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Reporting from The Center Square
(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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Reporting from The Center Square
(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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Reporting from The Center Square
(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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Reporting from The Center Square
(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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Reporting from The Center Square
(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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Reporting from The Center Square
(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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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci and leader of the White House House COVID-19 Response Team was back in the national spotlight last week when he repeatedly exercised his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination at a congressional hearing.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The Trump administration has unveiled “Freedom Haulers,” a new hiring campaign meant to accelerate the process for U.S. veterans seeking employment in the trucking industry.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Five U.S. senators say the Daughters of the American Revolution should only be for women and are proposing a bill that would amend the organization's federal charter.
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