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Politics
Surprise: An ‘Extraterrestrial’ Gadget Was Something More Familiar
In 2014 a fireball from outer space was posited to be an alien artifact. A recent study suggests otherwise.
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World
Witnesses Describe Seeing People Shot as Israeli Soldiers Fired Toward Crowds Surging Around Aid Convoy
They went out in the thousands, camping overnight along the coastal road in the cold Gaza night — making small fires to keep warm — huddled together waiting for supplies to come so they could feed their families. What they encountered was death and ...
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Arts
‘Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go’ Turns 50
My wife was editing our teenager’s bedroom, hunting things to pass on to his younger cousins, or donate to Goodwill. He is a high school senior aiming for college next fall, and we have lived in this Maine house since his birth, so his room is jammed ...
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World
Electrify All the Big, Noisy, Belching Trucks
This morning in Mott Haven, a neighborhood in the South Bronx, tens of thousands of New Yorkers — more than 95 percent of whom are people of color — woke up and breathed in air thick with vehicle exhaust. Hundreds of trucks drive through here daily ...
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Business
California Pushes Electric Trucks as the Future of Freight
Neri Diaz thought he was ready for a crucial juncture in California’s ambitious plans, closely watched in other states and around the world, to phase out diesel-powered trucks. His company, Harbor Pride Logistics, acquired 14 electric trucks this ...
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World
How a Crisis in Truck Driving Could Change Life in Japan
It was dark when Daiki Funamizu pulled his truck into the market in Osaka, ending a 15-hour haul down Japan’s main island. He rubbed his sore back and wiped the sweat off his forehead. Then he began several more hours of work to unload 500 boxes of ...
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World
America’s Truckers Face a Chronic Headache: Finding Parking
Parking spots for trucks are in short supply around the country, and the problem can lead to unsafe situations for long-haul truck drivers and other motorists.
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Business
U.A.W. Workers at Mack Truck Go on Strike
The strike at the truck manufacturer by 4,000 members of the United Automobile Workers comes in the middle of the union’s strikes at three large U.S. car companies.
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World
Satellite Images of Belarusian Base Suggest Wagner’s Possible Arrival
More than a dozen vehicles have arrived at a rapidly built military field camp in Belarus, and video from Russia showed a convoy flying Wagner flags on the move.
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World
Jurors in Bike Path Terror Case Ask What Would Happen if They Acquitted
The panel weighing the fate of Sayfullo Saipov, who could face the death penalty, has sent a stream of questions to the federal judge overseeing the case.
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