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2016 Lexus LX570 Photos and Info: A Raft of Changes for a Gargantuan SUV

-With only one refresh since its last major makeover for 2008, Lexus’s LX570 SUV was ripe for updates. The problem, if you can call it one, is that people genuinely liked it the way it was. Sharing its sturdy and capable underpinnings with the Toyota Land Cruiser and offering opulent interior furnishings with a comparatively demure exterior, it’s truly a luxury SUV. But while the LX was busy holding its

2016 Lexus GS200t Photos and Info: The GS Joins the Booster Club

– With no hint of eastern inscrutability, Toyota boss Akio Toyoda defined the Lexus GS mid-luxe rear-drive model’s mission ages ago: Attack the European sports sedan squadron—Audi, BMW, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, and soon Alfa Romeo—with determination. Given that task, Lexus has broadened the GS roster by adding a value edition powered by a smaller, more fuel-efficient engine. The new-for-2016 GS200t follows Continental protocol to the letter with a turbocharged and intercooled

Kerry presides over raising of flag at U.S. embassy in Cuba

By Daniel Trotta and Lesley Wroughton HAVANA (Reuters) – Watched over by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, U.S. Marines raised the American flag at the embassy in Cuba for the first time in 54 years on Friday, symbolically ushering in an era of renewed diplomatic relations between the two Cold War-era foes. Three retired Marines who last lowered the flag in 1961 participated in the ceremony, handing a new

AP EXCLUSIVE: Top secret Clinton emails include drone talk

WASHINGTON (AP) — The two emails on Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private server that an auditor deemed “top secret” include a discussion of a news article detailing a U.S. drone operation and a separate conversation that could point back to highly classified material in an improper manner or merely reflect information collected independently, U.S. officials who have reviewed the correspondence told The Associated Press.

State of emergency ends in Ferguson, Missouri, as violence recedes

Ferguson saw a fresh wave of demonstrations beginning last weekend, marking the one-year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man shot by a white police officer last August. The killing of Brown was found to be justified, but that incident and the deaths of other unarmed black and Hispanic men that followed in Baltimore, New York City, Washington state and elsewhere inspired a national movement

Court throws out Arizona sheriff's immigration policy challenge

A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a lawsuit brought by an Arizona sheriff who argued that President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration were unconstitutional. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a district court judge’s finding that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio lacked standing to sue, a provision in U.S. law that means he has to prove he has been directly harmed.