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LANSING, Mich - General Motors is struggling to sell its commercial electric vans, and hundreds are now piling up in storage lots on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border.

When GM launched its BrightDrop electric commercial vans in 2021, the company expected revenues to top $10 billion by 2030, and the company invested $800 million to convert its CAMI Assembly plant in Ontario to produce the EVs, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Four years later, GM was forced to shut down the Ontario plant for two weeks this month as it contends with a glut of inventory, with images from the Free Press and Reuters showing hundreds stored in rows at lots in Flint and GM’s Ontario plant.

The factory reopened on Monday as GM offers discounts up to $31,000 off its BrightDrop vans, which cost as much as $20,000 more than competitors at roughly $74,000. Click here to read more.

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WASHINGTON D.C. - The Biden administration deliberately buried a final draft version of a study that would have undermined its January 2024 decision to pause approvals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects, according to four Department of Energy (DOE) sources.

Former Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and former President Joe Biden announced the LNG freeze in January 2024, stating that it would remain in place until the DOE could conduct a fresh study of the climate and economic impacts of LNG export growth. The Biden DOE finalized a draft of the study in 2023 and subsequently buried it because the initial version’s findings would have contradicted the administration’s rationale for the LNG freeze, according to four sources inside the Trump DOE granted anonymity by the Daily Caller News Foundation to freely discuss a sensitive matter. Click here to read more.

 

PROVIDENCE, RI - A shocking eminent domain scandal is unfolding in Johnston, Rhode Island: Last week, the Town secretly took possession of a family’s 31-acre property, only notifying the owners afterward in a letter demanding they “remove all vehicles and other personal belongings from the property immediately” or they’d be served with a no trespass notice.

“I was presented with a piece of paper that says I don’t own a piece of property that’s been in my family for generations,” Ralph Santoro, one of the landowners represented by Pacific Legal Foundation, said at a March 19 press conference. “I got to be honest with you, I’m still digesting and processing. I can’t get over that.”

Johnston Mayor Joseph Polisena, Jr. publicly vowed to “use all the power of government that I have” to stop the Santoro-Compagnone family from building an affordable apartment complex on their property. He threatened to take the property by eminent domain, then claimed the Town would build a municipal “safety complex” on the site.

PLF attorney Kady Valois told media this week that the safety complex was merely a “pretext” to take the property. “The mayor came out and said that he didn’t want this project and that he would use eminent domain before he ever said anything about building a municipal complex,” Valois pointed out. “We think that they’re just trying to come up with a reason to actually take the property.” Click here to read more.

 

WASHINGTON D.C. - The Federal Bureau of Investigation released a bulletin on Friday warning the public about the threats coming from far-Left extremists aimed at Tesla.

The bulletin comes after the attacks on Tesla stores and vehicles were triggered by outrage from the far-Left over the role that Elon Musk has had in helping the Trump administration gut waste, fraud, and abuse out of the federal government.

The FBI said that the attacks on Tesla vehicles, dealerships, storage lots, and charging stations have occurred in at least nine states since January.

“These incidents have involved arson, gunfire, and vandalism, including graffiti expressing grievances against those the perpetrators perceive to be racists, fascists, or political opponents,” the bulletin said. “These criminal actions appear to have been conducted by lone offenders, and all known incidents occurred at night.” Click here to read more.

 

KANSAS CITY, KS - The state of Missouri is swiftly moving to seize farmland and other assets owned by the Chinese government after emerging victorious in a landmark lawsuit.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey told Just the News that the seizure is part of Missouri’s effort to collect a $24 billion civil judgment against the Chinese government after suing it for the harm caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

During an appearance on “John Solomon Reports,” Bailey said the state “will start to identify and begin going to court to have court orders issued to seize those assets to make good on that judgment.”

The court’s ruling resulted from Missouri’s lawsuit against the People’s Republican of China and other defendants, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The court found that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) concealed the severity of the coronavirus by engaging int “a deliberate campaign to suppress information about the COVID-19 pandemic in order to support its campaign to hoard PPE from Missouri and an unsuspecting world.” Click here to read more.

