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For Jewish student Maxanne Wallace-Segall and Muslim student Nabila Rahman, the months after the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks on Israel were filled with a tense quiet. Then freshmen at Stuyvesant High School, a public school on Manhattan’s southern tip, the two girls had only been friends for a few weeks. As their social media feeds... The post ‘I felt I couldn’t talk about the war’: Jewish and Muslim teens make space for tough conversations appeared first on The Forward.

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A court in Warsaw released Anatoly Blinov from pretrial detention and placed him under police supervision, a correspondent for the Russian-language outlet Vot Tak reported from the courtroom. Blinov is accused of organizing an attack on opposition politician Leonid Volkov.

Events this week include county fairs in Bagley, Brainerd, Chisholm and Northome.

It’s not Black Friday or the holiday season, but expect Arkansas stores to be more crowded than usual this weekend.  Saturday and Sunday mark the state’s annual sales tax holiday, created by lawmakers 15 years ago to provide a tax break to families during back-to-school shopping. Arkansas is among 20 states that have enacted “holidays” […]

This story was originally published on July 31 by The City Reporter. Sign up here to get the latest stories from The City Reporter delivered to you each morning.Throughout the summer, inside a small, fluorescent-lit courtroom in Lower Manhattan, hundreds of migrant children, some as young as 3, faced deportation hearings. Most appeared virtually. Some sat around desks in a classroom, while others bounced on bunk beds or rocked in chairs inside small offices or storage closets. Detained in nearby shelters for unaccompanied minors, the vast majority did not have lawyers as they appeared before the court. Internal federal regulations have long barred deportation proceedings from moving ahead when children don’t have legal representation, and federal law requires the government to make every effort to fund those attorneys or facilitate pro bono counsel. But inside the courtroom of Judge Lisa W. Ling, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement prosecutor appointed to the court by President Trump in 2018, none of those safeguards seemed to matter. Over a series of hearings observed by The City Reporter in July, Ling, dressed in a black robe, peppered unrepresented children with questions that could profoundly impact their cases: “Why did you come to the United States?” “Are you afraid of returning to your country?” “Were you able to go to school?” “When you left Guatemala, were you running away or afraid of anything?”When Ling began to question Evan, a preteen boy from Guatemala with sideswept dark bangs, a child advocate tried to intervene. (Child advocates are assigned to particularly sensitive cases but aren’t lawyers. The City Reporter has withheld Evan’s full name and those of other children described.)“Your honor, if I may, we understand the court’s wish to expedite proceedings,” said Nicole Guerrero of the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights. Evan, she pointed out, “is not represented and does not understand immigration law.” “Without legal representation, he is denied a full and fair hearing,” Guerrero warned. The judge pressed on, despite the admonition.Ling oversees what’s known as the “detained juvenile docket,” where all children held in shelters overseen by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in New York City, Long Island and the Lower Hudson Valley must appear for their deportation proceedings. Of more than 300 cases involving detained children before her between late June and the end of July, just over a quarter of those had attorneys assigned to them, according to court records. What’s happening in Ling’s courtroom is already playing out across the country — and is about to kick into overdrive. On Friday, the Trump administration will allow a $356 million-a-year contract for such legal services to expire, barring any last-minute agreements. As a result, some 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children facing deportation across the country, including 1,300 in New York, could lose access to federally funded legal services.“It’s an all-out war on their due process rights,” said Shaina Aber, executive director of the Acacia Center for Justice, the nonprofit that oversees the nationwide contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is responsible for the care of unaccompanied migrant children. From the federal contract, Acacia then subcontracts with dozens of legal service providers across the country, nine of which are based in New York. “We’re going to see a lot of kids railroaded into taking voluntary departure, aka self-deport, even where their protection needs are acute and where they would be facing real danger to their lives in their countries of origin,” Aber said.For decades, across Republican and Democratic administrations, the federal government funded legal service providers, in accordance with a 2008 law that required HHS to “ensure to the greatest extent practicable” that minors had legal representation in deportation proceedings. But that funding came under attack last spring when the Trump administration attempted to cancel Acacia’s contract. A federal judge intervened, requiring the administration to continue the contract temporarily. Then late last year, HHS started delaying payments and requested new information about the children Acacia represents. Advocates decried the request as a breach of attorney-client privilege, and the millions in stalled payments are the subject of another ongoing lawsuit. In legal filings, the government has argued its requests were an effort to better account for how federal funds were being spent. The funding cliff comes at a perilous time for unaccompanied migrant children. They’re staying longer in federal shelters, as the Trump administration has found ways to slow-walk their release from detention, from where it is much more difficult to find legal support. At the same time, the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), which oversees the nation’s immigration courts, has sped up proceedings for unaccompanied children. That haste was apparent inside Ling’s courtroom. Instead of adjourning cases for several months at a time, which attorneys said had been the norm, she scheduled children to return to court every two or three weeks.An analysis of immigration court records by The City Reporter shows a spike in the number of deportation hearings for unaccompanied minors detained in New York this year, with 1,400 to date, already surpassing the total for 2025.<img src="https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/ZjuUw/full.png" alt="Hearings for Detained Juveniles in New York Have Skyrocketed in Recent Months (Area Chart)" />“They’re cutting off access to lawyers for these children, but they need lawyers now more than ever,” said Beth Baltimore, the deputy director of the Legal Services Center at The Door, one of nine New York nonprofits with an expiring federal contract. “It was never a system that a child could navigate alone, but now it’s so much more complex and so much more difficult.”With the wholesale cessation of all federal funding for their legal representation, advocates warn that deportations of vulnerable children are all but certain to climb.