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(The Center Square) – A coalition of state financial officers applauded the Securities and Exchange Commission for moving to rescind its 2024 climate disclosure rules that is estimated to save public businesses more than $7.9 billion.
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(The Center Square) – Nearly eight months after the Epstein Files Transparency Act became law, a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is demanding additional federal disclosure of records related to the deceased sex trafficker and his associates.
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(The Center Square) – Shrinking power supply remains a challenge according to the grid operator’s most recent capacity auction, signaling that regional utility bills could still climb, albeit more slowly, as demand for electricity grows faster than can be provided.
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(The Center Square) – The death of longtime South Carolina Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and the ongoing illness and recovery of Kentucky U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell may affect proceedings in the Senate this week.
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(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Education confirmed a whistleblower’s allegations that the agency violated a federal court order while handling Title IX cases tied to gender identity and sexual orientation, according to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel .
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(The Center Square) – Texas hasn’t elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate since 1988, Kentucky since 1992, Louisiana and North Carolina since 2008.
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(The Center Square) - Rep. Andy Barr and Ed Gallrein secured partisan nominations in high-profile Kentucky primary races Tuesday, according to multiple outlets.
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(The Center Square) – Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is leading a 23-state letter demanding answers from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts over a climate science chapter in a federal judicial evidence manual.The letter, addressed to Administrative Office Director Robert J. Conrad Jr., expresses concerns about the Federal Judicial Center and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.The attorneys general say the groups helped create the Fourth Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, which included a climate science chapter they say favored one side in climate litigation.The letter says the chapter “functions as an ex parte brief for one side of ongoing litigation.”The attorneys general also said the chapter could affect the rights of parties in court.“Federal judges who rely on the Manual to assist them in their duties could inadvertently prejudice litigants due to the bias baked into the chapter on climate science,” the letter says.Skrmetti and the other attorneys general say 27 attorneys general wrote to Federal Judicial Center Director Judge Robin L. Rosenberg in January. That letter noted “methodological and bias conce
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(The Center Square) - Kentucky voters will head to the polls on Tuesday in some of the most closely watched primary races in the country.
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(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump said he will remove the 10% tariff on Scotch whisky imports and lift restrictions on the barrel trade between Scotland and Kentucky, a move the industry called a "significant boost" that ends months of economic losses.
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