Car
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Finance
Hertz Will Shrink Electric Fleet After Being Burned by Tesla’s Price Cuts
The rental car company blamed the sharp drop in the value of electric vehicles and higher repair costs for its…
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News
The Tech That Needs Fixing in 2024, and What Got Fixed Last Year
The best tech, from universal power charging to foldable phones, solved practical problems. But the worst tech, including self-driving cars…
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Finance
Why Are American Drivers so Deadly?
In the summer of 1999, a few years after graduating from medical school, Deborah Kuhls moved from New York to…
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World
How the Met’s Prop-Shop Magic Makes Trucks Move Onstage
In the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “Carmen,” three pickup trucks and a tractor-trailer are crucial props.
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World
Red Sea Attacks Leave Shipping Companies With Difficult Choices
Attacks on two dozen ships since November are forcing shipping lines to figure out whether and when to skip the…
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World
Subway Service Still Snarled as M.T.A. Works to Remove Derailed Trains
Twenty-six people were injured when two trains collided on Thursday afternoon. Officials said they hoped to restore service on the…
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Books
‘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.…
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News
Shecky Greene, High-Energy Comedy Star, Is Dead at 97
A Las Vegas institution, he would do just about anything for a laugh, including physical comedy so broad that it…
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Finance
Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too.
After almost 10 years of marriage, Christine Dowdall wanted out. Her husband was no longer the charming man she had…
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News
Paula Murphy, Once ‘the Fastest Woman on Wheels,’ Dies at 95
She proved that women could gain fame as a speed demons on land by setting records on the Bonneville Salt…