Tag: Ohio

Republican Senate Slugfest in Ohio Fuels Jitters About Trump’s Candidate

With just days to go before the election, the three-way Republican Senate primary in Ohio has turned into a food fight, fueling concerns about former President Donald J. Trump’s favored candidate, Bernie Moreno. The contest on Tuesday to decide who will face Senator Sherrod Brown has been contentious for months, with Mr. Moreno, a wealthy […]

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Trump-Backed MAGA Senate Candidate Linked to Gay Hookup Site

“Never. We need to follow the Constitution’s advice and KILL all TRAITORS!!! #JusticeforAmerica,” she wrote. In other posts, Morrow targeted Representative Ilhan Omar, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Hillary Clinton, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. She frequently lauded QAnon conspiracies, suggesting in one post that actor Jim Carrey […]

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Tornadoes and Injuries Reported as Severe Weather Tears Through Midwest

Severe storms tore through three Midwestern states on Thursday, producing reports of damaging tornadoes across Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana and injuring dozens of people. In eastern Indiana, the towns of Winchester in Randolph County and Selma in Delaware County appeared to be badly hit. Local officials said they believed a tornado had hit a trailer […]

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3 Degrees of Trumpiness: Ohio’s Republican Senate Candidates Clash

Three Republicans seeking to take on Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, in the fall took shots at one another during a debate on Wednesday night as they tried to present themselves as the most conservative candidate in a tightly contested primary. It is a rare Senate race where an endorsement from former President Donald […]

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Orphaned Manatees Return to the Wild After 3 Years of Rehab

The orphans, three baby females, arrived one after the other at ZooTampa’s manatee hospital. The first had been found swimming alone in shallow waters, her umbilical cord still attached. Two months later, another was rescued from a canal. Then came the smallest they’d ever gotten: Manatees typically should weigh about 65 pounds at birth, but […]

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CVS Fined $1.5 Million by Ohio Over Staffing Issues

CVS Health, the nation’s largest pharmacy chain with more than 9,000 locations, has been fined more than $1.5 million by Ohio regulators over problems connected to understaffing and patient safety, officials said. The fines are part of a settlement of 27 cases involving various safety concerns that were uncovered during a series of inspections of […]

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GOP Candidate: Women Don’t Need Abortion, They Need Help With Strollers

“Namely, that Americans who do not hide their adherence to traditional religious beliefs about homosexual conduct will be ‘labeled as bigots and treated as such’ by the government,” he said. “The opinion of the Court in that case made it clear that the decision should not be used in that way, but I am afraid […]

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MAGA Candidate Says Women Need Help With Strollers, Not Abortion

“Namely, that Americans who do not hide their adherence to traditional religious beliefs about homosexual conduct will be ‘labeled as bigots and treated as such’ by the government,” he said. “The opinion of the Court in that case made it clear that the decision should not be used in that way, but I am afraid […]

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The GOP’s Populist Rebrand Is a Sham

The industry aggressively lobbied against all reforms, including relatively minor ones like “efforts to ensure that engineers have special breathing equipment onboard to new rules that would require miles-long trains to be staffed with more than one person.” At the same time, the industry has pushed Congress to essentially preserve the status quo—to let rail […]

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Here’s Proof the Republicans Are Still Devoted Servants of Corporate America

The industry aggressively lobbied against all reforms, including relatively minor ones like “efforts to ensure that engineers have special breathing equipment onboard to new rules that would require miles-long trains to be staffed with more than one person.” At the same time, the industry has pushed Congress to essentially preserve the status quo—to let rail […]

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J.D. Vance Goes Full Coup in Desperate Bid to Become Trump’s V.P.

“As [the National Archives and Records Administration] attempted to carry out its statutory responsibilities from 2021 into 2022, highly classified documents sat in a ballroom, bathroom, office space, and a basement storage room at a social club traversed by thousands of members, employees, and guests. NARA rightly involved other government agencies that had equities and […]

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Republican Senator Says He’d Totally Do a Coup if He Gets the Chance

“As [the National Archives and Records Administration] attempted to carry out its statutory responsibilities from 2021 into 2022, highly classified documents sat in a ballroom, bathroom, office space, and a basement storage room at a social club traversed by thousands of members, employees, and guests. NARA rightly involved other government agencies that had equities and […]

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Best Off-Road Trails in the Central Midwest

When it comes to serious adrenaline-punching off-road excursions, it’s probably not much of a stretch to say that your first choice isn’t likely to be the Central Midwest – but, hear us out. Venturing into the heartland’s off-road trails unveils a refreshing playground for adrenaline junkies and rugged explorers alike. Forget about the conventional allure […]

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RIP Casey Goodson Jr.: Trial Begins For Ex-Cop Who Shot Black Man 6 Times In The Back

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Walton + Brown, LLP / Walton + Brown, LLP The trial of the former officer charged in the 2020 shooting death of an Ohio Black man began Wednesday, more than three years after Casey Goodson Jr. was killed. Former deputy Jason Meade was charged with murder and reckless homicide in December 2021 […]

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‘Every Politician Has Got to Have Somebody That’s the Hit Man’

