A federal judge tried to halt the construction of this hideous addition to the White House, but that got in the way of Roberts letting the president do whatever the hell he wants.
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Esta tarde, registou-se um acidente de viação em Vilarinho das Cambas. Segundo a corporação dos Bombeiros Voluntários de Famalicão, tratou-se de um choque frontal entre dois veículos ligeiros, do qual resultaram três feridos: dois feridos ligeiros e um ferido grave.
Todas as vítimas foram transportadas para o Hospital de Famalicão.
No local, no apoio às operações de socorro, estiveram os Bombeiros Voluntários de Famalicão, com o apoio dos Bombeiros Voluntários Famalicenses, juntamente com a Viatura Médica de Emergência e Reanimação (VMER) de Famalicão e a Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR) de Famalicão.
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The Australian Senate passed new powers for ASIO 26-15 on Thursday.
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Amendment Bill (No.2) 2025 adds to the 1979 ASIO Act, raising concerns about citizen protections vis-à-vis police questioning.
Such as the broadening of ASIO’s power to include “sabotage, promotion of communal violence, attacks on Australia’s defence system and any serious threat to Australia’s territorial and border integrity.”
Under current law, this is regardless of “whether these [words or actions] were directed from, or committed within, Australia or not.”
The biggest concerns centre on the “promotion of communal violence” and threats to national integrity.
Under existing laws on adult questioning, anyone who fails to comply with ASIO when they demand information can be imprisoned for five years.
Put simply, in these cases you do not have the right to remain silent.
Ramping up those concerns is the fact that neither inciting “communal violence” nor “threats to national integrity” are properly defined.
According to section 4 of the ASIO Act, foreign interference is defined as: “activities relating to Australia that are carried on by or on behalf of a foreign power.”
Activities included anything that is “detrimental to the interests of Australia “ or involves “a threat to any person.”
Promoting communal violence is defined as: “activities that are directed to promoting violence between different groups of persons in the Australian community.”
Added here is any activity that “endangers the peace, order or good government of the Commonwealth.”
In effect, publicly questioning COVID vaccines, lockdowns, mass immigration, and multiculturalism could be considered incitement and a threat to national stability (integrity).
As could critiquing Islam, or even criticising Albonomics that is currently edging Australia’s economy irreversibly towards’ Labor’s “we’re saving the world from climate change,” Net Zero Nanny State black hole.
By far one of the bill’s most prominent opponents, Senator Alex Antic, said on X that he’s disappointed it passed.
Antic also stated that he voted against the amendment because “extraordinary powers should never become ordinary.”
The South Australian Liberal Senator then declared the law an expansion of the surveillance state.
Antic told the Senate that the bill “doesn’t merely fine-tune existing arrangements.”
“It breaks in new powers and makes permanent extraordinary intrusions on the liberty of Australians.
“Compulsory questioning warrants,” Antic argued, “allow ASIO to compel a person who may never have been charged with an offence or may never be charged with an offence to appear and answer questions under threat of criminal penalty.”
Even telling anyone about being questioned or detained is now an offence.
“These are not ordinary investigative tools,” he stated. “They sit well outside the framework of the traditional criminal justice system.”
Since 9/11, the government has repeatedly extended what were meant to be temporary powers.
That’s because they were the exception, not a permanent rule.
“As it currently stands, the bill removes that sunset clause entirely.”
Making them permanent is a problem, Antic added.
“History shows that temporary emergency powers have a long and chequered history and habit of becoming permanent features.
“Worse still, the bill actually expands the reach of adult questioning warrants.
“The definition of an adult questioning matter will now be broadened under this bill to include sabotage and, most alarmingly, the promotion of communal violence.”
Criticising the loose language, Antic rightly pointed out that “Promotion of communal violence’ is particularly elastic.
“Vague drafting is the enemy of the rule of law.”
To this he added, “What does it actually mean? What does it capture?”
“Does it capture passionate political speech, advocacy that offends certain groups, legitimate protest or religious expression that crosses an often-ill-defined line?”
Antic then asserted, “In a free society, the state shouldn’t be handed an open-ended power to compel citizens to answer questions about speech or association that falls short of actual criminality.”
Blurring lines when it comes to criminality and rights, he further argued, removes certainty about where that line is drawn.
The even greater concern here is whether or not the law could be used to detain and question people against their will.
“The bill also retains the capacity to subject children as young as 14 to these processes. On its surface, that alone should give this chamber reason to pause.
