Xpeng electrical automobile deliveries fall to half that of Nio in October

Xpeng said October deliveries of its newly launched G9 SUV rose sharply from September, despite a decline in the brand’s total monthly deliveries.

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BEIJING – Chinese electric car startup Xpeng delivered about half of the cars that competitors no and Li car in October, according to the company on Tuesday.

While the other two startups reported monthly deliveries of more than 10,000 each, Xpeng said it had shipped just 5,101 cars — a third straight month of decline.

Xpeng shares fell 3% in US trade overnight. Nios rose 0.4% and Li Auto shares rose 6.9%.

China’s electric car market is highly competitive. Older automakers BYD and Tesla lead monthly shipments by a wide margin, while newcomer Huawei claims its Aito brand has surpassed 10,000 a month in less than a year since launch.

Deliveries of Xpeng’s best-selling model, the P7 sedan, halved from September to October, with just over 2,100 units delivered last month. The company’s newly launched G9 SUV saw deliveries increase from 184 units in September to 623 units in October.

According to Xpeng, bulk deliveries of the G9 began on October 27th. The company expects the new model to become its best-selling car next year.

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Nio, which is targeting a higher price range for both SUVs and sedans, said it delivered 10,059 vehicles in October. That was a slight drop from September, but a fifth straight month of shipments above 10,000.

“Vehicle production and deliveries have been constrained by operational challenges at our plants as well as supply chain fluctuations due to the COVID-19 situations in certain regions of China,” Nio said in a press release.

The company said its October deliveries included vehicles sold in Europe but not those offered under a local subscription program.

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Li Auto delivered 10,052 vehicles in October. Since May, the company has delivered more than 10,000 cars every month except August.

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After only having one model on the market since 2019, Li Auto has launched three new models in recent months – the L9, which started deliveries in August, the L8, which is due to start deliveries this month, and the L7, which is expected to reach consumers early next year.

Unlike Xpeng and Nio, Li Auto’s vehicles are not purely electric, as they are equipped with a fuel tank to charge the battery and extend the range.

Of the three companies, US-listed Li Auto has held up best in a year of broad market declines. The stock is down about 55% so far this year, while Nio shares are down 69% and Xpeng is down 87%.

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Lady says hair straightening merchandise induced uterine most cancers

Jenny Mitchell first started using chemicals straighten hair products back in 2000 when she was in third grade, and nearly 20 years later, the 32-year-old claims it was the cause of her developing cervical cancer.

Mitchell had to undergo a total hysterectomy to remove her uterus, although the disease was not a family history Good morning America.

She now says she was deprived of the chance to become a mother.

‘Dream’ of motherhood shattered for young woman who required hysterectomy due to chemicals in hair straighteners, lawsuits

“Not being able to carry my own kids was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to deal with,” she told GMA. “It’s a dream of mine that I’ve always wanted.”

Mitchell is now represented by a group of attorneys including Ben Crump, who is suing five hair straightening manufacturers, including L’Oreal USA, claiming their products caused her uterine cancer The shadow room reported last month.

The lawsuit, filed in Illinois, comes a week after a recent one to learn published by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and funded by the National Institutes of Health, found that frequent users of chemical hair straightening products were more likely to develop such cancers than those who did not use the products.

Jenny Mitchell said she first started using chemical hair straightening products in 2000 when she was in third grade.

Almost two decades later, Mitchell, now 32, was diagnosed with cervical cancer despite not having a family history of the disease. https://t.co/A6zNtL7Jd9

— Good Morning America (@GMA) October 25, 2022

So far, research only points to a probable link, as about 60 percent of the women in the study who reported using such hair relaxers were self-identified black women.

Mitchell said she was “shocked” to learn about the study.

“But at the same time, I also thought that maybe this could be an answer to my diagnosis,” she said.

The problem is widespread among women of color, who use such products in larger numbers, studies show

Mitchell, a black woman, said many women like her face societal pressures to use hair relaxers, which she says means using them every four weeks to meet American beauty standards, she said.

