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Plan to raze 4 dams on California-Oregon line clears hurdle

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PORTLAND, Ore. — A proposal to bring down four hydroelectric dams near the California-Oregon border cleared a major regulatory hurdle Thursday, setting the stage...

Cruise giant Carnival says customers affected by breach

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Carnival Corp. said Thursday that a data breach in March might have exposed personal information about customers and employees on Carnival Cruise Line, Holland...

Can you mix and match COVID-19 vaccines?

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Can you mix and match two-dose COVID-19 vaccines? It's likely safe...

Foam containing ‘forever chemicals’ used against plant fire

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A company hired to help extinguish a fire that gutted a northern Illinois chemical plant this week used foam containing toxic compounds that have...

Hong Kong’s stock exchange hit in latest wave of web outages

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The Hong Kong Stock Exchange said it was hit by technical problems Thursday as a wave of brief internet outages appeared to hit dozens...

Spain hopes to jumpstart electric car industry with EU funds

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BARCELONA, Spain — Daniel Sánchez is one of the luckier electric car owners in Spain. With a free recharging station less than a kilometer...

Self-driving car pioneer Waymo gets $2.5B to fuel ambitions

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Waymo, the self-driving car pioneer spun off from Google, isn't allowing a recent wave of executive departures to detour its...

China says nuclear fuel rods damaged, no radiation leak

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BEIJING — A Chinese nuclear power plant near Hong Kong had five broken fuel rods in a reactor but no radioactivity leaked, the government...

Amazon allots $300 million for housing near mass transit

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ARLINGTON, Va. — Amazon is providing $300 million in low-interest loans to support housing located near mass transit in the Washington, D.C., area and...

Security flaw found in 2G mobile data encryption standard

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BERLIN — Cybersecurity researchers in Europe say they have discovered a flaw in an encryption algorithm used by cellphones that may have allowed attackers...