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Well-supplied with water amid dry conditions statewide, the San Diego County Water Authority's board will meet consider the second long-term sale.

State lotteries are bringing in more money than ever, but states are paying more in prize money and keeping slightly less of it themselves, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau analysis.   State lottery ticket sales nationwide nearly doubled from $52.8 billion to $104.7 billion between fiscal 2008 to 2024, the bureau found in […]

La première réserve marine internationale au large de l’Afrique de l’Ouest est en cours de création entre les Canaries et la Guinée. Portée par la Communauté économique des États de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CEDEAO), cette initiative s’inscrit dans le cadre du nouveau Traité sur la haute mer (BBNJ, sigle en anglais), un accord international protégeant […] The post La première réserve marine internationale ouest-africaine en cours de création appeared first on Nouvelles de l'environnement.

A controversial antisemitism bill that opponents say would criminalise criticism of Israel. A small town reubilds its long-lost Statue of Liberty, a symbol of freedom, to help it rediscover its identity. And the story of France's first female general.

Les dépenses de lobbying de TotalEnergies aux États-Unis ont explosé en 2025 avec le retour de Donald Trump à la Maison Blanche. En jeu : le soutien financier de l'administration américaine au projet du groupe au Mozambique, et un intérêt partagé sur le développement des exportations de gaz naturel liquéfié vers l'Europe. C'est ce que l'on pourrait appeler sauter sur une opportunité. Selon les données réglementaires récoltées par l'administration étatsunienne, le groupe français (…) - Trumpisme et complicités / TotalEnergies, États-Unis, énergies fossiles, Lobbying et influence, Climat et greenwashing, Mozambique

Why there are no more referendums, plus partisan school board elections don’t include primary races. The post Why there are no education elections on your primary ballot appeared first on Mirror Indy.

Немецкая правозащитная организация «Будущее. Мемориал» (Zukunft Memorial) пообещала расширить свою деятельность на фоне объявления «Мемориала» «экстремистами» в России. Соответствующий пресс-релиз поступил в редакцию «Медузы».

On the existential threat posed by the insatiable space race.

以色列以4月7日美伊停火協議不涵蓋黎巴嫩為由，對黎巴嫩真主黨控制區展開致命轟炸，後者為支持伊朗於3月2日對以色列發動襲擊。法英呼籲美伊將黎巴嫩納入停火協議。

以色列以4月7日美伊停火协议不涵盖黎巴嫩为由，对黎巴嫩真主党控制区展开致命轰炸，后者为支持伊朗于3月2日对以色列发动袭击。法英呼吁美伊将黎巴嫩纳入停火协议。

هەژار برنجی لەم گفتوگۆیەدا لەگەڵ دەنگی ئەمەریکا، ڕوانینی حزبی دیموکراتی کوردستانی ئێران دەخاتە ڕوو لەمەڕ پێشهاتەکانی ئەم دواییەی ناوچەکە و دەڵێت هێزی حیزبەکەمان لەنێو قووڵایی خاکی کوردستاندایە.

法國極右翼政黨在剛剛落下帷幕的市政選舉中進一步加強了影響力，其正常化和鞏固進程仍在繼續；海灣衝突加劇了法國的財政壓力，至2030年，法國的債務負擔可能翻番；中東衝突背景下，烏克蘭擔憂以色列和美國對伊朗的戰爭正在壟斷西方的注意力和資源，使其在與俄羅斯的對抗中孤立和削弱；羅馬教皇利奧十四世將於周六前往摩納哥進行為期一天的閃電式訪問；這是27日出版的法國各大日報頭版關注的國內和國際新聞焦點。

法国极右翼政党在刚刚落下帷幕的市政选举中进一步加强了影响力，其正常化和巩固进程仍在继续；海湾冲突加剧了法国的财政压力，至2030年，法国的债务负担可能翻番；中东冲突背景下，乌克兰担忧以色列和美国对伊朗的战争正在垄断西方的注意力和资源，使其在与俄罗斯的对抗中孤立和削弱；罗马教皇利奥十四世将于周六前往摩纳哥进行为期一天的闪电式访问；这是27日出版的法国各大日报头版关注的国内和国际新闻焦点。

ՌԴ Գերագույն դատարանը ծայրահեղական շարժում է ճանաչել «Մեմորիալ» Ռուսաստանի իրավապաշտպան կազմակերպությանը։ Լուրը հաղորդում է TASS պետական լրատվական գործակալությունը։ Այս որոշումը իրավական հիմք է ստեղծում իշխանությունների համար, որպեսզի կարողանան մեղադրանք առաջադրել ցանկացած անձի դեմ, ով աջակցում է Նոբելյան մրցանակակիր կազմակերպության աշխատանքին կամ տարածում է նրա հրապարակած նյութերը։ «Գործը Մեմորիալի դեմ կրկին փորձ է բոլոր քննադատներին լռեցնելու և քաղաքացիական հասարակությանը զրկելու խոսելու...

