
SEARCHLIGHT NEWS

Universities ask for $24.5 million to launch and maintain artificial intelligence system
by Makenzie Huber
The board that oversees South Dakota’s public universities plans to ask state lawmakers for nearly $60.5 million for building projects and maintenance, the launch of a national defense center in Rapid City, and technology upgrades related to artificial intelligence. The Board of Regents also endorsed construction funding requests Thursday during a meeting in Spearfish, including […]
Billionaire-funded national group seeks to influence voters in South Dakota runoff election
by Joshua Haiar
Some of the political postcards mailed to South Dakota voters in the week ahead of Tuesday’s runoff election for the Republican nomination for governor are financed by a national group that received all of its recent contributions from a Pennsylvania billionaire. Federal Election Commission records show that the School Freedom Fund political action committee has […]
COMMENTARY

‘E pluribus unum’ is not a slogan. It’s a choice.
by Tim Storey, Sue Urahn
Like two sides of a coin imprinted with the nation’s motto, “e pluribus unum” — out of many, one — America’s political factions are cast in opposition, but they are intrinsically bound together as parts of a larger whole. From the beginning, the United States has aspired to build a more perfect union. When our founders […]
FROM STATES NEWSROOM

US House and Senate split on ending Trump’s war in Iran, as gas prices rise
by Ashley Murray
WASHINGTON — One day after President Donald Trump attended the dignified transfer of the remains of four U.S. service members killed as a result of the Iran conflict, the two chambers of Congress were at odds over whether to rein in the president’s military powers in the monthslong war. While members of the U.S. House […]
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NJ bans ‘surveillance pricing’ for grocery items | New Jersey Monitor
States move to limit classroom screen time | Stateline
Texas Panhandle shaken by strongest earthquake in five years | Texas Tribune

AROUND THE REGION
Vance Boelter sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years in killing of Hortmans | Minnesota Reformer
USDA reversal on crop insurance change welcomed by farm groups | North Dakota Monitor
North Dakota oil fetched high premium in May for first time 40 years | North Dakota Monitor
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