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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will consider a case about removing limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president. The justices said they will review an appellate ruling that upheld a provision of federal election law that is more than 50 years old, ignoring pleas from [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Harvard University failed to protect Jewish students from harassment, the Trump administration concluded after an investigation, threatening to cut all federal funding from the Ivy League school if it fails to take action. A federal task force sent a letter to Harvard finding the university violated civil rights laws requiring colleges to [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation introduced last week in Congress would block Chinese artificial intelligence systems from federal agencies as a bipartisan group of lawmakers pledged to ensure that the United States would prevail against China in the global competition over AI. “We are in a new Cold War and AI is the strategic technology at [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans agreed to remove the so-called revenge tax provision from President Donald Trump’s big bill last week after a request by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The Section 899 provision that was nixed would have allowed the federal government to impose taxes on companies with foreign owners, as well as investors from [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — A former Ohio Supreme Court justice last week announced plans to run for a northeast Ohio congressional seat, while an Ohio State University graduate student said he’s making an independent bid for governor in 2026. William O’Neill, a 78-year-old Democrat, said he is coming out of retirement because he can’t “sit idly [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department last week slapped sanctions on three Mexico-based financial institutions it said were used to launder millions of dollars for cartels, in a move officials say would block certain money transfers between the sanctioned banks and American banks. The orders issued on the banks CIBanco and Intercam Banco, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands has been ruled out of Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill after the Senate parliamentarian determined the proposal by Senate Energy Chairman Mike Lee would violate the chamber’s rules. Lee, a Utah Republican, has proposed selling millions of acres [...]
Sens. Louis Blessing III, R-Colerain Township, and Willis Blackshear Jr., D-Dayton, have proposed legislation that would amend the state’s antitrust law to target algorithmic price fixing. Senate Bill 79 would make the use and distribution of a pricing algorithm that uses non-public competitor data a violation of the Valentine Act, the state’s antitrust law which [...]
In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn’t break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books. The company is still on the hook and now must go to trial over how it acquired those books by downloading them from [...]
Energy Star claims its blue seal of approval on efficient appliances saves households an average of $450 on their bills per year, yet the program’s future is unclear. The Environmental Protection Agency has announced an agency reorganization plan that would eliminate its Energy Star offices, which could make it more difficult for customers to find [...]