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The move follows an investigation that found the famed labor leader sexually abused girls and women.

El Paso’s top public health official warned that delays in ICE reporting of infectious illnesses at detention facilities are hampering outbreak response efforts and endanger the broader community. The post Slow ICE reporting on infectious illnesses threatens El Paso outbreak response, health authority says appeared first on El Paso Matters.

A federal judge in South Carolina ruled this week that the Trump administration’s termination of environmental justice grants was “illegal.” The decision dealt a setback to efforts to dismantle a Biden-era program that funded projects addressing environmental and public health challenges in underserved communities across the country.  In the ruling, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel […]

The owner of Minocqua Brewing Co.  said Friday that thousands of dollars worth of beer has been taken from his Madison and Minocqua outlets in a dispute with state officials about paying appropriate taxes to sell beer in Wisconsin that he imported from Illinois. Minocqua Brewing owner Kirk Bangstad first drew attention to the investigation […]

多位美国国会两党议员表示，人工智能不仅关乎经济竞争，也关乎国家安全，美国必须保持在人工智能领域的领先地位，并确保下一阶段的人工智能创新发生在美国而非中国。

State Attorney General Dave Sunday stressed the one-time action would not serve as a precedent for similar transactions in the future.

The U.S. Coast Guard will base two new icebreakers in Kodiak and one in Seward, it announced Thursday.  The first two ships are expected in Kodiak in 2028, and the third ship is expected in Seward in the early 2030s, said Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska. The new ships are part of an 11-ship medium icebreaker […]

El Ministerio de la Producción peruano dio la “viabilidad con observaciones” al nuevo proyecto del congresista José Pazo que busca legalizar embarcaciones que no se regularizaron en el proceso de formalización que acabó en 2023. De acuerdo con los informes del Viceministerio de Desarrollo Estratégico de los Recursos Naturales y la Dirección General de Diversidad […]

(The Center Square) - One in nine children in Colorado live in poverty, but chronic school absenteeism continues to drop from COVID-19 pandemic highs, according to this year's Kids Count in Colorado! report. The report also noted graduation rates are up across the state. Data from this year’s report shows mixed results for the well-being of the state’s youth amid federal funding cuts and an ongoing pandemic rebound. The report found that overall child well-being in Colorado fell from 12th highest in the nation to 14th over the past year. “Across all issue areas in this report, I'd say there's really two main themes that stood out,” said Maya Gould, vice president of research for Colorado Children's Campaign, a research and policy organization that published the Kids Count in Colorado! report. “The first is access. A lot of kids in Colorado still aren't getting their basic needs met, and they're having difficulty accessing the services and support they need to get those needs met," Gould told The Center Square. "The second theme is that the access issue is worse for certain groups over others.” Healthcare is a key area where children’s access is falling behind, according to the report, which found that 6% of kids are uninsured, up from 4% last year. “But it went up the most among low-income kids,” said Gould. “In just one year, [among] kids who are experiencing poverty or living close to the poverty line, the uninsured rate rose to 10% – so it doubled. That's one-in-10 kids now who are low-income and who don't have health insurance in Colorado.” Childcare accessibility is another issue the state has run up against, with only enough licensed childcare to cover 13% of infants in the state. “While we know that not all families are really looking for licensed care, what that shows us is that most families don't even have the option if they wanted to explore it,” said Gould. The report also highlighted major education gaps that the state needed to address. One major indicator, third-grade reading and writing, found that 58% of Colorado third graders were not up to the standard. "There’s pretty big disparities by race, ethnicity, income and different student characteristics,” Gould said of the easing and writing metric. “And what that tells us is that we are not doing a good enough job, both inside and outside of the classroom, at getting these kids the services and the support they need to hit those milestones — because really most all kids are able to learn to read or able to learn to write. It’s just a question of are we getting them what they need to hit those milestones.” Gould added that while the third-grade reading level was not a new trend, it was a focus of this year’s report to reverse an acceptance of low reading and writing levels. On the plus side, the report shows a decrease in chronic absenteeism, which is when a student misses 10% or more of the school year. The absenteeism, which peaked around 33% during the pandemic, has fallen to 28% this year. Other recent gains by the state included a universal 15 hours-free preschool program created in 2022, and a sharp decline in teen suicide rates from 22.1 per 100,000 15 to 19-year-olds in 2020 to 14 in 2024, according to the report. The teen suicide rate is also lower than before the pandemic. “It’s really great and encouraging progress to see that not just suicide rates are going down, but also overall youth are reporting better mental health since the pandemic,” said Gould. One issue that’s been affecting a wide variety of child well-being issues is the recent cuts to federal programs, according to the Colorado Children’s Campaign. “Things at the federal level are constantly changing, and a lot of programs we talk about in this report have been threatened with cuts or different changes,” said Gould. “It’s really hard to predict the future about how it's truly going to affect kids in Colorado.”

Laert Aleksi Xhaferi provides art lessons at Studio Sabka. The studio was founded by his late father, recognized internationally for his art.

For those without a home country, queerness adds more complications to an existence that already has to be eked out on the margins of society.

An alleged breach of several California water systems by an Iranian-linked hacker group did not compromise any water production or delivery systems, according California Water Services. “We have conducted a preliminary scan of our internal IT and OT networks and have no signs of any compromise within our IT, water production, and delivery systems at […]

The seminary was under a warning status by its regional academic accreditor for three years.

