Sweden and Finland have moved to relax strict laws that govern the sale of alcohol, while preserving wider state monopolies
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Joe Biden Environmental Protection Agency issues $900 million to US schools for clean-energy buses
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Celebrities like Elon Musk and Taylor Swift might soon be able to hide their private jet flights from online sleuths
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Spotify hikes fees, passing on its tax burden, after the French government introduced a levy to support the nation's music industry
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Electric bikes are about to get more expensive in the US
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Minnesota repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition
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Carbon pricing works, meta-review finds
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Joe Biden administration commits $3.4 billion in funding to San Francisco Caltrain extension
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How did Helsinki make transit work in the suburbs?
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EU's Green Deal improved its climate performance: a 1.5°C pathway is close
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Houston has seen a gentle density revolution since the 1990s. Allowing neighborhoods to opt out of citywide reforms was crucial.
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Seattle’s law mandating higher pay for food delivery workers is a case study in backfire economics
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New rules to overhaul US electric grids could boost wind and solar power
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US official says Chinese seizure of TSMC in Taiwan would be 'absolutely devastating'
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OpenAI considers allowing users to create AI-generated pornography
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Google begins enforcement of site reputation abuse policy with portions of sites being delisted
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New Environmental Protection Agency regulation requires coal plants in the US to reduce 90 percent of their greenhouse pollution by 2039
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The reckless policies that helped fill our US streets with ridiculously large cars
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Iraq criminalises same-sex relationships in new law
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Net neutrality is back as Federal Communications Commission votes to regulate US internet providers
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Book ban fight in Nevada would create LGBTQ section of libraries
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US Federal Communications Commission to vote to restore net neutrality rules years after the agency voted to repeal them
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Somalia bans fishing trawlers from its waters
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HHS strengthens privacy of US reproductive health care data
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How Sweden is failing its spacetechs – it's not about the budget, says one founder who moved his company to Finland
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Dominica High Court overturns ban on same-sex relations
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Venezuela to accelerate cryptocurrency shift as oil sanctions return
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European Commission approves creation of an environmental zone in the city centre of Stockholm, where petrol and diesel cars will be banned entirely from 2025
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Inflation in times of overlapping emergencies: Systemically significant prices from an input–output perspective
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Two years to save the planet, says UN climate chief
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California sets nation-leading limit for carcinogenic chromium-6 in drinking water
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All roads lead to Romania, as PM vows motorway to Moldova will open this year
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Swedish parliament passed a law Wednesday lowering the age required for people to legally change their gender from 18 to 16
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In the years after World War II, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb
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Networked geothermal is catching on in Minnesota
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German parliament votes to make it easier for transgender people to change their name and gender
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Texas is replacing thousands of human exam graders with AI
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Chechnya 'bans music that is too fast or too slow'
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Joe Biden administration sets first-ever limits on ‘forever chemicals’ in US drinking water
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Switzerland’s climate failures breached human rights, top court rules
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Arizona governor signs bill approving human composting burials
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German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
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Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany
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Long untouchable, fire departments are causing death and homelessness in American cities by advocating for bad policies
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Phoenix passes historic ordinance giving outdoor workers protection from extreme heat
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California is preparing to defend itself — and the nation — against Donald Trump 2.0
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Florida latest to restrict social media for kids as legal battle looms
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Joe Biden administration announces $1.5 billion loan for first reopening of a shuttered US nuclear plant
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America's first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing
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Norway unveiled plans to remove a loophole used by the Nordic nation's richest – government attempts to drag more tax revenue out of the fleeing billionaires
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