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Onda de ataques após morte do traficante El Mencho paralisou o país na manhã desta segunda-feira Secretário de Defesa do México diz que ‘normalidade foi restabelecida’ apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.

Utah refineries committed to increasing their production by 23,500 barrels a day within the next five years as part of the state’s deal with the petroleum industry and Idaho to lower gas prices and to avoid an interstate clash. The announcement comes a week after a Utah House bill became public revealing the state’s short- […]

El técnico dirigirá su último partido ante Banfield en el Monumental.

Global music icon P!NK will "Get the Party Started" for a powerful cause as the headliner of Curebound's annual Concert for Cures on May 15 at Petco Park, organizers announced Monday.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers joined the response to the sewage spill on the Potomac River Saturday, the same day that President Donald Trump (R) approved an emergency declaration requested by the District of Columbia.

(The Center Square) – There was standing room only on Monday at the Washington State Legislature for a public hearing before the House Committee on Community Safety regarding a bill that would dramatically change eligibility standards for elected sheriffs. The contentious legislation also looks to give the state a path to remove elected sheriffs from office if they don’t meet new requirements. Democrats say Senate Bill 5974 is a necessary measure to hold sheriffs accountable and help build public confidence in policing. Opponents say SB 5974 takes the power of firing a sheriff away from the public. Currently, 38 of Washington’s 39 counties elect a sheriff. Only King County has an appointed sheriff. During the first week of the session, the legislation received a public hearing in which Pierce County Sheriff Keith Swank stated that if legislators tried to remove him, “thousands of Pierce County residents will surround the county city building.” The Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs condemned the comments as inflammatory and challenging to their authority, initiating an internal review for potential expulsion. Swank was not dissuaded and showed up in Olympia Monday to testify against the bill once again. Ahead of the hearing, about 50 people gathered on the steps of the legislative building in opposition to the bill, in a rally organized by the Committee to Elect Rick Kuss for Sheriff in Kitsap County. “They keep slowly hacking away at our personal rights,” said one rallygoer. “They keep taking our personal freedoms away more and more and more,” said another man at the rally. “If we lose our sheriff, we’re sunk,” a woman said. Kuss is a retired U.S. Navy officer who holds a master’s degree in criminal justice and has served as a deputy with the King County Sheriff's Office since 2023. Despite the combination of military leadership and active patrol experience, the bill’s strict uninterrupted employment timeline would disqualify him from appearing on the ballot. SB 5974 aims to modernize law enforcement leadership by requiring that candidates for sheriff have at least five years of “uninterrupted, full-time law enforcement employment,” along with obtaining specific state certification. “It makes no sense, and voters should be able to determine who becomes their sheriff," Kuss told The Center Square. More than 70 people signed up to testify on both sides of the debate but had to wait until the very end of the hearing as Committee Chair Roger Goodman pushed discussion on the controversial bill as the final agenda item. Groups testifying in support of the bill included the League of Women Voters, Faith Action Network, Alliance for Gun Responsibility and Northwest Progressive Institute. Walla Walla County Sheriff Mark Crider spoke in opposition to the bill. “Certification is not an issue. We have a process for redress for sheriffs that abuse their power … that’s the recall process,” said Crider, who then spoke about the legislation's language no longer allowing volunteer police groups. “The only county in the state of Washington that uses any armed volunteers is Klickitat County,” he said. “If they didn’t have volunteers they wouldn’t have any security." Spokane County Sheriff John Nowels also spoke against the bill. “This bill allows the Criminal Justice Training Commission to vacate an elected sheriff. Removal of an elected official must remain in the hands of the people,” Nowels said. “We should not leave this in the hands of an unelected board of people… that is something that should be reserved for the people that put them in office.” Sheriff Daniel Garcia of Pacific County also testified against SB 5974. The original bill upon passage in the Senate would have led to his immediate decertification. Goodman offered an amendment, which was accepted by the committee that any current sitting sheriff would not be subjected to the five-year law enforcement rule; however, any future sheriff candidate would have to meet that benchmark. “I am an inconvenient truth for this bill. I was not a cop when I was elected to this job,” said Garcia, who told lawmakers he was a senior chief in the U.S. Navy who only ran for sheriff at the urging of supporters. “To get elected is not an easy thing. Putting yourself out there is quite difficult. To convince people that you have the necessary qualifications for the job is not easy. I pray every day to forgive you.” More than 14,000 people signed in on both sides of the bill. “More than 60 people who signed up to testify are not going to get the opportunity,” said Goodman as the hearing drew to a close just after 3:30 pm. The bill is set for executive session in the same committee on Tuesday at 4 p.m.

La decisión dependerá de las primeras carreras y del salto competitivo del AMR26.

Details about NorthWestern Energy’s plans to provide electricity to data centers in Montana still aren’t available to the public. The monopoly utility is in talks with at least 11 more entities relating to data center development, including some in Montana, according to a growing coalition of groups that is raising concerns about data centers in […]

မြန်မာစံတော်ချိန် နံနက် ၆ နာရီကနေ ၇ နာရီထိ (၁) နာရီကြာ ထုတ်လွှင့်နေတဲ့ ဒီရေဒီယိုအစီအစဉ်မှာ မြန်မာ၊ ဒေသတွင်းနဲ့ နိုင်ငံတကာသတင်းနဲ့ သတင်းဆောင်းပါးတွေ သီတင်းပတ်စဉ်ကဏ္ဍတွေကို နားဆင်နိုင်ပါတယ်။

Durante este domingo (22) e segunda-feira (23), movimentos populares de mais de 70 países debaterem propostas que serão levadas à Conferência Internacional Sobre Reforma Agrária (ICARRD +20) que será realizada em Cartagena, na Colômbia, a partir desta terça-feira (24). Além das organizações populares, estiveram presentes as ministras colombianas do Ambiente, Irene Vélez Torres, e do […] Fórum de movimentos populares antecede conferência internacional sobre reforma agrária na Colômbia apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.

