Rivian shares are surging in extended hours after the EV maker announced a joint venture deal with Volkswagen, crucially bringing fresh capital into Rivian’s coffers.
Opposition politicians who were arrested in a crackdown in Mali were sent to prisons across the country this week, their families said, in a move rights groups decried as another step back for the country where the ruling junta has suspended all political activities. Mali, a landlocked nation in the semiarid region of Sahel, has been embroiled in political instability that swept across West and Central Africa over the last decade. The nation has seen two military coups since 2020 as an insurgency by jihadi groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group worsened.
NBC will air two-hour Toby Keith tribute concert special this August, with a guest line-up to include Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Ashley McBryde, Carrie Underwood and more. Toby Keith: American Icon also will feature Parker McCollum, Jelly Roll, Darius Rucker, Lainey Wilson, The War And Treaty, with artists performing the late Keith’s hits as well …