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GOP lawsuits set the stage for state challenges if Trump loses the election
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Before voters even begin casting ballots, Democrats and Republicans are engaged in a sprawling legal fight over how the 2024 election will be run, a series of court disputes that could even run past Election Day if the outcome is close.
Both parties have bulked up their legal teams for the fight. Republicans have filed more than ... (full story)
Court declines to place independent state house candidate on ballot
The Supreme Court of Ohio refused to order an independent candidate for a state House seat in northeast Ohio to be placed on the Nov. 5 general election ballot, finding he fell short of the required number of petition signatures.
In a divided per curiam opinion, the Supreme Court denied a request by Justin Tjaden to place him on ... (full story)
Behind the nonprofit helping a diverse new generation of culinary professionals heat up New York
NEW YORK (AP) — A side of beef bigger than a classroom desktop sat before high school students huddled around a kitchen on New York's Lower East Side. "Anyone wanna jump in?" asked the butcher teaching the Tuesday afternoon class. One student dared, grabbing a sawblade about as long as his arm and sweating to success ... (full story)
JD Vance's Catholicism helped shape his views. So did this little-known group of Catholic thinkers
By his own account, Ohio Sen. JD Vance's 2019 conversion to Catholicism provided a spiritual fulfillment he couldn't find in his Yale education or career success.
It also amounted to a political conversion.
Catholicism provided him a new way of looking at the addictions, family breakdowns and other social ills he described i ... (full story)
Judge blocks Ohio from enforcing laws restricting medication abortions
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COLUMBUS (AP) — Two more Ohio laws restricting abortions have been blocked by the courts as the legal impacts of a 2023 constitutional amendment guaranteeing access to the procedure continue to be felt.
Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Alison Hatheway issued a preliminary injunction Aug. 29 that extends an existing order ... (full story)