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El polémico diseñador gibraltareño será el protagonista de la próxima exposición de la gala del Costume Institute, la rama dedicada a la moda del gigantesco museo.

Kriza me ujin në Gostivar është shkaktuar nga puna e pakujdesshme e punonjësve të Ndërmarrjes Publike “Ujësjellësi”, të cilët transferuan drejtpërdrejt ujin nga një lumë në rezervuarin kryesor duke përdorur tuba dhe pompa. Këtë e deklaroi kryeministri Hristijan Mickoski gjatë një vizite në Dibër, duke theksuar se Prokuroria po ndërmerr veprime dhe se tashmë ka […]

با ادامه حملات جمهوری اسلامی به کشورهای منطقه، جاسم بدیوی، دبیرکل شورای همکاری خلیج فارس، روز شنبه ۱۰ مرداد این حملات را به شدت محکوم کرد و آن را ادامه رویکرد تجاوزگرانه حکومت ایران برای ضربه زدن به امنیت و ثبات منطقه‌ای تلقی نمود.

Поки Білий дім не визначився щодо передачі технологій Patriot, у Сенаті просувають нову ініціативу з підтримки України

ຈີນ ມີບົດບາດສຳຄັນໃນການພັດທະນາເມືອງວັງວຽງ ໂດຍຜ່ານໂຄງການພື້ນຖານໂຄງລ່າງຂະໜາດໃຫຍ່

Echipajul de dublu rame a României, format din Simona Radiş şi Adriana Adam, a câştigat medalie de aur, după o cursă dominată de tricolore, la Campionatele Europene de Canotaj de la Varese.

Kryeministri në detyrë i Kosovës, Albin Kurti, ka thënë të shtunën se gërmimet në një vend ku janë gjetur mbetje njerëzore që dyshohet se u përkasin njerëzve të zhdukur nga lufta e viteve 1998-’99, mund të zgjasin me muaj, për shkak të shpërndarjes së tyre dhe terrenit të vështirë.

Varias especies de América Latina están en peligro de extinción. La anguila americana perdió una protección clave frente al comercio ilegal, el lobo mexicano enfrenta nuevos riesgos para su recuperación, los chungungos mueren por ataques de perros y redes de pesca, y la tortuga amazónica, el pingüino emperador y el lobo marino antártico fueron reclasificados […]

La neblina todavía cubre el bosque de Scalesia cuando los primeros destellos rojos empiezan a cruzar entre los árboles. A ras del suelo, un grupo de trabajadores abre camino con machetes y guadañas para retirar la mora invasora. Detrás de ellos, casi sin miedo a la presencia humana, pequeños pájaros brincan entre las ramas recién […]

وزارت امور خارجه آمریکا و نمایندگی‌های دیپلماتیک این کشور در چند کشور خاورمیانه، روز شنبه ۱۰ مرداد ۱۴۰۵، با اشاره به افزایش تنش‌های منطقه‌ای و احتمال تشدید پیش‌بینی‌نشده درگیری‌ها، از شهروندان آمریکایی خواستند احتیاط و هوشیاری بیشتری داشته باشند و خروج از منطقه را مدنظر قرار دهند.

