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Biden Restores California’s Power to Set Stringent Tailpipe Rules

“Automakers are dedicated to working cooperatively and constructively with California and different states to make sure automobiles are environment friendly, clear, and inexpensive for all,” stated an announcement from John Bozzella, president of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which lobbies on behalf of greater than a dozen automakers, together with Ford, Normal Motors, Stellantis, Toyota and Volvo. “Collaboration between governments in any respect ranges might be important to reaching our shared targets for a cleaner transportation future that advantages all communities and enhances U.S. financial competitiveness.”
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The recognition of battery-powered vehicles is hovering worldwide, whilst the general auto market stagnates.
In the course of the Trump administration, 5 auto firms — Ford, Honda, BMW, Volkswagen and Volvo — signed a take care of California during which they voluntarily dedicated to proceed to observe a tighter emissions normal within the state, despite the fact that Mr. Trump had eradicated California’s authority to implement it.
Mr. Trump’s 2019 choice to revoke California’s skill to set its personal limits on tailpipe emissions stood as considered one of his largest strikes to raze local weather change insurance policies. The regulation of automobiles is central to combating local weather change: Transportation is the biggest single supply of greenhouse gases generated by the USA, representing 29 % of the nation’s complete emissions.
A latest report by the Worldwide Vitality Company discovered that nations must finish the sale of latest gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035 to maintain common international temperatures from rising 1.5 Celsius, in contrast with ranges throughout the Industrial Revolution. That’s the edge past which scientists say Earth faces irreversible harm. The planet has already warmed a mean of about 1.1 levels Celsius because the late 1800s.
Below the 1970 Clear Air Act, Congress gave California authority to set tailpipe requirements harder than the federal limits in an effort to deal with its drawback with smog.
In 2009, President Barack Obama set federal auto emissions requirements primarily based on the California rule, requiring passenger automobiles to achieve a mean mileage of 51 miles per gallon by 2025, up from roughly 38 miles per gallon on the time.
These guidelines put the auto business on a path to aggressively ramping up electrical car manufacturing by 2025, till Mr. Trump revoked them in 2020. He wrote on Twitter, “The Trump administration is revoking California’s Federal Waiver on emissions in an effort to produce far inexpensive vehicles for the patron, whereas on the similar time making the vehicles considerably SAFER.” He stated the change would result in elevated auto manufacturing and new “JOBS, JOBS, JOBS,” and claimed that the newer vehicles could be “extraordinarily environmentally pleasant.”

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Iran claims its president was injured in Israeli airstrike last month

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian suffered a minor leg injury while escaping an Israeli airstrike last month, according to Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency.
The alleged attack happened on June 16 at a secure government facility in Western Tehran, where Pezeshkian was holding a meeting with other senior officials, according to the outlet, which is managed by Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Six bombs or missiles reportedly targeted entry and exit points to block attempts to evacuate the building and disrupt air flow inside. Power was also cut to the targeted floor, after the blasts, the report said.
The officials escaped through an emergency hatch, according to the report. Pezeshkian and several others reportedly suffered minor leg injuries during the escape.
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Pezeshkian reportedly suffered a minor leg injury while fleeing through an emergency hatch during an alleged Israeli airstrike last month. (Iran’s Presidential website/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS, File)
The report claimed the attack was similar to an Israeli plan that led to the assassination of Hezbollah leader Seyed Hassan Nasrallah in September.
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The alleged strike was said to have happened on the fourth day of the 12-day war between Israel and Iran.
Israel has said its military targeted some of Iran’s top military leaders and nuclear scientists in a series of air strikes aimed at preventing the regime from realizing its goal of producing nuclear weapons.
On June 22, the U.S. launched its own stealth strike on three of Iran’s key nuclear enrichment sites. The 12-day conflict between Israel and Iran ended with a U.S.-brokered cease-fire.
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Zelenskyy slams Russia for intensifying their 'terror, intimidation' campaign on Ukraine
Russia fired a record 741 drones and missiles in its largest aerial attack against Ukraine on Wednesday in a significant escalation. Zelenskyy condemned the attacks, adding that it speaks volumes to the Kremlin’s sincerity in its claims of wanting to end the war.
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Trump says he's considering 'taking away' Rosie O'Donnell's US citizenship
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he is considering “taking away” the U.S. citizenship of a longtime rival, actress and comedian Rosie O’Donnell, despite a decades-old Supreme Court ruling that expressly prohibits such an action by the government.
“Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Trump wrote in a social media post on Saturday. He added that O’Donnell, who moved to Ireland in January, should stay in Ireland “if they want her.”
President Donald Trump signs an executive order on birthright citizenship in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Rosie O’Donnell speaks at a rally calling for resistance to President Donald Trump, in Lafayette Park in front of the White House in Washington, Feb. 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
The two have criticized each other publicly for years, an often bitter back-and-forth that predates Trump’s involvement in politics. In recent days, O’Donnell on social media denounced Trump and recent moves by his administration, including the signing of a massive GOP-backed tax breaks and spending cuts plan.
It’s just the latest threat by Trump to revoke the citizenship of people with whom he has publicly disagreed, most recently his former adviser and one-time ally, Elon Musk.
But O’Donnell’s situation is notably different from Musk, who was born in South Africa. O’Donnell was born in the United States and has a constitutional right to U.S. citizenship. The U.S. State Department notes on its website that U.S. citizens by birth or naturalization may relinquish U.S. nationality by taking certain steps – but only if the act is performed voluntary and with the intention of relinquishing U.S. citizenship.
President Donald Trump, right, speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, May 30, 2025,. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, noted the Supreme Court ruled in a 1967 case that the Fourteen Amendment of the Constitution prevents the government from taking away citizenship.
“The president has no authority to take away the citizenship of a native-born U.S. citizen,” Frost said in an email Saturday. “In short, we are nation founded on the principle that the people choose the government; the government cannot choose the people.”
O’Donnell moved to Ireland after Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris to win his second term. She has said she’s in the process of obtaining Irish citizenship based on family lineage.
Responding to Trump Saturday, O’Donnell wrote on social media that she had upset the president and “add me to the list of people who oppose him at every turn.”
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