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Mercedes-Benz DRIVE PILOT self-certified in state of Nevada for SAE Level 3 conditionally automated driving DRIVE PILOT available in the U.S. for model year 2024 S-Class and EQS Sedan models, with the first cars delivered to customers in the second half of 2023 Mercedes-Benz is the world's first automotive company to bring SAE Level 31 conditionally automated driving to the U.S., with Nevada being the first state to confirm the compliance of the system with state regulations. This significant milestone sets the ground-breaking Mercedes-Benz DRIVE PILOT system apart as the first and only SAE Level 3 system in a standard-production...

America's deeply divided Republican Party voted Friday to keep its Donald Trump-backed national committee chair in place, in an election seen as a test of the former president's sway. The GOP has been in disarray since a predicted "red wave" failed to materialize in November elections, with the party eking out only a slim majority in the House, and failing to wrest control of the Senate from the Democrats.

David DePape’s interrogation audio three days after his arrest was released this evening. David DePape was arrested after hitting Paul Pelosi over the head with a hammer in the early morning of October 28, 2022. Three days after his arrest he was interrogated. Parts of this interrogation were released today. FOX KTVU shared the audio: David DePape admitted to attacking Paul Pelosi and told San Francisco police that he intended to hold Nancy Pelosi hostage, according to a recording of his interrogation made public Friday. While speaking to a special investigator, DePape, 42, espoused conspiracy theories focused on the Democratic...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State (10-0, 3-0 B1G) will host Iowa (12-0, 5-0 B1G) on Friday, Jan. 27, in the second BJC Dual of the year for head coach Cael Sanderson's squad. The Nittany Lions and Hawkeyes face off at 8:30 p.m. in another B1G Network national telecast in the Jordan Center. This is Iowa's first trip to Penn State since the 2017-18 season. Penn State is coming off a superb two-win weekend in State College. The Nittany Lions dominated Michigan 30-8 in the first BJC Dual of the season last Friday, winning eight of ten matches including three...

The former Democrat mayor of Sebastopol, California, has pleaded no contest to child sex crime charges and will spend seven years in prison. Robert Jacob, a 45-year-old Democrat who served as Sebastopol’s mayor from 2013 to early 2016 after serving on the city council, pleaded no contest after he was charged in 2021 with six counts of child sex crimes.

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia may cut the Bakhmut supply line. It is time to act for Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAqW1t9rgLk Follow on Instagram up to date uploads. https://www.instagram.com/denys_pilot/ DON'T MISS: SUMMARY Military MAPS & COMMENTS here: https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-338-summary/

[Devotional Catholic] St. John Chrysostom, Bishop, Confessor, Doctor–W (III) January 27, 2023 St. John Chrysostom, Bishop, Confessor, Doctor–W (III) The holy Patriarch of Constantinople received his surname “Chrysostom” (golden-mouth) because he was the most eloquent preacher and the most prolific writer of the Greek Church. He was persecuted by the empress Eudoxia and her courtiers. He died in exile in 407. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ST. JOHN was born at Antioch in 344. In order to break with a world which admired and courted him, he in 374 retired for six years to a neighboring mountain. Having thus acquired the art of Christian...

Video footage of incident between Tyre Nichols and Memphis Police Department Posted on January 27, 2023 These videos were recorded on the evening of January 7, 2023, in Memphis, Tennessee. Video 1 is a police-issued body-worn camera near the intersection of Raines and Ross Rd. Videos 2, 3, and 4 are video footage at the second location, a residential neighborhood. Video 2 is from a pole camera and contains no audio. Videos 3 and 4 are police-issued body-worn camera videos. These videos have been redacted pursuant to T.C.A. § 10-7-501, et. seq. WARNING: The video contains graphic content and language....

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I find myself somewhat grateful that I got a mild concussion in mid-January because it forced me to stop staring at my computer, TV and, most importantly, my phone for a solid week. I smacked the back of my skull into the bottom of the cabinet door, sending a shockwave through the part of the brain that controls vision. The resulting concussion, while mild, meant I couldn't look at bright lights or screens or even read without developing motion sickness and painful eye strain. It was boring and frustrating just looking around. The result of this forced screen break was...

