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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Three members of Congress have asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate how foreign hackers breached a water authority near Pittsburgh, prompting the nation’s top cyberdefense agency to warn other water and sewage-treatment utilities that they may be vulnerable. In a letter released last week, U.S. Sens. John Fetterman and Bob [...]
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration proposed new rules last week that could make it harder for electric vehicles to qualify for a full $7,500 federal tax credit, complicating efforts to meet President Joe Biden's goal that half of new passenger vehicles sold in the country run on electricity by 2030. Plans outlined by the Treasury [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — The more than two-year legal battle over the maps of Ohio Statehouse districts that were crafted in response to the 2020 Census may be over. In a 4-3 ruling earlier this week, the Ohio Supreme Court cited unanimous, bipartisan passage in September of a new round of legislative maps in dismissing three [...]
KING GEORGE ISLAND, Antarctica (AP) — On the cusp of the COP28 climate talks, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited Antarctica and said Thursday that intense action must be taken at the conference where countries will address their commitments to lowering emissions of planet-warming gases. "We are witnessing an acceleration that is absolutely devastating," Guterres said [...]
COLUMBUS — Backers of a proposal to change Ohio's political mapmaking system will finally be able to start gathering signatures, after clearing a second round of state approvals this week. Citizens Not Politicians now has until July 3 to collect roughly 414,000 signatures required to put its constitutional amendment before voters in November 2024. Supporters [...]
Researchers say new steps China has agreed to will eventually reduce the flow of the deadly opioid fentanyl into the United States, but that alone will not stem the overdose crisis killing Americans at a record rate. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping last week announced at a meeting in California that China [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Some state parks can be fracked in Ohio, a decision made by a government commission last week despite an ongoing investigation into oil and gas companies claiming possible fraudulent support. During a meeting attended by many fracking opponents, the Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission approved several parcels for fracking by [...]
Ohio Department of Development Director Lydia Mihalik has announced details of the nearly $350 million in grant funding slated for the next round of the state’s Brownfield Remediation Program. Mihalik announced that grant application submission period is set to begin Dec. 5 and run through April 1, 2024. She also offered details on project requirements [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Up to 30 million of the poorest Americans could be purged from the Medicaid program, many the result of error-ridden state reviews that poverty researchers say the Biden administration is not doing enough to stop. The projections from the health consulting firm Avalere come as states undertake a re-evaluation of the 94 [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force’s vast fields of underground nuclear missile silos are rarely disturbed by more than the occasional wandering cow or floating spy balloon, but the service is asking Congress to help with another unexpected danger: towering wind turbines, which are growing in number and size and are edging closer to the [...]