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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal disaster aid is nearly everywhere, with about 94 percent of Americans living in a county that has received Federal Emergency Management Agency help for disasters since 2011. Analysts say every state receives millions in federal help — and a little more goes to some states and congressional districts. New York University’s [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Next year’s competitive elections for Ohio’s five open statewide offices ramped up further this week as Republican Auditor Keith Faber entered the race for attorney general. Faber, 59, highlighted his efforts over two terms as auditor to root out misspent taxpayer dollars, resulting in 129 convictions, and to uncover billions of dollars [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal public-health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John Nkengasong, sent a memo to senior leaders at the agency telling them that all staff who work with the WHO must immediately stop their collaborations [...]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Vaccination bills are popping up in more than 15 states as lawmakers aim to potentially resurrect or create new religious exemptions from immunization mandates, establish state-level vaccine injury databases or dictate what providers must tell patients about the shots. Childhood vaccination rates against infections such as measles and polio continue to [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has ordered a sweeping freeze on new funding for almost all American foreign assistance, making exceptions for emergency food programs and military aid to Israel and Egypt. The order threatened a quick halt to many of the billions of dollars in American-funded projects globally to support health, education, development, [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Republican Attorney General Dave Yost announced last week that he is running to be the next governor of Ohio, wedging the news between the departure from the race of a top rival and the expected entry as soon as this week of a new one. Yost, 68, seeks to succeed two-term Gov. [...]
The Trump administration has put a freeze on many federal health agency communications with the public through at least the end of the month. In a memo obtained by The Associated Press, acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Dorothy Fink told agency staff leaders that an “immediate pause” had been [...]
Vivek Ramaswamy is no longer part of a government efficiency commission that President Donald Trump championed, officials confirmed hours after the Republican took office, leaving billionaire Elon Musk to run the cost-cutting operation alone. Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur who sought the GOP nomination for president in 2024, has signaled plans to run for governor of [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily suspending all American foreign assistance programs for 90 days pending reviews to determine whether they are aligned with his policy goals. It was not immediately clear how much assistance would initially be affected by the order as funding for many programs has already been [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Stressing his own organization’s ability to pay out $1.2 billion over 10 years to help settle an industry-changing lawsuit, NCAA President Charlie Baker has urged Congress to pass legislation that could put college sports on a better path. “When I took this job, the message I heard from Congress was clear [...]