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El Ministerio Público respondió este miércoles a las declaraciones de la exalcaldesa de Maipú, Cathy Barriga, . Ayer la Fiscalía Oriente presentó la acusación contra la otrora jefa comunal por fraude al fisco, falsificación de instrumento público, malversación de caudales públicos y negociación incompatible. Por estos delitos, la imputada arriesga 23 años de cárcel. Así … Continua leyendo "Fiscalía desmiente a Cathy Barriga: defensa de exalcaldesa habría propuesto acuerdo para evitar juicio" The post Fiscalía desmiente a Cathy Barriga: defensa de exalcaldesa habría propuesto acuerdo para evitar juicio appeared first on BioBioChile.

Federal rescheduling of marijuana products could make a bigger change.

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(The Center Square) – The debate over allegations of Somalian child care center fraud in Washington state has intensified, drawing responses and counter responses from state and federal officials over the veracity of the claims and the proper response. Recent reports indicate that federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI have launched a massive investigation into fraud within Minnesota's social services and child care programs. Prosecutorial estimates of potential fraud across multiple state-run, Medicaid-funded programs have been cited at up to $9.5 billion. The start of the federal investigation occurred within days of a video posted on X on Dec. 26, purporting to show childcare centers that didn't exist receiving taxpayer subsidies. The Center Square has also reported on and participated in visits to licensed childcare centers in Washington state in which no children were found there, while others posting on X have visited child care centers across Washington, questioning whether they are legitimate businesses. Licensed childcare providers can receive taxpayer subsidies through grants from state Department of Children, Youth & Families, which are sent to the provider after services are provided. As of Dec. 28, there were more than 500 childcare centers that listed Somali as their primary language. The allegations of fraud have prompted several state leaders to weigh in, including Gov. Bob Ferguson. In an X post, he wrote that “I met with Somali American community leaders today to discuss the deep damage inflicted by Donald Trump's harmful rhetoric and reckless deportations. Here in Washington state, we recognize that diversity is a strength.” State Attorney General Nick Brown released a statement on Tuesday saying his office had been contacted by childcare providers “being harassed and accused of fraud with little to no fact-checking. Showing up on someone’s porch, threatening, or harassing them isn’t an investigation. Neither is filming minors who may be in the home. This is unsafe and potentially dangerous behavior.” “We are in touch with the state Department of Children, Youth, and Families regarding the claims being pushed online and the harassment reported by daycare providers,” he also stated. While childcare center addresses are available online, DCYF has told The Center Square that family home-based childcare centers do not have to provide their address to anyone but their agency. Senate Bill 5926 prefiled by Sen. Lisa Wellman, D-Mercer Island, would expand public records exemption for personal information of family home child care providers to all licensed or certified child care providers in an effort to protect against “safety risks, harassment, doxxing, and targeted retaliation.” That information would include: NamesHome addresses, GPS coordinatesPersonal phone numbers and email addressesDates of birthSocial security or taxpayer ID numbersDriver's license numbersBank account/direct deposit infoEmergency contactsPhotographs (unless publicly distributed by the provider)Other personally identifying information However, the bill does not exempt business addresses, program capacity, licensing status, inspection results, or public safety findings. The Center Square also reached out to DCYF to discuss SB 5926, but did not receive a response. Brown’s press release statement drew criticism over allegations of targeting the media, including U.S. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon. Responding to Brown’s statement, Dhillon wrote that “ANY state official who chills or threatens to chill a journalist’s 1A rights will have some ‘splainin to do,” noting that the AGO’s Civil Rights Division “takes potential violations of 18 USC § 242 seriously! Govern yourselves accordingly!” In a phone interview with The Center Square, WA AGO Deputy Communications Director Mike Faulk defended Brown's statement, arguing that there “nothing was threatening or targeting journalists at all" in his remarks. “I think she [Dhillon] knows that,” Faulk said. “[She] works for somebody who has the longest track record possible of having no respect for journalists. There’s no truth to the claim, and it’s pretty ironic to see someone like that proclaiming a newly found concern for journalistic rights.” When asked about SB 5926, Faulk said the AGO had not read the bill and as a result has not taken a position either way. In his statement, Brown encourages individuals “experiencing threats or harassment to either contact local law enforcement or our office’s Hate Crimes & Bias Incident Hotline at 1-855-225-1010.” While the bias incident hotline is for both criminal and First Amendment-protected activity, Faulk said whether a person calls 9-11 or the hotline is “really at the discretion of the person experiencing the incident,” noting that the hotline “also connects people to resources, including law enforcement.” Reacting to one instance of a Somalian child care center receiving $68,000 in November for despite providing services to just seven kids, Rep. Jim Walsh, R-Aberdeen, posted on X that “the evidence of ‘childcare center’ fraud here in WA continues to grow. These reports are taken from public documents. This is what WA Democrats want to hide from the public. How long until State AG Brown calls posting this information "harassment"?” When the Center Square reached out to Walsh for comment on Brown’s statement, he sent a link to a statement of his own in which he noted that, while Brown said he would look into the fraud allegations, he “did not make any offer to assist or cooperate with the FBI’s investigation.” Regarding SB 5926, he wrote that “to many Washingtonians, Wellman’s bill looks like a cover-up of exactly the sort of fraud that’s been going on in Minnesota.” The Center Square reached out to Wellman for a phone interview to discuss her bill, but her Communication Specialist Miles Sari was unable to get a hold of her. However, Sari wrote in an email that "as far as any connection to the issue in Minnesota, Sen. Wellman’s bill was prefiled Dec. 22 — four days prior to the video alleging child care fraud there." Sari also wrote that the bill was drafted in response to someone from the child care profession contacting Wellman about privacy and safety concerns: "Because their personal information is not protected in the same way, they could be subject to harassment, doxxing, intimidation, and other targeted retaliation. Sen. Wellman's bill would align privacy laws for child care workers in all licensed child care settings."

