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Biden, Trump in dueling US auto strike trips
Biden, Trump in dueling US auto strike trips
Business and Economy
by  AFP

US President Joe Biden will join the picket line with striking auto workers on a historic trip to Michigan Tuesday, putting him on a collision course with likely 2024 election rival Donald Trump who visits a day later. She insisted Biden's visit to the picket line in Wayne County, Michigan, was "absolutely not" influenced by Trump's planned trip to the state the following day.

Ford pauses work on $3.5 bn battery plant
Ford pauses work on $3.5 bn battery plant
Business and Economy
by  AFP

Ford is halting work on a major battery plant in the northern US state of Michigan, the automaker said Monday, just seven months after launching the project with a Chinese partner. Ford said it would work with the Chinese company Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. to manufacture lithium iron phosphate batteries beginning in 2026 at the Marshall plant.

Tech firms roll back misinformation curbs ahead of 2024 polls
Tech firms roll back misinformation curbs ahead of 2024 polls
Business and Economy
by  AFP

As a global election season widely expected to be mired in misinformation and falsehoods fast approaches, the big US-based tech platforms are walking back policies meant to curb them, stoking alarm. "Social media companies aren't ready for the 2024 election tsunami," the watchdog Global Coalition for Tech Justice said in a report this month.