2025 Audi S5 Is A Car Of Happy Mediums What does Audi’s S subbrand mean to you? As someone who daily drove an original C4-generation Audi S6 for a decade, it’s a big and burly sports sedan with more performance than a lot of sports cars of its day. All-wheel-drive traction, boost for days, and a manual transmission are the name of the game. In the last 34… Read more…

Harris preached against Trump on the good Samaritan, but the gospel is not red or blue (RNS) — ‘It is not enough to preach the values of compassion and respect,’ the vice president told a church crowd in Atlanta. ‘We must live them.’ That must apply to the Palestinian people. The post Harris preached against Trump on the good Samaritan, but the gospel is not red or blue appeared first on RNS.

Two Bugatti Chirons Crash Into Each Other And An Innocent Truck During Morocco Tour With a price north of $3 million, even a repair bill for a minor fender-bender in Bugatti Chiron could cause financial anxiety for an average person. During the ongoing Bugatti Grand Tour in Morocco, one of the scenic group drivesended with one Chiron crashing into another Chiron. Bugatti CEO Mate Rimac is attending… Read more…

Are Jews safe in America? (RNS) — A young Polish woman asked me the question. The answer: Yes … and no. The post Are Jews safe in America? appeared first on RNS.

As world mourns Gulen, Kenya deports refugees linked to his Hizmet movement NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — In Kenya and across Africa, Gulen’s followers run schools, carry out charity work and take part in interfaith dialogue activities in partnership with other religious groups and institutions. The post As world mourns Gulen, Kenya deports refugees linked to his Hizmet movement appeared first on RNS.

Catholic priest and Indigenous activist Pérez killed by 2 gunmen in southern Mexico TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — He served the Tzotzil Indigenous community for two decades and was known as a negotiator in conflicts in a mountainous region of Chiapas where crime, violence and land disputes are rife. The post Catholic priest and Indigenous activist Pérez killed by 2 gunmen in southern Mexico appeared first on RNS.

Trump Keeps Claiming Hydrogen Cars Will Blow Up His Audience By any objective measure, and even if you support his policies, Donald Trump isn’t fit to be president. He’s too old, his mind is gone, he’s scared to debate, he’s dodging interviews, and nothing he says makes any sense. Take, for example, his current obsession with hydrogen cars blowing up his audience. No, I don’t… Read more…

Ford’s ‘Lifetime’ Air Filters Might Be The Worst Engineering Choice Ever Lifetime or sealed vehicle parts don’t always end up working as intended. While automakers sell buyers on the ability to never have to change this fluid or swap out that filter, you usually have to end up doing one or the other. I once had a Chevy Sonic with a sealed transmission that started having, you guessed it,… Read more…

Tesla Will Sell You A Cybertruck Light Bar That It Legally Can’t Install Tesla Cybertruck fans are raving about the truck’s latest OEM accessory: A light bar that sits atop the windshield and blinds all oncoming traffic with its copious lumens. The light bar only has one real problem — it’s illegal for street use, and it’s illegal for Tesla to even install it on your shiny new truck. Read more…

Elon Musk Might End Up Running The Very Regulatory Bodies That Keep Him In Line Elon Musk is a man that forces us to ask the timeless question first put to us by graphic novelist Alan Moore; who watches the watchers? The New York Times as a great breakdown of all the damage this overpowered and over-wealthy individual could have should Trump both take the White House and keep his promise to put… Read more…

Car Dealership Owner Can’t Carjack A Customer At Gunpoint After All If there’s one thing Florida loves more than getting its ass kicked by the University of Georgia, it’s letting people do pretty much whatever they want with their guns. So imagine our surprise when a Florida jury decided it actually wasn’t cool for a dealership to carjack a customer who had an issue setting up autopay… Read more…

Boeing-Built Satellite Explodes In Orbit, Littering Space With Debris Boeing seemingly can’t catch a break between the endless problems with the 737 Max and the Starliner’s failed crewed test flight. Intelsat announced on Monday that one of its satellites, built by Boeing, broke up in geostationary orbit. Multiple organizations are tracking the debris to avoid collisions and a potential… Read more…

Transportation Left On The Side Of The Road To The White House This Year Good morning! It’s Tuesday, October 22, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Read more…

10th Period: Chickens Coming Home to Roost 10th Period: Chickens Coming Home to Roost I don’t usually like to say, “I told you so,” but when the shoe fits… In 2013, Kasich and his legislative allies eliminated the so-called “property tax rollback” in order to pay for his continued tax cuts benefitting the wealthy. When I was at Innovation Ohio, we pointed out how disastrous…

Harris urges Black churchgoers in Georgia to head out to vote and gets an assist from Stevie Wonder JONESBORO, Ga. (AP) — Black church congregations across the country have undertaken get-out-the-vote campaigns for years. In part to counteract voter suppression tactics that date back to the Jim Crow era, early voting in the Black community is stressed from pulpits nearly as much as it is by candidates. The post Harris urges Black churchgoers i…

Marking the horror of Oct. 7 amid Simchat Torah’s mandate to be joyful (RNS) — The post Marking the horror of Oct. 7 amid Simchat Torah’s mandate to be joyful appeared first on RNS.

What Car Would You Buy Today To Flip In 25 Years? Our own Lawrence Hodge has been complaining about prices on Radwood-era cars lately and frankly, I think he’s just getting old-man cranky. Seeing cars that your middle school friends’ mom drove going for classic car prices is like hearing your favorite song at the grocery store; it’s a sign you are no longer a spring… Read more…

Elon Musk’s $1-Million-A-Day Trump Support Lottery Is Probably Illegal Elon Musk wants to turn Pennsylvania red, and he’s got a plan to do it: Give away $1,000,000 every day to one lucky registered swing state voter who signs his pro-Trump super PAC’s petition. That plan, genius as it sounds, has only one small issue. It’s almost certainly incredibly illegal. Read more…

At $2,999, Will This 2004 Volvo XC70 Go The Distance? The seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Volvo cryptically claims to not want to sell the car but is “ready to move on.” Let’s see if this seemingly tidy AWD wagon’s price is something we might move on. Read more…

What the history of blasphemy laws in the US and the fight for religious freedom can teach us today (The Conversation) — The US has a long history of blasphemy laws, which reflect the complex fight for freedom of religion and speech. The post What the history of blasphemy laws in the US and the fight for religious freedom can teach us today appeared first on RNS.