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Apple’s Tariff Refund Gambit: Billions Back to Boost U.S. Factories Amid Trump Tension
Apple Inc. is moving ahead with claims for tariff refunds on billions in duties paid under now-invalidated Trump-era measures, but CEO Tim Cook made clear Thursday any cash reco...
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GM’s $6 Billion U.S. Factory Surge: Reviving Sloan’s Vision Amid EV Pullback
General Motors has poured more than $6 billion into its American factories over the past year. The latest chunk: $830 million across three propulsion plants in Michigan and Ohio...
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10th Circuit Shields Unserialized Gun Parts Under Second Amendment, Boosting Home Firearm Builders
A federal appeals court has handed a victory to gun enthusiasts who craft their own firearms. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit ruled on April 23, 2026, that Col...
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Valve’s Steam Controller Leaks Signal May 4 Launch: Trackpads, $99 Price and a PC Gaming Revival
Leaks don't get much hotter than this. A Japanese review site briefly posted details on Valve's new Steam Controller, pinning a May 4 release before yanking the page. Japanes...
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California’s Advanced Manufacturing Exemption Under Fire: SB 954 Threatens State’s Tech Ambitions
California's push to become a hub for advanced manufacturing faces a fresh hurdle. Senate Bill 954, introduced by Sen. Catherine Blakespear, aims to tighten the state's prize...
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Japan’s Factories Surge on War Fears: PMI Hits Four-Year Peak Amid Supply Chain Alarms
Japan's factories fired up like never before in April. The flash manufacturing purchasing managers' index rocketed to 54.9, the highest reading since January 2022 and up sharply...
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Tornado Tears Into Rivian’s R2 Heartland Factory, Threatening Pivotal EV Rollout
A vicious EF-1 tornado slammed into Rivian's Normal, Illinois plant on April 17, ripping away chunks of roof and wall from Building 2—the nerve center for its upcoming R2 SUV...
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Apple’s Touchscreen MacBook Dreams Snagged by AI-Fueled Memory Crunch
A global scramble for memory chips has thrown Apple's ambitious hardware plans into disarray. The company's next Mac Studio now faces a postponement to October 2026. And the lon...
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California’s Ghost Gun Crackdown Collides With the First Amendment — and the EFF Is Drawing Battle Lines
California wants to ban the digital blueprints for 3D-printed firearms. The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that's censorship. The collision between gun control ambitions...
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Tariffs’ Hidden Toll: Why America’s Manufacturing Revival Demands Workers, Not Walls
President Donald Trump's tariff push promised to spark the greatest manufacturing boom in U.S. history. Steel and aluminum duties would shield factories. Jobs would flood back....
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Japan’s Factory Confidence Craters as Tariff Shock and Middle East Tremors Collide
Japanese manufacturers are rattled. A Reuters monthly poll released in late April showed business confidence among the country's factory operators falling to its lowest point...
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Samsung’s $1.8 Billion Vietnam Bet Signals a Tectonic Shift in Global Semiconductor Strategy
Samsung Electronics is doubling down on Vietnam — and the stakes are enormous. The South Korean conglomerate recently committed to investing roughly $1.8 billion to build an...
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Mitsubishi Motors Bets Big on Hybrid Assembly in Thailand as Japanese Automakers Scramble to Hold Southeast Asia
Mitsubishi Motors will begin producing hybrid electric vehicles at its Laem Chabang plant in Thailand by 2027, a move that signals how seriously Japanese automakers are takin...
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America’s Biggest Shipbuilder Just Bet on AI to Fix a Crisis Decades in the Making
Huntington Ingalls Industries, the largest military shipbuilder in the United States, has entered a partnership with artificial intelligence firm GrayMatter Robotics to deplo...
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The $300 Billion Question: Can Any FDA-Approved Drug Survive America’s Tariff Gauntlet?
The pharmaceutical industry has spent decades building global supply chains that stretch from chemical plants in China and India to sterile manufacturing floors in Ireland an...
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