Previously all Teslas sold in Canada were assembled in America.
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NY Times » If a prolonged power failure in Phoenix coincided with a heat wave, half the population, nearly 800,000 residents, would require ER care for heat stroke or other heat-related illnesses, overwhelming the city’s hospital system, a new study warns. Other cities are also at risk.
NY Times » As a result, the air is cleaner, the streets are quieter and the grid hasn’t collapsed. But problems with unreliable chargers persist.
Before Raoul’s investigation, the Catholic dioceses of Illinois publicly listed only 103 substantiated child sex abusers. By comparison, Raoul’s report reveals names and detailed information of 451 Catholic clerics and religious brothers who abused at least 1,997 children across all of the dioceses in Illinois.
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Rick Hoyt, the man whose father pushed him in a wheelchair for 32 years in the Boston Marathon, has died at the age of 61. The father-son duo of conquered over 1,100 endurance events worldwide, including 247 triathlons.
His father, Dick Hoyt, had passed in March 2021 at the age of 80.
Hoyt died Monday from respiratory complications, his family announced on the Faceboook page for their charitable foundation.
“It is with profound sadness that the Hoyt Family announce the passing of our beloved brother and uncle, Rick Hoyt this morning,” the post read. “As so many knew, Rick along with our father, Dick, were icons in the road race and triathlon worlds for over 40 years and inspired millions of people with disabilities to believe in themselves, set goals and accomplish extraordinary things.”
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Over the past three decades, suicide rates have slowly and steadily dropped; between 2000 and 2016, the global mortality rate from suicide dropped by about 33 percent. So while it may feel like the world is crumbling into a war-torn, authoritarian shit show ravaged by rising temperatures and politicians who stand idly by, we can take solace in knowing that we’ve become better at preventing suicides.
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One high-income country is a particular exception to the downward trend: the US. Though rates in the country declined throughout the 1990s, at the turn of the century they began to rise again. Between 2000 and 2018, the suicide rate jumped 35 percent. Suicide is the second-highest cause of death among young Americans aged 10–14 and 20–35 years old.
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Reuters » Mexico will issue one-year work visas to welders, iron workers, engineers, and Central American migrants from other professions to work on public infrastructure projects, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said.
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“With 61 years on the faculty in the math department, Gil Strang has been the longest serving faculty member in the history of the department,” professor Michel X. Goemans, head of the MIT Department of Mathematics, said in a statement. “He has had a tremendous impact on the teaching of mathematics to tens of thousands of students at MIT through his lectures, to countless of students at other academic institutions through his textbooks, and to millions of people all over the globe through his online lectures and digital media.”