VP JD Vance voted early near his Cincinnati home Friday, then headlined a Lima rally aimed at boosting GOP turnout in tight Ohio races. He told the crowd: “We need to run up the score, and we need to do it big." www.cleveland.com/news/2026/10...

U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno on Friday said that the Senate Ethics Committee sent him a letter about his use of foul language a July Senate hearing where he confronted Dr. Anthony Fauci. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/10...

The $500 Obamacare checks are real. About 70,000 Ohio families are getting them, Trump said at his Vandalia rally. Here's who qualifies, where the money came from and what critics say: www.cleveland.com/news/2026/10...

Ohio Sen. Jon Husted's bill to train Labor Department employees to spot human trafficking passed the Senate unanimously and heads to President Trump. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/10...

ICYMI: Ohio’s 5th District remains safely Republican by the experts’ reckoning. But Bob Latta’s Democratic and Libertarian challengers think the redrawn district — and Trump fatigue — could change that. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/09...

U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno says Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is failing to "meet the moment." The Ohio Republican accuses him of hypocrisy for planning an IPO while warning that his technology could cause human extinction www.cleveland.com/news/2026/10...

Vance heads to Lima for Friday rally, the third Trump or Vance Ohio stop in a 10-day span www.cleveland.com/news/2026/10...

Is one party more extreme than the other, or is "extremist" just this year's go-to insult? I put that question to two sociologists who've spent their careers studying it. Here's what they said. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/10...

Rep. Emilia Sykes is seeking a third term in Ohio's 13th District. Republican Carey Coleman and independent Sandeep Dixit want her job. Here's where all three stand on the economy, data centers and immigration. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/10...

Senate passes bill to reauthorize the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative without objection. Sen. Jon Husted and Sen. Gary Peters sponsored it. The House passed a different version in March www.cleveland.com/news/2026/10...

Democratic congressional candidate Brian Poindexter has resigned from Brook Park's city council to campaign full-time against U.S. Rep. Max Miller. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/10...

Rep. Max Miller in April: colleagues facing ethics probes "need to be removed immediately." Now that he's facing his own, he says: "I'm not getting out of this race.": www.cleveland.com/news/2026/10...

Democrats short-circuit Sen. Jon Husted's data center bill, which would direct states to consider making data centers cover their power costs. The vote lands as the issue shadows his race against Sherrod Brown. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/09...

A Toledo-area doctor got six months in jail in a case where prosecutors say he forced abortion pills on his pregnant girlfriend. U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno now wants Attorney General Todd Blanche to review the sentence and consider federal charges. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/09...

Why did California license this driver? U.S. Reps. Max Miller, Dave Taylor, Warren Davidson, Jim Jordan and Michael Rulli of Ohio want Gov. Newsom to explain. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/09...

Did Ohio’s coal plant closures cause your electric bill to spike? The data tells a different story. @annastaver.bsky.social digs into Sen. Jon Husted’s claim. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/09...

From the Wright brothers to Neil Armstrong — Ohio's pitch for the Space Academy. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/09...

U.S. Rep. Mike Rulli met the first American pope in Rome this month. He came away starstruck. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/09...

"My brain never really went out of commission." U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur is back on the job after a serious car crash in Toledo last month, working through her hospital stay and recovery, and resuming her reelection campaign. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/09...