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[ad_1] Just five years ago, a price-conscious auto shopper in the United States could choose from among a dozen new small cars selling for under $20,000. Now, there's just one: The Mitsubishi Mirage. And even the Mirage appears headed for the scrap yard. At a time when Americans increasingly want pricey SUVs and trucks rather than small cars, the Mirage remains the lone new vehicle whose average sale price is under 20 grand — a figure that once marked a kind of unofficial threshold of affordability. With prices — new and used — having soared since the pandemic, $20,000 is no longer much of a starting point for a new car.  This current version of the Mirage, which reached U.S. dealerships a decade ago, sold for an average of $19,205 last month, according to  data  from Cox Automotive. (Though a few other new models have starting prices under $20,000, their actual purchase prices, with options and shipping, exceed that figure.) This current version of the Mit

[ad_1] I like to think that Molière, the great French playwright who died in 1673, would have really enjoyed the flagrant hypocrisy of our current political moment. Each month seems to bring new duplicities and new scandals, lies big and small — the résumés embroidered like Rococo tapestries, the lawmakers endorsing conspiracy theories to boost their careers. A devotee of prevarication and double-dealing, Molière would have made the most, in three acts, of stories like these. In some ways and in multiple plays, he already has. More than 350 years dead, he can seem effortlessly, wickedly contemporary. But a current production of “Tartuffe,” presented by the theater company Molière in the Park, drawing from the playwright’s original version, takes a different approach. A cause célèbre in 1664 when it was written, the play was quickly banned by an archbishop with a limited sense of humor. It skewers not only those who preach morality while practicing alternatives, but also the toadie

[ad_1] ISLAMABAD: A controversial appointment in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) selection committee was immediately rescinded upon the direction of Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar, who is the Patron-in-Chief of PCB. The PM's Office Media Wing, in a press release on Saturday, conveyed that the prime minister has taken serious notice of the appointment of Salman Butt, a controversial former cricket player. A day earlier, PCB confirmed the appointment of former Pakistan cricketers Kamran Akmal, Rao Iftikhar Anjum and Salman Butt as consultant members to chief selector Wahab Riaz. However, Butt’s selection was met with severe criticism on social media due to his involvement in the 2010 spot-fixing scandal. The other two cricketers who featured in that scam were pace bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir. Read more:  PCB announces selection panel for Pakistan cricket team Later, the former captain publicly apologised to cricket fans for bringing the game’s

[ad_1] The Rolling Stones' new album, "Hackney Diamonds" - CBS News Watch CBS News "Hackney Diamonds" is the Rolling Stones' first album of original music in 18 years – and their first since the death, in 2021, of drummer Charlie Watts. Correspondent Anthony Mason sat down with Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood to discuss their unique chemistry; reuniting with the Stones' original bassist Bill Wyman; and what turning 80 means to Jagger and Richards. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On [ad_2] Source link https://worldnews2023.com/entertainment/the-rolling-stones-new-album-hac

[ad_1] Washington — Three American service members were killed and dozens more were injured in an unmanned aerial drone attack on a base in Jordan on Sunday, President Biden and the U.S. military said. In a statement, the president blamed the attack on "radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq." Mr. Biden said the attack happened at a base in northeast Jordan, a U.S. ally, close to the border with Syria. A U.S. official said the attack occurred at an outpost known as Tower 22. U.S. Central Command, which oversees forces in the Middle East, initially put the number of injured at 25, but two U.S. officials soon said that figure had risen to more than 30. CENTCOM said the identities of those killed would be withheld for 24 hours after their families had been notified.  The strike was believed to be the deadliest attack on U.S. service members since 13 Americans were killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul as the U.S

[ad_1] Extreme weather has caused the deaths of 2 million people and $4.3 trillion in economic damage over the past half a century, a report by the United Nations finds. According to the new figures published on Monday from the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), 11,778 weather-related disasters have occurred from 1970 to 2021, and they have surged over that period. The report found that more than 90 percent of deaths reported worldwide due to these disasters took place in developing countries. “The most vulnerable communities unfortunately bear the brunt of weather, climate and water-related hazards,” WMO chief Petteri Taalas said in a statement. Cyclone Mocha, which wreaked havoc in Myanmar and Bangladesh last week, exemplified this reality, Taalas said. The severe storm “caused widespread devastation, … impacting the poorest of the poor”, he said. But the WMO also said improved early warning systems and coordinated disaster management had significantly reduce

[ad_1] StarSolid StarSolid StarSolid StarOutline ( 3 stars ) As subdued in tone and emotion as the neutral beige and brown ensembles favored by its mousy, office-worker protagonist, “Sometimes I Think About Dying” is an unconventional love story: one less about the thrill of romance than about the terror — and ultimate release — of connection. At its small, still, quiet center is Fran (Daisy Ridley), the reclusive oddball among a handful of more gregarious but no less idiosyncratic co-workers in the Dunder Mifflin-like office of a Pacific Northwest port authority. A half-hour goes by before we see Fran smile — I checked my watch — and if she mutters more than a word or two of dialogue in that time, I can’t recall them. Her shy smile, tentative and surreptitious, as if Fran were as surprised by the sensation of happiness as we are — and maybe a little alarmed by it — is prompted by the arrival of a friendly new employee, Robert (Dave Merheje), who is replacing a recent retiree (Mar