“The feeling that we’ve been getting in the community that there’s a bit of a like closing in and targeting of children in a way that we didn’t see under the first Trump administration,” Emily Norman, the regional director of Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) who oversees its New York City office. Asked about the end of the Acacia contract, an unnamed spokesperson for HHS said the agency had asked the group for additional data on the people it represents, which the nonprofits declined to provide. “The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) works to ensure the safety, well-being, and appropriate care of all children in its custody,” a statement read. “ORR remains fully compliant with legal and regulatory obligations and does not act in any way that could dissuade a child from seeking appropriate legal relief.”‘The court has given you plenty of time’Apart from federally funded legal services, the Executive Office for Immigration Review has its own protections in place for unaccompanied children. Immigration judges are not supposed to “accept an admission of removability” from any child without an “attorney or legal representative, a near relative, legal guardian, or friend.” That admission would happen at what’s called “pleadings,” an early step towards deportation in which the Justice Department lays out its case against a migrant, and an immigration judge determines whether or not the migrant could be deported. If pleadings can’t go ahead for an unaccompanied child without a lawyer, none of the other steps in the deportation process can happen, including a deportation order, Aber of Acacia Center for Justice explained. “The regulations are very clear,” said Aber.But child advocates and attorneys in New York say that practice changed several months ago, when Ling appeared to stop following the department’s internal guidance, moving ahead on the cases of detained children whether or not they had attorneys.Kathryn Mattingly, a spokesperson for EOIR, said the agency does not comment on the decisions of individual judges and called immigration judges independent adjudicators who make their own decision on a case-by-case basis. Advocates, however, say that what’s happening in Ling’s courtroom is taking place in other courtrooms where unaccompanied children appear. Aber said judges across the country started moving ahead in cases involving children with no lawyers this spring, as EOIR also started scheduling unaccompanied children on “mega master” dockets and decreasing the time kids had in between hearings. Mattingly declined to comment on any policy shift related to unrepresented children more broadly. During a recent hearing, an attorney with Catholic Charities named Tonya Putnam, acting as “friend of the court,” someone who assists proceedings but does not legally represent any client, repeatedly interjected, telling Judge Ling she was out of step with current EOIR regulations. “Per regulations, the court should not take pleadings from an unrepresented child,” interjected Putnam, urging Ling to pause proceedings in the case of a Guatemalan teen named Ambrosio, who appeared virtually from a room lined with butterfly wallpaper and book shelves.“The court properly took pleadings,” Ling replied, giving Ambrosio, who was in a shelter and doesn’t have a lawyer, three weeks to fill out an asylum application in English. The same exchange repeated in the case of Nilmar, a boy with shaggy bangs wearing a beaded necklace, who looked around the age of 15.“Per regulations, an unrepresented child should not have pleadings taken without counsel,” Putnam repeated. Ling continued the proceeding anyway, asking Nilmar if he was afraid of returning to Guatemala, to which he responded “No.” Ling repeated the question several times, with Nilmar responding negatively each time.“Why did you come to the United States?” Ling then asked. “To have a better life,” the child responded, through a translator.Nilmar’s admission to the court during pleadings meant one of the only outlets of relief available to him while detained, applying for asylum, would no longer be an option.Putnam tried to interject, “Your honor, as a friend of the court, I’m not sure the child understands the implication of what he’s saying.”Ling asked Nilmar if he understood what she was saying, to which he replied he had, and again asked if he would feel unsafe returning to Guatemala, to which he replied again that he wasn’t afraid.“I don’t know if you can give me some extra time to fill out what I was given, the asylum,” Nilmar asked through the translator. Ling said it didn’t appear he was eligible for asylum, and began to explain that she would grant him voluntary departure and he would have to leave the country by Nov. 19 or have to pay a fine of up to $5,000. “Can you give me more time to find a lawyer?” he wondered.“Unfortunately I can’t do this any further. This is the eighth time that we’ve adjourned your case,” Ling said. “The court has given you plenty of time to find a lawyer.”Nilmar ran his fingers through his hair and fidgeted in his seat, then asked Ling what would happen in his case and if he would be released to his sponsor, an uncle. She replied the court had nothing to do with his potential release to an uncle. “This court is granting you voluntary departure,” Ling replied. “I wish you all the best.”Olivia Cassin, a former immigration judge who oversaw a non-detained juvenile docket at immigration court at 290 Broadway before she was fired last fall, said piecing together whether a child has a potential asylum claim can take time, as children may be the victims of trafficking or abuse.“It’s just so wrong just to ask a kid generically, are you afraid of going back,” Cassin, who now serves as legal director for Immigrant Children Advocates Relief Effort, said. “Maybe they don’t understand what that really means. Maybe they don’t want to admit it in that context. Maybe they were abused by their own parents, and they don’t want to say it.”Children with attorneys aren’t typically asked in immigration court if they’re afraid to return to their countries, because their lawyer would have already screened them to determine what type of immigration relief they might be eligible for including asylum, advocates said.‘So why wasn’t it done?’For the unrepresented children who told Judge Ling they were afraid to return to their countries, Ling set tight timelines of two or three weeks for them to fill out asylum applications in English, a difficult task for an adult in their native tongue, let alone a child who doesn’t speak the language. On a recent morning, a 17-year-old from Guatemala named Xavi sat with his head resting on his hands as he listened to his deportation proceedings through a Spanish translator. He’d spent months trying to reunite with his brother in New York after crossing the border and being held in a youth shelter in The Bronx. While there are fewer children in ORR shelters, down to just 1,700 nationwide, the time they’re spending in them has gone up dramatically to 194 days on average in June, up from just a 30 day average last fiscal year, according to government data.Ling gave the boy three weeks to fill out an application for asylum in English, though Xavi had no lawyer. Sarah Caspari, a child advocate assigned to the case, begged Judge Ling for more time given the lack of attorney and the fact that, “Xavi does not speak, read or write in English.”“This case will be proceeding,” Ling replied.In other cases, Ling scolded children who hadn’t finished their asylum applications on the deadline she’d given them, as she did with Abimal, also from Guatemala. “I told you at the last hearing with or without a lawyer you had to submit the application,” Ling stated. “So why wasn’t it done?”“I haven’t done it yet, I wanted to have a lawyer,” Abimal replied through a Spanish interpreter.“With or without a lawyer you have to file it,” Ling warned. “I’m going to give you one more week.”Haidee Chu contributed additional reporting.Gwynne Hogan is a senior reporter at The City Reporter covering immigration, homelessness, and many things in between.

