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USPS unions, top House Democrat back bill setting harsher sentences for robbing letter carriers

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Ryan Pierani remembers getting robbed when he used to deliver pizzas. But he never expected to be robbed on the job while delivering mail and packages, as a letter carrier for the Postal Service. “When you carry cash on you, you always expect to be robbed,” Pierani, now a letter carrier in Cincinnati, Ohio, said in an interview Wednesday. “You have to be on high alert, and it happens here and there.” But Pierani wasn’t on guard, when a young man approached his USPS-marked delivery van in January 2022. He…

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The First MAGA Democrat

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This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s speech is warbling, crackling, scratchy—sort of like Marge Simpson’s. His voice, he told me, is “fucked up.” The official medical diagnosis is spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder that causes involuntary spasms in the larynx. He didn’t always sound this way; his speaking style changed when he was in his 40s. Kennedy has said he suspects…

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The Most Dangerous Democrat in Iowa

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The third graders were not interested in meeting the state auditor. It was career day at Samuelson Elementary School in Des Moines, and Rob Sand had assembled a table in the gymnasium alongside a dozen other grown-ups with jobs. All the other adults had brought props: the man from the bathroom-remodeling company handed out yellow rubber ducks, a local doctor let the kids poke and prod a model heart, and an engineer showed off a long, silly-looking tube that had something to do with the mass production of hot dogs.…

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Democrat Stansbury Keeps New Mexico U.S. House Seat In Party’s Hands – NPR

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Democrat Stansbury Keeps New Mexico U.S. House Seat In Party’s Hands  NPR US Democrats press to avoid upset in New Mexico special election  Al Jazeera English Democrat Melanie Stansbury wins US House race in New Mexico  ABC News Democrat Melanie Stansbury wins N.M. special election, holding narrow U.S. House majority  NBC News Democrat Melanie Stansbury wins New Mexico special election for US House seat, CNN projects  CNN View Full Coverage on Google News “us democrats” – Google News

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