内容摘要：“I don’t think anyone really knows for sure what her role is and whether she actually has any oversight of any of the people doing the work, or is she just there as a punching bag and a distraction to keep their actual activities shielded from the public,” said Brett Hartl, government affairs director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group that sued the DOGE Service and Gleason seeking access to records that would shed light on their operations.

“I don’t think anyone really knows for sure what her role is and whether she actually has any oversight of any of the people doing the work, or is she just there as a punching bag and a distraction to keep their actual activities shielded from the public,” said Brett Hartl, government affairs director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group that sued the DOGE Service and Gleason seeking access to records that would shed light on their operations.

spurred by declining ridership and the impending sunset of federalThe Chicago area faces particularly bleak service cuts that officials warn could be set in motion as early as Saturday if Illinois legislators adjourn without plugging a $770 million hole in the transportation budget.

The big city’s commuters would be hit hard, with the Chicago Transit Authority poised to shut down four of eight elevated train lines and 74 of 127 bus routes under the worst-case scenario. But perhaps no place illustrates the range of potential outcomes more vividly than, whose mayor, Christopher Clark — a lifelong resident — says was once “the metropolis of the Southland” before plants and factories closed and disinvestment took hold.A Metra train leaves the station across from the Pace Harvey Transportation Center, Thursday, May 29, 2025, in Harvey, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

A Metra train leaves the station across from the Pace Harvey Transportation Center, Thursday, May 29, 2025, in Harvey, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)Already the busiest station for Pace, the region’s suburban bus system that also serves paratransit customers, Harvey recently won state and federal grant money for a state-of-the-art facility that would put the buses under the same roof as the Metra commuter rail stop a block away. Plans eventually call for a high-speed bus line connecting the Harvey station to the Red Line L train that cuts through the downtown Chicago Loop.

Such an upgrade could be an economic boon for Harvey, where now-vacant businesses are found on almost every downtown block and where more than 1 in 4 residents live below the poverty line. But even if the new station is built, ending or severely cutting the buses and trains that pass through could send the city reeling in the opposite direction.

“It would be chaos for us in the suburbs,” said Cheyane Felton, after finishing her shift at a coffee stand in the basement of Harvey’s City Hall. “It would cut us off.”If not for that center, “there would have been no Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Period,” said Christopher “Kip” Hale, a criminal law expert who worked at the tribunal and has worked in Ukraine.

“To have durable peace, we have to have accountability. We have to invest now,” he said. “Without it, we see that ceasefires and armistices are just waiting periods for the next conflict to start.”Leicester reported from Paris and Dupuy reported from New York. Volodymyr Yurchuk in Kyiv, Ukraine; Molly Quell in The Hague, Netherlands; Yuras Karmanau in Tallinn, Estonia; and Emma Burrows in London contributed.

ROME (AP) — Two videos, two different stories about Russia’s war in Ukraine. In one of them, the prisoners appear to live. In the other, they die.The Associated Press