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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - A federal appeals court ordered Missouri to use a congressional map favoring Republicans that the U.S. Supreme Court halted.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – With artificial intelligence becoming a political flashpoint as midterm elections loom, congressional Republicans and Democrats are split over the best approach to AI policy.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) — The Trump administration suspended around 870,000 people who are tied to nearly $39 billion in government loan fraud, officials announced on Monday.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) — The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked Missouri from using a Republican-drawn congressional map in November’s election, suspending a federal judge’s order that had briefly required the state to use the new districts.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday again rejected a Missouri congressional map that would give Republicans an advantage ahead of the midterm elections.
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(Legal Newsline) - A federal judge will let the Missouri Supreme Court have a contempt hearing Thursday for Secretary of State Denny Hoskins as the legal fight over a new congressional map continues.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Missouri congressional map set to favor Republicans ahead of the midterm elections.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – With Americans across the country rebelling against thousands of AI enhanced surveillance cameras infiltrating their cities, a bipartisan group of lawmakers has proposed a bill prohibiting the funding of those cameras with taxpayer money.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) — An Independence woman has sued Apple Inc., alleging that the company’s AirTag tracking device enabled her stalker to follow her movements without her knowledge and that Apple failed to provide adequate protections for Android users.
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(Legal Newsline) — A former vice president of human resources has sued Planned Parenthood Great Rivers and Planned Parenthood Great Rivers-Missouri alleging she was fired in retaliation for reporting what she believed was an unauthorized abortion and for taking medical leave and seeking an accommodation for foot and back conditions.
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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) – A local Missouri health department has told Kathy Kite, a grandmother who serves free breakfast to her neighbors from her home, that she will face legal action if she continues doing so without a permit.
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(The Center Square) — A federal judge in the Eastern District of Missouri has granted a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Iowa, Missouri and the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce against New York Attorney General Letitia James and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Amanda Lefton, finding the court lacks personal jurisdiction over the New York officials.
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