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Science & Technology
> Leinweber Foundation makes largest philanthropic gift ever in the field of theoretical physics, granting a total of $90M to Princeton, MIT, and the universities of Michigan, Chicago, and California, Berkeley (More)
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Business & Markets
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Politics & World Affairs
> Health and Human Services cancels $766M award to pharmaceutical company Moderna to develop bird flu vaccine (More) | No H5N1 bird flu cases have been found in humans in three months (More)
> Supreme Court rules to greenlight 88-mile expansion of oil and gas railroad project in Utah, curbing judicial authority to block projects on environmental grounds (More)
> State Department notifies Congress of plan to reduce staff by 18%, above the 15% flagged weeks earlier; will also eliminate a division focused on resettling Afghan refugees (More) | Elon Musk ends tenure as chief operating officer at the Department of Government Efficiency, returns full time to businesses (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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