The Marshfield Police Department put an officer on administrative leave this week after he was involved in a serious multi-car crash Sunday evening.
Several 911 callers reported the crash on Route 139 shortly after 9 p.m., stating that one car had flipped over and that multiple people were injured, Marshfield police said in a press release on Friday. Marshfield police and firefighters who responded to the scene found that a Jeep, a Hyundai Elantra and a Honda Civic had collided.
A preliminary investigation indicates that the Jeep was traveling west at a high rate of speed when it passed a tow truck by crossing over solid double yellow lines into the eastbound lane, police said. The Jeep then tried to pass the Hyundai Elantra, again by crossing solid double yellow lines.
The Civic was traveling east on the road as the Jeep tried to pass the Elantra, and the Jeep hit the Civic head-on, police said. The Elantra was also struck during the crash.
The driver of the Civic became trapped inside their car and had to be freed by firefighters, police said. The Jeep driver was able to get out of their car on their own.
Both drivers were taken by ambulance to nearby hospitals with serious, but not life-threatening injuries, police said. The Hyundai driver wasn’t injured in the crash.
How Marshfield police are handling the situation
The Jeep driver was identified as an off-duty Marshfield police officer, police said. The officer has been charged with reckless operation of a motor vehicle and two civil driving infractions in connection with the crash, and may face further charges as the investigation by Marshfield and State Police continues.
“No matter who you are or what position you hold, conduct that endangers the public will be addressed through the appropriate legal process,” Marshfield Police Chief Phillip Tavares said in the press release.
Following the crash, the officer was immediately placed on leave from Marshfield police, and the state police oversight commission was notified. Additionally, the police department plans to hire an independent, third-party organization to investigate the incident and present its findings “for appropriate criminal review.”
“This department is committed to full transparency and accountability,” Tavares said in the release. “A full and complete investigation is being conducted into this incident. The fact that the operator was a police officer will not alter the scope, direction or integrity of this investigation in any way.”
Marshfield police did not identify the officer involved in the crash on Friday, but WCVB identified the officer as Richard Perry.
The Trump administration signed a notable multi-billion-dollar trade deal with Taiwan that’s designed to help the United States boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing.
Under the deal announced by the U.S. Department of Commerce on Thursday, Taiwanese semiconductor and tech companies have agreed to make direct investments of $250 billion into the U.S. semiconductor industry. These investments will span across semiconductors, energy and AI “production and innovation,” according to a press release. Taiwan currently produces more than half of the world’s semiconductors.
Taiwan will also supply an additional $250 billion in credit guarantees for additional investments from these semiconductors and tech enterprises, according to the commerce department. The time period of these investments is unclear.
In return, the U.S. will invest in Taiwan’s semiconductor, defense, AI, telecommunications and biotech industries. The press release did not specify a specific dollar amount tied to the U.S.’s side of the deal.
The news comes the day after the Trump administration published a proclamation that reiterated the country’s goal to bring more semiconductor manufacturing back to the United States and acknowledged the process would take time as only 10% of semiconductors are produced stateside.
“This dependence on foreign supply chains is a significant economic and national security risk,” the proclamation stated. “Given the foundational role that semiconductors play in the modern economy and national defense, a disruption of import-reliant supply chains could strain the United States’ industrial and military capabilities.”
The proclamation, which announced 25% of tariffs on some advanced AI chips, also stated that once trade talks with other countries — like this deal with Taiwan — are complete, there would be additional semiconductor tariffs.
Now would be a good time to update all your Bluetooth audio devices. On Thursday, Wired reported on a security flaw in 17 headphone and speaker models that could allow hackers to access your devices, including their microphones. The vulnerability stems from a faulty implementation of Google’s one-tap (Fast Pair) protocol.
Security researchers at Belgium’s KU Leuven University Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography group, who discovered the security hole, named the flaw WhisperPair. They say a hacker within Bluetooth range would only require the accessory’s (easily attainable) device model number and a few seconds.
