By Dee-Ann Durbin The Associated Press DETROIT — After more than a decade of making cars and SUVs and, more recently, solar panels Tesla Inc. wants to electrify a new type of vehicle: big trucks. The company unveiled its new electric semitractor-trailer Thursday night near its design centre in Hawthorne, […]
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By Jennifer Peltz The Associated Press NEW YORK — Some art experts are stunned at the jaw-dropping $450 million (380 million euros) New York auction price for a Leonardo da Vinci painting with a patchy history and heavy restoration. Just a dozen years ago, the worn, touched-up, old painting of […]
By James Nord The Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. — TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone pipeline leaked an estimated 210,000 gallons of oil onto agricultural land in northeastern South Dakota, but state officials don’t believe the leak polluted any surface water bodies or drinking water systems. State officials and pipeline operator TransCanada Corp. […]
By Elizabeth Karmel The Associated Press This holiday season’s gift guide contains a book by a real-life hero chef who built an empire by valuing his busboys, a set of nifty ceramic stoneware oyster shells, atasty tequila and “the last knife you ever buy.” BOOKS FOR THE COOK WHO LIKES […]
By Elizabeth Karmel The Associated Press Pumpkin is so popular today that there is hardly anything that hasn’t had a pumpkin variation. Some of them are no-brainers, others are so far-fetched that I don’t understand who is buying them, much less eating them. Back in the day, a pumpkin cheesecake […]
The Associated PressLindsey Tanner CHICAGO–An increase in suicide rates among U.S. teens occurred at the same time social media use surged, and a new analysis suggests there may be a link. Suicide rates for teens rose between 2010 and 2015 after they had declined for nearly two decades, according to […]
By Nicole Winfield The Associated Press VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Thursday rebuked those who deny the science behind global warming and urged negotiators at climate talks in Germany to avoid falling prey to such “perverse attitudes” and instead accelerate efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Francis issued a […]
By Hamza Hendawi The Associated Press CAIRO — Egypt faces high expectations from Saudi Arabia and its other Gulf Arab benefactors that it will have their back as tensions rise with their rival Iran, including throwing the weight of its military the largest standing Arab army into the crisis if […]
The Associated Press BOSTON — A Massachusetts man authorities dubbed the “spelling bee bandit” because the notes he passed to tellers during multiple bank robberies in the Boston area contained the same spelling error has pleaded guilty. Federal prosecutors say 34-year-old Jason Englen pleaded guilty Wednesday to four counts of […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press You’ve likely seen persimmon in the grocery store and then shied away from it, not quite sure what to do with it. The most common variety in the US is the fuyu persimmon, also called Japanese persimmon, and it looks similar to a slightly […]
By Karen Matthews And Tom McElroy The Associated Press NEW YORK — A painting of Christ by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci sold for a record $450 million (380 million euros) at auction on Wednesday, smashing previous records for artworks sold at auction or privately. The painting, “Salvator Mundi,” […]
By Nicole Winfield The Associated Press VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis got the keys to a fancy new Lamborghini on Wednesday ‚Äî but he won’t be tooling around the Vatican gardens in it. Instead, the special edition Huracan will be auctioned off by Sotheby’s, with the proceeds going to charities […]
