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Director of D.C.'s Department of Transportation Sharon Kershbaum said the company and DDOT are engaged in testing electric cargo bikes to carry out deliveries of small packages. Th Tony Award for educators won by a Georgia teacher who stresses self-empowerment and storytelling 05/11/2026 08:03pm • NEW YORK (AP) — At this year's Tony Awards, sound designer Justin Ellington has gotten a nomination to theater's biggest prize. Someone who helped him get there is also being highlighted. Freddie Hendricks, a middle school theater teacher at Utopian Academy for the Arts in Ellenwood, Georgia, and Trump administration cancels rule that made conservation a 'use' of public lands 05/11/2026 08:02pm • BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Interior Department is canceling a rule that put conservation on equal footing with development, as President Donald Trump's administration eases restrictions on industries and seeks to boost drilling, logging, mining and grazing on taxpayer-owned land. 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