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Ohio
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 43 stories to Ohio since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Ohio.
25days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Ohio
10 storiesTrump says The New York Times and other outlets "should be arrested" for reporting empty upper-deck seats at his Ohio rally.
DOJ subpoenaed Times reporters' records in July
Man with 2 holstered handguns and brass knuckles rushes Democrat Amy Acton, running for Ohio governor, mid-speech at a county fair, injuring 2 volunteers.
Physician candidate stayed to treat wounded
Trump tells Ohio rally Springfield is better off without Haitians as the city mourns a Haitian student whose family blames his suicide on an ICE ankle monitor.
Gov. DeWine among hundreds at funeral
Ohio grand jury indicts 8 men on terrorism and murder conspiracy charges in a foiled drone and sniper attack targeting Trump's June White House UFC event.
Trump, Vance, Netanyahu among planned targets
The FBI arrests five men in four states over an alleged plot to use explosive drones against the White House UFC fights.
Cited Epstein files, data center grievances
The FBI searches a voting-rights group's Cleveland offices and seizes staff devices statewide without saying what crime it suspects, five months before the midterm elections.
Brennan Center calls it intimidation
ProPublica documents 79 children harmed by federal tear gas and pepper spray during Trump immigration crackdown across multiple cities.
6 mo briefly stopped breathing in MN
Trump praises Louisiana primary suspension and says Tennessee Governor Lee will "correct" the state's map as Speaker Johnson urges all states to gerrymander before midterms.
8 states redistricted outside normal cycle
Trump spends day campaigning in Ohio and Kentucky on day 13 of the Iran war, targeting Rep. Massie for forcing Epstein file release and challenging war powers.
"Even worse than Crazy Liz Cheney"
National Guard deployment in Washington extended through end of 2026, with 2,400 troops from Republican-led states patrolling Metro stations and the National Mall while armed with rifles and pistols.
Mission includes trash, landscaping, grafitti
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
ProPublica review finds immigration agents detained 506 US citizens since January 2025, including at least 70 children, as DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake.
About a dozen citizens deported
Documents show Homeland Security bought five planes for $304 million from then-Secretary Noem's donor on her last morning, including a $108 million luxury 737.
Gulfstreams marked up $11 million apiece
Fighting back
3 storiesFederal judge voids FEMA rule withholding 20% of states' counterterrorism funds unless they plan a switch to hand-marked paper ballots and verify voters' citizenship.
No terrorism link ever explained
Judge blocks Ohio's proof-of-citizenship voter registration rule before the October 5 midterm deadline, won by 2 civic groups who sued the state.
Provision could "obliterate" federal registration law
Ohio Immigrant Alliance's court-records search documents 152 DHS employees charged with sex crimes or violence against women and children, up from 59.
Half the cases involve abusing children
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