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With two assembly plants and a leading research facility, Illinois has positioned itself to become a center of the technology transforming the automotive industry. As automakers move to replace internal combustion engines with electric powertrains over the next decade or two, states are racing to stake their claims to electric vehicle manufacturing and the jobs it will create. So far, established automakers are primarily concentrating production in Michigan, Tennessee, Indiana and South Carolina. Newcomers such as Tesla and Lucid have chosen Nevada, Texas and Arizona. Illinois beat out Texas ...

Why the Sun Belt may pick the next president CNN 3 days ago Analysis by Ronald Brownstein © Christian Petersen/Getty Images Voters wait in line at the Surprise Court House polling location on November 03, 2020 in Surprise, Arizona. After a record-breaking early voting turnout, Americans head to the polls on the last day to cast their vote for incumbent U.S. President Donald Trump or Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. The battleground states across the industrial Midwest have functioned as the decisive tipping point of American politics for at ...

As a plot twist, the concept of reversing roles, or undergoing major and unexpected transformations, is hardly new. Tom Hanks’s breakthrough role was in  Big, the 1988 film in which he played a little boy who wished he could be an adult, only to wake up the next day in the body of a grown man (the role won Hanks an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor). The same theme was used in  13 Going on 30 with Jennifer Garner as the teenage girl who made the leap in age. Then of course there was the 2003 movie  Freaky Friday, in which Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan played a mother and dau...

Biden wants trillions for infrastructure, but a hurdle remains: Spending the cash Benjy Sarlin and Sahil Kapur © Provided by NBC News WASHINGTON — Democrats are fighting to approve trillions of dollars in new spending to tackle everything from education to housing to clean energy, the culmination of years of work by advocates across the progressive movement. But finding the votes in Congress may be the easiest part. The federal government has struggled in recent history to quickly translate cash from Congress into actual shovels in the ground. And for Democrats, deriving a...

Across the country, Black city-builders are imagining and building more just and beautiful communities. What are they learning and dreaming? Join Orlando P. Bailey of Urban Consulate for a new series of candid conversations rooted in radical truth, joy and love. In this one-hour virtual premiere event, Bailey welcomes three featured guests from Washington, D.C., Minneapolis and Cincinnati to delve deep into key themes and invite audience reflection and action. Register for the premiere and learn how to watch each episode as they debut.   [[person_1]] [[person_2]] [[person_3]] [[person_4]]...