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Canada's leader laments lost friendship with US in town that sheltered stranded Americans after 9/11
Chinese EV giant BYD's fourth-quarter profit leaps 73%
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Chalk talk: Star power, top teams and No. 5 seeds headline the women's March Madness Sweet 16
Purdue returns to Sweet 16 with 76-62 win over McNeese in March Madness
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US retailers haggle with suppliers after Trump tariffs
U.S. retailers Walmart and Target are bickering behind the scenes with their suppliers over proposed price hikes on
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Trump's tariffs create the 'Wild West' on Wisconsin's factory floors
AriensCo - a manufacturer of bright orange snowblowers - has braced for the cold blast of tariffs since November.
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White House pushes back against recession talk as household worries grow, stocks tank
A key economic adviser to President Donald Trump on Monday pushed back on talk of recession stemming from uncertainty around his
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US manufacturers see higher metal prices as tariffs near
The price of the steel Glen Calder buys for his small machinery factory in South Carolina has spiked over 15% in the last two weeks, while Brian Nelson’s factory halfway
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US manufacturers face growing headwinds from trade tensions
Austin Ramirez until recently planned to build a new factory in Mexico as part of his Wisconsin-based company's strategy to expand global production and shift away from
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Looming tariffs turned into a mad dash north for one US manufacturer
Stephen Bullock’s phone rang early Monday morning last week at his small factory in North Carolina with an urgent message from his distributor up in Toronto who was
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Mood swing: Global producers in US hunt for China alternatives
Jason Andringa’s company was part of the stampede of U.S. businesses that built factories in China.
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US needs new way to measure and advance economic fairness, group says
The U.S. must change how it measures the well-being of its people - including gauging how much of a voice they feel they have in political outcomes - as part of a larger
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US factory boom disproportionately favors poorer counties, study shows
A surge of factory building fueled by Biden administration investments in "strategic sectors" such as clean energy and semiconductors has so far flowed disproportionately
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Soaring insurance costs hit as US buyers finally get a break on car prices
A new form of sticker shock has hit American car buyers like Darin Davis.
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Smaller US manufacturers warm to Biden's big industrial plan, survey shows
America’s small and mid-sized manufacturers may be warming up to the Biden administration’s push for an aggressive industrial policy.
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US makers of masks and gloves get lifeline: higher tariffs on Chinese-made products
President Joe Biden’s move to hike tariffs on Chinese goods should help U.S.-based medical mask and glove makers, a sector that has largely flamed out after surging
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US tariffs on Chinese medical imports face industry doubt as alternative suppliers emerge
Higher U.S. tariffs on medical gloves, syringes and face masks from China are unlikely to make U.S. producers more competitive,
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Rich Americans keep high-end RV company rolling along
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Robot invasion hit a bump in 2023 as North American economy cooled
North American companies ordered about a third fewer robots last year as worries about a slowing economy and higher interest rates made it harder to justify buying the
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Fire truck boom highlights divide in US manufacturing
Anyone looking around Oshkosh's cavernous fire truck factory in Appleton, Wisconsin, for evidence of the longest U.S. manufacturing slump in two decades could be forgiven
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Union workers at downsizing tractor factory weigh Biden vs. Trump
For workers at CNH Industrial's sprawling tractor plant just outside Racine, Wisconsin, debate over whether President Joe Biden or former President
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US manufacturers hit by soaring property insurance costs
James Kirsh expects the cost of the property and casualty insurance for his family-owned foundry in Wisconsin that makes cast iron parts for tractors and other equipment
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Fed's rate cut offers limited relief for US factories facing China competition
Drew Greenblatt loves that the Federal Reserve has cut interest rates.
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Shippers scramble for workarounds ahead of threatened US port strike
U.S. companies that rely on East and Gulf Coast seaports have been importing early, shifting goods to the West Coast, and even putting
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US maker of generators sees demand surge in wake of hurricanes
The hurricanes that have devastated parts of the U.S. this year are creating hundreds of new jobs at Generac Power Systems' expanding network of factories in Wisconsin
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Black Americans express fears, resolve after Trump's victory
Donald Trump’s U.S. presidential election victory has sent shockwaves through Black American
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With Trump win, Democrats ask anxious questions about their neighbors, country, party leadership
In anxious conversations across the U.S. on Wednesday, many Democrats were struggling to understand what led their
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Seeing Trump 2.0 tariffs coming, America's toymakers gird for ruckus
With the incoming Trump administration promising an entirely new round of tariffs on U.S. imports, Atlanta-based Kids2 and other toymakers are reviewing product lines,
