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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The changes railroad companies announced after last year's fiery crash in East Palestine haven't yet made a major difference, statistics show, and reforms have stalled in Congress. A few key measures in the latest Federal Railroad Administration statistics, including the total number of train accidents, worsened over the first 11 months [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's employers added 353,000 jobs in January, according to a new federal government report. Last week’s report showed that January's job gain — far above what economists had predicted — topped the December gain of 333,000, a figure that was itself revised sharply higher. The unemployment rate stayed at 3.7 percent, [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — In the wake of a deadly school bus crash last summer, a task force convened by Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine last week recommended more training, driver benefits and safety features — but not a seat belt mandate. How and when safety upgrades are made would be up to individual school districts, [...]
BEIJING (AP) — American and Chinese officials earlier this week committed to working together to stem the flow of fentanyl into the United States, the head of a visiting American delegation said. The U.S. is seeking more information sharing and law enforcement cooperation and the designation and control of made-in-China chemicals that are ingredients for [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — When IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel met privately with senators recently, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee asked for his assessment of a startling report: A whistleblower estimated that 95 percent of claims now being made by businesses for a COVID-era tax break were fraudulent. “He looked at his shoes and he [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration marked Monday's 15th anniversary of a landmark federal pay equity law with new action to help close gaps in pay for federal employees and employees of federal contractors. Despite progress since the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was signed into law in January 2009, President Joe Biden said women [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is delaying consideration of new natural gas export terminals in the United States, even as gas shipments to Europe and Asia have soared since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The decision by President Joe Biden aligns with environmentalists who fear the huge increase in exports, in the form of liquefied [...]
COLUMBUS — A coalition of voting-rights groups is vowing to fight on after Ohio Republican Attorney General Dave Yost issued his second rejection of petition language it has submitted for a proposed constitutional amendment. Yost found the amendment's title — "Ohio Voters Bill of Rights" — was "highly misleading and misrepresentative" of the measure's contents, [...]
A resolution calling on Congress to designate foreign-based drug cartels operating within the United States as foreign terrorist organizations recently secured a first hearing by lawmakers on the Community Revitalization Committee in the Ohio Senate. Sponsored by Republican Sen. Terry Johnson of McDermott, the resolution additionally asks Congress to recognize the threats those organizations pose [...]
NEW YOR — The Biden administration proposed banning another type of bank "junk fee" on last week, targeting fees that are typically charged by banks when a transaction is declined in real time. It's the second major proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over fees that Americans sometimes run into when they bank, following [...]