The Biden administration plans to loosen the limits on tailpipe emissions proposed last year by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), giving automakers more time before they’ll be required to sell significantly more electric vehicles than gas-powered cars, reported this weekend. Under the , EVs would have to account for 67 percent of new car and light-duty truck sales by 2032.Rather than forcing manufacturers to start ramping up EV sales right away, the changes would allow them to make the shift more gradually through the remainder of the 2020s, sources told the NYT. After 2030, though, EV sales would need to…
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When Fire Country Season 1 Episode 22 aired way back in May of 2023, its controversial conclusion left fans divided. The debut season of the hit CBS drama dragged its protagonists through hell and delivered some surprisingly satisfying character arcs — only for the season finale to bring us right back to where Bode Leone’s story began: Bode’s decision to take the fall for a drug ring landed him back behind bars and left viewers with the feeling that Fire County Season 2 might wind up rehashing the redemption narrative the show already explored in Season 1.…
Mette Frederiksen, Denmark’s prime minister, speaks on day two of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMUNICH, Germany — The West is suffering a “colossal failure of imagination” in thinking Russia’s war in Ukraine will not hit them next, European policymakers have been told amid calls for a doubling down of transatlantic support for Kyiv.Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen criticized a waning sense of urgency among delegates at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday as Moscow’s full-scale offensive nearly enters its third year.”The sense of urgency is simply not clear enough in…
Mathisworks | Digitalvision Vectors | Getty ImagesCorporate America has a message for Wall Street: It’s serious about cutting costs this year.From toy and cosmetics makers to office software sellers, executives across sectors have announced layoffs and other plans to slash expenses — even at some companies that are turning a profit. Barbie maker Mattel, PayPal, Cisco, Nike, Estée Lauder and Levi Strauss are just a few of the firms that have cut jobs in recent weeks.Department store retailer Macy’s said it will close five of its namesake department stores and cut more than 2,300 jobs. JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines…
A group of 20 leading tech companies on Friday announced a joint commitment to combat AI misinformation in this year’s elections.The industry is specifically targeting deepfakes, which can use deceptive audio, video and images to mimic key stakeholders in democratic elections or to provide false voting information.Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, IBM, Adobe and chip designer Arm all signed the accord. Artificial intelligence startups OpenAI, Anthropic and Stability AI also joined the group, alongside social media companies such as Snap, TikTok and X.Tech platforms are preparing for a huge year of elections around the world that affect upward of four billion…
Customers shop at an RC Willey home furnishings store in Draper, Utah, Aug. 28, 2023.George Frey/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesInflation has pulled back significantly from its pandemic-era peak. In fact, some categories have fallen into outright deflation, meaning consumers are seeing the prices decline instead of rise.Deflation has largely occurred among physical goods rather than services, economists said. The former are tangible objects, while the latter are largely things we can experience, like haircuts and veterinary visits.Demand for goods soared early in the Covid-19 pandemic, as consumers were confined to their homes and couldn’t spend on things such as travel or…
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German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz arrives for the weekly federal government cabinet meeting on Oct. 11, 2023 in Berlin, Germany.Michele Tantussi | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesMUNICH, Germany — German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday reaffirmed Berlin’s commitment to spend 2% of the national gross domestic product (GDP) on defense, this year and over the longer term.”Germany will invest 2% of its GDP on defense in the 2020s, in the 2030s and beyond,” Scholz told the Munich Security Conference.Germany has this commitment in 2024 through regular and special budget outlays for the first time since the early 1990s, a defense…
Not very long ago, a description of our current moment would have read like a dystopian premise: a planet afflicted with deadly weather events, with rising oceans and global migration crises, with animal species rapidly going extinct, all while a rabid conservative movement flourishes worldwide, distorting facts and profiting off our downfall. Perhaps that is why, in these eight new dystopian novels (all published since last year), the dystopian setting is more or less our own—just nudged into a near future where our current perils have escalated, where the threats we already face can be seen and felt more clearly.…
