Meanwhile, the Energy Department is awarding $16 million to study ways to extract critical minerals from coal mine waste streams.
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New IRS leader promises faster, easier tax filing process
Danny Werfel also pledges not to expand tax audits on businesses and households making less than $400,000 per year.
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Twitter’s shadow workforce sues over Musk’s mass layoffs
The suit was brought on behalf of workers hired by Twitter through employee staffing company TEKsystems Inc.
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U.S. is providing Ukraine with $2.6 billion in military aid
The aid will be taken from military stockpiles so it can be in the war zone quickly.
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Lawyers meet with jailed American reporter in Moscow prison
A graduate of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Evan Gershkovich is the first U.S. correspondent since the Cold War to be detained on espionage accusations.
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In a first, EPA survey puts a number on lead pipes around U.S.
A new survey of lead pipes across the United States estimates that Florida has more than any other state.
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In brief: Here are the 3 hush money cases in the Trump indictment
There are 3 people to whom the former president and his associates are accused of making hush money payments during his 2016 campaign.
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Read the indictment of Donald Trump in the Stormy Daniels case
The Manhattan district attorney also releases a statement of fact that provides context for the 34 felony charges against the former president.
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Spectacle develops outside court as Trump surrenders
The crowd was small, by the standards of New York City protests, which routinely draw thousands, but there was plenty of chaos.
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Video: Sen. Collins, while touring Augusta theater, urges calm as Trump is charged with felonies
Susan Collins, speaking at the Colonial Theater in downtown Augusta on Tuesday, also reiterated that the former president is not her first choice for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.