The American Birkebeiner “Birkie” cross-country ski races from Cable to Hayward just concluded on Saturday, Feb. 21. It was the 52nd annual running of the marathon races. The Birkie is part of the Worldloppet Ski Federation, an international association of marathon cross-country ski races held in Europe, the Americas, New Zealand, Australia, China, and Japan. […]

After his brother’s killing, Monte Mabra decided to confront revenge culture in Milwaukee. The post Monte Mabra wants the revenge to stop appeared first on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

PIERRE — A proposal to change how the state collects the fee used to finance South Dakota’s governor-controlled economic development fund failed on a 31-36 vote Monday in the state House of Representatives.  The Future Fund was created in 1987 at the request of then-Gov. George Mickelson. It was placed under the governor’s exclusive control, […]

The Northern Mariana Islands will be holding elections for governor and lieutenant governor on November 3, 2026, after unexpected events altered the territory’s political landscape. Arnold I. Palacios (R) intended to run for reelection, seeking a second term in office, following his 2023 victory over incumbent Ralph Torres (R). However, on July 23, 2025, Palacios […] The post Northern Mariana Islands 2026 gubernatorial race kicks off appeared first on Pasquines.

Netflix confirma combate profesional el 19 de septiembre en la Esfera de Las Vegas.

President Donald Trump wants to put Katie Lane, a Virginia attorney, on the United States District Court for the District of Montana. Let’s skip the polite fiction. She is not qualified. This isn’t about ideology. I practiced before conservative judges for decades. I respected them because they were prepared, disciplined, and deeply experienced. They understood […]

With a March 1 deadline looming, data from the Montana Department of Revenue indicates that landlords for as many as three-quarters of the state’s rental housing units haven’t applied for an exemption that would shield their properties from hefty tax increases as the state’s new second-home tax is fully implemented on this fall’s tax bills. The post Many Montana landlords haven’t filed to avoid second-home tax appeared first on Montana Free Press.

Budget writers in the Washington Legislature on Monday declared their intent to eventually buy more hybrid electric ferries to modernize the state ferry fleet.  But newly unveiled House and Senate transportation spending proposals left at the dock a $1 billion borrowing request from the governor to pay the tab, raising doubts about when and how […]

Learn how to dribble a basketball, swing a golf club and more with these low-cost Milwaukee Recreation sports classes. The post Registration opens this week for Milwaukee youth sports classes appeared first on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

(The Center Square) – A new bill introduced in the California legislature would bolster the state’s affordable housing market, if it passes. Senate Bill 1091, authored by Senator Anna Caballero, D-Fresno, would preserve the state’s affordable housing supply by starting the Community Anti-Displacement and Preservation Program, which would fund and rehabilitate unrestricted housing units. It would also institute restrictions on affordable housing units that would prevent residents from being displaced, according to the text of the bill. A private-sector entity would be given authority to manage the affordable housing units for five years, and loans or grants would be made available to eligible borrowers. “Stable housing is foundational to racial equity and intergenerational opportunity,” Chione Flegal, Executive Director of Housing California, wrote to The Center Square on Monday. “For decades, communities of color have experienced widespread housing instability, displacement, and underinvestment. SB 1091 helps reverse that pattern. The bill did not specify where the money would come from or the cost of the legislation. Flegal added that the bill helps to preserve family homes and expands access to new affordable housing supply. “By securing long-term affordability and preventing displacement, this bill ensures that California’s growth serves all of our communities and contributes to a future of shared prosperity,” Flegal wrote. According to a January 2026 report from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office, home prices in the state far outpace the rest of the country. Mid-range prices for homes in California hover around $755,000, twice that of a mid-priced home elsewhere in the U.S. A bottom-range price for a California home is 30% more expensive than a lower-priced home in other states, the Legislative Analyst’s Office report found. With so many homes priced out range for many potential home buyers, the state faces an affordable housing shortfall of roughly 306,149 homes, according to data from the California Housing Partnership. “I do think that our housing crisis in California is decades in the making, and it’s from a lack of focus on the right policies and bills,” Sen. Suzette Martinez Valladares, R-Lancaster, told The Center Square in the Senate chambers after a Senate floor session on Monday. “We have to look at creative ways to make affordable housing. We have to take serious positions that address the costs of building, because if it doesn’t pencil out for developers, housing isn’t going to be affordable.” Several affordable housing bills were introduced by Republican lawmakers in California over the last 13 years, according to a fact sheet from the California Senate Republican Caucus. Several were never heard in the committees they were assigned to, while others were pulled from having a bill hearing or died in committee. Some never got scheduled to have a bill hearing, all crucial steps in the process for bills to make their way through the legislature on their way to passing and being signed into law by the governor. Caballero was not able to respond to requests for comment about her bill on Monday.