“You’re walking down the street with your headphones on, you’re listening to some music. In less than 15 seconds, we can hijack your device,” KU Leuven researcher Sayon Duttagupta told Wired. “Which means that I can turn on the microphone and listen to your ambient sound. I can inject audio. I can track your location.” The researchers notified Google about WhisperPair in August, and the company has been working with them since then.
Fast Pair is supposed to only allow new connections while the audio device is in pairing mode. (A proper implementation of this would have prevented this flaw.) But a Google spokesperson told Engadget that the vulnerability stemmed from an improper implementation of Fast Pair by some of its hardware partners. This could then allow a hacker’s device to pair with your headphones or speaker after it’s already paired with your device.
“We appreciate collaborating with security researchers through our Vulnerability Rewards Program, which helps keep our users safe,” a Google spokesperson wrote in a statement sent to Engadget. “We worked with these researchers to fix these vulnerabilities, and we have not seen evidence of any exploitation outside of this report’s lab setting. As a best security practice, we recommend users check their headphones for the latest firmware updates. We are constantly evaluating and enhancing Fast Pair and Find Hub security.”
The researchers created the video below to demonstrate how the flaw works
In an email to Engadget, Google said the steps required to access the device’s microphone or audio are complex and involve multiple stages. The attackers would also need to remain within Bluetooth range. The company added that it provided its OEM partners with recommended fixes in September. Google also updated its Validator certification tool and its certification requirements.
The researchers say that, in some cases, the risk applies even to those who don’t use Android phones. For example, if the audio accessory has never been paired with a Google account, a hacker could use WhisperPair to not only pair with the audio device but also link it to their own Google account. They could then use Google’s Find Hub tool to track the device’s (and therefore your) location.
Google said it rolled out a fix to its Find Hub network to address that particular scenario. However, the researchers told Wired that, within hours of the patch’s rollout, they found a workaround.
The 17 affected devices are made by 10 different companies, all of which received Google Fast Pair certification. They include Sony, Jabra, JBL, Marshall, Xiaomi, Nothing, OnePlus, Soundcore, Logitech and Google. (Google says its affected Pixel Buds are already patched and protected.) The researchers posted a search tool that lets you see if your audio accessories are vulnerable.
In a statement sent to Engadget, OnePlus said it’s investigating the issue and “will take appropriate action to protect our users’ security and privacy.” We also contacted the other accessory makers and will update this story if we hear back.
The researchers recommend updating your audio devices regularly. However, one of their concerns is that many people will never install the third-party manufacturer’s app (required for updates), leaving their devices vulnerable.
One big trend in Android in recent years has been positioning self-proclaimed “flagship killer” smartphones at a lower price point by dropping down to a last-gen or step-down chipset. With its new Dimensity 9500s and Dimensity 8500 chipsets, MediaTek is looking to power those devices.
Announced today, the new MediaTek Dimensity 9500s chipset is a 3nm chip that offers a minor step down from the full flagship Dimensity 9500 that launched last year. The chip breaks down into “one Cortex-X925 ultra core with a clock speed of up to 3.73GHz, three Cortex-X4 premium cores, and four Cortex-A720 performance cores.” By comparison, the standard Dimensity 9500 is another “All Big Core” setup, using Arm’s C1-Ultra, C1-Premium, and C1-Pro cores.
Dimensity 9500s further uses an Immortalis-G925 GPU and MediaTek touts that the chip is “optimized for generative reasoning and multi-modal models” – or, in other words, that it’s still plenty powerful for on-device AI tasks.
Meanwhile, MediaTek Dimensity 8500 takes things down one more step with a 4nm process and an “All Big Core” build consisting of eight Cortex-A725 cores. That’s paired with a Mali-G720 GPU.
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Both chips should be plenty powerful, just not quite to the same extent as MediaTek’s flagship. MediaTek hasn’t announced any imminent partners for either the Dimensity 9500s nor the Dimensity 8500, but it seems likely they’ll start showing up in Android phones in the months to come.
In its lawsuit complaint filed Thursday, Vineyard Wind 1 states that 61 of the 62 planned turbines are built and 44 turbines are already producing energy. To date, $4.5 billion has been invested, the complaint reads.
