HONG KONG (AP) — China’s passenger car exports jumped 73% year-on-year in May to around 809,000 vehicles, an industry group reported Wednesday, as higher gasoline and diesel prices due to the war in Iran raised interest in electric vehicles.

The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said Wednesday that exports of pure EVs and plug-in hybrids more than doubled in May from a year earlier to about 435,000 units, or more than half

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bill Gates will appear Wednesday before a congressional panel investigating the Jeffrey Epstein files, becoming the latest powerful figure linked to the disgraced financier to testify.

Members of the House Oversight Committee are slated to interview the billionaire Microsoft co-founder behind closed doors, as they have done with other witnesses in the investigation. Transcripts are often released later.

Republican U.S. Rep. James Comer, the committee chairman, formally requested that Gates testify after he appeared multiple times in a trove of documents released

Fans who hear the whirring sound of a drone over a stadium might see it as a nuisance but law enforcement has long viewed those aircraft as a potential weapon of mass destruction.

With the World Cup about to kick off, security is heightened and there’s a zero-tolerance policy for drones over or near stadiums during the 78 matches in 11 U.S. cities.

Authorities have ratcheted up counter-drone measures used at the Super Bowl and other major events, while Congress has given law enforcement broader

Chrystia Freeland is returning to her writing roots with a new book named after a quip she made about the United States on an American talk show.

“Unreliable Boyfriend: An Insider’s View of Dealing with a Chaotic Superpower, Plutocrats, and Other Complicated People” will be published in October.

Its title is a reference to a comment she made on “Real Time With Bill Maher” in February, saying that the U.S. is “not a very reliable boyfriend right now.”

Publisher Simon & Schuster

The Stanley Cup Final is back to square.

Jordan Staal scored two, including the go-ahead goal, as the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Vegas Golden Knights 5-3 in Game 4 to bring the series back to Raleigh all tied up.

Much like Games 1 through 3, Game 4 proved that no lead is safe.

The Hurricanes stormed out to a 2-0 lead, then a 3-1 lead, only to see the Golden Knights answer the bell to tie it up by the end of the second

Three people were taken to hospital after a six-vehicle crash involving a water tanker truck on the Queen Elizabeth Way near Dixie Road.

Emergency crews say they responded to the crash in the Toronto-bound lanes around 7 p.m.

Paramedics assessed nine patients on the scene and three were transported to hospital. Two men suffered serious, non-life-threatening injuries while a third patient had minor injuries.

The six others assessed did not go to hospital

Four of five lanes of the QEW are blocked as crews cleaned

Descriptions have been released of five teenaged suspects wanted in connection to a Woodbine stabbing that injured two people last Friday.

Emergency crews were called to the east-end beach, located south of Lake Shore Boulevard East and west of Woodbine Avenue, just before 9 p.m. for reports of a fight.

Investigators say two victims were approached by a group of several suspects at Woodbine Beach. Then, a verbal and physical altercation allegedly occurred between the victims and suspects

Police say one of the suspects brandished a knife and stabbed

OTTAWA — The co-founder of Ottawa’s independent net-zero advisory body says she has been “disappointed” by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s commitment to climate action to date.

Catherine Abreu was speaking at a parliamentary committee on the environment Tuesday, along with fellow co-founder Simon Donner.

They both resigned from the federal government’s net-zero advisory body in December after accusing the Carney government of not seeking the group’s advice on key policy decisions, including the Alberta energy deal and the