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Japan rivals Nissan and Honda will share EV components and AI research as they play catch up 08/01/2024 06:00am • TOKYO (AP) — Japanese automakers Nissan and Honda say they plan to share components for electric vehicles like batteries and jointly research software for autonomous driving. A third Japanese manufacturer, Mitsubishi Motors Corp., has joined the Nissan-Honda partnership, sharing the view that spe Uber, China's BYD, form partnership to deploy 100,000 EVs in EU and Latin America 08/01/2024 05:14am • BANGKOK (AP) — The ride sharing giant Uber and Chinese automaker BYD plan a partnership to introduce 100,000 BYD model EVs on the Uber platform in Europe and Latin America, eventually expanding to other markets, the companies announced. The arrangement would offer Uber drivers access to favorable Stock market today: Asian benchmarks are mixed as Tokyo sips on strong yen 08/01/2024 01:44am • TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares traded mixed Thursday as Tokyo's benchmark plunged as the U.S. dollar sank against the yen. Regional investors are also digesting the rally on Wall Street that came on hopes U.S. cuts to interest rates will be arriving soon. A strong yen is a plus for Japan's purchases bu Padres rough up Kershaw while Cease holds Dodgers in check in San Diego's 8-1 win 08/01/2024 12:36am • SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego's Dylan Cease held the NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers in check in his first start after throwing his first career no-hitter and Clayton Kershaw lasted only 3 2/3 innings in his second start of the season as the Padres won 8-1 Wednesday night for a two-game sweep. Ke Scholarships help Lahaina graduates afford to attend college outside Hawaii a year after wildfire 08/01/2024 12:09am • HONOLULU (AP) — College was the furthest thing from Keith Nove Baniqued's mind after her family's home burned down in a deadly wildfire that decimated her Hawaii town. The 17-year-old, who was 7 when she moved to Maui from the Philippines, was about to start her senior year of high school but shif 1 of last Republican congressmen to vote for Trump impeachment defends his seat in Washington race 08/01/2024 12:05am • SEATTLE (AP) — Congressional primary races in Washington state are attracting outsized attention, including one that pits one of the last remaining U.S. House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump against two conservative candidates whose platforms are in lock-step with the GOP presidentia Tropical Storm Carlotta has formed in the eastern Pacific, forecasters say 07/31/2024 11:29pm • MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Carlotta has formed in the eastern Pacific, but is moving away from Mexico, forecasters said Wednesday. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says in an advisory that a tropical depression was upgraded to the tropical storm, with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph (80 k 911 calls before Sonya Massey's shooting include 1 from her mother asking officers not to 'hurt her' 07/31/2024 10:21pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Two emergency response calls were made from the home of Sonya Massey, the Black woman who was shot in the face by an Illinois sheriff's deputy after she called 911 for help, in the days leading up to her death, according to records released Wednesday. In a third call, Mas Governor calls on flood-weary Vermonters to 'stick together' with more thunderstorms on the horizon 07/31/2024 10:16pm • LYNDON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont’s governor said Wednesday that the latest storms to hit the state have undone much of the cleanup and recovery work from its last major bout of flooding only weeks ago, and he called on residents to “stick together” amid fears that more bad weather could cause even West Virginia school ordered to remain open after effort to close it due to toxic groundwater fears 07/31/2024 10:02pm • PADEN CITY, W.Va. (AP) — A small West Virginia school will remain open after a judge sided with residents who fought a county superintendent's decision to relocate classes due to contaminated groundwater under the school being on a national cleanup priority list. Wetzel County Circuit Judge Richa The Latest: 2024 candidates tune their campaigns with less than 100 days to go 07/31/2024 09:52pm • Donald Trump spoke Wednesday at a meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists, where his opponent in the presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris, did not appear. The group said it was in discussions for her to address its members in September. The Republican former president's a Harris calls Trump's false claims about race 'the same old show' of divisiveness and disrespect 07/31/2024 09:50pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that former President Donald Trump's false assertions about her race were the “same old show" as she emphasized the need for Black women to organize for his defeat this November. Addressing the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. — one US arrests a former Green Beret over the failed 2020 raid into Venezuela to remove Maduro 07/31/2024 08:56pm • CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A former U.S. Green Beret who in 2020 organized a failed cross-border raid of Venezuelan army deserters to remove President Nicolás Maduro has been arrested in New York on federal arms smuggling charges. A federal indictment unsealed this week in Tampa, Florida, accuses 1 person killed in Colorado wildfires as blazes torch large areas of the U.S. West 07/31/2024 08:23pm • LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) — A person was killed in one of several wildfires threatening heavily populated areas of the Colorado foothills, authorities said Wednesday, as almost 100 large blazes burned across the western U.S. The death came in a fire near the town of Lyons that blackened more than two s Braves seeking power surge from Soler as they continue adding players from 2021 championship team 07/31/2024 08:03pm • MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jorge Soler delivered one of the most memorable moments in Atlanta Braves history with his three-run homer that sparked a the final victory in the 2021 World Series. The Braves would love to see him recreate that success as they prepare for another postseason run by reuniting memb