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The transcript of DW Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten from today has the sentence

Sie werde die Regierungsgeschäfte von zu Hause aus führen.

I might have thought that the space between aus and führen was a typo, except that Reverso Dictionary shows 6 additional examples of sentences with the same spacing. But I can find nothing in Duden to support it. What is going on?

https://www.dw.com/de/10072020-langsam-gesprochene-nachrichten/a-54121374

https://dictionary.reverso.net/german-english/aus+f%C3%BChren

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    I recently came across something similar: Ich studiere momentan die hiesige Flora und Fauna von meinem Heimlabor aus. (From the German version of Stardew Valley.) I think it's basically the same idiom as "(someone is doing something) from out of (some location)" in English, it's just that German changes the word order somewhat. – RDBury Jul 10 '20 at 16:19
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The verb used is führen, not ausführen
In your sentence, aus belongs to von zu Hause aus, describing the place: from home.

A rough translation might be

She would lead the affairs of state from home.

Compare:

I'm working at home: Ich arbeite zu Hause
I'm working from home: Ich arbeite von zu Hause aus

See e.g. https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=german&query=von+zu+hause+aus for further examples.

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