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The United States is taking on Google in court today. It's the biggest tech monopoly trial of the 21st century so far. The Justice Department says Google abused its power to dominate the search engine market. If the judge rules in the DOJ's favor, it could change how we experience the internet.
The death toll from Friday's 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Morocco has risen to nearly 3,000. Some residents of the Atlas Mountains have spent four nights in a row sleeping outdoors due to fear of aftershocks.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Russia by train this morning. He's expected to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. It's his first known trip outside of North Korea in four years. Here's what we know about Kim's slow-moving, bulletproof train.
NPR's Camila Domonoske recently took a four-day electric vehicle road trip with Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm. Domonoske, who covers cars and energy, was eager to see how the Biden administration intends to promote the "potentially transformative" switch to EVs and what kind of issues it would encounter along the way.
Listen to Domonoske's conversations with Granholm and read her reporting from the road.
After flames destroyed an estimated 1.3 million Joshua trees in Mojave National Preserve in 2020, biologists began replanting seedlings. But many have died, and now another fire has torched more of the iconic succulents. See photos of the charred landscape and the people working to save Joshua trees
This newsletter was edited by Majd Al-Waheidi. Rachel Treisman contributed.
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