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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Following a power outage that took an entire fuel refinery offline last weekend, filings with regulatory agencies reveal that additional problems at the plant with flood water have kept the facility from operating, creating the potential for Midwestern fuel prices to continue rising.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers continue to expand operations through partnerships with state and local agencies nationwide without incident.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Data centers could support nearly 3,000 jobs each year across Northwest Indiana, a new study says.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – An Exxon Mobil fuel refinery southwest of Chicago went offline over the weekend, causing a halting of production and driving already heightened fuel costs even higher for Midwestern motorists, who likely won’t see prices ease until days later.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has announced a record-breaking first-year class for the third straight year.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – A Pennsylvania-based free market think tank released its latest report grading state public sector labor laws on Tuesday, tracking how government unions have worked to advance pro-union legislation at the state level in the wake of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Janus v. AFSCME.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – A coalition of 17 states, lawmakers and advocacy organizations has filed 12 friend-of-the-court briefs urging the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold that parents and teachers have constitutional rights to know about their children despite public school gender policies.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Trump administration officials say they have ordered the emergency removal of 110 commercial driver’s license schools associated with more than 5,000 drivers who failed English language proficiency tests.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(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) – Two weeks after severe storms struck Indiana and parts of north and central Illinois, thousands of residents bordering Illinois are still without electricity, prompting questions about infrastructure and preparedness by the primary electric utility.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - U.S. lawmakers and industry leaders are pushing for a national framework to govern self-driving cars and increase domestic manufacturing.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Ahead of the weekend’s Freedom 250 Grand Prix race in Washington, D.C., First Lady Melania Trump hosted an event Thursday to highlight her Fostering the Future initiative as IndyCar and Fox Corporation donated $2 million to fund scholarships at Indiana University and Purdue University.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – After spending a day at the State Fair, Gov. J.B. Pritzker made his way back to the Chicagoland area Friday to tour damage in suburban communities from strong storms and tornadoes.
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