Ohio’s House of Representatives gets back to work

Last Wednesday, June 6, State Representative Ryan Smith of southeast Ohio was selected as the Speaker of the House following a grueling 11 rounds of voting by the legislature. The political jockeying among Republicans, who hold the majority in the state's legislature, began on Tuesday, April 10, when former Speaker Cliff Rosenberger announced his resignation amid an FBI probe into alleged favors given to Rosenberger by representatives of Ohio's payday loan industry.

Military news

U.S. Air Force Reserve Airman 1st Class Tristan G. Maness graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness and basic warfare principles and skills.

The Latest: White House says Trump backs immigration effort

The White House says President Donald Trump does indeed support an immigration bill crafted by House leadership that he said he wouldn't sign in a morning interview. Trump had said in the interview with "Fox & Friends" Friday that he was looking at two House immigration bills, but that he "certainly wouldn't sign the more moderate one."

White House says Trump would sign either Republican immigration bill

The White House scrambled on Friday to clarify President Trump's position on a Republican immigration bill, with a spokesman saying the president supports the GOP leadership proposal despite Trump's own remarks saying he would not sign it. On Friday morning, Trump said he was looking at the two Republican immigration bills set for a House vote next week.

Trump raises hopes, says North Korea returning US remains

It's been more than a decade since North Korea turned over the remains of American troops missing from the Korean War. So, President Donald Trump's suggestion Friday that Pyongyang has begun delivering remains to the U.S. raised the hopes of families who have sought closure for more than 60 years.

Nearly 2,000 minors split from parents at border in six weeks: US

Critics of a Trump administration policy that separates children from their parents when they are detained after crossing the US border are demanding changes to the policy, as this protest in Los Angeles. WASHINGTON: Nearly 2,000 minors were separated from their parents or adult guardians who illegally crossed into the United States over a recent six-week period, officials said on Friday , as debate raged over how to end the deeply controversial practice.

Ap Fact Check: Trump assails Dems for his own migrant policy

The Capitol is seen in Washington, Friday, June 15, 2018. President Donald Trump ignited eleventh-hour confusion Friday over Republican efforts to push immigration through the House next week, saying he won't sign a "moderate" package, an apparent damaging blow to GOP lawmakers hoping to push legislation through the House next week.

Tourists visiting San Francisco question if they’re in ‘bad side of town’

Recent social media posts by tourists visiting San Francisco casts a troubling light on the City by the Bay over its homeless issue, open drug use and filthy streets. Since the beginning of the year, reports have surfaced of hypodermic needles dotting the streets, piles of human feces and expanding shanty towns for the increasing homeless population -- and now tourists are noticing, SFGate reported.

Fight over oldest U.S. synagogue heads to the Supreme Court

The legal fight over ownership of the country's oldest synagogue is headed to the US Supreme Court. The 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals last week denied a petition filed by Congregation Jeshuat Israel, which worships in the historic synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, for a rehearing of a ruling from August that said it was a tenant of the building.

Trump raises hopes, says North Korea returning remains of American troops

U.S. President Donald Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island on Tuesday in Singapore. WASHINGTON>> It's been more than a decade since North Korea turned over the remains of American troops missing from the Korean War.

Shut the f*ck up, Marco Rubio

Florida Senator Marco Rubio's Twitter blasted out an ad for his reelection on Friday, and it's the biggest pile of trash and as desperate an attempt at appealing to ... millennials? as I have ever seen. "What do you think of Kanye West's new album?" the video asks Rubio, who responds by saying he doesn't know anything about West's new album except that he premiered it in Wyoming.

Journalists Remain Incapable of Dealing with Trump

Greg Sargent has been on a tear for the past forty-eight hours as he discusses the non-partisan media's inability to handle Trump. Yesterday, he wrote that: the Justice Department's inspector general is expected to release a report scrutinizing the FBI's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email arrangement.

Court revives lawsuit against Baltimore-based optometry board

A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit brought by optometrist applicants who claim a data breach at the industry's Baltimore-based examining board resulted in disclosure of their personal information to computer hackers who applied for credit cards in their names. In its published 3-0 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said U.S. District ... Complete access to news articles on this website is available to Daily Record subscribers who are logged in.

TV We Didn’t Know We Needed

Werner Herzog is coming to television as the director and executive producer of "Fordlandia," a new series set in the 1920s and based on Henry Ford's attempt to built a Utopian society in the heart of the Amazon. The series is being developed by Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment Group, which acquired the rights to Greg Grandin's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name.