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(The Center Square) – As Ohioans prep for the July Fourth holiday weekend, they will generally see a dip in gas prices.According to the Automobile Association of America, the average price per gallon is down a few cents from last week but significantly lower from the same time last year.The average cost for a gallon of regular unleaded in Ohio sits at $2.98, down 7 cents from a week ago but up 4 cents from last month. However, the average is more than 50 cents lower than a year ago.The news comes as record numbers of Americans are expected to be…

CANNES — Fifteen years after flipping burgers at a McDonald’s and teaching himself to code at night in a cramped apartment near the French Riviera, Robinhood crypto chief Johann Kerbrat is back.The last time he lived around Cannes, he was 21 — with no connections, no funding, and no formal business training. But he had a knack for programming and a drive to solve real-world problems.Kerbrat, who is now senior vice president and crypto GM at Robinhood, quit his job just before starting university in nearby Nice, and soon after launched his first fintech startup: a no-code payments company built…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Clean energy advocates were already bracing for a Republican-led bill that would phase out tax credits for wind, solar and other renewable energy as President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers moved to dismantle the 2022 climate law passed by Democrats under former President Joe Biden. But a proposal that emerged over the weekend was even more drastic than they thought.It was more aggressive in ending incentives for clean energy than a previous Senate version and would even impose new taxes on some wind and solar projects while boosting production of coal used in steelmaking. The Senate was…

Man charged with assaulting federal employeeThe U.S. Attorney’s Office has charged a man with assaulting a federal employee outside the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago.Prosecutors say 36-year-old Joshua Rowell approached the federal judiciary worker from behind and punched her in the side of the face The victim was hospitalized with a concussion.Gas tax increasing Tuesday Starting Tuesday, Illinois’ gas tax will rise to 48.3 cents per gallon.According to the Illinois Policy Institute, the tax hike will cost drivers an average of $143 per year.Combined with federal and local fuel taxes, the average tax per gallon in Illinois could be as high…

(The Center Square) – With summer travel in full swing, Michiganders will find themselves paying less at the pump than they were last year.The current average for regular unleaded is $3.27 a gallon, AAA reported on Saturday.Mid-grade comes in at $3.85, premium at $4.40, and diesel at $3.69. These are just slightly higher than the national average, which Michigan consistently trends above.While up a bit from Christmas prices, gas prices this summer are trending lower than last summer.That will come as a relief to many Americans, with record numbers expected to be on the road this Independence Day.AAA projects 72.2 million…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans said Monday that he will not seek reelection to his Philadelphia seat, capping a career in public office that stretches back 45 years.Evans, a Democrat, said in a statement that he decided that “the time is right” to retire after his term is up in early 2027. Evans, 71, said he is in good health and capable of serving, a year after he suffered what he has called a minor stroke.Evans is serving his fifth term. He originally ran for Congress in 2016 against then-U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, a fellow Democrat who…

Google on Monday announced a partnership with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, or CFS, a private company spun off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which marks the tech giant’s first commercial commitment to fusion.The company unveiled plans to buy 200 megawatts of clean fusion power from what CFS describes as the world’s first grid-scale fusion power plant, known as ARC, based in Chesterfield County, Virginia.ARC is expected to come online and generate 400 megawatts of clean, zero-carbon power in the early 2030s, which is enough energy to power large industrial sites or roughly 150,000 homes, according to CFS. The agreement also…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it will review whether Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s lawsuit seeking to shut down a section of an aging pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel belongs in state court.Nessel sued in state court in June 2019 seeking to void the easement that allows the Enbridge energy company to operate a 4.5-mile (6.4-kilometer) section of pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac, which link Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.She won a restraining order shutting down the pipeline from Ingham County Judge James Jamo in June 2020, although Enbridge was allowed to continue…

U.S. presidents have big egos—if they didn’t, their chances of reaching the Oval Office would be slim—and they want to be remembered favorably after they are gone. A few presidents, such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, enjoy an exalted status in part for their exceptional qualities but also because they overcame challenging circumstances that required extraordinary leadership. Presidents who govern in more normal times, or whose actions in office are tainted by obvious failures, can only hope they don’t end up near the bottom of one of those lists ranking presidents from best to worst. As in…

When I started writing on Carl Schmitt in the 1990s, the reaction in U.S. academia was often that you could treat a Nazi jurist with extraordinary capacities as a historical figure but not as a theorist to be invoked in present debates. Little could I have imagined that a quarter century later, a soon-to-be U.S. vice president would do precisely that: Last summer, J.D. Vance charged liberals with having learned from Schmitt how to hide political warfare behind a legal facade. Since then, the tables have been turned. Schmitt is regularly brought up by critics of the second Trump administration.…