Airstream’s first production-spec electric camper trailer has a 10.3-kWh battery pack. Unlike the much larger and more expensive Lightship RV, this trailer doesn’t have powered wheels. The Airstream’s battery powers all the appliances. Airstream, maker of iconic aluminum travel trailers, has finally entered into the electric era with the new Basecamp Xe. Based on the regular Basecamp model, the Xe adds a battery pack and a bunch of solar panels on the roof to power all the amenities inside. That said, Airstream’s first electric camper doesn’t have electric motors to alleviate the range loss experienced by the vehicle that’s towing it. The company showcased a rather impressive electric trailer concept called the eStream back in 2022 that had a huge 80-kilowatt-hour battery pack and could assist the towing vehicle while
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A payback kiss, a surprise win, and defying gravity at the Oscars Noor Nanji Culture reporter at the Academy Awards, Los Angeles• @NoorNanji Watch: Standout moments from the Oscars 2025 This year’s Oscars had it all – glamour, tears and the Wicked stars defying gravity. Here are some of the top moments from the biggest night in Hollywood. Mikey Madison steals the show Getty Images An audible gasp was made by journalists in the winners’ room (where I was) when Mikey Madison was announced as the best actress winner. Demi Moore was the favourite for much of this campaign. Things did shift after Madison’s Bafta win, but the race remained incredibly tight. In the end, it was Madison’s night and marked an incredible moment for a 25-year-old actress who was
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The Xiaomi SU7 Ultra comes with 1,526 horsepower and costs $72,750. The brand wants to sell 10,000 units of the SU7 Ultra in 2025. Recently, the SU7 Ultra beat a Porsche Taycan Turbo GT around the Shanghai International Circuit by about 1.5 seconds. It can be pretty hard to keep up with the breakneck speed of China’s electric vehicle industry. Within about 18 months, Xiaomi pivoted from making cheap cellphones and laptops to a full-blown electric car. That model rocketed to the top of Chinese sales charts and even impressed the hell out of Ford’s CEO, who drove one around the Chicagoland area for weeks. Now, the brand has put 1,500 worth of electric motors in the thing, and they’re gunning for necks of some of the fastest EVs on
By Minh Nga  March 1, 2025 | 08:00 pm PT Screenshot photos of Kim Gap-nyeo when she appears on the TV Show “You Quiz on the Block” by tvN TV channel in October 2024. An 87-year-old woman in South Korea is set to enroll in university after graduating from high school this week, seven years after returning to school. Kim Gap-nyeo graduated from Ilsung Women’s High School, an institution for adults in Seoul, on Feb. 25 and will begin studying Social Welfare at Sookmyung Women’s University this month. “A goal? I don’t have one. I just enjoy learning and being with people,” she said in an interview with Korea Times. Kim’s story gained national attention after she appeared on the popular TV show “You Quiz on the Block” on the
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News “To have him back and to have him fit and excited about playing is a real win for English cricket,” Brendon McCullum says There are few positives from what has been, even by England’s recent ODI standards, a disastrous Champions Trophy campaign. But according to Brendon McCullum, there were glimmers amidst the darkness. The one that shone brightest was the performance, as well as the fitness, of fast bowler Jofra Archer. He bowled his allotted quota in each of the first two games, as well as nine of the 29.1 England needed to send down in Karachi. He did so with decent pace, picking up wickets in each game, and was the pick of the English bowlers by a distance despite South Africa’s romp to victory. “He’s been out
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20th Century Studios By Bill Bria March 1, 2025 11:00 pm EST In hindsight, the American cinema of the 1970s has two major legacies attached to it. On the one hand, there’s the American New Wave aka the New Hollywood movement, in which “Five Easy Pieces,” “Klute,” “The French Connection,” and other films like them eschewed the mainstream studio filmmaking formula in favor of telling stories that were creatively daring and heartfelt. On the other, there’s the dawn of the blockbuster, a trend that continues to this day and whose beginning is most often attributed to Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” from 1975. But while “Jaws” gets the lion’s (er, shark’s) share of the credit for birthing the blockbuster, a good dollop of credit must also go to the other populist trend in
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The Israeli government says it has blocked the entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza because the first phase of the ceasefire with Hamas has expired. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Hamas had so far refused to accept a temporary ceasefire extension under a proposal by US President Donald Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff. A Hamas spokesman called the move “cheap blackmail” and a “coup” on the ceasefire agreement and urged mediators to get Israel to resume the supply of aid. The Palestinian group wants phase two of the deal to go ahead as originally negotiated, with the release of hostages and Palestinian prisoners and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza. On Friday night, Hamas said it would not agree to any extension of phase one without guarantees from
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Feb 27, 2025; Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Nashville Predators center Ryan O’Reilly (90) steals the puck from Winnipeg Jets center Vladislav Namestnikov (7) during the second period at Bridgestone Arena. Mandatory Credit: Steve Roberts-Imagn Images First-period goals by Filip Forsberg and Tommy Novak held up as the host Nashville Predators snapped the Winnipeg Jets’ 11-game winning streak with a 2-1 victory on Thursday. Goaltender Juuse Saros made 23 saves as Nashville ended a two-game losing skid, arguably the most important coming in the final minute as Saros turned away a wrist shot by Nikolaj Ehlers on a golden chance to tie the affair. Neal Pionk scored the lone goal for the Jets, whose franchise-record winning spree began on Dec. 22. Eric Comrie finished with 28 saves for Winnipeg. The Jets failed
