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House and Senate Democrats have unveiled a $16 billion, 16-year transportation revenue package that spends on a variety of projects. Areas that will see funding range from the building new hybrid electric ferries and funding of more walking and biking corridors to highway maintenance and the replacement of fish passage culverts.

Normally, more involvement in democracy is a good thing. But officials worry people could be motivated to take their election watcher roles too far.

In northern Syria, people already displaced by civil war are now suffering from the effects of this week's earthquake. But aid has been unable to reach them.

Nancy Pelosi, the first and only woman to serve as speaker, says she will step down as leader of the House Democrats next year. Now, a new batch of lawmakers is in the leadership spotlight.

New Hampshire law requires it to hold the country's first presidential primary, but Democrats will have their first primary in South Carolina. (Story aired on All Things Considered on July 6, 2023.)

The Florida Highway Patrol has arrested the driver of a pickup truck that crashed into a farmworker bus early Tuesday on charges of driving under the influence-manslaughter. At least 40 were injured.