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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service released guidance on the federal Education Freedom Tax Credit, giving states more details on the rules and regulations intended to protect scholarship funds from fraud and abuse.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – One of the many initiatives on California's Nov. 3 ballot, Proposition 39 , would require voters to present identification.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - After survivors and advocacy groups campaigned for California to ban child marriage for roughly a decade, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law banning the practice.
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Reporting from Just the News
Two people in the crash have been hospitalized, and rescuers are seeking a fifth person who was aboard the aircraft but went missing.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) — A lawsuit filed by the California Primary Care Association (CPCA) and community clinics accuses a labor union representing health care workers of spending $216 million on a racketeering scheme designed to weaponize California’s initiative process to force clinics to accept labor-organizing concessions.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Republican candidate Steve Hilton and Democratic candidate Xavier Becerra squared off Wednesday night in a heated CNN gubernatorial debate, locking horns over high-stakes issues facing California ahead of the Nov. 3 election.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) — A Bay Area tech CEO, whose companies have long worked under sometimes secretive high level government software and surveillance contracts, can't revive his $25 million defamation lawsuit against a reporter for publishing details about the CEO's domestic violence arrest, a state appeals court has ruled.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - Paramount Skydance won a federal judge’s approval Wednesday to proceed with a $111-billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery in a historic Hollywood merger.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Education leaders and organizations are weighing in following the Trump administration's formal rescission of the Biden administration's Title IX rule, discussing what it means for student protections in education.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – As the Nov. 3 election approaches, two tax measures California voters will decide on – Propositions 40 and 42 – are generating some talk among economists because the latter could cancel out Prop. 40, known as the billionaire tax.
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