Citing an urgent need to act after Uvalde and shootings outside a high school and a church in Iowa, Gov. Kim Reynolds said the state would award up to $50,000 each to 1,500 schools to fix vulnerabilities
The new law bans gender-affirming surgeries and hormone therapies, and restricts mental health care for transgender individuals under 18
The proposals were announced by Republican Gov. Mike DeWine a week after he vetoed a bill to ban gender-affirming care for minors
‘Let’s press on and hope that we can join together and make this great difference,’ House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told the crowd
The programs have taken off after a series of key interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve made virtually all loans more expensive
Gov. Mike DeWine found that the bill would affect a small number of children, ‘but for those who face gender dysphoria and for their families, the consequences of this bill could not be more profound’
As a deadline to allocate federal Covid-19 cash approaches next year, states must decide how much to invest in maintaining warehouses and supply stockpiles
The ruling moves action in the case back to Hamilton County Common Pleas, where abortion clinics asked Judge Christian Jenkins this week to throw out the law following voters’ decision to approve enshrining abortion rights in the state constitution
Brittany Watts, 21 weeks and 5 days pregnant, is accused of abuse of a corpse. That’s a fifth-degree felony punishable by up to a year in prison and a $2,500 fine
Last year’s bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act will provide more than $52 billion to boost the development and manufacturing of semiconductors in the US
The lawsuit is believed to be the first time since the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision last year that a woman anywhere in the country has asked a court to approve an immediate abortion
There have still been 8.1 million birds killed this year to help control the spread of the disease and 5.8 million of those have come just this month
Existing abortion-related lawsuits are moving again through the courts now that voters have decided the issue, raising questions about how and when the amendment will be implemented
The proposed amendment would declare a fundamental right to abortion until fetal viability, or when needed to protect the life or health of the pregnant patient
Triumphs in Ohio, Kentucky and Virginia show how abortion continues to mobilize the Democratic electorate and give President Biden a boost for 2024
Voters have approved a constitutional amendment that protects women’s reproductive rights. It is the seventh vote to do so after ‘Roe vs Wade’ was overturned in 2022
He’s been awaiting execution for almost three decades for crimes that he says he didn’t commit. From a maximum security prison in Ohio, he details his fight to reopen his case and his unusual musical project with Spanish pianist Albert Marquès — a cry of protest against capital punishment in the United States
Access to abortion has been a frequent topic in campaign debates and advertising, as it has since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in June last year overturning Roe vs. Wade
If it passes, Ohio would become the 24th state to legalize recreational marijuana for adult use, a move that supporters say socially and financially makes sense for the state
Among other steps, conservative Hancock County launched a drug court where people can avoid jail if they work on recovery and deployed outreach workers to help people who survive overdoses
The combined company, worth more than $3.5 billion, will boast 27 amusement parks, 15 water parks and nine resort properties in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico
The lawsuit alleges Mike Jeffries had modeling scouts scouring the internet and elsewhere to identify prospective models that became sex-trafficking victims
Top Republicans have increasingly been referencing ‘partial-birth abortions’ as an imminent threat if voters approve the constitutional amendment on Nov. 7
Over the past five years, controversial police K-9 attacks have made headlines across the U.S. The Ohio State Highway Patrol used drug dogs in 28% of its stops involving Black motorists from 2013 through 2017
The disagreements come just six weeks before Election Day and they’re providing a window into the challenges that the wider movement is preparing to navigate next year
The shocking interaction was recorded last week on body camera audio and by the father’s doorbell camera in Columbus, Ohio
The decision lets stand most of the word choices targeted in a lawsuit by Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights, the pro-abortion rights ballot campaign, as well as the substitution of ‘unborn child’ for ‘fetus,’ which it chose not to dispute
