Author: Pauline Edwards

A group of progressive lawmakers is renewing its push to increase taxes on the country’s wealthiest people. The proposal, reintroduced Tuesday, would create a 2 percent tax on households that are worth more than $50 million and a 3 percent tax on households worth more than $1 billion. It would affect the wealthiest 100,000 households…

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The Biden administration is expected this week to announce new automobile emissions standards that relax proposed limits for three years but eventually reach the same strict standards proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency. The changes come as sales of zero-tailpipe emissions electric vehicles, needed to meet the standards, have started to slow. The auto industry has cited lower sales growth in objecting to the EPA's preferred standards unveiled last April as part of the most ambitious plan ever to reduce planet-warming emissions from passenger vehicles. The changes seem to be aimed at addressing strong industry opposition to the accelerated increase of EVs, as well as public reluctance to fully adopt the new technology.

The Murrieta, California, police department has gained recognition this year for its creative placement of Lego heads over suspects’ faces in images taken during arrests and bookings, leaving many of their Instagram followers wondering why.

By KEVIN FREKING (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and congressional leaders announced Tuesday that they have reached an agreement on this fiscal year’s final set of spending bills. Now, the question is how fast lawmakers can get the bills passed to avoid a partial government shutdown. While Biden said he’ll sign the […]

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A former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy has been given a sentence of around 20 years in prison for his involvement in torturing two Black men. Hunter Elward was sentenced by a federal judge on Tuesday. Five other former law enforcement officers are scheduled for sentencing this week. Another will be sentenced on Tuesday, two will be sentenced on Wednesday, and two others on Thursday. All six of the former officers pleaded guilty to multiple federal charges in August. They confessed to subjecting Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker to numerous acts of racist torture last year. Elward confessed to pushing a gun into Jenkins’ mouth and firing it in a “mock execution” that went wrong.