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Gov. Gavin Newsom answers a question concerning his announcement that California will spend $20 million on a public awareness campaign about the dangers of vaping nicotine and cannabis products amid a rise in vaping-related illnesses, during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Trump administration set to revoke California's authority to set mileage standards

General Motors employees Bobby Caughel, left, and Flint resident James Crump, shout out as they protest with other GM employees, United Auto Workers members and labor supporters outside of the Flint Assembly Plant on Monday, Sept. 16, 2019 in Flint, Mich. Thousands of members of the United Auto Workers walked off General Motors factory floors or set up picket lines early Monday as contract talks with the company deteriorated into a strike. (Jake May/The Flint Journal via AP)

United Auto Workers' GM strike could expand to Ford, Fiat Chrysler

In this Dec. 11, 2018, file photo, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao speaks during a major infrastructure investment announcement at transportation headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Elaine Chao ethics probe heats up in House

United Auto Workers picket on the south side of the General Motors Lake Orion Assembly plant in Lake Orion, Mich., Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. (Daniel Mears/Detroit News via AP)

Auto strike idles more than 50 GM factories and warehouses

Dozens of supporters of a measure to limit when companies can label workers as independent contractors circle the Capitol during a rally in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019. If approved by the legislature and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, AB5, by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, would require companies like Uber and Lyft to treat their drivers like employees. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Uber vows to keep fighting sweeping California labor bill

In this Jan. 10, 2017, file photo, British Airways planes are parked at Heathrow Airport in London. British Airways says in a statement Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, it has had to cancel almost all flights as a result of a pilots' 48-hour strike over pay. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

British Airways grounds nearly all flights as pilots strike

In this July 25, 2019, file photo, Nissan CEO Hiroto Saikawa listens to questions from the media during a news conference at the global headquarters in Yokohama, west of Tokyo. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Nissan board says chief has resigned, successor to be named

D.C. planning to tear down RFK Stadium in 2021

A girl on a bicycle pedals around the Tidal Basin with the Washington Monument in the background in Washington Monday, Aug. 17, 2015. Tourism officials say Washington drew a record 20.2 million visitors last year, with increases in international and domestic visitors. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

'Not safe for us': Plan for bike lanes divides Woodley Place

In this Oct. 27, 2016, file photo, a guest looks at the Touch Bar on a MacBook computer shown in a demo room following the announcement of new products at Apple headquarters, in Cupertino, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

FAA bans faulty MacBook Pro models recalled by Apple

Most women said they were fearful of being in a driverless car, an AAA survey found. Some 79% of women said they would be fearful of riding inside such a vehicle.
In this Jan. 4, 2019, photo made with a slow shutter speed, one of the test vehicles from Argo AI, Ford's autonomous vehicle unit, navigates through the strip district near the company offices in Pittsburgh. The people developing self-driving vehicles say it could be anywhere from 10 years to decades before the cars will be carrying passengers in every city. Researchers are trying to conquer a number of obstacles. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Women, men sharply divided on driverless cars

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, center, leaves a news conference alongside state transportation secretary Pete Rahn after discussing the state's transportation infrastructure in Annapolis, Md., Thursday, June 25, 2015. Hogan said the state will contribute about $168 million to the planned Purple Line rail system in the Washington suburbs instead of nearly $700 million. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Maryland lawmakers urge state to fix Metro issues, release funds

This March 12, 2013, photo shows the air traffic control tower at Chicago's Midway International Airport. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) ** FILE **

U.S. issuing hacking alert for small planes

Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses a report detailing efforts by the Department of Motor Vehicles to improve customer services during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, July 23, 2019. Some of the suggestions are to accept credit cards, upgrade the DMV's website and offer clearer instructions on how to obtain a new federally mandated ID.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

California, automakers sidestep Trump administration, sign mileage deal

A pedestrian walks past a Nissan car gallery Thursday, July 25, 2019, in Tokyo. Nissan says it will slash 12,500 jobs, about 9% of its global workforce, to cut costs, achieve turnaround toward growth. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) ** FILE **

Nissan to slash 12,500 jobs to cut costs, achieve turnaround

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., speaks during a television news interview just outside the House Chamber prior a vote on an anti-hate resolution, an action sparked by controversial remarks from freshman Democrat Ilhan Omar, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 7, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Majority Leader Steny Hoyer: Democrats will pick up infrastructure after August recess

Volvo recalls some 500,000 vehicles due faulty engine part

This photo taken onboard by a passenger on a Southwest Airlines flight to Atlanta appears to show the top fin of another Southwest Airlines plane clipped off after the two planes collided, Saturday, July 20, 2019, on the tarmac of Nashville International Airport, in Nashville, Tenn. The airline says both planes returned to the gate &quot;under their own power&quot; and were taken out of service for evaluation. The Southwest flights will continue to the scheduled destinations using news planes. (Eric Borden via AP)

