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President Biden frequently extolled an electric vehicle company — in which his energy secretary heavily invested — before it declared bankruptcy on Monday. Bay Area-based electric bus and battery maker Proterra filed for Chapter 11, with CEO Gareth Joyce citing “various market and macroeconomic headwinds that have impacted our ability to efficiently scale.” The EV firm, which sold more than 1,300 electric buses to public transit systems in the US and Canada, was valued at $1.6 billion when Biden, 80, took office in January 2021 — but closed with a market value of $362 million, according to Reuters.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s primary political rival, Alexei Navalny, was just banished to 19 years in prison after Russia’s corrupt state prosecution demanded a 20-year sentence. Navalny, who has been hyper-critical of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, has been incarcerated since January 2021, and this latest 19-year sentence is on top of two separate sentences amounting to over 11 years in prison. However, Navalny’s prison sentence pales in comparison to the prison time President Joe Biden’s DOJ and the partisan stooges in the Manhattan district attorney’s office want to hand former President Donald Trump. Trump, Biden’s primary political opponent, has been...

A Summit County Board of Elections official said ballot scanners were temporarily down Tuesday at a polling location in Cuyahoga Falls. The issues are among the few reported at boards across Northeast Ohio during the special election for Issue 1, the proposed constitutional amendment. One of the scanners at the Church in the Falls, 837 Chestnut Blvd., has been replaced, and others are being monitored by board staff after some voters reported issues with their ballots, said Lance Reed, director of Summit County Board of Elections. Reed said a number of people had trouble with the ballots being properly fed...

Most Americans in a new poll said they would take candidates’ abortion policies into consideration before voting them into public office. The new CNN poll released on Tuesday found that 55 percent of U.S. adults would consider a candidate’s position on abortion as one of several important factors when voting, while 29 percent said they would only vote for a candidate who shares their views on abortion. Another 16 percent said they do not see abortion as a major issue that would affect how they cast their ballot, according to the poll. The survey also found that Americans hold largely...

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) on Tuesday declared a state of emergency as the state’s shelter system struggles to house newly arrived migrants without work authorization. In a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Healey blamed a number of factors for her state’s inability to cope with new arrivals. “This state of emergency arises from numerous factors, among them federal policies on immigration and work authorization, inadequate production of affordable housing over the last decade, and the end of COVID-era food and housing security programs,” wrote Healey.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senate Democrats have recruited a professional puppeteer to assist 90-year-old Dianne Feinstein by moving her dead limbs and speaking for her whenever needed, according to sources. Feinstein is now expected to retain her senate seat forever. "Wow! She's so lifelike now!" exclaimed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. "And she tells great jokes!" The person who operates Feinstein's lifeless husk made her say, "I'm not dead, I'm FINE-stein. HA HA!" He then pulled her strings in such a way as to make her perform a charming tap dance. "Hilarious!" Schumer reiterated. Republicans have been uncharacteristically supportive of Feinstein's...

Gloria Johnson (D), a member of the “Tennessee Three,” has launched an exploratory committee for a potential 2024 Senate run. The 61-year-old state lawmaker filed exploratory paperwork, a step potential candidates typically take before launching a campaign, last week. Johnson is expected to challenge Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R) for her Senate seat, as Johnson has been a longtime critic of Blackburn and other GOP leaders in her home state. Blackburn, who spent the last sixteen years as a House Representative for Tennessee, defeated former Gov. Phil Bredesen (D) in 2018 to be elected to the state’s Senate seat.

Without a doubt, former President Donald Trump is being put through the wringer by state and federal prosecutors who seem bent on sending him to prison for the rest of his life in what his supporters see as purely political persecution. And though he’s managed to weather many storms since becoming president in 2016, the “hellish” times he is going through now have been difficult even for him, according to sources close to the former first couple. But, according to sources who spoke to Page Six, Donald Trump is being comforted by his wife, who has been described as a...

