Successive atmospheric rivers that have slammed California with rain brought respite to around seven million people in Southern California, who had restrictions on their water usage lifted after the belts of rainfall helped alleviate drought conditions. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California announced Wednesday that it was lifting emergency water restrictions on dozens of...
Tesla was hit with two antitrust class action lawsuits this week, alleging that the company curbed competition for repairs and replacement of vehicle parts. The two suits filed this week in a federal court in San Francisco argue that the company designed its vehicles and warranty policies to discourage customers from seeking maintenance from outside...
An exiled Chinese billionaire with ties to former President Trump’s onetime political strategist Steve Bannon was arrested on Wednesday in connection with an alleged scheme to solicit investments from hundreds of thousands of his online followers. The Department of Justice announced the unsealing of a 12-count federal indictment charging Ho Wan Kwok with wire fraud,...
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Student loan borrowers cry foul after latest bank bailouts Recent moves by the Biden administration and financial regulators to bail out Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank are hitting a sore spot with some student...
Welcome to The Hill's Defense & NatSec newsletter {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security The Big Story Questions abound over downing of US drone Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley on Wednesday said U.S. officials don’t yet know if it was an intentional hit when a Russian fighter jet a day...
Tensions have grown heated over the past month between Vice President Kamala Harris and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). First, Warren offended Harris and her team after she was asked in a January interview if President Biden should keep Harris as his vice president. “I really want to defer to what makes Biden comfortable on his team,”...
Senators unsuccessfully pushed the State Department on Wednesday for information about how it would deal with an extradition request from Brazil for its former president, Jair Bolsonaro, who has been living in Florida as his supporters attempt to reverse his election loss last year. During a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on U.S.-Brazil relations, committee...
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg acknowledged on Wednesday that there has been an “uptick in serious close calls” at U.S. airports, after reports emerged of another near collision at a Washington, D.C., airport last week. “Initial information suggests that more mistakes than usual are happening across the system, on runways, at gates while planes are pushing...