“Security which is purchased at the price of permanent, expanded and coercive powers is a false bargain.”
Extraordinary laws require use-by dates.
“The rule of law requires that the state’s most intrusive rules remain exceptional, tightly confined, regularly scrutinised and subject to genuine sunset clauses.”
They should not, Antic protested, be “quietly normalised” and “quietly allowed to creep into the norm.”
Notably, Antic joined One Nation and The Greens in opposing the expansion of ASIO’s powers.
Europe is warming more than twice as fast as the global average—a terrifying statistic made all too apparent this summer as heat wave followed heat wave. European cities were never designed for these temperatures, and public health, infrastructure, and tourism are all under strain. Eric Klinenberg arrives in Milan just as “Europe’s third heat wave of the summer entered its fiercest stretch” and sweats his way across the continent to see how trees, shade, water, and other measures are being deployed to adapt urban centers. But with this crisis set to deepen can these experiments really keep pace?
Of all the problems that heat poses for Barcelona, losing some of the hundred and sixty thousand tourists who typically visit each day ranks low on the priority lists of most officials and residents. Some locals have staged protests, chanting “Tourists go home” while targeting visitors with water guns. But tourism employs more than a hundred and sixty thousand people in Barcelona and accounts for around thirteen per cent of its economic output, which explains why, despite concerns that the city gets too many visitors, more than seventy per cent of residents consider tourism beneficial. At midday, when I arrived on La Rambla, the city’s most heavily visited and photographed corridor, the street had little shade and surprisingly few people. At La Boqueria market, normally jam-packed at lunchtime, I found my way to a famously busy bar counter and took one of several open seats.
Former Florida state legislator Michael Caruso was arrested this week on charges that he sexually abused his own grandson — a crime that could expose him to the death penalty under a law he voted [...]
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Obra integra o Plano Anual de Manutenção do Parque de Desporto Municipal e representa um investimento de 11.600 euros.
O Município de São Brás de Alportel iniciou uma nova intervenção no Pavilhão Desportivo Municipal, com o objetivo de recuperar e melhorar o sistema de drenagem de águas pluviais da cobertura da nave principal.
A intervenção surge na sequência do desgaste do algeroz metálico existente na cobertura, que tinha comprometido a estanquidade da estrutura e permitido a entrada de água no interior do pavilhão, sobretudo através da escorrência pelas paredes.
Os trabalhos incluem o corte da telha existente, a limpeza e isolamento do algeroz atual e a instalação de um novo algeroz no seu interior, mantendo a ligação aos tubos de queda já existentes.
A empreitada contempla ainda a colocação de um remate em chapa sobre o murete, destinado a proteger a estrutura e a garantir uma adequada condução das águas provenientes da cobertura.
Com um prazo de execução de 60 dias, a intervenção representa um investimento municipal de 11.600 euros e integra o Plano Anual de Manutenção do Parque de Desporto Municipal.
Com esta obra, o Município pretende reforçar as condições de conservação e segurança do Pavilhão Desportivo Municipal, assegurando melhores condições de utilização de um equipamento ao serviço da comunidade.
Evento realiza-se a 12 de setembro, em Vila do Bispo, com entrada livre e aposta na música urbana portuguesa.
Vila do Bispo prepara-se para encerrar a temporada de verão ao som da música urbana portuguesa. O evento “Há Música na Vila” realiza-se no dia 12 de setembro, junto ao Mercado Municipal, com Richie Campbell e Yang como cabeças de cartaz. A entrada é livre.
A noite começa às 21h30 com Yang, uma das novas vozes da música urbana portuguesa. O artista, conhecido por temas como “Fica para Depois” e “Água e Sal”, apresenta também o seu mais recente êxito, “Fé”, lançado em 2026. A atuação deverá levar ao público uma sonoridade marcada por influências de R&B, bossa nova e afro-pop.
Às 23h00, sobe ao palco Richie Campbell, um dos nomes mais reconhecidos da música urbana nacional. O artista encerra a noite com uma atuação que cruza sonoridades de reggae, dancehall, R&B e afrobeats.
Promovido pela Câmara Municipal de Vila do Bispo, o “Há Música na Vila” pretende assinalar o final do verão com uma noite de música e convívio, proporcionando ao público um último grande momento da temporada.
O recinto abre às 20h30. A atuação de Yang está marcada para as 21h30, seguindo-se Richie Campbell às 23h00. O evento conta com o apoio da Região de Turismo do Algarve, Cerveja Sagres e Bombeiros Voluntários de Vila do Bispo.
