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The order makes it easier to go after foreign adversaries or hacking groups.
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An air tanker flies past flames while battling the Oak Fire in Mariposa County, Calif., Sunday, July 24, 2022. Wildfires, floods and soaring temperatures have made climate change real to many Americans. Yet a sizeable number continue to dismiss the scientific consensus that human activity is to blame. That's in part because of a decades-long campaign by fossil fuel companies to muddy the facts and promote fringe explanations.
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In this Oct. 28, 2021, photo, Facebook unveiled their new Meta logo on a sign at the company headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.
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The company traced the effort to a shadowy hacker organization.
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This April 10, 2019, photo shows a sign by furnyc.org in the window of Victoria Stass Collection in New York's fur district. The fur trade is considered so important to New York’s development that two beavers adorn the city’s official seal, a reference to early Dutch and English settlers who traded in beaver pelts.
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In this Jan. 11, 2018 file photo, traffic makes it's way across 42nd Street in New York City. Motorists would have to shell out $11.52 to drive into the busiest parts of Manhattan under a new proposal commissioned by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo to ease traffic congestion and raise vital funds for mass transit. Trucks would pay even more — $25.34 — while taxi cabs, Uber rides and for-hire vehicles would be charged between $2 and $5 per ride.
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Congestion Pricing Gains Momentum
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This Nov. 29, 2016 photo shows the Nine Mile Point nuclear power plant in Oswego, N.Y. New York state is betting big on the future of Nine Mile Point, one of the nation’s oldest nuclear plants. The state is putting up $7.6 billion in subsidies to ensure that the plant and a few other upstate nuclear plants stay open, part of New York’s strategy to lean on nuclear energy as it ramps up renewable sources such as wind, solar and hydroelectric.
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