The Ohio State Bar Foundation Board of Trustees recently approved $559,000 in grants to several non-profit organizations that promote civics and law. The board approved a grant in the amount of $123,000 awarded to the Ohio Center for Law-Related Education for civics-education programs, which focus on teacher training and outreach to expand student engagement in [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of Americans are seeing their credit scores suffer now that the federal government has resumed referring missed student loan payments for debt collection. After 90 days of non-payment, student loan servicers report delinquent, or past-due, accounts to major credit bureaus, which use the information to recalculate the borrower’s score. Falling [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin dairy farmer alleged in a federal lawsuit filed this week that the Trump administration is illegally denying financial assistance to white farmers by continuing programs that favor minorities. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed the lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture in federal court in Wisconsin [...]
The implementation of a work requirement for many able-bodied people to get health insurance coverage under Medicaid is part of President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful” bill that cleared the House last month and is now up for consideration in the Senate. Trump is seeking to have it passed by July 4. The bill as it [...]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Juneteenth celebrations have been scaled back this year due to funding shortfalls as companies and municipalities across the country reconsider their support for diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Canceled federal grants and businesses moving away from so-called brand activism have hit the bottom line of parades and other events heading into [...]
A recent audit of the state Broadcast Educational Media Commission, or BEMC, found that fewer than half of Ohio’s public television stations and the channels they operate use the agency system devised to provide funding assistance for public-media programming. Members of the state auditor’s Ohio Performance Team determined that the agency currently operates the Joint [...]
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order paving the way for a Nippon Steel investment in U.S. Steel, so long as the Japanese company complies with a “national security agreement” submitted by the federal government. Since the signing, administration officials have provided additional insight into the “golden share” arrangement [...]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Donald Trump last week ordered federal government officials to consolidate wildland firefighting into a single program, despite warnings from former federal officials that it could be costly and increase the risk of catastrophic blazes. The order aims to centralize firefighting efforts now split among five agencies and two Cabinet departments. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer sentiment increased in June for the first time in six months, the latest sign that Americans’ views of the economy have improved as inflation has stayed tame and the Trump administration has reached a truce in its trade dispute with China. The new preliminary reading of the University of Michigan’s consumer [...]