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Biden blocks $14 billion acquisition of US Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has blocked the nearly $15 billion proposed deal for Nippon Steel of Japan to purchase Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel — affirming his earlier vow on the presidential campaign trail to prevent the acquisition of Steeltown USA's most storied steel ...

Rise of US Steel paralleled the arrival of the United States on the world stage

President Joe Biden blocked the $15 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel by Japan's Nippon Steel on Friday — something he had first vowed to do in March. His decision comes after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, known as CFIUS, failed to reach consensus on the possible ...

Republican Mike Johnson reelected House speaker in dramatic floor vote

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Mike Johnson won reelection to the House speakership on a first ballot Friday, pushing past GOP hard-right holdouts and buoyed with a nod of support from President-elect Donald Trump. A collection of hardline Republicans convened in the back of the House chamber ...

5 things we know and still don’t know about COVID, 5 years after it appeared

Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world. The germ didn't have a name, nor did the illness it would cause. It wound up setting off a pandemic that exposed deep inequities in the global health system and reshaped public opinion ...