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The justices give police the OK to stop drivers with nothing more than the barest fig leaf of a reason: that the car owner's license has been revoked.

After months of scandal surrounding the massive compensation packages awarded to Tiffany Carr, the CEO of the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Miami-Dade County has assumed control of a Miami non-profit domestic violence center currently led by Angela Diaz-Vidaillet, a former coalition board chair.

Citing concerns about severe supply disruptions, senior U.S. lawmakers on Monday called for an expedited investigation by the U.S. International Trade Commission into specific imported products needed to combat the new coronavirus pandemic. U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, a Democrat, and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, a Republican, asked the U.S. ITC to provide details about the source countries for those products, as well as tariff classifications and duty rates, by April 30. "As we grapple with the challenges presented by the novel coronavirus, we are keenly aware that our challenges are being severely exacerbated by disruptions and deficiencies in our supply of equipment, inputs, and substances needed for treating and otherwise responding to the COVID-19 pandemic," Grassley and Neal wrote in their letter to ITC Chairman David Johanson.

President Donald Trump said on Monday that OPEC had not pressed him to ask U.S. oil producers to reduce their output to support global prices, which have been hard-hit by the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. Trump said U.S. oil production had already fallen, anyway. Major oil producers including Saudi Arabia and Russia are likely to agree to cut production at a Thursday meeting but only if the United States joins the effort, three sources involved told Reuters on Monday.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Monday that he's encouraged by a slowing rate of corornavirus infections but warned that City Hall could expand restrictions on public and business activity if the numbers suddenly take a turn for the worse. In an interview with The Associated Press, Garcetti said the possibilities include requiring people to stay mostly in their neighborhoods, rather than travel longer distances for shopping and exercise, and clamping down on construction sites with workers in too-close proximity. Beginning in mid-March, the city put broad restrictions in place that have closed gyms, bars and sit-down dining rooms, and limited business activity to lines of work deemed essential.Now, freeways flow freely with most residents spending their days at home.

A speech by acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly to the aircraft carrier crew whose captain he relieved April 2 has exposed him to accusations of hypocrisy and led to calls for him to be fired.