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The sign for GEO Group’s Moshannon Valley Processing Center.

ICE considering buying immigrant detention facilities, other options to maintain capacity in Pa.

by Melissa Pérez-Carrillo of Spotlight PA State College

Activists worry ICE might buy Moshannon Valley Processing Center or contract directly with GEO Group and cut out Clearfield County and its “minor” oversight.

Delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) — known as delta-8 — is a cannabinoid derived from hemp.

Pa.’s attorney general is backing a hemp product ban. The industry says it goes way too far.

by Jaxon White of Spotlight PA

President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order on permitting for data center infrastructure.

Trump is losing the battle with public opinion on data centers

by Mara Hoplamazian of NOTUS

Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington.

The struggle of being a no-corporate-PAC-money Democrat

by Oriana González and Kadia Goba of NOTUS

A data center owned by Amazon Web Services, front right, is under construction next to the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Berwick, Pa., on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2024.

Power grids can't handle AI boom as summer heat triggers emergency orders

by Mara Hoplamazian of NOTUS

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