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Biden rejects Trump's 'clenched fist' in appeal for Democratic and US unity

* Former vice-president launches campaign in Pennsylvania * Art Cullen: The Democratic frontrunners are too oldFormally launching his third presidential campaign, Joe Biden appealed for party and national unity while accusing Donald Trump of leading America with “a clenched fist, a closed hand and a hard heart”.Biden appeared at Eakins Oval in Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon, two days ahead of a Trump rally elsewhere in Pennsylvania, one of the states in which blue-collar swing voters delive...

Pastor gets life in prison on child sex trafficking charges

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A minister in Ohio who pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking has been sentenced to life in prison. Federal authorities say Cordell Jenkins was among three Toledo-area pastors who paid teenage girls for sex over the past few years and shared photos and videos of the girls. A federal judge Friday […]
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Business manager sentenced for defrauding Ne-Yo, McKnight

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man who served as business manager for Ne-Yo has been sentenced in Ohio to more than seven years in prison for defrauding the R&B singer in a sports beverage scheme. Kevin Foster was convicted last year on 16 counts including wire fraud, money laundering and tax charges. Prosecutors […]
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RNC Chair Calls Lack Of Rape, Incest Exceptions On Abortion Bans ‘Egregious’

The chair of the Republican National Committee said Friday that she “personally” is in favor of abortion bans that include exceptions for rape and incest and called the test case in Ohio of an impregnated 12-year-old girl who was raped and would be forced to carry a child under the state’s fetal heartbeat law “egregious.” When asked about the test case by CNN’s Alisyn Camerota, Ronna McDaniel cut her off. “And that’s egregious, I mean, that’s — my heart goes out to that little girl,” McDaniel...
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Ohio State Team Doctor Abused At Least 177 Men, and Over 20 Officials Knew, Report Says

The claims about Richard Strauss span from 1979 to 1997
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Missouri Senate Passes Eight-Week Abortion Ban

The Missouri Senate on Thursday passed a law banning abortions after eight weeks of pregnancy, following in the footsteps of a slew of states that have passed extremely restrictive abortion bills lately.The Republican-controlled Senate passed the measure, named "Missouri Stands With The Unborn," in a 24 to 10 vote. If it passes another vote in the House, also led by Republicans, it will go to the desk of Republican governor Mike Parson, who has indicated he will sign it.Like Alabama's so-cal...
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What Will The Biggest Obstacles To The Ballot Box Be In 2020?

The blue wave of 2018 featured historic midterm turnout, while voters in some states, like Michigan and Florida, approved ballot initiatives that would further expand access to the ballot box. But those gains in voter participation have reinvigorated GOP efforts to make it harder to vote. Voting rights advocates are already tracking new obstacles — legislative or otherwise — that Republicans are putting between voters and the ballot box ahead of the 2020 election. Several legislatures have qu...
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Mayor: City doesn’t want to be identified with Klan group

CINCINNATI (AP) — The mayor of an Indiana city is distancing his community from a local Ku Klux Klan group that is planning a rally in Ohio this month, saying the city doesn’t “stand for any kind of hate.” The Facebook page for the Honorable Sacred Knights lists a post office box in Madison, Indiana […]
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Ohio school closes after radioactive chemicals detected

The Ohio school, next to a closed nuclear plant, is contaminated with radioactive chemicals.
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Zombie raccoons, honking at bears, nunchuck blowback: News from around our 50 states

Festival celebrates all things garlic in Ohio, teen finds mastodon jaw on Iowa farm, and more           
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Festival celebrates all things garlic in Ohio, ...

Festival celebrates all things garlic in Ohio, teen finds mastodon jaw on Iowa farm, and more           
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Farmer who voted for Trump: I'm not going to be quiet

Christopher Gibbs, an Ohio farmer who voted for President Donald Trump, tells CNN's Kate Bolduan he doesn't understand why farmers must make the sacrifices in the trade war with China.
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Farmer who voted for Trump says he's off the Trump train

Christopher Gibbs, an Ohio farmer who voted for President Donald Trump, tells CNN's Kate Bolduan he doesn't understand why farmers must make the sacrifices in the trade war with China.
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ACLU and Planned Parenthood file lawsuit against Ohio's heartbeat bill

The ACLU of Ohio, Planned Parenthood and other groups are suing the state of Ohio over its new law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
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How to Help Protect Abortion Rights in Alabama and Georgia

America is in an era of extreme anti-abortion laws.
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With Abortion Rights Under Assault in Alabama, Here’s How to Help