Southwest Airlines planes collide on tarmac in Nashville

In this Dec. 18, 2018, photo, one of the test vehicles from Argo AI, Ford's autonomous vehicle unit, navigates through the strip district near the company offices in Pittsburgh. In the world of autonomous vehicles, Pittsburgh, Phoenix and Silicon Valley are bustling hubs of development and testing. But ask those involved in self-driving vehicles when we might actually see them carrying passengers in every city, and you'll get an almost universal answer: Not anytime soon. An optimistic assessment is 10 years. Many others say decades as researchers try to conquer a number of obstacles. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Interstate rivalries: States loosen regulations to woo driverless cars companies

In this March 11, 2019, file photo, Gary Jones, president of the United Auto Workers union, addresses delegates to the union's bargaining convention in Detroit. In recent years, Detroit automakers have been at relative peace with the UAW union because times have been good and profit-sharing checks have been fat. That all could change this week when talks open Monday, July 15, on new four-year contracts with the union representing 142,000 workers across the nation. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Auto workers union, Detroit 3 at odds as contract talks open

An Air Canada Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft arriving from Toronto prepares to land at Vancouver International Airport, in Richmond, British Columbia on Tuesday, March 12, 2019. Canadian Transport Minister Marc Garneau says "all options are on the table" with regard to the country's fleet of Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft but says the government currently has no plans to order the grounding of the plane. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

'Blood everywhere': 37 injured, 9 seriously, in Air Canada flight turbulence

In this image made from video from Geo Tv, shows volunteers working at a train crash site in Rahim Yar Khan, Pakistan, Thursday, July 11, 2019. A passenger train rammed into a freight train in southern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least many people and injuring others, an official said. (Geo Tv via AP)

Train collision in Pakistan kills at least 16

In this April 27, 1966, file photo, Volkswagen workers drive their Beetle cars from the parking lot on their way home at the end of the workday at the world's largest single auto plant, the Volkswagen factory (seen in background) in Wolfsburg, Germany. Volkswagen is halting production of the last version of its Beetle model in July 2019 at its plant in Puebla, Mexico, the end of the road for a vehicle that has symbolized many things over a history spanning eight decades since 1938. (AP Photo, file)

From Nazis to hippies: End of the road for Volkswagen Beetle

In this June 25, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump listens in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. More than 20 state governors are backing California leaders in a showdown with the Trump administration over mileage standards. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

23 U.S. governors join Calif. in opposing Trump mileage freeze

CSX Transportation is one of seven Class 1 freight train firms with annual operating revenues of $450 million or more. Despite a report of longer trains creating lengthy railroad crossings, CSX states that longer trains are a "tried and proven way to increase efficiency." (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Longer freight trains create delays, safety concerns

In this Feb. 5, 2018, file photo a Boeing 737 MAX 7, the newest version of Boeing's fastest-selling airplane, is displayed during a debut for employees and media of the new jet in Renton, Wash. Boeing says it's providing $100 million over several years to help families and communities affected by two crashes of its 737 Max plane that killed 346 people. The company said Wednesday, July 3, 2019, that some of the money will go toward living expenses and to cover hardship suffered by the families of dead passengers. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Boeing to pay $100 million to families of crash victims, communities

In this file photo dated Tuesday, June 5, 2018, a plane takes off over a road sign near Heathrow Airport in London. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Body found in London garden fell from Heathrow-bound plane

In this Jan. 6, 2010, file photo, a TSA employee being trained in behavioral pattern recognition watches passengers in line at a security checkpoint at Logan International Airport in Boston. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, File)

TSA sending 650 airport screeners to U.S.-Mexico border

This Sunday, June 23, 2019, photo released by the National Transportation Safety Board shows NTSB investigator Eliott Simpson briefing NTSB Board Member Jennifer Homendy at the scene of the Hawaii skydiving crash in Oahu, Hawaii. No one aboard survived the crash, which left a small pile of smoky wreckage near the chain link fence surrounding Dillingham Airfield about an hour north of Honolulu. (National Transportation Safety Board via AP)

Skydiver of previous wreck on Hawaii plane 'extremely upset'

In this June 11, 2011, file photo, former Capt. Chesley &quot;Sully&quot; Sullenberger talks to the media in front of the US Airways flight 1549 aircraft at the Carolina Aviation Museum in Charlotte, N.C. The president of the pilots' union at American Airlines says Boeing made mistakes in its design of the 737 Max and not telling pilots about new flight-control software on the plane. Sullenberger, the captain who safely landed a disabled jetliner on the Hudson River in 2009, is also expected to testify. He has said that Boeing was more focused on protecting its product, the Max, than protecting the people who use it. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

Pilots criticize Boeing for mistakes on its grounded jet

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