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Editorial Roundup: Ohio

By The Associated Press 3 hrs ago
Cleveland Plain Dealer. April 11, 2021. Editorial: Shame on Ohio General Assembly members who prevaricate when asked to lead by example and...

President Joe Biden, accompanied by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, right, speaks as he gets his weekly economic briefing in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, April 9, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Biden budget seeks more for schools, health care and housing

By Josh Boak Apr. 10, 2021 12:32 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 8, 2021, file photo President Joe Biden speaks about gun violence prevention in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington. Biden released a $1.5 trillion wish list for the federal budget on Friday, asking for an 8.4% increase in agency operating budgets with substantial gains for Democratic priorities like education, health care, housing and environmental protection. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Biden's ambitious expansion of long-term care sparks debate

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Apr. 09, 2021 11:46 AM EDT

President Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President Kamala Harris, second from left, National Economic Council director Brian Deese, left, and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, right, speaks as he gets his weekly economic briefing in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, April 9, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Biden budget seeks more for schools, health care and housing

By Josh Boak Apr. 09, 2021 11:01 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press Apr. 07, 2021 07:51 PM EDT
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ April 7 The Boston Globe on ...

FILE - Herbert Slatery speaks in the Tennessee Supreme Court chamber in Nashville, Tenn., Monday, Sept. 15, 2014. The Republican attorneys general of Kentucky and Tennessee have added their voices objecting to a rule in the $1.9 trillion pandemic relief plan that bars states from using its funds to offset tax cuts. Accusing the federal government of an “unprecedented power grab," Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron and Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery III filed suit Tuesday, April 6, 2021 in a federal district court in Kentucky. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)
AGs from Kentucky, Tennessee sue over stimulus tax rule

By Bruce Schreiner Apr. 06, 2021 04:44 PM EDT

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., listens to a reporters question during a press conference at a COVID vaccination site in Lexington, Ky., Monday, April 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
McConnell downplays need for aid to home state's government

By Bruce Schreiner Apr. 05, 2021 03:56 PM EDT

FILE - This April 2, 2021, file photo shows bridges spanning the Allegheny River in downtown Pittsburgh. Republicans in Congress are making the politically brazen bet that it’s more advantageous to oppose President Joe Biden’s ambitious rebuild America agenda than to lend support for the costly $2.3 trillion undertaking for roads, bridges and other infrastructure investments. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Biden's big infrastructure plan hits McConnell-GOP blockade

By Lisa Mascaro Apr. 05, 2021 12:07 AM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020 file photo, Kelly Mack works on her laptop to teach remotely from her early 1940s vintage camper/trailer in her backyard at home in Evanston, Ill. Even though the federal government has spent tens of billions of dollars to close the digital divide, tens of millions of Americans still aren’t online. The Biden administration has now broached a big number, $100 billion, in an effort to get all Americans connected. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
EXPLAINER: What Biden's new $100B plan for broadband means

By Tali Arbel Apr. 03, 2021 10:14 AM EDT

FILE - In this March 31, 2021, file photo President Joe Biden delivers a speech on infrastructure spending at Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Aiming big, Biden is looking to restore faith in government

By Jonathan Lemire Apr. 03, 2021 08:57 AM EDT

National Guard troops stand guard after a car that crashed into a barrier on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Deadly breach could delay decisions about Capitol fencing

By Mary Clare Jalonick Apr. 03, 2021 01:25 AM EDT

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., leaves the chamber after criticizing Democrats for wanting to change the filibuster rule, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
McConnell urges fellow Republicans to get COVID-19 vaccines

Piper Hudspeth Blackburn Apr. 01, 2021 03:04 PM EDT

FILE - In this May 30, 2017, file photo, the SGR cargo train rides from the port containers depot on a Chinese-backed railway costing nearly $3.3 billion, opened by Kenya's president as one of the country's largest infrastructure project since independence, in Mombasa, Kenya. China's loans to poor countries in Africa and Asia impose unusual secrecy and repayment terms that are hurting their ability to renegotiate debts after the coronavirus pandemic, a group of U.S. and German researchers said in a report Wednesday, March 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi, File)
Biden announces huge infrastructure plan to 'win the future'

By Jonathan Lemire, Kevin Freking And Zeke Miller Mar. 31, 2021 05:21 AM EDT

Today in History

By The Associated Press Mar. 31, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
Today in History Today is Wednesday, March 31, the 90th day of 2021. There are 275 days left in the year. Today’s...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a briefing at the White House, Monday, March 29, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Biden wants infrastructure package approved over summer

By Jonathan Lemire, Lisa Mascaro And Josh Boak Mar. 29, 2021 06:52 PM EDT

FILE - In this March 18, 2021, file photo, Mary Claire Lane, 86, left, a resident at Hellenic Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, in Canton, Mass., shares a hug with her daughter Anne Darling, of Attleboro, Mass., right, during a visit at the nursing home, in Canton. Nursing homes and other elderly residences battered by COVID-19 are easing lockdown-like restrictions more than a year into the pandemic. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Dear Normal: Were you really that great in the first place?

By Sophia Rosenbaum Mar. 29, 2021 03:00 AM EDT

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, holds a news conference, Thursday, March 25, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP)
Voting rights, hate crimes on Senate's 'big, bold' agenda

By Mary Clare Jalonick And Lisa Mascaro Mar. 26, 2021 12:36 AM EDT

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, holds a news conference, Thursday, March 25, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP)
Voting rights, hate crimes on Senate's 'big, bold' agenda

By Mary Clare Jalonick And Lisa Mascaro Mar. 25, 2021 03:44 PM EDT

Xavier Becerra testifies during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on his nomination to be secretary of Health and Human Services on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)
Becerra confirmed to shepherd Biden's ambitious health plans

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Mar. 18, 2021 02:04 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press Mar. 17, 2021 08:17 PM EDT
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ March 17 The Los Angeles Times...