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International students file legal challenges over widespread US visa revocations
WASHINGTON (AP) — Several international students who have had their visas revoked in recent weeks have filed lawsuits against the Trump administration, arguing the government denied them due process when it suddenly took away their permission to be in the U.S.
The actions by the federal government to terminate students' le ... (full story)
Take a trip to Ohio to learn about William McKinley, Trump's much-admired Gilded Age president
CANTON, Ohio (AP) — If you've been intrigued by President Donald Trump's praise of his long-ago White House predecessor William McKinley and yearn to know more, it's time you head to Ohio.
America's 25th president was born and is buried in the Buckeye State, where museums and monuments to him abound. Websites promoting the ... (full story)
These abortion abolitionists want women who get abortion to face criminal charges
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Kristan Hawkins, president of the national anti-abortion group Students for Life, tours college campuses, she has grown accustomed to counterprotests from abortion rights activists.
But more recently, fellow abortion opponents, who call themselves abortion abolitionists, are showing up to her booths wi ... (full story)
Ohio League of Women Voters wants pioneering female justice's portrait brought up from the basement
COLUMBUS (AP) — The Ohio League of Women Voters urged the state's high court to relocate a portrait of the state's first female chief justice from a new exhibit to be located in the courthouse basement back to the building's main hallway.
In a letter dripping with sarcasm, Executive Director Jen Miller told Ohio Supreme Co ... (full story)
Bill would create regulations for short-term pay advance providers
A West Chester lawmaker said he believes Ohioans who are paid on-demand via an employer’s agreement with an earned wage access provider or who seek a short-term advance in pay through a smartphone app would benefit from some regulation of these services.
Republican Sen. George Lang said the state currently has no oversight ... (full story)