Cincinnati-area and statewide localities saw ballot decisions this week as voters approved and rejected several tax levies and a Columbus charter amendment. On Tuesday's primary, North College Hill voters rejected a 1.25% earned income tax and other districts presented levies, while Washington Township and Columbus saw measures pass in early...
Phoenix — Tom Homan, the White House border czar, declared on Tuesday at the Border Security Expo in Phoenix that mass deportations will continue, while acknowledging that the Minneapolis enforcement effort earlier this year was imperfect and required changes. He said he has discussed improvements with Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne...
Washington — On Tuesday U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States had concluded the Epic Fury phase of its military campaign against Iran and announced a shift to 'Project Freedom' aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz and guiding commercial vessels through the waterway. This week Rubio and...
CARROLLTON, Texas: A 69-year-old man shot five people Tuesday at a shopping center and later at an apartment complex in Carrollton, police said. Officers found four people shot at K Towne Plaza and later discovered a dead man at an apartment roughly four miles away; the suspect was arrested after...
Cleveland — Ohio held its May 5 primary elections across all 15 U.S. House districts, a special Senate primary for the open seat, and gubernatorial primaries, with county-by-county returns posted and updated in real time by the Associated Press. Officials reported polling closures at 7:30 p.m., and outlets provided interactive...
Shreveport, Louisiana — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Louisiana's congressional map in Callais v. Louisiana, ruling the state's second Black-majority district was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, and Governor Jeff Landry issued an emergency order postponing the May 16 party primaries for Louisiana's six U.S. House seats. Baton Rouge...
Washington. Senate Republicans on Monday released a funding package that includes roughly $70 billion to keep immigration agencies operating and a $1 billion earmark for Secret Service security upgrades tied to the White House East Wing "ballroom" project, which President Trump had said would be privately funded. The bill was...
CONCORD, N.H. Dean DelleChiaie, 35, of Nashua, a contractor working for the Federal Aviation Administration, is accused of using a government-issued work computer to research assassination attempts and related topics and of sending an email on April 21 to a White House public account in which he identified himself and...
Washington: On May 5 the United States launched a naval and air operation called 'Project Freedom' to escort commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz after accusing Iran of blocking and harassing shipping; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described the mission as defensive, temporary and limited, and said US forces would...
Atlanta — The U.S. Department of Justice issued an April 20 subpoena seeking the names, addresses and phone numbers of every person who worked in Fulton County's 2020 general election, and on Monday the county filed a motion to quash that subpoena, arguing it is grossly overbroad and seeks to...
