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A growing Canadian boycott of American products shows just how powerful country-of-origin shopping can become—and why American manufacturers cannot take loyal export customers for granted.
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Dan River Mills once employed 14,000 people and helped define life in Danville, Virginia. Its rise, closure and afterlife show what America loses when productive capacity leaves a community.
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Heart Aerospace's X1 became the world's largest battery-electric aircraft to fly, completing a 27-minute test over upstate New York for about $5 in electricity. The American-built demonstrator is helping lay the groundwork for a 30-seat hybrid-electric regional aircraft.
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Buying American isn’t all or nothing. Yet that is exactly how the choice is often presented: either every item in your home must be made in the USA, or your effort does not count.…
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A Columbia University investigation says Amazon and Walmart’s AI shopping tools can identify country-of-origin conflicts but often fail to help shoppers find genuinely American-made products.
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SEG Solar has opened a $200 million, 4 GW solar-module factory in Tomball, Texas, with plans to create up to 800 American manufacturing jobs.
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Picture a town where a factory just announced it is hiring 1,000 people. Who looks at that town and says, "This is terrible. I wish we still made less"? Nobody. Manufacturing isn’t nostalgia. It’s prosperity.
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Foxlink has opened its first U.S. AI factory in Fort Worth, Texas, with advanced electronics production expected to begin in August and roughly 900 jobs projected at full capacity.
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Most people glance at a country-of-origin label for about two seconds. Or not at all. But every time you see the words Made in USA, you are looking at somebody’s Tuesday.
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When people picture a factory, they picture the people inside it. They are right — but they are missing most of the story. Because every factory has a coffee shop.
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Century Aluminum's Mount Holly smelter is running at 100% for the first time since 2015, lifting U.S. primary aluminum output roughly 10%. Here's what actually drove the restart — and what still comes from overseas.
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A Tacoma terminal just ordered new port cranes from South Korea. The U.S. hasn't built a ship-to-shore crane since 1989 — and the effort to bring that industry home isn't finished yet.
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