From the States
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Report: Unelected government officials take top salaries
Ballotpedia curated a report detailing the salaries of top-ranking state officials across the country in 2025. The list found that nine of the top 10 highest paid officials were appointed to their positions.
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Taxpayer group: Some state tax policies disadvantage data centers
Data centers can pay tangible personal property taxes on their servers, networking equipment and other computer hardware, depending on state and local tax laws.
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Louisiana restores status for 67K voters after database error
Williams said the error did not affect anyone’s eligibility or ability to vote. An inactive designation does not cancel a voter’s registration.
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Legislative auditors in Wisconsin find that nearly $900M of WisDOT funds were miscalculated
“This highlights the critical oversight role that the Legislature provides for the people of Wisconsin, and once again proves how short-sighted Governor Evers’ veto of four new auditor positions was,” said the leaders of the Audit Bureau.
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Nurses at Seattle Children’s Hospital voted to authorize strike as contract talks continue
More than 2,100 registered nurses at Seattle Children’s Hospital have authorized a potential strike following a union vote. The union is also seeking stronger protections against workplace violence.
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Man charged in violent attack on a senior in Seattle had already been booked eight times in 2025
A 75-year old woman was struck and blinded in a violent attack outside the King County Courthouse earlier this month, and the suspect charged in the case had a long history of arrests.
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Trump's plan to deliver $2,000 tariff rebate checks depends on Congress
"I would expect that in the new year, the president will bring forth a proposal to Congress to make that happen," Director of the NEC Kevin Hassett said on "Face the Nation" on Sunday.
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Raffensperger says 2020 election blunder 'does not erase votes' despite over 300k questionable votes
Nearly two weeks after the December meeting of the Georgia State Election Board, some continue to claim Fulton County was fraudulent because tabulation tapes were not signed that included 315,000 votes.
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South Carolina AG secures nearly $150 million settlement with Mercedes Benz
South Carolina itself will only receive just over $2 million from the settlement, and approximately 1,820 of the impacted vehicles were sold or registered in the state.
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Federal lawsuit seeks court oversight of Virginia prisons
The lawsuit argues that prison officials failed to address known safety risks that preceded a deadly attack and continue to place correctional officers in danger.
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Flu season arriving early in US, amid warning of a fast-spreading 'super flu' variant
Britain, Australia and Japan have already reported spikes, in what has turned out to be an early flu season
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California attorney general pushes back on Trump’s new rules on trans care for kids
The new Medicaid and CHIP Reimbursement Rule would block both federally-funded health care programs from paying for gender-affirming care for minors. Under the new rules, funds can’t pay for that care for patients under age 18 who get Medicare and for those under 19 benefitting from the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
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Colorado adopts first-of-its-kind water protections in U.S.
Rules were in reaction to U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled that the Clean Water Act only applied to streams or wetlands that flowed year-round.