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  • BusinessAssociated Press

    Small, well-built Chinese EV called the Seagull poses a big threat to the US auto industry

    A tiny, low-priced electric car called the Seagull has American automakers and politicians trembling. The car, launched last year by Chinese automaker BYD, sells for around $12,000 in China, but drives well and is put together with craftsmanship that rivals U.S. electric vehicles that cost three times as much. Tariffs on imported Chinese vehicles will keep the Seagull out of America for now, and it likely would sell for more than 12 grand if imported.

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  • USLexington Herald-Leader

    Tragedy at Henry Clay High School: Student dies after breaking up on-campus bathroom fight

    Friday’s death of a Henry Clay High School student raises questions for his family: Did school officials do enough to treat his injuries after he broke up an on-campus bathroom fight that preceded an apparent seizure?

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  • WorldINSIDER

    A millennial couple invested in a $143,000 vacation home in Bali. It's become the crux of their early retirement strategy.

    The couple wanted to invest in a tangible asset, and settled on the idea of building a villa in Bali. They hope to retire there within six years.

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  • USCNN

    A 19-year-old called 911 in a crisis and ended up dead. For advocates, it’s a call for a better way of policing

    “Please don’t shoot,” Notan Eva Costa, a 48-year-old Bangladeshi immigrant living in Queens, begged the two New York City police officers who entered her home after her teenage son called 911.

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  • PoliticsAFP

    Trump, reciting songs and praising cannibals, draws yawns and raises eyebrows

    Former US president Donald Trump raised eyebrows among his no-nonsense New Jersey crowd at a rally Saturday when he recited a 1963 soul song in its entirety and referenced a fictional cannibal as "great.""A tenderhearted woman saw a poor, half-frozen snake," Trump said, reciting -- but not singing -- the song to the crowd.

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  • WorldFortune

    Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak was expelled from the school where he just delivered his commencement speech—’be leaders, not followers’

    Wozniak encouraged students to decide for themselves what’s right or wrong when faced with institutional pushback.

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  • LifestyleBackfire News

    Cadillac Escalade Repo Exposes How Little People Know About Cars

    Car repossessions can sometimes be emotionally explosive situations, which in all honesty is what makes them so interesting to watch unfold. It’s even better when you’re partaking of dashcam or bodycam footage of a repo instead of physically being there in the moment. But this repossession of a Cadillac Escalade is next level. Watch a father hold the repo man at gunpoint. In the footage, we see a woman get into the luxury SUV after a tow truck already wisely used its boom to raise the rear wheel

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