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Trucking Industry Stakeholders Debate CDL Test Flexibility  The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) faces opposition and support over its proposal to modify Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) testing rules, aimed at easing the process for obtaining CDLs. The proposed rule, titled “Increased Flexibility for Testing and for Drivers after Passing the Skills Test,” includes several significant changes to current regulations. These include allowing commercial learner’s permit (CLP) holders to drive without a CDL holder in the passenger seat once they pass the skills test, permitting CDL applicants to take a skills test in states other than where they live, and removing the mandatory 14-day waiting period between obtaining a CLP and taking the CDL skills test. The American Trucking Associations (ATA) and other industry stakeholders like Werner Enterprises and the Commercial Vehicle Training Association (CVTA) have expressed strong support for these changes. They argue that the amendments will address the…

Trump’s Presidential-Immunity Theory Is a Threat to the Chain of CommandNext Thursday, former President Donald Trump’s lawyers will argue before the U.S. Supreme Court that he is immune to all criminal charges against him arising from acts he committed while president. It is no exaggeration to say that this argument—that a president is permanently immune to criminal prosecution for any crimes committed in his official capacity—is the most dangerous assertion any official or former official has ever made in a U.S. courtroom.Should this argument be adopted by the Court, a president would have license to make use of the U.S. military to subvert democracy in multiple ways, for example by endeavoring to remain in power past the end of his legitimate term, or attempting to avoid accountability for his past criminal activities, and the country would have little to no recourse. A less appreciated danger, but one that would present…

Marjorie Taylor Greene Files Amendment to Israel Aid Bill for Space Lasers — And It Just Gets Weir…Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 26–28) As House Republicans battle amongst themselves over spending bills and aid packages for Israel and Ukraine, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) contributed several amendments that, while they’re highly unlikely to become law, did at least provide some amusement for congressional news junkies. Greene’s tenure in Congress thus far is marked by an abundance of outrageous headlines but bereft of any significant legislative accomplishments. A search of the legislation she has sponsored brings up only two bills that even passed the House — one to rename a federal courthouse in Georgia after a judge who died in 2022 and one to impeach…

Iranian academic at Princeton University accused of publicly supporting terror groupsFIRST ON FOX – A decades-old interview is adding to a widening scandal involving a former high-ranking Iranian official and controversial Princeton professor. Seyed Hossein Mousavian is accused of endorsing Hezbollah and Hamas in a 1997 German newspaper interview.The new revelations about Mousavian’s pro-Hamas and pro-Hezbollah interview in a German paper, coupled with what some claim was an endorsement of an Iranian regime fatwa (religious order) ordering the assassination of British-American author Salman Rushdie, comes at a time when the Ivy League professor is the subject of a congressional probe. Mousavian is currently facing a U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce investigation for allegedly advancing the interests of Iran.WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCES NEW SANCTIONS ON IRAN FOLLOWING ATTACK AGAINST ISRAEL: ‘THE PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE’In November, Fox News Digital exclusively reported on the investigation into Mousavian’s ties to the world’s worst state-sponsor of terrorism, the Islamic…

How Texas’s New Immigration Law Could Backfire for RepublicansIn the days after the November election in 2020, I traveled from Laredo, Texas, down along the Rio Grande into one of the great heartlands of Mexican America, a place locals proudly refer to by its area code, “the 956.” Along this stretch of the Texas border, towns are up to 98 percent Latino; Spanish is so common that Anglos have to learn the language if they want to order at restaurants. Yet on Election Night, residents had shocked the country by turning out for Donald Trump in record numbers.In Zapata County, where Trump became the first Republican to win the presidential vote since Warren Harding in 1920, I asked Cynthia Villarreal, a longtime Democratic organizer, what explained Trump’s success after four years of immigration raids and family separation. Villarreal told me that, in South Texas, many Mexican Americans don’t identify as…

How Trump Is Fracturing Minority CommunitiesThe most succinct explanation for how Republicans expect Donald Trump to win in November may have come from, of all people, the firebrand Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida.“What I can tell you,” Gaetz said earlier this year, “is for every Karen we lose, there’s a Julio and Jamal ready to sign up for the MAGA movement.”What Gaetz is saying, in his somewhat stereotypical racial shorthand, is that even if Trump alienates a growing number of well-educated white women (“Karen”), he can overcome those losses by attracting more blue-collar, nonwhite men (“Julio and Jamal”).Even most Democrats agree that Trump appears positioned to gain ground this year among Black and Latino men without a college degree—groups that already moved in his direction from 2016 to 2020, according to studies of the vote such as the analysis of the results released by Catalist, a Democratic voter-targeting firm. And…