Evento: Há Música na Vila
Data: 12 de setembro de 2026
Local: Vila do Bispo, junto ao Mercado Municipal
Entrada: Livre
20h30: Abertura do recinto
21h30: Yang
23h00: Richie Campbell
A iniciativa é apresentada pelo Município como o encerramento do verão em Vila do Bispo, numa noite dedicada à música urbana portuguesa.
Dia do Município ficou marcado pela homenagem a José Carlos Rolo, inauguração de novos equipamentos, ações de sensibilização para a emergência e apresentação do Albufeira Carpe Nox 2027.
Albufeira assinalou ontem, 20 de agosto, o Dia do Município e os 522 anos da entrega da carta de Foral por D. Manuel I. As comemorações decorreram ao longo de todo o dia e combinaram momentos de homenagem e memória com a apresentação de novos investimentos e iniciativas direcionadas para a população.
O programa teve início nos Paços do Concelho, com o hastear da Bandeira Nacional ao som do Hino Nacional. Seguiu-se a entrega simbólica de duas viaturas aos Bombeiros Voluntários de Albufeira, reforçando os meios disponíveis para a proteção e segurança da população.
Um dos momentos mais emotivos da manhã aconteceu na Galeria dos Presidentes, com a colocação da fotografia de José Carlos Rolo. Professor e diretor escolar, Rolo integrou a Assembleia Municipal e exerceu funções de vereador, vice-presidente e presidente da Câmara Municipal de Albufeira, entre 2018 e 2025.
Durante a cerimónia, Rui Cristina destacou o percurso de José Carlos Rolo na educação, na participação cívica e no serviço público. A filha, Marlene Rolo, recordou também o pai, sublinhando o seu papel enquanto homem de família e a marca que deixou no concelho.
As comemorações prosseguiram com a inauguração do Parque de Estacionamento e Passadiços Albufeira Nascente, na Estrada do Alfamar. A obra, concluída em seis meses e com um investimento próximo dos dois milhões de euros, pretende melhorar as condições de acesso, mobilidade e circulação pedonal naquela zona.
Durante a tarde, a Praça dos Pescadores recebeu uma Mostra de Meios, aproximando a população das forças de segurança e dos serviços de socorro. O programa incluiu ainda um Mass Training de Suporte Básico de Vida, com tradução e adaptação em Língua Gestual Portuguesa, onde os participantes aprenderam a reconhecer uma paragem cardiorrespiratória, pedir ajuda e iniciar manobras de reanimação.
O futuro esteve também em destaque com a apresentação da sexta edição do Albufeira Carpe Nox. Os Calema marcaram presença e confirmaram a atuação na noite de 31 de dezembro, enquanto Carolina Deslandes, que atuará no primeiro pôr do sol de 2027, participou através de uma mensagem vídeo. A passagem de ano terá início às 22h00 e contará ainda com a atuação do DJ Nox depois da meia-noite.
As comemorações terminaram nos Paços do Concelho com o espetáculo ALUMIA. Ao longo de cinco sessões, o videomapping, a luz e a pirotecnia transformaram a fachada do edifício numa viagem pela história de Albufeira, passando pelas origens do território, a herança árabe, a reconquista, a ligação ao mar, o terramoto de 1755 e as tradições locais, antes de projetar uma cidade moderna e voltada para o futuro.
Ao celebrar os 522 anos do concelho, Albufeira procurou, assim, juntar passado e futuro, homenageando quem contribuiu para a sua história, reforçando equipamentos e serviços e apresentando novos projetos para afirmar o município como destino ao longo de todo o ano.
A rubrica Lado B recebe, no próximo dia 18 de setembro, a renomada artista Lena d’Água, para um concerto intimista que terá lugar pelas 21h30, no Teatro Mascarenhas Gregório, em Silves.
Dona de um timbre inconfundível, de uma dicção irrepreensível e de uma singular sensibilidade na interpretação das canções, Lena d’Água é uma das mais marcantes e incontornáveis vozes da música portuguesa. Com uma carreira que atravessa várias décadas, a artista ocupa um lugar de destaque na história da música nacional, tendo dado voz a algumas das canções que integram a banda sonora de várias gerações.
Em novembro de 2024, Lena d’Água regressou aos registos discográficos com o álbum “Tropical Glaciar”, novamente com autoria de Pedro da Silva Martins, à semelhança do trabalho que o antecedeu, “Desalmadamente”.
