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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – With two weeks left until the midterm elections, President Donald Trump and his administration are hitting the campaign trail hard, shifting focus from some domestic issues to riots in Western Europe.
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Reporting from Just the News
Trump is touring the country this week to boost Republican candidates ahead of the midterm elections next month.
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Reporting from Just the News
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas filed a criminal complaint against 24-year-old Jaden Read on Saturday after he allegedly made a handful of threatening comments against the president on Facebook last week.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Twenty-two financial officers from across the U.S. wrote to the nation’s top rating agencies – Moody’s, Fitch, and S&P – asking them to explain the influence ESG policies have had on states’ credit ratings, with the officers detailing what they consider the harm using such “political assumptions” causes to states and taxpayers alike.
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Reporting from The Center Square
The Center Square – Thirty-three states received failing grades for their K-12 open enrollment policies, which govern students' ability to attend public schools other than those assigned to them based on where they live, according to a new report from the Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Despite several federal farm and agriculture assistance programs having stopped in the middle of harvest season, Congress likely won’t reauthorize funding until after the midterm elections.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Free market think tank Heartland Impact will soon launch a new ad campaign urging Kansas lawmakers to end the waste, fraud and abuse prevalent in the 340B hospital system program, alleging that these hospitals take millions from taxpayers while the community receives few benefits in return.
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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) - With three weeks until the midterm elections, unexpected races across the country are tightening as control of Congress hangs in the balance.
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Reporting from Just the News
The move signals that Senate Republicans are moving away from trying to put former RNC Chairman Michael Whatley in the upper chamber and shifting instead to reelect Marshall, who is facing a tough race against Democratic pastor Adam Hamilton.
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