Bloomberg Wil VanLoh, a Houston private-equity manager, has links to a $1 million contribution to a group supporting Ted Cruz’s presidential bid. The group, Stand for Truth, disclosed today that it received $1 million in January from a Houston company identified as Trinity Equity. Trinity shares an address with Quantum Energy Partners, a private-equity firm VanLoh runs with $9 billion ...

Detroit / AP An auto safety advocate is calling on the government to reopen an investigation of rear-crash fires in older Jeep SUVs after finding at least 11 more deaths since the vehicles were recalled. The deaths show that the recall repair — installing a trailer hitch to protect gas tanks in low-speed crashes — hasn’t been effective, said Clarence ...

San Francisco / AFP Google chief executive Sundar Pichai will meet with the European Union’s competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager in Brussels in the coming week, a source familiar with the matter said. European competition officials have been investigating the US tech giant for years over alleged monopolistic practices involving its search engines, but any resolution has been elusive. Three successive ...