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The European Union refuses to give Poland COVID stimulus payments worth billions and is threatening to withhold more unless Poland reverses changes limiting the judiciary's independence.

The group Swayam Shikshan Prayog, which will be recognized today at the U.N. COP27 summit, focuses on the restoration of livelihoods, especially for women, amid the negative impacts of climate change.

On a cluster of islands between Norway and the North Pole, everyone wears headlamps for two-and-a-half months out of the year because it's pitch black outside. This weekend, the darkness begins.

The penalty is the maximum the ranchers — who pumped Shasta River water for eight days — could face under state law. It amounts to about $50 per rancher, which is no deterrent, ranchers and officials agree.

A lack of poll workers across the county who speak certain languages has made voting more difficult for some voters, advocates for immigrants say.

Gov. Gavin Newsom opposes the measure. He says its a taxpayer-funded giveaway to rideshare company Lyft, which spent at least $45 million supporting the measure.

Big plans to overhaul the immigration system have stalled yet again. So farmers and other groups are looking to the lame duck session and hoping that more modest proposals can find bipartisan support.

The Washington congressional race has highlighted how heated political divisions have become politics as usual in this year's midterms.

San Diego Gas and Electric shareholders launched their annual matching fund campaign to help teachers pay for classroom projects.

In his new book Of Boys and Men, Richard V. Reeves of the Brookings Institution argues that men must move into fields that are now dominated by women to reverse economic declines.