The reserve holds an estimated 8.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil, according to a 2017 assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey. (Lance King/Getty Images) The Trump administration is moving to repeal Biden-era curbs blocking oil drilling across most of the mammoth petroleum reserve in Alaska that’s home to an estimated 8.7 billion barrels of recoverable ...more
Ontario Premier Doug Ford with Carney. (David Kawai/Bloomberg) Prime Minister Mark Carney is pushing to offset the economic pain caused by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs by compelling Canadian provinces to liberalize trade with one another. Trump’s erratic policy announcements have sent Canadian companies scrambling to find new buyers, as economists see exports declining sharply ...more
Trump hopes the increased levies will protect margins for domestic mills and spur investment in new production capacity. (Rebecca Droke/Bloomberg) Futures tracking the prices U.S. manufacturers pay for aluminum and steel surged after President Donald Trump said he will double tariffs on the metals this week. Contracts linked to the all-in price of aluminum delivered ...more
(Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg News) Uber Technologies named longtime executive Andrew Macdonald as its first chief operating officer since 2019, part of an executive shake-up that includes the departure of the company’s top delivery leader. Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, senior vice president of delivery, has decided to leave Uber after nearly 13 years, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a ...more
Port of Prince Rupert in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, on Canada's West Coast. (Ben Nelms/Bloomberg News) Canada’s provincial leaders urged Prime Minister Mark Carney to back new oil pipelines, electricity grids, critical mineral mines, ports and railways at a meeting June 2 meant to identify “nation-building” projects to be fast-tracked. The meeting is a first ...more
A containership departs the Port of Long Beach. (Tim Rue/Bloomberg News) A group of small businesses that won a ruling that most of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs are illegal want them blocked during the administration’s appeal, saying they are suffering immediate harm from economic uncertainty around the levies. In a June 2 filing in ...more
The new law's intent is to reduce the number of head-on crashes, which are the most common type of rural roadway accident in the state. (Nevada Department of Transportation) Nevada is proactively installing road signs three years before a new law takes effect that will alert motorists to always turn their headlights on while traveling ...more
A man was arrested in North Carolina on Monday after holding a truck driver at gun point and trying to cause an explosion. The incident began at around 9 a.m. in the parking area beside the Country Market Convenience Store on Startown Road in Maiden, North Carolina.According to WCNC, 54-year-old James Matthew Roland first approached ...more
Watch yet another truck lose the train vs. semi truck battle in this cell phone video footage captured in Florida last week. The collision happened on Thursday, May 29th on the train tracks at US Highway 1 and Lake Washington Road in Melbourne, Florida. According to 7 News, witness Melissa Katz watched and filmed the entire ...more
A couple from Louisville, Kentucky, was sentenced to federal prison last month for fraud and identity theft. On May 28, 2025, Yeniseis Saavedra, 35, was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in prison to be followed by 3 years of supervised release for one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, one count of ...more
