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Should your car warn you that you’re speeding? California lawmakers vote yes
California could become the first state to require technology in cars that warns drivers when they're going 10 miles per hour over the speed limit. But critics say lawmakers are moving too fast.
Verizon buying Frontier in $20B deal to strengthen its fiber network
Verizon is buying Frontier Communications in a $20 billion deal that helps bolster its fiber network. Verizon Communications Inc. said Thursday that the transaction will also help it in the areas of artificial intelligence and IoT. 
Harris opposes U.S. Steel's sale to a Japanese firm during joint Pennsylvania event with Biden
Vice President Kamala Harris has used a joint campaign appearance with President Joe Biden in the swing state of Pennsylvania to say that U.S. Steel should remain domestically owned.
The cost of senior care: Why aging farmers fear the nursing home
Small family farmers are often “land rich, cash poor,” and nursing homes and other types of long-term care are expensive. Many worry about sacrificing their land to pay for care at the end of life.
State looks to limit ‘forever chemicals’ in wastewater from 3M’s Cottage Grove plant
It will be the first time Minnesota has required an industry to limit PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, in its wastewater. 3M’s Cottage Grove plant, the epicenter of the global PFAS problem, has been operating under a permit that expired more than 20 years ago.