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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Cancelation or downgrading of 1,147 nondomiciled commercial driver’s licenses in North Carolina has allowed the state Department of Motor Vehicles to continue the issuance process under stricter federal guidelines.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Redrawn districts and tight polling are bringing national attention to candidates in Alabama who are divided on tariffs, healthcare and education policy.
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(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump announced on Thursday a plan to send $500 rebate checks to nearly 1 million Americans across 30 states for Obamacare overcharges.
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(The Center Square) – Twenty-two state attorneys general are questioning taxpayer funding of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine amid what the AGs call the group’s “sham”-like “independent review” of its much debated reference manual’s climate science chapter that was removed due to public concerns of political bias.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Child-safety measures for children and $117.1 million from a $17.1 billion settlement are coming to Alabama from Meta, owner of the Facebook and Instagram platforms.
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(The Center Square) – Providing nonmedical care and companionship for senior-aged adults through final two years undergraduates in higher education in a government-approved program not costing taxpayers a nickel is being proposed at the federal and state levels.
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(The Center Square) – Sixteen state attorneys general are calling on the “Big Four Accounting Firms” by letter for accountability over their actions that prioritize Environmental, Social, Governance investment strategies and climate goals, which will prove to be detrimental to consumers, the officials say.
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(The Center Square) – With a pending grant of $200,000 from the One North Carolina Fund, an Alabama-headquartered company is making a $40 million investment in Scotland County at the Laurinburg-Maxton Airport.
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(Legal Newsline) – Two West Virginia natives and Marshall University graduates helped a former University of Alabama basketball player beat The New York Times to the tune of $9.25 million.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are blocked from entering churches of Cooperative Baptists, Quakers and Sikhs to carry out enforcement operations unless they have a warrant, or in certain specified circumstances, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
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(Legal Newsline) — An Illinois appeals court has agreed a Florida woman isn’t entitled to cut of the proceeds resulting from a settlement paid to her Alabaman father's estate from an asbestos-related wrongful death lawsuit.
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(The Center Square) – Change in America’s trucking may not fully be tangible when the new Freedom Haulers initiative is up, running and thriving.
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(The Center Square) - Federal regulators on Friday approved a combined multi-billion-dollar natural gas pipeline expansion crossing Mississippi and Alabama primarily intended to feed growing energy markets in Georgia.
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