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Sales of electrified rigs are booming in China, with the United States lagging far behind, says David Fickling for Bloomberg Opinion.To hear Bill Gates tell it, the electric drivetrains that have transformed the passenger vehicle industry over the past decade have no chance of repeating the trick in heavy trucks. According to Elon Musk, such a transition is inevitable – and Tesla will be leading it. Both of them are wrong. EV trucks really are on the brink of taking over – but Tesla is barely in the game. Only around 50,000 units of its monstrous cubist pickup, the...

Paso Robles community members are urging the school district to fire an employee who reportedly posted controversial statements to social media after the death of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. But the school district said terminating the coach’s contract could violate her First Amendment rights. Paso Robles High School assistant basketball coach Netta Perkins’ alleged social media posts gained attention in the aftermath of Kirk’s death. Screenshots were posted on social media and were further shared by Cal Coast News in a Sept. 22 article. According to the screenshots shared on social media, Perkins allegedly wrote, “God does not like ugly!...

MAPLETON, Utah (KUTV) — A woman was arrested on misdemeanor charges after allegedly chasing and threatening a group of juveniles who had ding-dong-ditched her home. An officer with the Mapleton City Police Department responded to a "juvenile problem" after a resident called to report a group that had rang their doorbell and run away. The person who called to report the problem had allegedly followed the group through Mapleton and Springville to a random driveway, according to court documents. Police said the caller's wife then arrived at the scene and blocked the juveniles' vehicle in the driveway, preventing them from...

NBC’s long-running crime drama "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" featured immigration officers blocking the police from investigating a rape by trying to arrest an illegal immigrant witness. Thursday’s episode, "In the Wind," followed a building superintendent named Jorge Ruiz, played by Juan Francisco Villa, who becomes a key witness in identifying a rape suspect. However, Ruiz’s illegal status complicates matters after he flees an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid on his building because of his past as a convicted felon.

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~ Road Trip: McConnell Air Force Base, KansasMcConnell Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located four miles southeast of the central business district of Wichita, a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States. The airbase was named in honor of the brothers Fred and Thomas McConnell of Wichita, who had both been Air Force pilots and veterans of World War II. It is the home of Air Mobility Command's 22d Air Refueling Wing (22 ARW), Air Force Reserve Command's 931st Air Refueling Wing (931 ARW), and the Kansas Air National Guard's 184th...

maybe danielle 💻🚛🇺🇸 @maybedanielleee The number of trucking companies and CDLs issued without a full legal name is truly absurd. I've been talking about this for months.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has placed a professor who is a member of a far-left gun club on administrative leave. "The University of North Carolina has informed Dr. Dwayne Dixon, professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, that he has been placed on administrative leave, effective immediately, following recent reports and expressions of concern regarding alleged advocacy of politically motivated violence," Vice Chancellor for Marketing and Communications Dean Stoyer said in a statement to Fox News Digital Monday afternoon. "Placing Dr. Dixon on leave will allow the University to investigate these allegations in a manner that...

Russia-controlled Crimea has frozen fuel prices and imposed gasoline rationing in response to shortages resulting from a spate of Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian oil refineries. Regional governor Sergei Askyonov said on Monday that motorists in Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, would be limited to buying 30 litres of fuel at a time. He also announced a 30-day price freeze on various grades of diesel and gasoline, a measure apparently designed to minimise public anger over the disruption. Aksyonov announced the move on social media, saying he had held a meeting with oil traders to seek solutions...

It's the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season but - very unusually - there are currently no tropical storms or hurricanes. The last named tropical storm 'Fernand' weakened in the mid-Atlantic on 28 August. And there are no storms predicted by the National Hurricane Centre over the next week, despite forecasts for a busier than average season, which runs from 1 June to 30 November. However, forecasters suggest the current lull in activity will be short-lived with a flurry of storms to come later in the season... Multiple factors for lullIn a special report from CSU addressing the quiet spell,...

