Old Payphone Pedestal Saves 2 People From Being Crushed By Out-Of-Control Car Surveillance camera footage captured a truly wild scene as the lives of two people were saved from a car that was about to roll over them in Milwaukee over the weekend. The hero in all of this? A disused payphone pedestal. This is why it’s important to embrace tradition. Read more…

Court battle to keep Annunciation House open continues in the face of anti-immigrant sentiment (The Conversation) — Religiously affiliated organizations can clash with politicians on humanitarian aid to migrants, raising issues around religious freedom and hospitality to newcomers. The post Court battle to keep Annunciation House open continues in the face of anti-immigrant sentiment appeared first on Religion News Service.

Safeguarding the heartbeat: Native Americans in Upper Midwest protect their drumming tradition RNS – Bans on Native drum ceremonies bring up resonant histories of forced repression and trauma for Native communities today. The post Safeguarding the heartbeat: Native Americans in Upper Midwest protect their drumming tradition appeared first on Religion News Service.

Donald Trump And Kamala Harris Have Very Different Plans For The Auto Industry A Donald Trump presidency would look a lot different than Kamala Harris’s when it comes to the automotive industry. That’s probably pretty obvious to most of you given their individual track records, but the differences become even more glaring when they’re laid out next to each other. Thankfully for us, Automotive… Read more…

Inside The Cold War Plan To Use Postal Trucks To Pick Up Nuclear Attack Victims Nothing stops the United States Postal Service, not even nuclear fallout. Following the first successful nuclear weapons test conducted by the Soviet Union in August of 1949, the U.S. government was forced to prepare for the worst. It was an all-hands-on-deck situation involving every federal department and agency,… Read more…

VW’s Lack Of Physical Buttons Could Be Causing Rise In EV Crashes It feels as though automakers have been on a war against physical buttons, swapping them out in favor of touch screens and capacitive sensors wherever possible. Now, it sounds like the safety implications of that switch are coming back to haunt Volkswagen with some owners blaming the lack of buttons on a spate of… Read more…

Biden’s exit evokes the crisis in American civil religion (RNS) — MAGA has abandoned it. The post Biden’s exit evokes the crisis in American civil religion appeared first on Religion News Service.

African faith leaders call for debt forgiveness in 2025 Jubilee year (RNS) — ‘We urgently need a new debt jubilee to bring hope to humankind, and to bring the planet back from the brink of becoming uninhabitable,’ said 27 religious leaders from 13 countries. The post African faith leaders call for debt forgiveness in 2025 Jubilee year appeared first on Religion News Service.

BMW Will Auction Off First New M5 Painted In A Color That’s Already Discontinued BMW’s new G90-generation M5 will make its North American debut during Monterey Car Week next month, and the company will be auctioning off the very first production unit with the help of Gooding & Company. Called the M5 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance #1/1, this special M5 is painted in a color that no other M5 buyer… Read more…

Watch Just How Far Plane Wings Are Designed To Bend Modern passenger planes are pretty impressive machines. They carry hundreds of people for thousands of miles, pack in luxury trimmings like showers and can even hit supersonic speeds in the right conditions. They’re also built to withstand some pretty serious weather, which means that their wings bend way further than… Read more…

These Automotive Laws Need To Change Many laws, especially here in the United States, are bad. It’s like the people writing them don’t have our best interests at heart or something. One group of people, however, always does: Us. Earlier this week, we asked you all what automotive laws need to change, and today we’re picking through the answers. Read more…

Tesla Cybertruck Isn’t The Only Car That Won’t Be Crash-Tested, And That’s A Problem The Tesla Cybertruck sucks. It’s been a reliability disaster, can’t even survive a simple car wash, is incredibly difficult to repair, has edges that are so sharpowners have ended up in the hospital from their injuries, and it looks like it was designed in a lab to crush pedestrians. It also hasn’t been crash-tested… Read more…

Trump Presidency Will Be Bad For Every EV Maker Except Tesla, Says Musk Good morning! It’s Wednesday, July 24, 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…

Tesla Roadster Engineering ‘Mostly Complete’ Says Musk, Production To Allegedly Start Next Year Oh, the second-gen Tesla Roadster. It was first announced so long ago that images on the original post have been nuked. It’s allegedly going to have rockets and possibly be able to fly and also break the laws of physics, and if we’re being honest, nobody knows whether it will look anything like the concept or not. And… Read more…

Janresseger: States Persistently Fail to Invest Enough in Their Public Schools Janresseger: States Persistently Fail to Invest Enough in Their Public Schools What if education funding were not merely a budgetary residual? That term entered the lexicon in Ohio back in the 1990s as part of the Ohio Supreme Court’s series of decisions in the case for adequate and equitably distributed public school funding, DeRo…

At $42,000, Could This 1994 Dodge Viper RT/10 Get You To Bite? While electric yellow, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Viper is described by its seller as being ‘mint.’ Let’s find out if it costs a mint to get behind the wheel of this legendary brute of a sports car. Read more…

Tesla Q2 Profits Fall 45 Percent, But Elon’s Gonna Turn That Around By Selling A Humanoid Robot To Every Single Person On Earth Tesla held its Q2 earnings call last night, and, well, it certainly was something. My brain matter may currently be leaking out of my ears after listening to Elon Musk talk for so long, but I did it for all of you, our valued readers. Was it worth it? Of course not. And yet, I did it anyway. You’ve got to tune in when … Read more…

Local Resistance Derails Plans For Silicon Valley–Ruled Utopian City California Forever, a Silicon Valley-funded venture, shelved its plans on Monday to transform over 60,000 acres of rural Northern California into a utopian municipality. This wouldn’t have been possible without resistance from local farmers and environmentalists, who formed Solano Together to fend off billionaire… Read more…

Robert Jeffress pledges to rebuild historic Dallas sanctuary after fire (RNS) — Jeffress pledged to ‘rebuild and re-create that sanctuary as a standing symbol of truth.’ The post Robert Jeffress pledges to rebuild historic Dallas sanctuary after fire appeared first on Religion News Service.

2025 Mercedes-AMG GT63 S E Performance PHEV Gives You The Best Of Both Worlds At face value, the 2025 Mercedes-AMG GT63 S E Performance looks like yet another hybrid only created to appease emissions regulators and set new horsepower records. While yes, its 805 horsepower makes the plug-in-hybrid GT the quickest AMG ever, its small battery pack and meager electric-only range make the… Read more…