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Polls open across U.S. as voters to decide control of Congress
(The Center Square) - Polls are open across the U.S. as control of Congress hangs in the balance.
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Supreme Court to hear school discrimination, immigrant labor in November
(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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Financial officers warn rating agencies about using ESG in state credit ratings
(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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12 state financial officers commit to encourage compliance with PBM rule
(The Center Square) – Twelve state financial officers sent a letter to the Department of Labor praising it for providing employers with necessary information to help manage and save on healthcare costs, while also committing to help the department enforce Trump’s proposed Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) rule.
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22 state AGs alert SEC of rating agencies’ ESG promotion
(The Center Square) – Attorneys general from 22 states sent a letter to the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission detailing how multiple ratings agencies such as Moody’s Corporation, Fitch Ratings and S&P Global Ratings still push an ESG agenda, months after a group of state attorneys general called on them to explain ESG-driven downgrades.
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Education department investigates foreign funding concerns
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Education has launched two investigations into the University of North Dakota and Duke University in North Carolina over concerns of inaccurate disclosures of foreign funding, placing both institutions' federal funding at risk.
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Coalition urges 9th Circuit to uphold parental rights
(The Center Square) – A coalition of 17 states, lawmakers and advocacy organizations has filed 12 friend-of-the-court briefs urging the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold that parents and teachers have constitutional rights to know about their children despite public school gender policies.
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22 state AGs question National Academies’ taxpayer funding amid 'sham' of a review
(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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16 state AGs call out Big Four accounting firms for prioritizing climate goals, ESG
(The Center Square) – Sixteen state attorneys general are calling on the “Big Four Accounting Firms” by letter for accountability over their actions that prioritize Environmental, Social, Governance investment strategies and climate goals, which will prove to be detrimental to consumers, the officials say.
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Senators want males banned from Daughters of the American Revolution
(The Center Square) – Five U.S. senators say the Daughters of the American Revolution should only be for women and are proposing a bill that would amend the organization's federal charter.
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