GM and other car manufacturers have struggled with a global computer chip shortage as a result of factories and chip orders being canceled early last year when COVID-19 was spreading. The factories came back after only eight weeks, but chip production had changed to focus on the increased demand from the electronics industry. The company says it has managed the shortage better than expected, and will begin installing computers in midsize trucks that were originally built without them when the chips were not available....

Today the Arlington plant is the latest symbol of GM’s decline, and the talk is no longer about how to slow down the car giant but how to staunch its massive financial wounds. Faced with a devastating $7 billion loss in North America this year, chairman Robert Stempel had little choice but to take the drastic step of closing 21 plants, possibly including Arlington, and eliminating 74,000 jobs over the next three years....

Which means you should now put all your chips on Philadelphia winning the NFC’s worst division. MORE: Eagles’ win among Week 13 shockers | Worst beat of the year? What happened in New England on Sunday made no sense, just like much of the Eagles’ 5-7 season. Philadelphia did little offensively, but it won 35-28 by scoring once on defense and twice on special teams. It’s insane to think a team that got ripped 45-17 by the Buccaneers and 45-15 by the Lions just knocked off the Patriots, who just don’t lose two games in a row and tend to throttle reeling teams at home in December....

controversial subjects like Islamism, terrorism and the war against it, as well as what he believes is a decline of morals in a post 9/11 world. NEWSWEEK’s Silvia Spring spoke to Amis last week. Excerpts: Amis: His face, so rich and malevolent that it haunted me. It’s self-evidently true. You’re always onto a winner if you can persuade people they can be righteous and violent at the same time. Nothing beats that....

Erica Kious, owner of eSalon, has been forced to deny claims of a setup after she released surveillance footage showing Pelosi getting her hair done at her Cow Hollow salon on Monday. Kious also claims she has received death threats after releasing surveillance footage showing Pelosi walking around the salon without a mask, despite San Francisco hair salons being closed for indoor appointments due to the coronavirus outbreak. Salons in San Francisco were permitted to reopen for outdoors use one day after Pelosi’s visit, but face masks are still required....

So how about this: William Karlsson goes between his legs on a shorthanded breakaway for his 42nd goal of the season to help the expansion Golden Knights clinch the Pacific Division in their inaugural season? Yes, it just happened. The Golden Knights entered play Saturday seven points ahead of the team they were playing, the San Jose Sharks, in the standings. If Vegas earned at least a point in that matchup against San Jose, the Golden Knights would clinch the Pacific Division crown in their first season of competition, an incomparable, unthinkable feat for the first-year franchise....

The Golden Knights are up by three goals in the third period after Max Pacioretty scores 3:36 into the period. You think, as the minutes wind down, that this will be a Vegas win in Game 7 of the first-round series. But hold on. Joe Pavelski and Cody Eakin line up for a faceoff deep in Vegas’ end. Off the puck drop, Eakin cross-checks Pavelski. The Sharks captain then bumps into Paul Stastny as he is falling and hits his head and shoulder directly on the ice....

May, who lives with her younger dog sibling Murphy under the care of salon owner Ashley Carlevato Abramowicz in Illinois, took center stage during a family photo taken over the Christmas break. While Ashley had been hoping to capture a snap of her family during a holiday season spent with other close relatives, one of her two dogs had other ideas. Having set the camera up to take a picture of a timer, the family was both surprised and amused when, with only seconds remaining, May sauntered into the frame....

Dogs Ahsoka and Aubrey were on their daily walks with their owners, when they just happened to encounter each other. After noticing an uncanny resemblance between their dogs, and an impromptu play date occurring, it took just a few questions for their owners to discover that their dogs are actually siblings. The moment of realization was captured in an amazing viral video. “I was walking my dog when I saw a golden retriever that looked a lot like mine,” wrote Aubrey’s owner on-screen....

