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  • Ford CEO says Trump killing off the EV tax credit could cut the industry in half: ‘way smaller than we thought’

    10/02/2025 3:54:43 PM PDT · by TigerClaws · 68 replies
    The federal electric vehicle (EV) tax credit expires at midnight, ending a 17-year policy pillar that helped close the price gap with gasoline vehicles and turbocharged adoption; the immediate fallout is likely softer demand, leaner EV production, and a strategic pivot by legacy automakers toward hybrids and profitable ICE (internal combustion engine) nameplates, while stopgap leasing workarounds cushion some of the blow. The end of the subsidy is a structural shock already rippling upstream: Battery makers face a growing U.S. surplus and shelved factory plans, undermining stated reshoring ambitions and setting up a whipsaw risk of future shortages if capacity...
  • San Diego Law Enforcement Increase Patrols for Jewish Holiday, Yom Kippur

    10/01/2025 4:33:18 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 28 replies
    Yom Kippur concludes at sundown Thursday, ending the 10-day period on the Jewish calendar known as Days of Teshuvah.The San Diego Police Department said its officers would be on heightened alert against any potential threats to the Jewish community starting Wednesday, when Yom Kippur begins at sundown. "As always, when it comes to Yom Kippur, or any other significant event, we will conduct extra patrols in the areas where there are places of worship," SDPD spokesman Lt. Travis Easter said Tuesday. The department cited tension in the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war and recent attacks on places of worship,...
  • Florida truck driver charged in crash that killed 3, injured 5 others in eastern Michigan

    10/01/2025 7:19:58 PM PDT · by xxqqzz · 19 replies
    CBS ^ | September 28, 2025 | Joseph Buczek
    A Florida truck driver has been charged in connection with a deadly crash that killed three people and injured five others in Ellington Township, Michigan, last week. The two-vehicle crash happened at around 9 p.m. on Sept. 26 on Deckerville Road near Hurds Corner Road. Authorities said Pavel Shchukin, 55, was driving a semi-truck on Hurds Corner Road when he failed to stop at a stop sign and collided with a Jeep traveling eastbound on Deckerville Road. Eight Cass City residents were in the Jeep at the time of the crash. Investigators said three people died at the scene, and...
  • Why The Amazon-Hertz Deal Worries Dealerships [12:32]

    09/29/2025 7:02:29 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 34 replies
    YouTube ^ | September 29, 2025 | CNBC Television
    Hertz's partnership with Amazon is another step in the e-commerce giant's slow march into auto sales. The deal could be a boon for the rental car giant, which is trying to sell more of its cars directly to consumers. Some experts say the shift toward direct online sales, especially involving e-commerce giants like Amazon, could spell trouble for dealerships, possibly even large publicly traded companies such as AutoNation, Group1, Sonic Automotive, Penske, and Asbury. Wholesale auction companies such as Manheim and AVC are also liable to be watching the shift, as direct to consumer sales could threaten their inventories. Why...
  • Michigan Church shooter told Burton council candidate that Mormons are the anti-Christ

    09/29/2025 11:03:42 AM PDT · by Yossarian · 57 replies
    MLive ^ | 9/29/2025 | Ron Fonger
    BURTON, MI -- The gunman who killed at least four worshippers at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township on Sunday unleashed an unprovoked, bitter critique of the Mormon faith just days before the deadly assault. Burton City Council candidate Kris Johns said he met Thomas Jacob Sanford, who police identified as the gunman, while campaigning door to door on East Atherton Road near Center Road on Sept. 22. ((SNIP)) After a few minutes of introductions, Johns said, Sanford steered the conversation directly to the Mormon church and did not turn back, repeatedly telling him...
  • Michigan Church Shooting UPDATE

    09/29/2025 11:53:50 AM PDT · by Presbyterian Reporter · 9 replies
    FOX ^ | 9/29/2025
    This is the third press conference regarding the shooting at the Mount Blanc Michigan LDS Church
  • Feds Say Detroit Man Fabricated 1,200 Students to Steal $16M