This article Inside the longest refugee protest in history was originally published by Waging Nonviolence. For over 670 days, refugees trapped in a UN camp have maintained a daily sit-in in the Sahara Desert to demand basic human rights. This article Inside the longest refugee protest in history was originally published by Waging Nonviolence.

Российско издание о технологиях «Код Дурова» сменило название на «Код.ру». Сообщение о ребрендинге опубликовано на сайте и в соцсетях издания.

Un día Rodrigo ya no pudo acceder a su sitio de noticias para publicar información. Había sido hackeado. Así que tenía que actuar rápido, hacer alianzas con especialistas para intentar recuperar la información y a la par indagar quién lo hizo y por qué  La entrada Territorial el pódcast: Nos hackearon aparece primero en LADO B.

The documentary, screening at MOPA, part of the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park, explores Kwame Braithwaite's long life and career.

У Києві, Львові та Дніпрі люди зібралися, щоб провести ходу з вимогою повернення Михайла Федорова на посаду міністра оборони. Як повідомляє кореспондентка Радіо Свобода, у Києві до ходи долучилося кілька тисяч людей. У Києві під час протестної ходи організатор акції та попередніх протестів – ветеран і громадський активіст, колишній бойовий медик батальйону «Вовки Да Вінчі» – Дмитро Козятинський розповів кореспондентці Радіо Свобода, що учасники очікують від влади діалогу. «Ми хочемо...

La presión sobre los precios y la fortaleza del empleo están ampliando los ingresos públicos pese a las medidas fiscales adoptadas para contener el impacto de la guerra en Oriente Próximo. La recaudación tributaria alcanzó 148.944 millones de euros entre enero y junio, un 10,4% más que un año antes.

