Detroit Diesel, a manufacturer of diesel engines and axles in Detroit, has announced the addition of a third shift, the recall of laid-off workers, and the hiring of dozens more, in response to strategic tariff pressures.

In October, after months of lobbying, the federal government imposed a 25 percent tariff on heavy truck imports to prevent further offshoring and drive investment in the US heavy truck industry. The move is the latest win for UAW members in the union’s fight for reshoring and reinvesting in good union jobs.

“Strategic, targeted tariffs are an important tool in the toolbox to undo the damage of our free trade disaster and bring back good union jobs to the U.S.,” said UAW President Shawn Fain. “Companies like Detroit Diesel, and their parent company Daimler Truck North America, need to step up to reinvest in the workers who make the product and stop laying off American workers while making billions in profit. We applaud this first step in the right direction.”

“Detroit Diesel UAW members build a high-quality product that makes this company billions, and it’s only right that this company would invest right here in Michigan and recognize that success,” said UAW Region 1A Director Mark DePaoli. “We congratulate our members who are coming off of layoff and all those who will join our union with the creation of these new jobs.”

The IndyCar Series is set for a run through the streets of Washington D.C. on Aug. 22-23, 2026, which will mark the first time a race has been held around the National Mall (Note: The American Le Mans Series raced in D.C. in 2002, but not around the aforementioned monument.) The event is part of the 250th anniversary celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The landmark weekend will be free and open to the public.

The temporary street circuit will feature a 1.7-mile, seven-turn layout, which includes a run around the National Mall and incorporating a backdrop of some of America’s most historic and iconic monuments.

It all begins with a 0.4-mile frontstretch along Pennsylvania Avenue, framed by the Washington Monument and U.S. Capitol, with a pit lane area adjacent to the track between Turns 1 and 2. The cars and stars of North America’s premier open-wheel championship will also race by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the National Gallery of Art and the National Archives as part of the challenging and scenic course layout.

“This circuit is unlike any other street race we’ve seen,” said two-time IndyCar champion and back-to-back Indianapolis 500 winner Josef Newgarden, who had the opportunity to tour the circuit on Monday morning.

Landing a remote job in 2026 is only slightly less competitive than cracking an NBA roster. And just like making a professional basketball team, there are basically two ways to do it: Be an all-star, or an affordable alternative.

We appear to be reaching remote-work equilibrium, after years of conflicting trends and predictions. The share of open jobs listed as remote on the career site Indeed has held steady between 8% and 8.6% for the past six months. That’s roughly triple what the rate was in 2019 but markedly less than it was in 2022. Back then, more than 10% of jobs were advertised as remote, and many others were understood to be for obvious reasons.

If you manage to get an offer, brace for a cost-of-living adjustment. The days of collecting New York salaries at New Hampshire and New Mexico addresses are waning.

Millions of people got a taste of the WFH life and loved it. When you apply to work from home today, it feels like every single one of them is in the candidate pool with you. Forty percent of applications submitted through LinkedIn are for remote roles, even though those jobs represent only 8% to 9% of listings.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A prominent Supreme Court litigator who also published a popular blog about the nation’s highest court was convicted Wednesday of tax evasion and related charges stemming from his secretive lifestyle as an ultra-high-stakes poker player.

A federal jury found SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein guilty of 12 of 16 counts after a six-week trial in Greenbelt, Maryland. Jurors deliberated for approximately two days before convicting Goldstein of one count of tax evasion, four of eight counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, four counts of willful failure to timely pay taxes, and three counts of false statements on loan applications.

Goldstein was charged with failing to pay taxes on millions of dollars in gambling income. Justice Department prosecutors also accused him of diverting money from his law firm to pay gambling debts and falsely deducting gambling debts as business expenses.

Goldstein argued more than 40 cases before the Supreme Court before retiring in 2023. He was part of the legal team that represented Democrat Al Gore in the Supreme Court litigation over the 2000 election ultimately won by Republican President George W. Bush.

The men’s United States hockey team got into the Olympic spirit and stayed in the Village alongside other athletes during the Winter Games in Milan-Cortina.

Perhaps the reason for the United States’ improved showing was the fact that the team stayed in the Olympic Village. While Canada opted to stay offsite in a luxury hotel, Team USA stayed in the Olympic Village alongside other athletes — which was a benefit, according to center Dylan Larkin.

“Olympic spirit, team chemistry, and there's something to that,” Larkin said. “When you're around all the other athletes, the best athletes in the world, and you get to talk to them and be around that environment, it's contagious.

