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The Trump administration's HHS report accusing hospitals of fraudulent billing for pediatric gender-affirming care is less a medical finding than a legal workaround — one designed to unlock subpoenas that courts have re…
The ordinance closes the office, business, and industrial loopholes that had let developers build without ever appearing before elected officials.
Washington's AI debate is fixated on catastrophic scenarios while the actual U.S.-China contest is being decided in procurement offices and shipping…
Commissioners are choosing the strictest available instrument, one that would require a future board vote to unwind rather than expiring on its own.
U.S. measles cases have hit a three-decade high while federal vaccine policy is being restructured. The two facts are connected, and the reporting sh…
The expired U.S.-Iran memorandum, an aircraft carrier stuck at sea for nine months, and a president publicly at odds with his own commanders reveal a…
The stacked agenda forces council members to accept Colossus money under a 25 percent revenue-share agreement while voting on whether to slow what co…
The federal complaint argued the moratorium would knock the project out of Texas's electricity interconnection queue, a state-regulated deadline coun…
The Mount Vernon City Council voted 6-1 on Aug. 12 for a six-month data center moratorium, joining Skagit County, La Conner, Seattle, and Spokane in…
Iowa's proposed ban on social media for minors would, by the mechanics of enforcement, require every adult in the state to verify their identity at t…
Baltimore Gas and Electric is asking Maryland regulators for a $156 million electric rate increase that would add about $8 a month to bills and lift…
East Lansing's City Council voted unanimously on August 12 to extend its data center moratorium, giving a city work group more time to finalize zonin…
The Memphis City Council will vote Aug. 18 on a temporary moratorium that would pause zoning, land use, and building permits for new data center deve…
New York's one-year moratorium on data centers of 50 megawatts or more is the first successful statewide freeze in the country, and Governor Hochul i…
Marietta's council approved rezoning for an 11-acre, 18-megawatt data center on Powers Ferry Place in a 5-2 vote, despite a six-month moratorium and…
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