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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming for Monday, May 4th. I'm Mac Watson.

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Multiple Wyoming lawmakers and a Cheyenne-based car dealer voiced concern Friday over a federal requirement for mandatory "kill switches" in 2027 model vehicles. Cowboy State Daily's Clair McFarland reports that one dealer calls it "Big Brother," while a state legislator says it's "draconian."

"Representative Daniel Singh has been outspoken on this for a while, and he's called it satire, not policy. He was not alone, however, Representative Landon Brown, who chairs the Transportation Committee, voiced milder but similar versions of that same alarm and consternation. And Representative Mike Yin, a Democrat, told me it's the state's business if the state wants to hand down some kind of mandate like this, not the federal government. And he said, 'I don't know why the federal government's always trying always trying to tell us what to do.'"

The requirement passed in the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, but it's about to become a reality as 2027 model year vehicles trickle into the market starting this year.

Read the full story HERE.

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Father Chad Ripperger is one of the Roman Catholic Church's most experienced and well-known exorcists. Cowboy State Daily's Zak Sonntag reports that originally from Casper, Ripperger speaks with a mechanic's calm about the discipline he never asked for — fighting demons.

"He wanted to be a priest and an academic and really focus on Catholic academics. He was asked by the church to focus on exorcism. And this was at a time when the church was globally focusing on expanding exorcism institutionally, and that started in 1999 and it's just been building and building ever since."

Father Ripperger tells Cowboy State Daily that he's gained visibility in recent years after successive popes have directed dioceses to expand the use of exorcism in response to what Ripperger says is a rise in diabolic influence.

Read the full story HERE.

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A California man who was killed by elephants while on safari in Africa was a frequent hunter in Wyoming and close friends with a Douglas outfitter. Cowboy State Daily's Mark Heinz reports that Dax McCarty says the media portrayal of his friend, California vineyard owner Ernie Dosio, is wrong.

"He said, you know that those menial portrayals of him is just a rich guy that was over there killing things just for thrills, you know? He said, 'That's wrong. That's a misconception. That's not who this guy was.' And then I also talked to a couple Wyoming residents who have actually been on safari hunts in Africa and they said, Yeah, it's no joke over there, you have to have your stuff wound up tight. You have to have your head on a swivel."

McCarty tells Cowboy State Daily that according to what he was told by Dosio's family, Dosio died almost instantly when he was gored by a female elephant, on April 17 in the central African country of Gabon.

Read the full story HERE.

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The maker of an AI-powered robot chef that will cook for you wants to move its manufacturing from Ch