Good morning! On this date in 1866, the Reno Gang, led by brothers John and Simeon, pulled off the first train robbery in U.S. history, making off with $10,000 from an Ohio & Mississippi railroad train rolling into Jackson County, Indiana. (Photos)
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Biden Resumes Building Trump’s Border Wall
The Biden administration waived 26 federal laws to allow construction to resume on the South Texas border wall championed by former President Donald Trump. Biden campaigned against the wall, but his administration now says there’s an urgent need for “physical barriers.”
Biden waived the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act, among others, to allow the Department of Homeland Security to begin construction on an additional 20 miles of wall.
Facing criticism for the move, Biden said he didn’t like it but that his hands were tied because the money was earmarked specifically for the wall. Trump scoffed on social media. “I will await his apology,” he posted.
Supermarket Chicken Prices Soar to New High
Chicken prices at U.S. grocery stores have hit record highs and will likely stay high as Tyson Foods and other poultry companies cut back on production. Consumers have been buying more chicken as inflation makes beef and pork increasingly expensive.
American consumption of chicken is expected to exceed 100 pounds per person this year for the first time ever. Beef consumption is forecast to drop to its lowest level since 2018, and pork consumption is at its lowest since 2015.
The issue of food inflation has been spiking on social media, with many consumers arguing that prices have risen far more than government figures indicate, as this video from a shopper comparing past and present prices at Costco illustrates.
The federal government shipped more than 980 million cards between late 2020, when the first vaccines came out, through May 10 of this year. The CDC doesn’t expect the end of vaccination cards to have a major effect.
People who need their immunization records can usually get them from their pharmacy. Here’s a list of the big pharmacy chains and their policies on vaccination records.
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➤ Donald Trump says he’s considering a trip to Congress next week and is open to pitching himself as a candidate for House speaker. Though it remains a longshot possibility, several House members have backed the idea. (More)
➤ In other Trump news, his presidential campaign announced that it pulled in $45.5 million in the third quarter, significantly outraising any of his GOP rivals. He says he has $37 million in available cash. (More)
➤ Green Party candidate Cornel West switched parties to run for president as a third-party independent. This is his second switch — he began with the liberal People’s Party before moving to the Green Party. (More)
➤ President Biden’s dog Commander has been removed from the White House and taken to an undisclosed location following a series of biting attacks. This is the second dog exiled from the Biden White House for aggressive behavior. (More)
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➤ Every one of baseball’s wild-card matches ended in two-game sweeps, and the best-of-five division contests begin on Saturday. Here’s the lineup: Orioles vs. Rangers, Astros vs. Twins, Braves vs. Phillies, and Dodgers vs. Diamondbacks. (See TV Schedule)
➤ NASCAR’s Chicago Street Race will return to Grant Park next summer on July 6 and 7. City officials said the inaugural race last summer generated $109 million for the city despite disruptions from heavy rain. (More)
➤ Fired Northwestern football coach Pat Fitzgerald sued the university for $130 million for wrongful termination. He was let go in the wake of a hazing and abuse scandal after 17 years as head coach of the football team. (More)
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➤ Big Stock Move: Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte stock dropped 28% Thursday on news that Mexico had raised tariffs on its airports. All the major Mexican airports saw their shares drop sharply, and the country’s main stock index fell over 4%. (More)
➤ Home mortgage rates neared 8% as loan applications dropped to a nearly three-decade low. The current mortgage rate of 7.53% is the highest since 2000. By comparison, mortgages were 5.65% a year ago. (More)
➤ Clorox shares dropped 8% Thursday, hitting their lowest level since 2018, after the company warned that a cyberattack in August would slash up to 28% off its revenue. (More)
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➤ Nike’s 2023 “Small World in Motion” competition features time-lapse videos taken in such close-up that it can be hard to understand what you’re seeing. First place went to a sequence of neurons firing in a chick embryo. (See Winners)
➤Virgin Galactic is set to launch its fourth commercial mission tomorrow with three space tourists aboard. The ship will fly on a sub-orbital trajectory that gives passengers a few minutes of weightlessness before returning to Earth. (Photos)
➤ Scientists say they have evidence of a sixth basic taste receptor to go along with sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami – a Scandinavian-style salty licorice type of flavor that works through the same receptors that signal the sour taste. (More)
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➤A 12-year-old boy saved his grandfather from choking on candy by using the Heimlich maneuver he learned from an ambulance crew at his school a week earlier. “It was quite frightening,” the boy said, but the candy “came straight out.” (Photos)
➤ A postal worker saved a dog’s life after it was bitten by a poisonous snake by rushing it to a vet. The beagle’s owners weren’t home, so she held a phone message up to their doorbell camera that read: “little beagle bit by copperhead.” (See Video)
➤ A young couple lost a ring near a playground sandlot in 1960. They got married, had kids, grandkids, and now 15 great-grandkids. Last month, 63 years later, the ring was found by a man with a metal detector in that same sandlot. (More)
➤ Sheriff’s deputies in Washington state were called to rescue a stag whose antlers were caught in a tree swing. It turned out to be a riskier effort than they expected. (See Video)
➤ Glendon Good built one of the most inaccessible homes in the world, 200 feet above the Arizona desert, reachable only via gondola by people not scared of heights. The gondola ride takes over three minutes and moves at just over a 45-degree angle. (See it)
➤ Mark Twain’s original 1876 handwritten manuscript of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” has been painstakingly restored by conservators. It’s now on display at Mark Twain’s Birthplace State Historic Site in Florida, Missouri. (Photos)
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