Sales of the sub-$30,000 Chevy Bolt, being assembled here in Orion Township, Michigan, allowed GM to recently pass Ford as a distant No. 2 behind Tesla in EVs. Joe White | Reuters From the headlines, car buyers might think the most important force driving down the cost of electric vehicles is the $7,500 tax credit
Police bodycam footage has shown the moment officers confronted a gunman who had opened fire at a Louisville bank – killing five colleagues. Connor Sturgeon, 25, was shot dead by police following the attack at the Old National Bank in the Kentucky city on Monday morning. Two patrol officers who responded to the shooting were
LaTavia Washington McGee and Eric Williams join CNN’s Anderson Cooper to share the harrowing details of their kidnapping by a Mexican cartel. #CNN #News #Shorts
11:32 AM BST South Africa head coach Jacques Nienaber is to quit his role after the Rugby World Cup in France this year to join Irish side Leinster, where he will replace senior coach Stuart Lancaster. Nienaber was assistant coach with the Springboks when they won the 2019 World Cup in Japan and was elevated
A former executive at Funding Circle, the London-listed finance group, has raised millions of pounds to launch a digital platform that promises to give small businesses instant credit decisions. Sky News understands that Jerome Le Luel, who spent nearly seven years as Funding Circle’s chief risk officer and head of lending strategy, is close to
In this article VORB SPCE ASTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Virgin Orbit started as a program of Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic in 2012, before being spun off into a separate company five years later. In the private space race, Virgin Orbit contended its method of launching its rockets — known as “air launch”
Multiple people have been injured and four have been killed in a shooting in Alabama, officials have said. The incident is reported to have taken place at a teenager’s birthday party late on Saturday evening in the city of Dadeville, in Tallapoosa County. It was not immediately known if a suspect was in custody. WRBL-TV
Controversial Labour attack adverts targeting Rishi Sunak were not a mistake and there are more to come, a senior shadow cabinet member has told Sky News. Wes Streeting argued it was “absolutely right to take the gloves off” and hold the government to account for its record. The social media campaign in which the opposition
Sudan waits to see how high the price of peace will be There are no heroes in this story. Both the army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been responsible for committing atrocities against civilians. Hundreds have been killed since the 2019 revolution and many more injured. Now, the power pact that brought the two
Fighting erupted in Sudan on Saturday as the army and paramilitary forces clashed, leaving at least 56 people dead and hundreds injured. They were the first clashes between the forces since 2019 but rose out of a long-running tussle for power. Here is what you need to know. Who are the main players? On one
Escalating nurse strike action by withdrawing protection for emergency hospital care will endanger patient safety, a NHS leader has warned as the government said a “full and final” pay offer had been made to staff. Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents health trusts, also raised concerns over the possibility of nursing
It’s time for a fancy pants edition of the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week. In today’s column, we’ve got a beautiful specimen of an antique-style roadster complete with the tried-and-true guts of electric microcar from China. What could go wrong?! This little EV represents the crème de la crème of China’s sophisticated
Torchwood star Murray Melvin has died at the age of 90, with Russell T Davies and John Barrowman leading tributes to the “wonderful” actor. His death was announced on Friday by a friend, who said Melvin had “never fully recovered” from a fall in December. The actor was best known for the 1961 film A Taste
7:40 AM ET Max Holloway still believes he’s a better mixed martial artist than Alexander Volkanovski. That’s a pretty simple, straightforward statement, but it answers the potentially difficult question facing Holloway. He is only 31 years old and undoubtedly one of the top featherweights in the world. But he’s also 0-3 in UFC title fights
The Pentagon is racing to find the source behind the leaking of a slew of highly classified military documents about the Ukraine war. The documents appeared to reveal potential vulnerabilities in Ukraine’s defences, as well as the numbers of UK special forces allegedly active in the country. Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/pentagon-leaks-and-the-ukraine-war-what-do-the-highly-classified-documents-say-and-how-did-they-get-out-12855540 #pentagonmeeting #documentleak #ukrainedocuments SUBSCRIBE to
A fire at a recycling plant in Richmond, Indiana, emitted toxic smoke and forced about 2,000 people to evacuate. #CNN #News
Spotify has announced it is dropping Heardle – the name-that-tune game inspired by Wordle. The streaming giant had acquired the game last July, five months after it took the world by storm. Heardle played small snippets of music and challenged gamers to guess the song as quickly as possible. But in a new statement, Spotify
An Indian gangster-turned-politician has been shot dead on live television. Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf were being escorted for a medical check-up in handcuffs at the time of the attack. Both men were accosted by camera crews – and police say the gunmen who killed the pair had been masquerading as journalists. Three people
The mother of Ava White, a 12-year-old girl who was stabbed to death, says new police powers to tackle adult knife crime should also be applied to younger offenders. When Ava was murdered in Liverpool city centre in 2021, it was a crime that stunned and appalled the nation. Her mother Leeann, now a knife
It has been one those weeks in America where you end up with whiplash from a flood of remarkable news. So much news, in fact, we couldn’t cover it all in the depth we’d like to have done. The main stories were all familiar American themes – guns, intelligence leaks, abortion, drugs. But within each,