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A vehicle mileage tax could be on the table in talks about how to finance the White House’s expected multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure proposal, according to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Buttigieg, who spoke with CNBC’s Kayla Tausche on Friday, also contended that President Joe Biden’s forthcoming plans to rebuild the nation’s roads, bridges and waterways would lead to a net gain for the U.S. taxpayer and not a net outlay. “When you think about infrastructure, it’s a classic example of the kind of investment that has a return on that investment,” he said.(Snip) “I’m hearing a lot of appetite to make sure
New York Daily News,
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AOC’s beef with MCC isn’t over yet. New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is alleging that shadowy political forces handpicked former news anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera to primary her last year explicitly because of her “ethnicity” as part of a “disgusting” attempt to confuse voters. Ocasio-Cortez made the blistering claim in a wide-ranging interview this week, charging that “Wall Street” and other unspecified entities selected Caruso-Cabrera for the 2020 primary battle specifically because she’s “also a Latina, down to having a hyphenated last name.” “It was just the most cynical, disgusting thing,” Ocasio-Cortez said in the interview
Daily Mail (UK),
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Mary Kekatos
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Duke University has launched an investigation after a printout of George Floyd's toxicology report was pinned to a Black History Month display.
The flier, which insinuated that Floyd died of a drug overdose, appeared next to a photo of him Saturday on a bulletin board on the third floor of a dormitory. Each compound in his system was underlined with pink pen and, at the top, was written: 'Mix of drugs presents in difficulty breathing! Overdose? Good Man? Use of fake currency is a felony!'(Snip)'I was honestly terrified. I remember shaking in that moment,' Manns told CNN. 'That happened right down the hall
Washington Times,
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Valerie Richardson
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Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed Thursday legislation barring transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports, an issue gaining steam in Republican-led state legislatures despite pushback from LGBTQ and business groups. The Republican governor signed SB 354, the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, shortly after it passed both chambers by wide margins. The bill was delivered to his desk Tuesday. “I have studied the law and heard from hundreds of constituents on this issue,” Mr. Hutchinson said. “I signed the law as a fan of women’s sports from basketball to soccer and including many others in which women compete successfully. This law simply
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San Dimas—A suspect has been arrested in the stabbing death of a woman and her dog near Lone Hill Park in San Dimas Thursday afternoon. At about 1:35 p.m., Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon near the intersection of Shellman Avenue and Renwick Road.(Snip) When deputies arrived on the scene, they found a woman lying unresponsive in the street with multiple stab wounds, LASD said. She was pronounced dead at the scene, along with a dog that was found lying next to her. She was identified Friday as 66-year-old Jeanne Edgar
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Oakland plans to start a guaranteed income program this spring for 600 residents—one of the largest such programs in the country, city officials said—as Bay Area leaders search for solutions to rising poverty and inequality in the wake of the pandemic. Through the pilot program, residents will receive $500 a month for at least 18 months with no strings attached, Mayor Libby Schaaf said at a Tuesday news conference. Checks could be in residents’ hands by this spring or summer. Low-income families—with at least one child under 18—who are Black, indigenous or people of color will be randomly selected
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Novato, Calif.—Mirroring similar efforts in cities such as Stockton and Oakland, Marin County supervisors this week approved participating in a universal basic income experiment to give 125 low-income mothers of color $1,000 a month for two years. The county will spend $400,000 and the remaining $3 million will come from the Marin Community Foundation, the Marin Independent Journal reported. To qualify, the women must have a child under the age of 18. Participants will be selected at random from among 4,600 people who have already received direct cash aid from the foundation with the help of the Family Independence Initiative.
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Columbia, S.C.—A South Carolina senator has a proposal to make sure no federal law can ever seize guns—make everyone over 17 who can legally own a gun a member of a militia. South Carolina’s constitution allows the governor to call up an “unorganized militia” of any “able bodied male citizens” between ages 18 and 45. State Sen. Tom Corbin’s proposal would automatically expand membership to everyone who is over 17 and could own a gun. Supporters of the bill said if everyone is a member of a militia, then they all fall under the opening clause of the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
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New Jersey—Rutgers University announced it will require all students receive the COVID-19 vaccine by the fall 2021 semester. All students enrolled for the fall semester must be vaccinated before arriving on campus, the university said Thursday. “We are committed to health and safety for all members of our community, and adding COVID-19 vaccination to our student immunization requirements will help provide a safer and more robust college experience for our students,” said Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway.
The announcement comes as the federal government set a directive to have vaccine doses available for all adults by the end of May.
New York Post,
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Tina Moore
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A woman shoved an Asian American City Council candidate down a Manhattan subway staircase in a random attack last week, the candidate told The Post.
Candidate Susan Lee said she was in the stairwell at the Oculus subway station when she spotted the woman staring at her. “You know she has this mischievous look on her face, and I was just thinking like, ‘Oh gosh, this isn’t good,’” Lee, 42, recalled of the March 17 incident.
“She pushed me,” she said, adding that she grabbed the handrail to brace herself. The council candidate said she isn’t sure if the woman, who appeared to be homeless,
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Mary Kekatos
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Pfizer Inc and its German partner BioNTech SE have begun testing their COVID-19 vaccine in children under age 12. On Wednesday, Pfizer spokesperson Sharon Castillo said the first volunteers in the early-stage trial were given their first injections. The vaccine was authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in late December for those aged 16 and older.
The companies hope they will be able to expand vaccination to that age range by early 2022. The pediatric trial, which will include children as young as six months old, follows a similar one launched by Moderna Inc last week. The safety of their
Washington Times,
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Jessica Chasmar
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The mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, is defending social media posts that slammed her own city as “rooted in racism” and compared it to a rapist.
Mayor Nikuyah Walker, who became Charlottesville‘s first Black female mayor in 2017, wrote a graphic comment on Facebook that she said got her briefly suspended from the platform. “Charlottesville: The beautiful-ugly it is,” Ms. Walker wrote Wednesday morning. “It rapes you, comforts you in its ***-stained sheet and tells you to keep its secrets.”(Snip) In a longer post, which also remains active on her page, Ms. Walker slammed her city as “anchored in white supremacy and rooted in racism.”
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