“As an African American woman, it’s the societal norm for your hair to look a certain way,” she said. “‘Don’t wear your natural hair because it looks unprofessional.’ A lot of women deal with it in all sorts of situations.”

She added, “I hope to be the voice for millions of other African American women out there because we start so young and get these chemical relaxants in our hair.”

African Pride hair straighteners on display at a Harlem store. (Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images)

The other unnamed companies did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment, the outlet reports.

Cervical cancer rates and deaths have risen nationwide in recent years, with death rates remaining highest among non-Hispanic black women, the institute found after tracking data from 34,000 women in the Sister Study for more than a decade.

Overall, the Sister Study project has followed the health of around 50,000 women across the country since 2003.

Study shows hair straighteners have endocrine disruptors that affect hormone-sensitive cancers

The study specifically noted that chemical hair straighteners usually contain products known as endocrine disruptors that can affect hormone-sensitive cancers, the outlet said.

These products include parabens, bisphenol A, metals, and formaldehyde, according to researchers at the NIH study.

Such relaxants can even cause burns and lesions on the scalp, making them easier for the body to absorb, says board-certified dermatologist Dr. Madeline Gainers.

And black women are twice as likely to die from cervical cancer than white women, the study shows.

However, the researchers involved in the new student said “more research is needed” to determine whether hair-smoothing chemicals have a direct link to an increased risk of uterine cancer.

A black Missouri woman is suing L’Oreal, saying its hair straightening products caused cervical cancer.

Black women are more likely to use straighteners, which studies link to a high risk of uterine cancer. Black women are twice as likely to die from cervical cancer as white women. pic.twitter.com/4IJ6mxolLQ

— AJ+ (@ajplus) October 25, 2022

Attorney Crump Hope’s lawsuit will raise awareness of dangerous chemicals in hair straighteners

The study found that the link between the products and cervical cancer is something directly caused by each other – something Mitchell will have to prove in court.

Meanwhile, Crump hopes the lawsuit will raise awareness about the harmful chemicals in hair straighteners, allowing women to make more informed decisions about their health.

“Now that we have that knowledge, we have that information, it’s on us to bring it with us,” he said. “We must make this a public health crisis.”

J&J’s almost $17 billion bid for Abiomed reveals precisely why we personal it

Johnson & Johnson headquarters in New Brunswick, NJ

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Johnson&Johnson‘s (JNJ) $16.6 billion deal to buy a heart pump manufacturer Abiomed (ABMD) will strengthen its pharmaceutical and medical device business in advance of J&J’s plans to spin its consumer division into a separate company. The acquisition of Abiomed is expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2023. The spin-off of J&J’s consumer business, including brands like Band-Aid and Tylenol, is expected in November next year.

SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy rocket on Area Drive mission

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Tuesday will launch the first Falcon Heavy mission in over three years, a towering rocket that is the most powerful currently in service.

SpaceX’s rocket launches the secret USSF-44 mission for the US Space Force, which is also Falcon Heavy’s first operational national security mission. The most recent launch was the Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) mission in June 2019, which carried experimental satellites on a demonstration flight for the Pentagon.

The mission is scheduled to lift off at 9:41 a.m. ET from a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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While Falcon Heavy’s base is reusable, the company only intends to land the side pair of the three rocket boosters – with the central core dropping into the ocean as with conventional rockets to meet the Space Force’s high-performance requirements for that mission.

The Falcon Heavy rocket for the USSF-44 mission taxis to the launch pad on October 31, 2022.

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The pause in Falcon Heavy launches — the company has completed three since the rocket’s debut in February 2018 — is largely due to customer compliance with its schedule.

This USSF-44 mission was originally scheduled for late 2020, and two other Falcon Heavy missions scheduled for this year, one for Space Force and the other for NASA, have customer payloads that are also pending. There is a backlog of about a dozen missions for Falcon Heavy to come.

