Lara Trump, head of the Republican National Committee and Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, told a FOX News host last week that “you cannot have…

Hard-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is escalating her criticism of House Speaker Mike Johnson and threatening his ouster. The Georgia Republican outlined her complaints in a lengthy letter Tuesday to colleagues and renewed threats of a snap vote that could remove him from the speaker's office. It comes as lawmakers return to work from a two-week spring recess and drags the still-new speaker back into the Republican chaos that has defined GOP House control. Johnson has little choice but to work with Democrats to pass big bills over objections of his hard-right flank. But if Johnson does, Greene is threatening to hold a vote to remove him. It all threatens to grind work to a halt.

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Tesla sales fell sharply last quarter as competition increased worldwide, electric vehicle sales growth slowed, and price cuts failed to draw more buyers. The Austin, Texas, company said it delivered 386,810 vehicles from January through March, almost 9% below the 423,000 it sold in the same quarter of last year. Sales also fell short of Wall Street expectations. Analysts polled by FactSet expected the company to deliver 457,000 vehicles. The slowing sales will make it difficult for the company to reach the annual growth rate of 50% per year that CEO Elon Musk has predicted in most years.

The number of robberies of postal carriers grew again last year and the number of injuries nearly doubled, even as the U.S. Postal Service launched crackdown aimed at addressing postal crime. Figures provided to The Associated Press indicate postal carrier robberies reached 643 last year. That's an increase of nearly 30%. Also, robberies resulting in injuries doubled to 61 among letter carriers last year. Houston postal carrier Tijuana Abbott says postal carriers feel like "sitting ducks." The Postal Service began a crackdown last year that included hundreds of arrests while replacing tens of thousands of the universal keys sought by criminals, and robberies slowed over the past five months.