[ad_1] This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Capitol News Illinois. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. A new Illinois bill aims to add some oversight of families who homeschool their children, a response to concerns that the state does little to ensure these students receive an education and are protected from harm. The measure, known as the Homeschool Act, comes after an investigation by Capitol News Illinois and ProPublica last year found that Illinois is among a small number of states that place virtually…
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[ad_1] Tom Geoghegan & Laura BickerBBC News, London and BeijingWatch: ‘I’d be pissed if I was Canadian’ – Trump supporters on 51st state jibeUS tariffs against Canada and Mexico will go ahead on Tuesday but their level will be decided by Donald Trump, the US commerce secretary has said.The US president has threatened to impose 25% tariffs – which are a tax on imports – on his two neighbours on 4 March, in response to what he says is an unacceptable flow of illegal drugs and migrants into the US.US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Sunday the tariffs would…
[ad_1] A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, a success for the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on Earth’s celestial neighbour ahead of astronaut missions.Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander descended from lunar orbit on autopilot, aiming for the slopes of an ancient volcanic dome in an impact basin on the moon’s northeastern edge of the near side.Confirmation of the successful touchdown came from the company’s Mission Control outside Austin, Texas, following the action some 360,000 kilometres away.”You all stuck the landing. We’re on the…
[ad_1] WHAT WE’RE READING By Ellena Erskine on Feb 27, 2025 at 11:01 am Late last night, the chief justice blocked an order requiring the Trump administration to pay nearly $2 billion in foreign-aid reimbursements. He instructed the parties involved to respond by tomorrow at noon. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: Recommended Citation: Ellena Erskine, The morning read for Thursday, Feb. 27, SCOTUSblog (Feb. 27, 2025, 11:01 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/02/the-morning-read-for-thursday-feb-27/ [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Last fall, I attended a continuing legal education conference focused on sex crime defense and an outstanding speaker—who discussed the emerging field of forensic genetic genealogy—mentioned The Genetic Detective, a six-episode reality TV series that aired on ABC in 2020. The reference came from a credible source, so I figured it was worth viewing. ‘The Hot Case’ CeCe Moore, a genetic genealogist who originally worked more toward helping people discover their biological identities and lineage, utilizes The Genetic Detective to recount various situations in which she assisted law enforcement in solving cold cases. Not knowing where to start, I…
[ad_1] Here’s how you can nail Ramadan nutrition…The Holy month of Ramadan is the perfect time for not only a psychological reset, but also a physical one. Fasting has several benefits for the human body, many unknown to us, and this time can be used to build beneficial habits that we can carry with us even after the month is over. Nutrition in Ramadan can be a tricky one, which is why we asked Nur Al Abrach, Clinical nutritionist and Head of clinical education at Nabta Health, to dish out her top tips and answer some of our questions about…
[ad_1] ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In 2021, Steve Berger, an evangelical pastor who has attacked the separation of church and state as “a delusional lie” and called multinational institutions “demonic,” set off on an ambitious project. His stated goal: minister to members of Congress so that what “they learn is then translated into policy.” His base of operations would be a six-bedroom, $3.7 million townhouse blocks from the U.S. Capitol. Recently, the pastor scored a remarkable coup for a political influence project…
[ad_1] Laura KuenssbergPresenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg•@bbclaurakReuters”Bruised but motivated,” was how one of Volodymyr Zelensky’s entourage described how they had been feeling, as a small group of journalists crammed into what felt like an even smaller room at Stansted Airport. The British state had done its best to give the Ukrainian president “all bells and whistles” when he arrived in the UK for a summit with 18 world leaders after his dressing down by Donald Trump and JD Vance on Friday night, a government source told me. He shared an embrace with Sir Keir Starmer outside No 10, where he…
[ad_1] Arif Haidary, an Afghan refugee who arrived in Germany 10 years ago as an unaccompanied minor, has difficulty understanding the historic change that took place during Sunday’s vote. “The election went very, very badly,” he said. When Haidary arrived in Germany in 2015, Angela Merkel was chancellor and the country was cited as a model for welcoming refugees. While much of the rest of Europe closed its borders, Germany opened the door to more than one million refugees in 2015. But times have changed.The centre-right Christian Democratic alliance (CDU/CSU), which has taken a hard stance on migration by promising a “fundamental” overhaul…
[ad_1] EMERGENCY DOCKET By Amy Howe on Feb 27, 2025 at 11:52 am The court declined the government’s request last week to allow the temporary lower court order to run out. (Thomas Hawk via Flickr) The Trump administration on Wednesday reiterated its request for the Supreme Court to lift an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that instructed President Donald Trump to temporarily reinstate the head of an independent federal agency tasked with protecting whistleblowers from retaliation. Last week the justices declined to freeze the order by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, instead leaving the Trump administration’s…