The day before the first House vote on H.B. 6, an F.B.I. agent named Blane Wetzel found himself at a Bob Evans restaurant in a Columbus suburb. Wetzel, a polite, fresh-faced man who served on the public-corruption squad, listened as the Republican lawmaker seated across from him, Dave Greenspan, explained, between sips of iced tea, […]

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Ohio Republicans Force Through Cruel Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors

“Now, if you’re doing your job as president,” Graham said, a defense substantially at odds with the account documented in Isikoff and Klaidman’s book, “and January the sixth, he was still president trying to find out if the election, you know, was on the up and up—I think his immunity claim, I don’t know how […]

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Ohio to Ban Transition Care After Lawmakers Override Governor’s Veto

Ohio lawmakers on Wednesday overrode Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of a bill that would bar transgender minors from receiving puberty blockers, hormone therapy or gender transition surgery. The move by the Republican-controlled state legislature comes less than four weeks after the Republican governor’s veto. The state House voted on Jan. 10 to override Mr. DeWine’s […]

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The GOP Doesn’t Want to Punish Trans People—It Wants to Eradicate Them

Then there’s the laughable notion that these sorts of bills will fail to pass. Once Heritage and ADF have made it unthinkable to oppose such bills, legislative hearings become a kangaroo court. During the last hearings to ban health care for trans youth in South Carolina, the ADF couldn’t even be bothered to send anyone […]

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Reproductive Justice Groups Cautiously Hail Brittany Watts Not Being Indicted For Having A Miscarriage

NewsOne Featured Video Brittany Watts. | Source: Screenshot Reproductive justice groups expressed optimism while cautiously welcoming an Ohio grand jury declining to indict a Black woman who was previously facing criminal charges stemming from a pregnancy miscarriage that he suffered. Brittany Watts, 34, who was charged with abuse of a corpse after she gave birth […]

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Grand Jury Declines to Indict Ohio Woman Who Miscarried at Home

A grand jury in Ohio on Thursday declined to indict a woman who had miscarried a nonviable fetus at home on a felony charge of abuse of corpse, ending a case that had drawn international scrutiny from lawyers and reproductive health advocates who had argued the charge was baseless and could endanger other patients. The […]

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Mike DeWine Is Following the Right’s Vicious Abortion Playbook on Trans Health Care

“In many ways, this outcome is even worse than the lack of a veto,” wrote Zinnia Jones, a researcher and writer of Gender Analysis, about DeWine’s new strategy. Jones has been analyzing and reporting on similar efforts at using administrative rules to limit access to gender-affirming care, as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis attempted in 2022. […]

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Ohio’s GOP Governor Vetoed an Anti-Trans Bill. Then, He Made It Worse.

That has Republican leaders running scared. State Attorney General Ashley Moody, a DeSantis ally, has asked the Florida Supreme Court to disqualify the amendment. She argues the language is misleading, claiming that the use of the word “viability” could have multiple meanings. The state’s high court will hear arguments on February 7. In November, state […]

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Indiana’s Plan to Pipe In Groundwater for Microchip-Making Draws Fire

When Indiana officials created a new industrial park to lure huge microchip firms to the state, they picked a nearly 10,000-acre site close to a booming metropolis, a major airport and a university research center. But the area is missing one key ingredient to support the kinds of development the state wants to attract: access […]

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Ohio’s Republican Governor Vetoes Bill Blocking Care for Trans Minors

Still, while state Democrats celebrated Boebert’s decision, it’s unclear whether the Democratic candidate for the 3rd district, Adam Frisch, can win without Boebert as his foil. The last time the district elected a Democrat was in 2008; Frisch came close in 2022 largely because Boebert has stoked so much antipathy among voters. When Frisch ran […]

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Ohio Governor Blocks Bill Banning Transition Care for Minors

Background Lawmakers passed the measure earlier in December. Those in favor of the bill argued that parents are pressured by doctors to sign off on transition care treatments for their children. The bill’s sponsor, Representative Gary Click, said parents are “being manipulated by the physicians.’’ In addition to banning transition care for minors, the bill […]

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East Palestine Residents Still Waiting for Biden Visit

When Jessica Conard heard that President Biden would visit her community in East Palestine, she felt a sense of relief. Mr. Biden’s presence, she believed, would signal to the world that nothing short of disaster happened here in February, when a Norfolk Southern train skipped the tracks and spilled thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals […]

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Brittany Watts Update: Where ‘Abuse Of Corpse’ Case Stands After Black Woman’s Miscarriage

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Screenshot / Screenshot More details are coming to light about the shocking case of Brittany Watts, the Ohio resident who was charged with the abuse of a corpse after she gave birth to a non-viable fetus while using the bathroom in September. Watts, who miscarried at 22 weeks, allegedly tried to […]

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GOP Support Grows for Majewski, a Trump Ally With a Disputed Military Record

J.R. Majewski, a Trump acolyte from Ohio whom House Republicans abandoned the first time he ran for Congress in the 2022 midterm elections after discrepancies in his military record emerged, is back as a candidate — and with some prominent G.O.P. names behind him. Mr. Majewski, an Air Force veteran, picked up endorsements on Monday […]

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