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.
California
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Thursday that it will change a rule that counts service-related disability benefits as income, often excluding veterans from housing restricted to low-income residents.
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.
INDUSTRY UPDATES
CHAOS Industries, a technology company focused on building the next generation of defense and national security systems has announced the appointment of former U.S. Representative Will Hurd as chief strategy officer, according to a press release issued by CHAOS Industries.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked a judge’s order to build temporary housing on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ West Los Angeles campus by early next year, and set an accelerated schedule to hear the government’s appeal of the order.
The more-than-a-century old federal holiday each Nov. 11 honors America’s veterans. Most public agencies, including schools, post offices and local governments are closed.
World & Nation
Transgender military officers, diplomats abroad, others, believe progress and acceptance built over a decade may be destroyed
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of appeals has issued an emergency stay stopping work on the installation of more than 100 units of modular housing on the campus.
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.
Juan Anthony Carrillo was sentenced to prison for using excessive force against an unarmed man, whom Carrillo beat with a baton 45 times in 41 seconds.