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The tenth season of the six-team Pakistan Super League (PSL) will begin on April 11 with a fixture between defending champions Islamabad United and two-time champions Lahore Qalandars in Rawalpindi. The matches – 34 in total – will be played across Rawalpindi, Karachi, Multan and Lahore, with the playoffs slotted for Rawalpindi (May 13) and Lahore (May 14 and 16) and the final also in Lahore on May 18. The refurbished Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore will host the most matches, 13, including two of the playoff fixtures and the final, while Rawalpindi will host 11, including the opener and the first qualifier, and Karachi and Multan will host five matches each. There will be a total of three double-headers: Peshawar Zalmi vs Quetta Gladiators in Rawalpindi and Karachi Kings vs
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Freed hostage Eli Sharabi shared harrowing details of his 491-day captivity, the loss of his family, and the struggle to survive, in an interview with Channel 12’s ‘Uvda’. By JERUSALEM POST STAFF FEBRUARY 28, 2025 00:51 Updated: FEBRUARY 28, 2025 01:13 Released hostage Eli Sharabi is reunite with his family, 08/02/2025. (photo credit: HAIM ZACH/GPO) According to released hostage, Eli Sharabi, Hamas’s tunnels were so well fortified and protected that military operations to get hostages out the tunnels alive would have been nearly impossible. Sharabi, who was held hostage by Hamas for 491 days, was interviewed by Ilana Dayan on Channel 12’s “Uvda” program on Thursday evening, where he shared his experiences living in the terror tunnels. “If there’s one thing I’ve been saying to everyone from the start—family, medical
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Gene Hackman Death: 911 Call & Autopsy Findings Released The moment police were notified about Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa ‘s deaths has surfaced. Shortly after the legendary actor, 95, and his wife, 64, along with one of their three dogs, were found dead in their Sante Fe, N.M., home, a 911 call was released revealing new details about how their bodies were discovered on Feb. 26 by two maintenance workers. “I think we just found two or one deceased person inside the house,” one of the workers, who identified himself as the “subdivision’s caretaker,” said on the call obtained by NBC News Feb. 27. “There’s no one here. I’m going to wait for you at the gate. Please send somebody.” However, the caller had trouble relaying where officials should
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Marvel Studios By Jaron Pak Feb. 27, 2025 4:00 pm EST This article contains spoilers for “Captain America: Brave New World.” “Captain America: Brave New World” may have been Sam Wilson’s (Anthony Mackie) first feature-length foray as Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it also felt an awful lot like a sequel to 2008’s “The Incredible Hulk.” That strange outlier of the otherwise interconnected MCU feels different, doesn’t quite fit, and in many ways was left behind for years. Even its titular character was recast as Edward Norton’s moody, skulking Hulk was abandoned for Mark Ruffalo’s more upbeat, chummy Avengers alternative. The fourth “Captain America” film flipped the script by integrating Sam’s first world-saving adventure as Cap into a continuation of multiple storylines that directly connected to that second-ever
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum, seen here in early February, has pledged to collaborate with Washington. Photo: Yuri CORTEZ / AFP/FileSource: AFP Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that she hoped to talk to her US counterpart Donald Trump as part of efforts to avoid being hit with his threatened tariffs. She spoke shortly after Trump wrote on social media that he would move ahead with imposing levies on Mexico and Canada next week. A high-level Mexican delegation is in Washington in search of an agreement and “we hope that we can talk to President Trump once these meetings take place,” Sheinbaum said at her morning news conference. “I hope we can reach an agreement,” she added. Sheinbaum has repeatedly expressed optimism that tariffs between the two countries can be avoided.
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The CW This article contains a discussion of addiction. Based (very loosely) on Cecily von Ziegesar’s book series, “Gossip Girl” started its run on The CW in 2007 and, in the hands of Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, let us into the exclusive world of a bunch of uber-wealthy Manhattan teenagers, all of whom were played by beautiful twenty-somethings. The whole story begins with the return of the troubled but beautiful socialite Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively), who ran away to boarding school in Connecticut after some sort of traumatizing life experience before the show’s narrative began — and when she does come back to New York, she tries to start fresh. Unfortunately for her, that’s not an option thanks to one conniving, unhinged troublemaker: Georgina Sparks, played to perfection by
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Sarah Rainsford Europe correspondent in Rome Catholics gathered to pray for the health of the Pope beneath the steps of St Peter’s Basilica for a third night, as his doctors said his condition showed further slight improvement. Nuns dangling rosary beads, tourists and student priests were among those who joined the gentle incantation of the rosary in the Vatican. They were led by a cardinal in a scarlet skull cap who prayed for Pope Francis to be able to resume his duties as soon as possible. The nightly gatherings began on Monday after the 88-year-old’s health took a dramatic dip at the weekend. He was fighting to breathe and needed blood transfusions. But the latest statements suggest the Pope is able to sit in his chair, is eating normally and