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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 [...]
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The Trump administration plans to rescind a nearly quarter-century-old rule that blocks logging on national forest lands, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced earlier this week. The roadless rule adopted in the last days of Bill Clinton’s presidency in 2001 long has been criticized by Republican lawmakers, especially in the West [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — A potential rematch for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District, could be in the works for 2026. That’s after Republican Derek Merrin, a former four-term Republican state representative, announced this week he plans to try again to defeat Democratic U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, the longest-serving woman in Congress. Merrin, 39, launched his latest campaign [...]
Workers’ compensation rates in Ohio remain among the lowest in the country, according to a new study by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services. The biennial study ranks all 50 states and Washington, D.C., based on premium rates that were in effect as of Jan. 1, 2024, a news release detailed. Ohio ranked [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump this week called for the United States and other oil-producing economies to pump more oil as crude prices remain volatile after the U.S. struck key Iranian nuclear facilities with a barrage of 30,000-pound bunker busting bombs and Tomahawk missiles. Trump urged stepped-up production as the White House sharpened its [...]