Festivales, exposiciones, conciertos, libros, películas y música que pueden degustarse de Jaén a Donosti, del salón a la sala de cine¿Quieres recibir antes que nadie estos planes (y más) en tu email? - Te enviamos el boletín de Cultura todos los viernes si te suscribes de forma gratuita en este enlace Comienza agosto, el mes favorito del año para evadirse de las obligaciones y encontrarse (con uno mismo y con los otros) en los refugios climáticos culturales o en el sofá de casa, entre la siesta y la cena. Cuatro planes MíaQué FEST (Porcuna, Jaén). Desde el funk al rock, este festival gratuito contará este año en su cartel con Los Estanques, El Canijo de Jerez, O'Funk'illo, Vera GVR, Combo Batanga, The Pigfoot Band y Lion Family Band. Además, tiene su propio concurso de cortometrajes, 'Me Quedo Corto' y un concurso de bandas emergentes, 'Ciudad de Porcuna'. Podéis aprovechar para visitar la diversidad cultural de la localidad, como el Anfiteatro y Cisterna Romana y la Casa de la Piedra. 'Refusal. Second Fractrure' (Madrid). El Círculo de Bellas Artes (CBA) acoge esta exposición que forma parte del Festival PhotoEspaña y que tiene pintaza. Se trata de la obra del fotógrafo Rafal Milach, que traza un recorrido por los mecanismos de construcción y fisura de los relatos oficiales en Europa del Este. El proyecto toma como punto de partida la figura de Xenia Degelko, una joven activista bielorrusa convertida en icono propagandístico tras la difusión viral en 2012 de una canción que exaltaba el régimen de Alexander Lukashenko. Su imagen pasó de integrar una galería simbólica de “ganadores” (trabajadores ejemplares y figuras modélicas) destinadas a reforzar la narrativa del Estado. Rafal Milach, de 'The Winners' serie 2010-2013 La Oreja de Van Gogh (San Sebastián). Han pasado unos cuantos meses desde que la banda donostiarra comenzara su gira tras el regreso de Amaia Montero. Arrancaron en Bilbao y han ido recorriendo ciudades como Madrid, Gijón y Fuengirola. Este finde tocan en casa, en la ciudad que vio nacer a uno de los grupos más importantes de la historia del pop español –pese a que sus músicos no pudieron grabar su primer disco–. Si todavía no os habéis asomado a los shows, aquí una fiel fan os recomienda acercaros a disfrutar de esta fiesta de la nostalgia y cariño hacia la cantante, con la que volveréis a berrear himnos como El 28, Puedes contar conmigo y Cuídate. ¡Catárquico! 'What lies in between' / 'Lo que queda entremedias' (Córdoba). Esta exhibición ofrece un enfoque crítico sobre las dinámicas del post-conflicto, la resiliencia y la memoria. A través de la obra de tres artistas, revela con una mirada poética y despojada de artificios, lo que se oculta tras los titulares en entornos hostiles. Taysir Batniji evoca la experiencia de los desplazados y los hogares perdidos mediante un objeto cotidiano como un juego de llaves. Tamara Kalo homenajea al olivo como símbolo de continuidad y retrata un antiguo centro de detención en Beirut hoy tomado por la naturaleza, mientras que Tanya Traboulsi ofrece una visión nostálgica y humana de una Beirut serena antes del último conflicto. Tres películas 'Mala bèstia', de Bàrbara Farré ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’. A nuestro crítico (muy crítico) Alberto Corona le ha gustado la nueva de Spider-man. Eso ya es un aliciente gigante para lanzarse al cine a ver la película de superhéroes más esperada del verano (si no contamos como tal la de Odiseo). Le recuerda a los mejores tiempos de Sam Raimi con el personaje y le parece la mejor película protagonizada por Tom Holland como nuestro querido Spidey. 'Mother Mary'. Anne Hathaway interpreta aquí a una cantante pop basada en una Taylor Swift en el futuro, en esta película dirigida por David Lowery (El caballero verde, A Ghost Story), en el fondo una reflexión sobre las crisis de la mediana edad. 