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An entranceway to Walt Disney World pictured on Feb. 8 in Orlando, Fla. Disney quietly blocked a move by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to strip the company of its control over a special taxing district. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption

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The scene Thursday morning after a BNSF train carrying ethanol and corn syrup derailed and caught fire in the west-central Minnesota town of Raymond. Residents living near the derailment were evacuated in the middle of the night. David Joles/Star Tribune via Getty Images hide caption

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Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is escorted by Russian officers from the Lefortovsky court to a bus, in Moscow, Thursday. Russia's Federal Security Service said its agents detained Gershkovich in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, accusing him of trying to obtain classified information. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP hide caption

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Electric cars charge at a hub in downtown Milan on March 23. Starting in 2035, all cars sold in the European Union will be zero-emission vehicles. Gabriel Bouys/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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HOUSTON, TX - DECEMBER 14: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) A medical staff member Stephanie takes a short nap in nursing station in the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at the United Memorial Medical Center on December 14, 2020 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Go Nakamura/Getty Images) Go Nakamura/Getty Images hide caption

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What's the cure for America's doctor shortage?

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A Great Recession bank takeover

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Yang Bing-Yi started the Din Tai Fung restaurant with his wife in Taipei in 1972. From there, the restaurant grew into a chain of more than 170 locations around the world, known for steamed soup dumplings. Courtesy of Yang family hide caption

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Yang Bing-Yi, patriarch of Taiwan's soup dumpling empire, has died

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The OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying output from ChatGPT on March 21, in Boston. A group of prominent computer scientists and other tech industry notables are calling for a 6-month pause to consider the risks of powerful artificial intelligence technology. Michael Dwyer/AP hide caption

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A map highlights areas where thousands of blocks of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico were offered up in an oil and gas auction Wednesday. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management hide caption

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (left) will question Howard Schultz, who recently stepped down as Starbucks CEO, on the company's resistance to its workers unionizing. David Dee Delgado/Getty Images; Joshua Lott/Getty Images hide caption

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In clash with Bernie Sanders, Starbucks' Howard Schultz insists he's no union buster

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Attorneys for Fox argued on Tuesday that chairman Rupert Murdoch should not have to travel to Delaware to testify in a $1.6 billion defamation case against the network. The judge noted that Murdoch was planning to travel between four cities with his wife-to-be. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption

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Feb. 18, 2022, smoke billows from the burning Felicity Ace car transport ship as seen from the Portuguese Navy NPR Setubal ship southeast of the mid-Atlantic Portuguese Azores Islands. (Portuguese Navy via AP, file) Portuguese Navy via AP/AP hide caption

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Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michael S. Barr appears before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee in Washington, D.C., on March 28, 2023. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has sparked scrutiny from lawmakers who want to know what went wrong and whether regulators did enough to oversee the lender. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption

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5 things we learned from the Senate hearing on the Silicon Valley Bank collapse

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Panera has piloted handprint scanners in two locations so far. The company plans to roll out the technology in additional locations across the country in the coming months. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption

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