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AI & Technology
EVgo Inc. has announced via a press release the closing of its $1.25-billion guaranteed loan facility from the U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Office under its Title 17 Clean Energy Financing Program to support EVgo’s forthcoming efforts to build convenient, reliable public charging infrastructure for electric vehicles.
Hollywood Inc.
USC’s School of Cinematic Arts hosted a cohort of African filmmakers this summer as part of a State Department program for film diplomacy.
World & Nation
Trump pauses the refugee resettlement program this week as part of a series of executive orders cracking down on immigration.
Politics
President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate former White House aide Brooke Rollins to be his agriculture secretary.
California
As of Jan. 1, San Joaquin Valley farmers are banned from burning agricultural waste in the field, a legislative mandate that has been decades in the making.
Climate & Environment
California farms export billions of dollars’ worth of crops to other nations. Trump’s tariff plans could trigger retaliation, harming the industry.
Rep. Elise Stefanik pledges to push President Trump’s ‘America First’ stance if confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung, all of whom had been designated by the U.S. government as wrongfully detained by China, landed Wednesday night in Texas.
County jails may be able to improve access to medical care and lower death rates behind bars through healthcare accreditation, according to new research by Harvard University economists — but inmates remain frustrated by poor levels of treatment care even at facilities that have undergone the process.
The judge, as expected, imposes no penalty. The outcome in Trump’s felony case cements his conviction but frees him to return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of jail or a fine.