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Top eight stories for today including California set an ambitious deadline for green car sales; A federal judge ruled the sworn affidavit that brought FBI agents inside Mar-a-Lago must be made public in less than 24 hours; Texas’ trigger law banning abortion is now enforceable, and more.

National

Affidavit for FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago will go public, with redactions

The sworn affidavit that brought FBI agents inside former President Donald Trump’s south Florida resort home, Mar-a-Lago, must be made public in less than 24 hours, a federal ruled Thursday.

Police direct traffic outside an entrance to former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., on Aug. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

Student loan forgiveness plan has a SCOTUS problem

President Joe Biden’s long-awaited student loan forgiveness plan might be dead on arrival after the Supreme Court effectively hobbled the administrative state this past June when it comes to making big political and economic action without congressional authorization.

New graduates line up before the start of a community college commencement in East Rutherford, N.J., on May 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Two Floridians plead guilty in scheme to steal and sell diary of Biden’s daughter

A pair of Florida-based Trump supporters pleaded guilty on Thursday to stealing Ashley Biden’s diary and selling it to the conservative media outlet Project Veritas.

President Joe Biden talks to the media after walking on the beach with his granddaughter Natalie Biden, left, and his daughter Ashley Biden, right, in Rehoboth Beach, Del., on June 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Regional

Going green: California bans sales of new gas cars by 2035

California has set an ambitious deadline for green car sales, requiring that by 2035 all new vehicles sold in the state must be powered by electricity or hydrogen.

An electric vehicle charges at a shopping center in Emeryville, Calif., Aug. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)

Texas trigger ban on abortion goes into effect

Texas’ trigger law banning abortion is enforceable as of Thursday. The procedure was already deemed illegal under a 1925 law revived after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, but the penalties for violations have increased significantly.

Demonstrators march and gather near the Texas State Capitol in Austin on June 24, 2022, following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Georgia governor challenges subpoena in Trump election interference probe

Attorneys for Georgia Governor Brian Kemp argued before the Fulton County Superior Court on Thursday to block or modify his subpoena in the special grand jury investigation of potential coordinated, criminal interference in the state's 2020 presidential election results.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks at The Neighborhood Lot in McDonough, Ga., on July 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Megan Varner, File)

Panel refuses to reinstate Arkansas ban on transgender medical treatment for minors

A three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit on Thursday unanimously upheld a federal judge’s injunction against an Arkansas law banning transgender medical treatment for minors.

The Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock. (Daniel Schwen/Wikipedia Commons via Courthouse News)

Science

NASA’s Perseverance rover picks up rocks that may hold secrets to life on Mars

In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, NASA researchers document the surface of Mars within Jezero crater, a large circular formation thought to be a previous lake with, potentially, signs of ancient microbial life.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of Santa Cruz, a hill about 1.5 miles away from the rover, on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The entire scene is inside of Mars' Jezero Crater; the crater's rim can be seen on the horizon line beyond the hill. (Photo courtesy NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU / MSSS)

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