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US eyeing ways to include Europe in electric car tax breaks

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:51 GMT

The Biden administration may allow European companies to share in billions of dollars in U.S. tax incentives for electric vehicles if the two sides can reach a trade deal in the next few weeks, a senior administration official said Friday — a move that could help ease a major source of transatlantic friction.No such concessions for Europe will be included in a long-awaited proposed guidance that the Treasury Department will release for the incentives next week, the official told POLITICO after being granted anonymity to discuss sensitive deliberations. But ongoing talks between the U.S. and EU could produce an agreement allowing vehicles that include European minerals to qualify for the full extent of the tax breaks, the person said.Those vehicles would still have to be made in North America.The talks address one of the central tension points of the massive climate law that President Joe Biden signed last year — its attempt to combat climate change by encouraging the ...

India’s Rahul Gandhi accuses PM Modi of favoring Adani Group

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:51 GMT

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said he was being targeted because he has raised serious questions about Modi’s relationship with the Indian business conglomerate Adani Group.Gandhi said the objective of his expulsion from Parliament on Friday was to prevent him from speaking in the legislature about his allegation of an infusion of an unaccounted $3 billion into shell companies owned by the Adani Group, headed by Gautam Adani.’’Some of these defense companies are working in drone and missile development and ordnance production. Why is the defense ministry not asking questions,” he said.Gandhi was expelled from Parliament a day after a court convicted him of defamation and sentenced him to two years in prison for mocking the surname Modi in an election speech.The actions against Gandhi, the great-grandson of India’s first prime minister, were widely condemned by opponents of ...

Intel co-founder, philanthropist Gordon Moore dies at 94

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:51 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Gordon Moore, the Intel Corp. co-founder who set the breakneck pace of progress in the digital age with a simple 1965 prediction of how quickly engineers would boost the capacity of computer chips, has died. He was 94.Moore died Friday at his home in Hawaii, according to Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.Moore, who held a Ph.D. in chemistry and physics, made his famous observation — now known as “Moore’s Law” — three years before he helped start Intel in 1968. It appeared among a number of articles about the future written for the now-defunct Electronics magazine by experts in various fields.The prediction, which Moore said he plotted out on graph paper based on what had been happening with chips at the time, said the capacity and complexity of integrated circuits would double every year.Strictly speaking, Moore’s observation referred to the doubling of transistors on a semiconductor. But over the years, it has been applied to hard drives, co...

Ask Amy: I was mortified when they saw we had swiped their wine

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:51 GMT

Dear Amy: “Dilemma in Denver” asked if it was OK to take wine from a neighboring table in a restaurant after the other party had left.I experienced this once years ago.Under a similar circumstance, one of my tablemates helped herself to the wine left at a table next to us. She had poured us all a glass when those people returned from the salad bar.I wanted to crawl under the table! MortifiedDear Mortified: A reminder: You should drink no wine before it’s time.Dear Amy: “Looking for Grief Etiquette” wrote to you about her grief after experiencing a miscarriage.Related ArticlesAdvice | Ask Amy: Can I cut my tip because of my stylist’s high prices? Advice | Ask Amy: My husband says he won’t change for my feminist mom Advice | Ask Amy: I can’t let go of my unrepentent cheating husband Advice | Ask Amy: Am I to believe that their idleness and overeating are caused by genes? Advice | Ask Amy: My m...

Harriette Cole: I looked up, and my kids had become adults. How do I get back in their lives?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:51 GMT

DEAR HARRIETTE: I am a father trying to repair my relationships with my grown children.While the kids were growing up, I was never as present as I wanted to be in their lives, and I regret that.I want to repair the rift, but I don’t know how. I’m finding it difficult to build a strong relationship due to the fact that there’s so much we don’t know about each other.I feel like I looked up one day and they were full-grown adults with their own lives and their own families, and I want to be a part of that.How can I build bridges with my children and make up for lost time?Building BridgesRelated ArticlesAdvice | Harriette Cole: She publicly insulted me for opting out of these risky sports Advice | Harriette Cole: My husband’s clothes show too much skin Advice | Harriette Cole: My anti-college husband flipped out about son’s travel costs Advice | Harriette Cole: Is this a bad way to deal with a...

