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    Rivian stock soars as Volkswagen says it will invest up to $5 billion in new joint venture

    Rivian shares are surging in extended hours after the EV maker announced a joint venture deal with Volkswagen, crucially bringing fresh capital into Rivian’s coffers.

  • Associated Press

    Water-rich Gila River tribe near Phoenix flexes its political muscles in a drying West

    Stephen Roe Lewis grew up seeing stacks of legal briefs at the dinner table — often, about his tribe's water. Years later, Stephen would become governor of the tribe, whose reservation is about a half-hour south of downtown Phoenix. Amid his tenure, he's been pivotal in navigating a water crisis across the seven-state Colorado River basin caused by existential drought made worse by climate change and decades of Western states overdrawing from the river.

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    Opposition activists arrested in a crackdown in Mali were moved to prisons, families say

    Opposition politicians who were arrested in a crackdown in Mali were sent to prisons across the country this week, their families said, in a move rights groups decried as another step back for the country where the ruling junta has suspended all political activities. Mali, a landlocked nation in the semiarid region of Sahel, has been embroiled in political instability that swept across West and Central Africa over the last decade. The nation has seen two military coups since 2020 as an insurgency by jihadi groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group worsened.