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In this Jan. 11, 2018, file photo, cars pass the Queensboro Bridge in New York. The Trump administration is citing safety to justify freezing gas mileage requirements. A draft of a regulation prepared this summer would freeze an Obama-era program to improve fuel efficiency and cut pollution. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

In waiting for answers, automakers stick to Obama-era rules

By TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

The Latest: Trump administration proposes mileage rollback

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FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2017 file photo, United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, left, with Mexico's Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal, right, speaks during the conclusion of the fourth round of negotiations for a new North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in Washington. Gathering strength for a potentially brutal trade war with China, the United States is trying to patch things up with its friends. U.S. and Mexican negotiators are meeting Thursday and Friday to work on a rewrite of the North American Free Trade Agreement -- a deal that looked virtually dead a few months ago. And last week the Trump administration reached a cease-fire with Europe in a dispute over autos. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

US mends ties with allies, prepares for trade war with China

By PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

Aides to President Trump (from left) press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, National Security Adviser John R. Bolton, FBI Director Christopher Wray Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, and National Security Agency Director Gen. Paul Nakasone listen to the daily press briefing at the White House, (Associated Press/File)

White House asserts ‘vast’ effort to protect elections

By ZEKE MILLER and DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

The Latest: Short-term health plans cheaper but cover less

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FILE - In this May 24, 2018, file photo, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Republican chairman and top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee want federal investigators to examine charges that immigrants have suffered sexual, physical and emotional abuse at two government agencies’ detention centers. Grassley of Iowa and California’s Dianne Feinstein have written to the inspectors general of the departments of Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services, that the allegations are “extremely disturbing and must be addressed. This is not a partisan issue. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Official says agency warned family separation bad for kids

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

In this Jan. 11, 2018, file photo, cars pass the Queensboro Bridge in New York. The Trump administration is citing safety to justify freezing gas mileage requirements. A draft of a regulation prepared this summer would freeze an Obama-era program to improve fuel efficiency and cut pollution. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

U.S. says no need for better gas mileage, heavy vehicles safer

By Tom Krisher and Ellen Knickmeyer - Associated Press

From left, Customs and Border Protection U.S. Border Patrol Acting Chief Carla Provost, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Executive Associate Director of Enforcement And Removal Operations Matthew Albence, Federal Health Coordinating Official for the 2018 UAC Reunification Effort Cmdr. Dr Jonathan White, Executive Office for Immigration Review Director James McHenry III, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Associate Director of Refugee, Asylum And International Operations Jennifer Higgins, are sworn in to testify as the Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on the Trump administration's policies on immigration enforcement and family reunification efforts, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 31, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Latest: HHS officials warned against family separations

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An Amish family rides their horse and buggy past a storage lot for recreational vehicles in Goshen, Ind., on Friday, June 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) **FILE**

ICE quest for detention sites puts Trump county on tightrope

By ADAM GELLER - Associated Press

A child holds the hand of a Lutheran Social Services worker as she looks back to a man as they arrive at Lutheran Social Services, Thursday, July 26, 2018 in Phoenix. Lutheran Social Services stated they were expecting reunited families separated at the border when apprehended entering the United States to come through their facility. (AP Photo/Matt York)

The Latest: Judge commends, criticizes family reunifications

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Children look out a van window as they arrive at Lutheran Social Services, Thursday, July 26, 2018, in Phoenix. Lutheran Social Services said they were expecting reunited families separated at the border when apprehended entering the United States to come through their facility. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Judge credits, faults administration on family reunification

By ELLIOT SPAGAT and COLLEEN LONG and AMY TAXIN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One, Thursday, July 26, 2018, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Trump is traveling to Iowa and Illinois in which his trade agenda is expected to be a leading issue. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Citizenship question’s inclusion in 2020 Census imperiled by legal challenge

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2007 file photo, President Bush, third from left, presents the 2007 National Humanities Medal to members of the Monuments Men Foundation, from left, Robert Edsel, Jim Reeds, Harry Ettlinger, Horace Apgar and Seymore Pomrenze, for the Preservation of Art of Dallas, Texas, during a ceremony at the White House in Washington. White House ceremonies for arts and science medal winners, a tradition dating back to the 1980s, have been absent so far in the Trump administration. Eighteen months into Trump’s presidency, there have been no National Science Medals, or National Medals of Arts or National Medals of Humanities. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Arts and science medal ceremonies absent under Trump

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

Immigrants seeking asylum Natalia Oliveira da Silva and her daughter, Sara, 5, hug as they wait at a Catholic Charities facility, Monday, July 23, 2018, in San Antonio. Since their separation in late May, the girl had been at a shelter for immigrant minors in Chicago, while Oliveira was taken to various facilities across Texas. As the government faces a fast-approaching Thursday deadline to reunite hundreds of families, it is shifting the responsibility for their well-being to faith-based groups primarily in Texas and Arizona. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

The Latest: Administration says 1,820 children reunited

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President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, July 25, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Proposed Trump-Putin meeting at White House is put off

By MATTHEW LEE and KEN THOMAS - Associated Press

In this Aug. 22, 2017, file photo, U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder, R-Kan., speaks with reporters before a town hall meeting in the Olathe, Kan. Mr. Yoder serves as chairman of the House homeland security spending subcommittee. (AP Photo/John Hanna, File)

House appropriations panel takes on family separation issue

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

California Editorial Rdp

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, July 25, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump delays proposed Putin meeting until 2019

By MATTHEW LEE and KEN THOMAS - Associated Press

Immigrants seeking asylum Natalia Oliveira da Silva and her daughter, Sara, 5, hug as they wait at a Catholic Charities facility, Monday, July 23, 2018, in San Antonio. Since their separation in late May, the girl had been at a shelter for immigrant minors in Chicago, while Oliveira was taken to various facilities across Texas. As the government faces a fast-approaching Thursday deadline to reunite hundreds of families, it is shifting the responsibility for their well-being to faith-based groups primarily in Texas and Arizona. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Tears, hugs and help: Church groups assist reunited families

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

In this July 6, 2018, photo, Chinese security personnel watch as travelers check in for flights at the American Airlines check-in counters at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing. China is applauding U.S. airlines for bending to its demand that they cease referring to Taiwan as its own country on their websites, as American Airlines, Delta and United are among a wave of international carriers to remove references to Taiwan on their websites ahead of a Wednesday, July 25, 2018, deadline set by Chinese authorities. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

US airlines cave to China’s demand on referring to Taiwan

By DAVID KOENIG - Associated Press