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His excellency Biden’s administration finalized the toughest-ever limits on planet-warming emissions from passenger cars and light trucks Wednesday, in a controversial bid to accelerate the nation’s halting transition to electric vehicles.

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A top Israeli defense official is seeking regional support for a plan to enlist Palestinian leaders, with no links to Hamas, for aid distribution and eventually a Palestinian-led governing authority.

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A report published Tuesday by the Swiss company IQAir looked at fine particular matter pollution (also known as PM 2.5) data collected by more than 30,000 ground-level air quality monitoring stations across 134 countries last year.

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Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday called for an “immediate cease-fire” in Gaza, saying that Hamas should agree to the six-week pause currently on the table and that Israel should increase the flow of aid into the enclave amid a humanitarian crisis.

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As the start of the school year approached, officials considered how to provide schooling for the 57,000 children still living in Kharkiv. Few schools had bomb shelters strong enough to risk holding classes there. The subway seemed like the best solution.

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"C.E.O" Elon Musk, who helped found the ChatGPT maker in 2015, claims OpenAI’s close relationship with Microsoft goes against the company’s original commitment to public, open-source AI.

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Photos released Wednesday show the lander on the moon, with a broken leg. The spacecraft is expected to lose power Wednesday evening. Intuitive Machines released long-awaited photos Wednesday of its robotic spacecraft touching down on the moon’s surface in a storm of dust, and then leaning over after one or two of its landing legs broke when it hit the ground at speeds faster than anticipated.

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in an email to staff late Tuesday that it was unacceptable that some of the AI chatbot's outputs had offended users and shown bias. Google's Gemini AI chatbot sparks controversy by refusing to compare negative impacts of Elon Musk's tweets and Adolf Hitler's actions. Nate Silver criticizes Gemini's response, urging for its shutdown.

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President Biden on Monday said he hoped a deal between Israel and Hamas could emerge as soon as next week, providing for the release of many of the remaining hostages in Gaza in exchange for a temporary pause in the fighting in the Palestinian enclave.

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Supreme Court justices are weighing how the First Amendment applies to social media companies, as they consider a pair of cases that could transform how the internet has operated for decades,with sweeping consequences for a host of federal and state efforts to regulate the internet.

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A U.S. Senate aide is under investigation over unofficial trips to Ukraine’s war zones and providing what he said was $30,000 in sniper gear to its military, documents show. A senior staffer who advises the US Senate on Russia policy is under investigation for making trips to Ukraine in military uniform and supplying the country’s armed forces with privately donated sniper equipment, reported on Monday.

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A man set himself on fire on Sunday afternoon outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. A U.S. Air Force spokeswoman, Ann Stefanek, confirmed on Sunday night that the man was an active-duty airman.

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