Voters in Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota, and South Dakota will cast ballots on whether to allow adults to legally use marijuana recreationally.

Dorn was killed while trying to protect a friend’s pawn shop during a string of ongoing violent rioting and looting.

The city expects to spend $1 billion to manage the influx of asylum seekers, Adams said in a speech at City Hall. More than 17,000 have come to New York since April. An average of five or six buses have arrived each day since early September, with nine buses pulling into the city on Thursday, Adams said.

Republicans are calling out President Biden over reports that he is considering loosening sanctions on Venezuela’s government in order to resume crude exports to the U.S.

The Biden administration on Friday published a sweeping set of export controls, including a measure to cut China off from certain semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with U.S. tools, vastly expanding its reach in its bid to slow Beijing’s technological and military advances.

Senator Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) will reportedly resign by the end of the year, leaving congress to serve as president of the University of Florida. Sasse is only two years into his second term as senator.