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Florida Enacts Voting Restrictions; Texas Moves to Follow Last Updated May 6, 2021, 11:56 p.m. ETMay 6, 2021, 11:56 p.m. ET Gov. Ron DeSantis signs Florida’s measure into law, allowing only Fox News access to the signing. The Texas House is debating one of the nation’s most sweeping voter bills. A senior State Department official said the U.S. could return to the Iran nuclear deal within weeks. Here’s what you need to know: Representative Briscoe Cain, Republican of Houston and a sponsor...

Biden visits Louisiana, going over the heads of Republican foes in Congress, to seek bipartisan voter support for his infrastructure and jobs plan. Republicans on Capitol Hill have argued that higher corporate taxes would lead to higher prices for everyday consumers. Biden says the taxes are necessary to make desperately needed improvements without adding to the deficit. “I don’t want to punish anybody,” the president said. “You’re entitled to be a millionaire or a billionaire. Just...

Biden wants to sell Louisiana a new bridge — and much more Chris Megerian President Biden pressed his case for taxing the rich to fund his multitrillion-dollar infrastructure proposal Thursday, pointing to an aging highway bridge and crumbling water facilities in Louisiana as proof that the federal government needs to step in with more money.   "The blinders have been taken off the American people,” Biden said while standing at the edge of Lake Charles in the state’s sout...

100 days: Facing uphill fights with Congress, Biden expected to turn to his pen Naomi Lim © Provided by Washington Examiner President Joe Biden will likely increasingly rely on the power of his pen to implement left-leaning priorities as bills begin to pile up in the evenly divided Senate, experts say. After 100 days in the White House, Biden has left a long trail of executive action paperwork behind him. As of mid-April, for instance, he had signed 40 executive orders, outpac...

The last time D.C. was part of Maryland, Florida was part of Spain.

  MS. PSAKI:  Okay.  Happy Earth Day, everyone.  And joining us in the Briefing Room for the second time — I told you they’d come back and take more questions; I deliver on my promises — is National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy and Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry.   We’re, of course, very excited to have them here.  After their short remarks, they will be able to take just a few questions because they have a busy Climate Summit under way.       On day one, Pr...

Wed April 21, 2021 - West Edition #9 Rebuild SoCal The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has released its 2021 Report Card for Americas Infrastructure. The report, published once every four years, gave the United States a C- overall grade — up from a D+ in 2017 — marking the first time in two decades that the country has received a grade in the C range. However, the overall grade still means that the nations infrastructure is "in mediocre condition, has deficiencies and needs att...

SpaceX’s new Starlink satellite internet service is in a very limited beta testing period right now, but the company is already thinking ahead: as first noted by CNBC, SpaceX has filed an application with the FCC for Starlink components that would allow the service to work on moving vehicles. Big moving vehicles, that is — Elon Musk tweeted that the existing Starlink terminals are too big for Tesla’s vehicles, and the idea is targeted at planes, RVs, trucks, and ships. Not connecting Te...

Biden seemed like a safe choice. But so far he might as well be wearing a T-shirt saying, 'Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.'

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