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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street Thursday, giving up some of the big gains they made a day earlier. Technology companies were leading the declines. The S&P 500 lost 1.1% in the early going, while the techheavy Nasdaq gave back 1.7%. The S&P 500 had its biggest gain in two years a day earlier on relief that the Federal Reserve wasn’t considering even bigger interest rate hikes than it was already doing. Twitter rose after Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he had secured more backing for his bid to take over the company. Etsy fell sharply after giving a weak forecast.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The caretakers of the Tree of Life synagogue intend to transform the site of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history and expand its mission.

LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 15 million people were killed either by coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years, more than double the official death toll of 6 million. Most of the fatalities were in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Record-low mortgages below 3% are long gone. Credit card rates will likely rise.

The lack of communication between Texas’ child welfare agency and its juvenile justice system puts foster care children at risk, Texas foster care watchdogs said in a Wednesday court filing after learning that a caretaker accused of exploiting children at a Bastrop shelter had been previously fired from a state juvenile justice facility for misconduct.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A former Fort Worth police officer will face his murder trial next month in the city where he fatally shot a Black woman through a window of her home in 2019, a Texas judge ruled Wednesday.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, nearly all Texas public universities responded by making the submission of an SAT or ACT score optional for college admission. But although COVID infections are down and in-person standardized tests are widely available again, the majority of Texas public universities are keeping the SAT and ACT optional until the spring of 2023 or later.

Constructed four generations ago, the massive rock and clay dam at El Capitan Reservoir is capable of storing over 36 billion gallons of water, enough to supply every resident in San Diego for most of a year.