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/ 2 days agoNo, America’s battery plant boom isn’t going bust – construction is on track for the biggest factories, with over 23,000 jobs planned
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/ 2 days agoFor one survivor, the 1920 Election Day massacre in Florida was ‘the night the devil got loose’
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/ 3 days agoWith Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Republicans’ ‘strict father’ has become the creepy uncle
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/ 3 days agoThe next president will play a key role in shaping US trade policy – here’s what voters need to know
The past two administrations had vastly different records, and past is likely to be a prologue this year.