(The Center Square) – In an ongoing civil election fraud case in Zapata County, hundreds of voters requested assistance to vote. Among them were those who were also sworn in to assist others requesting assistance, according to Secretary of State data. The pattern raises concerns about voter integrity in a close election, Democrat Martha Morales, who is contesting the election results, argues. She’s requested help from the Republican Texas Secretary of State and Attorney General. Morales, a Zapata ISD school board member who challenged incumbent Democrat Zapata County Judge Joe Rathmell, lost by 66 votes in the March 3 primary election. She argues she would have won if illegal voting hadn’t occurred. She sued contesting the results, alleging fraud includes duplicate ballots, ballots that shouldn’t have been counted, a lack of chain of custody of ballots, voter registration irregularities, ineligible assisted voters and vote harvesting, The Center Square reported. Rathmell did not respond to multiple requests for comment. In an initial response to the lawsuit, he denied “generally every allegation contained in Contestee’s original petition.” Zapata County Clerk Mary Jayne Bonoan also did not respond to requests for comment, but in a Facebook post said the ballot numbers hadn’t changed after a recount and “there were no missing ballots. The ballots have always been secure and remain secure. Every procedure carried out by my office was done pursuant to Texas Election Code.” She also said she and her staff “performed our duties accurately, lawfully, and with integrity. … The numbers have never changed and neither has the truth.” According to county data, of the 4,517 votes cast on March 3, 358 were assisted voters. Assisted voters are those who claim to be disabled or have special needs and request assistance to register to vote and to vote “who need assistance to vote by reason of blindness, disability, or inability to read or write,” the Secretary of State explains. According to state law, voters requesting assistance don’t have to provide proof of a disability. Those seeking voting assistance may be assisted by a person “the voter chooses who is not an election worker; two election workers on Election Day; or one election worker during early voting.” They may not be assisted by their employer or employer’s agent or their union’s officer or agent. Individuals assisting voters are sworn in, take an oath, and sign a form recorded by the county clerk and SOS. The oath of assistance in part states, “I swear under penalty of perjury that the voter I am assisting represents to me they are eligible to receive assistance; I will not suggest, by word, sign, or gesture, how the voter should vote; I will prepare the voter’s ballot as the voter directs; I did not pressure or coerce the voter into choosing me to provide assistance.” According to an SOS register of sworn assisters for the primary election, they claimed they were a “friend,” “neighbor” or a family member of the person requesting assistance. Of the 358 assisted voters, 158 appear to have been assisted by 10 people, according to a review of the SOS data. The majority, nearly 90, appear to have been assisted by three county employees, Martha Garcia, Laura Garza, and Norma Garcia. Martha Garcia appears to have assisted the most voters of more than 40, according to the data. Martha Garcia also assisted Priscilla Garza, who in turn assisted eight voters, according to the data. Martha Garcia works for Justice of the Peace Olga Bruni. Laura Garza works for Rathmell. Norma Garcia works for the county sheriff. Martha Garcia, Norma Garcia and Laura Garza did not respond to requests for comment. Priscilla Garza, assisted by Martha Garcia, is Bruni’s daughter. In a Facebook post, Bruni criticized investigators knocking on doors inquiring if her adult daughter needed assistance. She said her daughter “has been using eyeglasses since she was a little girl, don’t you think maybe she lost contact lenses.” When asked if she was suggesting people who wear eyeglasses are disabled, and if her employee, Martha Garcia, took paid time off to assist voters, she said, “the election trial has not concluded and on the advice of my attorney I cannot comment.” Despite receiving assistance to vote, Priscilla Garza is also listed as someone who assisted voters, according to the data. Despite swearing an oath that she needed assistance to vote because she was disabled, Priscilla Garza also assisted eight voters who also claimed to be disabled, according to the data. One of the individuals sworn in to assist voters, Roman Guerrero Vargas, was sworn in under different names: Roman Vargas and Roman Guerrero, according to the data. When asked if this was legal or was a mistake, Bonoan did not respond to requests for comment. Vargas also signed an affidavit alleging he was contacted by a Rathmell campaign operative, Laura Garza, via Facebook messenger on March 24, 2025, requesting his assistance to bring voters to vote for Rathmell for an upcoming election. “At that time, I was informed that I would be paid for my work and was instructed to contact her again when the election period approached,” the affidavit states. “When the election period began, I followed up as instructed and assisted in bringing in voters. I was instructed that I needed to tell or encourage voters to vote for Joe Rathmell.” The affidavit states Vargas was paid $500 by Rathmell’s campaign and includes a copy of the check signed by his wife, Gina Rathmell. It also states he was “promised a total compensation in the amount of $5,000 upon completion of the campaign,” which he says he didn’t receive. Neither Rathmell nor Garza responded to requests to comment on Vargas’ allegations. The SOS press contact, Alicia Pierce, did not respond to requests for comment related to assisted voter standards, including what standards exist to ensure nondisabled people aren't voting as assisted voters, and what measures are in place to prevent assisted voters from also assisting others. Without addressing the case specifically, Chad Ennis, VP of Honest Elections Project, told The Center Square, “Assistance fraud and ballot trafficking are certainly problems that everyone should be able to agree can lead to taking advantage of voters and fraud.” Combatting inappropriate voter assistance is difficult, he said, because “under federal law, a voter is entitled to the assistant of their choice so there are limited ways for a state to limit assistance or the number of times a person can assist another. The best practice, as is the case in Texas, is to create a paper trail by logging the identity of assistants so that it can be shown who is assisting voters and how many voters are assisted. Without logging of assistants, it is virtually impossible for law enforcement to track down perpetrators.” Ennis, who is also the former Texas SOS Director of the Forensic Audit Division, added that “Texas has some of the strongest laws against paid ballot harvesting in the nation. States like California, which has all mail elections, do not ban ballot trafficking at all. Law enforcement should be diligent in enforcing these laws in states that have them and legislators should pass ballot harvesting bans in states that do not. No one who is not an election official should be able to handle hundreds of ballots.” The case continues as a deadline of Aug. 17 is approaches for Morales to be added to the Nov. 3 ballot.

