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WASHINGTON — President Biden will scramble to Capitol Hill Friday afternoon to try and salvage his signature spending plans after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi laid the groundwork to delay a vote on his $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill for up to a month, sources told The Post. Biden’s effort to strike a deal with warring House Democrats also came after two leading progressive lawmakers took shots at him for not engaging in talks sooner.

Genome Scrambling and Encryption Befuddles Evolution by Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D. * One-cell creatures called ciliates are expanding our knowledge of genome dynamics and complexity. Now a newly sequenced ciliate genome reveals unimaginable levels of programmed rearrangement combined with an ingenious system of encryption.1 Contrary to the evolutionary prediction of simple-to-complex in the alleged tree of life, one-cell ciliates are exhibiting astonishing genetic complexity.2 The ciliate Oxytricha trifallax has two different genomes contained in separate nuclei. The micronucleus is dense and compact and used for reproduction while the macronucleus is dramatically rearranged, amplified, and used for the creature's standard daily living.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Stunning accusations that a top California Democratic campaign treasurer looted the war chests of her big-name clients have left candidates across the state scrambling to raise more money as election season looms. Kinde Durkee, who controlled the funds of roughly 400 candidates and groups, ranging from Senator Dianne Feinstein to local Democratic youth clubs, was arrested in September and charged with fraud. While the extent of the losses isn't yet clear, the coffers of dozens of Democratic politicians have been frozen, prompting the crippled campaigns to ask the California Fair Political Practices Commission to permit further...

Government officials are scrambling to come up with ways to sell debt even if the nation’s debt ceiling isn’t raised by early next week, though officials are remaining silent on just what course of action they might take, and it’s unclear if any of the options discussed would be enough to meet the country’s massive borrowing needs, the FOX Business Network has learned. The issue of how to borrow outside the debt limit emerged during a regularly scheduled, though timely meeting, Friday between officials at the Federal Reserve, the Treasury Department and 20 banks that buy US debt. Government officials...

The word is that Holder and Obama "never expected" the kind of pushback against holding a civilian trial for 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikk Mohammed. This is pretty clueless in and of itself. How tone deaf do you have to be in order to be caught unawares when such large majorities favor keeping KSM from using a civilian trial as a propaganda tool? So now, Obama is frantically looking for a way out - keeping the idea of a civilian trial open but moving the venue somewhere else. This is probably a dead end and there are even many Democrats who...

Katrina sends quake-leery California scrambling to revise emergency plans Wed Sep 28,11:38 AM ET LOS ANGELES (AFP) - The humanitarian debacle spawned by Hurricane Katrina one month ago has badly shaken Californians and sent their leaders scrambling to update plans to cope with a long-feared catastrophic earthquake. Seismic experts warn there is a 62 percent chance of the "big one," measuring at least 6.7 on the Richter Scale, hitting San Francisco and a 70 percent chance of Los Angeles being brought to its knees by a quake with a magnitude of at least 7.2 in the next 30 years. Such...

A recent surge in statewide electricity consumption has sent regulators and energy planners scrambling to trim demand in every way possible this summer – including this week's proposals by the state's utilities to charge their largest users prohibitively high rates during power emergencies. The sharply rising demand for power also has experts focusing on reasons for the surge, though one prominent consumer advocate questions whether such concerns are being exaggerated for political purposes. Among the most frequently cited factors for rising demand is that state residents are no longer following the strict conservation habits adopted during the 2000-01 power crisis....

DEMOCRATS are desperately seeking a saviour. His name might be Howard Dean, the little-known governor of Vermont. It could be Warren Beatty, the actor. Some think it could even be a Republican — if John McCain, former scourge of President George W Bush, could be persuaded to change sides.My first impulse on reading this was to laugh - Ivan The only certainty for America’s bruised and demoralised opposition party last week was that a major rethink is required to confront the challenge posed by a hugely popular Republican president. On Thursday the changes will begin with a Democrat vote for...