Nio holds a product event in Shanghai on Sept. 21, 2023. Evelyn Cheng | CNBC BEIJING — Chinese premium electric car company Nio said Thursday it plans to reveal its mass market brand in May. Executives confirmed the new brand will be named “Le Dao” in Chinese, and said the name is meant to reflect … Read more
TORONTO — A 19-year-old student from Sri Lanka is accused of stabbing and killing six people he lived with, including four children from a Sri Lankan family, Ottawa police said Thursday. Ottawa police chief Eric Stubbs said an “edged weapon” or “knife-like object” was used by the suspect, who was identified as Febrio De-Zoysa. He … Read more
Jeff Smith was whizzing along on a snowmobile one evening a few years back when something dark appeared in front of him. He hit his brakes but he couldn’t avoid clipping the rear tail of a Black Hawk helicopter parked on the trail. The March 2019 crash almost cost Smith his life and is now … Read more
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti —Haiti is under a nighttime curfew after armed gangs led a mass prison break and demanded the resignation of the country’s prime minister, who is abroad seeking support for a U.N.-backed international security force for the Caribbean nation. The curfew is part of a renewable 72-hour state of emergency imposed Sunday, following an … Read more
A Kansas City Chiefs fan who was at the Super Bowl parade when gunshots went off is speaking out, explaining how much that incident affected him and his family. Law enforcement has claimed that the shooting stemmed from a dispute between several individuals. Two juveniles were taken into custody and charged with resisting arrest and … Read more
The Big Picture Rudolph Valentino, a silent film star, was ahead of his time and challenged stereotypes of masculinity in early Hollywood. Valentino’s sudden death at 31 triggered mass hysteria, including riots by fans, a reported 100,000 of whom showed up at his funeral. Although Valentino may not be a household name today, his legacy … Read more
Wireless customers with AT&T, Cricket Wireless, T-Mobile, and Verizon all reported outages across the country this morning. And just like clockwork, some folks online pounced on the disruption as evidence of a global conspiracy. Dave Bautista Opens Up About His Relationship With Denis Villeneuve Alex Jones, arguably America’s most popular conspiracy theorist, believes the telecom … Read more
The Big Picture Mike Flanagan is skilled at adapting horror novels, as seen in his work on The Haunting of Hill House and Doctor Sleep . Midnight Mass and Storm of the Century have similar beginnings, centered around a small island town and a mysterious stranger. Both series explore the theme that the real monsters … Read more
Good news out of Kansas City. A spokesperson at Children’s Mercy Hospital said all 12 patients being treated there — including nine children with gunshot wounds — have been discharged. “We have great news to share — all patients have been discharged from Children’s Mercy,” a statement read from a hospital official. “We will not … Read more
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has drafted plans to release thousands of immigrants and slash its capacity to hold detainees after the failure of a Senate border bill that would have erased a $700 million budget shortfall, according to four officials at ICE and the Department of Homeland Security. The bipartisan border bill that Republican … Read more