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DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is adding about 350,000 miles of roadways in the U.S and Canada to the area where drivers can use the company's "Super Cruise" partially automated driving system. The expansion nearly doubles the road miles where the system can run. It includes both limited-access divided highways as well as some two-lane [...]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Laboratory-produced diamonds’ popularity has grown in recent years. One of the appeals of a lab-grown diamond is that they cost a fraction of the stones formed naturally underground. Lab-produced diamond sales in the United States jumped 16 percent last year from 2022, according to Edahn Golan, an industry analyst. Lab diamonds are [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal accident investigators are pushing to retrofit current aircraft with better cockpit voice recorders, citing the loss of evidence during last month’s blowout of a door panel on a jetliner flying over Oregon. The National Transportation Safety Board said that the Federal Aviation Administration should require many current planes to have recorders [...]
Jayson Tatum remembers how it felt when he first bought a home. "It didn't seem real," said the Boston Celtics power forward, a five-time NBA All-Star set to start for the Eastern Conference in this year's All-Star Game on Sunday. Tatum told The Associated Press in an interview how he wants to help others in [...]
NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. — New Jersey is refusing to allow a shore town whose sand dunes have washed away in places to build a bulkhead to protect itself, ruling that no one is in imminent danger. The state Department of Environmental Protection told North Wildwood earlier this month it will not give permission to the [...]
RENO, Nev. — Federal wildlife officials have agreed to conduct a full, year-long review to determine whether a tiny snail found only in high-desert springs near a huge lithium mine being built along the Nevada-Oregon line should be listed as a threatened or endangered species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a finding [...]
PORTLAND, Maine — Fishermen who harvest one of the most valuable marine species in the U.S. hoped for permission to catch more baby eels next year, but regulators said this week the tight restrictions that have been in place for several years are likely to stay the same. The tiny baby eels, which are often [...]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — More storms, rising seas and huge waves are taking their toll on California's iconic piers that have dotted the Pacific coast since the Gold Rush, posing the biggest threat yet to the beach landmarks that have become a quintessential part of the landscape. At least a half dozen public piers are [...]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Underneath his umbrella, NFL legend Dan Marino stood nearly drenched on the sideline watching Prince's epic "Purple Rain" Super Bowl halftime performance in 2007 during a torrential Miami downpour. For Marino, Prince's iconic show was one the greatest moments in the history of halftime shows — which was once viewed as [...]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Stung by the pullout of the world's largest offshore wind developer from two projects off the New Jersey coast last fall, state energy regulators recently approved two new wind farm projects, saying they remain committed to making the state a leader in the nascent industry. Both the projects chosen by the [...]