'Mala bèstia'. Bàrbara Farré, a quien vimos codirigir en la serie Selftape de las hermanas Vilapuig y de quien habrás visto (sin saberlo) videoclips de gente como Rosalía, Bad Gyal o Nawja Nimri, estrena su primer largometraje, protagonizado por Iría del Río, un drama fantástico sobre el miedo a crecer de una niña. Con música de Raül Refree, la película pasa estos días por el festival Atlántida, en Mallorca, que estos día cubre la redacción de elDiario en Balears. Por allí ha pasado la directora Judith Godrèche con una adaptación de Annie Ernaux. Tres canciones Hace unos días analizábamos en elDiario.es cómo lo más terrorífico de la literatura no son ni los vampiros ni los hombres lobo, sino el miedo a quedarte sin casa. En un momento de crisis de vivienda, el arte empieza a retratar con más frecuencia un grave problema que afecta a todos los que somos inquilinos. Sin embargo, también la música expresa este pánico. Aunque la canción salió en mayo, es interesante regresar al tema Ciudad de Buitres de Caña y Media, que forma parte de nuestra playlist de recomendaciones, donde puedes encontrar las de semanas anteriores. 'Ciudad de Buitres' de Caña y Media. La banda madrileña hace gala de su compromiso social con este single político, que pone el foco en los alquileres abusivos, los pisos turísticos y la imposibilidad de acceder a una vivienda digna. Lo hace, además, envolviendo el tema con guitarras y batería. “Todos hemos pasado por una situación complicada con la vivienda. Ensayábamos para ir a los bolos y entre tema y tema siempre salía lo jodidos que estábamos con el alquiler, la renovación o la búsqueda de piso”, afirma la banda. Escúchala. <a href="https://canaymedia.bandcamp.com/track/ciudad-de-buitres">Ciudad de Buitres de Caña y Media</a> 'Going Shopping' de The Strokes. La mítica banda neoyorquina acaba de publicar su disco Reality Awaits, donde hay pistas que sirven como sátira de la realidad social. Esta canción, una de las más interesantes del proyecto, aborda con ironía la cultura del consumo voraz. El tema utiliza el centro comercial como símbolo de refugio, mostrando la ridiculez que supone tener un estilo de vida capitalista. “No puedo esperar, voy de compras”, canta el grupo. “Por encima de la ley, un títere político”, añade. Escúchala. window.marfeel.cmd.push(['multimedia', function(multimedia) { multimedia.initializeItem('yt-4u3iI1WuU0k-6707', 'youtube', '4u3iI1WuU0k', document.getElementById('yt-4u3iI1WuU0k-6707')); }]); 'Quuuuuu' de Picture. Esta es, sin duda, una de las canciones más curiosas que escucharás este fin de semana. Durando hasta cerca de siete minutos, y con un comienzo que recuerda al sonido de un caballo cabalgando, la pista te transporta a una rave donde el pop electrónico es lo único que importa. La banda te sumerge en una experiencia sonora con sintetizadores y bases rítmicas que invitan a bailar. Es casi hipnótico perderte en ella. Escúchala. <a href="https://pppicture.bandcamp.com/album/uuuuuuuu">Uuuuuuuu de Picture</a> Quince libros Historias sobre la libido femenina, el sudor, la amistad y la cultura del esfuerzo; entre las recomendaciones con las que esperamos inspiraros para elegir a vuestros compañeros literarios de viaje. 'Una aniquilación fallida', de Carlota Gurt (Cápsula) 'Sudor', de Mariela Sancari (Ediciones Comisura) 'Radio Sarajevo', de Tijan Sila (Asteroide) 'Un deseo desmesurado de amistad', de Hélène Giannecchini (Anagrama) 'Muere, papá', de Greta García con dibujos de José Toro (Tránsito) 'Principio, medio, fin', de Valeria Luiselli (Feltrinelli) 'La cultura del desesfuerzo', de Miguel Gómez Garrido (Siglo XXI) 'A flor de piel', de Nora Muñiz (Tránsito) 'Lo que viene después... y que te guste', de Abigail Thomas (Errata Naturae) 'Aaiún', de Tomás Bárbulo (Archiletras) 'El ejército ciego', de David Toscana (Alfaguara) 'Que se mueran los hijos de los demás', de Roser Cabré-Verdiell (Alpha Decay) 'Murdoku', de Manuel Garand (Temas de Hoy) 'Perras de reserva', de Dahlia de la Cerda (Sexto Piso) 'Joder y gracias', de Paula Reyes (Aguilar) Aquí te contamos las razones para convencerte de escoger alguno de estos para tu maleta de agosto o tus ratos libres si te quedas en casa. Tres artículos por si te los perdiste esta semana Kasabian este mes de julio en Mad Cool ¿Y las tías? Seguimos igual: los escenarios de los festivales de música es un territorio eminentemente masculino. Hemos contado cuántas mujeres y cuántos hombres se suben y el resultado es un escándalo. Marxismo gótico. Ha llegado el concepto que estábamos necesitando las siniestras de la izquierda, lo que siempre habíamos intuido: todo está en Frankenstein. (Gracias Derrida, Fisher, Greenaway y David McNally). Ha muerto Manolo Solo. En este periódico estábamos convencidos de que era uno de los mejores actores de su generación y que aún le faltaba el gran reconocimiento final. Ahora somos nosotros los solos.

