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McEWEN, Tenn. (AP) — The blast in rural Tennessee that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around left no survivors, authorities said Saturday. The total number of dead was unclear, as was the cause of the Friday blast. By the weekend the devastation came into focus, with officials saying they’d found no survivors. READ MORE: Blast at …

There were no survivors in the blast that obliterated part of an explosives factory in rural Tennessee, authorities said on Saturday. The families of 18 people had been waiting anxiously on Saturday as their loved ones had been feared dead since explosions ripped through the plant near McEwen in western Tennessee early on Friday. The initial toll had been believed …

BRANTFORD, Ontario (AP) — Wearing protective gloves and earplugs, a worker feeds lengths of wood into a machine that makes an earsplitting whine as it automatically cuts a groove into the end of each piece. Nearby, stacks of wooden wedges wait to be slotted into those grooves to form the beginnings of a hockey stick. Further down the Roustan Hockey …

A Central New York factory that makes parts for electric heat pumps says it may cut back its expansion plans after President Donald Trump’s administration canceled a $5 million grant to help pay for the project. The $25 million expansion at Bitzer Scroll Inc. in DeWitt would add a new assembly line for the company’s high-efficiency compressors and initially create …

Ford CEO Jim Farley delivered an urgent message at the company’s Ford Pro Accelerate event on Tuesday, revealing a personal “epiphany” about the crisis facing Gen Z and the wider blue-collar workforce that led to his current push to emphasize the problems with what he calls the “essential economy.” Speaking with Bloomberg’s David Westin at Michigan Central Station, Farley said …

Higher stakes, a Fed ‘flying blind,’ and a ‘data desert’: Why this government shutdown would actually matter  Forex Factory Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures edge up with government shutdown in focus  Yahoo Finance Asian Currencies Mostly Strengthen Amid U.S. Government Shutdown Risks  The Wall Street Journal Bloomberg Daybreak Asia: Shutdown Looms, APAC Stocks Mixed  Bloomberg.com Shares Cautious in Asia as US …

At a GE Appliances plant in Louisville, Kentucky, 5,000 workers craft kitchen essentials, including 2 million dishwashers per year, according to the company. “Every 15 seconds, per line, I’ve got a dishwasher coming off the line,” Bill Good, the vice president in charge of the plant, told CBS News. But back in May, nearly 150 workers, mostly Cuban immigrants, were …

Brazil to protect 140 million from dengue with mosquito super factory  Reuters Climate Change and the Spread of Viruses: What Brazil’s Fight Against Dengue Can Teach the World  Pulitzer Center World’s largest mosquito factory fights against deadly disease  The Independent Brazil Turns to Wolbachia Mosquitoes and Homegrown Vaccine in Battle Against Dengue  Sri Lanka Guardian World’s Largest Biofactory Aims to Curb Dengue in Brazil  Devdiscourse …

Undeterred by the recent ICE raid that rounded up hundreds of its workers in Georgia, Hyundai announced a fresh slate of investments in the US, including $2.7 billion into the EV battery factory where the raid took place. The automaker also plans to release a range of new electrified models, including extended-range EVs and over a dozen hybrid vehicles by …

The Apple CEO said his company’s recent $600 billion investment to build factories across the U.S. will create a “domino effect,” boosting manufacturing in the country. “We can’t be everywhere. I wish we could, but we are putting $600 billion to work in the next four years,” Cook told CNBC’s Jim Cramer during a TV interview on Monday. “And so …