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Month: December 2024

California’s Pacific Gas & Electric could receive $15B in federal loans to modernize its power grid

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric Co. could receive up to $15 billion in federal loans to help the utility modernize its power grid and expand clean energy infrastructure across central and northern California, officials announced Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Energy announced a conditional commitment for one of the largest loan guarantees

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California’s Pacific Gas & Electric could receive $15B in federal loans to modernize its power grid

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric Co. could receive up to $15 billion in federal loans to help the utility modernize its power grid and expand clean energy infrastructure across central and northern California, officials announced Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Energy announced a conditional commitment for one of the largest loan guarantees

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Congress unveils funding deal with more than $100 billion in disaster aid

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders have unveiled a stopgap spending bill that will keep the federal government funded through March 14 and provide more than $100 billion in emergency aid to help states and local communities recover from Hurricanes Helene and Milton and other natural disasters. The measure would prevent a partial government

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Nuevo gobierno se acerca a UABC

Cientos de miles de cuerpos podrían estar enterrados en fosas comunes sirias, según un grupo de defensa civil

Por Irene Nasser, CNN Los habitantes de Siria empezaron a desenterrar fosas comunes en todo el país, arrojando luz sobre la magnitud de las atrocidades cometidas durante el brutal gobierno del derrocado dictador Bashar al-Assad. Más de dos semanas después de que Assad huyera de Siria y su régimen se derrumbara, decenas de familias sirias

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Lawsuit accuses State Department of creating loopholes for Israel on military aid and human rights

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has carved out exceptions for close ally Israel that block a U.S. law restricting foreign military support over human rights abuses, a lawsuit from a group of Palestinians in Gaza and American relatives asserted Tuesday. Former State Department officials and crafters of the 1997 Leahy law were

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Pennsylvania jail confiscated inmates’ toilet paper and soap, cut power and heat, a lawsuit alleges

Associated Press A Pennsylvania jail is facing accusations it retaliated against inmates suspected of smoking synthetic marijuana by withholding necessities like toilet paper, soap and warm clothing. The suit also alleges the jail cut power and heat to the inmates. Inmates at Dauphin County Prison accuse top jail officials in a federal lawsuit of waging

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