Investing.com — Norway leads zero-emission car sales, but surprisingly that hasn’t left a big dent in the electric car superpower’s appetite for oil, suggesting that calls on peak oil are premature. In January, a record 92.1% of all new cars sold were purely electric in Norway, UBS…
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Paramount Global and Skydance Media are making progress on a deal that would merge the media companies and buy out controlling shareholder Shari Redstone, according to people familiar with the matter.Paramount Global’s special committee, in charge of accepting or rejecting transactions, and David Ellison’s Skydance Media, backed by private equity…
A version of this story appears in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Searching for some evidence that the Founding Fathers would have supported “absolute immunity” from criminal prosecution for former President Donald Trump, his lawyers have turned to George Washington. Citing…
At the start of play April 25, the Houston Astros are mired in last place in the American League West. The Astros begin play Thursday with a dismal, 7-18 record. One need only look at the banged up Astros starting rotation to help find an answer for their troubles. It…
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View MoreA Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris’ detail was removed from their assignment after displaying behavior that colleagues found “distressing,” the agency said. The incident occurred about 9 a.m. ET Monday at Joint Base Andrews, the agency said, ahead of a planned visit by the vice president to Wisconsin. Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement that the agent began “displaying behavior their colleagues found distressing.” The statement did not clarify what that behavior entailed. “The agent was removed from their assignment while medical personnel were summoned,” Guglielmi said. Harris was at the Naval Observatory…
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