Crime and no punishment: Progressive DA Chesa Boudin pays a price for woke policies
Well, apparently there are limits to what even woke progressives will tolerate, even in a woke, progressive city such as San Francisco. Just ask Chesa Boudin, the city’s progressive district attorney whom voters just threw out of office in a special recall election. San Francisco voters had had enough — enough of crime, enough of flagrant drug use by junkies on the city’s streets, enough of the squalor that has turned o
Read MoreSanders: GOP has 'excellent' chance of gaining control of House, possibly Senate
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told Politico in an interview published Thursday that enthusiasm within the Democratic Party is “extremely low,” and warned of low turnout from the party’s base in this year’s midterm elections. Sanders argued that Democrats won’t to clinch victories in this year’s midterm elections even after the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade and the GOP’s opposition to most gun control measures in the wake of two high-profile mass
Read MoreWill monkeypox spread as fast as COVID?
(NEXSTAR) – As health departments around the country start to report cases of monkeypox, some are getting flashbacks to early 2020 before the coronavirus spread like wildfire. With more than 30 cases across 13 states, will the virus start a new pandemic? Key differences between the viruses make that unlikely. In a media briefing Tuesday, Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, outlined some of those differences. While monkeypox can spread through respiratory droplets, Inglesby explained, evidence suggests spread is happening throu
Biden administration announces national standards for electric vehicle charging networks
The Biden administration on Wednesday evening announced new standards to expand electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure throughout the U.S. The standards will be laid out formally in a proposed rule from the Federal Highway Administration, Energy Secretary Pete Buttigieg told reporters on a press call Wednesday. The rule will require EV charging stations every 50 miles and no more than a mile off the highway, emphasizing the interstate highway system and alternative fuel corridors, according to Buttigieg. “The proposed rule requires at least four 150-k
Read MoreSen. Markey, Rep. Khanna make wager on NBA finals
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) make a friendly wager as their respective teams, the Golden State Warriors and Boston Celtics, who are currently facing off in this year’s NBA Finals. In a tweet on Wednesday, Markey, rocking a Celtics jersey, told his fellow Democrat lawmaker that he will send him some Dunkin’ Donuts if his team loses to the Warriors, but noted that his Celtics might not need it. “Ro I'm challenging you, Celtics vs. Warrio
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