SpaceX continues to launch its Falcon series of rockets at high speed, with Tuesday’s mission marking the company’s 50th launch this year. At the same time, however, the company continues to work on the even larger Starship rockets, which it hopes will replace them.

Rachel Maddow tears up Donald Trump Jr. and the GOP for celebrating Pelosi assault

Rachel Maddow called the Pelosi attacker’s mind a sewer and then revealed that Donald Trump Jr. and the Republicans celebrating the attack want political violence, not elections.

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Maddo says:

You know, I dismiss him as a nutcase, and I speak of these things with admitted mockery because I honestly don’t think any of us should be required to play in the sewers of this man’s mind. Once you hit someone in the head with a hammer, all of humanity is officially and forever relieved from having to know anything about your thoughts and feelings.

But if you’re a person who has all your abilities, and you know something like this happened, if you downplay it, mock it, celebrate it, the attempted murder of the House Speaker’s husband, which is now officially accused of how the attempted kidnapping of the speaker of the House of Representatives, well if that’s how you react, if you know that this happened, well then tell us what you want instead of politics. You tell everyone what you can, what your side can do to your political opponents. What you like to see when you see your political opponents exposed.

And that’s actually the other option if we don’t have elections anymore. It’s either violence and coercion, or it’s voting. And if it’s not voting, then it’s going to be force and coercion.

Republicans, celebrating attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, telegraph that 1/6 attack was not an isolated incident.

Political violence is Republicans’ strategy for gaining and staying in power.

If an election is lost, destroy its legitimacy and then try to retain or gain power through violence.

By glorifying the Pelosi attack, Republicans are encouraging others to do the same.

Rachel Maddow was right.

Republicans are trying to replace elections with violence. Maddow’s comments illustrate how the Republican Party has dehumanized its opponents to make political violence an acceptable route to power.

Mr. Easley is the managing editor. He is also a White House press pool and congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a bachelor’s degree in political science. His thesis focused on public policy with a specialization in social reform movements.

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Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are residence alone for Halloween

Happy Halloween you dirty animals!

In an epic holiday crossover, Justin Timberlake and jessica biel have perfected their 2022 couples costume look and dressed up as the hilarious Wet Bandits from Home Alone.

In a photo shared on both stars’ Instagram pages on Oct. 31, the 41-year-old “SexyBack” singer took on the role of the tall and dimwitted thief Marv, who he originally played Daniel Stern, dressed in a brown corduroy jacket and a face that resembles a hot iron. The actress, 40, portrays Joe Pesci‘s small and hot-tempered burglar figure Harry, who wears a black knitted hat and scarf with feathers stuck to his face and head.

“Harry, it’s our business card! All the greats leave their mark,” reads the caption, quoting a line from the popular 1990 Christmas film. “We’re the wet bandits!”

Earlier this month the couple – who share sons Silas7 and Phineas2 – celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary.

“Being married to you is the adventure of a lifetime!” Jessica wrote on Instagram on Oct. 19 alongside a series of photos with her husband. “Run it back baby. RUN IT BACK. I love you.”

Lengthy Covid impacts girls greater than males, based on a nationwide survey

A woman receives a dose of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine during the coronavirus pandemic at a sports stadium in Vina del Mar, Chile, April 22, 2021.

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Long Covid is more common in women than men, according to federal data.

According to data from the US Census Bureau and National Center for Health Statistics released this month, more than 17% of women have had long-Covid at some point during the pandemic, compared to 11% of men.

Long Covid was defined as the appearance of symptoms for three months or more after infection. The latest data was collected through an online survey of more than 41,000 adults in the two weeks ended October 17.

Women were also more likely to suffer from more severe long Covid, according to the survey. According to the data, around 2.4% of all women experienced symptoms that significantly limited their normal activities, compared to 1.3% of men.

Overall, more than 14% of US adults had long-Covid at some point during the pandemic, the survey found. Seven percent of adults in the US currently have long-term Covid, according to the data.

