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Targeting California: Supreme Court joins Trump, GOP in push to curb emissions regs

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has  joined President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans in siding with the oil and gas industry in its challenge to California’s drive for electric vehicles. In a 7-2 decision issued late last week, the justices revived the industry’s lawsuit and ruled that fuel makers had standing to sue over California’s

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US boosts emergency Mideast evacuations and travel warnings after Trump orders strikes in Iran

By MATTHEW LEE WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has doubled the number of emergency evacuation flights it is providing for American citizens wishing to leave Israel, ordered the departure of nonessential staff from the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon and is stepping up travel warnings around the Middle East amid concerns Iran will retaliate against