Tesla Launches Its Highly Anticipated Model 3 Starting at $35,0000



(Bloomberg) — Tesla Inc. is finally putting a $35,000 version of the Model 3 sedan on the market, almost three years after Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk started taking orders for the sedan.

The carmaker listed a new standard-range version of the Model 3 on its website Thursday.

Musk, 47, is scheduled to hold a conference call with reporters. Tesla shares fell as much as 1.9 percent in late trading.

North Carolina Political Operative Charged in ‘Ballot Harvesting’ Scheme That Impacted Elections



(RALEIGH, N.C.) — An operative in North Carolina’s unresolved congressional race has been charged with obstruction and illegal ballot possession related to 2016 and 2018 elections.

According to testimony and other findings detailed at an election board hearing last week, Leslie McCrae Dowless conducted an illegal “ballot harvesting” operation. He and his assistants are accused of gathering up absentee ballots from voters by offering to put them in the mail.

He was working on behalf of Republican candidate Mark Harris, who had a slim lead in the vote count before a new election was ordered.

‘A Harbinger of Things to Come’: Farmers in Australia Struggle With Its Hottest Drought Ever



When the wind blows, Krystal Bullen’s home can vanish in an instant. It sits on 4,000 acres of dust outside Pilliga, a New South Wales town nearly 300 miles northwest of Sydney, and a good gust will engulf her homestead in a brown haze.

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