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A Tesla vehicle spontaneously burst into flames in a high-end auto yard in Rancho Cordova, California, prompting local firefighters to criticize Tesla CEO Elon Musk on his own social media platform. FOX KTVU reports that a Tesla vehicle spontaneously combusted in a high-end auto yard in Rancho Cordova, Sacramento County. The vehicle, which had been salvaged from flooding in Florida, had been sitting idle in the yard for several months when it caught fire last week. Breitbart News has reported extensively on how Florida’s massive floods turned Elon Musk’s electric vehicles into ticking time bombs.

Since the fall of Afghanistan, the U.S. has forked over funds to groups under the brutal Taliban regime to the tune of $2.35 billion. That's according to a new report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), released to the public on Tuesday. Another $1.7 billion 'remained available for possible disbursement' at the time of the report, dated July 30. The report was made public as the U.S. approaches the two-year anniversary of the frenzied withdrawal. The total amount of money appropriated for 'reconstruction and related activities' since 2002 dwarfs the figure from fiscal year 2022 and 2023....

Announcers across baseball and beyond were seeing red over reports that the Baltimore Orioles had pulled play-by-play man Kevin Brown from the air over a mundane comment about the team’s recent success in Tampa. The offending comment was about the fact the Orioles had won more games at Tropicana Field, home of the Tampa Bay Rays, this season than they had in the previous three seasons combined. Brown’s remarks were backed up by team game notes that were put together by the Orioles’ media relations staff. Still, it was reportedly enough to ruffle the feathers of ownership, according to Awful...

Republican presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy canceled a campaign stop in Michigan Monday due to depressurization in his private jet. The entrepreneur’s plane made an emergency landing due to “an unexpected cabin depressurization issue,” his campaign said. No injuries were reported, according to NBC. A statement for his campaign quoted Ramaswamy as saying he would appear at the event by Zoom rather than in person. “I am glad that we can use technology to still engage with one another,” Ramaswamy said in the statement. The virtual event, when it took place, had an audience of about 60, NBC reported. As noted...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s capital is renowned for its all-night partying, but a new municipal code is expected to change that. San Juan Mayor Miguel Romero on Tuesday signed a new measure to prohibit alcohol sales after certain hours, saying he was “morally convinced” it was the right thing to do. The new code, scheduled to go into effect in November, is expected to affect hundreds of restaurants and bars across San Juan. It was fiercely debated in recent months, with businesses and Puerto Ricans used to long nights and decades of no oversight decrying the...

Using NASA’s InSight Mars lander, scientists have precisely measured Mars’ rotation, detecting a subtle acceleration and the planet’s wobble due to its molten core. This study offers unprecedented insights into the Martian core’s size and shape, providing vital information for understanding Mars’ internal structure. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona. Data sent by the spacecraft before it retired last December has provided new details about how fast the planet rotates and how much it wobbles. Scientists have made the most precise measurements ever of Mars’ rotation, for the first time detecting how the planet wobbles due to the “sloshing” of its molten metal core....

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Terrified villagers in a rural Peruvian district have claimed they have come under attack by 7ft-tall aliens they have dubbed Los Pelacaras, or The Face Peelers. Members of the Ikitu tribe from the San Antonio native community have reported mysterious figures in dark-coloured hoods attacking the villagers, who live in the rural district of Alto Nanay, north east of Lima, Peru. After one such 'attack', a 15-year-old girl had to be taken to hospital. According to the community leader, Jairo Reátegui Dávila, the teenager narrowly escaped but 'as a result of the struggle they cut part of her neck.' Now,...

It’s a tale as old as time… well at least for the past fifteen years or so when we look at the EV industry. EV battery and vehicle platform specialist Proterra is the latest company to join an infamous list of electrified tech companies who have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. What does this mean for the other companies dependent on Proterra’s EV tech? Proterra Inc. (PTRA) is (was?) an American automotive and energy storage developer that would be celebrating two decades in the industry next year. We at Electrek have contributed consistent coverage of the California-based company over the...