From the States
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Louisiana adds 36,000 jobs, with construction leading
Construction added 18,800 jobs compared with September 2025, accounting for about 52% of the state’s net annual increase. Professional and business services added 8,000 jobs, while private education and health services gained 7,200.
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Texas AG Ken Paxton sues OpenAI for lying to users, harming state residents
GOP nominee for Senate claimed negative side effects of relying on OpenAI's ChatGPT were not fairly displayed, despite the company marketing chatbot as a safe and reliable tool.
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Nevada expects $1 billion surplus for 2027-29 budget
While no official budget numbers were released during the mid-October Economic Forum hearing, the projections showed lawmakers could have anywhere from $900 million to $1.64 billion more at their disposal in the upcoming two-year budget
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Arizona Senate committee, in party line vote, backs renaming highway loop after Charlie Kirk
The loop spans about 77 miles across the Phoenix area and connects with Interstate 10 on both ends.
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With Trump's threats to halt federal funding to sanctuary states and cities, Seattle preparing
Mayor Katie Wilson, who assumed office earlier this month after narrowly defeating then-Mayor Bruce Harrell in November, is a strong supporter of Seattle being a sanctuary city.
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Advocates and experts urge SCOTUS to adopt uniform gun laws across the country
An argument analysts were particularly watching was in drawing a distinction between free speech rights and gun rights on private property open to the public.
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Plans for possible immigration detention center in Orlando gets pushback by Dems
Florida has built other facilities to support President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. The most notable is “Alligator Alcatraz.”
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Tourism industry in Las Vegas continues its decline
Las Vegas saw its biggest year for tourism in 2019 at 42.5 million visitors, immediately before the COVID-19 pandemic. But travel limitations cut Las Vegas annual visitors by more than half in 2020, to 19 million.
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Trump, with large America contingent, likely to make waves at biggest-ever World Economic Forum
The largest-ever World Economic Forum braces to receive the largest-ever U.S. delegation, with President Donald Trump and others leaving Tuesday for Davos, Switzerland.
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TX, FL, AGs issue opinions based on 2023 SCOTUS decision that race-based policies are illegal
“Racial discrimination is wrong. It is also unconstitutional,” Florida AG Uthmeier says. “Yet Florida maintains several laws on its books that promote and require discrimination on its face.”
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Walz invites Trump to visit Minnesota to 'help restore calm and order'
The invitation comes the same day that the Justice Department subpoenaed five Minnesota officials, including Walz, as part of the Justice Department’s investigation into the obstruction of ICE.
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GOP gubernatorial hopefuls seek support, blast Pritzker at IL gubernatorial candidate forum
The candidates generally avoided criticizing each other, but all four took aim at the state’s policies and governance under Pritzker.
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Celebrations marked MLK Day, along with criticisms of Trump administration
Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrates the Jan. 15 birthday of the civil rights leader on the third Monday of January. He would have been 97.