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Police: 6 killed in Pennsylvania pileup of 80 vehicles – ABC News

Police: 6 killed in Pennsylvania pileup of 80 vehicles  ABC News Six people killed in massive crash on Interstate 81 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania State Police say  WGAL Susquehanna Valley Pa. UPDATE: Six People Die, 80 Vehicles Involved in Interstate 81 Pile

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California task force votes to limit reparations to descendants of slaves

California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations voted Tuesday to limit state compensation to the descendants of free and enslaved Black people who were in the U.S. in the 19th century, narrowly rejecting a proposal to include all Black people.

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Biden May Invoke Defense Production Act for Electric Car Battery Metals – Bloomberg

Biden May Invoke Defense Production Act for Electric Car Battery Metals  BloombergView Full Coverage on Google News

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WATCH LIVE: Military leaders testify on U.S. activity in Europe before House committee

Military leaders on Wednesday testify on national security challenges and military activity in Europe before the House Armed Services Committee.

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Sen. Susan Collins says she will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court

Maine Sen. Susan Collins says she will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, giving Democrats at least one Republican vote and all but assuring that Jackson will become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

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EU Is Considering New Russian Bank Sanctions, Diplomats Say

European countries aiming to tighten sanctions over the war in Ukraine are considering targeting more banks and oligarchs’ relatives, as well as strengthening cryptocurrency restrictions, according to people familiar with discussions.

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Susan Collins Will Vote to Confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson, Giving Her Bipartisan Support

(Washington, D.C.) —Maine Sen. Susan Collins said Wednesday she will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, giving Democrats at least one Republican vote and all but assuring that Jackson will become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

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Why Jennifer Egan Created a Future Without Privacy in The Candy House

In 2015, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan was deep into revisions of her novel Manhattan Beach when the memory of a girl she had befriended as a child in San Francisco started to flit across her mind. Egan conjured images of

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Four Million Refugees Have Now Fled Ukraine, Says U.N.

The total so far exceeds the number of refugees the organization predicted for the entire war in just under five weeks. Some 12 million are trapped in areas affected by the war and unable to leave.

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This Tech Leader is Harnessing Collective Action to Green the Grid

Shuli Goodman talks a lot about building the next generation of clean energy, but she doesn’t just mean erecting fields of solar panels and wind turbines. As the director of Linux Foundation Energy (LF Energy), launched by the nonprofit Linux

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