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California bullet train cost grows by another $1B

The estimated cost to complete California’s high-speed rail line rose another $1.3 billion, to $80.3 billion, while construction is on schedule to meet a 2022 deadline to have about 20% of the track laid, according to a new business plan released Wednesday.

Interim nuclear waste bill boosted by Trump budget

The Trump administration’s reversal on Yucca Mountain funding is bolstering a Senate bill that would allow the government to store nuclear waste temporarily at private sites while a permanent solution is worked out.

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Culinary defends health care flyer critical of Sanders

The Culinary Union Local 226 denounced “vicious attacks,” after supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders objected to a union flyer that declared the senator wants to “end Culinary health care” in favor of his Medicare for All proposal.

Former US ambassador to Ukraine gets diplomacy award

Past recipients have included former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo and former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Charges dropped against guard accused of threatening Trump

Prosecutors issued a memo saying the threat was “more of a rant by an idiot,” than an act of someone with the “intent to actually carry out” his words.