The project is incurring approximately $2 million per day during the work stop order, Vineyard Wind wrote, arguing that if the directive is allowed to remain in effect for 90 days, the project will lose access to a “specialized installation vessel” it currently has under a time-sensitive contract.
There are also 750 active jobs at risk.
On Dec. 22, 2025, the federal government halted five offshore wind leases for projects currently under construction on the East Coast, including two in New England waters — Vineyard Wind 1 and Revolution Wind.
Representing a major escalation in President Donald Trump’s efforts to stifle offshore wind development nationally, his administration cited a need to address national security concerns, including potential interference with military radar systems.
This week, a U.S. District Court judge overturned the order for Revolution Wind, located off Connecticut and Rhode Island. According to reporting by Politico, in the judge’s ruling from the bench, he said the government failed to explain why new information from the Department of Defense warranted a halt to construction.
Likely looking to capitalize on Revolution Wind’s victory, Vineyard Wind 1 filed suit in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts on Thursday, arguing the federal government exhibited “abuse of discretion.”
Vineyard Wind 1 is asking a federal judge to declare the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s order unlawful and allow the project to resume activities.
The project is located 15 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. Once fully operational, it is expected to generate energy for more than 400,000 homes and businesses across the state.
Trump’s history against offshore wind
When Trump returned to the Oval Office in January 2025, one of his first matters of business was to sign an executive order that halted all new offshore wind leases in federal waters.
The order directed the Secretary of the Interior to “conduct a comprehensive review of the ecological, economic and environmental necessity of terminating or amending any existing wind energy leases, identifying any legal bases for such removal.”
At the time, wind energy advocates speculated that Trump couldn’t touch already permitted projects, particularly those closest to the finish line.
In December, a federal judge issued a final judgment that formally invalidated implementation of the administration’s moratorium on offshore wind permitting.
In late August 2025, Trump pulled the plug on $34 million in funding for the Salem Wind Port project — and in turn eliminated 800 construction jobs.
Microsoft has signed a deal with Indian startup Varaha to buy more than 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide removal credits over the next three years, through 2029, expanding its portfolio of carbon removal projects as the tech giant scales up AI and cloud operations.
The project will turn cotton crop waste, which is often burned after harvest, into biochar — a charcoal-like material that can be added to soil, storing carbon for long periods while also helping reduce air pollution from open-field burning. It will initially focus on the western Indian state of Maharashtra and involve around 40,000–45,000 smallholder farmers.
The agreement comes as large corporations, including Microsoft, ramp up spending on carbon removal — projects designed to physically remove carbon dioxide from the air. The Redmond-based software maker is working toward its goal of becoming carbon-negative by 2030. However, Microsoft’s total greenhouse gas emissions rose 23.4% in fiscal year 2024 from a 2020 baseline, primarily driven by value-chain emissions linked to its growing cloud and AI business. Microsoft has not yet reported on its carbon progress for 2025.
With the rapid expansion of AI operations, energy use and emissions are rising, pushing companies to look beyond the U.S. for carbon removal projects that can take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. India has increasingly emerged as an attractive market for such projects because of its large volumes of agricultural waste and the scale of its farming economy.
Varaha will develop 18 industrial reactors that will operate for 15 years, with a total projected removal volume exceeding 2 million tons of carbon dioxide over the project’s lifetime, the companies said in a statement on Thursday.
One of the biggest gaps in carbon removal markets is not just installing equipment to produce biochar, but running projects reliably and navigating a stringent process to issue credits. Varaha’s ability to deliver credits at scale helped it emerge as the world’s second-largest player in durable carbon deliveries and drew Microsoft’s attention, co-founder and CEO Madhur Jain said in an interview.
A Farmer spreading Biochar in their farm to enhance soil qualityImage Credits:Varaha
Microsoft’s requirements for digital monitoring, reporting, and verification meant Varaha had to build bespoke systems in-house, Jain told TechCrunch, adding that working with tens of thousands of smallholder farmers in India makes tracking and logistics far more complex than biochar projects in the U.S. or Europe that rely on biomass concentrated at a single industrial site.
