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Google Maps rolls out features to help EV drivers find nearby chargers, plan trips 04/18/2024 08:46am • Popular navigation app Google Maps is introducing features to help electric vehicle drivers alleviate a primary concern: finding a place to charge. Open EV charging stations at a Royal Farms gas station in South Riding, Virginia. (WTOP/Neal Augenstein) In a blog post, Google said it is starti Climate change concerns grow, but few think Biden's climate law will help, an AP-NORC poll finds 04/18/2024 08:22am • Like many Americans, Ron Theusch is getting more worried about climate change. A resident of Alden, Minnesota, Theusch has noticed increasingly dry and mild winters punctuated by short periods of severe cold ��� symptoms of a warming planet. As he thinks about that, future generations are on his mi Israelis grapple with how to celebrate Passover, a holiday about freedom, while many remain captive 04/18/2024 07:02am • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Every year, Alon Gat���s mother led the family's Passover celebration of the liberation of the ancient Israelites from Egypt thousands of years ago. But this year, Gat is struggling with how to reconcile a holiday commemorating freedom after his mother was slain and other family m French hero gains Australian residency for confronting killer in deadly Sydney shopping mall attack 04/18/2024 06:48am • SYDNEY (AP) ��� French construction worker Damien Guerot was made an Australian permanent resident on Thursday as a reward for his heroism during a knife attack in a Sydney shopping mall that left six victims dead and a dozen wounded. Guerot was nicknamed ���Bollard Man��� on social media after secu Takeaways from this week's reports on the deadly 2023 Maui fire that destroyed Lahaina 04/18/2024 05:40am • HONOLULU (AP) ��� More than half a year after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century burned through a historic Maui town, officials are still trying to determine exactly what went wrong and how to prevent similar catastrophes in the future. But two reports released this week are filling Europe wants 2 things from China. It may not get far on either of them. 04/18/2024 03:53am • BEIJING (AP) ��� Europe wants two things from China: First, a shift in its relatively pro-Russia position on the war in Ukraine. Second, a reduction in the trade imbalance ��� Chinese goods exports to the EU exceeded its imports from the 27-nation bloc by 291 billion euros ($310 billion) last year. Biden vows to shield US steel industry by blocking Japanese merger and seeking new Chinese tariffs 04/17/2024 09:55pm • PITTSBURGH (AP) ��� President Joe Biden suggested to cheering, unionized steelworkers on Wednesday that his administration would thwart the acquisition of U.S. Steel by a Japanese company, and he called for a tripling of tariffs on Chinese steel, seeking to use trade policy to win over working-class Hugh Grant says he took 'enormous sum' to settle suit alleging illegal snooping by The Sun tabloid 04/17/2024 08:33pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Hugh Grant accepted ���an enormous sum of money" to settle a lawsuit accusing The Sun tabloid of unlawfully tapping his phone, bugging his car and breaking into his home to snoop on him, the actor said Wednesday after the agreement was announced in court. Grant said he reluctantly se How to Start Building Credit at 18 04/17/2024 08:00pm • Turning 18 technically means you've reached adulthood, and with that comes the opportunity to start your journey toward financial independence -- even if Mom and Dad will still be helping out for a while. But learning how to build credit at 18 will make things easier when you are ready to really get Lockdown lifts at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota after report of a single gunshot 04/17/2024 06:27pm • GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) ��� The lockdown has been lifted at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota after a report of a gunshot on Wednesday afternoon sent people indoors. Security officers completed a door-to-door sweep but did not locate a source of the sound, the base said in a social media pos 2 Florida men suspected in 2-year string of car break-ins at parks in Fairfax County 04/17/2024 06:18pm • Fairfax County police say two Florida men are under arrest and have been charged in connection with a string of car break-ins at parks across the Virginia county during a nearly two-year period. Police said that, in many cases, credit cards were in the vehicles and later used at different area st Southern California city council gives a key approval for Disneyland expansion plan 04/17/2024 06:07pm • ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) ��� Visitors to Disney's California parks could one day walk through the snow-covered hamlet of Arendelle from ���Frozen��� or the bustling, critter-filled metropolis of ���Zootopia��� under a park expansion plan approved by the Anaheim City Council. Disney would spend at least Tip leads to arrest in cold case killing of off-duty DC police officer in Baltimore 04/17/2024 05:06pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Baltimore prosecutors on Wednesday announced the arrest of a man in the cold case homicide of an off-duty Washington, D.C., police officer in 2017. The officer, Sgt. Tony Anthony Mason Jr., was shot to death while sitting in a parked car with a woman he had been dating, according US probe of Hondas that can activate emergency braking for no reason moves closer to a recall 04/17/2024 05:02pm • DETROIT (AP) ��� A U.S. government investigation into unexpected automatic braking involving nearly 3 million Hondas is a step closer to a recall. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Wednesday it has upgraded a probe opened in February of 2022 to an engineering analysis after it Officer shot before returning fire and killing driver in Albany, New York, police chief says 04/17/2024 04:12pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ��� A police officer in Albany, New York, was ���ambushed��� by a driver following an attempted traffic stop early Wednesday and was shot in the leg before returning fire, killing the man, the city's police chief said. The officer was hospitalized at Albany Medical Center and was a