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Should Your Car Know When You’re Too Drunk to Drive?

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When President Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill in 2021, he committed $1.2 trillion to rebuilding the nation’s roads and bridges. The president spearheaded one of the biggest investments in infrastructure in decades: more than $42 billion for broadband…

Supreme Court Hears Navajo Nation Demands in Colorado River Case

A man fills a tank intended for drought-affected livestock from a community rancher’s well on the Navajo Nation. David McNew/Getty This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 1849 and 1868, the Navajo Nation signed two treaties with the United States. The treaties created a reservation that would…

Trump Reportedly Really Wants to Be Handcuffed

Not Donald Trump but his fantasy, maybe.AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In preparation for the likely event that he may soon become the first-ever former president to get indicted, Donald Trump apparently wants to go big. I’m talking handcuffs, a perp walk, the…

We Need More People Like George Santos in Congress

Patrick Semansky / Associated Prss Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.George Santos, the first-term Republican representative from New York, may go down as the most famous fabulist in the history of Congress. In the run-up to his election last year from a district that…