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Some Republican governors are rebranding June with conservative alternatives to Pride

June is Pride Month across the U.S. But in some Republican-controlled states it’s now officially Fidelity, Nuclear Family or Strong Families Month.

 

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Louisiana enacts new congressional districts in a bid to give the GOP another seat

Louisiana is enacting a plan to try to help Republicans maintain control of the U.S. House in November. Republican Gov.

 

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Ohio suspends data center tax break as tech firms face pressure to pay the cost to power AI

Ohio is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states to attract the massive new facilities that power and train artificial intelligence chatbots.

 

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Progressives land a big win in a Philadelphia House primary and hope it means more are on the way

Democrat Chris Rabb seemed to be a long shot running for a congressional seat in Philadelphia. The Democratic Party establishment backed his rivals, but the state representative had support from progressive groups.

 

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Shapiro-backed Democrats win House primaries in Pennsylvania swing districts the party hopes to flip

Democrats in Pennsylvania backed by Gov. Josh Shapiro won their primaries to shape a congressional slate in which they hope to flip the state’s four swing districts and, ultimately, capture a U.S.

 

As electric bills rise, some states are focusing on the growing profits of utilities

The artificial intelligence boom is leading to fights in some states over growing utility profits. Governors, attorneys general and others are protesting rising electricity bills and say cash-strapped residents are stuck in a broken system.

 

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Trump administration aims to roll back limits on toxic wastewater from coal-fired power plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to relax limits that require coal-fired power plants to prevent the release of toxic heavy metals into streams and rivers.

 

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Ex-Ohio State players, including NFL veterans, to join a sexual abuse lawsuit against the school

Thirty former Ohio State football players, including some former NFL players, are agreeing to join a federal lawsuit against the university over the sexual abuse of student-athletes decades ago by a team doctor.

 

Pennsylvania sues AI company, saying its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as licensed doctors

Pennsylvania has sued an artificial intelligence chatbot maker, saying its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as doctors and deceive the system’s users into thinking they’re getting medical advice from a licensed professional.

 

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Building trades unions join forces with tech giants in AI data center push

Building trades unions have long been considered a voice of the American worker. But they now are intertwined with the richest companies in the world as they create America’s artificial intelligence economy.

 

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Nation’s first state moratorium on data centers vetoed by Maine’s governor

Maine’s Democratic governor has vetoed what would have been the country’s first state moratorium on the construction of data centers.

 

Democrat Josh Shapiro tests political muscle in swing-state Pennsylvania’s midterms

Josh Shapiro may be heavily favored to win reelection as Pennsylvania governor, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot on the line for him this year.

 

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Pennsylvania treasurer says ‘no’ to taxpayers footing $1M in security upgrades at Shapiro’s home

Pennsylvania’s treasurer is refusing to approve payments for more than $1 million in security upgrades to the private home of Gov. Josh Shapiro.

 

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Pennsylvania court overturns limits on Medicaid coverage for abortions

A Pennsylvania court has ruled that the state’s constitution guarantees a right to abortion. This decision overturns a decades-long law that banned using Medicaid funds for abortion costs.

 

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The data center boom meets resistance in Maine as lawmakers pass a yearlong freeze

Maine’s legislature has passed the nation’s first statewide moratorium on energy-hungry data centers.

 

Low-voltage utility elections face surge of attention as electricity bills rise

Skyrocketing power demand from massive data centers and rising household electric bills are injecting a wave of attention into who is getting elected to watch over electric utilities.

 

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Pennsylvania court upends mandatory use of life-without-parole for second-degree murder

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court says the state cannot automatically give life without parole for felony murder without weighing each defendant’s culpability in the killing.

 

Virginia has a data center boon. Officials debate whether it’s time to scrap its tax breaks

Virginia senators are pushing to curtail a 5.3% tax break for data centers. The policy proposal comes while many communities are trying to defeat data center projects in zoning proceedings and some states are reconsidering their sales tax exemptions.

 

Man who helped recruit players into a sprawling NCAA basketball point-shaving scheme pleads guilty

One of the so-called fixers in a sprawling betting scheme to cash in on big bets on rigged NCAA basketball games has pleaded guilty.

 

AI is spurring a big expansion of high-voltage power lines. Landowners and locals are fighting back

Bigger and bigger data centers are leading to proposals for massive electric power transmission lines, sometimes across hundreds of miles.

 

Stranded travelers scramble to make new connections as war shuts much of Middle East to air travel

Hundreds of thousands of stranded travelers are scrambling to make new connections and get through to airlines on jammed phone lines and online portals after the attack on Iran by the United States and Israel shut down much of the Middle East to air travel.

 

Hundreds of thousands of travelers stranded by flight disruptions after attack on Iran

America and Israel’s attack on Iran disrupted flights across the Middle East and beyond Saturday as countries around the region closed their airspace and three of the key airports that connect Europe, Africa and the West to Asia halted operations.

 

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Teenage girls are most likely to tear their ACLs. Parents say more must be done to protect them

The ranks of female high school athletes who tore their anterior cruciate ligament are growing fast and researchers are pressing the sports world to take the devastating injury more seriously and trying to bolster prevention efforts.

 

Explosion engulfs house in flames, injures mother and child in Massachusetts

Fire officials are investigating a Massachusetts house explosion that injured at least two people. Fire officials say emergency workers responded to the fire at the three-family home about 9:50 a.m.

 

Federal agency flags safety shortcomings that ‘exposed’ workers to explosion at US Steel plant

A federal safety agency investigating an August blast at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh that left two workers dead says it found safety shortcomings that “exposed” employees to the explosion.

 

As electricity costs rise, everyone wants data centers to pick up their tab. But how?

Politicians from President Donald Trump to local lawmakers agree that tech companies should cover the power costs of artificial intelligence data centers.

 

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Energy chief Wright says orders empowering coal plants helped keep lights on during winter storm

The Trump administration says its emergency orders keeping coal-fired plants running helped prevent blackouts during the recent cold snap.

 

White House and governors pressure grid operator to boost power supply

The White House and a bipartisan group of governors are taking aim at power shortages and price spikes from data centers for artificial intelligence.

 

A scheme to rig college basketball games has been uncovered. Here’s what we know

A federal investigation into a sprawling betting scheme to fix basketball games stretched from the Chinese Basketball Association to the NCAA and ensnared 26 people, including college basketball players.

 

NCAA basketball players and gamblers are charged for allegedly rigging games

Federal prosecutors are investigating a major betting scheme involving NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games.

 

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