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Native seeds are crucial for land restoration efforts after disasters, which will grow more extreme as climate change worsens. "Time is of the essence" to bank sufficient seeds, a new report says.

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady Wednesday, but policymakers signaled they still expect to start cutting rates later this year. The stock market jumped in response.

The European Union has charged Elon Musk’s X with violating new regulations for social media platforms. Musk faces hefty fines over delivering misinformation.

It's the Chiefs' fourth trip to the big game in five seasons. The 49ers, who haven't won a Super Bowl since 1995, lost their last chance at the trophy in 2020 against the Chiefs.

Europe's largest bank allowed drug cartels to launder billions of dollars through its U.S. operations, and skirted bans against transactions with Iran. Those are among the findings of a Senate investigation of London-based HSBC. Executives from the bank are in Washington for a hearing on the probe.

An email thread released Wednesday is raising more questions about whether lanes were closed on the George Washington Bridge as political payback. The emails indicate that top officials in New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's administration are involved in the closures — motivated more by politics than a traffic study, as originally claimed.

Steven Levy, senior writer for Wired, has written an article called "How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet." He tells Audie Cornish about what he learned from security personnel at many of the top tech companies. They claim that they were surprised to learn of the National Security Agency's data gathering.

Target announced that the data breach late last year was even worse than originally reported. Personal information, including phone numbers and email addresses, from as many as 70 million customers may have been compromised. On top of that, Target says that the revelation of the data breach depressed fourth-quarter sales during the holiday season.

Forbes Magazine just released its rankings of the best universities in the U.S. They're based on graduation rates, student satisfaction, post-graduate debt and success.

Daily news coverage gives us a lopsided view of the world. What would the top stories be if we only got a news update once every 50 years?