YORK, England — Honda began selling the Fit-based second-generation HR-V in the United States as a 2016 model, but we never saw its first-generation predecessor here. That boxier, shorter machine debuted in Japan as a 1998 model and went on sale in Europe for the 2000 model year. During my recent trip to the junkyards […]
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Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink Corp., switched the location of its business incorporation to Nevada from Delaware, taking steps to cut ties to a state where Musk has suffered significant legal setbacks — one over pay and another over his acquisition of Twitter. The change was completed Thursday, according to the office of the Nevada
Legislation underpinning a plan to relocate the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals across the Potomac River to northern Virginia easily cleared an early hurdle in the state legislature Friday. Lawmakers on the Virginia House Appropriations Committee voted 17-3 to advance the measure, a top priority of Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, to the floor of the
More gains for U.S. stocks on Friday sent Wall Street to its latest record, milestone and winning week. The S&P 500 rose 0.6% and finished a day above the 5,000 level for the first time. It’s the 10th record in less than a month for the index, which closed its 14th winning week in the
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Donald Trump is the oil and gas industry’s undisputed top pick for the Republican presidential nomination as energy sector donors shower his candidacy with nearly 10 times the amount of money as they gave his challenger Nikki Haley. And forget about President Joe Biden. Despite record oil production and profits during his White House tenure,
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It is perhaps a sign of our nonsensical political times that the silliest of theatrics can reveal the most serious of truths. Just look at San Francisco. As my Times colleague Julia Wick reported this week, conservatives — long convinced that the city by the Bay is a progressive hellhole of homelessness, unchecked crime and
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On the first day of the fall 2009 semester, dozens of University of Virginia students trickled into a lecture hall for a Calculus III course, dividing their focus between partial derivatives and multiple integrals. Among them were freshmen Sean Ro and Kevin Wong, who would soon become best friends, and a decade later, the cofounders
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Ford reported strong earnings and an upbeat 2024 profit outlook earlier this week and said the company will keep spending more on its EV transformation. But it’s the details of this last strategy shift that have investors most excited. “We think there has been a seismic change in the past six months,” Ford CEO
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Joni Mitchell has learned to walk three times. The first as a toddler; the next as a wheelchair-ridden 9-year-old recovering from post-polio syndrome; and once more after she survived a nearly fatal brain aneurysm in her early seventies in 2015. The polio, as it turns out, weakened her left hand and forced her to develop
Kurt Kelty, right, Tesla’s then-director of battery technology, introduces the Model S sedan’s chassis and battery pack to reporters in 2012. (Getty Images) General Motors has hired a former Tesla executive, Kurt Kelty, to serve in the newly created role of vice president of batteries as the automaker continues to work on its electric
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