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Land Rover gets help from Jeep to increase sales in North America

Jaguar Land Rover wants to focus on the US market. It will partner with Stellantis to manufacture the Defender in the US. New models are coming, including hybrid and electric vehicles. British automaker Land Rover has never made any vehicles in the United States. That will soon change, thanks to the help of American automaker

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Cars

The hybrid SUV that’s now made in America – and it costs less than the RAV4

The hybrid SUV and crossover market is quickly becoming a competitive and popular industry in the US for several reasons. New car buyers are desperately trying to cut their monthly gasoline bills, even if it means spending more on fuel-efficient car options. Thankfully, brands are responding Providing a more compelling hybrid optionsome of which are

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Books

David Thomson loves movies but not what they’ve done for America

Maybe it wasn’t just me, or even just the movies. The shock of empty theaters due to the pandemic and the simultaneous rise of streaming platforms may have caused irreparable damage to cinema’s sustainability and tarnished its luster. The attention that stardom and spectacle attracted was shifting to smaller screens and increasingly fragmented into narrow

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Trucks

America ends Hormuz blockade as talks resume

Strait of Hormuz. (Andrea Campanu/Bloomberg via Getty Images) June 18, 2026 1:42 pm, EDT key takeaways: The United States and Iran begin a 60-day interim peace agreement, reopening the Strait of Hormuz to shipping after lifting the US blockade and extending the ceasefire. The deal eased oil market tensions, with prices falling from recent highs,

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Motorcycles

Riders in America finally got this awesome Yamaha color. And it’s not really blue

American motorcycle enthusiasts have become accustomed to living on the wrong side of the Atlantic when it comes to new bikes. Sometimes models arrive months after their European debut. Sometimes they never arrive. Just ask those who have been waiting for Yamaha to bring out the XSR900 GP. But for once the tables have turned.

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Cars

Is the Mitsubishi Montero coming back to America?

Dealers say the reborn Montero will compete with the Toyota Land Cruiser. It will be a body-on-frame, three-row SUV based on the Triton pickup truck. It’s not coming to the United States until 2030. After a five-year hiatus, Mitsubishi plans to revive the Pajero name with a new SUV for off-road enthusiasts this fall. It

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Trucks

2027 Super Duty Introduces Ford’s Latest Tribute to America with Red, White and Blue Proud to Honor Package

(Images: Ford) American automakers are paying their tribute to the nation, and Ford’s latest offering is the Proud to Honor package. Ford is making some changes with its 2027 Super Duty lineup, and it includes adding a new America-themed package to the mix. Available on F-250, F-350 and F-450 models in nearly every trim, Ford

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Books

David Plowden, who captured the picture of disappearing America, dies at the age of 93

One day in the early 1940s, David Plowden picked up his Kodak Brownie box camera and headed with his mother to the train depot near his family’s farm in Vermont. He was 11 years old and so fascinated by steam engines that he often traveled on the railway tracks and befriended some of the conductors

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Outdoors

Stargazing and nighttime train trips in America

Updated June 15, 2026 08:45 am I’ll never forget my first train trip stargazing on the Sky Railway’s ‘Stargazer’ service in my hometown, Santa Fe, New Mexico, a few years ago. As a dark sky expert and a self-proclaimed railway connoisseur, nothing gives me greater pleasure than combining my two passions – stargazing and trains

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Books

‘America needs to grow up’: NPR

Eddie Glaude Jr. speaks in Philadelphia on March 1, 2023. Lisa Lake/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Lisa Lake/Getty Images As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, historian and Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. says he is angry. He opens his new book, America, USA: How race casts a shadow over the

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