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Emergency diesel generators are providing power to critical safety systems at the Chernobyl nuclear site, but they have only enough fuel for 48 hours. The site is pictured here in April 2021.
Efrem Lukatsky/APEmergency diesel generators are providing power to critical safety systems at the facility, but they have only enough fuel for 48 hours.
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New York City will stop collecting Social Security money from children in foster care National News
New York City officials announced the city will no longer take all Social Security checks from children to pay for foster care. Last year NPR and The Marshall Project investigated the common practice.
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Sick veterans demand medical coverage for illnesses caused by burn pits National News
President Biden is urging Congress to send a burn-pits bill to his desk.
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Vice President Harris is going to Poland after the U.S. rejected fighter jet offer National News
Poland offered to stage fighter jets for Ukraine on a U.S. base in Germany. The Pentagon said that wasn't tenable. It all happened the day before Vice President Harris left for Warsaw.
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The war in Ukraine has derailed one American family's adoption plan National News
The Bell family has been trying to adopt Vanya and Serogzha from Ukraine for about two years.
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Ukraine's libraries are offering bomb shelters, camouflage classes and, yes, books National News
One bundle of homemade camouflage netting was packaged with a note reading, "Death to enemies." The libraries are also sending Ukrainian books out of the country to refugees who have fled.
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As U.S. COVID deaths near 1 million, advocates press for a memorial day National News
Millions of people in the U.S. have lost someone they love to COVID-19, and advocates hope to have those losses marked each year on the first Monday in March.
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What to know about the accuracy of the 2020 census — and why it matters for you National News
COVID-19 and interference by former President Donald Trump's administration have made it harder to pinpoint the accuracy of the numbers used to redistribute political representation and federal money.
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