5 days ago | By NPR

With the pandemic having closed nearly 20% of restaurants nationwide, the traditional version of restaurant week is at risk. So restaurants are either opting out or modifying their approach.
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US agency updating auto safety ratings for new technology

5 days ago | By Chron

DETROIT - The U.S. government's road safety agency wants to update its ratings system for vehicle safety to include testing of some new advanced driver-assist systems as it tries to keep up with changing technology.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wants public comment about testing and adding a rating system for lane-keeping, automatic braking for pedestrians, blind spot warning and blind spot intervention systems. It included automatic emergency braking in its ratings system for the 2018 model year.
The agency also seeking comments on how to display crash avoidance...
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Changes in the U.S.-China trade deficit: Exports and imports before and after tariffs and the pandemic

5 days ago | By FRED

Many of the trade policies that began in 2018 were driven by the high and persistent U.S. trade deficit with China. For example, the U.S. announced tariffs on solar panels and washing machines from China in January 2018, which is marked by the first vertical line in the FRED graph above. Several rounds of U.S. tariffs followed, and China enacted retaliatory tariffs.
We start our graph in January 2016 to include data before and during the period when these trade policies were initiated.*
The basic story told by the graph is that U.S. exports to China seem to be relatively stable over time...
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