The hidden expense that's sucking $74 billion out of the economy

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Illustration of a house shaped cage releasing dollar bills.
Rising home and car insurance costs could cause many Americans' budgets to crack — and hamstring the driving force behind the US economy.

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Despite Biden climate change pledges and conservative complaints about a war on energy, the US is on pace for record oil and gas production in 2023

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President Joe Biden.

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Stunning video shows Antarctic killer whales appearing to use icebergs as scratching posts, possibly to exfoliate their skin

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Orcas in Antarctica, photographed in 1981.

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Some electric vehicles can charge while they drive thanks to special coils installed under a street in Detroit

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A blue electric van drives past a rectangular metal wireless charging coil exposed in the street
The wireless charging technology belongs to a company called Electreon.

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Fire damaged Nikola Tesla's last remaining laboratory that crowdfounders raised over $1 million to save

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A fire-damaged building, the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, with a brick and metal tower still standing
Fire damaged the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, a former laboratory of inventor Nikola Tesla.

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The black hole at the center of the Milky Way is spinning so fast, it's squishing space-time down like a football

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A cross-section showing Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

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The Bureau of Land Management will no longer allow the use of 'cyanide bombs' to kill coyotes

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A coyote pup standing on a rock (the coyote pup mentioned in this story is not pictured).

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Why a Wisconsin county is dumping cheese brine on its roads this winter

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A runner makes her way down a snowy street doing errends in Madison, Wisconsin. Madison and the surrounding area has been hit with about 15-18 inches of snow with more snow to come.
Wisconsin frequently has to deal with severe winter storms, which necessitates them clearing the ground for traffic and people.

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A mine in Wyoming could contain $37 billion worth of rare earth minerals necessary for wind turbines, electrical vehicles, and other tech

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Rare Earths, clockwise from top center: praseodymium, cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, samarium and gadolinium.

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Archaeologists used Google Earth to help find 3,000 square miles of prehistoric settlements from a new-found civilization in Central Europe

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Farmland seen from above with faint whitish circles representing the Tisza Site Group settlements
Google Earth images helped researchers spot the Tisza Site Group settlements.

Barry Molloy

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