Rihem Akkouche

The United States Postal Service just fired off what reads less like a routine notice and more like a final boarding call for tens of thousands of customers. If you keep an active account with USPS, the countdown clock is already running — and it stops this Thursday. At the heart of it all is USPS account risk changes require password updates before Thursday deadline.

YSA Investments 1, a private lending and asset management firm, has thrown up the white flag in Delaware bankruptcy court, filing for Chapter 11 protection while hauling more than $500 million in debt behind it like an anchor it could no longer keep afloat. The Numbers Behind the Filing According to the petition filed Tuesday, YSA files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware carrying over $500M in debt.

Private equity giant Apax Partners LLP is stepping into pharmaceutical packaging in a big way, agreeing to buy two businesses from Germany's Gerresheimer AG in a deal worth €1.5 billion — roughly $1.7 billion — the companies announced Wednesday. The move signals a clear bet on U.S. expansion, with both sides framing the transaction as Apax Gerresheimer packaging units takeover valued at €1.5 billion announced.

Chinese-made graphite electrodes used in metal smelting just got hit with a countervailing duty rate steep enough to make importers wince — while similar products out of India appear headed for a far gentler landing. The U.S. Department of Commerce announced the preliminary findings Wednesday, concluding that both countries' manufacturers have been propped up by government subsidies, though to wildly different degrees.

A sweeping transformation is underway in the heart of America's energy sector as the $2.2B Permian Combo brings together SoftVest LP and Blackbeard Holdings in a transaction valued at approximately $2.24 billion. The landmark agreement will merge the Dallas-based Permian Basin Royalty Trust with Blackbeard's extensive oil, gas, mineral, and land portfolio, creating a publicly $2.2B Permian Combo creates a new land and minerals giant with major Permian Basin assets.

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. just made its boldest move yet, announcing Friday that it has agreed to acquire Poland's Zabka Group for approximately $8.6 billion — a price tag that instantly becomes the largest acquisition in the Canadian convenience store operator's history. The Offer on the Table Couche-Tard said it plans to launch a voluntary tender Couche-Tard $8.6B deal to buy Poland's Zabka marks biggest acquisition yet.

President Donald Trump swapped the usual White House setting for something far more storied Friday, relocating his Cabinet meeting to the Camp David retreat in Maryland — and using the historic mountain hideaway as a stage to tout his administration's wins while weaving in a migrant crisis overseas as a warning shot ahead of the Trump Cabinet meeting at Camp David marks historic first televised session.

Eric Trump-backed space technology firm Space-Eyes Inc. announced Friday that it's charting a course toward the public markets, agreeing to merge with special purpose acquisition company McKinley Acquisition Corp. in a deal carrying an equity valuation of $638 million — a figure that instantly puts the young defense-tech player on the radar of serious institutional investors.

Kean University failed to put even basic cybersecurity protections in place before a ransomware attack tied to the cybercrime group Qilin tore through its systems, exposing the personal information of thousands of students, applicants, alumni and employees — and leaving them staring down a lifetime risk of identity theft, according to a proposed class action Kean University data breach lawsuit alleges failed cybersecurity safeguards.

Imagine mailing off a winning lottery ticket, then watching days turn into weeks with nothing but silence where a $2,600 windfall should have landed. That's exactly the nightmare one Florida player lived through — and it's the spark that ignited a case now making headlines around the USPS worker lottery theft scandal. A joint investigation USPS worker lottery theft case: mail carrier accused of stealing $2,600 ticket.