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NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump has announced another tariff change, one targeting films made outside the United States. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he has authorized the Department of Commerce and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to place a 100 percent tariff “on any and all [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump says he is directing his administration to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the former prison on a hard-to-reach California island off San Francisco that has been closed for more than 60 years. In a post on his Truth Social site, Trump wrote that, “For too long, America has been [...]
A northwest Ohio state lawmaker has introduced legislation meant to “balance the scales” for citizens who justifiably act in self-defense but are eventually charged criminally for their actions. “I have spent many years working in criminal defense in different roles in Lucas County and northwest Ohio,” Rep. Josh Williams, a Republican from Sylvania Township, began [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. House of Representatives voted last week to block California from enforcing first-in-the-nation rules phasing out the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. “The passage of these resolutions is a victory for Americans who will not be forced into purchasing costly EVs because of California’s unworkable mandates,” House Republicans [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A proposed carbon-capture pipeline that would traverse through several Midwestern states could face more hurdles in Iowa as a dozen Republican state senators try to force the issue to a vote. Summit Carbon Solutions likely will have to readjust plans for its estimated $8.9 billion, 2,500-mile project after South Dakota’s [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — After years of attempts, state lawmakers last week voted to end the subsidy for two unprofitable Cold War-era coal plants that had cost Ohio ratepayers nearly $400,000 a day, after it was tucked into an energy bill at the center of the largest corruption scandal in state history. House Bill 15 would [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Ukraine last week signed an agreement granting American access to Ukraine’s vast mineral resources, finalizing a deal months in the making that could enable continued military aid to Kyiv. The two sides offered only barebone details about the structure of the deal, which they called the United States-Ukraine [...]
Members of the Public Safety Committee in the Ohio House of Representatives this week heard from the sponsors of a bill who want to create a public-alert system for escaped convicts. Rep. Bill Roemer, R-Richfield, said the basis for the bill resulted from an unsettling personal experience last year. “Last fall, I was working away [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed executive orders earlier this week to relax some of his 25 percent tariffs on automobiles and auto parts, a reversal as the import taxes threatened to slow domestic manufacturing. Automakers and independent analysts have indicated that the tariffs could lead to higher prices, reduce sales and make American [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — After years of attempts, state lawmakers last week voted to end the subsidy for two unprofitable Cold War-era coal plants that had cost Ohio ratepayers nearly $400,000 a day, after it was tucked into an energy bill at the center of the largest corruption scandal in state history. House Bill 15 would [...]