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A Lincoln Aviator rolls off the assembly line at a Ford assembly plant in Chicago. California agreed to a deal with four automakers, including Ford, to produce fuel-efficient cars.

California Signs Deal With Automakers To Produce Fuel-Efficient Cars

The agreement is different from plans expected to be announced by the Trump administration that would weaken national emissions standards.

Watch Live Performances From XPoNential Music Festival 2019 This Weekend

Watch Dawes, St. Paul and The Broken Bones, Guster, Kathleen Edwards, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram and many more perform live on the Camden Waterfront starting Friday, July 26.

Attorney General William Barr, in April at a prison reform meeting at the White House.

Lethal Injection Drugs' Efficacy And Availability For Federal Executions

The Justice Department's announcement that the federal government will resume its use of capital punishment has raised questions about the drugs it plans to use.

Harrison Duran, 23, poses with Alice, the 65-million-year-old partial skull of a triceratops. The dinosaur-obsessed student helped find Alice on an expedition with the Fossil Excavators.

College Student Discovers 65-Million-Year-Old Triceratops Skull

Harrison Duran, a 23-year-old college student at University of California, Merced, spent his summer internship hunting for dinosaur fossils.

Supreme Court Rules Trump Can, For Now, Start Using Pentagon Funds For Border Wall

The Supreme Court handed down an order that will allow the Trump administration for now to start using Pentagon funds for wall construction.

(From left) Former Housing Secretary Julián Castro, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard. Warren, Booker and O'Rourke have already qualified for the Democratic debate in September.

Debate May Be Last-Ditch Effort For Struggling Democrats To Stay Alive

Eight candidates meet the requirements to make the debate stage in September: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Beto O'Rourke, Cory Booker and Andrew Yang.

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., co-sponsored Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for All" bill, along with several other 2020 candidates, when it was released in 2017. Her plan has some key differences from Sanders', including a larger role for private insurance and a higher threshold for taxing household income.

Kamala Harris Releases 'Medicare For All' Plan With A Role For Private Insurers

The plan clears up confusion over Harris' position, allowing private Medicare plans that follow certain standards. New taxes would be added on stock trades and households earning over $100,000.

Can Fast Fashion And Sustainability Be Stitched Together?

Spanish retailer Zara pledges to use nearly all sustainable materials by 2025. But is it possible for a fast-fashion brand, that churns out 500 new designs per week, to truly be sustainable?

Gender reveal parties are all over social media and television shows, including <em>Black-ish, </em>are featuring their own. But 11 years ago, when Jenna Karvunidis had her own party that went viral, she never imagined just how big these parties would become.

Jenna Karvunidis, an early proponent of gender reveal parties, now has more nuanced thoughts about the popular themed events. That's in part to her own daughter, one of the first gender reveal babies.

Ashes smolder on the ground in the northeast Nigerian village of Budu on Sunday, after an attack this weekend by suspected Boko Haram fighters on a funeral procession left 60 people dead.

Suspected Boko Haram Attack On Nigerian Funeral Procession Kills At Least 60 People

The militant group has been waging an insurgency in Nigeria and surrounding countries for a decade, killing tens of thousands of people and displacing about 2.4 million others.

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