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Normal Fire Department (NPD) crews battled a blaze at the Rivian plant parking lot Saturday night. NFD spokesperson Matt Swaney said fire crews were called to Rivian’s Normal plant just before 9:45 p.m. for a reported vehicle fire. He said there is an unspecified number of vehicles damaged by the incident. Witnesses outside the plant said they reportedly saw the fire as early as 9:50 p.m. The EV assembly plant was not affected by the fire, Swaney said.

During an interview aired on Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that the current interest burden of the national debt is at a “normal” level, but President Joe Biden wants to cut the deficit “and doing that would be compatible with making investments in the economy that are necessary to support its growth. But we’re going to have to let important pieces of the Tax Cut[s] and Job[s] Act expire.” Yellen said, “Well, the debt — the ratio of debt to GDP — we have a very large economy, and the ratio...

Homebuyers willing to brave today’s high mortgage rates might at least be delighted to find that they have plenty of homes to consider. In the latest monthly housing report from Realtor.com®, the overall number of homes for sale in May marks seven months of growth. “The biggest eye-catcher for me is the fact that inventory is rising sharply,” says Realtor.com senior economist Ralph McLaughlin. “There are 35.2% more homes on the market than this time last year, an incredible trend in the direction of normality.” “While the housing market is still in the seller’s territory, it is expected to shift...

Are you tired of all of the liberal politics? They are trying to convince of that being woke is normal. According to Trump, "woke means you're a loser." If you're tired of it, so are we. Stand with Trump for 2024 and Remember Normal.

Conservative legal commentator George Conway suggested President Biden “just has to be normal,” and authentic in his State of the Union address Thursday if he wants to consolidate his base. Asked how Biden can make a “positive case” to voters for the next four years, Conway told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the president has “to be empathetic, he’s got to be himself.” “I think at the end of the day, he doesn’t have to do a hard sell,” he added. “He does have to get out there; he just has to be normal.” Conway, a staunch critic of former President...

Affirmative. It can be portrayed as normal vs crazy - but crazy is a forbearing understatement when it comes to MAGA Republicans captivated in the Trump cult.

New York Times columnist and pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson is saying that Donald Trump is now seen as the ‘return to normalcy’ candidate. This is a shocking turn of events for anyone who has been following political news for the last several years. When Trump won in 2016, liberals all over the country started saying “this is not normal.” It became a common talking point. Then in 2020, Democrats claimed that Biden would be the ‘return to normalcy’ candidate. Everyone can see how that worked out. Breitbart News reports: NYT Pollster: Donald Trump Seen as the Return to Normalcy Candidate...

The White House on Sunday condemned a conservative social media activist for ridiculing an openly-gay Interior Department official on the site X, describing her posts as “cruel and unacceptable.” Chaya Raichik, who created the @libsoftiktok account on X, formerly known as Twitter, sparked a debate online this week after posting and reposting several times about Tyler Cherry, Interior’s principal deputy communications director. The posts appeared to criticize his appearance, referred to him as one of the “total weirdos” the Biden administration has hired, laughed at photos of him in a dress that the New York Times published in a piece...

On Monday’s edition of NBC’s “MTP Now, Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) blamed the close polling margins between President Joe Biden and 2024 GOP candidate former President Donald Trump in part on people being “tired after three years of COVID,” and responded to the President’s poor economic polling numbers by stating that “We have a reduction in inflation. So, for people who are looking at their pocketbook, they should find that things are less expensive than normal.” In response to polling showing Biden and Trump in a dead heat, Chu said, “I can’t believe it either. However, I do say that,...

As the extreme heat now baking the U.S. and other spots around the globe is being fueled by climate change, scientists say we are likely to see similarly hot summers in the future. But, while this type of heat is expected more often, that does not mean every summer will look like this year’s. “We have very high scientific confidence that the world will continue to experience summers like this one and in fact that the frequency of extreme heat will intensify further in response to further global warming,” said Noah Diffenbaugh, a professor of Earth system science at Stanford...