Au Venezuela, le gouvernement intérimaire de Delcy Rodríguez va augmenter les salaires des travailleurs. Dans le pays, l'économie s'est effondrée ces dix dernières années, marquée par une inflation extrême de 600 % sur les 12 derniers mois. L’annonce de cette augmentation de salaire a été faite le 8 avril dans un discours télévisé de la présidente par intérim.

La construcción de una plantilla que no acabó de funcionar se comenzó a ver cuando Gran Canaria llegó fuera de la Copa del reyQuién es Marta Suárez, la joya del baloncesto español que también mira a la WNBA CB Gran Canaria anunció este martes la destitución de Jaka Lakovic tras una mala racha de resultados, sobre todo en Liga Endesa, que ha llevado al equipo al estar actualmente inmerso en la lucha por la permanencia cuando es un club de nivel europeo. Después de 213 partidos, un título de Eurocup y el haber llegado a estar en semifinales de Copa del rey y a playoff ACB, el entrenador dice adiós en el que es el fin de una era para el club claretiano. Una temporada para olvidar que ha llevado al adiós de Jaka Lakovic Al comienzo de la temporada 25-26 nadie esperaba que finalizara el ciclo de Jaka Lakovic en Dreamland Gran Canaria. El entrenador no solo tenía contrato hasta 2027, sino que además se había convertido en uno de los más asentados en la Liga Endesa, pero desde la construcción de la plantilla se llevó a cabo una renovación en puestos clave que no ha acabado de funcionar. Y es que de anotadores clave como Caleb Homesley y Joe Thomasson se pasó a nombres como Angola y Isaiah Wong, o en el juego interior se apostó por una dupla entre el veterano Louis Labeyrie y el joven Kur Kuath, un hecho que no ha terminado de funcionar y dar continuidad ofensiva. Esto ha llevado a que Angola y Labeyrie abandonaran la disciplina, pero también a fichajes de urgencia como Kassius Robertson o Chimezie Metu, para intentar salvar los muebles al final de temporada. A esto cabe mencionar la baja de Miquel Salvó por lesión grave para lo que queda de campaña. La construcción de una plantilla que no acabó de funcionar se comenzó a ver cuando Gran Canaria llegó fuera de la Copa del rey, una competición que siempre habían disputado con Lakovic, y que finalmente se evidenció con la eliminación de Europa en el top 16 de la BCL ante el Nymburk 82-92 en un partido en casa en el que tenía el pase a cuartos prácticamente en la mano. A diferencia de otras temporadas, el equipo había apostado por un nuevo torneo, cambiando Eurocup por la Basketball Champions League para ser más ambicioso, pero que ha coincidido con su peor momento deportivo. De la eliminación en Europa y no clasificarse para la Copa del rey se llegó al hundimiento en ACB, donde ya ronda las posiciones de descenso. Con un balance de 7 victorias y 18 derrotas en Liga Endesa, once derrotas en los últimos doce partidos llegaron a estar a tan solo un partido de la zona de descenso. Habría que remontarse a la campaña 2001-02 para encontrar una situación similar, es decir hace más de 20 años. El CB Gran Canaria acumula 30 años consecutivos en la Liga Endesa, el periodo de mayor prosperidad de la institución, lo que hace aún más dramática la posibilidad de perder la categoría, siendo el trasfondo emocional y deportivo que convierte esta temporada en una de las más críticas de su historia reciente. El legado que Jaka Lakovic deja en Dreamland Gran Canaria Jaka Lakovic se marcha de Dreamland Gran Canaria con 213 partidos a sus espaldas, siendo el tercer técnico con más encuentros en la historia del club solo por detrás de nombres míticos como Pedro Martínez y Manolo Hussein. Es también el tercero en victorias, con un total de 120 victorias. Llegó como uno de los nombres más prometedores en los banquillos, con una era de éxito en otro club europeo como fue el Ratiopharm Ulm alemán, y ya conquistó un título, de Eurocup, con tan solo tres derrotas en el torneo europeo. En su segunda temporada mejoró sus cifras en ACB, mientras en su tercera llevó al club a semifinales de Copa, mientras perdió la final de Eurocup. En su cuarto año no ha conseguido crear un equipo con química y los objetivos cayeron temprano, lo que ha llevado a su destitución y un final de ciclo inesperado. El sustituto Néstor 'Ché' García y las nueve finales hacia la permanencia Jaka Lakovic ya es historia y llega un entrenador que ya conoce la Liga Endesa como es Néstor 'Ché' García, que cuenta con experiencia en el baloncesto latinoamericano y ha dirigido a las selecciones de Venezuela, Argentina y República Dominicana. El argentino fue anunciado como nuevo técnico hasta final de temporada, con el objetivo de salvar la permanencia en los nueve partidos restantes, con una sola victoria de ventaja sobre el MoraBanc Andorra. El calendario que le queda a Gran Canaria es camaleónico, pues tiene que recibir en casa a Casademont Zaragoza, Basquet Girona, La Laguna Tenerife y Baxi Manresa, y visitar las pistas de Baskonia, Barça, Unicaja, Lleida y Valencia. Con partidos clave contra rivales directos como Zaragoza, Lleida y Manresa, pero también visitas exigentes a equipos como Baskonia, Barça, Unicaja y Valencia. La salvación podría por la barrera de los 10 triunfos, y con 11 victorias estaría blindada. Eso significa que necesitan 3 o 4 victorias más en los nueve partidos restantes, y cabe tener en cuenta que tiene ‘average’ favorable con Andorra y Granada, ambos por debajo en clasificación, y desfavorable con Burgos, quedando pendiente ante Lleida y Zaragoza, siendo clave sus partidos directos.

