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#1 US Plant Raid Jolts South Korea and Stirs Investor Anxiety
Sep 8 2025 // The immigration raid on a Georgia EV battery plant run by two South Korean firms has rattled Seoul, coming less than two weeks after President Lee Jae Myung’s White House meeting with Donald Trump where Korean...
#2 US Weather Boss During ‘Sharpiegate’ Nears Return to NOAA
Aug 5 2025 // Days after floods killed at least 135 people in Texas Hill Country, weather scientist Neil Jacobs appeared before a Senate committee as the nominee to lead the US agency that oversees forecasting. He vowed to create a...
#3 Fatal Explosion at 110-Year Old U.S. Steel’s Plant Raises Questions About Its Future
Aug 20 2025 // The fatal explosion last week at U.S. Steel’s Pittsburgh-area coal-processing plant has revived debate about its future just as the iconic American company was emerging from a long period of uncertainty. The fortunes...
#4 Postal Services Across Globe Pause US Deliveries as Tariff Shift Sows Confusion
Aug 22 2025 // Postal services across the world are suspending parcel deliveries to the US, citing confusion about how to process millions of low-value packages that will lose their duty-free treatment next week. As of Aug. 29, President...
#5 US Farmers Are Pulling Back on Spending in Threat to Rural Economy
Aug 29 2025 // Sunny skies and mild temperatures this week greeted the biggest US farm show of the year. The contrast couldn’t be greater with the sentiment among attendees as low crop prices and trade tariffs squeeze the...
#6 Aging US Railroad Bridges Are Self-Inspected and Findings Are Kept Secret
Aug 25 2025 // The fire burned for about nine hours, billowing smoke and scorching the wooden trestles of a nearly 75-year-old railroad bridge that spans the Marys River in Corvallis, home to Oregon State University. Long after the...
#7 Most Trump Tariffs Are Not Legal, US Appeals Court Rules
Sep 2 2025 // A divided U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that most of Donald Trump’s tariffs are illegal, undercutting the Republican president’s use of the levies as a key international economic policy tool. The court...
#8 US Steel Plant Hit by Deadly Blast Has History of Accidents
Aug 13 2025 // A United States Steel Corp. plant in Pennsylvania that experienced an explosion that killed at least two people has a history of accidents and violations over the past 15 years. The Clairton Coke Works plant near...
#9 Navigating The Challenging US Liability Litigation Environment
Aug 13 2025 // The liability litigation environment in the U.S. continues to be challenging, driven by increases in nuclear and thermonuclear verdicts, rising attorney representation rates and evolving litigation...
#10 Parrish Named CEO of Howden US, Is Sued by Former Employer Marsh
Aug 5 2025 // Mike Parrish has been named the chief executive officer of Howden U.S., a new U.S. retail broking business of Howden, and he will start in September subject to his “fulfillment of relevant contractual...
#11 US Reversal on Key Climate Finding Spells Uncertainty for Business
Aug 1 2025 // The Trump administration has billed its plan to undo U.S. climate regulation as a way to cut costs for industry, but it may backfire by forcing automakers, utilities, and manufacturers into a future of regulatory...
#12 EPA Set to Unravel US Authority to Regulate Greenhouse Gases
Jul 29 2025 // The Trump administration is set to announce its plans to abolish the US government’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, threatening to strike a deep blow at Washington’s ability to fight climate...
#13 US Electric Car Uptake Will Slow Further on Trump Policies
Sep 9 2025 // Already sluggish adoption of electric vehicles in the US will slow even further after a $7,500 tax credit for EV buyers expires later this month. Battery-powered cars will account for half of US auto sales in 2039, five...
#14 Do Kwon Pleads Guilty to US Fraud Charges in $40B Crypto Collapse
Aug 12 2025 // Do Kwon, the South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion in 2022, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two U.S. charges of conspiracy to defraud and wire fraud. Kwon,...
#15 UK Teenager Charged by US for Role in Yearslong Hack Spree
Sep 19 2025 // The US Justice Department accused a British teenager on Thursday of engaging in a yearslong spree of cyberattacks that targeted 47 American organizations and netted more than $100 million in ransom payments. Thalha Jubair,...
#16 Radioactive Wasp Nest Found at SC Site Where US Once Made Nuclear Bombs
Aug 1 2025 // COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Workers at a site in South Carolina that once made key parts for nuclear bombs in the U.S. have found a radioactive wasp nest but officials said there is no danger to anyone. Employees who routinely...
#17 Fires, Storms and Blazing Heat Forecast for Western US
Aug 11 2025 // Fires, storms and the potential for near-record high temperatures across the western US are in the offing for the coming week. The Gifford Fire, about 125 miles (201 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles, had burned 114,621...
#18 Wife of Former US Sen. Bob Menendez Convicted in Bribery Scheme
Apr 24 2025 // Nadine Menendez, the wife of former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, was convicted of teaming up with her husband to accept bribes of cash, gold bars and a luxury car from three New Jersey men looking for help with their business...
#19 H1 Natural Disasters Had Insured Price Tag of $80B – Driven by US Claims: Munich Re
Jul 29 2025 // Natural disasters across the globe cost insurers US$80 billion during the first half of 2025, up from $64 billion in H1 2024, according to Munich Re’s mid-year natural disaster report. On the other hand, overall...
#20 2 Dead, 10 Injured After US Steel Plant Explosion Near Pittsburgh
Aug 12 2025 // Two workers were killed and at least 10 other people hospitalized with injuries after an explosion at a U.S. Steel plant outside of Pittsburgh on Monday. According to Allegheny County Emergency Services, the explosion...