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will back off his plans to use National Guard troops in the Democratic-led cities of Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.  The move follows the Supreme Court’s decision last week that found Trump could not deploy guard members to Chicago, ruling that the president did not […]

El exmandatario ha sido operado nuevamente tras fracasar los intentos médicos para controlar sus recurrentes crisis de hipo, una dolencia que se ha convertido en el último episodio de una larga cadena de intervenciones quirúrgicas desde el atentado que sufrió en 2018.

A Gallatin County District Court judge ruled that the Montana Department of Environmental Quality didn’t take a “hard look” at the water quality impacts of a proposed subdivision a quarter mile from the Gallatin River. Upper Missouri Waterkeeper filed a lawsuit against DEQ in 2023, arguing a project at an old quarry to build eight […]

Think of the Washington Monument. Imagine it sitting on the surface of the sea, with blades as long as a football field slowly spinning. It’s futuristic and white with rounded edges, like a rocketship. But there are no blasts or flares. There is no noise at all but calling gulls. Sitting on the stern of a shrimp…

La Syrie s’apprête à entrer, dès le 1ᵉʳ janvier, dans une nouvelle ère monétaire. Les autorités vont commencer à introduire une version remaniée de la livre syrienne, dont la valeur s’est effondrée pendant la guerre. L’objectif est de faciliter les transactions quotidiennes et de restaurer la confiance d’une population exsangue.

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. As Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Kamar Samuels as his new schools chancellor on Wednesday, he also reversed course on one of his main K-12 campaign pledges: He no longer plans to end mayoral control of the nation’s largest school system. Instead, he will ask Albany to extend the governance model when it comes up for renewal in June. He said he will work alongside Samuels, a veteran New York City educator, toward a version of mayoral control that will “engage parents, teachers, and students in decision-making,” Mamdani said at a press conference on the northern tip of Central Park just hours before his inauguration. His stance on mayoral control represents a major about-face for the city’s new chief executive. But Mamdani’s views on school governance were an outlier compared with other mayoral candidates, and the idea to ditch mayoral control entirely had many skeptics, especially when paired with Mamdani’s sweeping plan to build a free child care system. Mamdani acknowledged the challenges of the massive system he’s inheriting, with its $43 billion budget, roughly 150,000 staff, and nearly 900,000 students. While literacy rates are improving, he said, nearly 45% of the city’s students in grades 3-8 remained below grade level, according to last year’s state tests. Roughly 154,000 students are homeless. And thousands of teachers are needed to meet the mandate to shrink classes, particularly in hard-to-staff positions for special education, bilingual education, math, and science. He said he now realizes that New Yorkers should direct their concerns to him. “I will be asking the legislature for a continuation of mayoral control,” Mamdani said, “and I will also be committed with my incoming schools chancellor to ensure that the mayoral control we preside over is not the same one that New Yorkers see today.” Under the current governance model, the mayor unilaterally selects the schools chancellor and appoints the majority of the Panel for Educational Policy, a board that votes on school closures, contracts, and other major changes to Education Department regulations. The panel is typically considered a rubber stamp of mayoral priorities, though Mayor Eric Adams left some vacancies on the board, resulting in recent votes that pushed back more than usual. Mamdani pledged to incorporate community involvement in a way that will not be “ceremonial or procedural, but tangible and actionable.” He wants to restructure parent meetings for community education councils so that “working parents can actually attend them” and improve awareness of these elected parent boards that oversee school zones and advise on policy. Voter turnout for these boards has been less than 2%. Mamdani also promised to “improve the parent coordinator role to be a meaningful organizer of parents, rather than an administrative coordinator reporting to a principal.” The responsibilities of parent coordinators, a role created in the initial deal allowing for mayoral control, vary widely from school to school. Many do a tremendous amount of organizing already, particularly when it comes to helping homeless families, but many in the role have long complained about its low wages. Mamdani said he chose Samuels because “this moment demands a new generation of leadership” that “understands our schools” and has a “transformative vision” on how to lead them. As superintendent of Manhattan’s District 3 stretching from the Upper West Side to part of Harlem, Samuels oversaw some controversial school mergers, combining schools with different demographics as a way to foster integration in one of the country’s most segregated school systems. He initially used that approach while superintendent of Brooklyn’s District 13, where he also spearheaded a move away from gifted and talented programs that separate kids toward schoolwide enrichment models, embracing the International Baccalaureate program. Samuels started out as a teacher and principal in the Bronx. Mamdani made clear on Wednesday that he remains opposed to gifted programs for kindergarten students, but that he has no plans to change the process for the current application season. Samuels’ work overseeing the Adams administration’s literacy curriculum mandate, NYC Reads, led to an increase in test scores, Mamdani pointed out. Samuels also secured more than $10 million in grants across districts 3 and 13 to advance integration efforts through admissions policies, mergers, and rezonings. “Equity is not an abstract idea. It’s a set of choices we make together in policy,” Samuels said. “But what matters is not just what we do, it’s how we do it, by listening to educators, by respecting families, by seeing students, not just as data points, but as whole people with enormous potential.” In recent weeks, some parent groups had been calling for Mamdani to maintain stability of the school system and keep the current chancellor, Melissa Aviles-Ramos. Liss will be the new child care office head Mamdani also announced that Emmy Liss will serve as executive director for the mayor’s Office of Child Care, a position that will be critical in realizing Mamdani’s pledge to bring free child care to New Yorkers. On Dec. 31, 2025, Zohran Mamdani tapped Emmy Liss, pictured with her son, to lead his office on child care. Liss was the chief of staff for Josh Wallack, a top aide in the de Blasio administration who oversaw the Education Department’s rollout for prekindergarten for 3- and 4-year-olds. Liss was the chief of staff for Josh Wallack, a top aide in the de Blasio administration who oversaw the Education Department’s rollout for prekindergarten for 3- and 4-year-olds. She has been advising the mayor-elect on child care issues. “When I worked on the expansion of universal 3-k and pre-K, I saw firsthand what it means when city government comes together to deliver the families with the vision of universal child care,” Liss said on Wednesday. “We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to come together again, to double down on the city’s investments and to design and implement a program that truly meets the needs of families and sustains our child care providers and educators.” Amy Zimmer is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat New York. Contact Amy atazimmer@chalkbeat.org.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told his country that a peace deal is "90 percent" complete, but he warned that the remaining 10 percent will be difficult and will decide "the fate of peace, Ukraine, and Europe."

