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(The Center Square) – U.S. farmers face record-high fuel expenses this year as the fall harvest kicks into gear while pressure grows on the Trump administration to impose a temporary ban on diesel exports that could bring down prices.
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(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) – 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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(The Center Square) - South Carolina leads the nation in home ownership for young people, according to a new report.
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(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump is urging Senate Republicans to approve the House’s $95 billion budget resolution before Congress leaves for the month of August.
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(The Center Square) – U.S. states and territories made a collective $10 billion in improper payments to SNAP recipients nationwide in fiscal year 2025, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports.
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(The Center Square) – Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is leading a 23-state letter demanding answers from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts over a climate science chapter in a federal judicial evidence manual.The letter, addressed to Administrative Office Director Robert J. Conrad Jr., expresses concerns about the Federal Judicial Center and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.The attorneys general say the groups helped create the Fourth Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, which included a climate science chapter they say favored one side in climate litigation.The letter says the chapter “functions as an ex parte brief for one side of ongoing litigation.”The attorneys general also said the chapter could affect the rights of parties in court.“Federal judges who rely on the Manual to assist them in their duties could inadvertently prejudice litigants due to the bias baked into the chapter on climate science,” the letter says.Skrmetti and the other attorneys general say 27 attorneys general wrote to Federal Judicial Center Director Judge Robin L. Rosenberg in January. That letter noted “methodological and bias conce
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Farmers and advocates on Tuesday called on Congress to implement transparency reporting requirements in fertilizer pricing.
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(The Center Square) -- U.S. senators collectively spend more than a million taxpayer dollars each year for pricey flights on private planes for themselves and their staff, even though Senate rules greatly discourage the practice, an investigation by The Center Square found.
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(The Center Square) – Colorado has seen a 17% increase in deaths from fentanyl over the last year, one of the few states where overdose deaths have increased.
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(The Center Square) – Several members of the U.S. military and Coast Guard received the highest honors for acts of courage and bravery.
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(The Center Square) - Alongside a battle for control of Congress, voters in states across the country will take up ballot initiatives to decide key issues. Citizenship requirements for voting, abortion, marijuana and psychedelic drug measures are among the issues to be considered across multiple states.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Six state attorneys general called on the nonprofit climate company Ceres, Inc. to halt all conduct they say is in violation of antitrust and consumer protection laws.
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