JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - Texas creates new national record for most students applying to new school choice program
Texas’ first school choice program launched on Wednesday with 20,000 students applying by noon.
JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - Washington state Dems file proposal requiring schools to provide excused absences for protesting
Rep. Osman Salahuddin, D-Redmond, and Rep. Greg Nance, D-Bainbridge Island, filed House Bill 2732 as students across the state walked out of class to protest federal immigration enforcement.
JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - AMA's medical education infused with political ideology, Do No Harm says
In order to maintain their license to practice medicine, medical professionals must continually keep up with their education – in varying degrees state by state – as explained by Do No Harm’s report, with the American Medical Association (AMA) offering such Continuing Medical Education (CME).
JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - Legal scholars clash over climate lawsuits against energy companies
Jonathan Adler, an environmental law professor at William & Mary, argued the cases fit within a long legal tradition of using nuisance and tort law to address pollution harms and that courts shouldn’t shut them down at the outset unless Congress clearly says they’re barred.
JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - Wisconsin voting groups call Madison absentee ballot defense 'dangerous'
The Wisconsin Constitution states that voting is a constitutional right but that absentee ballots are a privilege exercised outside the traditional safeguards of a polling place.
REDSTATE (Bob Hoge) - Wonder Why the WaPo Is Failing? Leftist Rag's Pick for 'Most Relevant' NFL Player Tells You All
AXIOS (Alex Thompson) - Buttigieg's baggage from DOT looms as 2028 issue
Pete Buttigieg is widely admired as a first-class communicator. But many Democrats think he's lacking as an administrator — and are pointing to his time as President Biden 's transportation secretary. Why it matters: Several of Buttigieg's potential rivals for the 2028 Democratic nomination for president are quietly beginning to pick at his work in Biden's Cabinet as a vulnerability, rather than an asset. - They argue that Buttigieg was at times unable to navigate the federal bureaucracy to get hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of infrastructure projects built or launched quickly enough, and that such failures contributed to Donald Trump returning to the White House. - Buttigieg, a former mayor of South Bend, Ind., has little…
JUSTTHENEWS (Nicholas Ballasy) - Japan Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wins snap election in landslide, exit polls project
Takaichi’s conservative political bloc, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and its coalition partner are on track to win a decisive power in Japan’s legislative process, according to exit polling
AXIOS (Holly Otterbein) - Exclusive: Centrist Dems strike back with new group
Ezra Klein's Abundance movement is getting some backup: A new political group is urging Democrats to embrace "pro-growth," deregulatory policies with an eye toward 2028, according to plans first shared with Axios. Why it matters: Known as Next American Era, the group is the latest effort by moderate Democrats to shape national politics and expand their influence at a time when progressives in the party are making an aggressive push for more power. - Former Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos , ex-chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, will serve as president. - The group describes itself as a "hub for center-left policy and advocacy." Bustos said it will air issue-focused ads during the midterm elections and the 2028…
NYTIMES (Alexandra Alter) - Haruki Murakami Isn’t Afraid of the Dark
The author, who brought Japanese literature into the global mainstream, grapples with aging and his place in the world of letters.