The Drive,
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Caleb Jacobs
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It's no secret that the average new car is awfully heavy. That's because the average new car is usually a crossover, SUV, or pickup truck, and as battery power becomes more prominent, that problem won't be remedied right away. This causes issues on more than a couple of fronts, namely pedestrian safety and infrastructure. Some Washington D.C. council members are looking for a way to mitigate large vehicles' impacts on both by proposing that anyone with a car or truck weighing over 6,000 pounds pay $500 annually. As Bloomberg reports, that's roughly seven times the normal registration fee for, say
Politico,
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Ally Mutnick
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5/27/2022 8:48:53 AM
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Embattled GOP Rep. Liz Cheney is down 30 points in a new survey of her August primary conducted by the Club for Growth, which is backing her opponent. The poll, which provides perhaps the starkest illustration yet of the political peril Cheney faces this year, shows Wyoming attorney Harriet Hageman garnering 56 percent of the vote to the incumbent’s 26 percent in the GOP primary. A third Republican got 12 percent support, and just 6 percent are undecided. Hageman was recruited and endorsed by former President Donald Trump in response to Cheney’s vote to impeach him last year alongside nine
Newsweek,
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Fatma Khaled
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5/27/2022 8:38:26 AM
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Salvador Ramos' mother Adriana Reyes recently said that she had an "uneasy feeling" about 18-year-old her son who fatally shot 21 people on Tuesday, including 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. "I had an uneasy feeling sometimes, like 'what are you up to?", Reyes told ABC News in an interview published on Thursday, adding that her son is "not a monster," but that "he can be aggressive...If he really got mad." Ramos' mother also said that she was unaware that her son had been purchasing the weapons. The teen purchased two AR-15 style rifles
Washington Examiner,
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Jeremiah Poff
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5/26/2022 10:21:01 PM
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The San Francisco Unified School District announced Wednesday that it would no longer use the word "chief" in employee job titles due to its connection to Native American culture. The change applies to all 10,000 current employees in the California school district, according to a report by the San Francisco Chronicle. (Snip) The elimination of the term is not the only action the school district has taken to appease some members of the local Native American community. Every school district board meeting begins with a "land acknowledgment" in which the board reads a statement "that recognizes the Indigenous peoples who
Mediaite,
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Alex Griffing
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A new WPIX/Emerson College Polling/The Hill poll, published Thursday, shows former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio with only 6 percent after he officially announced a run last Friday for New York’s 10th Congressional District. The poll is particularly bruising given that the former two-term mayor left office only last year and the district is comprised entirely of his former constituents. The poll found that nearly 7 percent of those surveyed support Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) and 5 percent support New York State Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou. The poll of 500 “very likely Democratic voters” was conducted between May
The Hill [Washington DC],
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Julia Manchester
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Progressives are voicing anger at the Democratic establishment following the closely fought runoff between Jessica Cisneros and incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), leading to what could be deep divisions in the district ahead of the general election. As the results trickled in Wednesday and the race remained too close to call, progressives voiced their discontent with the House Democratic establishment for potentially pulling Cuellar over the finish line. (Snip) As of Wednesday morning, Cuellar led Cisneros by just 177 votes, according to the Texas Secretary of State’s Office. Cuellar declared victory in the early hours of Wednesday, but Cisneros has
National Public Radio,
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Martin Kaste
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President Biden will sign an executive order on Wednesday requiring new use-of-force rules for federal law enforcement and encouraging local police departments to make similar changes. The measure is the product of months of consultations with police professional groups and reform activists. The executive order is the fallback position for the administration after Congress failed to agree last year on a package of reforms dubbed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. Senior administration officials say relatives of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, will be present for the signing. Both Floyd and Taylor died during police action — Floyd while in
Fox News,
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Yael Halon
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The alleged plot to assassinate former President George W. Bush is "precisely" what critics of President Biden's open border policies have been warning about, one Republican lawmaker told Fox News on Tuesday. "This is precisely the concern we had with the open border policies of the Biden administration. For the first year or so, we were fighting with them tooth and nail to try and get information about the number of terrorists that were coming across the border on the terror watch list that had been seized," Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y., who serves as ranking member of the House Committee
Texas Tribune [Austin, TX],
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AbLivingston
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As early votes rolled in, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar was in a tight race against his progressive Democratic primary challenger, attorney Jessica Cisneros. In this race for the 28th congressional district, Cuellar, an anti-abortion moderate, held a 52-48% lead over Cisneros as results rolled in. As expected, she dominated the vote in Bexar County, while their mutual home of Webb County returned ballots heavily in favor of the incumbent. This race could become competitive in the fall. On the Republican side, former Senate staffer Cassy Garcia captured a 64-36% lead over activist Sandra Whitten in the Republican primary.
Washington Examiner,
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Daniel Chaitin
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5/24/2022 10:04:45 PM
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A Border Patrol agent is being credited with killing the gunman in a deadly mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday. An anonymous law enforcement official told the Associated Press that an agent rushed into Robb Elementary School without waiting for backup. The Border Patrol agent shot and killed the gunman, who was hiding behind a barricade, this source said. The as-yet-unidentified agent was wounded but able to walk out of the school, the source added. Border Patrol sources told Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin that the agent believed to have shot and killed the gunman
Reuters,
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Jason Lange
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WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden's public approval rating fell this week to 36%, the lowest level of his presidency, as Americans suffered from rising inflation, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll completed on Tuesday. The two-day national poll found that 59% of Americans disapprove of Biden's job performance. His overall approval was down six percentage points from 42% last week. Biden's approval rating has been below 50% since August, raising alarms that his Democratic Party is on track to lose control of at least one chamber of Congress in the Nov. 8 midterm election. In a sign of weakening
Associated Press,
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Mark Kennedy
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NEW YORK — Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki has officially landed at MSNBC, where she is expected to make appearances on the network's cable and streaming programs as well as host a new original show. The program, set to debut in the first quarter of 2023, will “bring together her unique perspective from behind the podium and her deep experience in the highest levels of government and presidential politics,” the network said in a statement Tuesday. Psaki will also appear on NBC and during MSNBC’s primetime special election programming throughout the midterms and 2024 presidential election. Psaki most
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Some good news - they want her out of town by sunset.