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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hear arguments in cases over universal preschool discrimination, temporary immigrant workers and oil pipelines during the November argument session.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Two U.S. House committees are jointly subpoenaing the New Jersey State Department, accusing the state of not fully cooperating with an investigation into what it says are the more than 6,000 noncitizens recently found on the state’s voter rolls.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) — New Jersey is moving to create a new research facility to study possible connections between obsessive use of social media platforms with anxiety, depression and other mental health concerns among teens.
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Reporting from Just the News
A year and a half after the School Ethics Commission opened a proceeding against Gail Nazarene for her Facebook posts, it suddenly ruled in her favor - before an appeals court could review its sweeping interpretation of state law.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) — Democratic New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill said the state's election system is "free, fair, and secure" ahead of the midterm elections, despite an ongoing investigation that revealed state prisoners — along with thousands of non-citizens — were illegally registered to vote.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Paramount Skydance has officially closed its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, bringing two of America’s oldest movie studios together under one company now known as Skydance.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(Legal Newsline) - A New Jersey county filed a copycat climate lawsuit just days before the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could end the trend of suing oil companies over the effects of global warming.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) — New Jersey Republicans want Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill to opt into the new federal school choice tax credit, warning that the state could lose out on more than $900 million in scholarship funds if it doesn't act by a January deadline.
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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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(The Center Square) — The governors of New York and New Jersey on Monday touted a "milestone" in the massive $16 billion Gateway rail project, with the first phase of tunnel boring getting underway.
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