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NC leaders push Congress to help take down at-risk Outer Banks homes — before they collapse ncnewsline.com/2025/12/05/n...
NC leaders push Congress to help take down at-risk Outer Banks homes — before they collapse • NC Newsline
Since 2020, 27 homes have collapsed along the Outer Banks, all of them unoccupied, as strong waves from storms and rising waters eat away at the shoreline.
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December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Bring dad home: Great Falls man arrested by ICE may have to leave daughter, pregnant fiancé dailymontanan.com/2025/12/05/b...
Bring dad home: Great Falls man arrested by ICE may have to leave daughter, pregnant fiancé • Daily Montanan
ICE agents swarm into possibly detain British man who has a child and is engaged.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Judge rules Montana DMV discriminated against nonbinary residents, orders changes dailymontanan.com/2025/12/04/j...
Judge rules Montana DMV discriminated against nonbinary residents, orders changes • Daily Montanan
Missoula County District Court Judge Shane Vannatta rules that the Montana Department of Motor Vehicles discriminated against nonbinary residents in issuing driver's licenses.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Nebraska lawmakers air frustrations with up to $360M at risk in federal broadband funds nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/12/04/n...
Nebraska lawmakers air frustrations with up to $360M at risk in federal broadband funds • Nebraska Examiner
Changes to Nebraska’s federally funded broadband expansion plans Gov. Jim Pillen celebrated faced questions and criticism from state lawmakers and others.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Nebraska Economic Development cuts 22 from full-time staff in 2 months nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/12/05/n...
Nebraska Economic Development cuts 22 from full-time staff in 2 months • Nebraska Examiner
After state officials initially denied rumors of downsizing, public records show Nebraska’s Department of Economic Development is paying fewer people.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Medicaid to stop covering weight-loss drugs for obesity in New Hampshire newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/12/05/m...
Medicaid to stop covering weight-loss drugs for obesity in New Hampshire • New Hampshire Bulletin
Starting Jan. 1, New Hampshire’s Medicaid program will stop covering GLP-1 drugs — Wegovy, Zepbound, and others — for weight loss, the Department of Health and Human Services told providers in October...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Amid federal investigations, George Mason leaders say negotiations continue with Dept. of Justice virginiamercury.com/2025/12/05/a...
Amid federal investigations, George Mason leaders say negotiations continue with Dept. of Justice • Virginia Mercury
George Mason University officials said Thursday that no settlement agreement has been proposed with the federal government as it navigates four civil rights investigations, which began in July and are...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Car magnate Beaman draws fire during TVA board confirmation hearing tennesseelookout.com/2025/12/04/c...
Car magnate Beaman draws fire during TVA board confirmation hearing • Tennessee Lookout
A U.S. senator questioned whether former car magnate Lee Beaman is fit to serve on the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Anti-abortion activists allowed to leaflet within Clearwater clinic’s driveway floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/04/a...
Anti-abortion activists allowed to leaflet within Clearwater clinic's driveway • Florida Phoenix
Pro-life activists have the right to hand anti-abortion leaflets to women in the driveway of a Clearwater abortion clinic, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
BLM nominee draws criticism from conservation groups over support for selling public land dailymontanan.com/2025/12/04/b...
BLM nominee draws criticism from conservation groups over support for selling public land • Daily Montanan
Republicans are rallying around former New Mexico Rep.Steve Pearce, Trump’s nominee to oversee the land management agency
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December 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Republicans left tribes out of their $50B rural fund. Now it’s up to states to share. alaskabeacon.com/2025/12/04/r...
Republicans left tribes out of their $50B rural fund. Now it’s up to states to share. | Alaska Beacon
The Trump administration is touting its $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program as the largest-ever U.S. investment in rural health care. But the government made minimal mention of Native Amer...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer makes wildly inaccurate claim about Somali crime on national TV minnesotareformer.com/briefs/u-s-r...
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer makes wildly inaccurate claim about Somali crime on national TV • Minnesota Reformer
U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer cited false statistics about the percentage of crimes committed by Somali-Americans on Fox Business Wednesday, joining a wave of Republicans engaging in anti-Somali rhetoric lately...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Medicare’s new AI experiment, to be tested in Oklahoma, sparks alarm among doctors, lawmakers oklahomavoice.com/2025/12/04/r...
