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Vacant-housing demolition took up 90 percent of Ohio's request, but critics say asking for more mortgage-assistance funds would have ensured the entire application was viewed more favorably by the federal government. As the days passed, Ohio's application for upward of $250 million in federal housing money asked for more of the money to be devoted to vacant-housing demolition and less for mortgage assistance.
Soon-to-be U.S. citizens clap after jury supervisor Fran Green explains the process of naturalization at the Joseph P. Kinneary United States Courthouse on March 1. Well, it seems that many immigrants, some of whom have lived and worked in, and in their hearts adopted, this country as their own, are eager to get that and the other privileges that come with becoming full-fledged Americans. The number of people applying to become U.S. citizens is at its highest level in four years, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of citizenship application data.
A sympathetic House Judiciary Committee is giving a high-profile forum to a top Republican who wants to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, a cause that excites conservatives but seems unlikely to go far in Congress this election year. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz planned to testify to the GOP-run Judiciary panel on Tuesday.
The initiative, called Change Direction NH, kicks off Monday morning with an event in Concord. It aims to help people identify signs of mental illness.
Rep. Matt Cartwright has proposed a program that offers financial incentives to those who donate kidneys. A plan that may help 100,000 Americans who are on a waitlist anxiously awaiting a new kidney, when every day at least 12 people die in the U.S. because there are not enough donors.
Voters in western Ohio will hear from the three candidates vying to succeed John Boehner in Congress at a forum Monday evening. Miami University's event center in downtown Hamilton will host the candidates ahead of a June 7 special election to complete Boehner's term.
A teenage girl, no more than 15, recalled a man coming to her rural village in the Philippines and offering to take her and her little sister to see the big city of Manila. You'll be back by sundown, he promised.
Sen. Bernie Sanders is taking his increasingly pitched fight against the Democratic Party establishment straight to the top of the party, with an endorsement of Tim Canova, a South Florida law professor challenging Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in her congressional district's primary. "Clearly, I favor her opponent," Sanders told CNN in an interview over the weekend.
Sen. Bernie Sanders is taking his increasingly pitched fight against the Democratic Party establishment straight to the top of the party, with an endorsement of Tim Canova, a South Florida law professor challenging Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in her congressional district's primary. "Clearly, I favor her opponent," Sanders told CNN in an interview over the weekend.
Rep. Peter King said Sunday that the disappearance of EgyptAir flight MS804 could still be linked to terrorism, although no groups have claimed responsibility. "I would say that right now, the indicators are that... it's terrorism," King, a member of the Homeland Security Committee, said on CNN's "State of the Union."
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders announced in an interview released late Saturday that he would be backing Tim Canova, the progressive challenger running to unseat incumbent Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the congressional race for Florida's 23rd district. Wasserman Schultz has been a highly controversial chair of the DNC this primary season, and is widely perceived by many Sanders supporters as rigging the primary to bolster establishment candidate Hillary Clinton over Sanders' progressive campaign.
The federal government will no longer use the terms "Negro" and "Oriental" after President Barack Obama signed a bill into law. In a rare show of bipartisan support, the measure H.R.4238, passed unanimously in the House of Representatives and the Senate earlier this year.
A well-known part of Gov. Mike Pence's political history is that he was a young Democrat before going off to college and becoming a Reagan conservative.
Just over 50 years ago in a river town in southeastern Ohio, a high-tech polymer called Udel PSU was produced for the very first time. NASA applied the shiny gold film to the visor on Neil Armstrong's helmet.
As Judge Barry Williams prepare to announce a verdict Monday in the trial of Officer Edward Nero, a number of lawyers who have watched the case believe Nero will be acquitted. All of these lawyers have no connection with any of the cases of the six officers accused in the death of Freddie Gray.
Bernie Sanders said Saturday afternoon he would back the primary challenger of Democratic National Committee Chairwoman and Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz - and added that if elected president she would not be reappointed to head the DNC. During a pre-taped interview with CNN that will air in full Sunda y, Sanders said that he would support Nova Southeastern University law professor Tim Canova over Rep. Wasserman Schultz in her Democratic primary race for Florida's 23rd congressional district.
The U.S. conducted an airstrike Saturday against Taliban leader Mullah Mansour, the Pentagon said, and a U.S. official said Mansour was believed to have been killed. Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said the attack occurred in a remote region along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
After hearing from Governor Rauner and Congressman Adam Kinzinger , the state convention got down to business - with the first order of business electing their National Committeeman and Committeewoman. DeMonte told those gathered that she's working on party efforts to defunding Planned Parenthood, stop the overreach of Title 9 - likely reference to Obama's recent transgender bathroom order - and an effort to stop Christian genocide worldwide.
Attorneys for the city of Chicago have told a federal judge they are prepared to admit to a jury that a code of silence exists within the police department in an attempt to keep Mayor Rahm Emanuel off the witness stand. But U.S. District Judge Gary Feinerman said Friday he would still ask Emanuel to testify in the case of two whistleblower police officers suing the city, explaining that the mayor's testimony could offer "much more texture" on the issue.