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This Week in Cars: Hennessey, EVs, and the Cabinet Annie White © Hennessey Our trip through the week's stories, including an 1817-hp supercar, plenty of EVs, and just a little politics. 'Tis the Season It's road salt season in the parts of the United States that experience winter. That's bad news for everyone who worries about keeping their car rust-free, but particularly for the owners of certain vehicles built by Honda. The company has recalled 430,000 cars due to a risk that the front drive shaft could be significantly corroded by road salt. Honda also recalled some vehi...

Biden's Cabinet: Expertise, diversity and an Obama class reunion Janet Hook © (Associated Press) Biden's Cabinet nominees include Debra Haaland, Pete Buttigieg, Marcia L. Fudge, Janet Yellen and Xavier Becerra, from left. (Associated Press) Over the course of the presidential campaign, voters got to see two Joe Bidens: the one who promised to restore stability and competence to government, and another who promised an FDR-style transformation to address social and economic inequities that long predated Donald Trump and the pandemic. As President-elect Biden has assembled his...

Pete Buttigieg revitalized South Bend's downtown. Now he's taking on a much bigger challenge. CNN 12/18/2020 By Matt McFarland, CNN Business © Kevin Lamarque/Pool/AP Former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, President-elect Joe Biden's nominee to be transportation secretary, speaks after Biden announced his nomination during a news conference at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool/AP) South Bend, Indiana has a transit budget of about $10 million, covering 47 buses and fewer than 100 full-time employees. Now the transp...

Perhaps Buttigieg Was the Perfect Pick David A. Graham Popular Searches Not for the first time, people are having strong feelings about Pete Buttigieg. President-elect Joe Biden announced Tuesday that he’d nominate the former Democratic presidential rival and mayor of South Bend, Indiana, to become transportation secretary, and the reactions were predictably polarized. Buttigieg’s fans heralded it as a great job for a young leader and a stride for LGBTQ representation. His detractors complained that it was a political favor for an unqualified rookie—though just a few mon...

16 Dec 2020 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is trashing President-Elect Joe Biden’s “revolving door” transition team of corporate insiders and special interests, calling it “horrible.” During an interview with The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill of the Intercepted podcast, Ocasio-Cortez was asked about Biden’s choice to give cabinet positions and transition team spots to Washington, D.C. insiders, McKinsey consultants, Big Tech employees, and Wall Street executives. Scahill called Biden’s transition team a “corporate revolving door” while Ocasio-Cortez noted Biden’s see...