Google Maps: We're Going to Scrap That Desert Detour (Newser Morning 8)

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November 28, 2023     "The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents." —Salvador Dali   1 Vermont Shooting Victim May Not Walk Again One of the three young Palestinian men shot while in his grandmother's neighborhood over Thanksgiving weekend in Vermont may not walk again, his parents say. Keep reading   2 Google Maps: We're Going to Scrap That Desert Detour Google Maps is officially apologizing for sending a caravan of cars on an unpaved detour in the California desert from which they all had to turn around. Keep reading   From our sponsors:   At a Glance An ambulance waits to carry workers from the site of an under-construction road tunnel that collapsed in Silkyara in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, India, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. Officials in India said Tuesday they were on the verge of rescuing the 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel for over two weeks in the country's north, after rescuers drilled their way through debris to reach them. (AP Photo) Keep reading   3 Carjackers Might Better Learn to Drive Stick Shift A group of would-be carjackers were forced to flee without the Porsche they were trying to carjack once they discovered it was a manual transmission and they didn't know how to drive stick. Keep reading   4 Delivery Driver Took Off Helmet, Hit Dublin Attacker With It Caio Benicio, a Brazilian immigrant, was on his motorbike working for a delivery service in Dublin last Thursday when he saw what he thought was a fight and slowed down. Keep reading   5 'All In' in Iowa, DeSantis Will Soon Complete the 'Full Grassley' Ron DeSantis has been campaigning his way through Iowa's counties, nabbing Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds' endorsement in the process, and he'll complete his tour of all 99 counties on December 2 with an event at the "Thunderdome," sources tell CBS News. Keep reading   6 Awards Season Kicks Off With De Niro Going Off-Script Celine Song's wistful romance Past Lives earned top honors at the Gotham Awards on Monday evening at an award-season kickoff where the night's biggest drama came in a political speech by Robert De Niro that the actor claimed had been edited without his permission, the AP reports. Keep reading     7 Former WWE Star Sentenced to 17 Years After Fatal DUI Crash A former WWE wrestler was sentenced to more than 17 years behind bars Monday after a DUI crash last year in Florida that left a 75-year-old man dead. Keep reading   8 Hundreds Celebrate Rosalynn Carter Hundreds of people turned out Monday to salute Rosalynn Carter on the former first lady and global humanitarian's final journey from her hometown to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta. Keep reading   This Day in History In 2001, Enron Corp., once the world's largest energy trader, collapsed after would-be rescuer Dynegy Inc. backed out of an $8.4 billion takeover deal. (Enron filed for bankruptcy protection four days later.) Find out what else happened on this date here.   From the Newser Archives On this day in 2016: Tourists in Cuba Find Themselves in Historic Moment   Yesterday's Most-Read Stories   From Our Sponsors Manage your subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe from Newser emails  |  Privacy Policy We'd love to hear from you. Send us a note at feedback@newser.com. Newser, LLC  |  1395 Brickell Avenue  |  Suite 800  |  Miami, Florida  |  33131 © 2023 Newser, LLC. All rights reserved