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BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO member countries that signed a key Cold War-era security treaty froze their participation in the pact this week just hours after Russia pulled out, raising fresh questions about the future of arms control agreements in Europe. Many of NATO’s 31 allies are parties to the Treaty of Conventional Armed Forces in [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is trying to increase trade with Latin America, meeting last week with the heads of the Dominican Republic and Chile as part of a broader effort to disrupt China's dominance in global manufacturing. "The Dominican people are your friends. The Dominican people are your allies," Dominican President Luis Abinader [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — Abortion access is expected to play a central role in the 2024 elections. A preview comes tomorrow, when Ohio voters decide whether to enshrine reproductive rights in their state Constitution. The amendment is the only abortion question on any state's ballot this year, a spotlight that has generated attention from national groups [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and 22 other Democratic senators are urging federal regulators to investigate multibillion-dollar acquisitions by oil giants ExxonMobil and Chevron, saying the deals could lead to higher prices at the gas pump. In a letter last week to the Federal Trade Commission, the lawmakers said Exxon’s proposed $60 [...]
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is launching a multiagency effort to encourage states and cities to convert more empty office buildings into housing units, with billions of federal dollars available to help spur such transitions. The new initiative, announced last week, involves the departments of Housing and Urban Development and Transportation, along with the General [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is moving toward a narrower student loan relief plan that would target specific groups of borrowers — those with soaring interest, for example — rather than a sweeping plan such as the one the Supreme Court rejected in June. The Education Department earlier this week released a draft of [...]
The power of the people to propose laws will be on display this November as voters in Ohio and Maine decide on issues that range from vehicle repairs to abortion and marijuana. These are among the latest of nearly 2,700 citizen-initiated measures to be decided by voters over the past 125 years. It may come [...]
Supporters of a ballot measure that would enshrine abortion rights in the Ohio Constitution have outraised their anti-abortion opponents in the months leading up to next week’s election, bringing in nearly $29 million from donors since Sept. 8, the campaign’s latest filings show. The effort against Issue 1 raised just under $10 million in the [...]
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — The polls had just opened for last year's midterms in Pennsylvania when the phones began ringing at the election office in Luzerne County. Polling places were running low on paper to print ballots. Volunteers were frustrated, and voters were worried they might not be able to vote. Emily Cook, the office's [...]
COLUMBUS — With Election Day closing in, anti-abortion groups seeking to build opposition to a reproductive rights measure in Ohio are messaging heavily around a term for an abortion procedure that was once used later in pregnancy but that hasn't been legal for more than 15 years. In ads, debates and public statements, the opposition [...]