Os bilhetes para o espetáculo têm o custo de 10 euros e podem ser adquiridos através da bilheteira online da BOL, em https://cmsilves.bol.pt/, bem como nos locais habituais de venda. Poderão ainda ser adquiridos no próprio dia do espetáculo, no Teatro Mascarenhas Gregório, a partir das 20h00, caso exista disponibilidade de bilheteira.
O Município de Silves continua, assim, a apostar na promoção cultural através da dinamização da rubrica Lado B, um projeto que se distingue pelo seu formato diferenciador, próximo e descontraído, proporcionando momentos de partilha onde a música e a conversa se cruzam e permitindo ao público conhecer uma versão mais intimista dos artistas convidados.
On Friday, Demand Progress Education Fund and a coalition of civil society advocates asked the FTC to investigate AI companies like Anthropic and Amazon for buying books in bulk, scanning them and then destroying the original work—including rare books. In a letter sent to the FTC, the organizations urge the agency to use its authority, including Section 6(b) of the FTC Act, to investigate whether this mass book-destroying practice unfairly prevents competing AI developers and the public from using these resources.
Convened by Demand Progress Education Fund, the letter was also signed by the Consumer Federation of America, the Center for Media & Digital Governance at Open Markets Institute, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and 14 other organizations.
“The secretive and reckless way that major AI companies like Anthropic and Amazon are acting shows that there is real smoke here that the FTC needs to investigate,” said Demand Progress Education Fund Special Advisor Kate Oh. “There is credible reporting that the AI industry is acquiring books on vast commercial scales to scan and destroy, all to keep that scanned text in a private database walled off from the world and subject to corporate censorship and manipulation.”
“When a small number of dominant tech companies become the sole custodians of millions of human-authored works in digital form, locked away inside proprietary corporate databases—including works they have caused to exist nowhere else—they convert a shared public resource into a private chokepoint,” stated the letter. “They make themselves the unaccountable gatekeepers of our shared historical and cultural record, with the ability to censor as they see fit. That outcome should concern the FTC because the antimonopoly laws exist not only to protect competition but to prevent any private actor from amassing control incompatible with a free and self-governing society.”
President Donald Trump announced "Economic D-Day" against Iran and its allies Wednesday as many debate who controls the Strait of Hormuz.
Evidence Is Clear: CNN Business (Lean Left bias) opinion writer David Goldman said the "focal point of the Iran war" is "the battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz." The article explained that the "competing rhetoric" between Iran and the US has "caused considerable confusion and doubt." However, according to Goldman, "the evidence is clear" showing that "The United States, patrolling the strait with its navy, is gaining ground—and Iran is losing much of its control of the critical waterway." Goldman, as evidence cited Kpler, a service tracking ships via both transponder and satellites, saying that "more than 80% of liquids transits" through the strait over the last two weeks have utilized the Omani route or have been "dark" transits, meaning they turned off their transponders. Head of crude oil analysis at Kpler said "It increasingly looks like Iran has at least partially lost control of the strait." Goldman mentioned Trump saying that the US has "total control over the strait," and asserted that while this is not true, Iran also does not have total control.
'In Price, Is Knowledge': Bloomberg (Center) opinion writer Javier Blas approached the question of control through the lens of oil prices. Referencing an old market saying, "In price, is knowledge," Blas asserted that "At less than $90 a barrel, it isn't screaming shortage." Blas said that while the release of "strategic reserves is helping," as well as China slashing its oil imports, "that's not the full story." The "market skepticism about [US Energy Secretary Chris] Wright's optimism" over the amount of oil flowing through the strait "is understandable" according to Blas, however, "the naysayers are a bit too sure of themselves." Blas said that with "available data, we can safely say that, at the very least, 5 million barrels a day are transiting Hormuz," which contradicts the figures given by Wright. However, when the emphasis, according to Blas is on "available" data which he explained is quite limited due to the ongoing conflict, we may be missing much of what is really happening, positing that oil is flowing through the strait "perhaps more successfully than we think."
3-Month Low: CNBC (Lean Left) framed coverage around statements from an Iranian government and military backed agency known as the Persian Gulf Strait Authority saying that "Hormuz remains blocked." The article also cited Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi saying the US "has long miscalculated due to intelligence failures," adding "Case in point: The war on Iran. Now, an even bigger miscalculation on the Strait of Hormuz." CNBC said that "While both sides continue to make contradictory claims," data from Kpler shows ship traffic through the waterway at a "3-month low."
