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Missouri concluded a two-year experiment with variable speed limits along I-270 around St. Louis. Digital signs had been erected along the freeway as well as additional signs alerting drivers about the use of variable speed limits. The limits will vary between 40 and 60 miles per hour, depending on traffic conditions, and could change by up to ...
There is mixed evidence of the 1995 repeal's effect on fatalities. On one hand, statistical records of motor vehicle fatalities indicate that total traffic deaths in the United States have declined from 41,817 that year to 32,479 in 2011, the lowest level in 60 years, before increasing to 37,133 in 2017. [93]
Debt-to-GDP ratio decreased to 60.2 percent at the end of 2023 from a 17-year high 63.7 percent at the end of the third quarter of that year, and indicated resiliency during the COVID-19 pandemic. [386] The country's unit of currency is the Philippine peso (₱ [387] or PHP [388]). [389]
[1] [5] [6] [7] The Toronto Star tallied 5,276 false claims from January 2017 to June 2019, an average of six per day. [2] Commentators and fact-checkers have described Trump's mendacity as unprecedented in American politics, [ 13 ] and the consistency of falsehoods as a distinctive part of his business and political identities. [ 14 ]
The 2010 fiscal year budget was $199.2 million, [70] an increase of $35 million from 2009. [70] The city's general fund receives the largest amount of funds from property taxes, followed by service fees such as solid waste collection and swimming pool or golf course admission and 80% of its expenses go to personnel costs. [ 70 ]
The litigation was settled in July 2020 for $7.5 million with a payout to claimants of at least $5 each, with a maximum of $12 each. [ 390 ] [ 391 ] [ 392 ] On March 20, 2019, the European Commission imposed a €1.49 billion ($1.69 billion) fine on Google for preventing rivals from being able to "compete and innovate fairly" in the online ...
From 1988 to 2009, support for recognized same-sex marriage increased between 1% and 1.5% per year, [24] and accelerated thereafter, rising above 50% in Pew Research Center polling for the first time in 2011. [25] Furthermore, a 2012 Gallup poll found 61% support for allowing gay and lesbian individuals to adopt children. [26]
During the Wisconsin glaciation, 50,000–17,000 years ago, falling sea levels allowed people to move gradually across the Bering land bridge , from Siberia into northwest North America. [2] At that point, they were blocked by the Laurentide Ice Sheet that covered most of Canada, confining them to Alaska and the Yukon for thousands of years. [ 3 ]