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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a motion for the U.S. Solicitor General to participate in oral arguments in a case challenging gun bans in Cook County, Illinois, and Connecticut, the court announced Monday.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - Polls are open across the U.S. as control of Congress hangs in the balance.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – New amicus briefs are in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case challenging gun and magazine bans in Illinois and Connecticut.
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Reporting from Just the News
When Congress comes back after the midterms to deal with the Dec. 11 funding deadline and a possible year-end tax package, lawmakers may lean on the Yale lab’s estimates to argue that pouring billions more into the IRS will pay for itself, even though other analysts put the return at a fraction of that.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – This November, roughly one third of gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial seats are up for reelection. A quarter of U.S. states’ secretary of state seats are up for grabs. And 296 state executive offices in 43 states are on the ballot, according to data published by the nonprofit Ballotpedia.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) — The U.S. Justice Department is investigating two Connecticut cities over claims they are violating Second Amendment rights by delaying the issuance of firearm permits.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Some of the highest-paid state executives across the country in 2025 were unelected education officials, according to a new report.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Paramount Skydance has officially closed its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, bringing two of America’s oldest movie studios together under one company now known as Skydance.
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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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(The Center Square) – Another Muslim man in the U.S. has been sentenced on terrorism charges, including providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
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