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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 Just the News
An appeals court rubber-stamped its first ruling against the challenge after the high court said it needed to consider a recent parental rights precedent. "If New York wins, the Amish will be forced to flee the state," lawyer says.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's plans to charge wealthy out-of-towners with a new tax were dealt a blow on Tuesday after a state judge ordered the administration to redo its rollout.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has rolled out a sweeping plan aimed at cracking down on antisemitism in the city, including tens of millions of dollars in new funding for hate crime prevention and support for survivors of bias attacks.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) — New York's Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul has a huge cash advantage over her Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman with only five weeks left until the election.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) — A controversial New York law that would allow organized labor to take legal action against groups that discourage union membership has drawn a legal challenge.
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Reporting from Just the News
Police said the 40-year-old executive was pronounced dead on the scene on Saturday night and was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the parking lot of the Dublin Sports Grounds in Dublin, California.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) — New York City business leaders are urging the City Council to ease restrictions on short-term rentals they say have created a shortage of temporary housing.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(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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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – As more states ban phones in K-12 classrooms to reduce distractions and improve student engagement, an analyst says these policies do not address the deeper academic problems facing students.
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