May 06--Nevada has greenlighted Daimler AG plans to test its self-driving heavy-freight truck in ordinary traffic on public roads. Which means traveling on those roads is the state's latest form of legalized gambling.
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner said, "The city of Chicago's is in deep, deep yogurt." He knows not everything produced in a dairy barn is dairy product, right?
That may have been rhetorical playfulness on Rauner's part. But word to the wise: Don't let anyone who thinks yogurt is something shoveled away from a cow feed you anything.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to turn some small public areas around the city into what he's calling "people plazas." Sounds better than "new place to sell advertising."
It's Election Day Thursday in the United Kingdom, where parliamentary candidate Robert Bray has been suspended by the U.K. Independence Party after an undercover reporter recorded him saying he would shoot a rival. No word on how Bray polls in Iowa.
New York's Museum of Modern Art later this month is opening an exhibition of Yoko Ono's work. Some critics fear that, by fall, the museum's Cubism collection will be broken up.
The European Union is looking into whether McDonald's funneled money through a Luxembourg-based subsidiary's Swiss branch to avoid paying more than $1.1 billion in taxes from 2009 to '13, the Guardian reports. If true, it would be one of the most inventive things McDonald's has done in years.
Minutes after Kansas legislators overrode the governor's veto to up requirements for ride-service driver background checks and insurance, Uber said it was suspending operations there. Funny. Always thought it was Dorothy who said, "We're not in Kansas anymore." Not the wicked witch.
The American Medical Association was founded 168 years ago Thursday, establishing national standards for medical education and practice -- but not penmanship.
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