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New York (AFP) - Ford announced Wednesday fresh changes to its electric vehicle lineup, including the scuttling of a planned SUV model, lifting shares despite a hefty near-term profitability hit. The adjustments -- which reflect a slower-than-expected transition to EVs in North America -- will result in around $1.9 billion in cost hits to Ford's earnings, according to a Ford securities filing. A company news release describing the changes highlighted competitive pressures including low-expense Chinese EV producers and the heightened cost focus of current EV consumers compared with early EV ado...
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Miami (AFP) - Tropical Storm Ernesto advanced Tuesday through the Caribbean toward Puerto Rico, where officials shut down schools and sent workers home as forecasters warned of a possible hurricane. The storm was moving west-northwest toward the US island with maximum sustained winds of 60 miles per hour (95 kilometers per hour), according to the National Hurricane Center. It was expected to pass near or over the US and British Virgin Islands in the evening, before moving to the north and northeast of Puerto Rico later Tuesday and Wednesday. The storm could become a hurricane within 12 hours, ...
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New York (AFP) - Environmental campaigners in New York have kept up a campaign of direct action against one of the city's foremost banking empires, Citi, accusing the group of fueling the climate crisis. Enraged by Citi's bankrolling of polluting businesses, activists have unleashed a "summer of heat" campaign that includes protests and leafleting, coupled with an online pressure campaign. Every week, dozens of protesters gather at Citigroup's gleaming headquarters in Lower Manhattan to demand it change its fossil fuel investments policy, following in the footsteps of European campaigners who...
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Miami (AFP) - Coastal South Carolina and Georgia were under flash flood warnings Tuesday, as Tropical Storm Debby swamped the southeastern United States, leaving at least five dead. A 13-year-old boy died when a tree was blown onto a mobile home in Levy County, the sheriff's office there said, after Debby made landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast earlier Monday as a Category One hurricane. Authorities said a truck driver was killed after his 18-wheeler plunged into a canal in Hillsborough County, while a 38-year-old woman and 12-year-old boy died in a car crash in Dixie County. As the storm moved ...
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Miami (AFP) - Tropical Storm Debby drenched Florida on Monday, killing at least four people and threatening southeastern US states with heavy rainfall and catastrophic flooding. A 13-year-old boy died when a tree was blown onto a mobile home in Levy County, the sheriff's office there said, after Debby made landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast earlier Monday as a Category One hurricane. Authorities said a truck driver was killed after his 18-wheeler plunged into a canal in Hillsborough County, while a 38-year-old woman and 12-year-old boy died in a car crash in Dixie County. The storm moved into Ge...
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Miami (AFP) - Hurricane Debby landed in Florida Monday bringing high winds, pouring rain -- and 25 tightly wrapped packages of cocaine worth more than $1 million. Debby, which hit the state's northern Big Bend region as a Category One hurricane but has since been downgraded to a tropical storm, washed the trove of drugs ashore along Florida's southernmost tip. "Hurricane Debby blew 25 packages of cocaine (70 lbs.) onto a beach in the Florida Keys," US Border Patrol acting chief patrol Agent Samuel Briggs II wrote on X. The load of drugs, which Briggs reported was valued at more than $1 million...
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New York (AFP) - After more than 140 years in California, Chevron announced Friday that it will move its corporate headquarters to Texas in a shift that drew applause from the southern state's oil-loving politicians. The oil company, once known as Standard Oil of California, will relocate its corporate headquarters from San Ramon in Northern California to Houston, long a global petroleum center and nearer to major US oilfields and petrochemical facilities. Chief Executive Mike Wirth and Vice Chairman Mark Nelson plan to move to Houston before the end of 2024, with all corporate functions trans...
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Washington (AFP) - Pollution may have forced an Olympic triathlon postponement in the Seine, but on the banks of the Anacostia River in Washington, Dennis Chestnut is also canceling his swimming plans, thwarted by similar contamination. Once known for half-submerged tires, floating detritus and tumor-laden catfish, the Anacostia, sometimes called the US capital's "forgotten river," has undergone a drastic transformation in recent years. Remediation has been so profound that advocates organized what was to be the Anacostia's first legal swim in more than 50 years, after officials in 1971 banned...
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Los Angeles (United States) (AFP) - Crews continued to fight a massive fire in northern California on Sunday, as authorities in the western US state warned of increasing winds and rising daytime temperatures. The so-called Park Fire outside of Chico had burned more than 357,000 acres (144,500 hectares) as of Sunday afternoon, said Cal Fire incident commander Billy See, making it the seventh-largest ever recorded in the state's history. Progress was made amid light wind and cool weather Saturday, allowing firefighters to declare 12 percent of the blaze controlled, See told a news conference. B...
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Chico (United States) (AFP) - A fire raging out of control in northern California has rapidly become among the biggest ever in the western US state, authorities said Saturday. The so-called Park Fire burned more than 350,000 acres (142,000 hectares) as of Saturday evening, making it the seventh-largest ever recorded in California history, the state agency Cal Fire said. The fire, which prompted orders for more than 4,000 people to flee their homes, was burning through a largely rural, mountainous area near the city of Chico, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of state capital Sacramento. "E...
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