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Bumps, bipartisanship in long fight for semiconductor bill

Five weeks ago, senior Biden administration aides gathered for their regular Thursday morning meeting about passing a bill to revive the U.S. computer chip sector, worried that it could be in peril. After 18 months, the bipartisan effort to provide $52 billion for semiconductors was getting close to the finish line. But they were concerned […]

AUG. 1, 2022

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Intel to build $20B Ohio chip facility amid global shortage

Chipmaker Intel said Friday it will invest $20 billion to build a new factory in Ohio, an attempt to help alleviate a global shortage of chips powering everything from phones to cars to home appliances while also signaling the giant company’s commitment to manufacturing crucial technology products in the U.S. The move could also create […]

JAN. 21, 2022

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FILE - Workers carry boxes at a Strategic National Stockpile warehouse in Oklahoma City, Okla., April 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
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Remember the shortage of medical gowns during COVID? Feds spending $350 million for stockpile

Six U.S. companies will spend at least $350 million to manufacture medical gowns to store in the Strategic National Stockpile, years after doctors and nurses working in hospitals found themselves without the equipment while COVID-19 raged. The purchase of the gowns is one of the final steps toward shoring up the personal protective equipment in […]

APRIL 7, 2020

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Local health authorities say the number of cases of a newly diagnosed respiratory illness linked to a food market in central China has risen to 44

The number of cases of a new type of viral pneumonia linked to a food market in central China has risen to 44, local health authorities said Friday, in an outbreak awakening fearful memories of the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic. Of those cases diagnosed since December, 11 were listed as critical, the Wuhan city health commission […]

JAN. 3, 2020

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Search for remains of disappeared dissidents begins in Brazilian cemetery

SAO PAULO (AP) — The Brazilian government has started searching a cemetery for the remains of political dissidents who disappeared during Brazil’s former military dictatorship. The Human Rights Office of the Brazilian presidency said in an e-mailed statement that about 10 dissidents who disappeared during the military’s rule 1964 to 1985 could be buried in […]

NOV. 11, 2010

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Search for remains of disappeared dissidents begins in Brazilian cemetery

SAO PAULO (AP) — The Brazilian government has started searching a cemetery for the remains of political dissidents who disappeared during Brazil’s former military dictatorship. The Human Rights Office of the Brazilian presidency said in an e-mailed statement that about 10 dissidents who disappeared during the military’s rule 1964 to 1985 could be buried in […]

NOV. 11, 2010

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