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    A collection of the best cartoons of the last week by The Washington Post Writers Group's award-winning roster of syndicated editorial cartoonists from across the nation.

      A collection of the best cartoons of the last week by The Washington Post Writers Group's award-winning roster of syndicated editorial cartoonists from across the nation.

        A collection of the best cartoons of the last week by The Washington Post Writers Group's award-winning roster of syndicated editorial cartoonists from across the nation.

          A collection of the best cartoons of the last week by The Washington Post Writers Group's award-winning roster of syndicated editorial cartoonists from across the nation.

            A collection of the best cartoons of the last week by The Washington Post Writers Group's award-winning roster of syndicated editorial cartoonists from across the nation.

              A collection of the best cartoons of the last week by The Washington Post Writers Group's award-winning roster of syndicated editorial cartoonists from across the nation.

                A collection of the best cartoons of the last week by The Washington Post Writers Group's award-winning roster of syndicated editorial cartoonists from across the nation.

                The top attorney for TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance said Friday the Biden administration hasn’t given any feedback to the company since TikTok’s CEO testified in Congress last week. The comments come as TikTok is under intense scrutiny over concerns it could hand user data to the Chinese government or push pro-Beijing propaganda and misinformation on its behalf. To assuage concerns from U.S. officials, TikTok has been emphasizing a proposal to store all U.S. user data on servers owned and maintained by the software giant Oracle. TikTok maintains it has never been requested to turn over any kind of data and won’t do so if asked.

                Gwyneth Paltrow won just $1 after a trial in a Utah skiing lawsuit but the victory may have been worth a lot more. Jurors found that she did not smash into a retired optometrist on resort slopes in 2016, blaming him instead. They gave her the vindication she said she was seeking in her $1 countersuit. And Hollywood lawyers and publicists say the actor-turned-influencer did it without hurting her public image in a case most celebrities would have settled. Los Angeles lawyer Tre Lovell, who handles many similar celebrity cases, says Paltrow likely wanted to turn the negativity of a lawsuit into a positive that demonstrated her decency.

                The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is clearing the way for California rules that will phase out the sale of diesel-powered trucks. The rules require companies to sell more electric trucks of varying sizes all the way up to massive vehicles weighing more than 33,000 pounds. The rules are part of California's plan to cut planet-warming carbon emissions and improve air quality in heavy-traffic areas. The state is also aiming to end the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. The announcement comes as activists are asking regulators to adopt stricter tailpipe emissions standards at the national level.

                Lawmakers in Nevada are considering a bill to allow the state to buy groundwater rights in diminished basins so nobody could use them again. Officials say the demand for groundwater and the supply isn't sustainable. In some cases, the water was overpromised decades ago from wells sunk deep into fractured rock and gravel. Water users could sell partial or full rights to the state under the bill. States throughout the West are grappling with similar issues over how to conserve groundwater, while experts are skeptical that water basins can ever reach sustainable levels. The bill will likely be amended to address questions over funding and how to implement it.

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