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On Monday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) stated that she sees a recent New York Times/Siena College poll showing that 64% of voters who plan to vote in the Democratic primary in 2024 would prefer someone other than President Joe Biden as the nominee “as dissatisfaction, as the frustration of the summer, the heat.” But Democrats will turn things around and gas prices are “going down. All that we have committed to doing, we are doing,” including “making sure that we get baby formula back where it needs to be on the shelves and in the hands of...

Thursday, May 28, 2009 (05-27) 14:56 PDT ALAMEDA -- An Alameda police K-9 officer is under investigation after his dog died when he left it in his personal sports utility vehicle for several hours during a training session, authorities said Wednesday. The officer, whose name was not released, left the 6 1/2-year-old Belgian Malinois inside his SUV while attending a use-of-force training exercise May 5 on Lincoln Avenue, police Lt. Bill Scott said. The SUV had at least one window down for ventilation, Scott said. It also was not an unusually warm day - according to the National Weather Service,...

Dear Diary: It's definitely summer in the city. Coming out of my Upper East Side supermarket on a recent sweltering night, I spotted a 20-something young man who appeared to be on his way home from the office. As he came to the store's outdoor display of flowers and plants, he put down his briefcase, grabbed the stand's garden hose and showered his head with a squeeze of the spray nozzle. A store employee looked on wordlessly. The man wiped off the excess water, replaced the hose and continued on his way, refreshed. I guess that's what you do when...