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The personalization menus you’d typically expect to find on a center touch screen are instead baked into the driver’s instrument display.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

One couple had just negotiated their way down the steps with the three young children, including one in a buggy, after debating whether to go all the way round the building instead to avoid them.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

You may also forfeit certain tax advantages — and the money you’d contribute to their accounts could instead go toward your own Roth IRA, giving you greater flexibility.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

It would simply be a copy, made to make money instead of telling a story.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2026

Someone has removed the Cohan song and started playing dance music instead.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse