The Biden administration is ratcheting up demands for Texas to grant Border Patrol officials access to a key park at the center of a border dispute.  Texas seized control of the riverfront park earlier this month and began denying entry to Border Patrol agents, escalating a feud between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and President Joe Biden’s administration,  The Republican governor has repeatedly slammed the Biden administration for not...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Local governments in Ohio can no longer regulate tobacco in their communities after the Republican Legislature overrode on Wednesday GOP Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of a budget measure that puts regulation instead in the hands of the state. The measure, vetoed in 2022 before reappearing in the state budget, says regulating tobacco and alternative nicotine products should be up to the state, not municipalities....