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- The momentum behind cellphone bans in schools has reached more than half the states, as teachers, superintendents and education experts praise these policies.
- Dozens of U.S. House Democrats and leaders of several caucuses rallied on a chilly Tuesday morning outside U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in the nation’s capital, demanding the resignation, firing or impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Monday that body cameras would be given to federal immigration agents across the country, starting in Minneapolis, where two U.S. citizens were shot and killed by agents in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
- Ohio’s 2026 race to become governor is set to become one of, if not the most expensive in state history.
- Former Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown continues to outpace Ohio Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Husted in fundraising.
- Hundreds of Ohioans at a church in Springfield on Monday morning called for an extension of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, and later that day, a U.S. District Court judge blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end that status nationwide.
- BREAKING: A U.S. District Court judge blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to end protected status for about 330,000 Haitians living in the United States with Temporary Protected Status.
