FTC CARS Rule could put auto lenders at risk
The Federal Trade Commission’s CARS Rule poised to take effect upon car dealerships might have created risk for auto lenders, too, under the federal Holder Rule, experts say.
Photos: NASA’s Artemis II core stage heads into KSC Vehicle Assembly Building
The massive core stage that will power the Artemis II mission to the moon next year was transported into Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building on Wednesday.
The 212-foot-long hardware manufactured by Boeing makes up the largest part of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket. It’s powered by four RS-25 engines from Aerojet Rocketdyne that were converted from the Space Shuttle Program. Two of the engines for Artemis II flew on previous missions including one from the final flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis when it flew STS-135 in 2011.
It arrived on NASA’s Pegasus barge on Tuesday to KSC’s Turn Basin, and made the three-hour journey from ship to the VAB one day later.
The core stage when combined with two solid rocket boosters from Northrop Grumman give SLS 8.8. million pounds of thrust on liftoff, which is more powerful that the Saturn V rockets from the Apollo program.
Artemis II is slated to launch no earlier than September 2025 with SLS topped by the Orion capsule from Lockheed Martin carrying NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on what would be the first return of humans to the moon since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.
Considering college at 25+? Here’s what to know before you enroll
By Eliza Haverstock | NerdWallet
Mary Williams, 52, says she is the first in her family to go to college. After an earlier stint at Brooklyn’s Medgar Evers College, she re-enrolled in 2020 to continue an associate degree program in childhood special education. Originally from Trinidad, she aims to eventually earn her master’s degree.
“I want to finish what I started,” says Williams, who takes night classes after her full-time day job working with special needs children. She also wants to show her daughter, now 22 and attending college herself, the importance of higher education — “doing something to better yourself, enhance your career.”
Williams is among the one-third of college undergraduate students who are at least 25 years old, according to a 2023 White House report. Her story, like millions of others, is a contrast to typical college narratives focused on the youngest adults — ages 18-24 — many of whom go directly from high school to college.
Generally, college students 25 and older are described as “adult learners.” But the term can also encompass younger students who are financially independent from their parents and whose primary identity is shaped by something other than being a student — for example, being a parent, a worker or a veteran, says Becky Klein-Collins, vice president of Research and Impact at the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning and author of the book Never Too Late: The Adult Student’s Guide to College.
NHTSA ends probe into 1.7 million Honda vehicles for power loss
Top U.S. auto safety regulators are closing an investigation into about 1.7 million Honda Motor Co. vehicles for loss of power.
Editorial: Biden's withdrawal leaves industry wondering whether Kamala Harris has evolved on EVs, climate change
Kamala Harris owes the industry and voters some answers on whether she still believes in the $10 trillion climate plan she proposed in 2019 that called for an industrywide transition to EVs by 2035.