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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Twelve state financial officers sent a letter to the Department of Labor praising it for providing employers with necessary information to help manage and save on healthcare costs, while also committing to help the department enforce Trump’s proposed Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) rule.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Attorneys general from 22 states sent a letter to the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission detailing how multiple ratings agencies such as Moody’s Corporation, Fitch Ratings and S&P Global Ratings still push an ESG agenda, months after a group of state attorneys general called on them to explain ESG-driven downgrades.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) - A woman who had to undergo a second surgery to remove a needle left behind after a knee replacement hired the wrong expert to testify her radiologists and a surgical assistant were negligent for failing to find the missing piece of metal, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The U.S. House nearly unanimously passed a bill Wednesday night aimed at shielding ordinary Americans from electricity price hikes caused by data centers.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) – A proposed multibillion-dollar data center in southern Kentucky has produced dueling court fights that could define the reach of local zoning authority and test a new state law restricting who may challenge land use approvals.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is facing potential impeachment after U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., filed a resolution accusing him of committing high crimes and misdemeanors.
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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) – 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
(The Center Square) – A consumer protection trial against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, started Tuesday in Oakland.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Kentucky Auditor Allison Ball sent a letter to Gov. Andy Beshear warning the state could lose federal funding if the governor doesn't join efforts to stop taxpayer fraud.
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