Lideri i LSDM-së, Venko Filipçe njoftoi se partia e tij do të paraqesë interpelancë për punën e kryetarit të Kuvendit, Afrim Gashi, si dhe për ministrin e Vetëqeverisjes Lokale, Ivan Stoilkoviq. Gashit i atribuojnë shkelje të Rregullores së Kuvendit në disa raste, ndërsa Stoilkoviqin e akuzojnë për fyerje dhe sharje të drejtuara ndaj deputetëve Fatmir […]

The 2026 World Cup may have ended, but the debates it ignited continue to dominate the digital space. Among the stories that refused to fade after the final whistle of the goalless draw between Ghana’s Black Stars and England’s Three Lions was the alleged role of black magic and supernatural influence.  Ahead of Ghana’s World … The post Is Kwaku Bonsam’s curse on Harry Kane hurting Ghana’s image beyond World Cup? appeared first on Dubawa Ghana.

Las detenciones del temido Servicio de Inmigración han aumentado recientemente a unas 2.000 por día.

Tenista brasileiro disputa mais um Masters 1000 em temporada de ascensão; veja onde assistir ao torneio O post Começa o ATP e WTA 1000 do Canadá: João Fonseca busca embalar rumo ao US Open apareceu primeiro em Mídia NINJA.

Зьявіліся падрабязнасьці аблавы сілавікоў на зьлёт маладых сем’яў на поўначы Беларусі.

Officials are aiming to reach 8,000 residents with the Michigan Reconnect expansion and provide free tuition to young people whose high school education was impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

New Jersey said an appeals court ruling striking its ban on certain semiautomatic weapons should be paused as the state appeals.