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Arizona ballot measure would increase classroom spending
Arizonans will consider a proposition on the Nov. 3 ballot that will require school districts to increase the amount of money they put toward instruction in classrooms. By Zachery Schmidt.

No national truckers’ strike Thursday
While there’s no denying diesel fuel prices are hammering away at the nation’s trucking industry, rumors of a strike coinciding with the first of the month have no legitimacy. In fact, it would serve only to multiply the pain in civil lawsuits and violations of antitrust law, the vice president of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association told The Center Square on Monday. Nationally on Monday according to AAA, the averages are $4.47 for unleaded regular gasoline and $6.45 for diesel. The national record for diesel was set on Tuesday of last week at $6.52. By Alan Wooten.

WATCH: Questions swirl around foiled UK terror plot as suspects released on bail
The arrests of five suspects in a foiled terror plot in the United Kingdom in the vicinity of the Royal Air Force Fairford Base, which U.S. forces have used to carry out attacks in Iran, raise questions regarding the motive.

Alito will not participate in pivotal climate change case
Justice Samuel Alito will not participate in consideration of a pivotal climate change case before the U.S. Supreme Court, the court announced on Monday. 

Industry, advocates split over FTC's personalized pricing proposal
The Federal Trade Commission's proposed enforcement policy statement on personalized pricing drew nearly 3,700 public comments before its docket closed Sept. 25, with retail and tech industry groups raising concerns about a proposal that says companies using personalized pricing should disclose when a price is personalized, the basis for it and what data was used, while consumer advocates argued it does not go far enough.

Duffy asks $30B of Congress for air travel modernization projects
The U.S. Department of Transportation is asking Congress for an extra $30 billion to modernize aging airport infrastructure across the country, some of which dates back to the 1960s.

Largest steel plant in U.S. history coming to Iowa
The largest steel plant in U.S. history is coming to Iowa, the White House said Monday. Mesabi Metallics, a company headquartered in Minnesota but based in India, will be building the $15 billion mill in Lee County, Iowa, a county that sits along the Mississippi River on the western edge of the industrial Midwest’s Rust Belt.

Rabbi: El-Sayed concerns reflect growing Jewish political homelessness
A Michigan rabbi says he does not believe a victory by progressive U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed would itself lead to harm against the Jewish community, but worries his rhetoric could influence others and deepen a growing sense of political homelessness among Jewish voters.

Centrist groups call for all-party primaries, reduce extremism
Business leaders and advocacy groups are urging moderate voters to engage ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.  

Walmart vows no personalized pricing as FTC weighs disclosure policy
Shoppers can be charged different prices for the same groceries, rides and rooms based on personal data, a practice drawing scrutiny from regulators and lawmakers, and now prompting a response from major retailers. Consumer Reports has documented one example: a $4.30 gallon of milk for which one shopper pays full price while two others receive personalized discounts and pay $3.66 and $3.22 for the same item. Walmart CEO John Furner pledged in a letter posted to the company's corporate website Sept. 25 that the retailer will not use artificial intelligence or personal data to set individualized prices,

Wisconsin senator’s roundtable spotlights COVID patients’ battles over medical care
While many members of Congress are home campaigning for the midterms, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson held a roundtable Monday featuring doctors, patients and family members who recounted illness, loss and other harms they attributed to hospitals’ “rigid adherence” to COVID-19 treatment protocols.

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VOTER FILES: Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap and Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes are in a dispute about the handling of election files related to felons. Heap said he has not received all the files needed to remove felons from voter rolls and that the delay in getting the files could result in felons voting in the Nov. 3 election. Under Arizona law, people convicted of multiple felonies must apply with their county’s Superior Court to restore their voting rights. By Zachery Schmidt.

BOULDER CLIMATE: The Federalist Society will host a webinar outlining what is at stake in the upcoming Suncor v. Boulder County Commissioners case on Tuesday. Boulder County is in Colorado. (Andrew Rice)

MILITARY COMPENSATION'S HIDDEN COST: The full cost of an active-duty service member is $86,000 a year higher than the Department of War's budget shows, according to a new Congressional Budget Office estimate of deferred veterans' benefits. CBO found the cost of disability compensation, health care and other VA benefits for former service members now exceeds the cost of compensating the current force, and that those costs sit outside the Department of War budget and outside its total force planning. A defense budget analyst tells The Center Square that Congress doesn't currently factor those deferred costs into decisions about force size, even though it already does so for other deferred costs like retirement. (Brett Rowland)

GOLDEN DOME'S FUNDING CLIFF: The Senate Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee takes an update on Golden Dome at 4 p.m. Tuesday, seven weeks after the general running the program warned Congress there is "no Golden Dome because there is no funding" without a new reconciliation bill, and two days before the fiscal year ends. The subcommittee called no administration witness. It will instead hear from the Congressional Budget Office, which estimated the 20-year cost of the system described in President Donald Trump's executive order at about $1.2 trillion, roughly six times the Pentagon's $185 billion figure. (Brett Rowland)

EDUCATIONAL RELIGIOUS CHOICE: The Liberty Justice Center urged the U.S. Supreme Court to require California to allow homeschool families to use qualifying faith-based educational materials in publicly funded independent-study programs. It argues that these taxpayer-funded programs should not exclude religious families. (Esther Wickham)

AMERICA.GOV: President Donald Trump along with Elon Musk will be announcing the launch of America.gov, which they argue will utilize AI to help simplify government searches for taxpayers. The Center Square will be attending the event. (Sarah Roderick-Fitch)

MAHA SUMMIT: Vice President JD Vance and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. join administration officials and health care and tech industry leaders at the 2026 MAHA Summit in Washington, DC. (Morgan Sweeney)

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