    09/28/2025 5:22:59 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 16 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | September 28, 2025 2:00 PM | Scott McClallen
    Two Detroit men have been charged for defrauding the higher education system in Federal Student Aid, announced United States Attorney Jerome Gorgon.The first complaint charges Brandon Robinson, 41, of Detroit with wire fraud related to false Federal Student Aid claims submitted in the names of other individuals. Between January 2015 and February 2024, Robinson submitted fraudulent FSA claims for more than 1200 individuals, involving over 100 schools in 24 states. Robinson caused over $16 million in FSA benefits to be awarded, with more than $10M disbursed. Additionally, the complaint alleges that Robinson also filed over 100 fraudulent unemployment insurance claims...
  • [Face of a madman] Iraq War veteran Thomas Sanford ID’d as gunman who attacked Grand Blanc LDS church, killing 2 and setting it ablaze

    09/28/2025 1:08:31 PM PDT · by Freeleesy · 119 replies
    NYPost ^ | 9.28.25
    The deranged madman who killed at least two people and injured nine others at a Michigan Latter-day Saints church, torching the building and opening fire on fleeing congregants and their families, has been identified as 40-year-old Thomas Jacob Sanford, The Post can confirm
  • Multiple victims in Michigan church shooting; church on fire, police say

    09/28/2025 8:52:17 AM PDT · by Salman · 162 replies
    CNN ^ | 2025-08-28 | Alaa Elassar
    Multiple victims have been injured in a shooting at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, Michigan, on Sunday, according to police. The shooter is down and there is no ongoing threat to the public, according to the Grand Blanc Township Police Department. The church is currently on fire. Police are urging the public to avoid the area as emergency response efforts continue.
  • Shooting at Church in Grand Blanc, Michigan - LIVE Breaking News Coverage

    09/28/2025 8:29:54 AM PDT · by dynachrome · 195 replies
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  • Three Rising Democratic Stars To Appear Alongside Hamas Lovers at Anti-Israel Conference in America’s ‘Jihad Capital’

    Abdul El-Sayed, Rep Ro Khanna, and Michigan lieutenant governor Garlin Gilchrist are all slated to appear at ArabConA trio of rising Democratic Party stars are slated to speak at an anti-Israel convention this week alongside a deep roster of Hamas sympathizers and anti-Semites. Michigan Senate candidate and former CNN contributor Abdul El-Sayed (D.), Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.), and Michigan lieutenant governor Garlin Gilchrist (D.) are listed in the lineup for ArabCon, an event hosted by the American-Arab Discrimination Committee (ADC) in Dearborn, Mich., a majority-Muslim town dubbed "America’s Jihad Capital" because so many of its city and religious leaders...
  • Disaster in motion: Where flights from coronavirus-ravaged countries landed in US

    04/08/2020 9:37:38 AM PDT · by ProtectOurFreedom · 41 replies
    ABC News ^ | April 7, 2020 | John Kelly and Pierre Thomas
    An ABC News joint investigation with its owned television stations sheds new light on the likely flow of the coronavirus from global hotspots into the U.S. and provides a glimpse the toll the virus has taken on some of the first Americans to interact with international travelers: airport workers. From December 2019 through March 2020, as severe outbreaks cropped up in China and then Italy and Spain, among others, thousands of flights from the hard-hit nations poured into U.S. cities, according to an ABC News analysis of more than 20 million flight records obtained from the tracking service Flightradar-24. While...
  • DOJ official directs prosecutors to prepare probes of George Soros' foundation

    09/25/2025 12:44:12 PM PDT · by rdl6989 · 21 replies
    ABC ^ | September 25, 2025, | Katherine Faulders, Alexander Mallin, and Pierre Thomas
    he DOJ order was sent to U.S. attorney's offices in at least seven states. Multiple top federal prosecutors at U.S. attorney's offices around the country received a directive Monday to prepare to launch investigations into the Open Society Foundations, a group funded by the billionaire Democratic donor George Soros, multiple sources confirmed to ABC News. The order from Aakash Singh, a senior official in Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's office, was sent to U.S. attorney's offices in at least seven states, the sources confirmed, including California, New York, Illinois, Michigan and Maryland. The letter lists potential charges prosecutors could take...
  • Michigan student, 11, expelled after taking gun away from classmate to prevent ‘unimaginable tragedy’

    09/21/2025 8:36:14 AM PDT · by lowbridge · 61 replies
    nypost.com ^ | September 21, 2025 | Nicholas McEntyre
    A Michigan middle schooler courageously disarmed a gun-carrying classmate, but was expelled when he failed to alert a teacher immediately, his furious mother claimed. Sakir, a seventh grader at the Dwight Rich School of the Arts, allegedly spotted his classmate carrying the gun during the school day and jumped into action to protect his peers, according to reports. “Sakir’s instinct was not to run away — it was to protect his classmates,” according to a GoFundMe set up for the young student and his family. “…preventing what could have been an unimaginable tragedy.” However, Everett was accused of possession of...
  • Lawsuit Can Proceed Against School District that Socially Transitioned Child and Hid It From Parents