Medicare’s new AI experiment, to be tested in Oklahoma, sparks alarm among doctors, lawmakers • Oklahoma Voice
A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Michigan Hmong leader released from ICE detention after push from federal and state lawmakers michiganadvance.com/2025/12/04/m...
Michigan Hmong leader released from ICE detention after push from federal and state lawmakers • Michigan Advance
Lue Yang, a Lansing-area Hmong community leader who had been detained by ICE in July, has been released from federal custody after efforts from legislators on both sides of the aisle.  “Everybody has ...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
University of Arkansas continues to modify scholarships that mention diversity arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/04/u...
University of Arkansas continues to modify scholarships that mention diversity | Arkansas Advocate
The University of Arkansas in Fayetteville has identified more than 100 scholarships to be modified to comply with laws related to race and diversity, and at least one donor has ended his financial su...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Campus outrage mounts after the University of Alabama suspends student magazines alabamareflector.com/2025/12/04/c...
Campus outrage mounts after the University of Alabama suspends student magazines | Alabama Reflector
Student organizations have put out statements of support and have planned demonstrations following Nineteen Fifty-Six and Alice Magazines were suspended.
alabamareflector.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
DeSantis says Florida ‘will be forced’ to redistrict because of pending U.S. Supreme Court decision floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/03/d...
DeSantis says Florida 'will be forced' to redistrict because of pending U.S. Supreme Court decision • Florida Phoenix
Update: Florida Senate President Ben Albritton weighed in for the first time on congressional redistricting late Wednesday afternoon. In a memo sent to the senators, Albritton said that while Gov. DeS...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
CDC vaccine panel to review hepatitis B, other childhood vaccines, at December meeting georgiarecorder.com/2025/12/03/c...
CDC vaccine panel to review hepatitis B, other childhood vaccines, at December meeting • Georgia Recorder
A key advisory panel that oversees nationwide vaccine recommendations may vote to restrict access to hepatitis B immunizations for newborns and reconsider recommendations for a wide variety of other c...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
‘Copy of Guantánamo’: Human rights group alleges torture, inhumanity at ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ Krome floridaphoenix.com/2025/12/04/c...
'Copy of Guantánamo': Human rights group alleges torture, inhumanity at 'Alligator Alcatraz,' Krome • Florida Phoenix
Two Florida migrant detention centers may have violated international standards by torturing detainees, a human rights organization claimed in a bombshell report released early Thursday morning.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
SC governor halts carve outs for minority-owned businesses in state agency contracts scdailygazette.com/2025/12/03/s...
SC governor halts carve outs for minority-owned businesses in state agency contracts • SC Daily Gazette
SC Gov. Henry McMaster signed an executive order Wednesday ending set asides for minority-owned businesses that contract with state agencies.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Changes to federal funding could make hundreds of West Virginians homeless, advocacy group says westvirginiawatch.com/2025/12/03/c...
Changes to federal funding could make hundreds of West Virginians homeless, advocacy group says • West Virginia Watch
The Trump administration’s plan to shift homeless services funds away from permanent housing programs could cause more than 850 West Virginians to lose their housing.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
More industries want Trump’s help hiring immigrant labor after farms get a break stateline.org/2025/12/03/m...
More industries want Trump’s help hiring immigrant labor after farms get a break • Stateline
As food prices remain high, the Trump administration has made it easier for farmers to hire foreign guest workers and to pay them less. Now, other industries with large immigrant workforces also are a...
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December 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Utah hosts invite-only meeting on national parks and neighboring communities  utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/12/03/u...
Utah hosts invite-only meeting on national parks and neighboring communities  • Utah News Dispatch
An Interior Department official met behind closed doors this week with leaders from the state, national parks and surrounding communities.
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December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
University of Alabama suspends student magazines for Black students, female students alabamareflector.com/2025/12/02/u...
University of Alabama suspends student magazines for Black students, female students | Alabama Reflector
The University of Alabama suspended publication for Nineteen Fifty-Six Magazine and Alice Magazine citing a memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi.
alabamareflector.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Trump administration orders up investigation of Minnesota, stepping on their own prosecutors minnesotareformer.com/2025/12/02/t...
Trump administration orders up investigation of Minnesota, stepping on their own prosecutors • Minnesota Reformer
Gov. Tim Walz said last week that he welcomed an investigation. “I think it’s the right thing to do,” Walz said. But he added, “I don’t know if they’ll find the connection.”
minnesotareformer.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM