Democrats want Medicaid work requirement waiver rescinded

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.

FBI raids house, storage unit of former Ohio House speaker

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.

Watch CNN’s Chris Cuomo hammer Tea Party congressman over…

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.

Ohio inmate claims innocence in slaying of 3, wants retrial

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.

Kasich unsure how much he’ll back GOP nominee for Ohio gov.

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.

House panel votes to put nuclear-arms treaty with Russia in Trump’s hands

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.

Here’s how Ohio’s primaries shook out

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.

Ohio Issue 1 for redistricting reform closes in on victory

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.

Ohioans approve new process to draw congressional districts

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.

Iran nuclear deal, Cannes Film Festival, Google I/O conference: 5 things to know Tuesday

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.

Immigration laws foolish, Trump insists

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.

Outside groups line up to give in northeast Ohio U.S. House primary

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.

Public gets a look at new Champion school building

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.