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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed a defense bill that authorizes significant pay raises for junior enlisted service members, aims to counter China’s growing power and boosts overall military spending to $895 billion while also stripping coverage of transgender medical treatments for children of military members. The bill passed 85-14, sending it to President [...]
At least two internal Amazon studies found a link between how quickly the online retailer’s warehouse workers perform tasks and workplace injuries, but the company rejected many safety recommendations out of concern the proposed changes might reduce productivity, according to a U.S. Senate committee report. The 160-page review was compiled by the Democratic majority staff [...]
TOKYO (AP) — The partial transfer of U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam began over the weekend, 12 years after Japan and the United States agreed on their realignment to reduce the heavy burden of American troop presence on the southern Japanese island, officials said. The relocation started with 100 members of III Marine Expeditionary [...]
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has imposed fresh sanctions on dozens of officials linked to Russia’s war on Ukraine, including two top North Korean defense officials, a military unit blamed for an attack on a Kyiv children’s hospital and the heads of companies in the energy sector. Russia’s vast shadow fleet of ships that [...]
A Montgomery County lawmaker has proposed a bill in the Ohio House of Representatives that would outlaw the deliberate release of pollutants into the atmosphere to affect the amount of sunlight or radiation that reaches the earth. During a recent hearing of House Bill 529, Rep. Tom Young of Washington Township offered fellow House members [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $135 million in grants to fund 13 projects in California to help the state wean off fossil fuels and phase out big rigs that run on diesel. The money will go to the state transportation department, cities and school districts, among others, to purchase 455 [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — The organization spearheading installation of a monument to women’s suffrage at the Ohio Statehouse has received a $1 million contribution toward the project from an anonymous donor, the group announced. Charles Moses, who chairs the Capitol Square Foundation, called the donation to support construction of the Ohio Women’s Monument “transformational.” It was [...]
Committee members in the Ohio House of Representatives heard from the sponsors of a bill devised to increase transparency to consumers while protecting the interests of Ohio meat, poultry and egg producers as more cell-cultured foods appear in grocery stores. Rep. Roy Klopfenstein of Haviland said House Bill 661 is designed to keep companies specializing [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Joe Biden visited Angola last week, one of the highlights was his pledge of hundreds of millions of dollars for an ambitious trans-Africa rail project that would bring copper and cobalt from central Africa to the Atlantic port of Lobito. The project is possible because of the commitment of a [...]
TOKYO (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with officials in Japan this week to reaffirm the importance of their alliance and Washington’s commitment to regional security as threats rise from China and North Korea. Austin also stressed that American trilateral cooperation with Tokyo and Seoul is crucial for regional stability even as South [...]