President Biden will unveil an infrastructure plan on Wednesday whose $2 trillion price tag would translate into 20,000 miles of rebuilt roads, repairs to the 10 most economically important bridges in the country, the elimination of lead pipes and service lines from the nation’s water supplies and a long list of other projects intended to create millions of jobs in the short run and strengthen American competitiveness in the long run. Biden administration officials said the proposal, which they detailed in a 25-page briefing paper and which Mr. Biden will discuss in an afternoon speech in Pittsburgh, would also accelerate the fight against climate change by hastening the shift to new, cleaner energy sources, and would help promote racial equity in the economy. The spending in the plan would take place over eight years, officials said. Unlike the economic stimulus passed under President Barack Obama in 2009, when Mr. Biden was vice president, officials will not in every case prioritize so-called shovel ready projects that could quickly bolster growth. But even spread over years, the scale of the proposal underscores how fully Mr. Biden has embraced the opportunity to use federal spending to address longstanding social and economic challenges in a way not seen in half a century. Officials said that, if approved, the spending in the plan would end decades of stagnation in federal investment in research and infrastructure — and would return government investment in those areas, as a share of the economy, to its highest levels since the 1960s.

Inside the small but loud effort to recall Chesa Boudin.

The last time ships got stuck in the Suez Canal, they were there for eight years and developed a separate society with its own Olympic Games.

He said that to overcome his fear of rats he emulated the traditions of Native American and Zulu tribes, who would "consume the heart, the brains and the genitalia" of their enemies. "I cooked and consumed part of the rat. And thereafter, I had no fear of rats," he claimed. Roast in hell, you fuck.

New research published earlier this month in the American Journal of Public Health argues that Florida is undercounting the number of people who have died from COVID-19 by thousands of cases, casting new doubt on claims that Gov. Ron DeSantis navigated the pandemic successfully.

An inquiry into the Florida congressman was opened in the final months of the Trump administration, people briefed on it said.

Three men (out of seven) accused in a alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmerwill not be tried on charges of a threat of terrorism, a Jackson County judge ruled Monday. Klaeren also on Monday ordered Bellar, Morrison and Musico to stand trial on three remaining charges, gang membership and providing material support for terrorism, both punishable by up to 20 years in prison, as well as felony firearm, punishable by up to two years in prison.

Four officers spoke about life in the feared Tatmadaw, which has turned its guns on civilians again. “The Tatmadaw is the only world” for most soldiers, one said.

An agonizing choice for nearly 200 people holed up in a hotel as gunmen roamed unchecked: Wait overnight for rescue? Or make a run for it?

The jurors bring to the table a range of views about race and policing, some forged by long life experience and some formed after the death of George Floyd.

The MyPillow CEO launched into a rant on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast, baselessly claiming Donald Trump would "be back in office in August."

The record bloom fits into a long-term pattern toward earlier spring flowering.

There is nothing like spending a rainy afternoon at a museum, soaking in the beauty and wonder of art and history. Now the Louvre, the world's most visited museum, is letting you do that right from home.

Fox News contributor Dan Bongino claims to be a Parler investor — but former CEO John Matze says he was duped

When is a family D&D game no longer just a family D&D game?

A new paper published Monday at Nature Energy has triggered a heated debate in the battery community, asserting that in certain cases, lithium-metal batteries suffer a catastrophic loss of lifetime capacity. The issue is calendar life — how many years a battery can be useful, regardless of whether the vehicle in which it’s installed is driven or not. The paper, written by nine authors at Stanford University led by Yi Cui, a materials scientist, found that in extreme testing, lithium-metal batteries lose up to 25% of their lifetime capacity just sitting around.

Wall Street banks grappling with the implosion of Bill Hwang’s investment firm spent Monday briefing U.S. regulators as Washington starts to dig into one of the biggest fund blowups in years. The Securities and Exchange Commission summoned the banks for hasty meetings on what triggered the forced sale of more than $20 billion of stocks linked to Hwang’s Archegos Capital Management, said people with knowledge of the matter who asked not to be named in discussing private conversations. The calls also involved the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, with officials quizzing brokerages about any impacts on their operations, potential credit risks and other threats, said one of the people. [TL;DR Credit Suisse may be the next Bear Stearns]

Police suspect that Yoshino was hoping the cleaning crew would not notice the body of her mother　[in the secret closet freezer?].

That comes as no surprise to the growing number of psychologists and ecologists studying the effects of nature on people’s mental health and well-being. The links they are uncovering are complex, and not yet fully understood. But even as the pandemic has highlighted them, it has also exposed that, in an increasingly urbanised world, our access to nature is dwindling – and often the most socio-economically deprived people face the biggest barriers. Amid talk about building back better, there is an obvious win-win-win here. Understand how to green the world’s urban spaces the right way and it can boost human well-being, help redress social inequality and be a boon for the biodiversity we all depend on

Tokyo police have arrested a 28-year-old man who rappelled down the side of a building and into a store to steal Pokemon trading cards