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Bipartisan state lawmakers say they will keep regulating artificial intelligence despite President Trump’s executive order seeking to override state AI laws and centralize federal control.
President Trump signed an executive order seeking to preempt state AI laws, arguing a single national standard is needed, as critics warn of overreach and legal challenges.
The U.S. House voted to advance a bill overturning Donald Trump’s order restricting collective bargaining for 1 million federal workers, a rare bipartisan rebuke of the administration’s labor policy.
After Donald Trump’s inflammatory remarks about Somali Americans, Ohio’s large Somali community reports rising fear and harassment, with lawmakers urging vigilance amid growing concerns over safety and discrimination.
The U.S. Supreme Court will review Donald Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship, a move civil rights groups say violates the 14th Amendment’s long-standing guarantee of citizenship for all born in the United States.
A Policy Matters Ohio review finds Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill gives huge tax cuts to the wealthy while imposing deep Medicaid and SNAP reductions that could strip aid from hundreds of thousands of Ohio families.
The Trump administration is expanding H-2A farm visas, lowering guest-worker wages, and quietly reducing agricultural ICE raids as growers face labor shortages and rising costs, drawing criticism from farmworker advocates.
Trump escalates tensions by accusing six Democratic lawmakers of sedition and amplifying calls for violence after they released a video urging troops to reject illegal orders, prompting sharp Democratic warnings about political violence.
Emails released by House Democrats show Jeffrey Epstein claimed Donald Trump knew about his abuse of underage girls as early as 2011. The White House denies the allegations, saying the emails “prove absolutely nothing.” Lawmakers from both parties are now pressing for the full release of the Epstein case files after the FBI said it would not publish more information.
Ohio Republicans are pushing Trump-style election restrictions that would toss out thousands of legitimate mail-in ballots and make voting harder for many Ohioans. SB 293 and SB 153, modeled after Trump’s executive order, would strip away safeguards and feed false narratives about election fraud — all while Ohio’s leaders march in lockstep with Trump World.
Georgia Republicans tied to Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference efforts hailed the president’s sweeping new pardons, but the move does not halt the state’s racketeering case in Fulton County. The pardon, which covers Trump’s allies and fake electors, only applies to federal charges and comes as prosecutors race to keep the Georgia case alive after District Attorney Fani Willis’ disqualification.
President Donald Trump issued 77 pardons Monday, including to Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and several figures accused in the 2020 fake electors plot. The sweeping proclamation covers only federal offenses, leaving state-level cases intact. Critics say Trump is “pardoning a conspiracy” and undermining accountability for efforts to overturn the election.
After 40 days of gridlock, the U.S. Senate advanced a bipartisan deal to end the Trump administration’s record-breaking shutdown. The bill restores food assistance for 42 million Americans and brings back laid-off federal workers, but Democrats remain divided over the omission of key Affordable Care Act subsidies — the very issue that sparked the shutdown.
After the Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration, federal officials ordered states to claw back full November food benefits for millions of Americans. The chaotic reversal — impacting 42 million people — drew outrage from governors who say the administration is using hunger as political leverage amid the ongoing shutdown.
The Trump administration has overturned federal and state protections that kept medical debt off credit reports, putting millions of Americans at risk of damaged credit and financial instability. The rule reverses Biden-era reforms and undermines more than a dozen state laws aimed at shielding consumers from the long-term impact of medical bills.
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to immediately release $9 billion in food assistance after it defied a court deadline to pay Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. The ruling comes as the government shutdown enters its 37th day, with the court blasting Trump officials for using hunger as political leverage and leaving millions of families in limbo.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday allowed President Trump’s administration to enforce its policy requiring that all U.S. passports list only the holder’s sex assigned at birth. The 6–3 decision reverses lower court rulings that sided with transgender and nonbinary Americans, drawing a sharp dissent from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who said the Court’s move “permits harm to be inflicted on the most vulnerable.”
Senate Republicans narrowly blocked a Democratic-led resolution to stop President Trump’s escalating military strikes off the coast of Venezuela, which have killed dozens without congressional authorization. The 49–51 vote leaves the administration free to continue its campaign, despite bipartisan concern that Trump is overstepping constitutional limits on presidential war powers.
As Trump’s shutdown stretched into its 37th day, Senate Democrats stood united behind a plan to tie reopening the government to protecting health care for millions. Progressives urged their party not to “cave” to Republican pressure, insisting that any deal must include an extension of Affordable Care Act tax credits.
President Trump’s trade war and failed China “deal” have left U.S. farmers facing record debt, plunging exports, and collapsing markets. While the administration touts temporary bailouts, economists say the policies are enriching investors abroad and worsening the economic and climate crises hitting rural America.
