All the headlines from our USA Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 3 2020 // Bayer AG failed to settle outstanding U.S. Roundup lawsuits by Monday, the deadline set by a judge who has said he’ll resume federal trials over claims the weedkiller caused consumers’ cancer.Ahead of its...
Nov 3 2020 // Temporary extra fencing has been erected around the White House, plywood affixed to storefronts in Manhattan and the National Guard put on notice in Portland, Oregon, as U.S. cities braced for possible unrest on election...
Nov 2 2020 // A disbarred attorney based in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., has pled guilty in White Plains federal court to stealing government funds.Gustavo L. Vila’s plea results from his theft of approximately $1 million that the U.S....
Nov 2 2020 // Insurers are bracing for a hit of about $4.3 billion from Hurricane Zeta in the United States, catastrophe modeling company Karen Clark & Co (KCC) said on Monday.At least six people were killed in the southeast of the...
Nov 2 2020 // A Russia-based ransomware group responsible for a new wave of attacks against U.S. hospitals is laying the groundwork to cripple at least ten more, according to the cyber-security firm Prevailion Inc.Prevailion’s...
Nov 2 2020 // Retail investors placed bids for a record $3 trillion of shares in Ant Group Co. Ltd.’s dual listing in an unprecedented show of interest by mom-and-pop savers betting on demand for its financial services in...
Oct 30 2020 // Specialty insurer and reinsurer Argo Group International is exiting the grocery and retail lines of business, which include providing general liability and self-insured retention risk management programs for grocery...
Oct 30 2020 // The world’s property/casualty insurers would have to collect business interruption insurance premiums for 150 years in order to absorb the estimated US$4.5 trillion global output loss inflicted by COVID-19 and its...
Oct 29 2020 // Tropical Storm Zeta is spinning across the U.S. South after walloping New Orleans, blacking out 1.9 million homes and businesses and leaving a trail of wreckage from Louisiana to North Carolina.Zeta made landfall near...
Oct 29 2020 // Facebook Inc. risks being dragged into a UK legal dispute involving almost 1 million British users affected by the Cambridge Analytica scandal, two years after revelations about the misuse of private data caused a global...
Oct 29 2020 // Eastern European criminals are targeting dozens of U.S. hospitals with ransomware, and federal officials on Wednesday urged healthcare facilities to beef up preparations rapidly in case they are next.The FBI is...
Oct 28 2020 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday it will allow farmers to spray crops with weed killers based on the chemical dicamba that are sold by Bayer AG and other companies, after a U.S. appeals court...
Oct 27 2020 // Uber Technologies Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of violating the U.S. Civil Rights Act by firing minority drivers based on how they’re rated by customers.“Uber is aware that passengers are prone to discriminate...
Oct 27 2020 // When the coronavirus pandemic slammed the United States in March, the Detroit Three automakers shut their plants and brought their North American vehicle production to an unprecedented cold stop.Now, four months after a...
Oct 27 2020 // Zeta will move into the Gulf of Mexico in the next few hours after making landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula, then regain strength as it heads north toward Louisiana and likely comes ashore Wednesday.Now a tropical storm...
Oct 26 2020 // Chinese financial technology giant Ant Group has set terms for a dual listing aimed at raising up to $34.4 billion from the world’s largest stock market debut, with investors scrambling for a piece of the...
Oct 26 2020 // BP on Sunday said it has begun to evacuate four offshore U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil platforms and secure facilities as Tropical Storm Zeta sprang up in the Caribbean Sea.The 27th named storm of this year’s Atlantic...
Oct 26 2020 // The U.S. nuclear power reactors facing the highest risks of a meltdown from earthquakes are not in tremor-prone California, but states including South Carolina and Missouri, an analysis of government data published on...
Oct 23 2020 // Three more people have pleaded guilty to conspiring to stage accidents between automobiles and tractor-trailers in Louisiana, federal authorities say.Roderick Hickman, 49, of Baton Rouge; Bernell Gale, 43, of Raceland; and...
Oct 23 2020 // American International Group Inc. settled a case involving cross-border transactions the government claimed amounted to improper tax shelters.The insurer agreed to pay a 10% penalty and disallow more than $400 million in...