(The Center Square) – As Congress plans to reauthorize a major government surveillance authority, privacy advocates say that failing to enact reforms would allow the federal government to spy on Americans at an unprecedented scale with artificial intelligence. FISA Section 702, which lawmakers must reauthorize by March 2027, allows federal intelligence agencies to conduct warrantless electronic surveillance on foreign nationals of suspicion, whether they are abroad or traveling in the U.S. But the electronic data of ordinary American citizens – including emails, text messages, and phone calls – are routinely swept up as well. Intelligence agencies can store that data for up to five years, while agents will routinely search through that data without obtaining a warrant. With the rapid advancement of AI technology, however, Americans’ privacy is even more vulnerable than when Section 702 was enacted in 2008. Federal agents can simply feed the data into an AI model and effectively create dossiers on innocent U.S. citizens. “The concern is that artificial intelligence AI could be used in these databases to effectively target and collect information in ways that we hadn't seen before,” Don Bell, policy counsel at The Constitution Project at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), told The Center Square. “What we're seeing now is a truly unprecedented merger of increasing technological capabilities and a federal government that is willing to use these tools to target not just individuals but broad sections of American society.” Though the U.S. Intelligence Community and the Department of Justice have previously claimed they aren’t using AI in FISA databases, they have failed to answer lawmakers’ requests for proof. FISA Section 702 currently has no prohibition on the federal government effectively outsourcing its surveillance to private companies via the “data broker loophole.” “Data brokers collect performance management information, and they basically package that up and sell thousands of data points that they claim to have on people. And the federal government, rather than getting a warrant for a lot of that information, just circumvents the constitution by buying it from these massive data sets,” Bell said. “But you would need a lot of money and people and time to sort through that and build the profiles necessary for effective surveillance. But with artificial intelligence, that makes it more efficient, cheaper and more doable.” Bell, along with a number of organizations, proved just how doable the process is. With a basic AI model that they built in two weeks and a couple of data broker subscriptions, they were able to create highly detailed profiles of ordinary citizens in seconds. “So it looks basically like typing into a search engine bar, ‘find X person at Planned Parenthood’ — but it could have been X person at a gun range, pick your place — and within seconds, this AI agent was able to pull all kinds of information on this individual,” Bell said. “Not just their name and date of birth, but where they lived, where they worked, who their children were, financial information, things that obviously could kill constitutionally protected speech and really create a dossier on someone,” he continued. “They were also able to basically draw a circle around the Planned Parenthood clinic — but again, it could be anyplace — and they were able to create a map showing all of the people in the community who were traveling to this place, how long they were there, all of that information.” The issue, Bell said, is obvious: AI’s ability to collect, organize, and streamline information almost immediately and at such a monumental scale could permanently kill privacy rights if Congress fails to intervene. “If the government is purchasing our data and our location data and they can use artificial intelligence to create these kinds of profiles, then there is no privacy,” Bell said. “They can reach into our lives in the most invasive way possible, and they can do it at scale. Entire communities can be surveilled, entire groups of people.” In short, Congress has failed to keep up with changes in technology that are imposing new threats to privacy rights, Bell argued, enabling a “dangerously escalating pattern of surveillance.” “That's why it's so important for Congress to take a stand now to close the data loophole, and also really think about how the changes in surveillance technology really are an existential threat to the Constitution and our privacy,” Bell said. So far, Congress is still locked in a debate over whether to reform FISA at all. Nearly all Democrats and 19 Republicans in the U.S. House tanked a clean extension of Section 702, over many privacy concerns. The program can operate without Congressional authorization until March 2027. That’s because FISA Court approves year-long certifications for Section 702, which remain in effect even if the underlying authority has expired.

