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Last week, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose sent more than 1,000 cases of alleged voter fraud to the U.S. Department of Justice. Critics contend, as LaRose himself has, that enforcing election laws is best handled at the state and local level ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/06/o...

Despite less focus on abortion in the 2025 election, voters Tuesday supported Democratic candidates who back reproductive rights in New Jersey and Virginia, and retained Democratic justices in Pennsylvania who will take up abortion-related cases. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/06/r...

Democrats won virtually every high-profile contest in elections across the nation Tuesday. Following are some selected passages from stories written by the local reporters with States Newsroom in the states where the elections happened ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/06/r...

Trump Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy said Wednesday the Federal Aviation Administration would restrict air travel in 40 “high-traffic” areas of the country to relieve pressure on air traffic controllers who have been working without a paycheck since Oct. 1. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/06/r...

Young homebuyers have been priced out of the market even more than previously, according to a report released Nov. 4 by the National Association of Realtors ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/06/r...

With President Trump targeting international students, Stateline surveyed a variety of public universities across the country, and a majority showed a decline in international student enrollment this year. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/06/r...

The U.S. Supreme Court during lengthy arguments Wednesday weighed whether President Trump violated the Constitution when he became the first U.S. president to impose sweeping global tariffs under a economic emergency powers statute. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/06/r...

Senior reporter Jennifer Shutt of the States Newsroom Washington, D.C., Bureau has been named the recipient of the 2025 Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress, the National Press Foundation announced ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/05/r...

Democrats’ sweep of the biggest races in Tuesday’s off-year elections, including a California ballot measure to redraw that state’s congressional lines, gave the party new confidence heading into the midterm elections next year. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/06/r...

The U.S. Senate Tuesday failed for the 14th time to advance a stopgap spending bill to fund the government, as the ongoing shutdown hit 35 days and is now tied with the shutdown of 2018-2019 as the longest ever ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/05/r...

Following major Democratic wins in elections across the country on Election Day, top Democratic congressional leaders pushed for a meeting with the president to end the federal government shutdown, which on Wednesday became the longest in U.S. history. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/06/r...

President Trump backtracked on a pledge by his administration in court to partially fund November food assistance during the government shutdown, posting on social media that benefits “will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government" ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/05/r...

"Heritage staff in open revolt over leader’s defense of Tucker Carlson: The departures and condemnations built on brewing frustrations with Kevin Roberts’s handling of Project 2025 and internal sexism allegations." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

U.S. House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who made history as the first woman to hold the speaker's gavel, announced Thursday she will retire, ending a 40-year legislative career as one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/06/r...

Democrats completed a clean statewide sweep in Virginia on Tuesday night. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/06/r...

With President Trump targeting international students, Stateline surveyed a variety of public universities across the country, and a majority showed a decline in international student enrollment this year. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/06/r...

Undergraduate student enrollment at Ohio’s public universities and community colleges mostly saw decreases this fall compared to last fall, according to preliminary data from the Ohio Department of Higher Education. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/06/u...

Young homebuyers have been priced out of the market even more than previously, according to a report released Nov. 4 by the National Association of Realtors. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/06/r...

Democrats won virtually every high-profile contest in elections across the nation Tuesday. Following are some selected passages from stories written by the local reporters with States Newsroom in the states where the elections happened. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/06/r...

Last week, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose sent more than 1,000 cases of alleged voter fraud to the U.S. Department of Justice. Critics contend, as LaRose himself has, that enforcing election laws is best handled at the state and local level. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/06/o...

An Ohio Planned Parenthood affiliate is planning to cut staff for the second time, citing a significant drop-off in patients after Medicaid recipients were cut off from the clinic's care. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/06/g...

Ohio food pantries reported a sharp increase in demand Monday as federal food assistance was cut by the Trump administration. One said strained resources might not last and made an appeal for donations ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/05/o...

The sound of the adjourning gavel had barely faded before Ohioans at the Ohio Redistricting Commission’s Friday meeting were expressing their outrage at the congressional map that had been passed, and the process to pass it ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/05/b...

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Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose added his support last week to a proposal requiring Ohioans submit proof of citizenship when they register to vote. But even LaRose acknowledged implementing the idea could be harder than it seems ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/05/o...