US pair of Chock and Bates win first world ice dance title

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:51 GMT

SAITAMA, Japan (AP) — Madison Chock and Evan Bates of the United States won their first ice dance title at the figure skating world championships on Saturday.First after the rhythm dance, Chock and Bates finished first in the free dance at Saitama Super Arena with 134.07 points for a total of 226.1.Reigning European champions Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri of Italy were second with 219.85 points while Grand Prix Final Champions Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier of Canada were third with 217.88.“We’ve been pursuing this goal for so many years,” Bates said. “It was exciting and stressful all at the same time. I know that the ice dance field is so competitive. We’ve competed against all these teams for so many years. We really just wanted to focus on ourselves and skate our best.”Chock and Bates, the three-time Four Continents champions , have been together for 12 years.They won the silver medal at the 2015 world championships in Beijing, bronze in Boston in 2016 and bronze last year i...

Early morning tractor-trailer crash creates backup in Fairfax Co.

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:51 GMT

A tractor-trailer crash on the Beltway’s outer loop ramp to southbound Interstate 95, exit 169A, in Springfield, Virginia, had all traffic stopped in the predawn hours of Saturday.The WTOP Traffic Center reported the crash at around 1 a.m. and the ramp reopened just before 4 a.m. There are no reported injuries.More Fairfax County NewsMore Virginia NewsMore Local NewsDriving near the crash, Robin Howard took a photo of the overturned tractor-trailer, posting the picture to Twitter and saying she called the police to report the crash. She said the driver broke through the windshield and was safe.I was one of the first there, called 911. Driver broke through the windshield and is safe. pic.twitter.com/YRYYtTImBh— Robin Howard (@robinmhoward) March 25, 2023Howard told WTOP via Twitter that, while calling police, she saw two other bystanders run up to the overturned vehicle and walk back with the driver.Using a crane, officials with the Virginia State Police got the tractor-trailer...

Warm Final Weekend of March

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:51 GMT

The final weekend of March and the first weekend of spring is here in South Florida and it will sure feel like spring across the area with the return of above average temperatures and muggy humidity levels. Much of our weather pattern has been quiet this week and we will keep it quiet through early next week thanks to high pressure that has been rather stagnant over the Atlantic.Expect sunshine and a few clouds this Saturday with high temperatures a degree or two warmer than yesterday into the mid 80s, including up to 86F in Miami. Besides a spotty shower across inland areas late today, it will be another nice and dry day. That means the weather will look nice for all the events happening this weekend, like the Ultra Music Festival taking place in downtown Miami.This weather story will hold true for Sunday as well to complete the weekend with partly cloudy to mostly sunny skies, highs in the mid to upper 80s and a low rain chance. The warmth and sunshine will continue through Tuesda...

Brussels and Berlin strike deal on 2035 combustion-engine ban

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:51 GMT

The European Commission and Germany announced a deal Saturday morning that will allow the continued sale of combustion-engine cars running exclusively on synthetic e-fuels even after legislation comes into force mandating a policy of zero-emission sales only as of 2035.“We have found an agreement with Germany on the future use of e-fuels in cars,” the European Commission’s Green Deal chief Frans Timmermans said on Twitter, confirming an accord had been reached. “We will work now on getting the CO2-standards for cars regulation adopted as soon as possible.”Timmermans added that the Commission would “follow up swiftly” with “legal steps” needed to turn a non-binding annex to the law, introduced at the insistence of the EU’s car-marking titan Germany, into a concrete workaround to allow new vehicles running on e-fuels, which do emit some CO2, to be sold after 2035.It is unclear exactly how the Commission plans to do that, but ...

ASK IRA: Has Heat’s Jimmy Butler put himself into the MVP discussion?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:51 GMT

Q: Hi, Ira. If Jimmy Butler continues to play the way he has of late and because of it the Miami Heat end up capturing the No. 5 seed, should Jimmy Butler be in the conversation for NBA MVP? – Carlos, West Park.A: Probably still not the won-loss record or high enough playoff seed for that. But with Jimmy Butler, I would put it this way: When Jimmy Butler wants to play like an MVP, he is as good as any two-way candidate this side of say Giannis Antetokounmpo or Joel Embiid. There have been plenty of Jim-V-P games lately, and likely will have to be several more for the Heat to get where they want in the playoff seeds. Beyond that, all of a sudden, missing 15 games is not necessarily an outlier among NBA leading men. There are spots for five players on each MVP ballot. Three locks are Antetokounmpo, Embiid and Nikola Jokic, so the question is whether Jimmy could enter the next group, which many have including Jayson Tatum and Luka Doncic.Q: Ira, in a season full of frustrating up...