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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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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Louisiana, Alabama and Arkansas have filed a lawsuit against California, New York and Massachusetts, alleging those states are helping abortion providers send abortion-inducing drugs into states where the procedure is outlawed, the three plaintiff states’ attorneys general announced Wednesday.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) — A Massachusetts jury rejected claims Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder caused a woman’s fatal cancer, although the panel did decide the product should have had a warning label.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Business leaders and advocacy groups are urging moderate voters to engage ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
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Reporting from Just the News
What children learn about terrorism, Israel, and Jewish identity is being shaped in public classrooms, but questions have arisen as to whether schools are vetting the teachers and materials presenting those subjects.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – A Massachusetts federal judge blocked the Trump administration from cutting around $600 million in teacher-training funds, finding the Education Department’s effort to target programs tied to diversity, equity and inclusion was “arbitrary and capricious.”
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) — New York is leading a coalition of Northeast states in suing the Trump administration to block agreements with two energy companies that would scrap several offshore wind projects, claiming taxpayer money is being used to pay off the companies.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Education’s Student Privacy Policy Office has launched an investigation into the Public Schools of Northborough and Southborough in Massachusetts over alleged violations of federal law after school officials allegedly socially transitioned a minor to another gender.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – A hearing has been scheduled for Sept. 24 involving a bond request from Paramount Skydance amid its legal battles over a proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery that could put state governments on the hook for nearly $2 billion.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Democrats are condemning President Donald Trump after he pledged to offer $5,000 to every “eligible” American adult after the midterm elections if Republicans maintain control of Congress.
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