    09/19/2025 10:06:54 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 9 replies
    Hotair ^ | 09/19/2025 | John Sexton
    Back in December of 2023, Dan and Jennifer Mead announced they were suing the Rockford Public School District in Michigan. The school their daughter attended had been socially transitioning her without informing them.The Meads' biologically female child had attended Rockford Public Schools, a district operating 20 schools in Rockford just north of Grand Rapids, since kindergarten, but after beginning sixth grade at East Rockford Middle School in fall of 2020, the child began meeting with the school counselor regarding a dip in their academic performance.Over the next two years, the child continued regularly meeting with the school counselor, branching into...
  • Dearborn’s Muslim mayor tells Christian he’s ‘not welcome’ in debate on honoring pro-terror Arab leader [MI]

    09/17/2025 12:06:49 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 56 replies
    Fox News ^ | September 16, 2025 10:08pm EDT | Jasmine Baehr
    At a Dearborn City Council meeting last week, Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud told local resident Edward “Ted” Barham, a Christian, that he was “not welcome” in the city after Barham raised concerns about new street signs honoring Arab American News publisher Osama Siblani. FOX 2 Detroit reported that the signs honoring Siblani were placed at intersections on Warren Avenue by Wayne County, not the City of Dearborn. But the mayor escalated the debate, telling Barham, “Although you live here, you are not welcome here.” Barham introduced himself as “Ted Barham, Dearborn resident,” and objected to two intersections being renamed after...
  • Democrat judge in America's 'Muslim capital' BANS gay pride flags after Islamic outrage

    09/14/2025 3:49:59 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 50 replies
    The Daily Mail ^ | 14 Sep 2025 | ELIOT FORCE
    A federal judge has upheld a ban on gay pride flags after a years-long battle by an all-Muslim city council to remove the rainbow because it did not reflect their community's values. The court found that Hamtramck, an enclave surrounded by Detroit with a significant Muslim immigrant population, did not violate the US Constitution when it banned the flag from public buildings in 2023. After a pride flag was flown in the city during Pride Month in 2021 and 2022, the city council said it clashed with the beliefs of some residents, so they voted to allow only five flags...
  • Ilhan Omar: Charlie Kirk Had It Coming | WATCH

    09/12/2025 12:58:21 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 57 replies
    JFEED ^ | September 12, 2025 | Bianca Jones
    Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar is facing intense backlash after allegedly stating that conservative activist Charlie Kirk had it coming and grinning while making the comments. The remarks have drawn widespread condemnation from Republicans and critics who have labeled them "ghoulish" and called for her removal. Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar is facing widespread condemnation following remarks she made about the recent assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, with critics accusing her of disrespecting the dead and exacerbating political divisions in the wake of the tragedy. Twitter Post Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, was fatally shot on September 11...
  • Should Rashida Tlaib Even Be in Congress?

    09/12/2025 7:54:32 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 53 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 11 Sep 2025 | Robert Spencer
    “What does it mean,” the Manhattan Institute’s Tal Fortgang wrote in City Journal on Monday, “when a sitting member of Congress speaks at a conference attended by hundreds of terrorism sympathizers?” This was not simply a hypothetical question. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) recently spoke at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit, and her words were so hateful, so incendiary, and so firmly aligned with the cause of enemies of the United States, that they give Fortgang’s a particular urgency, and lead to another question: if a sitting member of Congress hates America, should she be serving in Congress at...
  • University Of Michigan Professor Says Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Is ‘Solution’ To ‘Violent Rhetoric’

    09/11/2025 6:33:56 PM PDT · by Republican Wildcat · 127 replies
    Facebook ^ | 9/11/2025 | Nicole Silverio
    University of Michigan assistant professor Charles H.F. Davis stated on Thursday that the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk is a “solution” to “violent rhetoric spewed by empowered people.” Davis’ research broadly focuses on “racism, oppression, and structures of domination in U.S. higher education,” according to The Midwesterner. In addition to defending Kirk’s murder, Davis retweeted several posts that celebrated the assassination.