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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military spent more than $6 billion during the past three years to recruit and retain service members, in what has been a growing campaign to counter enlistment shortfalls. The financial incentives to re-enlist in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines increased from 2022 through last year, with the Navy [...]
A Loveland state lawmaker has proposed temporary property tax relief to Ohioans who have seen their property valuations rise upwards of 40 percent in some cases in recent years. Rep. Jean Schmidt, a Republican, is championing a bill that would limit 2024 property taxes to 2022 levels and 2025 manufactured-home tax liability to 2023 levels. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration says making cents doesn’t make sense anymore. The U.S. Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out, a Treasury Department official confirmed last week. The move comes as the cost of making pennies has increased by 20 [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has announced the concept he wants for his future Golden Dome missile defense program — a multilayered, $175 billion system that for the first time will put American weapons in space. Trump last week said he expects the system will be “fully operational before the end of my term,” [...]
ATLANTA (AP) — Florida was the first state to pass a law regulating the use of cellphones in schools in 2023. Just two years later, half of all states have laws in place, with more likely to act soon. Bills have sprinted through legislatures this year in states such as New York and Oklahoma, reflecting [...]
A Newark lawmaker in the Ohio House of Representatives has outlined details of a bill designed to reduce delays and poor patient outcomes associated with health insurance company requirements for prior authorization for treatment. Citing 2021 data from an American Medical Association survey of doctors, Republican Rep. Kevin Miller told members of the Insurance Committee [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump earlier this week signed into law the Take It Down Act, a measure that imposes penalties for online sexual exploitation that first lady Melania Trump helped usher through Congress, and he had her sign it, too, despite what sounded like a mild objection on her part. “C’mon, sign it [...]
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union agreed this week to impose fresh sanctions on Russia, notably targeting almost 200 ships from the shadow fleet illicitly transporting oil to skirt Western restrictions put in place over Moscow’s war in Ukraine. The 27-nation bloc targeted 189 ships in all, and imposed asset freezes and travel bans on [...]
Russian authorities this week outlawed Amnesty International as an “undesirable organization,” a label that under a 2015 law makes involvement with such organizations a criminal offense. The decision by the Russian Prosecutor General’s office, announced in an online statement, is the latest in the crackdown on Kremlin critics, journalists and activists that grew to unprecedented [...]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s acting chief said he plans to shift responsibility for disaster recovery to states during the upcoming hurricane season. David Richardson, during a staff town hall last week, said his intention was to “return primacy to the states” as part of an agencywide transformation. In comments that cemented the Trump administration’s [...]