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USA TODAY The House of Representatives adopted a rule Tuesday to fine lawmakers who flout safety measures put in place after the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol last month. The rule gives the sergeant-at-arms the authority to fine lawmakers $5,000 for a first offense and $10,000 for a second if the legislators do not complete the security screening to enter the house, which includes walking through a metal detector. The new metal detectors were put at the House Chamber's entrance in the wake of the mob that stormed the Capitol, allegedly incited by former President Donald Trump. However, som...

Caroline Preston The Hechinger Report The job on the light rail platform was to be one of her last as an apprentice sheet metal worker, and Vanessa Carman was relieved. She was one year shy of achieving journeywoman status and the higher pay and better treatment it typically afforded – at least to men, who account for virtually all her coworkers. Carman, a muscular 5 feet 8 with raven hair, had endured a litany of injustices since entering construction. On her first job as an apprentice in 2008, men called her “the pookie princess” after the sealant she used to close ducts that snaked ...

FARMINGTON — The Navajo Nation Office of the Controller will send text messages to notify applicants about their applications or payment status for the tribe's CARES Fund Hardship Assistance Program. This notification is being used to help ease the number of telephone calls placed to the program's support center, according to the office. Messages will be sent this week from the 505 area code and will be written as follows: Mailed or pending check message: "Hello, this is the Navajo Nation Hardship Assistance Program Support Center. We are confirming your application has been approved and...

The most active QAnon-related account on Twitter has posted more than 1,800 times since the inauguration, promoting false claims of election fraud, Advance Democracy found. “There is no doubt that some QAnon adherents have drifted away from the movement after the inauguration of President Biden. This drift, along with the mainstream social media platforms banning QAnon accounts, has made a substantial difference in the volume of QAnon material easily accessible online,” said Daniel Jones, president of Advance Democracy. “Nonetheless, we’re still finding QAnon adherents on the mainstr...

Understanding a 1 in 302,575,350 chance of something is tough, Wasserstein said. Stand on the corner of a football field and start laying out dollar bills until you've placed 302,575,350 of them: That'll take up about 585 football fields, he said. What if you had pennies and placed 302,575,350 in stacks as tall as the Empire State Building? It'd be more than 1,000 Empire State Building-tall penny stacks. "Humans are not naturally equipped to understand such big numbers," Wasserstein added. The odds of winning are 1 in 302,575,350 because there are 302,575,350 possible combinations of si...