The mid-morning sun kisses your bronzed skin as you idly comb the sand with your toes. A gentle, salty breeze. Crashing waves leaving meandering trails of foam in their wake. Subtle wafts of cedar and hibiscus from the distant clifftops come, then go. Lovely. Just lovely. Now if only someone could bottle that feeling… Alright, alright. I’ll drop the charade already and cue my top picks for cologne that smells like the beach. The last thing I want to do is pigeonhole summer scents to one set of top, middle, and base notes. There’s plenty of room for nuance, especially…
In my opinion, springtime is the perfect season to refresh your knitwear. When it’s not hot enough to leave the house bare shouldered, but no longer too chilly to have to hide under seemingly endless layers, this wardrobe hero really gets to shine.With this in mind I’m looking to add something new to my collection, and I’ve been focusing my search towards the chic cropped cardigans that I’ve been seeing everywhere recently. Crafted from traditional wools, cottons and cashmeres, cropped cardigans retain a cosy edge, yet sometimes style even better with light layers than their longline counterparts.A mainstay in the…
Bridgerton‘s Season 3 may not premiere until May 16, but Shondaland’s Netflix hit is keeping fans excited with plenty of sneak peeks and photos to satisfy until Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton’s (Luke Newton) love story unfolds. As we look forward to #Polin’s glow-up in Season 3 though, we’re taking a look back at some of the show’s most fashionable moments so far, whether it’s from as far back as 2020’s first season about Daphne (Phoebe Dynevor) and the Duke (Regé-Jean Page) leading all the way up to 2023’s limited series spinoff Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story depicting the…
Brian Wilson’s family is seeking a conservatorship for the Beach Boys star, saying in a filing that he is “unable to properly provide for his own personal needs for physical health, food, clothing, or shelter†due to a neurocognitive disorder similar to dementia. The family said in a statement, shared on Wilson’s Instagram, that it took the decision “to ensure that there will be no extreme changes to the household†after the death last month of Wilson’s wife, Melinda, who had been caring for him. A conservatorship, the statement added, would allow Wilson to “work on current projects as well…
Enter Shikari have made a speech expressing solidarity with Palestine at their huge Wembley Arena gig last night (February 17). The St Albans band have just finished off their massive UK arena tour at London’s arena last night, where frontman Rou Reynolds made a riveting speech in support of Palestine: “We cannot just enjoy this moment without acknowledging the fact that there are children being blown to pieces by a government and a country that has been completely lost in nationalistic and religious fervour.†He continued to express solidarity “with the activists and actionists up and down the country who…
Apple’s purported iPhone 16 series of smartphones could arrive with a redesigned rear camera layout, according to details shared by a tipster. A leaked image of what is said to be the camera module of the iPhone 16 model suggests that the handset could be the first model since the iPhone 12 with a vertically positioned camera layout. A sketchy leak also suggests that the iPhone 16 lineup will comprise five models, with a “Plus SE” model said to replace the 6.7-inch Plus model.An image shared by X (formerly Twitter) user Majin Bu on the microblogging platform of the purported camera…
If extreme challenges are your cup of tea, has the perfect opportunity for you. The space agency put out a call on Friday for volunteers to participate in its second yearlong simulated Mars mission, the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA 2). For the duration of the mission, which will start in spring 2025, the four selected crew members will be housed in a 1,700-square-foot 3D-printed habitat in Houston. NASA is accepting applications on the from now through April 2. It’s a paid gig, but NASA hasn’t publicly said how much participants will be compensated.The Mars Dune Alpha habitat…
About 3 per cent of all carbon emissions are due to the shipping industryGreenOak/Shutterstock A 240-metre-long container ship called the Sounion Trader recently completed a test of an onboard carbon capture system as it cruised around the Persian Gulf. It is one of a small but growing number of ships trying to reduce their climate footprint by capturing and storing their carbon dioxide emissions onboard – but finding space for tonnes of CO2 is a challenge. “You’re miniaturising a system that was designed for huge power plants,†says Roujia Wen at Seabound, the UK-based start-up behind the Sounion Trader’s test…
While it may have followed Seinfeld as Larry David’s second major TV series, Curb Your Enthusiasm has the most unique voice of any TV series of the modern era. While set almost entirely in Los Angeles, Curb has a very New York-centric and Jewish sensibility. And at the center of it all is Larry David, playing a probably-not-that-exaggerated version of himself. The show started in October of 1999 as a one-off HBO special, meant to depict the return to stand-up comedy of Larry David, best known at that point as the co-creator of Seinfeld. He was…