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☆ JD Vance says deporting 20 million people is part of the solution to high housing costs
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-17 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewOhio Sen. JD Vance, former President Donald Trump's VP pick, has made his hawkish views on immigration central to his transformed political persona. In the past, Vance has also blamed the housing affordability crisis largely on high interest rates. AdvertisementThe Trump-Vance housing policy recordTrump hasn't talked much about housing policy on the campaign trail, despite arguing that Biden hasn't done enough to control housing costs. AdvertisementTrump doesn't support upzoning to legalize denser housing construction in low-density neighborhoods — a key part of the solution to the housing supply shortage, according to experts. He claimed Biden wanted to "abolish" the suburbs by encouraging more affordable housing construction.

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☆ KFILE: JD Vance, Trump’s VP pick, once called him a ‘moral disaster,’ and possibly ‘America’s Hitler’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Andrew Kaczynski | Em Steck | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick Ohio Sen. JD Vance was once a fervent critic of the former president. “I did say those critical things and I regret them, and I regret being wrong about the guy,” Vance told Fox News in 2021. In a statement to CNN last month, Vance cited Trump’s “many successes in office” for changing his mind on the former president. “I think he’s a total fraud that is exploiting these people.”“I do too. Speaking with CNN in October 2016, Vance criticized Trump for “actively antagonizing” Black voters, claiming this tactic was a long-standing Republican strategy.

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The potential for damaging weather is ramping up Monday, with more than 50 million people at risk for severe storms from Texas to Virginia. Damaging thunderstorms will reach their peak in the late afternoon and evening in the Plains, but this won’t be the case for areas farther east. A Level 2 of 5 risk for severe thunderstorms includes portions of the Midwest and Ohio Valley Monday. Tuesday: Severe storm system shifts eastCNN WeatherThe severe thunderstorm threat will march east on Tuesday and include areas from the Gulf Coast through the Ohio Valley. A Level 3 of 5 risk for severe thunderstorms is in place Tuesday from northern Alabama to southern Ohio.

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☆ April will bring severe storms, snow and flooding as a wide-reaching storm crosses the US
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Allison Chinchar | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

A multi-day system will slide across much of the country and bring the potential for tornadoes, large hail, flooding and even snow. Snow and freezing rain will fall to the north, while heavy rain and severe thunderstorms unfold on the warmer side of the system. By Tuesday, the severe threat shifts east into an area from northern Mississippi to southern Pennsylvania. One of the elements fueling the severe threat is the clash of cold air behind the system with the warm air out ahead. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, along with Corpus Christi and Del Rio, Texas, could see record high temperatures on Monday.

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Tech firms and Silicon Valley billionaires have been pouring money into nuclear energy for years, pitching the sustainable power source as crucial to the green transition. While generative AI has grown at lightning speed, nuclear power projects are heavily regulated and usually advance at a plodding pace. That's raising questions about whether advances in nuclear energy can cut emissions as swiftly as energy-guzzling AI and other fast-growing technologies are adding to them. The nuclear power industry hasn't meaningfully expanded its share of the U.S. energy mix for decades. By one estimate, up to 800 gigawatts of new nuclear power will be needed by 2050 to meet current green energy targets.

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On Saturday, the sheer magnitude of the ancient Hopewell culture's reach was lifted up as enticement to a new set of visitors from around the world. Four other sites within the historical park — Hopewell Mound Group, Seip Earthworks, Highbank Park Earthworks and Hopeton Earthworks — join Fort Ancient Earthworks & Nature Preserve in Oregonia and Great Circle Earthworks in Heath to comprise the network. “Now is the time, and to have our traditional, our ancestral sites acknowledged on a world scale is phenomenal,” she said. “We need it culturally, we need it economically, we need it socially," she said. You can't take this away, and so, therefore, it draws us all together in a very unique way,” she said.

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PIKETON, Ohio (AP) — Uranium enrichment is getting underway this week at a facility in southern Ohio, a federally authorized demonstration project considered critical to produce the type of fuel needed for newer, more efficient nuclear reactors. That form of uranium contains far more of the isotope U-235 than is typically found in current nuclear reactor fuel. The 3,800-acre (1,500 hectare) site was where uranium had been enriched until 2001 at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant. Poneman said the U.S. has since become the world's biggest importer of enriched uranium. Cleanup and decontamination of the Portsmouth plant are continuing.

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☆ Sam Altman explains why he's helping to take nuclear microreactor company Oklo public via SPAC
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

And if we get those, we'll be quite surprised about how different and how much better the future is," Altman told CNBC in a phone conversation on Friday. I think there's urgent demand for tons and tons of cheap, safe, clean energy at scale," Altman told CNBC. I mean, maybe we could get there just with solar and storage," Altman told CNBC. There's no lack of desire or need for this," Altman told CNBC. Some of that is the reactor's smaller size, but some of it is how the Oklo reactors have been designed.

