Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and four other men face federal charges alleging they took $60 million in exchange for pushing through a controversial energy bailout bill. House Bill 6 passed into law last year and cost Ohioans more than $1 billion.

Federal agents earlier this morning arrested Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and four others in connection to what authorities describe as "a public corruption racketeering conspiracy involving $60 million."

The truth about the once legal enslavement of humans in the U.S and the concurrent racism then that persists today is fraught with the worst kinds of violence and inhumanity. How that history is taught in schools and how educators have at times soft-pedaled misery and injustice has come to the fore in the era of Black Lives Matter.

In his television address on Wednesday, Gov. Mike DeWine begged Ohioans to do the right thing, wear a mask and physically distance themselves from others in public. On Sunday, DeWine said “ a lot more counties ” could soon end up under mask orders. In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” DeWine said he is still considering a statewide mask mandate.

This episode originally aired on May 20, 2020. In April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a first, unemployment numbers for women hit double digits. Women make up two-thirds of part-time workers and the majority of the low-wage workforce. For women of color, the news is even grimmer.

This episode originally aired on May 19, 2020. From the plague to the present day coronavirus pandemic, disease outbreaks have shaped everything in society from politics to personal relationships. Yale medical historian Frank Snowden explores this theme in his recent book, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present.

This episode originally aired on July 15, 2020. Nearly one in five adolescents has a diagnosable mental health disorder, and nearly one-third of them show signs of depression. That’s according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, using data compiled before the pandemic.

President Trump last night announced he is demoting his campaign manager, Brad Parscale, and replacing him with longtime political aide Bill Stepien. The shakeup comes as Trump faces flagging poll numbers and a resurgence of the coronavirus that has now infected more than 3.5 million people in the United States and caused more than 137,000 deaths.

This episode originally aired on July 14, 2020. The history of medical experimentation and the Black community is fraught with exploitation and abuse. But with the COVID-19 virus infecting and killing Black patients at disproportionately high rates, many experts in the medical field are calling for their inclusion in the first vaccine trials.

Fears and uncertainty brought on by the coronavirus pandemic have many people saying things like “You’ve got this!” and “This too shall pass.”