When Democratic Reps. Greg Stanton and Yassamin Ansari visited an Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility in Mesa earlier this year meant to temporarily house 157 people, it was one of the few times the facility had been under capacity in more than a month.  Just two weeks prior there were 513 people housed there […]

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here.Katie Crouch says calling her state’s Medicaid agency to get information about her benefits can feel like a series of dead ends.“The first time, it’ll ring interminably. Next time, it’ll go to a voice mail that just hangs up on you,” said the 48-year-old, who lives in Delaware. “Sometimes you’ll get a person who says they’re not the right one. They transfer you, and it hangs up. Sometimes, it picks up and there’s just nobody on the line.”She spent months trying to figure out whether her Medicaid coverage had been renewed. As of late March, she hadn’t been reapproved for the year for the state-federal program, which provides health insurance for people with low incomes and disabilities.Crouch, who suffered a debilitating brain aneurysm a decade ago, also has Medicare, which covers people who are 65 or older or have disabilities. Medicaid had been paying her monthly Medicare deductibles of $200, but she’d been on the hook for them for the past three months, straining her family’s fixed income, she said.Crouch’s challenges with Delaware’s Medicaid call center aren’t unique. State Medicaid agencies can struggle to keep enough staff to help people sign up for benefits and field calls from enrollees with questions. A shortage of such workers can keep people from fully using their benefits, health policy researchers said.Now, congressional Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which President Donald Trump signed into law last summer, will soon demand more from staff at state agencies in places where lawmakers expanded Medicaid to more low-income adults — nearly all states and the District of Columbia.Under the law, which is expected to reduce Medicaid spending by almost $1 trillion over the next eight years, these staffers will have to not only determine whether millions of enrollees meet the program’s new work requirements but also verify more frequently that they qualify for the program — every six months instead of yearly.KFF Health News reached out to agencies that will need to stand up the work rules, and many said they’ll need additional staff.The mandates will put extra strain on an already-stressed workforce, potentially making it harder for enrollees like Crouch to get basic customer service. And many could lose access to benefits they’re legally entitled to, said consumer advocates and health policy researchers, some of them with direct experience working at state agencies.States are already “struggling significantly,” said Jennifer Wagner, the director of Medicaid eligibility and enrollment at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and a former associate director of the Illinois Department of Human Services. “There will be significant additional challenges caused by these changes.”window.addEventListener("message",function(a){if(void 0!==a.data["datawrapper-height"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var t in a.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r,i=0;r=e[i];i++)if(r.contentWindow===a.source){var d=a.data["datawrapper-height"][t]+"px";r.style.height=d}}});Long wait times for helpRepublicans argue the Medicaid changes, which will take effect Jan. 1, 2027, in most states, will encourage enrollees to find jobs. Research on other Medicaid work requirement programs has found little evidence they increase employment.The Congressional Budget Office estimated the rules would cause more people to lose health coverage by 2034 than any other part of the GOP budget law. It said last year more than 5 million people could be affected.Many states don’t have the staff to process Medicaid applications or renewals quickly, said consumer advocates and researchers.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services tracks whether states can handle the most common type of benefit application within a 45-day window.In December, about 30% of all Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, applications in Washington, D.C., and Georgia took more than 45 days to process. More than a quarter took that long in Wyoming. In Maine, 1 in 5 applications missed that deadline.CMS began publicly sharing state Medicaid call center data in 2023, revealing a taxed system, researchers and consumer advocates said.In Hawaii, people waited on the phone for more than three hours in December. They waited for nearly an hour in Oklahoma, and more than an hour in Nevada.In 2023, state Medicaid agencies began making sure enrollees who were protected from being dropped from the program during the Covid pandemic still qualified for coverage. That Medicaid unwinding process didn’t go well in many states, and more than 25 million lost their benefits.Health policy researchers and consumer advocates say rolling out the new Medicaid rules will be a bigger challenge. The Medicaid work rules will require extensive IT system changes and training for workers verifying eligibility on a tight timeline.