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“More than 30% of our team has worked in agriculture,” Jain said, adding that the experience has helped Varaha design systems that work on the ground with farmers.
The project’s first reactor will be located next to Varaha’s 52-acre cotton research farm in Maharashtra, where the startup works with farmers to test practices such as applying biochar to soil under real-world conditions. The startup plans to scale up to 18 reactors across India’s cotton-growing belt under Microsoft’s commitment.
Varaha has rapidly scaled its biochar operations over the past year, Jain said. In 2025, it processed about 240,000 tons of biomass, producing roughly 55,000–56,000 tons of biochar and generating around 115,000 credits, up from around 15,000–18,000 a year earlier, he added.
The startup expects volumes to rise further as new contracts kick in, with Jain saying it aims to at least double its 2025 throughput in 2026 to around half a million tons of biomass and close to 250,000 tons of carbon sequestered.
Currently, Varaha has 20 projects in total across India, Nepal, and Bangladesh — 14 in advanced stages and another six in early stages — spanning regenerative agriculture, biochar, agroforestry, and enhanced rock weathering and works with around 150,000 farmers. These projects have the potential to sequester about 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide over lifetimes ranging from 15 to 40 years, Jain said.
A Gassifer to convert biomass into biocharImage Credits:Varaha
Beyond carbon credits, the latest project aims to reduce open burning of cotton stalks, which contributes to seasonal air pollution in parts of India, while returning biochar to farms to improve soil health and reduce dependence on chemical fertilizers.
“This offtake agreement broadens the diversity of Microsoft’s carbon removal portfolio with Varaha’s biochar project design that is both scalable and durable,” said Phil Goodman, Microsoft’s CDR program director, in a prepared statement.
While the Varaha deal highlights Microsoft’s push to diversify its carbon removal portfolio, the volumes remain small compared with its overall footprint, as the software giant reported (PDF) total greenhouse gas emissions of 15.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in FY2024.
Like Microsoft, Google has also been signing carbon removal deals as the rapid AI advancements push up energy use and emissions. Google agreed to buy 100,000 tons of carbon removal credits from Varaha in January 2025, as its largest biochar deal.
Since its inception in 2022, Varaha has raised around $50 million across different instruments. The startup counts RTP Global, Omnivore, Orios Venture Partners, IMC Pan Asia Alliance Group’s Octave Wellbeing Economy Fund, and Japan’s Norinchukin Bank among its backers. In November, Mirova — a French climate-focused investment firm backed by Kering and other corporate investors — invested $30.5 million in Varaha to expand its regenerative farming program.
Verizon’s network is experiencing technical issues that are impacting calls and wireless data. Verizon customers on X have reported seeing “SOS” rather than the traditional network bars on their smartphones, and even the network provider’s own status page struggled to load, likely due to the number of customers trying to access it.
Based on the experience of Verizon users on Engadget’s staff, the services that are impacted appear to be calls and wireless data. Text messages continue to be delivered normally, at least for some users. On DownDetector, reports of a Verizon outage started growing around 12PM ET and numbered in the hundreds of thousands at their peak.
DownDetector also shows spikes in outage reports on competing networks like AT&T and T-Mobile, but in terms of magnitude, they’re much smaller than the issue Verizon is facing. For example, Verizon peaked at 181,769 reports, while AT&T’s was just 1,769 reports. The difference between the two is great enough that those AT&T reports could be from people trying to contact Verizon customers and thinking that their personal network was the problem.
In a post on the cell provider’s news account on X, Verizon acknowledged the issues with its network. “We are aware of an issue impacting wireless voice and data services for some customers,” Verizon wrote. “Our engineers are engaged and are working to identify and solve the issue quickly. We understand how important reliable connectivity is and apologize for the inconvenience.”
