WEIRTON, West Virginia — The hum is gone. It was a sound that told locals that men and women were working. It told small businesses that have tried to hold on, after each cutback at the iconic steel mill that for over 100 years defined their skyline, […]
BALTIMORE — Crews conducted a controlled demolition Monday to break down the largest remaining span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. The explosives flashed orange and let off plumes of black smoke upon detonation, and the span crumpled into the water in seconds. The longest trusses toppled away from the grounded Dali […]
PITTSBURGH — A steel drum weighing thousands of pounds somehow rolled out of a construction site in Pittsburgh and eventually struck and killed a woman who was walking on a nearby sidewalk, police said. The accident occurred around 10:40 a.m. Friday in the city’s Oakland neighborhood, where the University of Pittsburgh’s new sports performance center […]
TOKYO — Nippon Steel said Friday it has postponed the expected closing of its $14.1 billion takeover of U.S. Steel by three months after the U.S. Department of Justice requested more documentation related to the deal. Tokyo-based Nippon Steel Corp. said the deal, already approved by U.S. Steel‘s shareholders, is still expected to go through. […]
A freight train derailed around 6:00 Monday morning, resulting in the closure of the Steel Bridge in Portland, Oregon, just in time for rush hour. Six cars from the Union Pacific freight train were involved in the accident, according to KPTV — two empty lumber cars that were completely derailed, and four others that only […]
BUTLER, Pennsylvania — On Friday, just hours before United States Steel shareholders approved the sale of the legendary Pittsburgh-based company to Japan’s Nippon Steel, Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves stood in front of a packed room of steelworkers at his Butler Works plant and let them know just what he thought of […]
President Biden said Wednesday he “stands by” his commitment to American workers in opposing a planned acquisition of Pittsburgh-based U.S. steel by a Japanese company, a stance Mr. Biden reiterated in a press conference with Japan’s prime minister. At the same time, Mr. Biden and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida downplayed the idea that one business […]
BALTIMORE — As crews continued the complicated and meticulous operation of removing the steel and concrete from the fallen Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, some near the site took time on Easter Sunday to reflect on the six workers presumed to have plunged to their deaths. As cranes periodically swung into place and workers […]
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would stop the sale of U.S. Steel to the Japanese company set to buy it. “I would block it instantaneously. Absolutely,” Mr. Trump told reporters after his meeting with Teamsters’ leaders in Washington. “We saved the steel industry. Now U.S. Steel is being bought by Japan. So […]
The administration’s expanding border wall troubles have infected President Biden’s nominee for undersecretary of the Air Force, who encountered trouble on Capitol Hill this week over her role in the Pentagon’s hasty and wasteful sell-off of the construction materials. Republican senators pummeled Melissa G. Dalton over her job as the Pentagon’s top homeland defense official. […]
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