Colleen Long

Associated Press

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

September 5, 2025

Facility Threatened as Commerce Department Pulls $7.4B in CHIPS Funding

August 28, 2025

Amanda Follett works on packages at A Sight For Sport Eyes, a brick-and-mortar and e-commerce store for sport goggles, Aug. 20, 2025, in West Linn, Ore.

The U.S. Tariff Exemption for Small Orders Ends Friday

August 27, 2025

This photo provided by Noveon Magnetics, a row of specialized furnaces that are used to produce rare earth magnets sits inside the Noveon Magnetics plant in San Marcos, Texas.

Trump Administration Investing in U.S. Rare Earths in Push to Break China's Grip

August 27, 2025

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing has a new podcast brought to you by the editors of Industrial Media. In each episode, we discuss the five biggest stories in manufacturing, and the implications they have on the industry moving forward.

September 5, 2025

President Joe Biden departs after speaking during a visit at the Port of Baltimore on Nov. 10, 2021.

Biden Says Patience Will Lead Infrastructure Bill to Aid Economy

The president toured the Port of Baltimore at the start of what is likely to be a national tour to showcase his signature legislation.

November 11, 2021

This December 2020 image provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows counterfeit N95 surgical masks that were seized by ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Feds Seize More than 10M Fake N95 Masks in New Investigation

The most recent seizures occurred Wednesday when agents intercepted hundreds of thousands of counterfeit 3M masks in an East Coast warehouse.

February 17, 2021

This December 2020 image provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows a counterfeit N95 surgical mask that was seized by ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Feds Investigating Giant Counterfeit N95 Mask Scam

There have been already more than 1,250 raids by law enforcement that resulted in the seizure of 10 million counterfeit 3M masks alone.

February 10, 2021

United Auto Workers members leave the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Warren Truck Plant..

Automakers Help Restart US Industry

More than 130,000 autoworkers returned to factories across the U.S.

May 19, 2020

In this April 27, 2020 file photo, a plastic sheet is laid between two workers needing to face each other to perform their task, as a safety measure for coronavirus contamination, at the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles plants of Atessa, in Central Italy. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has confirmed a request for an Italian state-backed loan to help the sector relaunch from the coronavirus shutdown, a move that set off debate in Italy over whether such money should be made available to companies with legal headquarters overseas.

Fiat Chrysler Asks Italy for $6.8B Loan

The move set off debate over allocating funding to companies with their legal headquarters overseas.

May 17, 2020

Fiat Chrysler Ap

Fiat Chrysler Reports Q1 Loss

CEO Mike Manley says the recovery depends on what economic incentives governments devise.

May 5, 2020

A McAllen K-9 police officer walks past rebar that will make up the border wall before DHS Acting Homeland Secretary Chad Wolf tours and speaks to the local media at the border wall under construction on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, south of Donna, Texas.

Watchdog Audits $400M Wall Contract

The audit is being performed, in part, over concerns the proposals did not meet operational requirements and prototypes came in late and over budget.

December 16, 2019