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Month: September 2025

Great Plains News Digest

To see stories that have already moved, please visit AP Newsroom. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 24 hours, please visit Coverage Plan ——————————-— KANSAS ————-——————— US–Election-2026-Redistricting-Other-States Where states stand in the battle for partisan advantage in US House redistricting maps SUMMARY: Lawmakers in Missouri are the latest to try

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NCAA issues permanent ban to 3 men’s basketball players from Fresno State and San Jose State for sports betting

By Jill Martin, CNN (CNN) — The NCAA announced three Division I men’s basketball players are permanently ineligible after an investigation uncovered that they were involved in sports-betting game manipulation. “As part of a coordinated effort, the student-athletes bet on their own games, one another’s games and/or provided information that enabled others to do so

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Great Plains Lookahead Digest

By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— IOWA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— FBC–BIG 12 PREVIEW DESCRIPTION: Rich Rodriguez is back at West Virginia part of the Backyard Brawl again

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Great Plains Lookahead Digest

By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— IOWA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— FBC–BIG 12 PREVIEW DESCRIPTION: Rich Rodriguez is back at West Virginia part of the Backyard Brawl again

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Great Plains Lookahead Digest

By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— IOWA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— FBC–BIG 12 PREVIEW DESCRIPTION: Rich Rodriguez is back at West Virginia part of the Backyard Brawl again

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Great Plains Lookahead Digest

By The Associated Press The following stories are planned for the next 12 hours. For text, photos, video, live and audio plans beyond the next 12 hours, please visit Coverage Plan. —————————— IOWA – UPCOMING – SPORTS —————————— FBC–BIG 12 PREVIEW DESCRIPTION: Rich Rodriguez is back at West Virginia part of the Backyard Brawl again

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The Department of Labor is launching an investigation into the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Dept. of Labor launches investigation into data collection process at BLS

By Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Labor is initiating an investigation into how the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects and reports “closely watched economic data,” according to a letter the department’s Assistant Inspector General for Audit, Laura Nicolosi, sent to Acting BLS Commissioner William Wiatrowski on Wednesday. This comes one day after

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer

Republicans block Schumer’s push to force Epstein files vote after Democrat’s brazen breach of Senate protocol

By Ted Barrett, Morgan Rimmer, Arlette Saenz, CNN (CNN) — Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked Chuck Schumer’s attempt to compel the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files, hours after the Democratic leader made a bold procedural move to force a vote on the issue. The Senate voted 51-49 to block the measure, with GOP

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Senate committee approves Trump’s Fed Board nominee, raising concerns about its independence

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate committee on Wednesday approved the nomination of White House economic adviser Stephen Miran to the Federal Reserve’s board of governors, setting up a likely approval by the full Senate, which would make Miran the third Trump appointee to the seven-member board. The White House

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Trump administration wants to cancel Biden-era rule that made conservation a ‘use’ of public land

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Wednesday proposed canceling a public land management rule that put conservation on equal footing with development, as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to open more taxpayer-owned tracts to drilling, logging, mining and grazing. The rule was a key part of efforts

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Study links more frequent and severe heat waves to pollution from major fossil fuel producers

By ISABELLA O’MALLEY Associated Press Fifty-five heat waves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate change, according to a study published Wednesday. Planet-warming emissions from 180 major cement, oil and gas producers contributed significantly to all of the heat events considered in the study, which was published in the journal Nature

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Passengers are reflected on glass as police officers patrol the Anacostia bus station in Washington

Trump is fine with letting his DC police takeover lapse, White House officials say

By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump doesn’t mind letting his 30-day takeover of Washington, DC’s Metropolitan Police Department lapse on Wednesday, White House officials tell CNN — mainly because he feels the city has taken steps to cooperate regardless. Those officials argued that the executive order signed by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser

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Sports on TV for Thursday, Sept. 11

By The Associated Press (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Thursday, Sept. 11 AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN’S) 5:30 a.m. (Friday) FS2 — AFL Playoffs: Hawthorn at Adelaide, Semifinal AUTO RACING 3:05 p.m. FS2 — NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series: Practice, Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tenn. 4:10 p.m. FS2 — NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series:

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WNBA Glance

All Times EDT EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB x-Atlanta 30 14 .682 — x-New York 26 17 .605 3½ x-Indiana 24 20 .545 6 Washington 16 28 .364 14 Connecticut 11 33 .250 19 Chicago 10 33 .233 19½ WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB x-Minnesota 33 10 .767 — x-Las Vegas 29 14

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Obesity now exceeds overweight in all regions of the world except sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

More of the world’s children are now obese than underweight, UNICEF warns

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — More school-age children and adolescents are now obese than underweight, a new report from the United Nations’ children’s agency, UNICEF, has revealed, with 188 million young people affected. Obesity now exceeds underweight in all regions of the world except sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, researchers found, having studied data

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UK ambassador to US in the spotlight over his links to ‘best pal’ Epstein

By PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Wednesday that he has “confidence” in the country’s ambassador to the United States, who faces mounting criticism of his links to the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Starmer’s defense of Peter Mandelson came after Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a

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