Un homme employé par Lady Gaga pour promener ses chiens - trois bouledogues français répondant aux noms de Gustave, Koji et Asia - a été blessé par balles le mercredi 24 février aux alentours de 22 heures près de son domicile à Hollywood,

House Oversight Chairman Carolyn Maloney has introduced the Vote by Mail Tracking Act, to make it easier for election officials and voters to track the status of their ballots and for the Postal Service to identify, process, and deliver ballots more effectively.

“Allowing voters to track their ballots will reduce concerns about ballots not being counted, as well as eliminate fears of ballots being counted that were mailed in after required deadlines,” Chairwoman Maloney said.  “This legislation will also help speed up counting mail-in ballots in an accurate manner by implementing specifications for ballot envelopes helping us protect the sanctity of future elections.”

Here are the possible paths forward for the policy, from least likely to most likely:
 
— FIRE THE PARLIAMENTARIAN. In 2001, when Senate Republicans didn’t get the reconciliation rulings they liked, they replaced him with a more pliable procedural referee.
 
Who’s in favor: Rep. ILHAN OMAR (D-Minn.), who tweeted, “Replace the parliamentarian. What’s a Democratic majority if we can’t pass our priority bills? This is unacceptable.”
 
Who’s opposed: everyone to the right of the Squad.

— OVERRULE THE PARLIAMENTARIAN. That’s what some Republicans proposed in 2017 when they were frustrated with the parliamentarian for nixing items from Trump’s Obamacare repeal bill, which went through reconciliation. Sen. TED CRUZ (R-Texas) argued that the VP, who is also the president of the Senate, could ignore the merely “advisory” opinions of the parliamentarian and decide for himself what policies were kosher under reconciliation.
 
Who’s in favor: Procedural radicals like Rep. PRAMILA JAYAPAL (D-Wash.), head of the House Progressive Caucus, who find the Senate’s rules absurd. Rep. RO KHANNA (D-Calif.): “I’m sorry — an unelected parliamentarian does not get to deprive 32 million Americans the raise they deserve. This is an advisory, not a ruling. VP Harris needs to disregard and rule a $15 minimum wage in order.” (See below for more.)
 
Who’s opposed: White House chief of staff RON KLAIN and Biden. Klain nixed the idea in an interview on MSNBC on Wednesday night, and on Thursday the White House released a statement saying Biden “respects the parliamentarian’s decision and the Senate’s process.”

— PASS A STAND-ALONE MINIMUM WAGE BILL that can get 60 votes in the Senate.
 
Who’s in favor: the White House, which has been telegraphing for weeks that the minimum wage would not survive reconciliation. Biden said in a recent interview with CBS that he would pursue “a separate negotiation on minimum wage.” A group of Republicans recently introduced a bill that would increase the minimum wage to $10, index it to inflation and require the use of E-verify, the federal system that prevents employers from hiring undocumented immigrants.
 
Could there be a compromise between this proposal and the clean $15 hike Biden proposed? It seems safe to bet against 10 Republicans voting for any Biden priority. But indexing for inflation would be a major progressive victory that could be worth the longer phase-in.
 
Who’s opposed: The proposal received a chilly reception from progressives who see it as anti-immigrant.

— PASS A BACKDOOR MINIMUM WAGE HIKE that is reconciliation-compliant. Senate progressives were ready with a Plan B when the parliamentarian’s ruling came down Thursday night: an amendment that would penalize big companies that don’t pay a $15 minimum wage and offer small businesses incentives to do so.
 
Who’s in favor: Top Senate progressives like RON WYDEN (D-Ore.), BRIAN SCHATZ (D-Hawaii) and BERNIE SANDERS (I-Vt.), who warned in a statement Thursday night, “That amendment must be included in this reconciliation bill.”
 
Who’s opposed: unclear, but based on their previous positions on the issue we would expect centrists like Sen. JOE MANCHIN (D-W.Va.), who opposed a hike to $15, to be skeptical of penalizing companies who don’t pay $15 an hour.

Le terme allemand Deutschland dérive du vieux haut-allemand diutisc ou de variantes similaires du proto-germanique *þiudiskaz signifiant « du peuple ». Ce dernier terme provient lui-même d'un mot germanique signifiant « peuple » et fut utilisé pour faire la différence entre les locuteurs de langues germaniques et ceux de langues celtiques ou romanes. Il tire son origine de l'indo-européen commun *tewtéh₂, « peuple ».

Bah quoi c'est sur plein de panneaux, ça doit être un endroit super populaire

A Florida lawyer and anti-Republican political campaigner says he has almost raised enough funds to fly a banner over the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that reads “Welcome Insurrectionists”, a reference to last month’s Capitol riots.
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The plane is slated to fly over the Hyatt Regency Orlando on Friday between 1pm and 3pm as top Republicans converge on the hotel for the annual event, preparations for which were well underway on Thursday.