一项联邦法案旨在解决过去的基础设施不平等问题,谷歌向消费者支付高达700M美元,一名81岁男子在马里兰州挖土机事故中死亡。 A federal bill aims to fix past infrastructure inequities, Google to pay consumers up to $700M, and an 81-year-old man died in a Maryland excavator accident.

一项新的联邦法案,即《REPAIR基础设施法》,旨在扩大DOT的重新连接社区方案,以解决过去将边缘化社区分隔开的基础设施项目中的不公平现象,旨在通过为清除障碍项目提供资金来改善安全和经济机会。 A new federal bill, the REPAIR Infrastructure Act, seeks to expand the DOT’s Reconnecting Communities Program to address past inequities from infrastructure projects that divided marginalized neighborhoods, aiming to improve safety and economic opportunity through funding for barrier-removal projects. 同时,特拉华州和全国的消费者将开始从Google的7亿美元定居点收到反竞争做法的付款,大多数人将在2026年4月前通过PayPal或Venmo自动获得付款。 Meanwhile, consumers in Delaware and nationwide will begin receiving payments from a $700 million settlement with Google over anticompetitive practices, with most getting automatic payouts via PayPal or Venmo by April 2026. 在马里兰州发生的另一起事件中,一名81岁的男子在开挖土机后死亡,他正在操作一辆挖土机,沉入池塘中;当局正在调查有关情况。 A separate incident in Maryland saw an 81-year-old man die after an excavator he was operating sank into a pond; authorities are investigating the circumstances.