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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration acted last week to roll back safeguards around future logging projects on more than half of the country’s national forests under an emergency designation that cited dangers from wildfires. Former President Joe Biden’s administration also sought more logging in public forests to combat fires, yet U.S. Forest [...]
States increasingly struggling to cover the rising cost of popular GLP-1 drugs such as Wegovy, Ozempic and Zepbound are searching for ways to get out from under budgetary squeezes. One solution some policymakers are considering is restricting the number of people on Medicaid who can use the diabetes drugs for weight-loss purposes. Pennsylvania’s Medicaid coverage [...]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States has blocked imports of sea salt products from a major South Korean salt farm accused of using slave labor, becoming the first trade partner to take punitive action against a decades long problem on salt farms in remote islands off South Korea’s southwest coast. U.S. Customs and [...]
Ohio’s Pay Stub Protection Act takes effect on Wednesday requiring employers to include certain details within their employees’ pay statements. One key provision of the act requires all Ohio employers to provide employees with comprehensive earnings and deductions statements for each pay period, according to a news release from the Ohio Department of Commerce. The [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio has adopted the 1905 Wright Flyer III as its official state airplane. Described as Orville and Wilbur Wright’s crowning achievement, the world’s first practical fixed-wing aircraft made its seminal sustained flight in an Ohio cow pasture called Huffman Prairie, outside Dayton. A grandniece to the pioneering Ohio brothers, Amanda Wright Lane, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — American and Chinese military officials have met for their first working-level talks since President Donald Trump took office for the second time, with the two sides sharing their respective concerns over military safety on the seas. The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said in a statement that the talks last week in the eastern [...]
Members of the Ohio House Agriculture Committee are considering expanding the types of food products that can be made in private homes and sold at various sites, such as farmers markets and restaurants. The proposed change in state regulations is included in House Bill 134. “This option provides Ohio’s home food producers with increased income [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump last week announced new tariffs on nearly all United States trading partners — a 34 percent tax on imports from China and 20 percent on the European Union, among others. Trump said he was placing elevated tariff rates on dozens of nations that run meaningful trade surpluses with the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans said they are progressing on President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts this week, even though they’re punting some of the decisions — including the costs and how to pay for the multitrillion-dollar package — until later. The Senate GOP’s budget framework would be the companion [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — After TikTok was banned in the United States earlier this year, President Donald Trump gave the platform a reprieve, barreling past a law that was passed in Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court that said the ban was necessary for national security. The Republican president’s executive orders have spurred more [...]