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Republican Gov. John Kasich restored Ohio's membership in the National Governors Association as he seeks to shore up credibility for bipartisan deal-making that could bolster a 2020 bid for president.
John Kasich's return to New Hampshire this week is likely to get widespread media coverage as a significant milestone toward what many view as his inevitable 2020 presidential campaign. Within the past month, the state that traditionally hosts the nation's first presidential primary already has had visits from President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake - all potential GOP rivals for Ohio's governor.
WASHINGTON - In the year-plus since Donald Trump was elected, a group of voters largely opposed to the GOP president have become one of the most boisterous, organized political groups in the 12th Congressional District. The group, which calls itself “Indivisible Ohio District 12,” gathered weekly at then-Rep. Pat Tiberi's district office in Columbus, urging the Genoa Township Republican to oppose Trump policies.
During a visit to Ohio to promote his infrastructure plan on March 29, US president Donald Trump dropped one of the bombshells that Americans have become accustomed to over the last year and a half: "We'll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon . Let the other people take care of it now."
In a nearly hourlong speech, President Donald Trump talked about everything from his planned border wall with Mexico to the TV ratings success of the "Roseanne" reboot. In between, and along the way Thursday afternoon, he touted the virtues of his $1.5 trillion plan to build new infrastructure and fix what's in need of repair.
Republican leaders are mulling what to do for the rest of the year after passing a $1.3 trillion omnibus spending package. Legislative activity will slow down dramatically after the Easter recess as vulnerable incumbents seek to spend more time campaigning ahead of the fall midterm elections.
In this Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015 file photo, members of Congress, Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, and Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., join a Ukrainian delegation to voice bipartisan support for bolstering the Ukrainian forces with weapons and aid to stave off incursion from Russia and Ukrainian separatists, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Kaptur is poised to become the longest-serving female member ever in the U.S. House.
Rep. Marcy Kaptur is now the longest-serving woman in the history of the House of Representatives, breaking the record today -- 12,858 days after she first took office in 1983. Kaptur told ABC News that as she surpasses the milestone, previously held by Massachusetts Republican Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers, she is "a citizen with deep gratitude and very energized to keep going and to keep working."
State Rep. Nickie Antonio, a Lakewood Democrat, has said that support from the Ohio Chamber of Commerce has given new momentum to her Ohio House Bill 160 that would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender idenity in Ohio. The U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell decision protected a person's right to enter into a same-sex marriage.
A state law that prohibits doctors from performing abortions based on a diagnosis of Down syndrome was placed on hold by a federal judge on Wednesday. Judge Timothy Black said the law's opponents are "highly likely" to succeed in arguing the law is unconstitutional because "federal law is crystal clear" that a state can't limit a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy before viability.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said Thursday his office will appeal a federal judge's order blocking the state's Down syndrome abortion ban from taking effect. On Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Black issued a preliminary injunction putting House Bill 214 on hold while abortion providers challenged the law's constitutionality.
Akron's projected budget gap has been cut almost in half, but the president of city council says there's more room for improvement. Earlier this month, Akron officials estimated that this year's shortfall would be $916,000.
Perhaps the hustle and bustle of life in the US capital takes a greater toll on nobody more than the president. "Over the years, presidents struggle so hard to get to the White House and then they're almost desperate to get away from the place once they're there," journalist Kenneth Walsh said during an interview in 2009.
In this Jan. 30, 2018, file photo, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, second from left, arrives with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, right, at the Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington.
A twice-convicted murderer whose execution in November had to be halted when a usable vein couldn't be found to administer execution drugs died Saturday morning of natural causes, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said. Alva Campbell, 69, was found unresponsive in his death row cell Saturday morning at a prison in Chillicothe and was pronounced dead shortly before 5:30 a.m. at a hospital, prison department spokeswoman JoEllen Smith said.
Licking Valley Schools Superintendent David Hile shuddered when he saw the Facebook image of the boy with a menacing stare and a gleaming assault rifle. It was the same boy who, after threatening students, had been expelled from school for 80 days, the maximum time allowed under state law.
Norfolk Southern ceased its coal operations in Ashtabula Harbor in 2016, taking away a valuable sector of the Ohio community. Norfolk Southern ceased its coal operations in Ashtabula Harbor in 2016, taking away a valuable sector of the Ohio community.
Add Planned Parenthood to the list of organizations looking to take advantage of President Trump's low approval ratings in the 2018 midterm elections. The organization is not new to the rough-and-tumble of electoral politics - and has often itself become a top issue for Republicans looking to slash federal funding for the organization - but this year Planned Parenthood Votes and Planned Parenthood Action Fund will launch their biggest-ever push to try to tip the balance in Congress and in key states.
The candidacy of Bill O'Neill, the former Ohio Supreme Court justice who quit the court to run for governor, could hurt down-ballot Democratic candidates should he become the party's nominee in the race, a party background check committee has determined. However, the party has decided to allow O'Neill - who raised eyebrows when he announced on social media he had bedded 50 women -- to participate in gubernatorial forums and debates since he has held statewide office and has been endorsed by the party in the past.