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☆ I borrowed $150,000 against my home to buy another property to list on Airbnb. It was worth it even though rising rates boosted my monthly costs by $140.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-08 | by ( Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Tate Cline cashed out $150,000 of his home's equity to buy and revamp a 26-acre property for Airbnb. (According to financial services company Bankrate, the current average 10-year HELOC interest rate is 7.37% as of January 4.) I used a HELOC loan for the purchase of a property in southern Ohio, in a place called Hocking Hills. I'm using HELOC for the whole thing. I'm going to do an adjustable-rate mortgage.

A man was sentenced to life behind bars, with no hope of parole, on Monday for his role in the killings of eight members of an Ohio family whose lives were "cruelly taken" one night in 2016. "How sick and twisted is the Wagner family? "I pray, Judge Deering, that you see the true devil that George Wagner IV really is and make him suffer." Both Wagner brothers and their parents, Angela Wagner and George “Billy” Wagner III, were charged in connection with the slayings. Jake Wagner last year confessed to shooting five of the Rhoden family victims in exchange for the death penalty being removed as a possible punishment.

☆ Biden administration announces $2.5 billion loan to help GM and LG make EV batteries
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Ella Nilsen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —The US Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office will announce Monday that it is issuing a $2.5 billion loan to help start three lithium battery manufacturing hubs in Ohio, Tennessee and Michigan. The DOE loan programs office will loan the money to Ultium Cells LLC, a joint venture of General Motors and South Korean battery manufacturer LG Energy Solutions making batteries to power electric vehicles. In order to take advantage of a federal EV tax subsidy in the Inflation Reduction Act, electric vehicles and much of their battery components be sourced, processed and assembled in North America. LG Energy Solutions is also set to partner with Japanese automaker Honda on a $3.5 billion joint venture battery factory in southern Ohio. The Warren, Ohio, Ultium facility will be represented by the United Auto Workers, after the plant voted to unionize on Friday.

☆ Ohio Man Found Guilty in First Trial in Killings of Eight Family Members
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Kris Maher | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

George Wagner IV was found guilty of eight counts of aggravated murder in what a prosecutor said was one of Ohio’s ‘most heinous crimes.’A jury returned a guilty verdict Wednesday in the first trial stemming from the 2016 execution-style killings of eight members of a family in southern Ohio that prosecutors say was carried out by members of another family. George Wagner IV was found guilty of eight counts of aggravated murder in Pike County Common Pleas Court. Mr. Wagner, 31 years old, was found guilty of 14 other charges, including tampering with evidence, burglary and forgery. Prosecutors said that while he didn’t fire a weapon, he actively participated in carrying out the killings and covering them up.

☆ Ohio Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan says he'd 'probably' be a 'royal pain in the ass' in the Senate, doesn't commit to supporting Sen. Chuck Schumer as caucus leader
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-23 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rep. Tim Ryan said he'd "probably" be a "royal pain in the ass" if elected to the Senate next month. Ryan made the comment during an interview with Politico, where he remarked on his tight Senate race. The lawmaker also told Politico that he was unsure if he'd back Chuck Schumer as Democratic leader. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York. As Ryan has campaigned across Ohio, he has spoken out against some of his party's leaders, including President Joe Biden.

☆ Honda is spending $3.5 billion to build a battery factory in Ohio
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Peter Valdes-Dapena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Honda and South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solutions are investing $3.5 billion to build a joint venture battery factory in southern Ohio, the car company said Tuesday. Construction on the battery plant is expected to begin early next year and should be completed by the end of 2024. At the Marysville plant, battery cells from the Fayette County battery factory will be installed in the battery cases made in Anna. The Marysville factory opened in 1982 and was Honda’s first auto factory in the United States. Honda now has 18 factories producing Honda and Acura vehicles in the United States.

☆ Republican JD Vance holds a razor-thin lead over Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan in the Ohio Senate race, poll shows
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

JD Vance has a one-point lead over Tim Ryan in the Ohio Senate race, according to a new Marist poll. Among voters who indicated that they were highly likely to vote in November, Vance led by a similar one-point margin (48%-47%). Ryan led Vance by 11 percentage points (50%-39%) among nonwhite voters. Rep. Tim Ryan is the 2022 Ohio Democratic Senate nominee. DeWine, who is seeking a second term in office, received the backing of 92% of Republicans and attracted the support of 10% of Democratic respondents.

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