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GM fighting to preserve tax credit for buying electric cars

General Motors is fighting to retain a valuable tax credit for electric vehicles as the nation’s largest automaker tries to deal with the political fallout triggered by its plans to shutter several U.S. factories and shed thousands of workers.

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China puts a stop to work by team on gene-edited babies

China’s government ordered a halt Thursday to work by a medical team that claimed to have helped make the world’s first gene-edited babies, as a group of leading scientists declared that it’s still too soon to try to make permanent changes to DNA that can be inherited by future generations.

2nd DNA-altering pregnancy might be in the works

A Chinese researcher who claims to have helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies says a second pregnancy may be underway.

 
NASA spacecraft’s landing on Mars ‘flawless’ as transmissions begin

A NASA spacecraft has landed on Mars to explore the planet’s interior. Flight controllers announced that the spacecraft InSight touched down Monday, after a perilous supersonic descent through the red Martian skies.

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