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| By Mike Allen · Sep 26, 2022 |
| 🍯 Happy Monday. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, began last evening. Wishing you a sweet year! - Smart Brevity™ count: 1,192 words ... 4½ mins. Edited by Noah Bressner.
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| 1 big thing: Traffic jams back |
 Data: Streetlight. Chart: Jacque Schrag/Axios The chart above shows the percentage of traffic congestion this year compared to the pre-COVID days of 2019. - Downtown traffic congestion in many U.S. cities has risen significantly since the days of widespread shutdowns, but remains short of pre-pandemic levels.
Why it matters: The interruption gave big cities a chance to rethink their approach to car traffic, Alex Fitzpatrick writes for Axios What's Next. - New York City, for instance, is working on "congestion pricing" — essentially tolling downtown-bound drivers — to reduce the number of cars on the road.
🧮 By the numbers: Traffic congestion is down about 27% across major U.S. cities' downtowns compared to pre-pandemic levels, according to research from traffic data firm StreetLight. - Downtown congestion is closest to its pre-pandemic levels in San Diego, Phoenix and Houston.
- It's furthest from these levels in Chicago, Philadelphia and San Jose.
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| 2. 🚓 Why GOP trumpets crime |
 Reproduced from Washington Post. Chart: Axios Visuals Registered voters in a Washington Post/ABC News poll say inflation and the economy are two of the most important issues in their decision, along with abortion and education. - The poll gives Republicans a 17-point lead over Democrats on handling the economy, and an 18-point advantage on inflation.
- Democrats hold a 17-point advantage on abortion.
💡 Republicans have a 22-point advantage on handling crime — which helps explain the GOP's increasing focus on the issue in midterm ads, as reported in a Washington Post front-pager: - Democrats accuse Republicans of stoking racial divisions, but "worry the attacks could resonate amid the rise in violent crime that has taken place with their party in power at the federal level and in many cities."
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| 3. 🇮🇹 Far-right win in Italy |
| Giorgia Meloni at her party's electoral headquarters in Rome early today. Photo: Gregorio Borgia/AP Near-final results from Italy's general election show the country is set for its most conservative government in decades, Axios World author Dave Lawler writes. - Giorgia Meloni, who leads the Brothers of Italy, is in pole position to become prime minister.
Why it matters: It'd be Italy's first far-right-led government since World War II. Meloni would be Italy's first female prime minister. A coalition of three right-wing parties is on course for majorities in both houses of the Italian Parliament. - The coalition also includes The League, led by far-right firebrand Matteo Salvini, and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia.
Meloni is seeking to reassure EU leaders that she'd govern as a center-right pragmatist. Reality check: She has a history of defending far-right leaders, including Hungary's Viktor Orbán, and her party has fascist roots. |
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| A message from Walmart |
| Working at Walmart creates opportunity for associates at all levels |
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| Walmart values all types of experience — whether acquired through work, military and volunteer service, or degrees and certificates. Key numbers: - $20+/hour and benefits for supply chain associates.
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| 4. 🌀 Breaking: Ian strengthens to hurricane |
| Photo: Gregg Newton/AFP via Getty Images This line stretched beyond the parking lot of a Sam's Club in Kissimmee (south of Orlando) yesterday as Floridians prepared for Ian, which strengthened from tropical storm to hurricane this morning. - Ian is moving closer to Cuba, on a track expected to take it to Florida this week.
Photo: Luis Santana/Tampa Bay Times via AP Above: Tampa residents waited over two hours yesterday to fill 10 free sandbags. |
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| 5. 🐊 What the feds are reading |
| Former President Trump at a rally Friday in Wilmington, N.C. Photo: Allison Joyce/Getty Images There are 3,300+ words in The Atlantic's adaptation of Maggie Haberman's forthcoming book, "Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America" — out a week from tomorrow. - These are the ones that will get the most attention from the Department of Justice. They're from one of three interviews Trump gave Haberman for the book. This one was at his club in Bedminster, N.J., on Sept. 16, 2021 — one year ago:
He demurred when I asked if he had taken any documents of note upon departing the White House — "nothing of great urgency, no," he said, before mentioning the letters that Kim Jong-un had sent him, which he had showed off to so many Oval Office visitors that advisers were concerned he was being careless with sensitive material. "You were able to take those with you?" Haberman asked. He kept talking, seeming to have registered my surprise, and said, "No, I think that's in the archives, but … Most of it is in the archives, but the Kim Jong-un letters … We have incredible things." In fact, Trump did not return the letters — which were included in boxes he had brought to Mar-a-Lago — to the National Archives until months later. Reality check: The FBI in August seized 11,000+ documents and 1,800 other items from Mar-a-Lago. About 100 of the documents contained classification markings — some "top secret." 🛋️ P.S. Trump said about Haberman during an interview at Mar-a-Lago: "I love being with her — she's like my psychiatrist." |
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| 6. Biden readies for post-midterm turnover |
| Marine One, with President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden aboard, departs Fort McNair in D.C. for Delaware on Saturday. Photo: Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images The White House, which has had little senior turnover, has begun a talent search to prepare for post-midterm departures from the cabinet and other top jobs, Axios' Sophia Cai reports. - Chief of Staff Ron Klain has tapped former administration officials Jeff Zients and Natalie Quillian to oversee a wide search outside the administration.
Between the lines: Nearly all the positions would require Senate confirmation, which will be complicated if Republicans take control of the chamber post-midterms. How it works: Zients and Quillian will report to Presidential Personnel Office Director Gautam Raghavan, and work closely with Klain to reach out to and interview candidates in Congress, state government and across industries. - Their lists of recommendations will be presented to President Biden.
Zients and Quillian will serve temporarily as special government employees, taking no compensation. |
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| 7. NASA to crash into asteroid (on purpose) |
| NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system. Illustration: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben NASA is set to slam a spacecraft into a little asteroid this evening in an attempt to redirect it, Axios Space author Miriam Kramer writes. - As a Wall Street Journal push notification said: This is not a movie.
Why it matters: It's possible a large space rock could one day be found heading toward our planet. What's happening: The first-of-its-kind mission — DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) — marks the first true test of whether or not NASA will one day be able to push a potentially dangerous asteroid off a collision course with Earth if the need should ever arise. 🍿 The collision is expected at 7:14 p.m. ET. Watch it live on NASA TV. |
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| 8. ✏️ 1 fun thing: Draw your neighborhood |
| Illustration: Kavya Beheraj/Axios Have you ever quibbled with friends over where one neighborhood ends and another begins? Think you know your city better than other Axios readers? Now you can prove it. - The geniuses of Axios Visuals came up with a game that lets you draw what you think are the boundaries for your local neighborhoods — and compare your answers to those of other Axios readers.
How it works: Follow this link to the game on Axios.com. Select one of 20 cities, then hit play. - You'll get instructions. Then play through, drawing 5 neighborhoods.
- If you're not familiar with one, you can skip it. We'll offer you another one to draw.
- At the end, compare your answers to the average of other Axios readers.
Play the game ... Share this story ... Get Axios Local. - Credits: Jared Whalen, Kavya Beheraj and Will Chase, led by managing editor Danielle Alberti.
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