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At the same time, the electric truck, due in showrooms by the middle of next year, comes at a time when American drivers remain reluctant to jettison gas vehicles. Through April, automakers sold about 108,000 fully electric vehicles in the U.S. Though that’s nearly twice the number from the same period last year, EVs still account for only 2% of U.S. vehicle sales, according to Edmunds.

Psaki said the new proposal drops the president’s proposed expenditures on broadband as well as roads, bridges and other major investments to meet the Republicans’ lower level. She said the administration’s proposal also involved “shifting investments in research and development, supply chains, manufacturing and small business” out of the infrastructure talks, since they could be considered elsewhere, noting in Endless Frontiers Act, which is a separate bipartisan bill pending in the Senate.

Earlier last summer, Preckwinkle broke from Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Gov. J.B. Pritzker when she announced support for curtailing law enforcement spending — a movement that the mayor has called a “hashtag.” The footprint of the county sheriff’s police force, however, is much smaller than that of Chicago police’s. Ultimately, both the city and county slightly cut the 2021 budgets of Chicago police and the Cook County sheriff’s office, respectively, citing the financial strain of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A witness saw something in the water in the 500 block of West Montrose Avenue in the Uptown neighborhood and called 911, police said. Just before 8:30 a.m., the Chicago Fire Department and the Chicago police marine unit responded and pulled an 80-year-old man out of the water.

United Airlines said searches for flights to Europe were up 19% the day after reports first surfaced in April that Europe would soon reopen. The airline is starting new flights between New York and Dubrovnik, Croatia, a week earlier than expected and adding a fourth weekly flight. The Croatia flights will start July 1, the same day as two other recently announced flights from Chicago to Reykjavik, Iceland, and Washington, D.C., to Athens, Greece. United also said it will resume service to Barcelona and Madrid and add additional flights to Italy in July.