250 million bees have broken loose from their hives after a semi truck wrecked, spilling its load of bee hives.  The accident happened at around 4 a.m. in a rural area near the Canadian border in Whatcom County, Washington on Friday, May 30th. According to KOMO News, the semi truck was loaded with 70,000 pounds of ...more

Love’s Travel Stops announced that several stores have undergone major remodels so far this year. Love’s recently announced that seven truck stops located across the U.S. have been upgraded as part of the company’s Strategic Remodel Initiative (SRI).Features of the remodeled stores include expanded restrooms, upgraded showers, improved laundry facilities, and Love’s Fresh Kitchens. See below ...more

President Donald Trump in the White House on May 28. (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg) President Donald Trump’s appetite for new tariffs remains undeterred, even after a court hit his signature duties with their most devastating blow yet. White House officials quickly signaled May 29 that Trump will pursue many of the same levies through other legal authorities, ...more

Camry vehicles produced at the Toyota plant in Georgetown, Ky. (Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg) Toyota Motor Corp. is betting Americans are ready for more U.S.-made electric vehicles. And if they aren’t, it has a plan: exports. Production of two American-made all-electric models is slated to begin next year, joining three new imported EVs Toyota aims to have ...more

(David Zalubowski/AP/file) Ford Motor Co. issued a recall for over 1 million of its vehicles on May 9 due to a rearview camera software issue, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The recall affects 44 products across its Ford and Lincoln brands in the United States. Among those are certain Ford Bronco, Mustang ...more

Shoppers load groceries at Costco store in Burbank, Calif. (Damian Dovarganes/AP/File) WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy shrank at a 0.2% annual pace from January through March, the first drop in three years, as President Donald Trump’s trade wars disrupted business, the government said May 29 in a slight upgrade of its initial estimate. First-quarter growth ...more

A combine harvester cuts, threshes and cleans soybeans during a harvest in Waynesfield, Ohio. (Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg) After losing their biggest export market due to Donald Trump’s trade wars, U.S. farmers are now counting on the president’s support for biofuels to prevent their next crop from piling up in storage. The administration is set to soon ...more

A Chevron Corp. oil drilling rig in the Permian Basin near Midland, Texas. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg) Chevron Corp. plans to lay off nearly 800 employees in the Permian Basin, its biggest oil-production operation globally. The bulk of the reductions will come from Chevron’s Midcontinent campus on the outskirts of Midland, Texas, the company said in a ...more

President Donald Trump announces his "Liberation Day" tariffs on April 2 in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington. (Mark Schiefelbein/Associated Press) WASHINGTON — A federal court on May 28 blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency powers law, swiftly throwing into doubt Trump’s signature set of ...more

Ford Executive Chair Bill Ford at the initial 2023 announcement of the battery plant planned for Marshall, Mich. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images) Ford Motor Co.’s plan to make electric vehicle batteries at a new site in Michigan would be put at risk if Congress cuts federal incentives for clean energy, the company’s chair said. The plant ...more