President Trump lobbied Georgia's lead election investigator to produce evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, the Washington Post reported. In a call last month, Trump told the unnamed official to "find the fraud" and said they would be "a national hero." Jordan Fuchs, Georgia's Deputy Secretary of State, confirmed to NBC that the call occurred.

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An Indonesian Boeing 737-500 carrying 62 people crashed into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff on Saturday. The plane belonged to the Indonesian airline Sriwijaya Air and was in the midst of a 90-minute flight from Jakarta to Borneo Island.

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• The 26-year-old plane ascended to a maximum altitude of 10,900 feet but is believed to have descended by 10,000 feet within a minute.
• On Sunday, rescue teams initiated the process of recovering the plane's black boxes. The plane's debris, along with human remains, have been found.
• Another Boeing jet, the 737 MAX, was halted worldwide in March 2019 after two crashes within a five-month span killed 346 people.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lifted communication restrictions between American and Taiwanese officials on Saturday. Pompeo said the restrictions had been imposed decades ago "in an attempt to appease the Communist regime in Beijing.”

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• Beijing claims Taiwan as its own territory. However, Taiwan's leaders claim it is a separate sovereign state.
• Chinese state media condemned the move and accused Pompeo of "seeking to maliciously inflict a long-lasting scar on China-U.S. ties.”
• The U.S. doesn't currently have any diplomatic relations with Taiwan, but the Trump administration has sold the island nation a record amount of weapons.
• On Thursday, Pompeo announced U.N. ambassador Kelly Craft would visit Taiwan this week. China criticized the move and said the U.S. was "playing with fire."
• The Trump administration has had a tense relationship with China, sparring over several issues such as COVID-19, Hong Kong, the South China Sea, and trade.

Alphabet-owned Waymo announced it would no longer use the term "self-driving" and start using "fully autonomous" instead. Waymo said the change wasn't "just a branding or linguistic exercise" and emphasized "precision in language matters and could save lives."

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• Waymo accused other automakers of incorrectly using the term "self-driving" to mislead the public about their technology capabilities.
• While Waymo didn't call out a specific company, its comments have been interpreted as a subtle shot at Tesla.
• Last year, Tesla introduced a prototype of its $10,000 "full self-driving" feature that isn't fully autonomous. Tesla has been accused of misleading its customers.
• Tesla has warned its "full self-driving" feature isn't perfect, and drivers must keep both hands on the wheel. In March 2018, a man was killed in an accident after he engaged Tesla's autopilot.

A version of this story first appeared in Inside Transportation. You can read the full issue here. 

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