All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 20 2022 // Boosting enforcement of antidiscrimination and antitrust laws, raising the federal minimum wage and higher unionization rates could substantially boost U.S. economic growth, a new report by President Joe Biden’s top...
Apr 19 2022 // The United States has linked North Korean hackers to the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency tied to the popular online game Axie Infinity, the U.S. Treasury Department said on...
Apr 19 2022 // The Biden administration will no longer enforce a U.S. mask mandate on public transportation, after a federal judge in Florida on Monday ruled that the 14-month-old directive was unlawful, overturning a key White House...
Apr 18 2022 // Flood, fire, and drought fueled by climate change could take a massive bite out of the U.S. federal budget per year by the end of the century, the White House said in its first ever such assessment, released in early...
Apr 14 2022 // There’s been a lot of ringing in on newly proposed rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission mandating that all publicly traded U.S. companies disclose their annual greenhouse-gas emissions and the climate...
Apr 14 2022 // Nearly two dozen people were injured when tornadoes swept through central Texas as part of a storm system that was expected to spawn more twisters and damaging winds Wednesday.The storms caused widespread damage Tuesday in...
Apr 14 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at QBE Re in the U.S., specialist broker MNK Re Group and MGA CFC Underwriting.A summary of these new hires follows here. QBE Re Names Barber Head of U.S....
Apr 14 2022 // Dog bites and other dog-related injuries accounted for more than one-third of all homeowners liability claim dollars paid out in 2021, costing $881 million, according to an analysis by the Insurance Information Institute...
Apr 14 2022 // Advanced hackers have shown they can take control of an array of devices that help run power stations and manufacturing plants, the U.S. government said in an alert on Wednesday, warning of the potential for cyber spies to...
Apr 13 2022 // Mosaic Insurance has opened an office in Chicago, IL, its second US physical location, for a growing number of employees. Located in the city’s Loop, at 318 West Adams Street, the office is Mosaic’s fourth...
Apr 13 2022 // An April 2023 jury trial has been scheduled in Dominion Voting Systems Inc’s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit accusing Fox News of trying to boost its ratings by falsely claiming the voting machine company rigged the...
Apr 12 2022 // A U.S. judge on Tuesday questioned whether allowing Mexico to sue U.S. gun manufacturers for facilitating the trafficking of weapons to drug cartels would open the door to other countries suing them, including Russia over...
Apr 8 2022 // A deepening opioid epidemic is prompting the U.S. Department of Justice to warn about discrimination against those who are prescribed medication to treat their addictions.In guidelines published Tuesday, the...
Apr 8 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled with the circumstances under which doctors can be convicted of operating as drug dealers under the cover of their medical practices to illegally distribute opioid painkillers and...
Apr 7 2022 // Researchers at Colorado State University are predicting a very active 2022 Atlantic season, with 19 named storms.The average for named storms during the Atlantic hurricane season (June 1 through November) is 14.4. The...
Apr 6 2022 // For anyone who wants a phony pay stub or doctored tax return, an easy source is just a click away.A website called banknovelties.com claims it can provide “fake bank statements” as well as “fake pay...
Apr 6 2022 // It appears there were more tornadoes across the U.S. this year in the month of March than ever before – possibly by a large margin.According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather...
Apr 5 2022 // President Joe Biden on Monday touted the importance of the U.S. trucking industry especially during the COVID-19 pandemic as the administration has worked to boost the number of truck drivers by drawing in more women and...
Apr 5 2022 // A measure of U.S. supply-chain pressures rose to a record, adding to already stiff inflationary headwinds from logistics amid dwindling warehouse space and unprecedented inventory costs.The Logistics Managers’ Index,...
Apr 4 2022 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture is looking into vaccines as an option to protect poultry against deadly bird flu, the agency’s chief veterinary officer said as the country faces its worst outbreak since...