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The number of companies at the greatest risk of defaulting are at an 11-month high, as uncertainty around US trade and tariffs worsened credit conditions, according to a Moody’s Ratings report.

Federal prosecutors have indicted five people in Louisiana - three current or former police chiefs, a marshal and a business owner - for conspiracy to commit visa fraud over the alleged filing of false police reports that would allow immigrants to apply for a visa intended for crime victims.

Federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who worked on the criminal cases of Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell, was fired Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Alia Atwell had been planning to install solar panels on her roof ever since she replaced it two years ago. But when President Donald Trump was elected last year, she quickly sped up the project, assuming that federal tax credits for green initiatives could disappear. Atwell, 35, had her panels installed in May. By the beginning of July, her predictions had come to fruition with the passing of ...