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State Senate committee members recently heard details about a bill proposed by a northeast Ohio lawmaker who wants to create a trade commission with Ireland. North Ridgeville Sen. Nathan Manning told members of the General Government Committee that his office has been working closely with the deputy chairman of the Irish Senate, Sen. Mark Daly, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration earlier this week announced new automobile emissions standards that officials called the most ambitious plan ever to cut emissions from passenger vehicles. The new rules relax initial tailpipe limits proposed last year but eventually get close to the same strict standards set out by the Environmental Protection Agency. The [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Biden administration plan to promote diversity and equity in workplace apprenticeship programs is facing pushback from Republican attorneys general in two dozen states who assert it amounts to race-based discrimination. The U.S. Department of Labor contends its proposed rewrite of the National Apprenticeship System rules — the first since 2008 [...]
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The League of Women Voters last week filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent those who sent robocalls mimicking President Joe Biden' s voice to New Hampshire voters from using artificial intelligence for future deceptions. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in New Hampshire against Steve Kramer, the political consultant behind [...]
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he's going to put together an investor group to buy TikTok, a day after the House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban the video app in the United States if its China-based owner doesn't sell its stake. TikTok, which has more than 170 million American users, [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — A slew of Republican candidates on Ohio's primary ballot are running in congressional seats in Tuesday’s elections. One race receiving attention impacts the GOP finding a candidate to flip the district of Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur, the longest-serving woman in Congress. Democrats also have their own primary challenges in the more urban [...]
PORTLAND, Maine — The signal might be fading, but it can't be lost. That's the message from politicians who are closing in on the required number of votes needed to pass federal legislation that requires AM radios in every new car. The prevalence of AM broadcast radio has dipped in recent decades as more listeners [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just before dawn one summer day in Washington, the president of the United States stripped naked on a rock by the river, plunged in and saw a dead man float to the surface. We know this about John Quincy Adams because he kept a diary for the ages. So have many presidents, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new Biden administration rule that sets tougher standards for soot pollution faced a barrage of legal challenges last week as 25 states and a host of business groups filed lawsuits seeking to block the rule in court. Twenty-four states, led by attorneys general from Kentucky and West Virginia, filed a joint [...]
CRESTLINE (AP) — From its earliest days as a village, Crestline was synonymous with trains. A railroad station inspired this northern Ohio town, railroad workers populated it and the passengers who flocked here helped it grow. So it seems only fitting that a politician’s stop in Crestline would go on to popularize the word “whistle-stop.” [...]