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Sen. Tim Scott says lawmakers in Congress are close to a bipartisan police reform deal

Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images Last summer, in the wake of protests surrounding the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others at the hands of police, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said he was pessimistic about the chances of the Senate passing a police reform bill. Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate and one of just three Black Republicans in all of Congress, is the lead Republican in the Senate on police reform and was responsible for drafting the Justice Act, the GOP’s police reform bill. The bill failed to get 60 votes, the necessary Senate margin, in 2020, with the majority of Democrats voting against it for inadequately handling the problem. Meanwhile, Democrats’ bill, the more expansive George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, passed the House but was not taken up by the then-Republican Senate.

5 winners and 3 losers from President Biden's first congressional address

5 winners and 3 losers from President Biden’s first congressional address Vox.com 2 hrs ago Ella Nilsen, Zack Beauchamp, Jerusalem Demsas, Andrew Prokop, Emily Stewart, Anna North, Sean Collins, and Dylan Scott © Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of congress as Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi look on in the House chamber of the US Capitol. President Joe Biden struck a notably optimistic tone in his first speech before a joint session of Congress, coming after a long pandemic year that has been marked with isolation, loss, and for far too many Americans, death.

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All the electric vehicles that stood out at the Shanghai Auto Show – TechCrunch

All the electric vehicles that stood out at the Shanghai Auto Show The 19th annual Shanghai Auto Show delivered a bevy of electric and tech-centric vehicles this year. Chinese, European and U.S. automakers showed off their latest offerings in every price segment, from the budget-minded ​​Wuling Hong Guang Mini via a joint venture between SAIC Motor Corp., General Motors Co. and Liuzhou Wuling Motors Co. to the luxury Mercedes EQS  and everything in between. Several automakers touted the capabilities of their driver assistance systems, using terminology that suggested they could be autonomous if only regulators allowed it. Let’s be clear, these systems are not autonomous. Other automakers stopped short of those claims, but did publicize the software capabilities of their vehicles a movement that has been underway since Tesla rose in popularity.