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15 Ways Companies Are Tricking You Into Spending More 06/21/2023 08:00pm • Stores are a lot like magicians. They're always trying to get money to disappear from customers' bank accounts and wallets, and they often manage that with marketing tricks. What they do isn't illegal, and often, it isn't even unethical. Retailers are simply well versed in consumer psychology, and f How to Sell Your Car When You Still Have a Loan 06/21/2023 08:00pm • You can sell a car even if you still have a loan on it, but there will be a few extra steps to the process. "When there's a loan on the car it means your lender owns it and holds the title," says Grant Feek, managing director of the private seller exchange for Cox Automotive. "You must be the owner Biden calling China's leader a 'dictator' opens new rift just after Blinken's tensions-easing trip 06/21/2023 07:05pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s remarks calling Chinese leader Xi Jinping a “dictator” and China a country with "real economic difficulties” drew fast condemnation from China on Wednesday, cracking open a new rift just after the two countries agreed to tentative steps to stabilize Army veteran sentenced to 55 years for road rage shooting death of Muslim man 06/21/2023 05:50pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A suburban Indianapolis Army veteran was sentenced to 55 years in prison Wednesday for the road rage shooting death of a Muslim man after witnesses said he hurled ethnic and religious insults at the victim. Dustin Passarelli of Plainfield was convicted in May of murder and a fe Replacing bullets with beanbags: Fairfax Co. officers now carry 'less lethal' option in addition to handguns 06/21/2023 05:40pm • Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, are repurposing a long-carried weapon in patrol cars -- the shotgun. But now, those weapons are being converted to only contain "less-lethal" bean bag rounds.  Deputy Chief Brooke Wright with Fairfax County Police said the shotgun was an important weapon to ha Movie review: Jennifer Lawrence in the raunchy teen comedy 'No Hard Feelings' 06/21/2023 04:52pm • In a saner world, we would have already had a dozen Jennifer Lawrence comedies. When aliens arrive they will surely go directly to IMDB to survey her filmography and wonder why one of Hollywood's funniest and most naturally charismatic stars spent the first decade of her career in dystopias, action Proposed Minnesota nickel mine begins environmental review, would supply Tesla if approved 06/21/2023 04:05pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Talon Metals Corp. filed papers with Minnesota regulators Wednesday to launch the environmental review process for its proposed underground nickel mine near the northern town of Tamarack, which would supply nickel to Tesla for electric car batteries. The Department of Energy has 3 hurt when Google critic crashes car into building near company's NYC headquarters, police say 06/21/2023 03:46pm • NEW YORK (AP) — A man who has claimed for years that Google was torturing users with flashing lights crashed a car into a building near the company's New York City headquarters, injuring three pedestrians, authorities said. The man, 34, drove onto the sidewalk and crashed his Ford Fusion into a bu New York lawmakers OK bill removing medical debt from credit reports 06/21/2023 03:43pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Hospitals and other health care providers in New York would be banned from reporting medical debt to credit agencies under a bill passed this week by the state's legislature — a measure intended to limit the damage that illness and injury can do to someone's financial health. Israeli airstrike hits car in northern West Bank, escalating army's crackdown on militant targets 06/21/2023 02:38pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli airstrike hits car in northern West Bank, escalating army's crackdown on militant targets. Television veteran Geraldo Rivera says he's quitting Fox News' political combat show 'The Five' 06/21/2023 02:02pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Geraldo Rivera has quit as one of the lonely liberal voices on Fox News' popular political combat show “The Five,” saying Wednesday that “a growing tension that goes beyond editorial differences” made it no longer worth it to him. The last scheduled appearance on “The Fiv NC--Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 06/21/2023 01:39pm • Here’s a look at how AP’s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP’s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov Josh Berry finally lands his big NASCAR break as Kevin Harvick's replacement in Cup Series 06/21/2023 01:04pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Josh Berry will take the final step in his long journey to the top of racing with Stewart-Haas Racing next season as the replacement for future NASCAR Hall of Famer Kevin Harvick. Harvick is retiring at the end of this season and Berry on Wednesday was named next year's driv All hail the rising sun! Stonehenge welcomes 8,000 visitors for the summer solstice 06/21/2023 12:42pm • STONEHENGE, England (AP) — All hail the rising sun. Around 8,000 revelers gathered around a prehistoric stone circle on a plain in southern England to express their devotion to the sun, or to have some communal fun. Druids, pagans, hippies, local residents and tourists, many clad in an array of co Israeli police clash with Druze protesters in the Golan Heights. The rare violence leaves 20 injured 06/21/2023 12:38pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police on Wednesday fired tear gas, sponge-tipped bullets and a water cannon during mass demonstrations by Druze Arabs in the Golan Heights — a rare burst of violence in the normally quiet area. At least 20 people were reported injured. Thousands of Druze residents of th