By Kevin Buckland and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba asked U.S. President Joe Biden to allay concerns in the Japanese and U.S. business communities over the status of Nippon Steel's planned acquisition of U.

TOKYO -- Nippon Steel's plan to buy U.S. Steel has entered a new phase with the companies' declaration of a full-scale legal war against the U.S. government. They hope the lawsuits will overturn President Joe Biden's order to give up the acquisition.

The bid by Japan’s Nippon Steel to buy U.S. Steel may have a new lease on life, now that the Biden Administration pushed back the deadline it imposed for the Japanese steelmaker to abandon its plan to acquire the storied Pittsburgh company.

Japan's Nippon Steel remains interested in working with the incoming administration of Donald Trump to try to seal a takeover of U.S. Steel, its vice chairman Takahiro Mori said an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal.

Local steelworkers are holding out hope that the U.S. Steel sale with Nippon Steel goes through. A Philadelphia sports fan, who went on a misogynistic tirade against a female Green Bay Packers fan in viral video,

The battle for the future of U.S. manufacturing dominance has taken a dramatic turn as Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel mobilize a legal counterattack, filing