Commentary: Canada is rumored to be considering removing a tariff on Chinese EVs as part of a broader effort to build trade relationships with China in response to Trump’s foolish trade war against our formerly friendly northern neighbor ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/05/r...

In its quest to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, the Trump administration wants to let states police themselves on educating students with disabilities, a move many teachers and parents fear will strip away crucial oversight ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/05/r...

Members of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus and multiple community advocates gathered Monday inside their Statehouse rotunda to oppose Republican efforts to redraw Indiana’s congressional maps before the next census ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/05/r...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, an architect and chief practitioner of neoconservative foreign policy who was an influential figure among a generation of Republicans, died Monday. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/05/r...

President Trump backtracked on a pledge by his administration in court to partially fund November food assistance during the government shutdown, posting on social media that benefits “will be given only when the Radical Left Democrats open up government." ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/05/r...

A panel of District of Columbia Court of Appeals judges Monday heard oral arguments from the Trump administration defending the president's move to end asylum claims at the southern border through an executive order ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/04/r...

The U.S. Senate Tuesday failed for the 14th time to advance a stopgap spending bill to fund the government, as the ongoing shutdown hit 35 days and is now tied with the shutdown of 2018-2019 as the longest ever. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/05/r...

The Trump USDA will pay about half of November benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program though benefits could take months to flow to recipients, the department said Monday in a brief to a federal court in Rhode Island ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/04/r...

Senior reporter Jennifer Shutt of the States Newsroom Washington, D.C., Bureau has been named the recipient of the 2025 Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress, the National Press Foundation announced. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/05/r...

Members of the Indiana Black Legislative Caucus and multiple community advocates gathered Monday inside their Statehouse rotunda to oppose Republican efforts to redraw Indiana’s congressional maps before the next census. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/05/r...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear one of the first major cases of President Donald Trump’s second term Wednesday, when the administration defends the president’s emergency tariffs that American small business owners say are upending their livelihoods. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/05/r...

In its quest to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, the Trump administration wants to let states police themselves on educating students with disabilities, a move many teachers and parents fear will strip away crucial oversight. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/05/r...

Commentary: Canada is rumored to be considering removing a tariff on Chinese EVs as part of a broader effort to build trade relationships with China in response to Trump’s foolish trade war against our formerly friendly northern neighbor. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/05/r...

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose added his support last week to a proposal requiring Ohioans submit proof of citizenship when they register to vote. But even LaRose acknowledged implementing the idea could be harder than it seems. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/05/o...

The sound of the adjourning gavel had barely faded before Ohioans at the Ohio Redistricting Commission’s Friday meeting were expressing their outrage at the congressional map that had been passed, and the process to pass it. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/05/b...

Author Beth Macy returned to Urbana, Ohio to write a memoir about her hometown. She was shocked at the despair she found — and how little she knew. Her new book, “Paper Girl,” explores what happened ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/04/a...

"Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage." www.propublica.org/article/vete...

Ohio food pantries reported a sharp increase in demand Monday as federal food assistance was cut by the Trump administration. One said strained resources might not last and made an appeal for donations. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/05/o...

Ohio state Reps. Dontavius Jarrells and Josh Williams recently introduced the Break the Silence Act, a bipartisan bill that would create a consistent statewide standard for Ohio hospitals and urgent cares to support domestic violence survivors ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/04/o...

Author Beth Macy returned to Urbana, Ohio to write a memoir about her hometown. She was shocked at the despair she found — and how little she knew. Her new book, “Paper Girl,” explores what happened ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/04/a...

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Utilities tend not to be big fans of rooftop solar, which eats into their revenues by reducing customer reliance on the power grid. A new Ohio lawsuit spotlights the tension between utilities and customers over the clean-energy technology ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/04/w...

Commentary: Betrayal can be dressed up as bipartisan or best-case scenario, but it is still betrayal. Ohio Republicans picked off two more congressional districts to gerrymander, in defiance of the Ohio Constitution and the clear will of Ohio voters ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/04/a...

Illicit drug overdoses and the deaths they cause are trending down this year, despite spikes in a handful of states, according to a Stateline analysis of data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/04/r...