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MAN Trucks and EDF in France have launched an electric truck package that guarantees price parity with the diesel equivalent. Smart charging plays a key role in reducing energy costs by 30–50%.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_

Is a battery-electric truck achieving cost parity with a diesel truck possible? Yes, that's the guarantee offered by MAN Truck & Bus France in a new package together with EDF. Smart charging plays a… | Jaap Burger
Is a battery-electric truck achieving cost parity with a diesel truck possible? Yes, that's the guarantee offered by MAN Truck & Bus France in a new package together with EDF. Smart charging plays a key role in this. Under the Energy Savings Certificates (CEE) scheme, EDF pays a bonus of up to 25% of the vehicle's price. Changes to the taxation system allow the price difference to a diesel truck to be depreciated more quickly. These changes, along with several other mechanisms, bring costs dow…

"les voitures électriques compensent leur surcoût environnemental initial après seulement deux ans d’usage."
(Étude d'une équipe de Duke University, publiée dans PLOS Climate)
https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journa…

GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters,
were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million.
Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.

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Quatre ans après l’invasion de l’Ukraine, la Russie continue de s’enfoncer dans l’autoritarisme et la répression
https://www.lemonde.fr/article-offert/e9da2b244e59-666800…

Quatre ans après l’invasion de l’Ukraine, la Russie continue de s’enfoncer dans l’autoritarisme et la répression
Depuis 2022, le régime de Vladimir Poutine n’a cessé de se durcir. La guerre s’accompagne d’une mise au pas de plus en plus violente de la société, sur fond de difficultés économiques croissantes.

Trump overturned decades of US trade policy in 2025. See the impact of his tariffs, in four charts (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-economy-liberation-day-d3458da225c1fdfade97ed494b23e868
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p12#a251226p12

It’s sometimes said that presidents pivot toward foreign policy in their second terms.
Unburdened by the prospect of having to face voters again, and sometimes opposed by a hostile Congress, presidents often go overseas in search of a legacy. 
If the past week or so is anything to go by, Donald Trump is doing the same.
My colleagues Shelby Holliday and Lara Seligman reported exclusively Tuesday that a large number of U.S. troops and special-operations aircraft have deployed…

Politico names Ross Worthington and Vince Haley as the main drafters of tonight’s address:
Worthington, who leads Trump’s speechwriting operation, is the chief architect and primary author of the address.
And Haley, director of the Domestic Policy Council, has played a central role in advising on the policy sections
— particularly the new policy announcements that Trump is expected to roll out tonight

The recruitment drive for new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers
is putting strain on the vetting process,
Reuters reported, citing an internal email from the agency that was sent on Monday.
ICE leaders have now put in place a process to handle allegations of
historic misconduct against new recruits, the report said.
The email was sent to supervisors with ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations division, Reuters reported.
It cited…

Leaked ICE Memo Reveals Problems Vetting New Recruits—Report
The Trump administration has sought to rapidly hire new ICE officers to see through its aggressive deportation targets.

For more than a decade, Russia’s so-called #probiv market
– a term derived from the verb
“to pierce” or
“to punch into a search bar”
– has operated as a parallel information economy built on a network of corrupt officials,
traffic police,
bank employees and l
ow-level security staff willing to sell access to restricted government or corporate databases.
While l…