The footage shared from the TikTok account @eltonthegoldenretriever shows the dog inside a home, walking past a laundry room before heading straight into a shower cubicle in a bathroom. The video was overlaid with a message that read: “Mum and dad have been teaching me a new routine…So that when I get filthy, I know exactly where to go…who thinks I did a good job?” Studies have shown several health benefits associated with owning a dog or other pet....

The timing couldn't have been better for Gay, who started his week in Shanghai. "I was super tired," Gay said. MORE: Tiger Woods playing at Turkish Airlines Open Players were told the round would resume when the fog lifted. Gay didn't want to stand around on the range. He also wanted to stay loose. So he took a chance by going into the locker room at Sea Island, relaxed in a leather chair for a quick nap and then warmed up for the second time....

Other than his PGA Tour record-equalling 82nd win at the Zozo Championship in Japan, which arrived in October, Woods struggled for form and fitness in the aftermath of his sensational win at The Masters last year. He had knee surgery in August after missing the cut at the US PGA Championship and The Open, as well as finishing in a tie for 21st at the U.S. Open. Koepka, who himself suffered a serious knee injury in 2019, hopes Woods will be back to his best and knows his fellow American is still capable of achieving serious success at the age of 44....

Right-wing radio host Dennis Prager appeared on Fox News Tuesday morning just hours before he is set to accuse Google of political bias in testimony before members of Congress in Washington. Prager claims the Silicon Valley tech giants, but specifically Google, are gaming their algorithms against conservative content. He said dozens of PragerU’s 5-minute videos on topics ranging from Abraham Lincoln to the founding of Israel have been banned by the search giant and YouTube parent company as “pornography....

Labor Day is celebrated with a long weekend each year, with many cities, towns and communities hosting events to commemorate its labor force. Google is no different and has dedicated its U.S. Doodle to Labor Day celebrations, depicting essential workers during the pandemic. What is Labor Day Celebrating? Labor Day celebrates the U.S. workforce, particularly commemorating those whose work contributes to society and the economy. This year’s Google Doodle has focused on those who work on the frontline, whose jobs have been made significantly harder due to the coronavirus pandemic....

Google Stadia’s hardware exists on remote servers, conducting its graphical processing in the cloud and streaming the results to Stadia compatible screens. Some of the benefits to this new way of delivering video games are obvious, like the increased processing power available server-side, which could surpass the hardware prowess of a home console. But it’s the Stadia team’s hope that unique gameplay benefits will also reveal themselves as developers begin creating games exclusively for the platform....

A proposed class-action suit is asking a federal court to order the tech giant to fix an alleged security threat on the Google-Apple Exposure Notification System (GAEN) used across nearly 40 countries and in dozens of U.S. states. In a complaint filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, attorneys for the plaintiffs asserted that dozens of third parties potentially had access to the system’s stored data, including personally identifiable information and coronavirus exposure results....

The impetus for the bill—which was passed by the Senate on Tuesday with the votes of 14 Republicans—was the news of mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas. The outrage and frustration over the frequency of these atrocities created an opening for Democrats to return to their demands for more gun control legislation. Restricting the right to own a gun wouldn’t have prevented any or all of the mass shootings....

Castro, who is also chairman of his brother Julián Castro’s 2020 campaign, tweeted out an image that listed the names and businesses of 44 individuals in San Antonio which donated the maximum possible to Trump’s campaign this year. “Their contributions are fueling a campaign of hate that labels Hispanic immigrants as ‘invaders,’” the @Castro4Congress account tweeted, stirring accusations that the congressman was inciting attacks on those named, which he denied....

Republicans in recent months dealt with several challenges—ranging from a weaker-than-expected midterm election, Trump’s ongoing legal woes, and a divisive leadership race that lasted for days when the new Congress reconvened at the start of the month. However, a new YouGov survey indicated that the GOP rebounded from these difficulties by mid-January. The YouGov poll found rising approval ratings for Republicans across the board, including for the party’s high-profile leaders, as they seek to use their control of the House as a check on President Joe Biden....