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A presidential remark is reverberating through California, ABC is taking its fight with the FCC to court, and fresh Russian strikes have killed civilians in Ukraine. Elsewhere, a major automaker is retrenching, Washington is trying to ease pain at the pump, and a tropical storm is strengthening near the Gulf.

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Trump's remark that Iran could "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego has drawn fierce backlash from California politicians. Governor Gavin Newsom called the comment, made at a campaign rally in Nebraska, "deranged and dangerous," and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass described it as an attempt to encourage attacks on American lives.

The White House said Trump's point was that American cities would have been threatened by Iran had he not launched the war earlier this year. Both cities sit in a state the president has clashed with repeatedly, and the comment lands four weeks before the midterm elections.

Relatives of soldiers killed in the Iran war joined dozens of Gold Star families at the White House on Tuesday, where candles were lit, and the president offered words of comfort. But not all the families of the six soldiers killed on March 1, in the war's deadliest attack, chose to attend.

Troops who survived that strike have raised questions about why they were stationed at a site with insufficient air protection that was seen as a likely target. Michelle Tietjens, whose husband was an Army reservist from Bellevue, Nebraska, is among the relatives pressing for answers.

Disney's ABC has asked a federal judge to block the FCC from reviewing the licenses of eight of its television stations years ahead of schedule. The renewals had been set for 2028 through 2031 before the commission ordered the early review in April of this year.

ABC argues the move is retaliation for content that offended the administration. "They are retaliating with their government power to stop ABC from exercising their protected First Amendment speech," said attorney Beth Wilkinson. Judge Loren AliKhan ordered the government to file a brief by October 9.

Russian missiles and drones pounded Ukraine overnight, killing at least eight people as one missile struck an apartment building in Pryluky and ballistic missiles slammed into Kyiv around 3 a.m.

Kosovo's parliament elected economist Justina Shiroka Pula as president in a late-night vote, beating a deadline that would have forced a snap election after more than 19 months of deadlock.

Japanese police raided Toyama's city hall after the government accused local officials of adding over 2,000 phantom residents to the census, potentially netting 60 million yen in extra funding.

Senator Susan Collins faced Democrat Troy Jackson in the first of four debates Tuesday, sparring over Trump, ICE, abortion and health care in Maine, a race crucial to Senate control.

The University of Arizona suspended fraternities, placing all 21 interfraternity council chapters on interim suspension over reports of assault, hazing, drugs and alcohol, some under criminal investigation.

Tropical Storm Isaias is heading for the Gulf, forecast to become a hurricane Thursday and reach the northern coast Friday as DeSantis declared an emergency in 25 counties.

Porsche will cut a quarter of its workforce and rein in its China ambitions, it said Wednesday, after its profit margin plunged from 18% to 1.1% in two years.

Jaguar unveiled its all-electric Type 01, a $130,500 model shown in New York, two years after a carless rebrand ad drew a fierce social media backlash, including from Elon Musk.

Stock markets across Asia and Europe slipped Wednesday, with Japan's Nikkei 225 losing 0.9% and Germany's DAX down 0.8%, cooling off after Wall Street's latest earnings-driven run to all-time highs.

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A San Francisco startup called Rainmaker seeded clouds over Homer, Alaska, without residents knowing in August, claiming it produced 19 million gallons of water in the sky in three hours.

The physics Nobel has gone to Francis Halzen, the University of Wisconsin-Madison scientist credited with helping reveal the cosmic neutrinos that carry clues about the universe.

Researchers have begun dredging a Pacific lagoon for Amelia Earhart's plane, where they will scan an anomaly first seen in 1938 that one veteran searcher insists is nothing.

Lionel Messi said goodbye to Argentina with a penalty in his 208th game, his 126th international goal, as a sold-out Buenos Aires crowd chanted his name in a 3-0 win.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto struck out 10 Braves over seven brilliant innings Tuesday night, and Kiké Hernández hit a two-run homer as the Dodgers won 3-1 for a 2-1 NLDS lead.

San Diego staved off elimination; the Padres out-hit 11-6 by Milwaukee but won 4-3 at home to stay alive, still a game down in the series.

EuroLeague clubs rejected the NBA's merger offer, but the league's NBA Europe plans will proceed with a 16-team circuit that could start as early as 2027-28.

Michelle Yeoh called "Blade Runner 2099" an "amazing journey" at Busan on Wednesday, praising co-star Hunter Schafer before flying to New York Comic Con to promote the Prime Video series.

Freddie Jackson has died at 70, the R&B singer whose "You Are My Lady" led a run of 1980s hits that earned him a Grammy nomination.

Coco Gauff called the online racism "insane" after a disputed point in her China Open match brought a wave of abuse at the American player.

What it is: Trump signed an executive order widening access to dyed diesel, the fuel normally reserved for farm and construction equipment, and told federal agencies to defer road-tax payments for the rest of 2026. Dyed diesel is chemically almost identical to what trucks buy at the pump, but it is marked with colored dye so inspectors can tell who is entitled to it, and it is exempt from the 24.4-cent federal road tax.

The detail: Diesel now averages $6.31 a gallon, up $2.63 over the past year, a rise of roughly 70% driven by supply disruption from the war with Iran. On the tax exemption alone, a truck with a 150-gallon tank would save about $36 every time it fills up.

Why it matters: Transportation accounts for only three to four cents of every dollar Americans spend on food, which is why economists expect little of this to reach the register. "On paper, it sounds significant," said petroleum analyst Patrick De Haan. "However, the paper doesn't always match the intended reality." Timothy Fitzgerald, an economist at the University of Tennessee, called it short-term relief that "won't offset the underlying difference in prices." David Ortega, a food economist at Michigan State, expects the effect on grocery prices to be negligible.

What to watch: Whether enough dyed fuel can actually reach road vehicles to move the price, and whether the deferred road taxes fall due before diesel itself comes down.

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Andrew Bailey sold shirts at the US Open and will now play in it, qualifying for Pebble Beach next year after seasons spent working the merchandise tent.

A Cleveland man's forgotten lottery ticket sat in a bag for nearly four months before he realized his Pick 5 ticket was a $50,000 winner.

Serial record-breaker David Rush of Idaho used a straw to move 51 malt balls in one minute, chasing a Guinness title previously set at 32 by British creator Jack Welsh.

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