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A person prepares to pump gas at a BP gas station in Brooklyn, New York City, on Oct. 19, 2022. Americans could save between $580 billion and $1.1 trillion on gasoline under the EPA's proposed auto emission regulations, according to the agency.

The EPA says Americans could save $1 trillion on gas under its auto emissions plan

The EPA says Americans could save up to $1.1 trillion in gas if the country adopts its proposal to impose the most stringent auto emission regulations ever.

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Griselda, a domestic longhair already declawed when she was surrendered by her owner for adoption, plays inside her enclosure at the Animal Haven pet shelter in New York on Tuesday. The New York Legislature has passed a bill that would make the state the first in the country to outlaw declawing a cat.

New York Is One Step Closer To Becoming 1st State To Ban Cat Declawing

Both houses of the state egislature voted on Tuesday — Animal Advocacy Day in the state capital — to make it illegal to perform the controversial procedure.

Workers at an Amazon fulfillment center on Staten Island in New York City and across the U.S. have not been unionized. That could change in Alabama.

Amazon Warehouse Workers To Decide Whether To Form Company's 1st U.S. Union

Although the company has unionized workers in Europe, it has held off organizing efforts here. About 6,000 workers at an Amazon facility in Alabama can cast a mail-in ballot starting Feb. 8.

"This is a reminder to all of us that the pandemic continues and that this is a tricky virus," New Zealand's director-general of health, Ashley Bloomfield, said Sunday.

New Zealand Records 1st Suspected COVID-19 Community Case Since November

A 56-year-old woman who had traveled to Spain and the Netherlands for work late last year has tested positive for the coronavirus. It's New Zealand's first probable community transmission in months.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said a man in his 60s is the state's first death from the coronavirus. He also announced new emergency measures, including closing all enclosed malls and entertainment venues.

5-Year-Old In Maryland Has Coronavirus; Governor Announces 1st Death In State

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said the man who died from the coronavirus had underlying health issues. But he also said the state has seen an 88% increase in confirmed cases in the past 48 hours.

Rachel Levine Makes History As 1st Openly Trans Federal Official Confirmed By Senate

Levine, a doctor who was previously Pennsylvania's secretary of health, is the first openly transgender federal official to win Senate confirmation. She's the new assistant secretary for health.

A person with addiction holds a bottle of buprenorphine, a medicine that prevents withdrawal sickness in people trying to stop using opiates, as he prepares to take a dose in a clinic in Olympia, Wash (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Only 1 in 5 people with opioid addiction get the medications to treat it, study finds

Overdose deaths from fentanyl and other opioids have surged but medications that could save thousands of lives "are sitting on the shelf unused," according to new research.

Week In Politics: Takeaways From The 1st Debates Of The 2020 Presidential Race

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution, and Hugo Gurdon of the Washington Examiner about the Democratic debates and Supreme Court decisions.

1,300 Ohio State students may have been exposed to illness that can cause meningitis

Ohio State is offering any students who were potentially exposed a single dose of the antibiotic Ciprofloxacin at the Wilce Student Health Center.

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