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Biden’s $3.1 Billion Train Ticket to Nowhere
2Jan By adminNo Comments
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Biden’s $3.1 Billion Train Ticket to Nowhere

It didn’t get a lot of attention, but last month the White House awarded $3.1 billion to the California High-Speed Rail project. This was supposed to be a bullet train connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles in less than three hours. Instead, its costs keep rising even as the state scales back the plan. Since 2008, when California voters authorized a $10 billion bond issue for the train, they’ve been sold a bill of goods.The original total estimated construction cost to taxpayers was $33 billion. That’s risen to at least $100 billion. The authority decided to offer service between San Francisco and Los Angeles in Phase I, then eventually extend the train service north to Sacramento and south to San Diego. Phase I was to have been completed by 2020. Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company...
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Chevron Warns of Billions in Charges From California Challenges, Gulf of Mexico Assets
2Jan By adminNo Comments
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Chevron Warns of Billions in Charges From California Challenges, Gulf of Mexico Assets

Chevron said it will book $3.5 billion to $4 billion in charges for the fourth quarter, citing challenges tied to regulations in California and previously sold oil and gas production assets in the Gulf of Mexico.Chevron said it will impair a portion of its U.S. upstream assets, mostly in California, due to regulatory challenges in the state that have led to “lower anticipated future investment levels in its business plans.” Chevron said it will continue to operate the affected assets for many years.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Iberdrola’s Avangrid Ends $4.3 Billion Deal With PNM Resources
2Jan By adminNo Comments
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Iberdrola’s Avangrid Ends $4.3 Billion Deal With PNM Resources

Updated Jan. 2, 2024 3:55 am ETIberdrola’s U.S. renewables subsidiary Avangrid has ended a merger agreement with power company PNM Resources after rejecting a bid to extend the deadline of the $4.3 billion deal reached in October 2020.The Spanish energy company said Tuesday that Avangrid—which is 81.5%-owned by Iberdrola and houses its U.S. renewable-energy assets as well as electric and natural-gas utilities—terminated the deal after conditions for closing it weren’t met in the timeframe the parties agreed to.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Michigan Overcomes Alabama—and Recent History—to Reach National Title Game
2Jan By adminNo Comments
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Michigan Overcomes Alabama—and Recent History—to Reach National Title Game

Updated Jan. 1, 2024 9:45 pm ETPASADENA, Calif.—Michigan arrived at the Rose Bowl with plenty of baggage. There was the coach, Jim Harbaugh, once again dogged by rumors that he will imminently depart for the National Football League, and with a dismal bowl game record of one win in seven tries. There was its recent history—two previous trips to the College Football Playoff that both ended in losses. There were the twin scandals, yet to be resolved by the NCAA.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Las Vegas Bets 12/31/23 Will Be Wedding Jackpot 
30Dec By adminNo Comments
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Las Vegas Bets 12/31/23 Will Be Wedding Jackpot 

Dec. 30, 2023 10:00 am ETGet off the plane, head to baggage claim and sign up to get hitched. It’s happening. In Las Vegas, of course. A temporary marriage license office opened this week in Harry Reid International Airport, right by luggage carousel five, where bags are spit out and spun on a conveyor belt. The pop-up is meant to help allay the expected rush of couples looking to say “I do” on New Year’s Eve, which is extra special this year because the date—12/31/23—reads 1-2-3-1-2-3.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Surge of Migrants Heading North Has Chicago, New York at a ‘Breaking Point’
30Dec By adminNo Comments
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Surge of Migrants Heading North Has Chicago, New York at a ‘Breaking Point’

The mayors of New York, Chicago and Denver said a nonending flow of migrants arriving from the southern border has pushed their cities to the breaking point heading into the New Year, as border crossings swell and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott keeps finding new ways to torment his Democratic rivals.Abbott, a Republican who began sending migrants on buses to other states in spring 2022, doubled down on the strategy in recent weeks. He sent his first planeloads of migrants to Chicago and New York in part to flout regulations on where and when bus operators can drop off the migrants.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Towering Waves Batter West Coast
30Dec By adminNo Comments
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Towering Waves Batter West Coast

Updated Dec. 29, 2023 6:13 pm ETPacific storms will continue to bring rain, flooding and towering waves to the West Coast Friday and into the weekend following evacuation warnings and injuries reported at beaches.Millions of people along the West Coast were under high-surf warnings and advisories Friday morning, according to the National Weather Service. Meteorologists and local leaders urged people to keep away from beaches and the shoreline. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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