If these numbers were true for the general population, 36 million adults could be long ill with Covid at some point during the pandemic, while 18 million could be struggling with it currently.

According to the data, about 2% of US adults have suffered from more severe long-term Covid symptoms that have severely restricted their daily activities. That would equate to more than 5 million people in the general adult US population.

The Brookings Institution, in a separate analysis, found as many as 4 million people in the US are unable to work due to long-term Covid.

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Long Covid exhibits a wide spectrum of symptoms, ranging from mild to debilitating, affecting multiple organ systems. The most commonly reported symptoms include poor memory or brain fog, fatigue, shortness of breath, and loss of smell, according to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The JAMA study also found that long Covid was more common in women. Almost 18% of Covid survivors who had symptoms for more than two months were women, while 10% were men.

The dominant Covid variant and vaccination status may also play a role in how likely people are to have long-term illnesses from Covid.

According to the JAMA study, nearly 60% of people who had long had Covid were infected with the original strain of the virus that emerged in China, while more than 17% infected the Delta variant and more than 10% had Omicron.

The study found that 87% of those who had long had Covid were unvaccinated.

“There may be differences between these strains and how likely they are to cause long covid, which could teach us something about why this is happening,” said Dr. Roy Perlis, the study’s lead author and co-director of the Center for Quantitative Health at Massachusetts General Hospital.

The JAMA study, released last week, looked at more than 16,000 adults who tested positive for Covid. Data was collected from February 2021 to July 2022 from a national online survey called the Covid States Project, conducted every six weeks.

Scientists don’t yet understand the underlying cause of Long Covid, although there’s a growing consensus that it’s likely multiple different conditions and not a single disease. The National Institutes of Health are enrolling a massive study called Recover to pinpoint the different types of long-term Covid, identify risk factors, and develop tests and treatments.

N-Phrase utilization spikes on Twitter after Elon Musk takeover by 500%

Usage of the “n-word” peaks at 500 percent Twitter in the days after Elon Musks purchase and takeover of the social media platform, something LeBron James describes as “creepy AF.”

Last week the Washington Post revealed the amazing figure, which James criticized while adding: “I hope he and his people take this very seriously.

“This Is Scary AF” LeBron James Tweets of Spike in N-Word Use on Twitter after Elon Musk’s takeover

“I don’t know Elon Musk and frankly I don’t care who owns Twitter,” James tweeted. “But I will say if this is true I hope he and his people take this very seriously because this is scary AF. So many bloody inept people say hate speech is free speech.”

Musk has since responded to the controversy over the spread of racial slurs at his newly acquired company, directing James to a thread by Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of safety and integrity.

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 30, 2022

“Over the past 48 hours, we’ve seen a small number of accounts post a ton of tweets containing slurs and other derogatory terms,” ​​Roth tweeted Saturday. “To give you a sense of scale, more than 50,000 tweets repeatedly using a specific slur come from just 300 accounts.”

Roth continued that “almost all of these reports are not authentic. We have taken action to ban users involved in this trolling campaign – and will continue to work to address this over the coming days to make Twitter safe and welcoming for everyone.”

Musk responds to LeBron saying Twitter hasn’t changed moderation policies since its acquisition

Musk detailed in a separate tweet that Twitter has not changed its moderation policy since taking office last week to deflect blame from the worrying increase in racial slurs on its platform.

The business tycoon and Tesla CEO – who has a net worth of over $229 billion according to Forbes – added that he will set up a panel to oversee decisions affecting content moderation and whether accounts are suspended, like this of former President Donald Trump, are allowed to return to the platform.

Twitter will form a Content Moderation Council with very different viewpoints.

No major content decisions or account restorations will be made prior to the convening of this council.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2022

“Twitter will form a Content Moderation Council with very different viewpoints,” he tweeted on Friday. “No major content decisions or account restorations will be made until this council meets.”

