The Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arm of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it executed its largest single-site raid to date, detaining 475 people at the Hyundai–LG battery plant under construction in Georgia. Dubbed Operation Low Voltage, hundreds of federal agents entered the facility on Thursday, according to HSI Special Agent in Charge Steven Schrank, who called “the largest single site enforcement operation in the history of Homeland Security Investigations.”...

A tug has reached the Morning Midas, six days after a presumed battery fire broke out, causing the crew to abandon ship. The vessel, operated by the British firm Zodiac Marine, was transporting 3,000 cars – 800 of them electric – from China to Mexico on June 3, when the crew noticed smoke billowing out of the level where the electric cars are parked. They tried to tackle the blaze but had to take to the lifeboats, after which a merchant craft that responded to their mayday message rescued th...