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Stellantis, the parent company of Chrysler, plans to overhaul the brand with dozens of electric vehicles in the next 10 years. Chrysler plans to launch its first battery electric vehicle (BEV) by 2025, but specific plans have yet to be revealed. The model takes its name from a Chrysler concept from 1934. The first concept, painted in white, debuted in January at CES in Las Vegas. The new concept, whose debut aligned with the New York International Auto Show, features Galaxy Black paint with Cyprus Copper accents inside and out....

That’s the premise of the beer mile, a competition once a cult classic among frat boys and college runners that how now bled into the mainstream. MORE: Fun times at Flotrack Throwdown | Seven predictions for the World Championships Thanks to the advent of the Internet (thanks, Al Gore!), many runners now record videos of their beer miles races and post them on social media for mass consumption. BeerMile.com, founded in the late 1990’s, has become the hub for beer mile results from around the world, now hosting 90,000 race entries from 5,000 races in its database....

U.S.-China political ties are in some of their worst form since relations were normalized in 1979. There remain precious few areas in which the world’s two largest economies can cooperate while senior officials in Washington see Beijing’s ambition to supplant what they consider to be the American-led rules-based international order. The Chinese government’s growing influence on the world stage and its advancing capabilities at home aim to counter U.S. dominance across a wide spectrum—militarily, technologically, in cyberspace and now in espionage....

Ciara will headline the pregame festivities by singing the national anthem, while country music artist Canaan Smith will sing “America the Beautiful” right before the game starts. MORE: Best of the 2015-16 bowl season | Most-intriguing bowl matchups At the Championship Tailgate, which will take place between 1-7 p.m., country singer Eric Church will perform his most recent album, Chief, among other hits. Opening for Church is the Nashville-native group Moon Taxi, which has headlined at Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits....

McDonald was down on the field for almost five minutes after he started convulsing. He was alert and received treatment by Cincinnati’s medical staff right before halftime, according to cincinnati.com, which cited an UC spokesperson. McDonald’s mother told ABC that her son has a history of seizures, according to USA Today. However, it’s unclear if that’s what happened. McDonald started his college career with the Crimson Tide as part of the 2017 recruiting class, and appeared in 11 games last season for Alabama....

Apathy alone isn’t to blame. Russia’s parliamentary elections on Dec. 12 are supposed to render a verdict on the future of democracy and Yeltsin’s reforms–but probably won’t. With everyone from reformers to communist hard-liners accusing each other of dictatorial ambitions, the campaign has featured more bickering than serious debate. Yeltsin himself hasn’t contributed much to the multiparty spirit. Two months after tanks blasted his parliamentary opponents out of the White House, he has outlawed some opposition parties and warned candidates not to criticize his draft constitution (which will be decided by referendum)....

Wall, who advanced from the 22nd Congressional District Republican primary earlier this month, has posted several articles discussing pregnancy and coronavirus and touting President Donald Trump’s ability to “put partisan politics aside” as he fights the COVID-19 pandemic. But Wall’s March 24 Facebook post claiming coronavirus will “save more lives this week than it takes” created exactly that type of partisan fighting between pro-choice and anti-abortion residents. She thanked Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for issuing an executive order directing all licensed health care facilities, “including abortion providers,” to immediately cease what the two conservative lawmakers described as “all medically unnecessary surgeries and procedures....

The $19.50 per hour hazard pay went into effect Jan. 1, 2022. The wage increase was approved by voters in a 2020 ballot referendum as a way to help support laborers who continued working despite possibly exposing themselves to COVID-19. The referendum said that the increased wage would be offered for as long as the city remained under a state of emergency due to the ongoing pandemic. However, on Monday night, the city council voted 8-1 to repeal the city’s state of emergency order, which was instated in August 2021....

The winner of arguably the biggest fight in women’s boxing history will become the sixth boxer and the second woman to hold all four major sanctioning-body titles simultaneously, joining former middleweight champions Bernard Hopkins and Jermain Taylor, former junior welterweight champion Terence Crawford, cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk and women’s welterweight champion Cecilia Braekhus. MORE: Join DAZN and see more than 70 fight nights a year Shields (6-0, two KOs) was the first American boxer in history — male or female — to win consecutive Olympic gold medals (2012, 2016)....