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The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork ... Ambitious media frauds Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair crippled the reputations of the New Republic and New York Times, respectively, by slipping years of invented news stories into their pages. Thanks to the Twitter Files, we can welcome a new member to their infamous club: Hamilton 68. If one goes by volume alone, this oft-cited neoliberal think-tank that spawned hundreds of fraudulent headlines and TV news segments may go down as...

When setting up Roku devices (or similar) on two TVs, are each Roku independent of the other? For instance, say we add a streaming channel that requires a code or confirmation. Does each Roku need to do this separately? Or does setting it up with one Roku impact the other Roku on the account and other TV?

In 2022, almost a third of American adults said the news was untrustworthy or biased and just 26% said they trusted most news most of the time. So where does that leave us? Lost in our social feeds, drowning in disinformation and ultimately cynical about all information. When we can’t agree on the facts, we can’t have productive conversations about the important issues in our lives. And accepting a common body of facts is essential to the functioning of democracy. Of course, it’s up to the news media to be transparent and demonstrate why we should trust them. But as...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal McElroy’s Attack on Church Teachings on Sexuality Is a Pastoral DisasterCOMMENTARY: Jettisoning the distinction between ‘orientation and activity’ means the end of chastity as a virtue to be strived for — or implies that ‘the LBGT community’ is not capable of chastity and should therefore be preached a lesser gospel. That a cardinal wishes to change the Church’s teaching on the morality of same-sex sexual acts is not new. But there is a new one advocating just that, and one of the newest in the college at that.Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, created a cardinal by Pope Francis in...

On a winter’s day in 1984, a briefcase stuffed with classified government documents showed up in a building in Pittsburgh, borne by someone who most certainly wasn’t supposed to have them. That someone was 13-year-old Kristin Preble. She took the papers to school as a show-and-tell project for her eighth-grade class. Her dad had found them in his Cleveland hotel room several years earlier and taken them home as a souvenir. As a different sort of show-and-tell unfolds in Washington over the mishandling of state secrets by the Trump and Biden administrations, the schoolgirl episode from four decades ago stands...

A man has been crushed to death by a hydraulic urinal while working on the device in London's West End this afternoon. Emergency services tried to save the man, who has not been named, but he died at the scene at Cambridge Circus on the junction between Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road - outside the Palace Theatre, where the Harry Potter play is being shown. The victim was performing maintenance on the pop-up urinal which rises from the pavement for those out in London at night. The theatre is uncertain whether tonight's performance of the stage show at 7pm...

The horrific tragedy occurred Jan. 5 while Manuel Lopez, 53, was gathering ax tripe — a type of mollusk — off Benito Juárez in Sonora, on the west coast of Mexico, Tracking Sharks reported. He was said to have been diving from the town of Paredón Colorado to the ocean floor without an oxygen tank to nab the critters, which typically reside at depths of 36 to 59 feet. Lopez’s shellfishing expedition was cut short when the shark bit his head clean off... The attack follows an increase in local shark sightings that have area fishermen on high alert. However,...

People come from all around the world to ski Utah's Little Cottonwood Canyon and its bucket list resort Alta, a fixture in skiing lore since 1939. "Oh my gosh the terrain here is just absolutely massive," says Kate Rath. Rath and fellow skier Ali Scheifley are standing on Alta's razor thin High Traverse, choosing their line, about to plunge down the steep and deep Greeley Bowl. "We're both ripping some new skis today and we're actually very pleased," Scheifley says, beaming. This little powder Narnia exists not even 10 miles up from the Salt Lake valley. These high alpine peaks...

Agroup of Senate Democrats announced legislation this week to deny former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro a U.S. visa in the aftermath of a riot in Brasilia during which his supporters stormed the halls of the nation's Congress and Supreme Federal Court demanding the ouster of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin, Ill., and Mazie Hirono, Hawaii, along with Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vt., accused the former head of state of seeking undermine democracy in his home country and contended that such a move should bar him from remaining in the United States. "America must never become...