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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – A parental rights organization and other groups celebrated the victories from the 2026 midterm elections for protection of girls’ sports and private spaces in Arizona, Nebraska, Colorado and Washington. The groups said that protecting girls is not a partisan issue.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - Polls are open across the U.S. as control of Congress hangs in the balance.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Families in 16 states could face state taxes and penalties for using what's called a "529 education savings plan" to pay for expenses approved under federal law, according to a report from the American Legislative Exchange Council.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) — Missouri has joined a multistate legal effort urging a federal appeals court to let Nebraska enforce a law requiring age verification for new social media accounts and parental consent before minors can create profiles.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – This November, roughly one third of gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial seats are up for reelection. A quarter of U.S. states’ secretary of state seats are up for grabs. And 296 state executive offices in 43 states are on the ballot, according to data published by the nonprofit Ballotpedia.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) - The Nebraska Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a petition on the Nov. 3 ballot that would establish a state constitutional amendment preventing biological males from competing on female school and college sports teams.
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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 Just the News
The questions come as voters prepare for election day, which will take place nationwide on Nov. 3. Early voting in some states began as early as Tuesday.
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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) – The states of Nebraska, Montana, Iowa and Florida each individually sued TP-Link – a tech company that provides networking devices – accusing it of deceiving consumers about its ties to Chin a, thereby putting millions of Americans’ privacy at risk and endangering national security.
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