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7:15 Right to Repair: Inside the movement fighting for all consumers Wally Dingman hates having to turn away customers. It’s what’s kept him in the auto repair business for 40 years.Like the 371,000 Canadians working in the aftermarket industry, Dingman is more than qualified to repair a vehicle. Yet, in the modern age of repair, just knowing how to do so is not enough.“Every day it’s getting more difficult to carry out repairs,” Dingman said. “Our scan tools and our repair software have limited access to information because it’s being withheld by the manufacturers.”Dingman owns Caughill Automotive in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.…

Irina Tsybaneva, 60, left a note on the grave of Putin’s parents that said they had raised a ‘monster and a murderer’.A 60-year-old Russian retiree was given a two-year suspended sentence after being found guilty of desecrating the grave of President Vladimir Putin’s parents when she left a note at the burial site that said they had “brought up a monster and a murderer”. The court on Thursday found Irina Tsybaneva from St Petersburg guilty of desecrating the Putins’ burial place motivated by political hatred. The retiree said she was motivated by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Prosecutors had sought a…

Three juvenile detainees have been transferred to the notorious Unit 18 facility at Casuarina Prison as a result of the mass riot at Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre, the State Government has revealed.Nearly 50 juveniles, some armed, took over Banksia Hill Detention Centre for more than 14 hours on Tuesday and Wednesday, setting fire to cells and the facility and climbing up on the roof in a tense stand-off.

“Because he’s the leader of the government, any success that belongs to the government belongs to General Prayut,” he said. “But the vote is deciding whether you are happy with the success of the government or not. I think it is very simple. For us, we are basically building on the success of this government, with the addition of the new force that comes with the United Thai Nation Party.” REACHING THE EIGHT-YEAR TERM LIMIT But there is another hurdle, as General Prayut will reach his eight-year term limit in 2025, or halfway in a possible second term if elected.

Our problems begin with a statement purported to have been made by Marcus Garvey in the 1920s: Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned for the day of deliverance is nearA few clarifications need to be made from the onset – Firstly, there is no proof that Garvey made such a statement and some people have attributed it to Reverend James Morris Webb who may have said something to that effect at a convention in 1924. Secondly, even if he said it, Garvey’s appraisal of Selassie was provably scathing and most uncharitable thus rebuffing any romanticization of the…

Video Duration 25 minutes 55 seconds 25:55From the future of humanity to the future of jobs, artificial intelligence is raising questions about threats to life as we know it.It is seen as smart, but scary. Artificial intelligence has almost limitless potential. It can even generate news stories – like those written by our journalists for this programme, for example. And it could transform industries from healthcare to finance. Companies are racing to develop the technology. But, many researchers fear AI could pose dangers to humanity and are calling for a pause in its development. Meanwhile, Germany is looking for foreign…

When Ethan Hayes, a senior at Howard University, talks to his mother about politics, they don’t always see eye to eye.During the 2020 presidential campaign, Mr. Hayes was skeptical of Joseph R. Biden Jr. because of his record on criminal justice. His mother, Lindi Hayes, who said she grew up in a “fairly conservative” Christian household, felt differently.“Well, look at the alternative,” Ms. Hayes would tell her son, warning against four more years of President Donald J. Trump.“I don’t want to look at the alternative,” Mr. Hayes would reply. “I want to look at someone brand-new.”The mother-son split mirrors a…

President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy will meet on Tuesday afternoon to discuss budget priorities and raising the debt limit at a precarious moment: The United States is quickly running out of cash to pay its bills.Lawmakers have less than a month to pass legislation to increase or suspend the debt ceiling, which caps the amount of money the government can borrow. The United States reached its statutory $31.4 trillion debt limit on Jan. 19, and the Treasury Department estimates that the accounting maneuvers it has been employing to prop up its cash reserves could be exhausted as soon as…

This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Sign up here to get the newsletter sent straight to your inbox every weekdayGood morning. Yesterday, a reference to the film Caddyshack provoked a lot of approving mail. Does that mean most of our readers grew up in the 1980s, or just have excellent taste? Send other market-applicable movie quotes to: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com. Trade-off time is hereWe’ve been moaning for some months about confusing, contradictory or equivocal economic data flowing out of the US economy. But recent reports, in a refreshing change, have mostly been singing from the same…

The Atrium is a black glass office tower glowering over the town centre of Uxbridge, 16 miles west of London. It symbolises a problem facing commercial property investors across the UK. The 1990s building, which counts multi-level marketing company Herbalife among its remaining tenants, is now roughly half empty. The Atrium is not alone: a quarter of the office space in the commuter town near the M25 motorway sits vacant. BlackRock bought the Atrium block from insurer Aviva in 2015 for £55mn. The US investment giant has been marketing the property recently for as little as £16mn, according to sales…