WEIRTON, W.Va. (WTRF) -- In December, the Pittsburgh-based steel company U.S. Steel agreed to sell the company to Japan’s largest steel manufacturer, Nippon Steel. Now, two U.S. Senators are calling on President Biden to look deeper into this sale and the effects it could have on the country. Just months after U.S. Steel agreed to []
Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control targeted 16 people and two entities in Iran that produce engines that power the drones used in the April 13 attack on Israel.
(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden wants to triple tariff rates on Chinese steel and aluminum if investigators confirm allegations of the country’s unfair trade practices. “The backbone of America has a steel spine,” he said Wednesday during a visit to the United Steelworkers union headquarters in Pittsburgh. “It really does.” Biden wants the U.S. Trade Representative to increase the 7.5% rate as federal regulators raise the alarm about China’s subsidized...
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) The way that the U.S. empire expands its control into targeted countries so as to perpetrate coups that formerly the CIA had been doing (such as, most famously, in Iran 1953, Guatemala 1954, and Chile 1973 — all of which replaced a democratically elected progressive leader by a fascist dictator […]
As the Biden administration proposes tripling duties, experts recall how previous tariffs mainly hit American consumers and industries.
The geopolitical consulting firm Horizon Advisory is making headlines with its report warning against the purchase of U.S. Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel.
PITTSBURGH >> President Joe Biden promised cheering, unionized steelworkers today that his administration would block the acquisition of U.S. Steel by a Japanese company, and he called for a tripling of tariffs on Chinese steel, seeking to use trade policy to win over working-class votes in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
Over 30 countries have imposed restrictions on the social media platform.
Americans are watching in horror as thousands of real students led like sheep by "students" who happen to be professional organizers of protest demonstrations take over campuses, issue endless demands to intimidate spineless administrators, plant tent cities and create the kind of hate-filled environment not seen since Hitler's Brown Shirts.
How will Biden conceal the inflation rampaging throughout his term? The latest scheme appears to be draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to the last drop. It’s already down to 17 percent, because Biden opened the spigot when his idiotic sanctions on Russian energy back in 2022 boosted prices at the pump into the stratosphere, always a terrifying development for homo politicus. Biden tamed gas prices by emptying most of the SPR. Now he may finish it off, because no, he can’t have gas prices...
The U.K.’s biggest sportswear retailer JD Sports is to buy Alabama-based athletic fashion retailer Hibbett Inc. for about $1.08 billion, the companies said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling for the rapid delivery of weapons to his country following the approval in the U.S. House of Representatives of a new aid package for his embattled land. "Now we have the chance to stabilize the situation and to [take] the initiative, and that’s why we need to actually have the weapons systems," Zelensky told US broadcaster NBC on Sunday. "When we get them then we do have the chance to take this initiative and to move ahead to protect Ukraine."