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A billboard with photos of presidential candidates hangs on a street in Tehran, Iran, June 17, 2024. REUTERSFriday’s schedule is tight.Iran will hold tightly controlled presidential elections, and Mongolia will hold parliamentary elections.In India, the Maharashtra state government will present the state’s annual budget in the monsoon session of the parliament.Here’s a quick rundown of today’s big news headlines.Iranian Presidential ElectionIran will hold tightly controlled presidential elections on Friday.The election, held following the death of Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last month, is expected to influence the succession of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the clerical state’s top decision-maker.The elections…

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former Uvalde School Police Cmdr. Slow police response A local sheriff issued a statement Thursday following the 2022 mass murder at a Texas elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers dead.Pete Arredondo was indicted by a grand jury on 10 felony counts of child endangerment/abandonment and was briefly booked into the county jail before being released on bail, Uvalde County Sheriff Ruben Nolasco said in a text message to The Associated Press on Thursday night.of Uvalde Leader News And that san antonio express news Former school employee Adrian Gonzalez was also indicted on multiple…

ORLANDO, Fla. — An Orlando technology contractor was one of several facilities raided by Department of Defense and Army criminal investigators this week, the company’s CEO confirmed.Sky Witness 9 On Tuesday morning, agents from the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), a branch of the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG), were seen removing items from Cole Engineering on Discovery Drive.Cole Engineering is a subsidiary of By Light, an IT company that focuses on modelling and simulation work for the military.Read: Florida’s balloon release ban protects sea turtles, birds and other marine life”I want to be clear that we have…

Biden vs. Trump debate live updates: 5 things to watch 1. Reaction to Biden’s age issue: At 81, Biden is the oldest serving president, and his performance will be scrutinized for signs of weakness or confusion. To allay concerns about his age, Biden will need to project energy and clarity. He will likely highlight his wealth of experience and position his age as a plus rather than a minus. A strong, decisive performance, such as his State of the Union address earlier this year, could reassure voters and help him extend his lead in a close race. Conversely, a notable…

Editor’s note: This article Governance’s Summer 2024 issue. You can subscribe here.Rick Ramsey is running for a fourth term as sheriff in Monroe County, Florida this fall, and he should have no trouble winning: He ran unopposed in his two previous re-election campaigns, in 2016 and 2020, and raised just $3 million in total in his campaign coffers.Ramsey’s ability to continue a long political career without facing an opponent is not unusual, at least when it comes to sheriffs. Sheriff Michael Ash of Hampden County, Massachusetts, served 42 years without facing a single candidate for reelection. Sheriff Karen Talton of…

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are taking the stage in Atlanta tonight for the first presidential debate of the 2024 election season.Follow this space as the USA TODAY Fact Check Team investigates claims from the presumptive nominees and adds context to the top issues for voters this year.We’ll be watching for statements that exaggerate, mislead, misrepresent or otherwise stray from reality. Our team uses primary documents, trustworthy nonpartisan sources, data and other research tools to assess the accuracy of claims. And you won’t have to take our word for it, since we’ll always link our sources as…

When Bronny James takes to the court for the Los Angeles Lakers this season, LeBron James will become the fourth father to play on the same team as his son at the top level of American professional sports.The Lakers selected Bronny with the 55th overall pick in the 2024 NBA Draft on Thursday, a move that had been rumored for months. Bronny declared for the draft after a tough freshman season at USC. He missed the start of the season with heart issues and averaged fewer than five points in 25 games.With LeBron in the final year of his contract…

Climate change poses major challenges for agriculture, with Italian government officials growing increasingly concerned about declining food production. what’s happening? As Reuters explained earlier this month, Italy’s National Statistics Institute (ISTAT) said agricultural production contracted in 2023 as “wine, fruit and olive oil production were all affected by extreme weather events linked to climate change.” To make matters worse, the scorching heat across Europe shows no signs of letting up anytime soon. Last year was reported to be Europe’s hottest summer in the past 2,000 years, with Reuters reporting that temperatures in parts of the continent already reached 40 degrees…

Sacramento — The California Senate on Thursday passed a bill aimed at helping the news industry by imposing new taxes on some of the world’s largest technology companies.Senate Bill 1327 would tax Amazon, Meta and Google on the data they collect from users, and funnel money from this “data extraction mitigation fee” to news organizations by giving them tax credits to hire full-time journalists.”Just as we fund the film tax credit with no state input into the content, the same should be true for this journalism tax credit,” said Sen. Steve Glaser (D-Orinda), who introduced the bill on the Senate…