More Americans in a new Gallup poll say they believe that the COVID-19 pandemic is over, though fewer than half of those surveyed said their lives are back to normal. The survey, published on Wednesday, found that 64 percent of respondents said that the COVID-19 pandemic is over, while 36 percent think otherwise. In February, 49 percent of respondents said that they believed the once-global pandemic was over. Along political party lines, 84 percent of Republican respondents in the new poll said that they believe the pandemic is over, as did 65 percent of independents and 51 percent of Democrats.

California’s winter is officially one of the snowiest ever recorded, with the snowpack measured at 221% of normal on Monday by the California Department of Water Resources in its annual beginning of April survey. California’s #snowpack is now one of the largest ever, bringing both drought relief and flooding concerns, however DWR’s State-Federal Flood Operations Center and DWR’s Snow Surveys and Water Supply Forecasting Unit are helping local agencies plan for the Spring snowmelt season. pic.twitter.com/RzSozSDEtM — CA – DWR (@CA_DWR) April 3, 2023

Former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that “normal people” who are “traditional Republicans” will never vote for former President Donald Trump after his indictment. Mitchell asked, “You were a governor, congressman, you know this whole landscape. How long is this going to last? What if there’s indictment on indictment? Does he build on the victimization? Does it help him with primary voters?” Kasich said, “I think in this case, there are a lot of Republicans that say, is this really a legitimate and fair charge? Frankly, no one is above the law, but it...

I’ve noticed something strange since I came to Idaho nearly five years ago. Many Republicans whose families migrated to this region before Idaho was even a state are the most outspoken voices against what they call extremism. I have heard accusations that issues such as CRT and Queer Theory in public schools were never issues before the great migration from the West Coast, rather they are mirages created by activists to use for political gain. This is strange to me because maintaining that belief requires an incredible amount of deliberate ignorance and cognitive dissonance. Imagine your neighbor rushing over to...

cant say ive ever seen a SOTU rebuttal do such damage...they are BOILING!!!!!///she hit the target..

An athletic trainer performed CPR for 10 minutes after an Upstate middle school basketball player went into cardiac arrest during a game, according to the school. (Video above: Morning headlines from WYFF News 4) Denny Vauters, of Southside Christian School, said on Tuesday night, during the junior varsity basketball team at Brashier Middle College, that eighth grade student Kamari Williams (K Will) experienced a seizure and cardiac arrest.

During a portion of an interview with NBC News on Monday aired on Tuesday’s edition of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that she thinks there are “good indications” that show inflation “is poised to come down,” but she doesn’t want to make predictions on a month-to-month basis and she believes that “over the next couple of years,” “inflation will come back down toward normal levels we’re accustomed to.” Yellen said, “I think we see some good indications that inflation is poised to come down, but –.”

President Joe Biden on Thursday defended his economic policies as data showed consumer prices continued to climb in October. “It will take time to get inflation back to normal levels – and we could see setbacks along the way – but we will keep at it and help families with the cost of living,” Biden said in a statement. The Labor Department’s consumer price index rose by 0.4 percent from September. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is up 7.7 percent year-over-year. Food prices at home rose 0.4 percent in October, which is lower than the 0.7 rate in August and...

I Used To Be A Normal Person …….Author Unknown I used to think I was pretty much just a regular person, but I was born white, into a two-parent household which now, whether I like it or not, makes me privileged, a racist, and responsible for slavery. I am a fiscal and moral conservative, which by today's standards, makes me a fascist because I plan, budget, and support myself. I went to Grammar School and have always held a job. But I now find out that I am not here because I earned it, but because I was "advantaged". I...

The conventional wisdom at this time is that most of the world has moved on from the pandemic (except for China); therefore, supply chains will return to “normal.” Unfortunately, this is not the case. The world has permanently changed and supply chains are going to face continuing challenges for decades to come. Among those challenges are:◾Supply chains will remain under constant threat of disruption for the next decade ◾Supply chains operate best when the world is peaceful and stable ◾A smoothly running supply chain requires “buffer stock,” which is challenging with declining population demographics ◾There is a conflict between environmental,...