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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning a reorganization that includes cutting more than 80,000 jobs from the agency that provides health care for retired military members, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. The VA’s chief of staff, Christopher Syrek, informed top-level agency officials of the objective to [...]
A bill that would reauthorize the Ohio Rural Business Growth Program and create a distinct category for businesses in the Appalachian region of the state debuted this week during a Senate Ways and Means Committee hearing. The program, established in 2018, awards non-refundable tax credits to insurance companies that invest in growth funds, which either [...]
BEIJING (AP) — China responded to new American tariffs by announcing it will impose additional tariffs of up to 15 percent on imports of some American farm products, including chicken, pork, soy and beef, and expanded controls on doing business with some United States companies. The tariffs announced by the Commerce Ministry will take effect [...]
BANGKOK (AP) — Chinese manufacturers reported an uptick in orders in February as importers rushed to beat higher American tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, as a Chinese state media report said that Beijing was considering ways to retaliate. Trump earlier imposed a tariff of 10 percent on imports from China, and that last week [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A piece of election legislation from congressional Republicans would require voters to prove their citizenship when registering, raising concerns among state election officials about how it would be implemented and who would pay for it. In recent interviews, secretaries of state from both parties said they were wary of federal lawmakers creating [...]
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed a pair of actions to increase domestic lumber production, including a directive for the Commerce Department to investigate the possible harms that lumber imports pose to national security. Trump signed an executive order to increase the possible supplies of timber and lumber and possibly [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress last week voted to repeal a federal fee on oil and gas producers who release high levels of methane, undoing a piece of former President Joe Biden’s climate policy. The fee, which had not gone into effect, was expected to bring in billions of dollars. The Senate on Thursday voted along [...]
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has offered to restore direct air links the United States as part of the latest round of consultations with Washington, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. Russian and American diplomats met in Istanbul last week to discuss normalizing the operation of their respective embassies that has been crippled by multiple rounds of [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — The sun hadn’t set on Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s gubernatorial campaign launch in Ohio last week before President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social his endorsement of the Cincinnati-born biotech entrepreneur and former Department of Government Efficiency co-chair, calling the multimillionaire “something SPECIAL.” The timing of Trump’s announcement intrigued Ohio political observers, who [...]
A central Ohio state lawmaker seeks to protect the property rights of short-term rental operators throughout Ohio with legislation that would prohibit jurisdictions from imposing regulations on such an enterprise. Sen. Andrew Brenner, a Delaware Republican, told members of the Local Government Committee in the Senate that significant regulations have been imposed by municipalities and [...]