The Trump administration is proposing to freeze fuel-efficiency standards for cars and light trucks in 2020, a move that will ease rules for auto makers and also likely intensify a legal fight with California. It further argues these reduced costs would allow more consumers to purchase newer, safer cars, which it says would save up to 1,000 lives annually.

The agency has DNA samples from 92 percent of the families of the almost 7,700 Americans still missing from the Korean War. The Commander-in-Chief praised Kim's decision to return the remains just hours after Vice President Pence received the war heroes at a ceremony in Hawaii; saying he appreciates the regime's "kind action".

California is prone to wildfires. California firefighters made a surprising discovery as they were helping residents deal with the aftermath of the deadly Carr wildfire that has destroyed more than 1,000 homes. "It's a very emotional period". More than 12,000 firefighters and even 3,000 prisons inmates are locked in a pitched battle against the blazes. After days of concern over a number of missing individuals, authorities said Wednesday that all those who had been reported missing ...

According to the National Archives, there are roughly 560,000 pages of paper records related to Kavanaugh's time as staff secretary and another 475,000 emails either sent or received where Kavanaugh was copied. Schumer added: "This unprecedented process appears to be designed intentionally by Republicans to deny the Senate and the American people the information they need to evaluate this critically important nomination".

Trump launched his new attack hours before his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort , was due to go on trial on tax and bank fraud charges in Virginia. And I didn't get the impression that Rudy Giuliani was, like, intentionally moving the goalpost. "He's referring to a dispute which I imagine Mueller - I imagine he disclosed it to [Deputy Attorney General Rod] Rosenstein when he appointed him, because it would involve something that actually wasn't settled even to this day", Giuliani said.

Just one day into the trial of his former campaign chief Paul Manafort , President Donald Trump took to Twitter to demand Attorney General Jeff Sessions immediately pull the plug on Robert Mueller's Russian election-tamper probe. elections seriously. "President Putin said the first issue that President Trump raised was election meddling", the national security adviser told reporters.

He said the men hit had assault rifles and bomb belts and moved in a battle formation: "We assume they were on a terrorist mission and that they were trying to infiltrate into Israel". He said a preliminary assessment was that the infiltrators were Daesh militants. Syria said that the jet was conducting raids in Syrian airspace when it was engaged by Israeli forces.

As chief of staff, Kelly seems particularly vulnerable to Trump's ire, someone convenient for the president to throw under the bus. If Kelly survives until 2020, he would be among the longest-serving White House chiefs of staff in American history.

On Tuesday, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order . The suit, filed on Monday (Tuesday NZ Time) in Seattle, asked a judge to block the federal government's late-June settlement with Defense Distributed , which allowed the company to make the plans available online.

The deaths of two bulldozer operators battling California wildfires in July highlighted the dangers confronting these less visible firefighters. By Wednesday, the Carr Fire had scorched 180.5 square miles (115,538 acres), an area larger than the city of San Jose (180.2 square miles).

The first draft of the NRC , released on December 31, confirmed the citizenship of 19 million people, leading to jubilation for some and heartbreak among others. Hundreds of thousands of people fled to India during Bangladesh's war of independence from Pakistan in the early 1970s. In New Delhi , Home Minister Rajnath Singh sought to allay fears about Assam.

Trump also took to Twitter earlier to praise an "incredibly attractive ceremony" in Hawaii, where Vice President Mike Pence helped welcome the remains to the United States. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was headed to an Asian security meeting in Singapore , where a meeting this weekend with North Korea's foreign minister was possible.

Defense Distributed announced it plans to make 3D gun blueprints - including a single-shot pistol called "The Liberator", an AR-15 lower receiver , and a complete Beretta M9 handgun - available on August 1, after reaching a settlement with the federal government.

The ruling party forced Mugabe to resign in November, when the military briefly seized control of the country, and replaced him with Mnangagwa, his former deputy and spy chief. A Zimbabwean soldier beats a man on a street in Harare on August 1, 2018 as protests erupted over alleged fraud in the country's election. And from another proter, a mere plea to the country's incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa .

