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Bill aims to streamline health insurance prior-authorization process

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 [...]

By |2025-05-23T08:40:28-04:00Thursday, May 22, 2025|

President Trump signs bill to make posting ‘revenge porn’ a federal crime

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 [...]

By |2025-05-23T08:40:47-04:00Thursday, May 22, 2025|

New sanctions target Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’

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 [...]

By |2025-05-23T08:41:09-04:00Thursday, May 22, 2025|

Russia outlaws Amnesty International in latest crackdown

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 [...]

By |2025-05-22T10:01:47-04:00Wednesday, May 21, 2025|

Acting chief says FEMA will shift more disaster recovery responsibilities to states

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 [...]

By |2025-05-21T11:31:45-04:00Tuesday, May 20, 2025|

More states criminalizing transportation of illegals

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama lawmakers have passed legislation that would make it a felony to knowingly bring someone into the state who is in the United States illegally, echoing similar bills nationwide that could restrict domestic travel for some immigrants. The legislation given final approval last week protects “not only the citizens of Alabama [...]

By |2025-05-21T11:31:57-04:00Tuesday, May 20, 2025|

U.S. rescinds curbs on AI chip exports

NEW YORK (AP) — After a week of promises to alter the policy, the U.S. Department of Commerce has rescinded a Biden-era rule due to take effect this week that placed limits on the number of artificial intelligence chips that could be exported to certain international markets without federal approval. “These new requirements would have [...]

By |2025-05-20T08:37:34-04:00Monday, May 19, 2025|

Bill would make firearm safety devices exempt from sales, use taxes

In an effort to promote gun safety and responsible gun ownership, a bipartisan lawmaker duo in the Ohio House of Representatives has sponsored a bill to make the sale of firearm safety devices exempt from state sales and use taxes. Reps. Darnell Brewer, D-Cleveland, and Jennifer Gross, R-West Chester, characterized House Bill 120 as a [...]

By |2025-05-20T08:38:01-04:00Monday, May 19, 2025|
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