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Sean Duffy, US secretary of transportation, during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. The collision between an American Airlines Group Inc. regional jet and a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan airport in Washington left no survivors on board the two aircraft, authorities said, making it one of the most deadly US air disasters in decades and an early test for President Donald Trump's administration in his second week in office.
The prior administration had “illegally used CAFE standards as a backdoor electric vehicle mandate — driving the price of cars up,” he said in a statement. (BLOOMBERG)
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May 20, 2025 10:35 AM

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