Possibilities include road use charge, e-commerce delivery fee, and toll lanes to replace or supplant motor fuel tax levied by all 50 states. LOUISVILLE, Kentucky—State Motor Fuel Tax (MFT) revenues are flat and even declining in some states because automobiles are increasingly more fuel-efficient, ensuring the trend will continue even without electric vehicles (EVs) dominating
The City of Chicago has yet to grant a pro-Israel group’s permit request for a rally near the Democratic National Convention later this month, despite having approved an anti-Israel group’s request to hold a similar rally during the same event. The Israeli American Council, a pro-Israel nonprofit organization looking to hold a solidarity march at the
A leading member of Iran’s nuclear negotiating team promised on Wednesday to “wipe out” every American military base in the Middle East if the United States joins Israel in an attack on the Islamic Republic. The fresh threat comes ahead of an expected Iranian attack on Israel in response to the killing of Hamas leader
The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s election case in Washington has issued a number of orders this week. The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s election case in Washington has issued a number of orders this week. After the U.S. Supreme Court formally sent the case back to Judge Tanya Chutkan last month, she
Challengers argued that the new law was unconstitutional because it returns voting rights to felons on release, before civil rights are returned. The Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously upheld a 2023 state law returning voting rights to Minnesotans with felony convictions immediately after their release from prison. In its Aug. 7 ruling, the state’s highest court
After years of commenting on politics, CNN weekend anchor John Avlon, a self-proclaimed “centrist,” decided to, in his words, “step up and get off the sidelines.” In February, the former Rudy Giuliani speechwriter announced that he was running as a Democrat to unseat Republican representative Nick LaLota in New York’s First Congressional District, located in
The Biden-Harris administration has, for years, vowed to deploy thousands of solar panels to stabilize Puerto Rico’s power grid amid regular blackouts, government mismanagement, and ever-increasing residential electricity rates. But, years after making that promise, a $1 billion program central to that effort yielded only a tiny handful of solar panels, the Washington Free Beacon