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As Ohio goes, so goes the presidency. That may be good news for President Donald Trump in this yet-to-be-decided race. That's because he won Ohio, beating Democrat Joe Biden easily, 53.4 percent to 45.2 percent in unofficial results. ideastream reporter Nick Castele joined ideastream’s Morning Edition Host Amy Eddings for an analysis of the president's apparent Ohio victory. The president won in 2016 with wide support from non-college educated whites in rural areas. He also won in the suburbs, especially among women. How'd he do it this time?

Black women are among the Democratic Party's strongest supporters. The selection of Kamala Harris as the party's vice presidential pick may energize those voters even more than usual.

The market is hitting records, in large part because of a handful of superstar tech stocks. Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Netflix and Google's parent dominate indexes in retirement funds.

Coronavirus outbreaks in county jails across the country. We examine the crisis in Prince George’s County, Maryland.

A pair of House Democrats suggest that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy was not part of a pool of candidates cultivated and vetted by an outside hiring firm that was contracted to fill the post.

Steve Bannon, President Trump's former political adviser, was among four people arrested Thursday in connection with an online fundraising scheme to pay for part of the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

An appeals court has given the ride-hailing companies more time to fight a judge's order that they reclassify their drivers as employees to comply with state law.

The head of Cleveland Public Power (CPP) is apologizing for the utility's role in a blackout last Saturday. The outage, which started at another company's electrical substation, left an estimated 40,000 customers on the city's west side in the dark for nearly seven hours. Speaking to reporters at CPP's office on Monday, Commissioner Ivan Henderson said the agency is working "feverishly" to restore a power line that would have provided the west side with a backup electricity feed but has been out of service since December 2016.

MetroHealth is no longer just Cuyahoga County’s public hospital. It will be able to start operating inpatient facilities in eight other surrounding counties —Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage, Stark, Summit and Wayne— as a result of a new law passed by state lawmakers. It’s a major change in the way MetroHealth System has operated for its 181-year history. It raises questions about how the public hospital will finance its expanded s

Outrage over the administration's policy of family separations at the border prompted an outpouring of donations to bond funds. People are giving so detained immigrants can post bond and be released.