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Software controls the truck's speed and steering, while there's a human behind the steering wheel, although in some cases they're not doing much at all.

NPR's Camilla Dominovsky went for a ride-along with one of those vehicles from a company called Aurora.

NASA is sharing up-close images of the interstellar comet that recently visited the solar system.

The comet, dubbed 31 Atlas, is only the third confirmed object to visit from another star.

It zipped past Mars last month, getting some 18 million miles away from the red planet before returning to interstellar space.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has removed diversity from performance evaluations and is promoting State Department workers who were passed over.

NPR's Michelle Kellerman has the story.

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Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is in Ukraine, along with Army Chief of Staff General Randy George.

They're expected to meet with Ukraine's president, as NPR's Tom Bowman reports.

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Border Patrol agents have arrested more than 250 people in Charlotte, North Carolina, as part of a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration.

As Nick Delacanal from member station WFAE reports, many immigrant families are on lockdown.

Inside one East Charlotte apartment.

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President Trump says he supports the idea of having immigrants train American workers in high-tech fields.

Trump says that such an arrangement would be in line with his pledge to make America great again.

Speaking at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum, the president cited the recent example of South Korean workers brought to Georgia to work at a Hyundai plant.