“It is a much larger scale of administrative complexity,” said Sophia Tripoli, senior director of policy at Families USA, a health care consumer advocacy organization.After months of trying to get someone on the phone, Crouch said, she finally got answers to questions about her Medicaid benefits after writing to the office of U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride, a Delware Democrat. McBride’s office contacted the state’s Medicaid agency, which eventually called with an update, Crouch said.Crouch didn’t qualify for Medicaid after all. She said that had never come up in two years of interactions with the state.“It makes absolutely no sense” that the state never realized she shouldn’t have been on the program, Crouch said.Delaware’s Medicaid agency didn’t respond to requests for comment on Crouch’s situation.States short-staffed for MedicaidSome states told KFF Health News in late March that they’ll need more staff to roll out the work rules effectively.Idaho said it has 40 eligibility worker vacancies. New York estimated it will need 80 new employees to handle the additional administrative work, at a cost of $6.2 million. Pennsylvania said it has nearly 400 open positions in county human services offices in the state. Indiana’s Medicaid agency has 94 open positions. Maine wants to hire 90 additional staffers, and Massachusetts wants to hire 70 more.As of early March, Montana had filled 39 of 59 positions state officials projected it would need. The state still plans to roll out the rules early, starting July 1, despite its long struggle with system backlogs that applicants said have delayed benefits.Missouri’s social services agency has been cutting staff and has 1,000 fewer front-line workers than it did roughly a decade ago — with more than double the number of enrollees in Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, according to comments Jessica Bax, the agency director, made during a public meeting in November.“The department thought that there would be a gain in efficiency due to eligibility system upgrades,” Bax said. “Many of those did not come to fruition.”States could have a hard time finding people interested in taking those jobs, which require months-long training, can be emotionally challenging, and generally offer low pay, said Tricia Brooks, a researcher at the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families.“They get yelled at a lot,” said Brooks, who formerly ran New Hampshire’s Medicaid and CHIP customer service program. “People are frustrated. They’re crying. They’re concerned. They’re losing access to health care, and so sometimes it’s not an easy job to take if it’s hard to help someone.”States are paying government contractors millions of dollars to help them comply with the new federal law.Maximus, a government services contractor, provides eligibility support, such as running call centers, in 17 states that expanded Medicaid and interacts with nearly 3 in 5 people enrolled in the program nationally, according to the company.During a February earnings call, company leadership said Maximus can charge based on the number of transactions it completes for enrollees, independent of how many people are enrolled in a state’s Medicaid program.Maximus has “no one-size-fits-all approach” to the services it offers or the way it charges for those services, spokesperson Marci Goldstein told KFF Health News.The company, which reported bringing in $1.76 billion in 2025 from the part of its business that includes Medicaid work, expects that revenue to continue to grow, even as people fall off the Medicaid rolls, “because of the additional transactions that will need to take place,” David Mutryn, Maximus’ chief financial officer and treasurer, said during the earnings call.Losing Medicaid health coverage isn’t just an inconvenience, since many people enrolled in the program probably don’t make enough money to pay for health care on their own and may not qualify for financial help for Affordable Care Act coverage, said Elizabeth Edwards, a senior attorney with the National Health Law Program.People could be unable to afford medications or get essential care, which could lead to “devastating” health impacts, she said.“The human stakes of this are people’s lives,” she said.KFF Health News correspondents Katheryn Houghton and Samantha Liss contributed to this report, which was originally published at KFF Health News, Healthbeat’s national reporting partner.

Agirbesta du hefteyî ya di navbera Amerîka û Îranê de derbasî roja xwe ya duyem bû, lê belê rejîma Îranê hîn jî xizmeta înternetê ji ser welatîyan Îranê qut dike. Rêxistina NetBlocks ya çavdêrîya înternetê îro Pêncşemê ragihand ku birîna înternetê li Îranê ket roja xwe ya 41’an. Ev tê wê wateyê ku bûye 960 demjimêr ku welatîyên Îranê bi giştî ji cîhana derve hatine qutkirin. NetBlocks di daxuyanîya xwe de eşkere kir ku “ev tedbîrên bêhempa yên di pîvan û dema birînê de, mafên ragihandin û...