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Ohio’s US Senate race is center stage in the 2026 midterm election
As voters go to the polls in Ohio today, they’ll cast ballots in one of the most expensive, closely watched elections in the United States. Its outcome sits squarely in tossup territory and it could hardly be more consequential. It could make the difference in deciding whether…
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Election 2026: Competitive congressional races to watch in Ohio
Ohio’s competitive congressional races could play a role in determining which party holds power in the U.S. House. There are currently 218 Republicans, 214 Democrats, one independent and two vacancies in the U.S. House. Midterm elections typically favor the party that is not…
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Voters make governors, utility regulators answer for high power bills
As broad affordability concerns define elections across the country, voters in several states on Tuesday will have a say on their future utility bills. State utility regulators, who are facing heightened levels of attention and scrutiny amid high prices, are on the ballot in…
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Energy costs dominate midterms; Climate battles play out down ballot
This story was originally published by Capital & Main. In the final stretch of the 2026 midterm campaigns, the most potent climate issue in American politics arrived by delivery truck across the country. The average price of heating oil hit $6.23 a gallon for the week of Oct.…
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Catching Our Eye News Roundup, Nov. 3, 2026
Every morning in the Ohio Capital Journal’s free newsletter, The Eye-Opener, we round up the news and commentary from across Ohio and around the country and world that is catching our attention. We call this feature Catching Our Eye, republished here. Please subscribe to our…
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Ohio voters cast more than 1.7 million ballots early, surpassing 2022 totals
Ohioans cast more than 1.7 million ballots early this year, either in person, through the mail, or a drop box. That total is 17% higher than the early vote total for the last midterm election in 2022. Democratic voters outpaced Republicans slightly — casting roughly 468,000…
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Day before election, Trump’s DOJ asks US Supreme Court to rule in California voting case
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to require California to set aside the ballots of suspected noncitizen voters in a last-ditch appeal by the Trump administration to exert control over the state’s vote counting. The request came on the eve of…
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Explosive spending, ugly ads and courtroom battles set stage for tense midterm elections
WASHINGTON — When the polls close Tuesday night, the 2026 U.S. election will go down as one of history’s most expensive and extraordinarily ugly midterms — galvanizing record-breaking early voter turnout among a deeply divided electorate. Voters on Saturday crossed the…
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Lawsuit could save Medicaid for 140,000 in Ohio
The American Medical Association says the Trump administration has unlawfully imposed a rule that could threaten health coverage for at least 140,000 Ohio Medicaid recipients. The AMA made that statement last week in a friend-of-the-court brief in support of a lawsuit in which…
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Ohio Auditor of State candidates seek to enhance agency’s role in different ways
The race for Ohio’s auditor of state will come down to a small town mayor with years of experience working with the state office, or the current Ohio Secretary of State. Democrat Annette Blackwell and Republican Frank LaRose are vying for the seat, as the current auditor, Keith…
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Where the candidates for Ohio attorney general stand on Flock, ICE
Of the competitive statewide races in Ohio, the candidates for attorney general share the most similar policy positions. Ohio’s attorney general enforces state laws, oversees policing policy, investigates claims of fraud and helps with major prosecutions. Republican Keith Faber…
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Trump administration has slow-walked 380K potential immigrant voters
The Trump administration cut naturalization sharply over the past year, leading to accusations it’s holding back hundreds of thousands of people who might have voted in the midterms. It’s hard to say how those people might have voted had they become U.S. citizens. Naturalized…
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‘Medically frail’ Medicaid enrollees won’t have to prove their inability to work to keep coverage
Medicaid recipients who are disabled or have a chronic illness will not have to prove they are unable to work to be exempted from new work requirements that take effect next year, a federal judge ruled Thursday. The decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston…
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Chrissy Teigen joins Idaho women who needed abortions in final push for ballot initiative
It took two years for Chrissy Teigen to realize she’d had an abortion and not a miscarriage, longer to understand what went wrong in her pregnancy, and not until this week to realize she hadn’t fully grappled with it emotionally. Teigen, a former model and business owner, came…
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Caretakers maintain Alex Pretti memorial despite repeated vandalism
More than nine months after immigration agents disarmed, shot and killed Alex Pretti in the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, the site of his death on Nicollet Avenue is marked with carefully arranged flowers, candles, art and other offerings brought by visitors from near…
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Catching Our Eye News Roundup, Nov. 2, 2026
Every morning in the Ohio Capital Journal’s free newsletter, The Eye-Opener, we round up the news and commentary from across Ohio and around the country and world that is catching our attention. We call this feature Catching Our Eye, republished here. Please subscribe to our…
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Ohio governor candidate Amy Acton calls Vivek Ramaswamy’s attack ad “absolutely despicable”
In the wake of a controversial attack ad, Ohio Democratic governor candidate Dr. Amy Acton said her opponent Republican Vivek Ramaswamy is a “danger to my state.” “I just think (the ad) is a travesty,” Acton said to reporters speaking outside the Franklin County Board of…
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Trump loses appeals over California ballots, Homeland Security operations
A federal appeals court on Friday denied a Trump administration demand that California set aside and not count the ballots of 20,000 suspected noncitizen voters, setting the stage for a possible appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court…
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Trump continues rally spree in attempt to blunt Dem momentum in midterms lead-up
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is rounding out his midterm travel blitz in the final sprint leading up to Election Day on Nov. 3. With just four days to go, the Republican Party is aiming to keep its narrow majority in the U.S. House and control of the Senate. But elections…
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Federal subpoenas to election officials mark escalating Trump DOJ pressure campaign
As the Trump administration waged a public legal fight with California over the ballots of suspected noncitizen voters in mid-October, behind the scenes a federal grand jury in Santa Ana issued a series of subpoenas to election officials in Los Angeles County at federal…