Candidate Abdul El-Sayed emerges as the party\u2019s frontrunner in the primary campaign after Mallory McMorrow withdraws<\/p>\n
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Progressive Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed<\/a> has emerged as the party\u2019s frontrunner in the Michigan primary campaign after Mallory McMorrow dropped out of the race.<\/strong><\/p>\n The bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act<\/a>, designed to shield individuals from soaring electricity prices amid the datacenter<\/a> boom, would fail to meaningfully protect the public from the centers\u2019 true costs, consumer advocates warn.<\/strong> The bill, backed by some in big tech such as Microsoft, moved through a House<\/a> subcommittee in mid-June, and a vote in full committee scheduled for 1 July was delayed.<\/p>\n Carlos Gim\u00e9nez, a Republican<\/a> congressman from Florida, broke with the Trump administration<\/a> on Sunday, calling on the White House to reconsider its push to eliminate temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitian<\/a> migrants.<\/strong> Returning some 350,000 Haitians to their chaotic, dangerous homeland following the US supreme court\u2019s ruling that the Trump administration<\/a> can cut off temporary legal protections, would be a grave error, Gim\u00e9nez said.<\/p>\n The Atlantic on Saturday republished a JD Vance<\/a> essay that dismissed Donald Trump<\/a> as \u201ccultural heroin\u201d exactly 10 years earlier, bringing back to the fore his evolving<\/a> from<\/a> a critic<\/a> of the president to his vice-president.<\/strong> In an editor\u2019s note, the magazine said it was republishing the essay<\/a> on the occasion of its 10th anniversary \u2013 and the US\u2019s semiquincentennial \u2013 \u201cso that our readers can judge for themselves how well his assessment [of Trump] \u2026 has stood the test of time\u201d.<\/p>\n The president of the US\u2019s top administrator of collegiate sports on Sunday said his organization does not anticipate adjusting its rules on transgender athletes after a recent federal supreme court decision<\/a> allowed states to ban them from participating in school athletics.<\/strong> In an interview<\/a> with CBS News\u2019 Face the Nation, Charlie Baker, the NCAA<\/a> president, alluded to how his organization in late January 2025 had effectively banned<\/a> transgender athletes from women\u2019s sports by closing off those programs to athletes who were assigned male at birth or were taking testosterone therapy.<\/p>\n The husband of the former House speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a> was involved in a hit-and-run car crash in California<\/a> that left a parked vehicle with \u201cmajor\u201d damage, authorities said on Saturday \u2013 and he could face misdemeanor charges.<\/strong> Paul Pelosi was driving his brown convertible on Friday in Yountville, a town in the heart of wine country, when he struck a legally parked car on the side of the road, briefly stopped and then drove away, the Napa county sheriff\u2019s office said in a statement. 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