00:00The nation's largest commuter rail system is at a standstill. Workers on the Long Island Railroad,
00:05which moves about 300,000 people each weekday, are on strike, demanding higher wages to keep
00:11up with inflation. It took very little time after the strike began at midnight on Saturday for the
00:16political finger-pointing to start. New York Governor Kathy Hochul fired the first shot,
00:21claiming, quote, the disruption that Long Islanders face starting tonight is the direct
00:24result of reckless actions by the Trump administration to cut mediation short and
00:29push these negotiations towards strike. The president naturally fired back, posting, quote,
00:34no, Kathy, it's your fault. And now, looking over the facts, you should not have allowed this to
00:38happen. If you can't solve it, let me know, and I'll show you how to properly get things done.
00:44Now, Hochul is currently running for re-election against Trump-backed Republican Bruce Blakeman.
00:49Blakeman later slammed Hochul for blaming the president and then called on her to suspend
00:53her much-maligned congestion pricing toll. So, commuters who can't take the LIRR can
00:58drive into Manhattan during the strike fee-free. If you don't live in the city, this thing is a toll
01:03to get in and out of the busiest areas of Manhattan aimed at reducing traffic congestion.
01:08Pretty much everyone who drives or rides in a car frickin' hates it, myself included.
01:13As of Sunday, Hochul said pausing the toll simply isn't an option legally.
01:17A transgender high school athlete dominated multiple girls' track and field events at a
01:22California regional final on Saturday. That did not sit well with some parents, competitors,
01:28and activists. In an apparent attempt to make everyone happy, officials decided to award
01:33duplicate gold medals to biologically female runners-up. The teen at the center of it all
01:38is 17-year-old A.B. Hernandez, a senior at Harupa Valley High School. Hernandez captured first place in
01:44the girls' long jump, high jump, and triple jump events during the California Interscholastic
01:48Federation's Southern Sectional Championship final. The Post Deputy Managing Editor Michael Zenni is all
01:54over this story and filled me in on the details. A.B. Hernandez has been making headlines and creating
02:00controversy in California track and field meets for a couple of years now. So she's a rising senior,
02:09and there was just another meet where she was extremely dominant, right? She was beating other athletes
02:20who are cisgender girls by several inches in the long jump, for instance. She has previously been a target
02:32of a lot of controversy because she's so successful in this sport. And one of the things that came about
02:42as a result of this is that the state, California's state high school athletic governing body passed a rule
02:53where if there is a transgender athlete who finishes on the podium, there must also be a cisgender athlete
03:03who takes that spot as well and would advance, would receive the medals as well. And that is the attempt
03:10to sort of, you know, split the baby on this and quell some of the controversy. Unfortunately,
03:17it's really just only further inflamed it. Some of the other competitors appeared to ice
03:23Hernandez out during the medal ceremonies, with one girl skipping the podium altogether and others
03:27keeping their distance amid the escalating controversy. President Trump took a victory
03:32lap over the weekend after a prominent environmental panel softened its doom and gloom take on the impacts
03:38of climate change. The United Nations-backed group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
03:43recently adjusted its outlook for the next 75 years. The group had been calling for 4 to 5 degrees of
03:50warming by the year 2100. Also, those degrees there are in Celsius because apparently that makes an
03:55important science-y distinction here. Now, that may not sound like much, 4 to 5 degrees, but scientists
04:02had issued that figure to calculate things like a dramatic rise in sea levels, massive failures of crops
04:07around the globe, melting glaciers, real doom and gloom end-of-day stuff. The IPCC adjusted
04:13that guidance, and President Trump cheered, posting, quote, the United Nations top climate committee
04:19just admitted that its own predictions were wrong, wrong, wrong, for far too long climate activism has
04:24been used by Democrats to scare Americans, push horrible energy policies, and fund billions into
04:30their bogus research programs. Now, the scientists behind the change noted that decreased cost and
04:36increased adoption of renewable energy and more research into the whole thing is the reason that they
04:41adjusted their findings. For more on these stories and everything else you could possibly want to
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