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Nebraska lawmakers seek to solidify taxpayer-funded school choice before voters can decide it 04/11/2024 01:09am • Nebraska lawmakers are on track to pass a bill that would circumvent an upcoming ballot initiative in which voters could repeal a new state law that funds private school tuition with taxpayer money. The bill from Omaha Sen. Lou Ann Linehan, the author of last year's Opportunity Scholarships Act, adv As many cities sour on hosting the Olympics, Salt Lake City's enthusiasm endures 04/10/2024 11:30pm • SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ��� The International Olympic Committee was effusive Wednesday in its support for a decadeslong effort to bring back the Winter Games to Utah's capital city in 2034. 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Situations like these are common for some people with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, which can cause the symptom "time blindness." As its name implies, time bli Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders urges lawmakers to pass budget as session kicks off 04/10/2024 06:19pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) ��� Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday urged lawmakers to pass her $6.3 billion budget proposal that boosts spending on a new school voucher program. But she stopped short of making new policy proposals as she delivered her first state of the state address. The Negotiations over Virginia's budget have turned into a political 'game of chicken.' Will it end in a state government shutdown? 04/10/2024 05:50pm • The Virginia General Assembly will reconvene in Richmond next Wednesday to consider more than 200 budget amendments proposed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, but it could turn out to be a partisan fight over major disagreements between the two sides. Youngkin, a Republican, is asking the General Assembly, FirstEnergy made secret $1 million payment in 2017 to support ���Husted campaign��� in Ohio 04/10/2024 04:56pm • COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ��� The Akron-based energy company at the center of a $60 million bribery scheme in Ohio gave a secret $1 million contribution to a dark money group backing Republican Lt. Gov. Jon Husted in his 2018 bid for governor, cleveland.com/The Plain Dealer reported Wednesday. The contrib South Carolina's top officer not releasing details on 2012 hack that stole millions of tax returns 04/10/2024 04:23pm • COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ��� Twelve years after a hacker stole personal data from more than 3.6 million people in South Carolina by obtaining Social Security numbers and credit card information from tax returns, the state's top police officer said Wednesday he thought he knew who did it but wasn't ready What is financial wellness (and why does it matter)? 04/10/2024 04:12pm • This content is provided by WAEPA. 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(AP) ��� By the time conservative activist Charlie Kirk took the stage, there was no doubt that it was Donald Trump who had led him to travel to Nebraska and pressure state lawmakers to adopt a ���winner-take-all��� system of awarding Electoral College votes. ���You see what���s ahead of Former Trump executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail for lying 04/10/2024 12:06pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Allen Weisselberg, a retired executive in Donald Trump���s real estate empire, was sentenced Wednesday to five months in jail for lying under oath during his testimony in the civil fraud lawsuit brought against the former president by New York���s attorney general. Weisselberg, 76,