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An electric vehicle charging station installed by the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts. (Courtesy Massachusetts Department Of Environmental Protection)

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Mass. residents can now get at least $3,500 back on EVs that cost $55,000 or less.

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Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., preside over a House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack hearing in October. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

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Crosses, flowers and other memorabilia form a make-shift memorial for the victims of the shootings at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. (Eric Gay/AP)

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In this screen grab released on April 4, 2021, Jason Sudeikis performs as "Ted Lasso" during the 27th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on April 04, 2021. (27th Annual SAG Awards/Getty Images for WarnerMedia)

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Prince William and Catherine meet a boy dressed as a guard in Somerville. (Samir Hussein/WireImage)

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If we had to distill down to its very essence our biggest takeaway of the last decade? The stories we publish are about metabolizing a state of not-knowing – on scales big and small, global and personal. (Getty Images)

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Protesters at a Jewish solidarity march in New York City on January 5, 2020. The Anti-Defamation League reports that antisemitic incidents, including violence, have been rising for the past five years. (Jeenah Moon/Getty Images)

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An attendee heads up an escalator to Microsoft's annual Build conference for software developers, Monday, May 7, 2018, in Seattle. Microsoft is launching a $25 million initiative to use artificial intelligence to build better technology for people with disabilities. Microsoft launched and shut down the Tay AI chatbot in 2016. (Courtesy of AP Photo)

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Shown in the Spanish language are "He Votado Hoy" stickers or I voted today at a polling place in Philadelphia, May 21, 2019. (Matt Rourke/AP)

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A woman marks down her vote on a ballot for the Democratic presidential primary election at a polling place in Armstrong Elementary School on Super Tuesday, March 3, 2020 in Herndon, Virginia. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

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James Vlahos, CEO of HereafterAI, holds a photograph of his parents, John and Martha Vlahos, outside his home on November 11, 2022 in El Cerrito, California. James created a chatbot or Dadbot as he calls it which allowed him to reconnect with his deceased father, the original motivation for starting HereafterAI. (Getty Images)

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Senate Health Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee ranking member Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Burr and his brother-in-law were being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission for potential insider trading, a case that stems from their abrupt sales of financial holdings during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, according to recent federal court filings. Burr has since been cleared of all charges. (Associated Press)

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