America is in an era of extreme anti-abortion laws. What you can do about it.
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Planned Parenthood, Ohio Abortion Clinics Sue to Stop State’s ‘Heartbeat’ Law From Taking Effect

The complaint filed Wednesday says the ban is unconstitutional
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Lawsuit filed to stop Ohio abortion ban after 1st heartbeat

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Planned Parenthood and Ohio abortion clinics have sued to prevent the state’s restrictive abortion law from taking effect. The complained filed Wednesday in federal court in Columbus says the ban of abortions after the first detectable fetal heartbeat is unconstitutional and would prohibit nearly all abortions in Ohio. A detectable heartbeat […]
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Alabama abortion bill: 25 men drown out voices of three women as controversial bill is passed

Three women had a voice in Alabama Senate as 25 men passed abortion banAmid the debate on the Alabama Senate floor over America’s most restrictive abortion law, state Senator Linda Coleman-Madison appeared to be losing patience.She was one of just three women to vote Tuesday on HB 314, which would outlaw abortions even in cases of rape and incest. And more than two hours into the debate, she had a few questions for state Senator Clyde Chambliss, one of the bill’s key Republican backers. Earlier,...
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Russia Might Take the Biggest Submarine Ever and Add 200 Cruise Missiles

Thus, while the idea of Russia reviving its cold war leviathans sounds compellingly scary, there’s evidence it makes little practical or financial sense given more cost-efficient and survivable means to achieve the same ends. It could also be the project is being trumpeted for the propagandistic symbolism behind deploying super-submarines that are larger and carry more missiles than their American counterparts.On April 20, 2019, Russia’s TASS Agency reported that Vice Admiral Oleg Burtsev announ...
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Alabama passes bill banning abortion, including in rape and incest cases

Alabama’s state Senate passed a bill on Tuesday to outlaw nearly all abortions, creating exceptions only to protect the mother’s health, as part of a multistate effort to have the US Supreme Court reconsider a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.The country’s strictest abortion bill was previously approved by the Alabama House of Representatives and will now go to Republican Governor Kay Ivey, who has withheld comment on whether she would sign but is generally a strong opponent of aborti...
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Ohio teen loses more than 100 pounds while walking to school every day

Two years ago, Michael Watson was in a rut. The 6-foot-4 inch teen weighed 335 pounds and was often bullied about his weight.
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Which states are seeking to make abortion illegal and who is behind it?

Alabama passed the most restrictive abortion ban in the US as more than a dozen states this year tried to outlaw the procedure A woman protests Georgia’s six-week abortion ban at the state capitol in Atlanta, Georgia, on 7 May. Photograph: Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters Alabama lawmakers passed the most restrictive abortion ban in the US on Tuesday night, outlawing abortion from the point of conception with exceptions only if the woman’s life is seriously at risk. The law is one example of a sever...
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An abortion 'reversal'? The method is unproved, but Ohio lawmakers want women to consider it

Republicans in Ohio want every women seeking a medical abortion to be informed of a method for abortion "reversal," which critics call unethical.
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Nonfiction: David McCullough’s Idealistic Settlers

McCullough’s “The Pioneers” tells of the good intentions behind the creation of Ohio.
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Radioactive contamination found at Ohio middle school

Are we safe? That's the concern that's been in the back of neighbors' minds when they look at the looming Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Pike County, Ohio, Jennifer Chandler said.
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Ohio town worries after radioactive contamination is found at middle school

Are we safe? That's the concern that's been in the back of neighbors' minds when they look at the looming Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Pike County, Ohio, Jennifer Chandler said.
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Ohio town worries about safety after radioactive contamination is found at middle school

An Ohio middle school closed was Monday because enriched uranium was detected inside the school and neptunium-237 was detected by an air monitor next to it.
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Opinion: What's behind the rush to pass anti-abortion laws

Last week, Georgia joined the ranks of states in a sudden rush to ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, as early as six weeks after conception -- before a woman may even know that she is pregnant. Kentucky, Mississippi, and Ohio passed similar laws this year. Alabama is taking its fight against choice even further, with a bill that not only bans abortions but makes it a crime for a doctor to perform an abortion.
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A rising Lake Erie closes streets, ferry, leaves debris in Ohio

PORT CLINTON, Ohio (AP) — High water on Lake Erie has been flooding streets and houses in Ohio, and residents are bracing for more problems. The water levels are expected to approach records this summer. All the Great Lakes have been rising for several years and now are seeing an increase from winter’s melting snow […]
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