Last year the Chinese car company BYD (which stands for Build Your Dreams) overtook Tesla as the world’s top seller of fully electric vehicles, despite the U.S. market being virtually closed to them. Correspondent Seth Doane looks at how China’s long-term investments in innovation are paying off in EVs โ and how protective tariffs may…
The tumult continues at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as the National Symphony Orchestraโs executive director, Jean Davidson, steps down from her role to become executive director and chief executive of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Davidson will assume her new position May 4, the Wallis announced Friday….
Newly unsealed and edited video shows TikTok employees and consultants expressing concern that potentially addictive features of the app could harm users’ mental health. The video compilation, which was shared with CBS News by the North Carolina Department of Justice, is part of the evidence in a 2024 lawsuit the state’s former attorney general filed…
Some water companies are instructing bailiffs as they try to recover customers’ debt more than 6,000 times in a single year, new data reveals. The information gathered by a committee of MPs has not been freely available before and reveals huge variations in water companies’ use of the tactic. Wessex Water have not been using…
Have you ever found yourself repeating the words “speak to a human please” while on the phone with customer service? If so, you’re among the roughly 70% of Americans who find interacting with automated phone systems, versus human customer support representatives, frustrating.ย That’s in part why Senator Ruben Gallego wants to ensure that consumers who…
Top Los Angeles federal prosecutor Bill Essayli faced blistering criticism from gun rights groups, including the NRA, after he posted on X Saturday about the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis by federal immigration officers. Essayli, the first assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, wrote: โIf you approach law enforcement…
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WASHINGTONย โย Six American airmen deployed to operations against Iran were killed after their refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq, U.S. Central Command said Friday, bringing the U.S. death toll in the war to 13, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a deployment of Marines to the region ahead of the heaviest day of strikes yet. The…
Barnes & Noble was turning a page on the chainโs history of declining sales, but recent comments have stirred bad blood for the bookseller. James Daunt, the chief executive credited with breathing new life into the retailer, is clarifying the storeโs stance on stocking its shelves with AI-generated books, saying its not true that heโs…
Book Review If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Two figures will always haunt the human imagination: the woman in ecstasy, and the woman in madness. This enduring fascination may stem as much from the paper-thin line that separates the two…