“Being around winners, being around great athletes, was something that I'm very appreciative we did.”

Fani Willis is asking a Fulton County judge to dismiss nearly $17 million in attorney fee claims filed by defendants in the dismissed 2023 election interference case, arguing that the law they are relying on is unconstitutional, vague, and being misapplied.

In a brief filed Tuesday in Fulton County Superior Court, Willis moved to intervene in proceedings tied to a 2025 state law that allows defendants to seek reimbursement of legal fees if a prosecutor is disqualified for "improper conduct" and the case is later dismissed

Willis argues the defendants are not eligible for reimbursement because her disqualification stemmed from the "appearance of impropriety," not a finding of actual improper conduct.

The brief also argues there was no causal connection between her disqualification and the later dismissal of the indictment. According to the filing, the successor prosecutor's decision to seek a nolle prosequi - a prosecutor or plaintiff's official notice voluntarily withdrawing a pending criminal charge or civil lawsuit - did not rely on the issues that led to her removal. Willis contends the statute requires a nexus between the disqualification and the dismissal - not merely that one event happened after the other.

CNN: The annual rate of inflation slowed to an eight-month low last month, new data showed Friday.

Consumer prices rose 2.4% for the 12 months ending in January, a sharp cooling from the 2.7% rate notched in December, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest Consumer Price Index. On a monthly basis, prices rose a better-than-expected 0.2%, a deceleration from December.

Economists had forecast a 0.3% monthly increase, which would bring the annual rate to 2.5%, an expectedly cooler reading that benefited from “base effects,” or comparisons to last year when inflation was running higher.

For similar reasons, the core CPI gauge – a closely watched measurement of underlying inflation that excludes volatile food and energy prices – also saw its annual rate of inflation ease. Core CPI slowed to 2.5%, which marks its lowest rate since March 2021, right before the pandemic-era inflationary spike.

The State Department is planning to revoke more passports from people with large amounts of outstanding unpaid child support.

Individuals who owe more than $100,000 will be among the first groups targeted by the State Department for passport revocation, a U.S. official told the Associated Press. Those who enroll in a payment plan could avoid revocation.

Three U.S. officials told the wire that the Trump administration is planning to revoke travel documents under the 1996 passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act.

The act authorizes the Passport Denial Program, which allows government officials to revoke travel documents for parents with unpaid child support totaling more than $2,500. In the past, passports were only revoked in the midst of a renewal or when someone sought consular services. However, the Trump administration is now planning to seek out those in arrears, per the AP.

Administering an exam used to be straightforward: All a college professor needed was an open room and a stack of blue books. At many American universities, this is no longer true. Professors now struggle to accommodate the many students with an official disability designation, which may entitle them to extra time, a distraction-free environment, or the use of otherwise-prohibited technology. The University of Michigan has two centers where students with disabilities can take exams, but they frequently fill to capacity, leaving professors scrambling to find more desks and proctors. Juan Collar, a physicist at the University of Chicago, told me that so many students now take their exams in the school’s low-distraction testing outposts that they have become more distracting than the main classrooms.

Recently, mental-health issues have joined ADHD as a primary driver of the accommodations boom. Over the past decade, the number of young people diagnosed with depression or anxiety has exploded. L. Scott Lissner, the ADA coordinator at Ohio State University, told me that 36 percent of the students registered with OSU’s disability office have accommodations for mental-health issues, making them the largest group of students his office serves. Many receive testing accommodations, extensions on take-home assignments, or permission to miss class. Students at Carnegie Mellon University whose severe anxiety makes concentration difficult might get extra time on tests or permission to record class sessions, Catherine Samuel, the school’s director of disability resources, told me. Students with social-anxiety disorder can get a note so the professor doesn’t call on them without warning.

The types of accommodations vary widely. Some are uncontroversial, such as universities outfitting buildings with ramps and providing course materials in braille. These allow disabled students to access the same opportunities as their classmates. Some students get approved for housing accommodations, including single rooms and emotional-support animals.

Other accommodations risk putting the needs of one student over the experience of their peers. One administrator told me that a student at a public college in California had permission to bring their mother to class. This became a problem, because the mom turned out to be an enthusiastic class participant.

Professors told me that the most common—and most contentious—accommodation is the granting of extra time on exams. For students with learning disabilities, the extra time may be necessary to complete the test. But unlike a wheelchair ramp, this kind of accommodation can be exploited. Research confirms what intuition suggests: Extra time can confer an advantage to students who don’t have a disability.