Based on DownDetector’s map of outage reports, issues with Verizon’s network appear to be concentrated in major cities in the eastern United States. The majority of reports appear to be coming out of Boston, New York and Washington DC, though the map also shows growing hot spots in Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
At 2:14PM ET, Verizon shared on X that its engineering teams “remain fully deployed” to work on fixing the outage. The company didn’t share when the issue would resolved or how many of its customers are currently impacted. Reports on DownDetector have dropped since their peak at 12:43PM ET, but thousands of Verizon customers are still noticing issues with the service.
As of 3:09PM ET, Verizon has yet to share more information about the recovery of the company’s cell network. Some Verizon customers on X have noticed their cell service returning, but it’s not clear if this means the network’s technical issues have been fixed.
At 4:06PM ET, nearly two hours since the company’s last statement, at least one member of Engadget’s staff reports their service has been restored. The connectivity issues are still affecting Verizon customers, however. DownDetector received over 55,000 outage reports as recently as 3:47PM ET.
Verizon posted at 4:12PM ET that work continues on addressing the outage, but the issue hasn’t been completely fixed. According to the company, its team is “on the ground actively working to fix today’s service issue that is impacting some customers.”
As of 4:52PM ET, the Verizon’s network has been experiencing issues for around four hours, making today’s outage nearly as long as the last major outage the company had in 2024. Like that 2024 outage, Verizon has yet to share what exactly is causing the issues with its network. Without out an official update, it’s safe to assume the company is still working on a fix.
At 5:41PM ET, DownDetector latest tally still shows over 46,000 people reporting issues with Verizon’s network. Based on the platform’s map, the same cities are filing the bulk of the outage reports, though reporting appears more diffuse than before as news of the outage has spread across the country.
At 6:20PM ET, the situation was much the same. Tens of thousands of users (including Engadget editors) still don’t have proper service, and Verizon had not updated its customers since 4:12PM ET. There are intermittent reports of service coming back and then failing again but seemingly no true fix has been deployed.
At 10:20PM ET, Verizon has announced that the outage has been resolved and has encouraged subscribers still having issues to restart their devices to reconnect to the network. The company also said that it will provide account credits to affected customers.
Both T-Mobile and AT&T have confirmed that their own networks are unaffected by the issues facing their competitor. In a post on X, T-Mobile shared that its network is “operating normally and as expected.” Meanwhile, AT&T says that for any of its customers experiencing issues, “it’s not us…it’s the other guys.”
Update, January 14, 7:25PM ET: This article was published as a developing story and was updated multiple times over a period of around seven hours. These updates were additive, and noted with a timestamp within the article. As of writing, Verizon is still down for tens of thousands of users and the company’s support team has not issued an update on the stituation in over three hours. Happy Wednesday!
Update January 14, 10:39PM ET: This story has been updated to add Verizon’s latest update that the outage has been resolved.
Android 16 QPR3 Beta 2 is now available for Pixel devices following last month’s release just before the holidays.
Quarterly Platform Releases bring more significant changes compared to monthly bug patches. Historically, QPRs are pretty stable, and Google officially says they are “suitable for general use.” Android 16 QPR3 should see a stable launch in March 2026.
Beta 2 addresses a wide range of stability, performance, and usability issues. Key fixes include resolving critical system crashes/device freezes, and correcting battery management issues where devices ignored charging limits or drained excessively. Significant improvements were made to connectivity, specifically addressing slow Wi-Fi speeds and missed calls. The update also resolves UI glitches in the notification shade and app drawer, ensuring smoother navigation and interaction.
Specifically:
An issue where the app drawer could become unresponsive when scrolling, which required updates to how UI elements were rendered.
Android Auto incorrectly logs extensive screen time, impacting battery life.
Graphical glitches and performance degradation when interacting with the notification shade in full-screen or PiP modes by improving display rendering.
An excessive battery drain issue occurring overnight by optimizing background process power consumption.
An issue where the battery charging limit was not being respected causing devices to charge to 100% instead of the set limit.
An issue where users experienced slow internet speeds on Wi-Fi due to a Wi-Fi connection bug.
A crash when accessing radio information settings.
Users experienced a noticeable delay and lack of feedback when switching audio outputs to speakerphone during calls; this was resolved by improving audio routing logic.
A display issue causing screen flickering when waking the device from Always-On Display by updating system webview.
