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Edmunds: Best hybrid sedans for under $35,000 06/12/2024 11:23am • More than ever, buying a hybrid vehicle makes a lot of sense. The latest models are just as powerful — in some cases, more powerful — as related gas-only models and have such small price premiums that it’s easy to start saving money while reducing your vehicle-based carbon emissions. But what GM board approves another $6 billion share repurchase as the automaker gains momentum 06/12/2024 09:13am • WASHINGTON (AP) — General Motors has approved another $6 billion share repurchase as the Detroit automaker adds to its 2024 momentum. The Tuesday announcement follows a $10 billion share buyback authorization in November of last year. Shares in the Detroit automaker rose 1.4% to $48.21 Tuesday. GM The European Union moves to hike tariffs on Chinese electric car imports, escalating trade spat 06/12/2024 06:27am • BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union moved Wednesday to hike tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, escalating a trade dispute over Beijing's subsidies for the exports that Brussels worries is hurting domestic automakers. The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, said it would impose provisio The European Union is threatening to raise tariffs by July 4 on electric cars imported from China 06/12/2024 05:48am • BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is threatening to raise tariffs by July 4 on electric cars imported from China. Some Syrian refugees risk returning to opposition-held areas as hostility in host Lebanon grows 06/12/2024 01:21am • IDLIB, Syria (AP) — For more than a decade, a steady flow of Syrians have crossed the border from their war-torn country into Lebanon. But anti-refugee sentiment is rising there, and in the past two months, hundreds of Syrian refugees have gone the other way. They're taking a smugglers' route home Today in History: June 12, 49 killed in Pulse nightclub shooting 06/12/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Wednesday, June 12, the 164th day of 2024. There are 202 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 12, 2016, a gunman opened fire at the Pulse nightclub, a gay establishment in Orlando, Florida, leaving 49 people dead and 53 wounded; Omar Mateen pled Off-duty guard charged with killing Seattle-area teen after mistaking toy for gun, authorities say 06/11/2024 09:14pm • SEATTLE (AP) — An off-duty security guard in a Seattle suburb has been charged with second-degree murder by prosecutors who said that he fatally shot a 17-year-old six times in the back as the teen and his friends tried to return a toy gun that the guard believed was a firearm to a sporting goods 16 Things to Do When You're Deep in Debt 06/11/2024 08:00pm • Americans are carrying a lot of debt. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Center for Microeconomic Data, total household debt increased by $212 billion in the fourth quarter of 2023, making it so that everyone owes a collective $17.5 trillion. In addition, America's credit card balan Crystal Symphony: The Best Dining, Amenities and More on Crystal's Revamped Ship 06/11/2024 08:00pm • Having taken nearly two dozen ocean cruises around the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, Alaska and the Mexican Riviera, I've been yearning to explore new waters in far-off lands. Southeast Asia has been one of my bucket list destinations for a couple of decades, so I finally set my sights on a cruise t Missouri executes man convicted of killing former lover and her husband 06/11/2024 07:53pm • BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A man convicted of killing his former lover and her husband in what prosecutors described as a fit of rage was executed Tuesday evening in Missouri. David Hosier, 69, was pronounced dead at 6:11 p.m. following a single-dose injection of the sedative pentobarbital at the sta Supermarket gunman's lawyers say he should be exempt from the death penalty because he was 18 06/11/2024 07:10pm • BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket should be exempt from the death penalty because he was 18 at the time of the attack, an age when the brain is still developing and more vulnerable to negative influences, his defense team said in a new court filing The Latest | Hamas responds to Gaza cease-fire plan with 'amendments,' and US is evaluating 06/11/2024 06:36pm • Hamas responded Tuesday to the U.S.-backed proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza, saying it wants some “amendments” on the deal. The militant group's reply apparently fell short of an outright acceptance that the United States has been pushing for but kept negotiations alive over an elusive halt to Union: 4 Florida police officers indicted for 2019 shootout that left UPS driver and passerby dead 06/11/2024 06:22pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Four Florida police officers have been indicted in connection with a 2019 shootout on a busy street that left a UPS driver, the two robbers who hijacked him and a nearby driver dead, their union confirmed Tuesday. The South Florida Police Benevolent Association critic Key witness at bribery trial of Sen. Bob Menendez faces grueling day of cross-examination 06/11/2024 06:22pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The prosecution's prized turncoat witness at the bribery trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez was politely combative Tuesday as defense lawyers tried to poke holes in his testimony and portray him as a habitual liar. Jose Uribe spent a third day on the witness stand, a day after telling Judge sets hearing over alleged leak of Nashville school shooter info to conservative outlet 06/11/2024 05:39pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge has ordered a conservative media organization to appear in court over publishing details from allegedly leaked documents about a 2023 Nashville school shooting, while the outlet sues for the same kind of records to be released to the public. On Monday, Nas