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President Trump's campaign on Wednesday began assembling an all-star legal team to file challenges to election regularities in several battleground states, starting with a Court of Claims lawsuit in Michigan. Among the lawyers the president is activating include his private attorney Jay Sekulow, who will help campaign lawyers with matters before the Supreme Court as well as former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, officials said. Sidney Powell, the lawyer for former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, may also be called upon, officials said.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday signed the nation's first statewide cap on greenhouse gas emissions. It was one of several bills related to global warming that was approved by the Democrat-controlled Legislature this year. A universal cap will have the greatest effect on industries such as power plants, refineries and cement makers. Here's what the law, authored by Assemblywoman Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, would do: - Mandate that California cut its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, about a 25 percent reduction. - Require the California Air Resources Board to devise a plan by 2009 outlining the...