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Democrats in the Ohio House of Representatives have unveiled a plan to provide single-payer, universal access to health care for all Ohioans. Reps. Michael Skindell of Lakewood and Michele Grim of Toledo, joint sponsors of House Bill 174, characterized health-care costs and the debt sometimes resulting from it as a heavy burden on the pocketbooks [...]
A group of 25 governors that make up the U.S. Climate Alliance and the Biden administration pledged last week to quadruple the number of heat pumps in homes by 2030, from 4.7 million to 20 million. Heat pumps use little electricity, yet are able to heat and cool buildings. They often replace oil or gas [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is creating the first-ever federal office of gun violence prevention, according to two people familiar with the plans. The office will coordinate efforts across the federal government and will offer help and guidance to states struggling with increasing gun violence, while taking the lead on implementation of the bipartisan [...]
COLUMBUS — A divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled last week that only one element of the disputed ballot language for describing a closely watched fall abortion rights question is misleading and must be rewritten. The decision lets stand most of the word choices targeted in a lawsuit by Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights, the pro-abortion [...]
WASHINGTON — A bill to preserve the site of the Wounded Knee massacre — one of the deadliest massacres in U.S. history — last week cleared the U.S. House of Representatives. The Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act, introduced by Republican U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson of South Dakota in May, passed the House [...]
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — As more than 100,000 migrants arrived in New York City over the past year after crossing the border from Mexico, Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul have begged President Joe Biden for one thing, above all others, to ease the crisis: "Let them work," both Democrats have said repeatedly in [...]
KANSAS CITY NATIONAL SECURITY CAMPUS, Mo. (AP) — The United States is expected to spend more than $750 billion over the next decade to revamp nearly every part of its aging nuclear defenses. Federal officials say they simply can't wait any longer — some systems and parts are more than 50 years old. For now, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The stuffy Senate is now a bit less formal. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer earlier this week said that staff for the chamber's Sergeant-at-Arms — the Senate's official clothes police — will no longer enforce a dress code on the Senate floor. The change comes after Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman has been unapologetically [...]
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin urged allied defense leaders this week to "dig deep" and provide more air defense systems for Ukraine, to help the country block increasing barrages of Russian missiles. While the allies said they will discuss how they can best help Ukraine's counteroffensive, they appeared no closer to [...]
DES MOINES, Iowa — Hundreds of communities around the country will share more than $1 billion in federal money to help them plant and maintain trees under a federal program that is intended to reduce extreme heat, benefit health and improve access to nature. U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the $1.13 billion [...]