An issue where certain apps, including Microsoft applications managed by Intune, were crashing on startup due to a compatibility problem with the Android system that has now been resolved.
An issue causing inconsistent or failed wireless charging and slow wired charging by improving the power management system.
System crashes that occurred when folding a foldable device with an app open by fixing an issue with activity lifecycle management during device state changes.
The Android Beta Feedback app is available on Pixel to submit problems. You can access it from the app drawer or via Quick Settings to file bugs in Google’s issue tracker, while the Android Beta community is on Reddit.
Android 16 QPR3 Beta 2 with the January 2026 security patch is available for the Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel Tablet, Pixel Fold, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8a, Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, and Pixel 9a, Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, and Pixel 10 Pro Fold, as well as the Android Emulator.
However, there are no OTA images for the Pixel 10 series. You have to use the on-device OTA.
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In 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin, a student from a Black high school in Montgomery, Ala., refused to move from her bus seat. The forgotten civil rights activist died this week.
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More than 70 years ago, a Black teenager pushed against racial boundary lines in Montgomery, Alabama. She had learned about Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth at her segregated high school, and the lessons stuck with her. On March 2, 1955, Claudette Colvin refused to give her seat to a white passenger on a public bus. This was months before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, but Colvin’s name is largely left out of the history books. Claudette Colvin died this week at the age of 86, and today, we’re resharing part of a Radio Diaries-produced story about that moment in 1955.
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CLAUDETTE COLVIN: My name is Claudette Colvin, and I was 15 years old when I was arrested for violating the Montgomery segregation law. Well, I was the kind of teenager that wore my hair in braids. Everybody else was battling with the straightening comb and pomade, and I didn’t mind being different.
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COLVIN: Montgomery, it’s a nice little Southern town, but everything was segregated. This is for colored folks and this is for white folks. Couldn’t try on clothes in the store. Couldn’t go to the movie theater when a good movie come in town. You know, things that teenagers like to do. So I knew that this was a double standard. This was unfair.
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PHILLIP HOOSE: My name is Phillip Hoose, and I wrote a book titled “Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice.” March 2, 1955 was a Wednesday. Claudette got onto the bus with three other students, and they all settled themselves into a row in the middle of the bus. The rule back in Montgomery at that time was 10 seats in the front of the bus were for whites only, and the whites always had to be in front.
COLVIN: I knew that rule by heart. I was sitting near the window – the last seat that was allowed for the colored people. And so as the bus proceeded on downtown, more white people got on the bus. Eventually, the bus got full capacity, and a young white lady was standing near the four of us. She was expecting me to get up.
HOOSE: The bus driver looked in the mirror and saw the situation and said, I need those seats. And three of the girls got up and walked to the back of the bus. And Claudette didn’t.
COLVIN: I just couldn’t move. History had me glued to this seat.
HOOSE: And people started yelling in the bus, come on. Let’s go. Let’s move.
COLVIN: Hear those white people complaining to each other, talking, talking, talking, talking, talking. I could see them all moving and talking to each other. I didn’t know what was going to happen.
HOOSE: The bus driver called for a police officer, and a police officer boarded the bus and confronted Claudette.
COLVIN: Gal, why are you sitting there? You didn’t know the law? And I said, I paid my fare and it’s my constitutional right. But I remember they dragged me off the bus because I refused to walk.
CHANG: Colvin wanted to fight. Her family contacted a lawyer to file a federal lawsuit to desegregate the buses. But because of her age and lack of training in the movement, the larger Civil Rights community felt that the timing just wasn’t right.
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COLVIN: They thought I would have been too militant for them. They wanted someone mild and genteel like Rosa. They didn’t want to use a teenager.
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COLVIN: To me, it doesn’t bother me not being named, as long as we have someone out there so we can tell our story.
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CHANG: In 1956, about a year after Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat, her lawyer filed the landmark federal lawsuit Browder vs. Gayle. The case ended segregation in public transportation in Alabama, and the star witness was Claudette Colvin. Colvin’s death was announced Tuesday by the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation.
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