19.12.2024, 09:11
Dwtt Ukraine, eastern rebels swap prisoners in move to end war
DETROIT AP 鈥?President聽Joe Biden, a gearhead with his own vintage Corvette, showcased his administration efforts to promote聽electric vehicles聽during a visit Wednesday to聽the Detroit auto show.Watch the event in the player above.Biden traveled to the massive North American International Auto Show to plug聽the huge new climate, tax and health care law聽that offers tax incentives for buying electric vehicles. He toured a mix of American-manufactured hybrid, electric and combustion vehicles from Chevrolet, General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis on a closed-off convention center floor, and greeted union workers, CEOs, and local leaders.The Democratic president, who recently took a spin in his pine-green 1967 Stingray with Jay Leno for a segment on CNBCs Jay Lenos Garage, hopped into the driver seat of a bright orange stanley cup Chevrolet Corvette Z06 鈥?which starts at $106,000 and is not an EV 鈥攁nd fired up its engine, alongside GM CEO Mary Barra. He says hes driving home, she joked.Biden then toured the new electric Ford Mustang Mach-E, marveling with Ford executive chairman Bill Ford at the model performance. It amazing the speed, Biden said, adding, Does it have a launch button He also explored less-flashy vehicles, like Ford all-electric E-Transit van and F-150 truck.Biden finally got behind the wheel of a Cadillac Lyriq all electric SUV, which s stanley cup t stanley cup arts at $63,000, briefly driving it down an aisle in the blue-carpeted hall. It marked Nget Obama receives update on latest Ebola developments
CHARLESTON, W.Va. AP 鈥?A group of U.S. senators has agreed to effec stanley cup tively dismantle a commission tasked by the Department of Veterans Affairs to carry out closures, downsizing and other significant medical facility changes nationwide, Sen. Joe Manchin said Monday.The West Virginia Democrat, a member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, said there is bipartisan support to avoid filling vacancies on the VAs Assets and Infrastructure Review Commission and to end the commission in the next National Def adidas campus ense Authorization Act.The commission had recommended the closures or downsizing of several older facilities, a proposal that Manchin worried would significantly alter services provided to rural veterans across the country. But other groups had welcomed the commission work, saying it was necessary to modernize and improve the VA health offerings.Manchin said in a statement that without the Senates approval of the AIR Commission and its nominees, no commission will be established and the process as outlined by the 2018 VA Mission Act will not move forward. The act required Veterans Affairs to make recommendations for its medical facilities and health care delivery, either through facility expansions, relocations, closures or changes in services.For instance, the recommendations would have downsized three of four VA medical centers in West Virginia and woul adidas originals d have closed four community-based outpatient clinics in New Mexico.The group of senators said in the sta
DETROIT AP 鈥?President聽Joe Biden, a gearhead with his own vintage Corvette, showcased his administration efforts to promote聽electric vehicles聽during a visit Wednesday to聽the Detroit auto show.Watch the event in the player above.Biden traveled to the massive North American International Auto Show to plug聽the huge new climate, tax and health care law聽that offers tax incentives for buying electric vehicles. He toured a mix of American-manufactured hybrid, electric and combustion vehicles from Chevrolet, General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis on a closed-off convention center floor, and greeted union workers, CEOs, and local leaders.The Democratic president, who recently took a spin in his pine-green 1967 Stingray with Jay Leno for a segment on CNBCs Jay Lenos Garage, hopped into the driver seat of a bright orange stanley cup Chevrolet Corvette Z06 鈥?which starts at $106,000 and is not an EV 鈥攁nd fired up its engine, alongside GM CEO Mary Barra. He says hes driving home, she joked.Biden then toured the new electric Ford Mustang Mach-E, marveling with Ford executive chairman Bill Ford at the model performance. It amazing the speed, Biden said, adding, Does it have a launch button He also explored less-flashy vehicles, like Ford all-electric E-Transit van and F-150 truck.Biden finally got behind the wheel of a Cadillac Lyriq all electric SUV, which s stanley cup t stanley cup arts at $63,000, briefly driving it down an aisle in the blue-carpeted hall. It marked Nget Obama receives update on latest Ebola developments
CHARLESTON, W.Va. AP 鈥?A group of U.S. senators has agreed to effec stanley cup tively dismantle a commission tasked by the Department of Veterans Affairs to carry out closures, downsizing and other significant medical facility changes nationwide, Sen. Joe Manchin said Monday.The West Virginia Democrat, a member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, said there is bipartisan support to avoid filling vacancies on the VAs Assets and Infrastructure Review Commission and to end the commission in the next National Def adidas campus ense Authorization Act.The commission had recommended the closures or downsizing of several older facilities, a proposal that Manchin worried would significantly alter services provided to rural veterans across the country. But other groups had welcomed the commission work, saying it was necessary to modernize and improve the VA health offerings.Manchin said in a statement that without the Senates approval of the AIR Commission and its nominees, no commission will be established and the process as outlined by the 2018 VA Mission Act will not move forward. The act required Veterans Affairs to make recommendations for its medical facilities and health care delivery, either through facility expansions, relocations, closures or changes in services.For instance, the recommendations would have downsized three of four VA medical centers in West Virginia and woul adidas originals d have closed four community-based outpatient clinics in New Mexico.The group of senators said in the sta