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President Donald Trump on Thursday imposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminum from the European Union, Canada and Mexico, triggering immediate retaliation from U.S. allies and protests from American businesses and farmers.
As Ohioans welcome the beginning of the summer season, a new report highlights the dangers of swimming in open water. The research released Tuesday by the group Safe Kids Worldwide shows about 1,000 children die in drowning accidents each year in the U.S. and another 7,000 are taken to emergency rooms.
U.S. Reps. Tim Ryan, Marcy Kaptur, Marcia Fudge and Joyce Beatty in a letter Thursday questioned "the very rationale" of a Medicaid waiver Ohio submitted to the federal government May 1. It lays out details for imposing a work and community engagement requirement state lawmakers passed last summer.
In this June 28, 2016, file photo, Ohio House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger speaks during an event to mark the renaming of Port Columbus International Airport to John Glenn Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio. Federal agents are searching the former Republican Ohio House Speaker's home in southwest Ohio and a nearby storage unit.
In a fiery interview, CNN's Chris Cuomo fact-checked Rep. Jim Jordan over his "demonstrably false" statements supporting President Donald Trump's "Spygate" conspiracy . The Ohio Republican started the interview by launching a long-winded explanation of why he believes the FBI spied on the Trump campaign, complete with a litany of ousted Justice Department officials targeted by the president and the congressman's repeated call for a second special counsel - a resolution that he boasted had 25 Congress members' support.
This July 14, 2010, file photo, shows Kevin Keith, who is on death row at the Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown, Ohio. Keith, an Ohio inmate who has long maintained his innocence in the 1994 slaying of three people is asking the U.S. Supreme Court for a new trial based on evidence never heard by a jury.
During commencement ceremonies at the University of New Hampshire on Saturday, star student athlete Elinor Purrier was asked to run up to the stage by UNH President Mark Huddleston.
Fresh off a victory in Ohio's primary election, the Democratic nominee for the state's top office is reaching out to supporters of outgoing Republican Gov. John Kasich, whose policies have alienated many GOP supporters in recent years. Democrat Richard Cordray, who led the federal consumer protection bureau under President Barack Obama, pledged in a video his campaign released Friday that he'll maintain Kasich's expansion of Medicaid and the state's privatized economic development office, which critics say lacks accountability.
The House Armed Services Committee has moved toward nullifying a 30-year-old nuclear-arms-control treaty with Russia, endorsing a measure that would entrust President Donald Trump to decide whether the United States should scrap the deal. The Republican-led measure, which was added around midnight Thursday to a draft of next year's defense spending bill, states that the United States will no longer consider the treaty binding without White House verification of Russia's full compliance.
Democratic Party voters turned out in larger numbers than past primaries this year - but does that signal a blue wave crashing in November? Hello, all! Did you vote yesterday? You probably want to know how that all turned out, eh? Or heck, maybe you were like me and stayed glued to the Hamilton County Board of Elections' site all night. Either way, let's take a look at how the whole thing went.
In the counties shown in red, Republican Mike DeWine received more votes than Democrat Richard Cordray in their separate Ohio gubernatorial primaries on Tuesday. Yet the counties where Cordray had more votes, shown in blue, are most of Ohio's large counties.
While gerrymandering disputes from other states have landed in the U.S. Supreme Court, Ohio voters apparently took the historic step Tuesday of passing a bipartisan proposal aimed at creating fairer and more logical congressional districts. Results reported by 10 p.m. showed Issue 1 leading 73 percent to 27 percent.
Mike DeWine and Rich Cordray are the winners of the Ohio governor's race, according to calls made by various news organizations, setting up a rematch of the 2010 attorney general's race. Both raced to early leads when early absentee voting results were reported.
Ohioans gave strong support Tuesday to revamping the process for drawing congressional districts, holding the promise that the next map will feature less gerrymandering by politicians and more fairness for voters. With the easy passage of state Issue 1, no longer will the majority party at the Statehouse be allowed hide in a secret room to gerrymander congressional districts with few rules to limit how lines are drawn.
President Trump will disclose his plans for the future of the Iran nuclear deal Tuesday, as his hard-line advisers urge him to kill the deal and allies around the world push him to stay in. Under the agreement signed in 2015, the United States and others withdrew economic sanctions on Iran in return for it agreeing to give up the means to make nuclear weapons.
President Donald Trump renewed a threat to close down the federal government when current funding runs out in September if immigration changes and money for a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico aren't forthcoming. "We may have to close up our country to get this straight," Trump said Saturday during an event in Cleveland focused on the benefits of the 2017 Republican tax overhaul.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's decision this week to pour $300,000 into Tuesday's congressional primary to support former Ohio State wide receiver Anthony Gonzalez against state Rep. Christina Hagan means that establishment Republicans are concerned enough about the race that they have now invested more than a half a million dollars to boost Gonzalez. “I think it indicates that they're worried,” said David Cohen, a political science professor at the University of Akron.
Many students and alumni stopped by the building to check on the progress and received tours from construction experts and faculty members. "We have two regulation size gymnasiums for the kids, state of the art science labs, all of our classrooms have extended learning areas on them so they can open doors and do extended learning in group sessions.
Ohioans choose nominees for U.S. Senate, governor and other statewide offices in May, as well as deciding whether to approve changes to congressional map-making supported by both parties. On the Republican side, Attorney General Mike DeWine and Lt.
It's primary season and health care is on the ballot. With Tuesday, May 8 fast approaching, I wanted to offer some thoughts on the positions taken by each of Ohio's gubernatorial candidates specifically in the area of health policy.