Most of the funds will go toward the construction of a $200 million ballroom at the White House. Other companies that have settled lawsuits from Trump include Meta, X and Disney's ABC. Add YouTube to the list of tech and media companies to settle a lawsuit from President Trump after the start of his second term. The Alphabet-owned company agreed to pay $24.5 million to resolve a lawsuit over the suspension of Trump’s account following a mob of his supporters attacking the U.S. Capitol in 2021, according to court papers filed on Monday. Under the deal, $22 million will go...

In the 1969 single that became a career landmark, the peerless and fearless country artist was protesting about protesters.Merle Haggard poured his own life experience into the song that gave him a new signature at the end of the 60s. When he wrote “Okie From Muskogee,” as he told The Boot in 2010, the peerless and fearless country artist was protesting about protesters. ‘I knew what it was like to have freedom taken away’ “When I was in prison, I knew what it was like to have freedom taken away,” he said. “Freedom is everything. During Vietnam, there were all...

Vice President JD Vance said Monday that the federal government was most likely “headed into a shutdown” after President Trump and top congressional leaders failed to strike an agreement during a private meeting at the White House. Republican and Democratic leaders emerged from the White House blaming the other side for the stalemate as Congress faces a Tuesday deadline to fund the government. The ramifications of a government shutdown could be immense for the federal work force and Americans relying on an array of government services, with Trump officials signaling they plan to conduct mass firings if the government shuts...

A legendary NFL quarterback was noticeably absent from his scheduled appearance on Jimmy Kimmel this week.

The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) has come under fire for potentially prioritizing cultural sensitivity over significant health concerns after it published a report last week questioning a major issue of public debate — should first-cousin marriages be banned? Debate over the issue heightened earlier this year after U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he would not ban the practice outright, despite known risks to future generations, as children born from first cousins are at increased risk for diseases like sickle cell disease and cystic fibrosis. Starmer, along with members of his Labour government, has argued that education should...

President Donald Trump is flexing new leverage in the war in Ukraine — allowing the nation to use U.S. weapons to strike deep into Russia, weighing whether to provide Kyiv with Tomahawk cruise missiles and vowing Ukraine can take back all its land — while pressing China and India to slash purchases Russian oil. Ukraine supporters are cheering the shift, noting that after months of frustration over the grinding conflict, Trump appears to be changing tactics. From a combative February meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to his declaration last week that Ukraine could reclaim all of its original territory, the...

Gotta love this tune.English and Irish lads have released a great singalong here which you can't get out of your head after hearing a few times.

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One Donald Trump accomplishment that often goes overlooked is getting Rosie O’Donnell and other unhinged Hollywood has-beens to leave the country. So let’s give credit where credit is due. Of course, even though O’Donnell is no longer stateside, she still desperately clings to relevancy by complaining about President Trump to anyone who will listen. This is what makes her latest performance on Nicolle Wallace’s podcast so revealing. O’Donnell, once a fixture on daytime TV and whose last hit movie was A League of Their Own back in 1992, clearly cannot let go of Trump. She can’t move on, she can’t...

An OnlyFans model has been arrested in Mexico after two popular Colombian musicians were tortured, murdered and chopped into pieces by drug traffickers, according to authorities. Angie Miller was busted a day after the body of her boyfriend, Bayron Sanchez Salazar — known by his stage name B King — was found along with that of fellow musician Jorge Luis Herrera Lemos, aka Regio Clown, in Cocotitlan, just outside of Mexico City, on Sept. 22, according to El Pais. Officials have not revealed how they feel that Miller — who is famous for selling sex toys molded from her private...

[Catholic Caucus] “I am come to cast fire on the earth. And what do I want, but that it be enkindled?” – Sermon for the Feast of the Holy Archangel MichaelThe following sermon was preached at a traditional Mass today in the USA.“I am come to cast fire on the earth. And what do I want, but that it be enkindled?”The breaking of the seventh seal from the Book of Revelation depicts a scene of a certain angel. Seven angels surround God’s presence in Heaven. One angel then steps forth before the celestial altar in Heaven, bearing a golden thurible...