All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 22 2024 // Much of the U.S. remained gripped by deadly Arctic weather Sunday — with subfreezing conditions reaching as far south as Texas and Florida. But the numbing cold is expected to ease up in the coming days.Freezing rain,...
Jan 22 2024 // Nearly 75% of the U.S. could experience damaging earthquake shaking, a recent U.S. Geological Survey report shows.A USGS-led team of more than 50 scientists and engineers in the latest USGS National Seismic Hazard Model...
Jan 22 2024 // A new report shows Colorado has the most car thefts, while populous California made the top 10 list.The report’s authors analyzed data from the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer, which showed the amount of motor...
Jan 19 2024 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Liberty Specialty Markets and HDI Global.A summary of these new hires follows here. Liberty Specialty Markets Names Bolaños as CUO, Moreno as President...
Jan 18 2024 // The recent freeze across Texas and Louisiana disrupted scheduled exports of US liquefied natural gas, temporarily tightening some supply of the heating and power-plant fuel.The Cameron LNG export plant in Louisiana...
Jan 18 2024 // The US Supreme Court questioned a longstanding legal doctrine that gives federal agencies wide berth to interpret unclear laws as the justices heard two appeals that would constrain environmental, consumer-protection and...
Jan 17 2024 // Some ship insurers are starting to avoid covering US and UK merchant ships against war risks when they navigate the southern Red Sea, another sign of blowback since the two nations’ airstrikes on Yemen last...
Jan 16 2024 // (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a challenge by Starbucks to a judicial decision that required the coffee chain to rehire seven employees at one of its cafes in Memphis, Tennessee who a...
Jan 16 2024 // As a massive winter storm dumped snow across much of the western U.S., some hardy winter sport enthusiasts headed to ski resorts and backcountry slopes despite frigid temperatures during the long Martin Luther King Jr. Day...
Jan 16 2024 // Houthi militants hit a US-owned commercial vessel with an anti-ship ballistic missile on Monday, underscoring warnings that the world’s most important trade artery remains too risky for navigation.The Gibraltar...
Jan 16 2024 // The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted to repeal a federal labor board rule set to take effect in February that would treat companies as the employers of many contract and franchise workers and...
Jan 12 2024 // The United States and Britain carried out strikes from the air and sea against Houthi military targets in Yemen in response to the movement’s attacks on ships in the Red Sea.The Houthis have been targeting vessels in...
Jan 12 2024 // AXIS Capital Holdings Limited named Anna Tan as head of wholesale casualty.Tan joins AXIS from Navigators, a brand of The Hartford, where she served for over 12 years, most recently as head of excess casualty. Before this,...
Jan 12 2024 // There’s no relief in sight for US car owners who’ve faced soaring costs of maintaining a vehicle in the past two years.Prices of motor-vehicle insurance rose 20.3% in December from a year earlier, the biggest...
Jan 11 2024 // Rokstone, a specialty insurance and reinsurance managing general agency, has launched a new third-party administrator service based in Kentucky. Part of the Aventum Group, Rokstone said its new Verus TPA will manage...
Jan 10 2024 // According to the MarketScout Market Barometer, U.S. commercial property/casualty insurance rates rose 5.6% in the fourth quarter of 2023, resulting in a total composite rate increase of 4.56% for the whole of...
Jan 8 2024 // There are growing signs that Russia’s oil flows might be facing disruption in the aftermath of a ramp up in US sanctions targeting traders and shipping companies moving the nation’s petroleum.Over the past...
Jan 5 2024 // Alphabet Inc’s Google violated U.S. labor law by refusing to bargain with a union representing contract workers for YouTube Music, a federal agency has ruled.The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in a decision on...
Jan 5 2024 // The U.S. Supreme Court on late last month said it would hear a bid to block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing a federal regulation aimed at reducing ozone emissions that may worsen air pollution in...
Jan 5 2024 // Rocket and satellite maker SpaceX on Thursday sued a U.S. labor board to block its case accusing the company of illegally firing employees who sent a letter to company executives calling CEO Elon Musk “a distraction...