El croata Luka Modric, centrocampista del AC Milan y exjugador del Real Madrid, desveló que el técnico portugués Jose Mourinho hizo llorar a Cristiano Ronaldo en su etapa en el conjunto español por no perseguir, para defender, a un rival. El veterano futbolista balcánico, en una entrevista con el ‘Corriere della Sera’, explicó que Mourinho … Continua leyendo "Modric recordó el reto de Mourinho que hizo llorar a Cristiano Ronaldo en vestuario: reveló el motivo" The post Modric recordó el reto de Mourinho que hizo llorar a Cristiano Ronaldo en vestuario: reveló el motivo appeared first on BioBioChile.

2025 ha sido un año con variados hechos que han marcado el mundo, tanto en lo político como social. Nuevos líderes mundiales, posible fin de algunas guerras e inestabilidad ha sido lo más informado. Los hitos mundiales que marcaron 2025 Donald Trump regresó a la Casa Blanca Enero de 2025 fue el mes en que … Continua leyendo "Cinco hechos que marcaron al mundo durante 2025" The post Cinco hechos que marcaron al mundo durante 2025 appeared first on BioBioChile.

The Philippines should use its ASEAN chairmanship to promote regional cooperation in undersea cable security amid intensifying US–China competition.

走過2025年，查核中心編務團隊總共產出540篇以上的查核報吿，另有85篇的解釋性報導及每週謠言觀測，搭配超過200則的IG圖卡，經營不同平台的溝通模式。 〈【年度回顧】關鍵的時刻 我們都在！2025年查核全紀錄〉這篇文章最早發佈於《台灣事實查核中心》。

The Philippines should use its ASEAN chairmanship to promote regional cooperation in undersea cable security amid intensifying US–China competition, writes Nathaniel Schochet.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will back off his plans to use National Guard troops in the Democratic-led cities of Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.  The move follows the Supreme Court’s decision last week that found Trump could not deploy guard members to Chicago, ruling that the president did not […]

WASHINGTON — States must now provide “justification” that federal child care funds they receive are spent on “legitimate” providers in order to get those dollars, President Donald Trump’s administration announced.  The Tuesday shift in policy came following allegations of fraud in Minnesota’s child care programs, which prompted the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services […]

From federal rulemakers all the way down to Kentucky lawmakers, 2025 was full of regulatory wins for mining companies. Meanwhile, health researchers confirm that deaths from black lung disease are rampant in the mine industry.

En su discurso de Nochevieja, el lehendakari emplazó a los inmigrantes a una integración basada en “derechos y obligaciones”, y reclama a Sánchez el cumplimiento de los compromisos firmados con el PNV en materia de traspaso de competencias.