This year’s food-borne illness outbreaks and food recalls could have some Americans wondering whether there are new risks in the U.S. food supply. Experts say, though, it’s business as usual when it comes to the complicated task of keeping food safe. The U.S. ranks near the top for food safety out of 113 countries included [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is moving ahead with a new path to student loan cancellation for Americans who face steep medical bills, child-care costs and other types of financial hardship that allegedly prevent them from repaying their loans. The proposed rule is President Joe Biden’s third attempt at student loan cancellation as he [...]
By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS — The most far- reaching of Ohio’s laws restricting abortion was struck down last week by a county judge who said last year’s voter-approved amendment ensuring access to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care renders the so-called heartbeat law unconstitutional. Enforcement of the [...]
AKRON (AP) — A county elections board deadlocked last week about whether a Democratic member of Congress resides in her Akron district, sending the matter before Ohio’s Republican secretary of state to break the tie. U.S. Rep. Emilia Sykes described the challenge to her residency as “a deeply offensive lie” and proceeded to cast her [...]
Since going on strike last month, Boeing factory workers have repeated one theme from their picket lines: They want their pensions back. Boeing froze its traditional pension plan as part of concessions that union members narrowly voted to make a decade ago in exchange for keeping production of the company’s airline planes in the Seattle [...]
Nearly 1,000 hurricane-impacted households in North Carolina and Florida are benefiting from a new disaster aid program that employs a model not commonly used by philanthropy in the United States: giving people rapid, direct cash payments. The nonprofit GiveDirectly last week sent payments of $1,000 to some households impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. The [...]
MIAMI (AP) — The last Kmart on the U.S. mainland sits at the west end of a busy suburban Miami shopping center, quiet and largely ignored. At this small outpost of a company once famed for its “Blue Light Specials,” only an occasional shopper pops in, mostly out of curiosity or nostalgia, then leaves after [...]
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey hit the pause button on an offshore wind energy project due to difficulty finding a manufacturer for turbine blades The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities granted Leading Light Wind a pause on its project through Dec. 20 while its developers seek a source for the crucial components. The [...]
COLUMBUS — Clouds of bubbles streamed aloft and Charli XCX’s song “Talk Talk” boomed alongside a 19-foot Airstream Caravel, as the League of Women Voters of Ohio’s statewide roadshow aimed at registering student voters and exciting them about democracy rolled onto Ohio State University’s main campus last week. The travel trailer, on loan from its [...]