Democrats and Republicans came together last year to support the $1 trillion infrastructure bill, which allocated billions of dollars toward repairing roads and bridges, investments into public transit, the expansion of high-speed internet and the elimination of lead pipes throughout the United States. Although the bill was met with some GOP pushback, it was seen as one of President Joe Biden’s key achievements during his first year in office....

“This is total fraud, and how the FBI and Department of Justice — I don’t know maybe they’re involved. But how people are allowed to get away with this stuff is unbelievable,” Trump told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. Kinzinger, who represents Illinois’ 16th congressional district, responded on Twitter, invoking a phrase associated with Trump’s former White House chief strategist, Steve Bannon. “The @FBI did not rig the election,” Kinzinger wrote....

Trump insisted that voter fraud was rife during his Thursday night NBC News town hall in Miami, Florida. “When I see thousands of ballots, right, unsolicited ballots being given out by the millions and thousands of them are dumped in dumpsters and when you see ballots with the name—Trump military ballots from our great military and they’re dumped in garbage cans,” the president said. Speaking on CNN, Wyman on Friday expressed concern over voter fraud warnings made by Trump during his town hall event Thursday evening....

During an interview segment on his program, Carlson repeatedly pressed Loeffler to explain how her selling of $3.1 million in stocks just weeks ahead of the market crash on March 9 did not impede upon the Stock Act, which prohibits lawmakers from using non-public information in stock trades. Loeffler stands alongside at least three other U.S. senators accused of conducting dozens of transactions just as they received reports of how bad the economy was about to get amid the COVID-19 spread....

Ginsburg, a liberal and feminist icon, died on Friday at the age of 87 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. In a statement released after her passing, the justice said: “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.” In 2016, the Republican-controlled Senate under the leadership of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to confirm former President Barack Obama’s judicial nominee Merrick Garland, arguing that voters should be given a chance to weigh-in during the upcoming election....

In an op-ed for The Daily Beast, Wilson said that the media conference that Donald Trump gave in the Oval Office on Wednesday with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto showed he was an unhinged leader who will take the Republican party down with him. During a 16-minute rant, Trump’s visible anger at the media, the chair of the House intelligence committee, Adam Schiff, and the whistleblower who sparked an impeachment probe against him, led Wilson to use an Islamist image he would draw on later, describing Niinisto as someone who “looked like he was the very unwilling star of an ISIS hostage video....

Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves, both Republicans, announced on Tuesday that they would be lifting their statewide mask mandates. Abbott’s new executive order will end the mask mandate next week and will allow all businesses across Texas to be open at 100 percent capacity. Reeves issued a similar new executive order on Tuesday, with his state’s mask mandate ending on Wednesday of this week. The decisions drew significant criticism from health experts, lawmakers and the White House....

DeSantis has offered an “anti-mob legislation draft,” proposing to expand the law’s list of “forcible felonies” to include looting or “criminal mischief” that could result in the “interruption or impairment” of a business, according to The Miami Herald. Legal experts and advocates have expressed concerns that the proposal is aimed at those taking part in protests against police brutality and racial injustice. “It dangerously gives armed private citizens power to kill as they subjectively determine what constitutes ‘criminal mischief’ that interferes with a business,” former Miami-Dade prosecutor Aubrey Webb told the Herald....

“We took dramatic actions in this state. New York pause program that closed down schools, businesses, social distancing, and it’s working,” Cuomo said during Wednesday’s press briefing. “It is flattening the curve and we see that again today so far. Meaning that curve is flattening because we are flattening the curve by what we are doing. If we stop what we are doing, you will see that curve change. That curve is purely a function of what we do day in and day out....

“I think this is mission accomplished. Mission accomplished by the union, the partnership, the conglomerate of social media, Big Tech, big media and government, big government, for ushering in the dawn of a new world order. This great reset,” Unanue said on Fox Business’ Mornings With Maria Wednesday. “With an unverified election, and the big prize is the United States.” Unanue went on to claim that Big Tech and media are not only out to attack former President Donald Trump, but also the “80 million people that voted for him....

In his first ever game as a Champions League manager, Potter called the squad he inherited “fantastic” and praised Salzburg, who hit back after Raheem Sterling had put Chelsea ahead three minutes after the break. “They gave everything,” said Potter, calling his squad “honest and responsible.” “I was very proud of how they acted. It’s not been easy for them, with the change of coach and everything that comes with that....

ANTIPASTI Carpaccio; marinated seafood; assorted meats; cheeses; mushroom caps stuffed with crab meat; red and yellow peppers; roasted eggplant, grilled shrimp with herb and garlic sauce; lobster tail. Calories: 1016 Grams of fat: 58 CALAMARI Sauteed in marinara sauce Calories: 200 Grams of fat: 8.4 BREAD and breadsticks with butter. Calories: 228 Grams of fat: 8.5 SOUP Tuscan white bean soup with tomato and spinach (Bill only). Calories: 155 Grams of fat: 2...

On Tuesday, Denham, 30, was found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder, four counts of armed criminal action and several other crimes by a Platte County jury. The jury deliberated for two hours, after which they also found Denham guilty of second-degree arson for setting fire to his family’s home, animal abuse for shooting the family dog, and stealing his grandmother’s car and driving to Arizona, according to The Kansas City Star....

The gender switch accounts for her amazing effect; Dame Edna puts us all in touch with our inner bitch. Inside all that mauve is her mordantly brilliant creator, Barry Humphries, also an actor, novelist, poet, painter and the last great exponent of the classic British music hall. Humphries, 65, by now is more Edna than Barry. He’s added some Lettermanish shtik, telephoning audience members’ babysitters from the stage. That’s unworthy of the great Dame, who should be running for office....

Warren and Dredge were tied atop the leaderboard overnight but Warren surged ahead of the Welshman with three birdies on his first eight holes to open up a four-shot lead. Warren made two more birdies coming home and could afford his second bogey on the day on the 18th hole for a 9-under 275 total. LEADERBOARDS: PGA’s Wyndham Championship | LPGA Championship It was Warren’s first title since winning the 2007 Johnnie Walker Championship, after several recent near misses....

Kimon Bisogno, 39, had been on a Plettenberg Bay beach in South Africa on Monday with her husband and young daughter. She had been wading through waist deep water when the great white shark, thought to be nearly 13-feet long, appeared through a wave and attacked, GB News reported. Witnesses said the water “turned red” as people nearby screamed for help. The great white approached Bisogno quickly and seized her in its teeth, according to news....

The shark, named Jekyll, is one of those tagged and tracked by the ocean research organization OCEARCH. The great white ‘pinged’ when he came close to the surface of the water on January 3, around 1 p.m. Jekyll is a juvenile white shark measuring 8.4 feet and weighing 395 pounds. He was only recently tagged by OCEARCH, in December 2022. Myrtle Beach is known for its 60-mile stretch of beaches that draw around 20 million visitors each year....

A single pair of killer whales is believed to be responsible for several other killings of great white sharks off the coast of South Africa since 2017. They are thought to remove and eating their fatty internal organs, such as their livers and hearts. These large and fatty organs are seemingly a favorite food of orca, and they appear to actively search out foods that contain high levels of lipids....