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- Bill to Simplify Carrier Background Checks Moves Ahead
The U.S. Senate has advanced the Transportation Security Screening Modernization Act of 2024, a bill designed to streamline the background check process for commercial carriers. The bipartisan legislation, also known as Senate Bill 3959, addresses long-standing inefficiencies in the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) credentialing programs, including the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) and Hazardous Materials Endorsement (HME). With broad support from industry stakeholders, the bill now moves to the House of Representatives for consideration. Truck drivers often face redundant regulatory processes when obtaining the certifications needed for specialized hauls. For instance, a driver hauling hazardous materials to a port facility must secure both a TWIC card for maritime access and an HME on their commercial driver’s license. Although these credentials require nearly identical information and follow similar application procedures, they currently operate as separate programs, each with its own fees, appointments, and processing times. Under the current system,… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago - Is This How Democrats Win Back the Working Class?
Updated at 6:12 p.m. ET on December 12, 2024A week after Donald Trump won the presidency again, I sat across from Chris Murphy in his minimalist but well-appointed D.C. office. The Connecticut senator sounded like a man who had done a speedrun through all five stages of grief and was ready to talk about what comes next: how his party could learn from its loss and win over—or win back—voters in 2026 and 2028. “I have thought for a long time that there’s a race between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party,” Murphy told me. “And the question is: Does the Republican Party become more economically populist in a genuine way before the Democratic Party opens itself up to people who don’t agree with us on 100 percent of our social and cultural issues?”Murphy is onto something. The politics of the average American are not well represented by either… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago - Pricey weight loss drugs lose some disciples in 2024
People struggling with their body weight experienced joy when new, more effective prescription drug options became the rage in 2023, but it seems many folks stopped taking them in 2024. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago - Australia turns to rugby to curb China influence in PNG
Papua New Guinea will join Australia's rugby league in exchange for allegiance on security matters. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago - A Scandalous ResignationWhen Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, in 2017, I was about to drive my daughter and some of her friends to a soccer tryout. I remember that the news came moments before we left; once we arrived, I sat on a bench next to the soccer field, scrolling through incredulous and fearful reactions on Twitter. The news was widely considered akin to Richard Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre, one of the most odious scandals in American history. TRUMP FIRES COMEY AMID RUSSIA INQUIRY, screamed a banner headline on the front page of The New York Times.Now Trump, preparing for his second term as president, has decided to replace the FBI director again. The figure he picked to replace Comey—the lifelong Republican Christopher Wray—proved unable to meet Trump’s expectations for the position, which are (1) to permit Trump and his allies to violate the law with impunity, and (2) to… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago
- This Is How Political Violence Goes MainstreamIt is tempting to think of political extremists as those who have had their brain flambéed by a steady media diet of oddball podcasters, fringe YouTubers, and “do your own research” conspiracists. Dylann Roof, who killed nine people at a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, was known to hang out in white-supremacist forums. Robert Bowers frequently posted racist content on the right-wing site Gab, where he wrote “Screw your optics, I’m going in” just before murdering 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto explaining why he murdered 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019 was filled with 4chan jokes and memes, suggesting that he had spent ample time on the platform.Yet at first glance, Luigi Mangione, the suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, doesn’t seem to fit this mold. Mangione was active on social media—but in the… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.2 weeks ago
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