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Sales numbers of the Chevrolet Camaro, Ford Mustang, and Dodge Charger and Challenger are slumping across America in 2016...yet sales figures for the high-output Challenger Hellcat muscle cars, apparently, are on the rise. According to data uploaded to a thread on the Hellcat forum Hellcat.org on October 22nd, sales figures of the 2016 model year two-door Hellcat have jumped 67 percent compared with the 2015 middle year, Torque News reports.
A newly uncovered video appears to contradict Donald Trump’s claim that he never knew a high-stakes gambler who was banned from New Jersey casinos for alleged ties to organized crime. The reputed mob figure, Robert LiButti, can be seen standing alongside Trump in the front row of a 1988 “WrestleMania” match in Atlantic City, N.J. LiButti wasn’t there by accident, according to his daughter, Edith Creamer, who also attended the event. The video appears to lend new support to assertions Trump once had close relations with LiButti, who was banned from the state’s casinos in 1991 because of his ties to Mafia boss John Gotti, then the chief of the Gambino crime syndicate.
Turkish authorities issued arrest warrants for 137 academics on Wednesday over suspected links to the cleric who Ankara says orchestrated an attempted coup, CNN Turk reported, widening a crackdown that has worried rights groups and Western allies. Turkey has formally arrested more than 37,000 people and has already sacked or suspended 100,000 civil servants, judges, prosecutors, police and others in an unprecedented purge. The government says it is rooting out supporters of Fethullah Gulen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in the United States since 1999, from the state apparatus and other key positions.
China loves its trains. Already home to the fastest commercial train, and laying claim to more high-speed rail than any other nation, China has proposed, in earnest, building a track to the United States. Don’t hold your breath on that one, but the China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation’s latest project could be the real deal.
A fresh analysis of the final moments of doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 suggests no one was controlling the plane when it plunged into the ocean, according to a report released by investigators on Wednesday, as experts hunting for the aircraft gathered in Australia's capital to discuss the fading search effort. A technical report released by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which leads the search, seems to support the theory investigators have long favored: that no one was at the controls of the Boeing 777 when it ran out of fuel and dove at high speed into a remote patch of the Indian Ocean off western Australia in 2014.
Baghdadi emerges. For the first time in almost a year, we’ve heard from Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The message, titled “This Is What Allah and His Messenger Had Promised Us,” also directly threatened Turkey, with Baghdadi imploring his fighters to “unleash the fire of their anger’” on Turkish troops fighting them in northern Syria, and to take the fight into Turkey.
Today on Drive Wire: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has brought a slew of customized vehicles to the annual SEMA show in Las Vegas. From Jeep, FCA revealed the Wrangler CJ66, a vehicle combining a previous-generation Wrangler frame with the body from a 1966 Jeep CJ, further accessorized with a variety of modern parts. For Chrysler, FCA created the Pacifica Cadence, designed to channel a paddleboarder’s lifestyle with a board carrier, cargo bins, and a pet carrier.
A major gasoline pipeline that is a crucial supply source for the U.S. East Coast could reopen as early as Saturday after an explosion in Alabama killed one worker and injured five others, Colonial Pipeline Co [COLPI.UL] said on Tuesday. The blast on Monday occurred several miles from its biggest gasoline spill in nearly two decades in September. The shutdown will restrict gasoline supplies to millions of Americans in the Southeast and possibly the Northeast.
President Obama defended Hillary Clinton’s “integrity” as she faces a renewed FBI investigation of emails sent from her private server. In a NowThis News interview released Wednesday, the president ducked a question about whether he was upset that FBI Director James Comey had announced the new twist in the long-running probe so close to Election Day. “I do think that there is a norm that when there are investigations, we don’t operate on innuendo, and we don’t operate on incomplete information, and we don’t operate on leaks,” he said.
Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci called Wednesday for "realism and reasonable" approaches from the Greek Cypriots ahead of UN-backed talks aimed at reunifying the Mediterranean island. UN chief Ban Ki-moon is to open a five-day summit in Geneva on Monday between Akinci and his Greek Cypriot counterpart Nicos Anastasiades for talks billed as the last best chance for an enduring peace deal. Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkey invaded the northern third of the island following an Athens-inspired coup by Greek Cypriots seeking union with Greece.
It's hard to think of ways to make a new Mazda Miata more fun, but, if you dig deep enough, there are ways to push its boundaries. The concepts Mazda is showing off at SEMA, the MX-5 RF Kuro and an updated MX-5 Speedster concept, were designed around on those ideas. “As we move our brand in a direction we call ‘Mazda Premium,’ we want to embrace our longstanding motorsports heritage and reach forward with breathtaking designs like the MX-5 RF," said Mazda design leader Ken Saward in a press release.
