Ferrari reveals EV details, raises forecast
MILAN (AP) — Italian luxury sports carmaker Ferrari raised its 2025 guidance last week, despite global 15 percent tariffs on foreign car imports to the United States, as the company unveiled the new powertrain and chassis of its first fully electric production vehicle. Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna declined to give target production numbers or a [...]
Growing number of states moving to redraw their U.S. House districts
A mid-decade battle over congressional redistricting is playing out in state capitals, in courtrooms and on the ballot. The efforts to redraw U.S. House districts for partisan advantage got jump-started when Texas Republican lawmakers decided to reshape districts. Since then, lawmakers in Democratic-led California and Republican-led Missouri have approved revised districts, and officials in other [...]
Tesla unveils cheaper versions of its Model Y and Model 3
NEW YORK (AP) — Tesla earlier this week rolled out new, cheaper versions of two of its electric-car models in hopes the offerings will help revive flagging sales, but investors dumped its stock anyway. The new Model Y, costing a little less than $40,000 with a stripped-down interior, comes in a declining sales year for [...]
Geothermal firm sues agencies over toad status
Three years after the federal government listed a tiny Nevada toad on the endangered species list, a geothermal company seeking to develop a project near the toad’s only known habitat in northern Nevada is suing the government over the listing. Ormat Technologies, headquartered in Reno, is suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. [...]
Administration: No guarantee of back pay for federal workers
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration warned this week of no guaranteed back pay for federal workers during a government shutdown, reversing what has been long-standing policy for some 750,000 furloughed employees, according to a memo being circulated by the White House. After the longest government shutdown in 2019, Trump signed into law legislation [...]
Verizon inks deal to provide cellular service from space
Verizon has signed a deal to provide cellular service from space through AST SpaceMobile beginning next year. SpaceMobile’s network is designed to operate across premium low-band spectrum, its own licensed L-band and S-band spectrum, and up to 1,150 MHz of mobile network operator partners’ low- and mid-band spectrum worldwide, the company said. “The agreement will [...]
Camera issue leads to Toyota vehicle recall
WASHINGTON (AP) — Toyota is recalling nearly 400,000 vehicles because the rearview camera may not display when backing up, increasing the risk of a crash, federal traffic safety regulators said. Included in the recall are 2022-25 Toyota Tundras and Tundra hybrids and 2023-25 Sequoia hybrids. More than 393,000 automobiles are in the recall, with the [...]
U.S. Treasury sanctions Mexican firms
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a network of companies and their affiliates that allegedly supplied precursor chemicals to make fentanyl to a faction of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. A dozen Mexico-based companies and eight of the people managing them were accused of using their pharmaceutical, laboratory, chemical, cleaning and real estate [...]
USDA: Hello Fresh meals may contain tainted spinach
Federal health officials are warning people not to eat certain Hello Fresh subscription meal kits containing spinach that may be contaminated with listeria. The U.S. Agriculture Department issued a public health alert for the meals, that were produced by FreshRealm, the San Clemente, Calif.-based company linked to an expanding listeria outbreak tied to heat-and-eat pasta [...]