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Weeks of confusion and inconsistencies from immigration officials ended on Monday after authorities deported a Palestinian man who had been living in the U.S. for nearly 40 years. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had kept Amer Othman Adi, 57, in detention for two weeks, ignoring a House Judiciary Committee request that the Department of Homeland Security review his case, which would have allowed him to temporarily remain in the U.S. "In a highly irregular rebuke of Congressional authority by ICE, Amer Othman was ripped from his four daughters, his wife, and the country that he has called home for over thirty years," Rep. Tim Ryan , who had been fighting his deportation, said in a statement.
Amer Othman Adi, a beloved Youngstown businessman, husband and father of four today sits in a northeast Ohio jail, awaiting deportation. On Tuesday, activists will rally before the State of the Union to call attention to Amer's plight and to an immigration enforcement system that has gotten out of control under Trump.
In this Dec. 20, 2017, file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, standing with Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., right, speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democratic candidates in the 2018 midterms plan to argue that the legislation favors the wealthy and breaks President Donald Trump and Republicans' promises to the middle class.
WASHINGTON - Congress Thursday appeared poised to effectively evade the last-minute threat of a government shutdown, with the House passing a bill to keep the government open through Jan. 19 and the Senate poised to follow suit later Thursday or early Friday. The spending bill - which included a $2.85 billion down payment aimed at keeping the federal Children's Health Insurance Program operational as well as reauthorizing federal surveillance powers - passed after House leadership was able to convince a group of Defense hawks including Rep. Mike Turner, R–Dayton, to overcome their reservations about the spending bill.
That's up 24 percent over the 3,310 drug deaths the previous year, according to a report released Thursday by the federal government, and slightly higher than the 4,149 reported by The Dispatch last spring based on data compiled from county coroners. Despite increased government spending, Ohio's rate of drug-overdose deaths, 39.1 per 100,000 people, trailed only West Virginia's 52 per 100,000 population.
Alabama's surprising election outcome upended the expectations in both parties for next year's midterm campaigns, with Democrats emboldened by signs of a resurgent voter base and Republicans sensing new vulnerabilities. The victory Tuesday by Democrat Doug Jones to represent that heavily conservative state in the Senate was the latest example in a string of elections this year that Democratic leaders think represent a growing backlash against President Trump - and a potential building wave for 2018.
Weeks after President Donald Trump officially declared opioid abuse to be a national public health emergency, a bipartisan group of Congress members from Ohio wants him to put the government's money where his mouth is. On Monday, Republican Rep. Dave Joyce of Bainbridge Township and Democrat Tim Ryan of the Niles area released a letter signed by 48 colleagues that urged the Trump administration to allot money to address a problem that kills an estimated 144 Americans every day.
Efforts to ensure that every Ohio household has broadband internet access is getting serious attention at the Statehouse, including a bipartisan proposal to earmark $50 million to address a problem impacting rural areas. While 92 percent of Ohioans have access to high-speed internet, that still leaves about 300,000 rural households without decent connectivity, and pockets of unserved homes still exist even in more populated areas.
U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan is a Democrat and says he always will be, but those in his party weren't spared criticism by the man who has represented the Alliance area in Congress since 2003. Ryan, D-13th, was the guest of the combined Thanksgiving Eve meeting of the Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions clubs of Alliance Wednesday at the Hoover-Price Campus Center at Mount Union.
We're still 1,112 days away from the next presidential election, but that isn't stopping your first look at what to expect in the New Hampshire primary. A new poll from the University of New Hampshire -- more than two years before the primary will take place -- at least starts to give a landscape of the status quo before candidates start declaring their bids.
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In this Nov. 30, 2016 file photo, Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, pauses while speaking to members of the media following the House Democratic Caucus elections on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ryan is among three rising House Democrats, including Illinois' Cheri Bustos and Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, in Des Moines, Saturday, Sept.
Rep. Tim Ryan speaks to reporters after the House Democratic leadership elections on Capitol Hill on Nov. 30, 2016. Rep. Tim Ryan , whose aggressive campaigning for local and congressional Democratic candidates has drawn attention this summer, is the star of a new ad from a Republican group - one that recasts him as a supporter of tax reform.
Twenty years ago July 31, former Ohio House Speaker Vern Riffe died at age 72. A Portsmouth-area Democrat, he was speaker from 1975 through 1994, longer than anyone before him - spanning two governorships, and half of a third. And now, thanks to General Assembly term-limits, no one can beat that Ohio record, or even come close.
Celebrating a slim but symbolic health-care win in Washington, President Donald Trump told supporters in Ohio that the nation was one step closer to liberation from the "Obamacare nightmare." "You think that's easy? That's not easy," he told a crowd of thousands just hours after the Senate took a small but hard-fought first step Tuesday toward Republicans' years-long promise to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama's health care law.
After four years of helping with training and job hunting for Gallia County residents, Digital Works will be closing its doors July 14, due to lack of funding. According to Gallipolis location facilitator Sherri Shaw, Digital Works opened in 2014 and was homed briefly in the Gallia County Job and Family Services location as part of a partnership before moving to its current location at 859 Third Avenue.
The Democratic Party needs to have a "family discussion" about the future of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as the leader of the party in Congress, said Rep. Tim Ryan Sunday. Ryan, an Ohio Democrat, said on NBC the success of the party in 2018 is at stake.
Planned Parenthood may poor-mouth when its government funding is on the line, but that hasn't stopped the abortion giant from spending lavishly on politicians who promise to keep the taxpayer dollars coming. Planned Parenthood's political arm, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, was the second-biggest spender on the Democratic side of the ledger in the special election for Georgia's 6th Congressional District, putting more than $734,000 behind Jon Ossoff.
The House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi , strolled before the cameras on Thursday with defeat at her back once more, projecting a well-worn swagger - brash, defiant, more than a little off key - as she insisted that her moment had not passed. "I think I'm worth the trouble," she told reporters, parrying renewed questions from Democrats about her stewardship after yet another Republican congressional candidate, this time in Georgia, found success by making Ms.