Alemania, Italia y otras veinte naciones del bloque europeo pidieron la organización de una videoconferencia este sábado al considerar que es urgente evaluar y responder en conjunto la entrada masiva de migrantes al enclave español de Ceuta. Según los firmantes, este suceso pone en peligro la política migratoria común. Mientras unos países toman medidas radicales, otros muestran su solidaridad y apoyo al gobierno español.

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El mexicano Michel Arriaga, es un influencer que ha tenido la posibilidad de visitar diversos países de Latinoamérica e incluso Europa, llevando en este último tiempo la camiseta de Cobreloa como emblema. “Chile me ha enseñado muchas cosas como por ejemplo a no temerle a los temblores o sismos, ya que tienen una tecnología de […] Este artículo Influencer mexicano sobre Calama: “Es una ciudad de la que jamás me arrepentiré haber visitado” fue publicado originalmente en El Diario de Antofagasta.

Sancionada recentemente pelo presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a Lei do Pix Pensão Alimentícia possibilita que, mediante determinação judicial, o pagamento mensal da pensão alimentícia seja feito de forma automática na conta da pessoa beneficiária. A nova regra começa a valer a partir de julho de 2027 e ampliará os mecanismos de cobrança da pensão alimentícia, especialmente nos casos em que o desconto em folha de pagamento não for possível. Nesses casos, o valor poderá ser transferido mensalmente pelo banco, de forma automática, da conta do devedor para a conta do credor, mediante determinação judicial. Notícias relacionadas:Pensão alimentícia será recebida de forma automática, via pix.FMI elogia Pix e cobra autonomia financeira do Banco Central.De acordo com a legislação até então em vigor, o pagamento dependia da ação voluntária do devedor, que podia ser tanto por transferência como por boleto ou desconto em folha. Para viabilizar que o procedimento seja feito de forma automática, foram necessárias algumas alterações no Código de Processo Civil. Entenda como funcionará o Pix Pensão Alimentícia Quem pode solicitar:  Beneficiários de pensão fixada por decisão judicial;  Beneficiários de acordo de pensão homologado pela Justiça;  Mães, pais ou responsáveis legais que detenham a guarda de crianças e adolescentes beneficiários;  Pessoas que já possuem título executivo judicial determinando o pagamento da pensão. Como solicitar: Verifique se há decisão judicial É necessário que a pensão já tenha sido definida por decisão judicial ou por acordo homologado pela Justiça. Procure assistência jurídica: A solicitação deve ser feita por meio de advogado(a); Defensoria Pública; Ministério Público, quando cabível.  Pessoas sem condições de contratar advogado podem procurar defensorias públicas ou núcleos de prática jurídica de faculdades de Direito. Peça ao juiz a transferência automática No processo em que a pensão foi estabelecida, a beneficiária ou seu representante deve requerer ao juiz a adoção do Pix Pensão. Informe os dados bancários Algumas informações devem ser apresentadas ao longo do processo, como dados da conta de quem receberá a pensão; dados da conta de quem fará o pagamento; chave Pix, quando houver. Aguarde a decisão judicial Se o pedido for aceito, o juiz expedirá uma ordem eletrônica com informações como valor da pensão; data do pagamento; conta de origem; conta de destino; período de duração da obrigação. O sistema passa a funcionar automaticamente A instituição financeira fará, na data definida pela Justiça, o débito na conta do devedor e o crédito na conta do beneficiário, sem necessidade de nova autorização mensal. O pagador pode cancelar? Não. Diferentemente de um Pix agendado comum, o Pix Pensão não pode ser cancelado pelo titular da conta. Qualquer alteração ou suspensão dependerá de nova decisão judicial. E se não houver saldo na conta? Se não houver dinheiro suficiente na data do vencimento, o banco registra a insuficiência de saldo, o que pode resultar em bloqueio de outros ativos financeiros do devedor, até o valor da parcela em atraso.

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