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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is restarting an immigration program that allows migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to come to the United States, and it is including “additional vetting” of their U.S.-based financial sponsors following fraud concerns. The Department of Homeland Security had suspended the program last month to investigate the concerns [...]
WASHINGTON — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says senior Biden administration officials pressured Facebook to “censor” some COVID-19 content during the pandemic and vowed that the social media giant would push back if it faced such demands again. In a letter to Rep. Jim Jordan, the Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Zuckerberg alleges that [...]
COLUMBUS — Dr. Amy Acton, the former Ohio health director who became a household name during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, says she is considering a run for governor in 2026. Acton shared her deliberations with reporters during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week. "I have experience I just want to [...]
COLUMBUS — Backers of a fall redistricting amendment in Ohio last week vowed swift legal action after the state ballot board approved language describing their proposal for voters that they decried as inaccurate, devious and manipulative. Over the objections of Citizens Not Politicians’ lawyer, the Republican-controlled panel approved language that will describe the proposed 15-member [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Millions of dollars are being spent this year to support candidates for state legislatures who not only support school vouchers, but could become key figures in implementing school choice programs in states across the country. Most recently, national pro-voucher advocates declared victory after spending more than $4.5 million in Tennessee's primary [...]
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — For a brief moment last week, the fierce competition for swing voters in swing-state Wisconsin converged on the tarmac of the tiny Chippewa Valley Regional Airport. Minutes after Vice President Kamala Harris landed with her new running mate Tim Walz for their first campaign stop in the state, Republican vice [...]
Jeremy Green Eche took a chance and purchased the website HarrisWalz.com for $8.99 in 2020 when then-Sen. Kamala Harris of California was seeking the Democratic nomination for president. "I just tried to grab her name and all the heartland governors I could think of," he recalled this week in an interview with The Associated Press. [...]
Most Americans have doubts about the Secret Service's ability to keep presidential candidates safe after last month's attempt on former President Donald Trump's life, a new poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds. Only around 3 in 10 Americans are extremely or very confident that the Secret Service can keep the [...]
COLUMBUS — Gov. Mike DeWine last week said that he will work to defeat a fall ballot issue aimed at remaking the state’s political mapmaking system and, if it passes, work with state lawmakers next year to advance a competing amendment based on the Iowa model. At a news conference complete with corroborating visuals, DeWine [...]
COLUMBUS — Two Ohio lawmakers were joined by an NFL players union representative this week in unveiling legislation to require the state's professional sports teams to play on natural grass. The effort is clearly aimed at the Cincinnati Bengals, who installed a new, nearly $1 million synthetic turf field at Paycor Stadium ahead of the [...]