Republicans have opened up an advantage in a national redistricting battle among states after a pair of court rulings that weakened federal Voting Rights Act protections for minorities and invalidated a key Democratic redistricting effort. A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down ...
HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) — Supreme Court justices are not "political actors," Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday, insisting unpopular court decisions are based solely on the law. "I think, at a very basic level, people think we're making policy decisions, we're saying we think this is how ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Tuesday's primary in Ohio set up two marquee matchups in November — a U.S. Senate race that will help determine control of the chamber and a governor's race in which Democrats see their best chance of victory in two decades. Another stunningly expensive Senate race ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam have donated $12.5 million toward blood cancer research and treatment. The donation includes $10 million to the Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre in England for research and drug development focused on chronic lymphocytic leukemia ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A jury began deliberating Wednesday in the murder retrial of a former sheriff's deputy in Ohio charged in the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr. More than two years after a tumultuous first proceeding ended in mistrial, Jason Meade is once again awaiting ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Dr. Amy Acton, a Democrat running unopposed in her party's primary for Ohio governor, faces some steep challenges in the coming general election. She is trying to be the first Democrat in 20 years to win the office in a state that has become dominated by Republicans. ...
