• Associated Press

    Sheriff faces questions from Arkansas lawmakers over 'Netflix' series filmed at county jail

    Arkansas lawmakers on Tuesday raised questions about a sheriff's decision to allow a Netflix documentary series to be filmed at the county jail, with one critic saying the move exploited inmates. Pulaski County Sheriff Eric Higgins defended the decision to allow the series, “Unlocked: A Jail Experiment” to be filmed at the county jail. The eight-episode series, which premiered last month, highlights a program giving some inmates more freedom at the Little Rock facility.

  • The Canadian Press

    Fort McMurray, Alta., wildfire forces out hundreds of residents in 4 neighbourhoods

    FORT MCMURRAY, ALBERTA — Hundreds of residents in four neighbourhoods in the southern end of Fort McMurray were ordered out Tuesday as a wildfire threatened the Alberta community, bringing back memories of a devastating fire eight years earlier. The Rural Municipality of Wood Buffalo directed residents in Beacon Hill, Abasand, Prairie Creek and Grayling Terrace needed to leave by late afternoon. Regional fire chief Jody Butz said residents in the four neighbourhoods were being ordered out to cle

  • Yahoo Finance Video

    Biden investments will restore manufacturing capacities: USW leader

    Through the employ of anticompetitive strategies, China's overwhelming manufacturing output forces many producers out of the global market. Namely, American steel and aluminum producers who are at a disadvantage in scale, undermined by China's over-capacities and devaluing of precious metals. But that may all change as President Biden has signed off a new round of tariffs on China that may turn the manufacturing competition on its head. The United Steelworkers (USW) International VP Roxanne Brown joins Executive Editor Brian Sozzi to talk about the pains domestic steel plants and local communities have felt through China's manufacturing encroachments, as well as the Biden administration's investments into American industry past these new tariffs. "President Biden, today, really expanded the [Sanction] 301 tariffs, but on top of that, he has laid across investment policies — not just tariffs — but an investment policy to help domestic industry grow in the future. We're not talking about a short-term solution, we're talking about a long-term, generations-long solution," Brown explains. Brown anticipates steel prices to "level out" in the wake of these tariffs as capacity returns to manufacturing hubs and confidence returns to the US economy: "Hopefully that's a message a lot of Americans hear. It [the economy] feels strong and we see it across a lot of our sectors where companies want to hire because there is so much work to be done." Catch Brian Sozzi's exclusive interview with President Biden where he discusses what these new trade tariffs hope to achieve. This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.