Subaru to exit BTCC as Levorg deal ends, BMR Racing to continue
Subaru will leave the British Touring Car Championship after the title-winning BMR Racing squad’s four-year deal to field the Levorg came to an end. BMR and Subaru racer Ash Sutton took the Levorg to the BTCC drivers’ title in 2017 and the factory team has taken 21 race victories over the last four campaigns, with…
2020 Subaru Crosstrek Keeps the Good Looks, Adds More Safety and Tech Features
From Car and Driver Click Here: pandora Bangle cheap The 2020 Crosstrek receives a few exterior tweaks, interior functionality changes, and a start-stop system. The new start-stop system is standard on gasoline-powered Crosstreks. A new collision detection system automatically unlocks all doors in the event of an accident. In 2019, during its second generation, the…
Powerful coastal storm known as a 'bomb cyclone' will blast the Northeast from New York to Maine
A powerful coastal storm will unleash soaking rain and howling winds through Thursday from the Mid-Atlantic to New England. The strong winds – potentially gusting up to 60 mph – may cause some tree damage and power outages, the National Weather Service said. Up to 3 inches of rain could fall in this storm, especially…
Internet shutdown fuels Kashmir fake news battle
A communications blackout in India’s powderkeg Kashmir region is fuelling a fake news war with Pakistan, as both sides unleash a deluge of disinformation to fill the vacuum and shape opinion. India cut access to Kashmir’s internet and phone lines in August as it sought to contain the fallout of its decision to revoke the…
Moderate Dems (Cautiously) Critique Warren Wealth Tax
Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate saw moderate Democrats battle with Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders over their proposals for a wealth tax. Both Warren and Sanders have issued plans to heavily tax the rich in order to address inequality and pay for new social programs — and some of their Democratic rivals said they…
Cato's Chris Edwards: What Warren and Sanders get wrong about wealth inequality (and capitalism)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., are fueling their presidential campaigns by generating anger toward the wealthy. Warren is blasting America’s “extreme concentration of wealth,” while Sanders is condemning wealth inequality as “outrageous” and “grotesque.” Both want to hammer the rich with a new annual wealth tax. Moderate candidates on the debate…
Explainer: Democrats Warren and Sanders want wealth tax; economists explain how it works
By Howard SchneiderOctober 17, 2019 By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – From 1982 to 2018 the share of U.S. wealth held by the 400 richest Americans is estimated to have grown from 1% to around 3.5%, or probably around $3 trillion. According to Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, the University of California at Berkeley economists…
Chicago's top cop found lying in car; requests investigation
CHICAGO (AP) Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson asked the city’s police department to conduct an internal investigation on himself Thursday after he was found lying down in a car. A passerby found Johnson early Thursday in a car parked near a stop sign and called 911. Police department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement…
Fort Worth police shooting shatters community trust
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Yashunn Hale isn’t sure he would call the police to report a crime. Not since an officer killed Hale’s neighbor in her home. Residents of Atatiana Jefferson’s Fort Worth neighborhood said they were hesitant to dial 911 even before a white officer shot the 28-year-old black woman through a bedroom…
Atatiana Jefferson's neighbor thought he asked police to do a wellness check, but the police didn’t investigate it that way
YouTube/The Dallas Morning News Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was killed in her home on Saturday by Aaron Dean, a white Fort Worth police officer who has since resigned from the force and been charged with murder. A neighbor had called a non-emergency line to say Jefferson’s front door was left open, and asked police to do a…