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Oregon, Washington sue Trump admin for sharing Medicaid files with immigration enforcement
Oregon Capital Chronicle
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July 2, 2025
Oregon and Washington’s attorneys general are suing the federal government for sharing residents’ Medicaid records with federal immigration enforcement officials. Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield and Washington Attorney General Nick Brown,...
WNBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) Ladder Race 2025: Caitlin Clark remains out of Top 5 (Week 7)
Sportskeeda
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July 1, 2025
Indiana Fever superstar Caitlin Clark continues to have the second-best odds of winning the WNBA MVP this season. However, Clark remained out of Week 7's Most Valuable Player ladder race after missing two of the three games for the Fever last...
Katie Taylor Net Worth: How much has the boxer earned from her fights and endorsements?
MARCA
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July 10, 2025
Katie Taylor, the top star of women's boxing, has not just made a big name for herself in the sport but also built a strong financial empire. By 2025, Taylor's total worth is thought to be around $3 million to $5 million, as told by Celebrity Net...
Colorado joins 19 other states to stop transfer of Medicaid data to federal health and immigration agencies
Colorado Public Radio
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Colorado is joining a multistate coalition in a lawsuit to block the mass transfer of individual personal data to the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Attorney General Phil Weiser and his counterparts in 19...
States sue to stop Trump administration's use of health care data for immigration enforcement
KGW 8 - Oregon
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July 1, 2025
Attorney General Dan Rayfield and other state AGs sued to stop the sharing of personal health data with immigration enforcement authorities. PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon has joined another multi-state lawsuit against the Trump administration, state...
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative central to Virginia governor’s race debate
Old Dominion News - Virginia
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July 1, 2025
Winsome Earle-Sears, Lt. Gov. for Virginia | XWinsome Earle-Sears, Lt. Gov. for Virginia | X The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) has emerged as a central issue in Virginia's 2025 gubernatorial race, with discussions centering on the...
Attorney General Campbell joins other states in lawsuit challenging Department of Education mental health funding cuts
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell joined 15 of her peers from across the country in a federal lawsuit Monday challenging the Department of Education for “illegally withholding congressionally approved funding for mental health...
A closer look at Connecticut’s street takeover law; among 93 new state laws now in effect
News 12 Connecticut
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There are 93 new state laws that are now in effect in Connecticut. They include the expansion of special education programming, video surveillance of ballot boxes after the election scandals in Bridgeport and stricter penalties for street...
H.R.1 cuts — Lawmakers must protect graduate education in CT
The Connecticut Mirror
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July 1, 2025
Support trusted journalism in Connecticut. Join CT Mirror’s members today and make an impact. Higher education has been a critical part of Connecticut’s notoriety for the public good, despite state and now proposed federal cuts. Graduate education...
Michigan AG files lawsuit against U.S. Dept. of Education over mental health funding cuts
Mid-Michigan Now
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LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined 16 other state attorneys general in filling a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education for illegally cutting congressionally approved funding for mental health programs in K-12...
Radical roots and enduring activism: Milestones in LGBTQIA+ history at Illinois State University
Illinois State University
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June 30, 2025
Illinois State University’s LGBTQIA+ community has long played a vital role in shaping campus life—often in ways that remained hidden from official narratives. While queer students, staff, faculty, and administrators have been a part of Illinois...
Connecticut State Colleges and University finds interim chancellor
WFSB 3 - Connecticut
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June 26, 2025
HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB) - The Connecticut State Colleges and University system now has a new interim chancellor. The Connecticut Board of Regents for higher education announced the appointment of Dr. O. John Maduko as interim chancellor. He will...
Connecticut Enacts Significant Amendments to State’s Data Privacy Law
JD Supra - California
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June 26, 2025
Keypoint: Connecticut once again moves the needle on state privacy laws while at the same time integrating changes from other state laws. On June 25, Connecticut Governor Lamont signed Senator James Maroney’s SB 1295 into law. The bill makes...
Night wonders: 'Noctourism' on rise across globe, state
The Gardner News - Massachusetts
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Paddling a kayak under a full moon on the Connecticut River was a magical experience for Kari Blood, community engagement director at Kestrel Land Trust in Amherst. “People don’t get the same immersion in nature, the healing experience, during the...
Colorado challenges Medicaid data transfer to ICE
Colorado Politics
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Colorado is joining a multi-state coalition in filing a lawsuit to challenge the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ decision to provide access to individual personal health data to the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and...
Florida’s higher ed makeover
The Bradenton Times - Florida
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by Michael Vasquez In Florida, and across America, higher education is facing unprecedented attacks — affecting what subjects can be taught, how university presidents can be ousted, whether various institutions will lose federal funding and if...
City of Providence partners with activist groups to help illegal immigrants evade ICE capture
Washington Examiner
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July 1, 2025
In partnership with more than a dozen left-wing activist groups, the “sanctuary city” of Providence, Rhode Island, is sending illegal immigrants instructions by mail on how to navigate Immigration and Customs Enforcement encounters and effectively...
Connecticut Sun Announce HOLO Footwear as Official Footwear Partner
WFMZ - Pennsylvania
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UNCASVILLE, Conn., June 26, 2025 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- Today, the Connecticut Sun announced that HOLO Footwear will serve as its Official Footwear Partner through the 2025 season. This partnership reflects the Sun and HOLO Footwear's...
How Religious Pluralism Lost at the Supreme Court
The New Republic
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The court’s conservative justices went out of their way to emphasize that Montgomery County, where some of them reside, is a bastion of religious tolerance and multiculturalism. Alito began his opinion by reciting this diversity in detail....
Connecticut Got it Right on Iran, The World is Just Catching up
The Connecticut Examiner
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June 26, 2025
To the Editor: The past few weeks have brought the Middle East to the edge of chaos. Explosions lit up the skies. Missiles crossed borders. Headlines warned of regional war. Now, with a fragile ceasefire holding, there’s a pause in the...