On the other hand, Trump has a right to express his opinion, and he uses Twitter to do so, Giuliani said . "He used the word 'should, ' he didn't use the word 'must'". "Under our conclusion if the president is acting within his capacity as president and he fires someone, that can't be questioned", he said. Negotiations over a potential presidential interview have gone on for months.

State Department. These sectors are foundations of the Indo-Pacific's economic future and the initiatives and funding are designed to accelerate USA private-sector investment in the region, support more job-creating USA export opportunities, and also to meet the region's needs for economic growth and development, Hook said, while declining to give details of the funds.

The state-owned Herald newspaper reported on Wednesday that Zanu-PF was "poised for a comfortable majority in parliament, as the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission continued to announce the results". That omission gave room for the electoral commission, which ZESN and the opposition have accused of bias, to manipulate the results in favour of Mnangagwa and the ZANU-PF party, Biti said.

President Donald Trump followed the opening day of the trial of his former campaign chief Paul Manafort closely, officials told CNN on Tuesday. But the lawyers from Robert Mueller's team insisted that the suits were an important illustration of Manafort's wealth at a time when he wasn't paying his share of taxes.

The North Koreans are publicly dismantling an engine test stand at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station. Reuters quotes an official as saying it is unclear how far the work has gone. This indicated that there had not been a complete stop in activity during the summit talks. This intelligence has been backed up by satellite images that appear to show activity at a known uranium-enrichment facility.

Nathaniel Gleicher , Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy, refused to answer questions about whether the company had found any more Russian disinformation campaigns. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, said on a call with reporters that the attempts to manipulate public opinion would likely become more sophisticated to evade Facebook's scrutiny, calling it an "arms race".

So what does collusion really entail, legally speaking? Former New York City mayor-turned-Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani said Monday night that he will likely not allow Trump to be interviewed by anyone on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team because the Russian Federation investigation is not legitimate.

On Monday, several states-including Washington , New York, and Massachusetts-filed a lawsuit against Defense Distributed , a nonprofit from Texas native Cody Wilson that plans on uploading a whole library of 3D-printed gun designs on August 1.

The official did not rule out a one-on-one meeting between Pompeo and his North Korean counterpart on commitments made during the historic June 12 summit in Singapore between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un .

Robert Mugabe's old party Zanu PF have claimed victory in the first election held in Zimbabwe since the former dictator was pushed out of office a year ago. "I will stay here until Chamisa is president", said Amandishe Muzhinji, who traveled back from Swaziland where he works as a migrant laborer to vote in Monday's election.

He denied allegations that Manafort had tried to hide his earnings by storing money in bank accounts in Cyprus, saying that arrangement was not of Manafort's doing but was instead the preferred method of payment of the supporters of the pro-Russia Ukrainian political party who were paying his consulting fees.

Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said: "America is not trustworthy". Moderate Iranian politicians, including President Rouhani, have also taken an increasingly hard-line stance in response to the US's reimplementation of sanctions , which have caused economic damage to the country.

Ahead of the president's rally, the Democratic Governors Association released a statement saying "DeSantis is the latest Trump wannabe catering to the fringe-far right while everyday Floridians wait to hear a real plan for Florida". In turn, DeSantis has cloaked himself in the sheen of Trump , defending the president and his policies. The spot opens with DeSantis's wife, Casey , touting Trump's endorsement, before featuring footage of him urging his young daughter to "build the wall" with ...

The Guadalupe Victoria airport has been closed since the plane went down near the runway during an afternoon storm. The mid-sized jet was nearly full, with 103 people including two infants and four crew members on board, when it crashed at about 4 p.m.

A juvenile was also found with serious injuries. Aurora Police released a statement Monday afternoon that said an officer shot and killed a resident who appeared to be defending his home from an intruder early Monday morning. "We are providing assistance through our victim advocates to help the family of the deceased resident through this very hard time", Metz said. An investigation into whether the officer followed the department's policies and procedures.

U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik issued the order Tuesday afternoon. "All you need is a little money and you can download a blueprint from the internet to make a gun at home ", said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Since then, the information has been downloaded over 1,000 times. According to CNN , more than 1,000 designs were downloaded recently, in advance of the agreed upon August 1 date.