President Donald Trump suggested he might be willing to allow a Chinese car company to build electric vehicles in the US if it did so with American workers, while pledging to maintain the effective US ban on imported vehicles from China.

Energy and shipping industry officials are locked in an increasingly bitter lobbying fight over the future of the century-old Jones Act, battling to determine the long-term fate of the critical protectionist law.

A global shortage of memory chips fueled by the artificial intelligence boom poses a growing risk to industries ranging from automakers to producers of medical devices, according to a coalition of US business groups who urged the Trump administration to help increase supply of the components.

US lawmakers are weighing legislation that would ban carmakers with ties to foreign adversaries, a measure that threatens to upend Mercedes-Benz Group AG’s business in the world’s second-largest auto market because it’s partly owned by China.

Waymo has temporarily halted service in five cities over concerns that its robotaxis may attempt to drive on flooded roads, the latest setback over an issue that recently led the company to recall thousands of vehicles.

Mexico held the world’s largest soccer class on Sunday in the main square of its capital as the country prepares to co-host the World Cup in June.

Mexico’s America Movil SAB is seeking to buy some telecom operations of Grupo Salinas in Colombia as part of a push to expand its reach in the region.

A pair of US companies plans to install electric-vehicle chargers in Mexico’s central region as part of a $500 million investment pact, the latest example of international investors betting on the country’s growing EV sector.

Despite assurances from President Claudia Sheinbaum and her security minister Monday that Mexico was returning to normal after a weekend of cartel violence, many vacationers to Puerto Vallarta and other cities still faced canceled flights and shelter-in-place warnings.

Carlos Slim’s foray into Mexico’s offshore oil market shows no signs of abating, with the Mexican media magnate’s now planning to spend $270 million on the remaining shares of oil fields off the coast of Campeche.