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By KRISTIN SHAW Edmunds Looking for a fuel-sipping car? Hybrid powertrains are a smart way to make the most of your fuel budget and ease your carbon emissions impact on the planet. Toyota, Honda and Hyundai are building hybrid sedans that continue to improve with each model year, and the competition is tight. Edmunds’ experts

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press The latest proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza has the support of the United States and most of the international community, but Hamas has not fully embraced it, and neither, it seems, has Israel. Hamas this week accepted the broad outline but requested “amendments.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly

By STEVE PEOPLES and LINLEY SANDERS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — About half of U.S. adults approve of Donald Trump’s recent felony conviction, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The survey shows some potential vulnerabilities, along with some signs of resilience in his support, as Trump tries

By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The lapels are wide, “Disco Inferno” is blasting and lines and lines of nose candy are on offer in the new intriguing Miami-based series “Hotel Cocaine.” The eight-episode romp on MGM+ centers on a real-life hotel at the beginning of the war on drugs that

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s defense minister is proposing legislation that would help refill the depleted ranks of the armed forces to bolster the country’s defense capabilities. Boris Pistorius said on Wednesday that the bill would allow the government to send letters to all young men who turn 18, asking about

BY CHRISTINA MALKIA Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s president says a boat carrying more than 270 passengers has capsized on a river near Congo’s capital of Kinshasa, leaving more than 80 dead. It was the latest deadly boat accident in the central African country where overloading is often blamed, including in February when

CHICAGO (AP) — Cook County’s top judge has asked state regulators to review allegations that an attorney was handcuffed to a chair after a judge kicked him out of her courtroom. The Chicago Sun-Times reports Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans referred misconduct allegations against Judge Kathy Flanagan to the Judicial Inquiry Board on Friday.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk has dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI just ahead of a scheduled Wednesday hearing on the case. Musk in February sued the San Francisco artificial intelligence company and its CEO Sam Altman over what he said was a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker’s founding aims of benefiting humanity rather than

By AVET DEMOURIAN Associated Press YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — The leader of Armenia has declared his intention to pull out of a Russia-dominated security alliance of several ex-Soviet nations as tensions rise between the two allies. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said Wednesday that his government will decide later when to leave the Collective Security Treaty

By CIARÁN FAHEY and FANNY BRODERSEN Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The currywurst promises to be among the most tantalizing gourmet treats on offer at the European Championship this summer. The pork sausage garnished with curry sauce can be served with skin or without. It’s  choice that visiting fans will need to make before they

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s government has approved a package of measures meant to boost security for leading politicians and others following an assassination attempt on populist Prime Minister Robert Fico. The measures need approval by Parliament, where the three-party coalition government has a majority. One proposal says authorities would have the right to ban

By MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators on Wednesday blasted top health and law enforcement officials for not doing more to combat the rise of illegal electronic cigarettes in the U.S., a multibillion-dollar business that has flourished amid haphazard enforcement. Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee expressed frustration and exasperation

By JAY COHEN AP Baseball Writer Juan Soto has been on baseball cards with Ken Griffey Jr., Mike Trout, Fernando Tatis Jr., Manny Machado and Xander Bogaerts. But this one, well, this one was a little different for Soto. This one had the New York Yankees slugger and Puerto Rican musician Daddy Yankee. “It surprised

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer The NBA has never confirmed the worst-kept secret in basketball, that Jerry West is the player whose silhouette is depicted in the league’s logo. There’s probably a reason for that: West never wanted to be the logo. “I’m just part of the game,” West said in a 2021 interview.

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, COLLEEN LONG, ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press BRINDISI, Italy (AP) — President Joe Biden and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will sign a bilateral security agreement between the U.S. and Ukraine on Thursday when they meet on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit in Italy. Negotiators for the group have

By DAVID McHUGH and KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writers FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Union is moving to hike tariffs on electric vehicles made in China. EVs are the latest flash point in a broader trade dispute over Chinese government subsidies and the Asian nation’s burgeoning exports of green technology to the 27-nation bloc.

By THOMAS ADAMSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Françoise Hardy, a French singing legend and pop icon since the 1960s, has died. She was 80. Her son, musician Thomas Dutronc, announced the death on social media, sharing a poignant photo of himself as a child with her. Hardy, who had been battling lymphatic cancer since

By JAMES BROOKS Associated Press BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Multimillion-dollar works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Yayoi Kusama and Alberto Giacometti went on the market as the Art Basel fair opened in Switzerland. Thousands have flooded the exhibition center for VIP previews before doors open to public Thursday. More than 280 galleries exhibited everything from paintings and

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Republicans are responding to Hunter Biden’s conviction on federal gun charges with some version of, “That’s it?” Loyal to Donald Trump, they largely echoed the former president’s claim that the Justice Department has treated President Joe Biden’s son with kid gloves while zealously

By FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over audio of President Joe Biden’s interview in his classified documents case, Republicans’ latest and strongest rebuke of the Justice Department as partisan conflict over the rule of law