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'Notable Success': Outlets like Axios (Lean Left) and The New York Post (Right) highlighted a "stealth operation" from the US that is reportedly guiding millions of barrels of oil daily through the strait near the Omani coast. The Post mentioned that the operation does not come without costs, explaining that the US is "forced to deploy ships, helicopters and planes to intercept attacks from Iran," further explaining that "intercepting the strikes is notably higher than what it costs Iran to attack using its cheaper suicide drones." Axios called the operation "a notable success even as the broader war remains at a stalemate."
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Alexis Antonio Cedillos-Campos, 19, was arrested in connection with the murder of a 42-year-old woman in Fairfax, Virginia. Media outlets on the right emphasized that Cedillos-Campos was an unauthorized immigrant, while outlets on the left tended to downplay it as a factor in the murder.
The Details: Carmen Lizet Puch was found dead on Monday with several stab wounds and "doused in gasoline." Puch and Cedillos-Campos were coworkers at a restaurant and had an "intimate relationship," according to several media reports. Video footage allegedly showed Cedillos-Campos grabbing a knife, black latex gloves and a water bottle before going to meet Puch at a remote area where the two "intended" to convene.
For Context: According to the Department of Homeland Security, Cedillos-Campos was arrested by Customs and Border Protection in 2024 after illegally crossing a border near El Paso, Texas.
How the Media Covered It: The story was covered mostly by local news outlets which emphasized both the nature of Cedillos-Campos' relationship with Puch and his immigration status.
Previous Immigration Policy: Fox News (Right) and The New York Post (Right) framed the murder as a consequence of Cedillos-Campos's being in the US illegally under the Biden administration's immigration policy. In its headlines and reporting, Fox described Puch as a mother first compared to some other outlets who referred to her as Cedillos-Campos' coworker on first reference.
Fear Campaign: CNN (Lean Left) reported that the case has brought "renewed scrutiny" to the US's immigration policies, and it emphasized that researchers have found "no connection between immigration and crime." The outlet noted other recent instances of crime committed by unauthorized immigrants and said the Trump administration is carrying out a "yearslong campaign to use certain killings as apparent evidence for stricter border enforcement." ABC News (Lean Left) didn't mention Cedillos-Campos' immigration status until the last sentence of its article.
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US national debt surpassed $40 trillion on Tuesday amid federal budget deficits and decades of borrowing.
Shaky Fiscal Foundation: Alan Rappeport, writing for The New York Times Opinion (Left bias) highlighted President Donald Trump's promises to restore fiscal order, saying that "many of his policies have only exacerbated America's financial woes." However, the article also said that it is debatable "whether the mounting debt load is a problem to be solved or a function of America's economic strength." According to Rappeport, "deficits are also a point of political gamesmanship," asserting that "Republicans [are] most passionate about eliminating them when they are out of power." Regardless, Rappeport explained that "both Republicans and Democrats are responsible for America's borrowing burden," adding that the $40 trillion mark is "an ominous milestone for an economy that sits on a shaky fiscal foundation."
'Many Available Solutions': Outlets on the right like Fox Business (Lean Right) were more likely to highlight "surging interest costs" and "growth in federal spending on Social Security and Medicare amid the aging of the U.S. population" as reasons behind the rapidly growing debt. The article cited CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation Michael A. Peterson who said "For the millions concerned about affordability, let's start by asking Washington to take notice that the national debt just hit $40 trillion," and "we must change course." Peterson added, however, that "the only good thing about our fiscal challenge is that there are many available solutions, and the budget is entirely within our control." Peterson also noted that US adversaries "like China, Russia and Iran likely enjoy seeing the country devalue its economic future."
RELATED: National Debt Surpasses GDP for the First Time Since World War II | AllSides
Unsustainable Fiscal Trajectory: The Wall Street Journal (Center) said in an analysis that the $40 trillion "threshold carries symbolic weight, but isn't, by itself, economically significant." The article explained that "most investors and economists care less about raw figures than other measures, like the ratio of debt to gross domestic product, which provides a better sense of an economy's borrowing capacity." The focus of economists, according to the article, is on debt held by the public, which was $32.266 trillion on Tuesday. However, "$40 trillion is a big number," and according to The Journal is "likely to at least briefly draw attention to what economists broadly agree is an unsustainable fiscal trajectory."
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