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As NPR's Bobby Allen reports, the tech industry lobbied for the move.

The House has voted to restore collective bargaining rights for about a million federal workers.

President Trump issued an executive order in March to end those rights.

Twenty Republicans sided with Democrats yesterday to repeal the order.

In South Carolina, at least 254 people are in quarantine after being exposed to a measles outbreak.

As NPR's Maria Godoy reports, some state health officials have reported 27 new cases in the past week.

A tsunami advisory for northeastern Japan has been lifted.

The advisory was prompted by a magnitude 6.7 earthquake in the region that caused small tsunami waves.

A stronger quake struck off the region's coast earlier in the week, causing dozens of injuries but no reported deaths or major damage.

China will soon begin collecting taxes on contraceptives.

Beginning January 1st, a 13% value-added tax will be imposed on contraceptive products.

The move is in keeping with Beijing's effort to encourage procreation following a decades-long policy that limited births to one per family until 2015.

Some ancient plant species attract pollinating insects by producing heat.

As NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boyce reports, this makes the plants glow with infrared light.

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futures are higher in after-hours trading.

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The Indiana Senate has rejected the state's new congressional map, which was designed to add Republican seats in the U.S.

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