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WASHINGTON D.C. - The Trump administration has paused $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania over the university’s insistence on allowing men to compete in women’s sports.

The action follows President Donald Trump’s executive order issued last month that bars federally funded institutions from allowing male athletes to compete against women and threatens to rescind funding from any institution that refuses to comply.

The funding pause is a “proactive punishment” from President Trump that pulls back discretionary funding from the Departments of Defense and Health and Human Services, a senior administration official told Fox Business on Wednesday. The move was described as the first step in holding UPenn accountable. The $175 million sum is a fraction of the Ivy League school’s total federal funding.

UPenn received over $1 billion in federal funding last fiscal year, the student-run Daily Pennsylvanian newspaper reported. More than 80 percent of the funding came from HHS. Click here to read more.

 

INDIANAPOLIS - A woman has been charged after allegedly attacking a middle school student who she says was bullying her son.

Latea Hentz, 36, and her 17-year-old daughter got on her son’s school bus on the morning of March 6 to confront an 8th-grade student who was allegedly bullying him.

Security cameras and a viral video appeared to show Hentz and her daughter punching the student multiple times.

According to an affidavit, investigators learned the problems started between Hentz’s son and the other student after her son made “racist comments.” The day before the fight, her son “was making jokes about ICE” to the student because his father is Mexican, WISH reports. Click here to read more.

 

DALLAS, TX - Many Mennonite community members in West Texas feel “frustrated” and “targeted” by mainstream media coverage of the current measles outbreak in Gaines County, Texas, Tina Siemens, a Mennonite business owner and award-winning author told The Defender in an exclusive interview today.

“The media spins it as there’s a large panic in our community. I have not seen that — and I get out and about in my community,” said Siemens, an immigrant who has lived in the Seminole, Texas, area since 1977. Seminole is the county seat for Gaines County.

“There’s some frustration, especially that it is so much targeted just to the Mennonites.”

The measles outbreak in West Texas — particularly in Gaines County — garnered mainstream media attention after the Texas Department of State Health Services (Texas DSHS) last week reported what it called “the first death from measles in the ongoing outbreak in the South Plains and Panhandle regions.”

Texas DSHS spokesperson Lara Anton on Feb. 26 told The Associated Press the outbreak’s main concentration of cases has been a “close-knit, under-vaccinated” Mennonite community. Click here to read more.

 

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A Florida Senate panel on Wednesday amended and passed a vaccine materials bill, adding bans on mRNA vaccines in fruits and vegetables and certain toxic chemicals in cosmetics.

What it does: SB 196 sets forth labeling requirements for specific food products containing “vaccine or vaccine material” and establishes that any food product containing vaccine or vaccine material without required labeling is a misbranded drug.

The sponsor: Republican Sen. Joe Gruters is carrying the Senate bill. The House bill, HB 525, is being carried by Rep. Monique Miller.

Vaccine materials: The legislation would change the definition of “drug” to include food that contains vaccines or vaccine materials.

• It defines “vaccine or vaccine material” as a substance authorized or approved by the FDA to stimulate immunity. Click here to read more.

 

NEW YORK, NY - Since Amazon announced plans for a generative AI version of Alexa, we were concerned about user privacy. With Alexa+ rolling out to Amazon Echo devices in the coming weeks, we’re getting a clearer view of the privacy concessions people will have to make to maximize usage of the AI voice assistant and avoid bricking functionality of already-purchased devices.

In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally and, therefore, avoid sending voice recordings to Amazon’s cloud. Amazon apparently sent the email to users with “Do Not Send Voice Recordings," which is supported by the Echo (4th Gen), Echo Show 15, and Echo Show 10, enabled. Starting on March 28, recordings of every command spoken to the Alexa living in Echo speakers and smart displays will automatically be sent to Amazon and processed in the cloud.

Attempting to rationalize the change, Amazon’s email said:

As we continue to expand Alexa’s capabilities with generative AI features that rely on the processing power of Amazon’s secure cloud, we have decided to no longer support this feature. Click here to read more.