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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announced he will be awarding $450 million in taxpayer-funded grants in an effort to unclog U.S. ports as the supply chain crisis continues. The transportation industry has remained unstable, and this has forced Americans to face increased prices and empty shelves at grocery stores and other retailers.

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SACRAMENTO - While California voters approved $9.5 billion in bonds to improve the state's water infrastructure last year, little of that money has been allocated despite a lengthy drought and growing strains on the system. Political infighting and bureaucratic red tape have slowed spending of the 2006 water bonds, even as state lawmakers and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger consider asking voters for billions of dollars in additional water bonds on next year's ballot. Only about 14 percent of the Proposition 1E water bond approved by voters last year - and about one-third of the Proposition 84 water bond - have been...

THE MAXIMUM LEADER WAS SITTING IN A LA-Z-BOY RECLINER IN THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE IN CUBANACAN, ABOUT 20 MINUTES WEST OF HAVANA, CUBA. HE WAS WATCHING KATY COURIC'S NEWSCAST. CASTRO'S CONVOY DIDN'T NEED TO STOP FOR TRAFFIC LIGHTS. IT WOULD TAKE ANYONE ELSE 45 MINUTES. HE HAD SHED HIS FATIGUES AND NOW WORE HIS CUBAN OLYMPIC TRACK SUIT. HIS GASTRIC SYSTEM HAD BEEN UNDER ATTACK FOR THE LAST YEAR AND MOST DAYS HE WAS IN CONSIDERABLE DISCOMFORT. HE TOLD HIS BROTHER, RAOUL, THAT HE WISHED NOW THAT HE HADN'T MADE SUCH A BIG DEAL OUT OF GIVING UP HIS BELOVED CIGARS...