As previously reported by The shadow roomJust days after Musk’s new leadership, Twitter is already implementing major changes, with the “Chief Twit” already giving employees his first ultimatum: meet the deadline to implement paid verification or cancel.

Twitter Blue Subscription Service is $20 per month, includes account verification

Under the new policy, reviews for users would be added to Twitter Blue — the company’s optional $4.99-per-month subscription service that offers additional features, reports The Verge.

Some news from Elon’s War Room: Twitter is heavily considering making verified users pay $4.99 per month to keep their badges.

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— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) October 30, 2022

The social media network plans to charge $19.99 for its new Twitter Blue subscription service, with currently verified users having 90 days to opt in or lose their blue tick.

On Sunday, staff working on the project were told they would be fired if they didn’t meet the November 7 deadline. On the same day, Musk tweeted about the overhaul of the entire verification process.

In the months leading up to his takeover of Twitter, the Tesla CEO made it clear that he plans to overhaul the verification process and how the platform handles bots.

Delta pilots vote for potential strike as contract negotiations drag on

Delta pilots picket for a better deal outside of John F. Kennedy International Airport.

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Delta Airlines Pilots voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if contract talks between the airline and the union fail to result in an agreement, the workers’ group said on Monday.

A strike would not be immediate and would require the approval of the federal national arbitration board. The Air Line Pilots Association union said it wanted a contract, not a strike.

Covid has derailed contract negotiations across the aviation industry as of 2020. Talks have since resumed, and the Delta pilots’ strike vote underscores the difficulty of getting agreements through.

Pilots for US airlines such as Delta and competitors American Airlines, United Airlines and Southwest Airlines recently picketed major airports to demand better contracts when the industry returns to profitability.

“Now our negotiations have dragged on too long. Our goal is to reach an agreement, not to go on strike,” said Captain Jason Ambrosi, chairman of the Delta Master Executive Council of the Air Line Pilots Association. “The ball is in management’s hands. It’s time the company got serious at the negotiating table and invested in the Delta pilots.”

Delta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

earlier this year, Alaska Airlines The pilots voted to authorize a possible strike. Pilots of this airline recently entered into a new contract agreement with the company.

Members of Congress categorical assist for Paul Pelosi after violent assault

United States House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul Pelosi arrive on the red carpet for the Time 100 Gala at Lincoln Center on April 23, 2019 in New York.

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Members of Congress on Sunday continued to express their support for the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Paul Pelosi, after he was violently attacked by an intruder with a hammer on Friday.

The 82-year-old underwent successful surgery to repair a fractured skull and serious injuries to his right arm and hands, Pelosi’s spokesman said.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, a California Democrat, was in Washington, DC at the time of the incident, authorities said.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday that while people can have heated discussions about political issues, the violence must stop.

“It’s disgusting. This violence is horrible,” Scott said. “This stuff needs to stop.”

David DePape, 42, has been identified by police as the suspect who used a hammer during the attack on Paul Pelosi.

He allegedly searched for the speaker of the house and shouted, “Where’s Nancy, where’s Nancy?” before attacking her husband, a source told NBC.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday that Speaker Pelosi has been slandered and threatened for years and it is clear the “vicious attack” was intended for her.

“I think it’s really important for people to realize that it’s not just this moment of this horrific attack, but that we’ve seen violence everywhere in our political system,” Klobuchar said.

There are different levels of protection for members of Congress, and Klobuchar said there could be ways to give protection to all members even if they are not lining up for the direct succession to the presidency.

In her first public comment since the attack, spokeswoman Pelosi said in a statement Saturday that she was “heartbroken” and traumatized by the attack, but her husband’s condition “continues to improve.”

“Please know that the outpouring of prayers and warm wishes from so many in Congress is a comfort to our family and is helping Paul make progress in his recovery,” she said in the statement.

DePape is charged with attempted manslaughter, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse and other offenses in the attack, police said.

The felony charges are being brought forward Monday and DePape is expected to be indicted Tuesday, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said on Twitter.