Delphi wants to deploy self-driving cars in 2022
By Associated Press DETROIT – Auto electronics supplier Delphi Corp. will start testing self-driving vehicles in Singapore next year with a goal of putting them …
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Verizon to buy Fleetmatics for about $2.4 billion
By Associated Press NEW YORK – Verizon said Monday that it plans to pay about $2.4 billion to buy Fleetmatics, which makes software used by …
Happier meal? McDonald’s to nix some unpalatable ingredients
By Associated Press NEW YORK – McDonald’s, which is trying to shake its image for serving processed junk food, said Monday it’s eliminating some unpalatable …
People I belong to
Dr. PIERRE B. BLAND From time to time, I am asked why i don’t write more about animals and less about people. From my viewpoint, …
Study points way to finding genes affecting depression risk
By MALCOLM RITTER AP Science Writer NEW YORK – In a key advance for the study of depression, a comprehensive scan of human DNA has …
A celebratory perspective on Emancipation Day
By Calibe Thompson Between the time of the Africans’ unwilling exodus to Jamaica and the island’s Independence from Britain in 1962, perhaps the most consequential …
Thousands converge on Haitian village for annual Voodoo festival
By DIEU NALIO CHERY Associated Press PLAINE-DU-NORD, Haiti – A village in northern Haiti is transformed over two days each July into the spiritual center …
Consumers demand action on illegal debt collection
By CHARLENE CROWELL If you are one of the 77 million Americans who are hounded each year by debt collectors, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau …
GOP eyeing the U.S. Supreme Court
By MOHAMED HAMALUDIN Retired General Colin Powell once offered a comment that is very relevant today, as it was then. Appearing on the NBC program …
First woman candidate for president
By ROGER CALDWELL As an American man, it is difficult at times to watch a woman campaign for President of the United States of America. …