, and identified and arrested the shooter, who’s a 16-year-old juvenile, on Feb. 6. The shooting by Gold is being investigated by the San Diego County Sheriff's Office, San Diego Police Department's Internal Affairs Unit, the Shooting Review Board and the Commission on Police Practices, according to the San Diego police video. The county District Attorney's Office said it is working to determine whether to file criminal charges against Gold, who police say is currently limited to desk duty. San Diego police said the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office have monitored the investigation. The Center Square reached out Wednesday to San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria, the San Diego Police Department and the Wilson family's attorney, Nick Rowley, for comment, but did not get a response.

(The Center Square) – A coalition of states led by New York Attorney General Letitia James and another coalition of teacher unions filed lawsuits against the Trump administration, alleging it violated federal law by excluding certain organizations from a student loan forgiveness program. Under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness, the administration’s updated rule disqualifies employers that it says have “a substantial illegal purpose." The administration has applied that phrase to organizations that provide gender-affirming care, support immigrants, or promote diversity, equity and inclusion. Now two lawsuits are challenging that rule. The lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of 22 jurisdictions says that the Public Service Loan Forgiveness is “a decades-old bipartisan Congressional promise to support those who choose to dedicate their careers to public service.” Created to help government and nonprofit workers, the program was intended to forgive student loans for employees considered to be serving the public. In October, the administration said it was “rightsizing the program to ensure that PSLF benefits go only to borrowers employed by organizations that genuinely serve the public,” according to the U.S. Department of Education. James responded in a post on X, accusing the administration of “weaponizing” the loan forgiveness program “illegally.” Her office said the new rule could deem entire state governments, hospitals, schools and nonprofits ineligible if the federal government determines they engage in activities the administration opposes. “The coalition argues that the sweeping new rule is unlawful, politically motivated, and targeted to punish states and organizations that the administration does not like,” James’ office said in a statement. Currently 40 million Americans hold student loans, and the debt is over $1.6 trillion. American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, who is leading the union coalition, noted the program’s bipartisan origins, saying it “was created by a Republican president and Democratic senators to help attract and retain teachers, nurses, firefighters and so many others who’ve dedicated their careers to helping others.” She said the administration is imposing “an ideological litmus test on millions of public servants and their employers that’s antithetical to American values and contrary to the statute at hand. “ It is an “illegal attack” on those relying on the program, she added. The New York Attorney General's Office and the U.S. Department of Education did not respond to The Center Square's request for comment. Joining James in filing this lawsuit are the attorneys general of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia. Joining the American Federation of Teachers in this lawsuit are the National Council of Nonprofits, city of Boston, city of Albuquerque, city of Chicago, city and county of San Francisco, county of Santa Clara, Amica Center for Immigrant Rights, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Legal Aid Society of the District Of Columbia, Oasis Legal Services, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, National Education Association, and National Association of Social Workers.

В среду утром служащие американской береговой охраны при поддержке морских пехотинцев задержали неподалеку от побережья Венесуэлы танкер The Skipper, принадлежащий нигерийской фирме, которая контролируется компанией, имеющей связи с Виктором Артемовым владельцем нескольких танкеров, по данным украинских СМИ, гражданином Украины. В заявлении министра юстиции США Пэм Бонди говорится о "захвате нефтяного танкера, использованного для перевозки венесуэльской и иранской нефти, являющейся объектом...

Thirteen plaintiffs who successfully challenged Montana’s energy-permitting policies in Held v. Montana are now asking the state Supreme Court to weigh in on a trio of climate- and environmental review-related bills state lawmakers passed in 2025. The plaintiffs argue that the challenged bills don’t uphold their constitutional right to a “clean and healthful environment,” which courts have interpreted to include a “stable climate system.” The post Held v. Montana plaintiffs sue state over bills passed by the 2025 Legislature appeared first on Montana Free Press.

Es un conflicto que lleva años y vuelve a encender las alertas de las comunidades wichi. Desde 2023, el empresario agrícola Claudio Ferrari intenta apropiarse de una porción del monte que rodea a Misión Chaqueña, una comunidad de poco más de 2.000 habitantes ubicada a 48 kilómetros de la ciudad de Embarcación, en Salta. […]

A proposed city fee update would have dramatically increased how much people have to pay to appeal approvals of new housing projects.

State lawmakers are questioning an ongoing reorganization at Louisiana’s child welfare agency, raising concerns that the effort could result in the loss of experienced employees. Sens. Regina Barrow, D-Baton Rouge, and Katrina Jackson-Andrews, D-Monroe, were also critical of the leadership at the Department of Children and Family Services and its lack of experience in child […]

Can (or will) Spotify be held legally accountable for hosting AI knockoffs of real bands? An expert explains.

India has detailed systems for measuring poverty. But when it comes to wealth, the data goes dark. Understanding who the rich are is essential to building fairer taxation, climate policy, and social programs. India knows how to count the poor. From ration cards to multi-decade surveys such as the National Sample Survey , there are […] The post Why we still don’t know who the rich are in India appeared first on 360.

Under the Marcos Jr. administration, Karapatan said that there are 14 enforced disappearances, 134 extra-judicial killings, 822 arbitrary arrests, 577 forced or fake surrenders, more than 70,000 victims of indiscriminate firing and 48,000 victims of forced evacuation. The post Victim-survivors lead march for justice, accountability on int’l human rights day appeared first on Bulatlat.

While a majority of nurses at UnityPoint Health — Des Moines voted this week to unionize in initial results, the National Labor Relations Board did not announce the outcome of the election Wednesday amid a dispute over challenged votes. Nurses working in four UnityPoint Health locations in the Des Moines area — Iowa Methodist Medical […]

The dollars advance a $74.5 million project aimed at easing traffic concerns in the fast-growing area.

Updated songs from KISS, children of rock stars forming their own bands, and a concert film from The Cure will be screened in San Diego.

Republicans in Congress want to give states more authority to remove ineligible voters — including noncitizens and people who have moved or died — from voter rolls, seeking to reinforce the Trump administration’s own push to scrub the lists.  At a U.S. House hearing on Wednesday, lawmakers weighed changing a landmark federal voter registration law, […]

WASHINGTON — A public lands advocacy group sued the Trump administration in federal court Wednesday over the inclusion of President Donald Trump’s face on the forthcoming National Park annual pass. The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that alleges the Department of the Interior […]

Au procès de Roger Lumbala, l’un des rares et derniers témoins à décharge encore accessibles a été entendu mercredi 10 décembre pendant plus de deux heures en visioconférence depuis Kinshasa. L’ancien cadre du RCD-N est revenu sur l’arrivée de l’ex-chef rebelle à Bafwasende en 2000, l’organisation du mouvement et ses propres responsabilités au sein de l’administration rebelle. Une audition marquée par un incident en pleine audience.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House agreed Wednesday to consider a bill that would void President Donald Trump’s executive order that strips collective bargaining rights for roughly 1 million federal workers. The 222-200 vote was a rare bipartisan agreement from the lower chamber to rebuke a policy decision from the president. Thirteen Republicans joined all Democrats voting for the […]