USA Today Sports+ this week published excerpts of leaked emails from Shields’ manager, Mark Taffet, and promoter, Dmitry Salita, to Paul and promoter Nakisa Bidarian, dating to Paul’s fight on Triller against former NBA star Nate Robinson. Paul knocked out Robinson in the second round in November 2020 on a card that featured Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr. Paul has attempted to work with Shields, and it appears Shields’ team reached out to Paul at some point about being on that card....

That was the case Sunday, too, when Erik Jones limped to victory in the 2020 Clash at Daytona with a banged-up race car. Jones was one of just five cars left on the lead lap (and one of six left in the race) after a series of late-race crashes took out 12 of the 18 cars that started the Clash. MORE: Daytona 500 TV, streaming info Ryan Newman earned the pole for Sunday’s 75-lap Clash at Daytona thanks to a random draw Saturday....

Claude Julien’s first employ in Montreal as a bench boss came in 2003, and lasted three-plus seasons. He re-joined Le Habs in 2017 under similar circumstances as his first tour, jumping into the head-coaching role mid-season after the firing of in the incumbent (in both cases, Michel Therrien). Between holding the post, Julien made a name for himself, winning a Stanley Cup in 2011 with the Boston Bruins, and implementing and pulling the strings for one of the stiffest defenses in the NHL....

Those awful April showers postponed the Boston Red Sox vs. Tampa Bay Rays matchup Wednesday night at Fenway Park, the second game in a three-game series. Once games are officially called off, team reps get together to reschedule the games, which are typically scheduled for an off-day later in the season when the two teams meet again. This one was rescheduled for a split-game doubleheader Thursday, despite the Rays' objections and thanks to a handy little clause in the Collective Bargaining Agreement....

The Coyotes forward tweeted an update on Thursday morning, confirming he was done for the year and still in the hospital. The 23-year-old crashed into the boards after losing his footing and went awkwardly into the wall. He was down on the ice and had to be stretchered off. While Arizona has been one of the worst teams in the league, Keller was having a career year. The Boston University product had set a new career-high in goals with 28 and was three points shy of surpassing his career-high in points, sitting with 63 in 66 games this season....

Recent reforms virtually guarantee that the country’s politics will grow even more pluralistic. In 2003, citizens were granted the power of referendum. In 2005, they were given final say via plebiscite over constitutional amendments, and the same round of reform will create single-member legislative districts rather than the current multi-member ones. That move is expected to create a more stable two-party system; the first election under the new rules is in December....

Dr. Cleavon Gilman, whose expertise was recently highlighted by President-elect Joe Biden, told The Arizona Republic he was dismissed without warning by Yuma Regional Medical Center on November 23, after his social media posts went viral. Gilman, who works via a healthcare staffing company called Envision Healthcare after serving as a hospital corpsman in the Iraq war, has used his Twitter profile to warn the public about the scope and severity of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak....

Max Cleland, a former Georgia Senator and a Vietnam veteran, has a unique perspective on the health care issue. He was treated at Walter Reed nearly 40 years ago after losing two legs and an arm in a grenade blast in Vietnam. Later, he headed the Department of Veterans Affairs during the Carter administration. In the past two years, Cleland has gone back to Walter Reed for therapy as the Iraq war reignited old traumas from Vietnam, a trend among veterans of that conflict....

In the initial rankings, which were released Tuesday night, the defending national champions were ranked No. 5 behind No. 1 Ohio State, No. 2 LSU, No. 3 Alabama and No. 4 Penn State. Collge Football Playoff Selection Committee chairperson Rob Mullens explained during the selection show that the committee talked at length about where to rank Penn State and Clemson. “They’re both really, really good teams and both strong defensively....

While the turnaround has a lot to do with the development of talent by the organization, there also can be no doubt Cleveland got the best man for the job — a two-time World Series winner with the Red Sox and a man who has led nothing but winning teams since he got to Boston in 2004, with a one-year hiatus following his departure from The Hub at the end of 2011....

Tannen has made a career out of studying gender-specific communication. A professor of linguistics at Georgetown and the author of the best-selling 1990 book “You Just Don’t Understand” (Morrow), a study of male-female conversational patterns, Tannen defines the double bind like this: If a woman acts in a way that’s expected of a leader, she risks not being likeable, she’s not feminine enough. If she acts in a way that we expect of a woman, i....