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Waves crash over a breakwater in Alameda, Calif., on Sunday. (Noah Berger/AP) Scientists are saying that climate change and El Niño, a climate pattern caused by the warming of the Pacific Ocean, are the culprits for the extreme weather that California is experiencing this winter. Here’s what USA Today reported: Multiple weather phenomena are conspiring to make these storms particularly damaging. Warm water provides energy to storms, and record-high ocean water temperatures, likely from… Source link

(Bloomberg) — China Evergrande Group has officially been labeled a defaulter for the first time, the latest milestone in months-long financial drama that’s likely to culminate in a massive restructuring of the world’s most indebted developer. Most Read from Bloomberg Fitch Ratings cut Evergrande to “restricted default” over its failure to make two coupon payments by the end of a grace period on Monday, a move that may trigger cross defaults on the developer’s $19.2 billion of dollar… Source link

Ohio’s attorney general, Dave Yost, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in pursuit of a novel effort to have Google declared a public utility and subject to government regulation. The lawsuit, which was filed in a Delaware County, Ohio court, seeks to use a law that’s over a century old to regulate Google by applying a legal designation historically used for railroads, electricity and the telephone to the search engine. “When you own the railroad or the electric company or the cellphone tower,… Source link

Ohio asked a court on Tuesday to declare Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google a public utility, a step the state’s Republican attorney general said would forbid the search and advertising giant from giving preferential treatment to its own products. “When you own the railroad or the electric company or the cellphone tower, you have to treat everyone the same and give everybody access,” Attorney General Dave Yost said in a statement. The lawsuit, which estimates that Google is used for nearly 90% of… Source link

COLUMBUS (WCMH) — Attorney General Dave Yost filed a state lawsuit Tuesday against Google, seeking to get it declared a public utility in Ohio. In a news release, Yost said he is seeking to rein in the ways that Google uses its search engine to provide results that favors its products. Columbus City Council repeals mask ordinance; mayor expected to sign this week “Google uses its dominance of internet search to steer Ohioans to Google’s own products — that’s… Source link

Serena Williams and Roger Federer have both withdrawn from the Miami Open. Image: Getty Disturbing scenes in Miami have highlighted why a number of top tennis stars may have been unwilling to travel to the Miami Open for the first Masters 1000 tournament of the year. Serena Williams joined Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer in withdrawing from the prestigious event on Sunday. ‘HEARTBREAKING’: Tennis rocked by Juan Martin del Potro news WOW: Model claims she was offered $90,000 to… Source link