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Daniels, from Newark, New Jersey, faces more than a dozen criminal charges and was being held Monday on $21,000 bond in the Jackson County Jail in Jefferson, Georgia.

Daniels faces two felony counts of second-degree cruelty to children and two felony counts of fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, according to a police incident report obtained by ESPN.

According to the report, Daniels fled police with two of his younger siblings in the car.

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Daniels' mother, Brandi Canada-Green, was also charged in the incident, according to Commerce Police Chief Jeff Drossman.

According to Drossman, a police officer had stopped a Nissan Rogue that Canada-Green was driving for running a stop sign. A BMW M5 being driven by Daniels passed the officer going more than 100 mph in a 25-mph speed zone, the police report said.

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The officer tried to explain the severity of the situation and what might have happened to Daniels and his younger siblings while traveling at those speeds, and Daniels allegedly said, "Y'all can't drive."

"Nyier seemed to not care about the situation that he had put himself in or the fact that he endangered the lives of his two younger siblings," the officer wrote in the report.

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The Trump administration will provide Constellation Energy
with a $1 billion loan to restart the Crane Clean Energy Center nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, Department of Energy officials said Tuesday.

Previously known as Three Mile Island Unit 1, the plant is expected to start generating power again in 2027. Constellation unveiled plans to rename and restart the reactor in Sept. 2024 through a power purchase agreement with Microsoft
to support the tech company’s data center demand in the region.

Three Mile Island Unit 1 ceased operations in 2019, one of a dozen reactors that closed in recent years as nuclear struggled to compete against cheap natural gas. It sits on the same site as Three Mile Island Unit 2, the reactor that partially melted down in 1979 in the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history.

The loan would cover the majority to the project’s estimated cost of $1.6 billion. The first advance to Constellation is expected in the first quarter of 2026, said Greg Beard, senior advisor to the Energy Department’s Loan Programs Office, in a call with reporters. The loan comes with a guarantee from Constellation that it will protect taxpayer money, Beard said.

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The Energy Department is supporting the restart of the Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan with a $1.5 billion loan to Holtec International. NextEra Energy
announced in October plans to restart the Duane Arnold nuclear plant in Iowa through an agreement Alphabet
’s Google Unit.

When asked whether NextEra will receive a loan for Duane Arnold, Beard told CNBC that Trump’s executive orders direct the Energy Department to “prioritize the restart of nuclear reactors.”

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By Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland

WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Under mounting pressure from Americans worried about inflation, U.S. President Donald Trump will meet on Monday with owners, operators and suppliers of fast-food chain McDonald's to tout his administration's efforts to drive down living costs. Trump has argued repeatedly that his administration's tax cuts and steps to re-shore domestic manufacturing will help boost Americans' real income and spur growth. But economic worries played a big role in Democratic victories in key state and local elections earlier this month, and Trump's approval ratings have continued to drop.

On Monday, the U.S. president will appeal directly to the nation's largest fast-food chain, whose CEO Chris Kempczinski this month warned that low-income consumers were having to absorb "some significant inflation." Trump is due to speak to the group's bipartisan "Impact Summit" in Washington. Trump, who has long insisted that his sweeping tariffs are not fueling price increases, reversed course on Friday when he announced the elimination of tariffs on more than 200 imported food items, including coffee and bananas. The president has also floated the idea of a $2,000 tariff-funded check for lower- and middle-income Americans, although such a measure would require congressional approval. He also suggested 50-year mortgages as a way to make houses more affordable, although homeowners would pay more in interest. Trump, who made headlines when he served french fries at a Philadelphia-area McDonald's during the 2024 election campaign, insists that inflation is far lower now than during former Democratic President Joe Biden's term, when consumer prices spiked up to around 9%. But Americans remain skeptical.

The Economist's longtime "Big Mac" index, which measures the cost of the famous double-decker hamburger across numerous countries, shows that a Big Mac cost on average $6.01 as of July, up from $5.69 a year ago. Three years ago, the cost was $5.15. The Economist uses a McDonald's-supplied price for its index.

A pound of ground chuck beef cost consumers about $6.33 in September, up 13.5% from a year earlier, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The most commonly cited measure of U.S. inflation, the Consumer Price Index, was 3% higher year over year in September, its highest since January. More than half of the hundreds of line items tracked in the report had annual increases that exceeded the 3% overall inflation rate.

Prices for household staples such as coffee and beef have risen by double-digit margins in the last year, while bananas are up by about 7%, canned vegetables are nearly 5% more expensive and soft drinks cost almost 4% more.

The annual cost increase overall for food for home consumption, while seemingly more modest at 2.7% in September, is the largest in more than two years.

FIRMS SEE LOWER- AND MIDDLE-INCOME EARNERS FEELING THE PAIN

Consumers remain frustrated with high prices, a fact corporate executives frequently noted during third-quarter earnings calls. They said lower- and middle-income earners were bearing the brunt of higher costs on food, rent and other costs.

Bellwethers like Procter & Gamble (PG.NaE), Coca-Cola and Colgate-Palmolive (CL.NaE) all cited concerns about affordability, with an increasing gap between low- and higher-income consumers.

McDonald's, keenly aware of how resistant low-income earners are to higher prices, has been offering a $5 value meal for more than a year now.

The International Franchise Association, a trade group, praised Trump for calling attention to franchisees, which it said play a role in keeping prices affordable for average Americans.

Franchised businesses, it said, are responsible for the creation of nearly 850,000 local businesses. (Reporting by Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland; additional reporting by David Gaffen, Waylon Cunningham and Dan Burns in New York and Tom Polansek in Chicago; editing by Ross Colvin and Richard Chang)

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Artificial intelligence could be increasing worker productivity so much that companies slow hiring, top Trump administration economic advisor Kevin Hassett said Monday.

“I think that there have been mixed signals in the job market,” the National Economic Council director said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” adding that he has seen “really, really positive signals in the output markets.”

After noting U.S. gross domestic product rose at a strong pace in the second quarter of 2025, Hassett said, “there could be a little bit of, almost, quiet time in the labor market, because firms are finding that AI is making their workers so productive that they don’t necessarily have to hire the new kids out of college and so on.”

He maintained, however, that any AI-induced softness in the market would be temporary.

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Hassett said on Monday that overall grocery prices have not come down during Trump’s second term, despite the president’s claims otherwise.

“People still are trying to dig out from the big hole that was dug by the previous administration’s policies,” he said.

The cost of an average monthly grocery haul shot up during the Biden administration and “it’s gone up almost not at all” since Trump returned to the White House, he said.

He added that “purchasing power has gone up.”

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Why do they Have to reorganize?

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wonder if the crew of these boats are forced. Word has to be out that there are Reapers circling.

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A petition in the House of Representatives to force a vote to compel the Justice Department to release the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files on Wednesday secured the last signature required to trigger that action.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.., within hours said that a full House vote on that effort will be held next week.

Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., provided the 218th signature needed to approve the so-called discharge petition shortly after she was sworn in as a House member, after a seven-week delay.

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