G7峰会15-17日在法国阿尔卑斯山麓的埃维昂举行，轮流主席国总统马克龙日前突然邀请中国与G7成员国一道参与一个视频会议，讨论全球经济失衡问题。美国“政治新闻”形容马克龙此举是“通过G7拉拢中国”，七国集团近年来与中国对抗态势明显，将其拉入这样一个临时性框架对话引人注目。

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Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Michigan’s free newsletter here.The Michigan Bureau of Elections revoked Antrim County Clerk Victoria Bishop’s access to Michigan’s voter roll Friday, the latest salvo in the dispute between the state and the controversial Republican election official.Jonathan Brater, Michigan’s director of elections, said in a letter to Bishop that she is “taking actions ... that do not comply with the Michigan Election Law and fall outside the scope of your statutory authority” after she allegedly changed or even canceled some voters’ registrations earlier this year.Under Michigan law, maintaining the Qualified Voter File — the state’s central database of registered voters — is the job of city and township clerks, not county clerks. Brater noted in his letter that Bishop does “not have authority to alter QVF records except in certain situations,” including to flag voters who have died.However, Brater wrote, the state’s review of Bishop’s QVF activity found that that was not what she was doing. He also reprimanded her for sending notices to voters about the cancellations that were insufficiently complete, based on unreliable information, and also supposed to be sent only by city and township clerks.“Based upon your actions, it appears there is a lack of understanding regarding your responsibilities and authority as it relates to voter registration, list maintenance, and use of QVF,” Brater wrote. He concluded by notifying her that her QVF access has been suspended until she completes a series of trainings on QVF security, promises to comply with Michigan’s election law in the future, and responds adequately to the state’s initial inquiries on whose voter registrations were changed and why.Bishop did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday afternoon on the suspension. However, she has previously argued she has a “mandate” from voters to “rectify long-standing vulnerabilities in the county’s registration data” after Antrim County elected her on promises she would clean up the county’s rolls.Bishop has been in hot water with the state since April, when Votebeat first reported that she had been altering people’s voter registrations. Interlochen Public Radio later reported that she had sent notices of confirmation or cancellation to some 1,800 voters in the county of about 25,000 people, confusing voters and irritating township clerks who had to deal with the fallout.After Bishop failed to correctly respond to the state — she initially sent her response to an incorrect email address and did not answer a number of questions — the Department of State formally demanded she stop. Bishop and her husband, a radio host best known as Trucker Randy, threatened their own legal action against the state. They raised a few hundred dollars for the effort before ultimately unpublishing their fundraiser. It does not appear a suit was filed.Michigan State Police also investigated the Bishops after it came to light that her husband was alone in the clerk’s office using her computer in February. The Bishops told investigators that he was using the computer to watch a public county meeting as he was waiting for a phone call. The attorney general’s office confirmed Friday that investigation is ongoing.Voters should not see services interrupted by Bishop’s lack of access to the QVF, as her deputy clerk, Annette Marcus, will still have access, and the bulk of work in the QVF is done by city and township clerks.The county’s next elections are the primaries in August.Hayley Harding is a reporter for Votebeat based in Michigan. Contact Hayley at hharding@votebeat.org.

Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox.When the federal education department announced in March that Jeffco Public Schools had in its view run afoul of anti-discrimination law, it cited one key piece of evidence: rosters indicating 61 boys were on girls’ sports teams. In a letter to the community this week, Colorado’s second largest school district said no boys were competing on those teams — and offered an explanation.“Some teams had male managers, trainers, or mascots — not athletes,” the letter said. “Because the [U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights] never asked us to clarify the role of any individual listed on those rosters, we did not learn of this confusion until the OCR issued a press release. Since that moment, we have repeatedly and respectfully asked the OCR to address this factual error. They have declined to do so.”The U.S. Department of Education declined to comment for this story.The federal Office for Civil Rights is meant to ensure equal access to education by enforcing laws that prohibit discrimination. But under President Donald Trump, the office has used the federal Title IX law to target school district policies that protect transgender students.Jeffco has been in a back-and-forth with the federal office for a year.Last June, the office launched an investigation into Jeffco’s policy on sleeping arrangements for transgender students on overnight school trips. The policy says transgender students should share rooms with peers who match their gender identity. A family had sued the district after their 11-year-old daughter was assigned to share a bed with a transgender student.The federal office eventually found that several of Jeffco’s policies — including those on overnight accommodations, bathroom use, and sports participation — violated Title IX.At first, the office said Jeffco athletic rosters indicated “that male students occupy 61 roster positions on girls’ sports teams.” A later version of the press release posted on the federal education department’s website walked back that language by adding the words “may” and “up to.”The department has not answered questions from Chalkbeat about the change. Nor has it answered questions about how it made the determination about the 61 boys.Last week, the federal office issued a warning letter to Jeffco threatening to pull the 74,000-student district’s federal funding if it doesn’t change its policies, saying the two sides are at an impasse.In a statement, Jeffco disagreed about the impasse, noting that the district is still within the 90-day window that the office allows for good faith negotiations.Jeffco has said from the start that it is following Colorado’s anti-discrimination law, which “directly contradicts” the Trump administration’s interpretation of Title IX, the district said.“This places school districts in an impossible position,” the district wrote in its letter to the community, which was posted to its website Thursday. “We must navigate conflicting requirements with clear state law on one side and non-binding federal guidance on the other.”Despite receiving an impasse letter, Jeffco said it has “not given up on dialogue” with federal officials to come to a resolution.Melanie Asmar is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Colorado. Contact Melanie at masmar@chalkbeat.org.

State and federal authorities across the country have struggled to regulate 3D-printed firearms.

Os estados-membros da Organização Internacional do Trabalho (OIT) aprovaram, nesta sexta-feira (12), um inédito acordo para promover o trabalho decente nas plataformas digitais. A nova Convenção Internacional sobre o Trabalho Decente na Economia de Plataformas é uma tentativa da OIT de estabelecer um primeiro conjunto de regras mínimas globais para proteger prestadores de serviço contratados […] Fonte

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