An Oklahoma man has been arrested after he went joyriding around town in a stolen cop car and recorded the whole thing on Facebook Live. John Pinney, 25, allegedly hopped in the car of an officer who left her keys in the unlocked cruiser while on a coffee break on Halloween night, police said. A woman reportedly called police when she saw a man get into the cop car.
The man whose car was struck by a school bus that then collided with a commuter bus in a deadly Baltimore wreck says he saw nothing but headlights before he was hit from behind. Shawn Braxton of Columbia, Maryland, says he was driving to work Tuesday morning when his silver Ford Mustang was hit. Baltimore police say both drivers were among the six people killed when a school bus with no children aboard smashed into the side of a commuter bus.
All 33 coal miners trapped underground in a gas explosion earlier this week have been found dead, state media reported Wednesday, as work safety officials vowed to punish those responsible.Two miners survived Monday’s explosion but rescuers working around
Pope Francis visited Sweden this week to kick off the 500th anniversary of the 1517 Protestant Reformation. Teeing up to address whether the Catholic Church will ordain female priests (spoiler: nope), the pope noted that Sweden had a thrice widowed queen. “I thought, ‘This woman is strong,’” he told a reporter, before helpfully continuing: “I was then told ‘Swedish women are very strong, very talented.
Red and blue are closely associated with the top two parties in the United States but it's only been that way for a little more than a decade. George Stephanopoulos discusses where the colors came from.
By Svetlana Reiter and Christian Lowe MOSCOW (Reuters) - Amnesty International, a campaign group which has accused the Kremlin of violating human rights with its bombing campaign in Syria, was evicted from its Moscow office on Wednesday. The Moscow city government, from which Amnesty leased the premises in the Russian capital's center, said the group was behind on the rent. Staff at the Amnesty Moscow office told Reuters they arrived at work to find the locks had been changed, official seals had been placed over the doors, and the electricity had been cut off.
Miller, a statewide official running for reelection, had apparently used the insult while touting poll results that showed Donald Trump doing surprising well against Clinton in Pennsylvania. “TRUMP 44,” the tweet read. Miller’s office told the San Antonio Express-News that the commissioner’s account had been hacked, and that everyone with access to his tweets was in the same room with Miller when the message went out.
Barring some unforeseen natural disaster, Ferrari will in all likelihood reveal its successor to the F12berlinetta early next year. Mysterious camouflaged prototypes have already been seen roaming the streets of Maranello, covered almost from stem to stern. Rather than wait several months to find out what lies beneath that cloak, however, one graphic artist has taken it upon himself to take an educated guess at what Ferrari fanatics are calling the F12M will look like, based on the handful of spy photos available, ferrari’s current design language, and some of the best intelligence from the world’s Ferraristas.
Venezuela's opposition began a tense truce Wednesday with President Nicolas Maduro, but supporters accused it of betraying them amid warnings the strategy might backfire. With Pope Francis's blessing, Maduro and top opposition leaders have agreed to sit down to Vatican-mediated talks starting November 11, seeking an exit from a nasty political crisis and economic melt-down. MUD secretary general Jesus Torrealba urged patience from Maduro opponents demanding an unrelenting assault on the man they accuse of driving Venezuela to the brink of collapse.
In the battle for headlines from SEMA, nothing quite beats adding horsepower. Clearly, someone powerful at Toyota knows this, because for this year’s SEMA show, the carmaker cranked a Land Cruiser up to 2,000 horsepower. The keystone to making those insane numbers, according to Toyota’s press release, are a pair of Garrett turbochargers that the carmaker describes as “volleyball-sized” strapped to the 5.7-liter V-8.
Two police officers were shot and killed near Des Moines, Iowa, in "ambush-style attacks," authorities said. It. M. And. Mike green was found in Dallas County it's my understanding he was found near the 100 mile marker staying meaning. Well on a Grover
A fire sparked by a huge explosion on a major gasoline pipeline continued burning Wednesday two days after the fatal blast as congressional Democrats sought an investigation of the Georgia-based operator. Colonial Pipeline Co. said the fire in a rural area southwest of Birmingham, Alabama, was "significantly smaller" since Monday, and an environmentalist said the blaze had shrunk considerably from when it was shooting flames hundreds of feet in the air like a geyser of fire. "It was about the size of a person last night when I saw it," said David Butler of Cahaba Riverkeeper, who has worked closely with the company to help prevent environmental damage.
For more than 30,000 years, northern Russia's cold permafrost has preserved the small bodies of two furry and wide-pawed cave lion cubs, one of them in almost pristine condition, a new study found. The two mummified cubs, nicknamed Uyan and Dina after the Uyandina River where they were found, were just about 1 week old when they died, likely crushed by "extensive collapse of the sediments in the den," the study's researchers wrote in a summary of their research. "They were squished to death," said study co-researcher Olga Potapova, the collections curator at the Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota.