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DE / Wilmington / Spotlight Delaware
By Jacob Owens
Incumbent Attorney General Kathy Jennings faced challengers Dwayne Bensing and Patty Rickman in an hourlong conversation on criminal prosecution, civil litigation and public transparency.
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TX / Austin / The Texas Tribune
By By Paul Cobler and Carlos Nogueras Ramos
The growing backlash surrounding 765 kv lines, as well as data centers, was tackled at a nine-hour House hearing that included testimony and recommendations but no definitive answers.
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CA / Oakland / The Oaklandside
By Roselyn Romero
Life after prison: This Oakland program offers a place to start over CROP’s residential fellowship gives formerly incarcerated people housing, job training, and peer support as they rebuild their lives and pursue careers.
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TX / Austin / The Texas Tribune
By By Sam Karas, Big Bend Sentinel
After bulldozers entered Big Bend National Park, hundreds of Texans came to Wednesday’s meeting to ask the agency to keep federal border barriers out of state parks.
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TX / El Paso / El Paso Matters
By Claudia Lorena Silva
During an El Paso campaign stop, Abbott announced a proposed mandate requiring school districts to spend 70% or more of their budgets in the classroom. El Paso education leaders say it would have little to no impact on area schools.
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MN / St. Paul / Sahan Journal
By Mohamed Ibrahim
Two alleged gang members retained attorneys and pushed back against lawsuits banning alleged gang members from gathering at the fair, calling them broad and a violation of their constitutional rights.
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National / Climate / Grist
By Ellis Juhlin
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VT / Montpelier / VTDigger
By Shaun Robinson
The focus on tax cuts came a week after Democrats nominated a gubernatorial candidate who has made raising taxes on wealthy residents a key pillar of her campaign.
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National / Criminal justice / The Appeal
By Mike Ludwig
A Kansas activist discovered that police tracked him with Flock-style cameras after he wrote an op-ed criticizing them.
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OR / Portland / Underscore Native News
By Nika Bartoo-Smith, Underscore Native News + ICT
Out of a dozen Native candidates on the ballot for the primary election on Aug. 4 in Washington, eight candidates won and will advance to the November election.
Echo: The Community Voice: Eight Black Candidates for Governor Make History in 2026
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GA / Atlanta / Capital B Atlanta
By Madeline Thigpen
“I felt completely powerless. I felt violated. “I felt cornered.” Those were the words comedian Clayton English shared about his experience when plainclothes officers searched his bag at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in October 2020. They also asked if he had any cocaine or meth on him. Now, thanks to a lawsuit filed by
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CA / San Francisco / Mission Local
By Io Yeh Gilman
San Francisco deploys over 400 Flock automated license plate readers. The District 8 candidates weigh in on the surveillance technology. Meet the District 8 candidates: Should SFPD use Flock surveillance cameras?
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CA / Long Beach / Long Beach Watchdog
By Anthony Pignataro
Two other women were injured during the Aug. 9 shooting, according to authorities.
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MA / New Bedford / The New Bedford Light
By Eleonora Bianchi
Bill Keating, 73, wants a ninth term in Congress. Challenger Craig Swallow, 40, is a New Bedford activist and a newcomer to electoral politics.
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National / Democracy / Bolts
By Alex Burness
Five years after a federal court ruling introduced unlimited spending in Alaska elections, voters there hit back on Tuesday, defying their Republican governor and approving new limits that restrict the
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National / Technology / 404 Media
By Jason Koebler
Body camera footage shows police surveillance abuse is common: "We’ve told them over and over again: 'You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database.'"
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DC / Washington / The 51st
By Tauheed Rahim II
Don’t just watch the days get shorter; get out and soak up what the District has to offer!
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CA / Oakland / The Oaklandside
By Jose Fermoso
Potholes are the worst. Learn how to report them This Sunday, the advocacy group Bike East Bay hosts a Pothole Reporting training event, where newbies to Oak311 can learn how to flag road damage — and spark repairs.
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National / Criminal justice / The Appeal
By Ethan Corey
The Appeal’s investigation found contracts in nearly every state and the District of Columbia. Find out if your local businesses are working with ICE.
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MT / Boulder / The Boulder Monitor
By JC Monitor
Perhaps only in a town like Basin will you see a kid parading past in a four-wheeler a few feet behind a truck carrying the police officer who helped bring him into this world many moons ago. That’s the Basin Days parade, according to Kris Sherwood, who recalled going into labor eight years ago with
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National / State policy / Stateline
By William J. Ford
A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld an injunction that bars Department of Homeland Security agents from conducting immigration enforcement “at or near” more than 1,400 houses of worship sprawling across 33 states and the District of Columbia. The ruling by a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a February 2025
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MT / Boulder / The Boulder Monitor
By JC Monitor
Throwing Dice LLC, the company that recently completed 25 new duplexes on Boulder’s west side, has submitted a preliminary application for a new subdivision just south of its first development. The application, which City Administrator Brian Bullock said Boulder received in late July, proposes 29 lots on just over four acres of land west of
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MT / Boulder / The Boulder Monitor
By JC Monitor
As smoke from wildfires in Canada, Washington and beyond has pushed into our area in recent weeks, Jefferson County has seen one troubling air alert after another – just as dozens of mostly volunteer firefighters have repeatedly hurried into the woods to halt small local blazes. What can be easy to forget during wildfire season,
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PA / Harrisburg / Spotlight PA
By Stephen Caruso
Update, Aug. 21: The Associated Press has called the race for Democrat Brandon Dukes. Original story HARRISBURG — Democrats are declaring victory in a special election for an exurban Pittsburgh state House district that President Donald Trump won by almost 20 percentage points in 2024. The Associated Press has not yet called the race. But as of 10 a.m. Wednesday, unofficial results show that Democ
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CT / Hartford / The Connecticut Mirror
By William J. Ford | Maryland Matters
A federal appeals court upheld a ban on DHS agents conducting immigration enforcement “at or near” more than 1,400 houses of worship.
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NV / Las Vegas / The Nevada Independent
By Eric Neugeboren
The plan is part of a new data center policy platform that Ford's campaign released Wednesday, which also calls for a statewide ban on evaporative cooling and tracking more metrics of data centers receiving tax breaks.
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CA / San Francisco / Mission Local
By Brandon Pho and Kelly Waldron
OpenAI workers not only revealed a schism within one of San Francisco’s frontier AI labs, they also aligned with the politics of their direct competitors OpenAI workers ditched their boss’ politics for Anthropic’s
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LA / New Orleans / Verite News
By Robert Stewart
Devon Jones was fired by UMC earlier this year, allegedly because of a past criminal conviction.
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DE / Wilmington / Spotlight Delaware
By Tim Carlin
Gov. Matt Meyer’s endorsement of two Working Families Party-backed candidates looking to unseat Wilmington-area state senators in next month’s primary election has drawn the ire of one Democratic leader.
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NY / Immigration / Documented
By Julia Malleck
Plus: Refugee admissions to the U.S. have plunged during Trump’s second term, and more of the latest immigration news.
Echo: El Paso Matters: What to know about possible border barriers in Big Bend
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