Aug 14 (Reuters) - Following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
- U.S. Steel rejected an unsolicited offer from rival Cleveland-Cliffs, stopping for now a $7 billion deal that would significantly reshape the domestic steel industry.
- Hunter Biden's legal team said late Sunday the Justice Department had decided to "renege on the previously agreed-upon plea agreement," escalating a dispute that is threatening to become a factor in the 2024 presidential race as President Biden seeks re-election.
- Neeraj Khemlani, who is president and co-head of the unit that houses both CBS News and its television station holdings, is resigning and has entered into a content and development deal with parent company Paramount Global.
- The state of Texas in the United States sued British oil giant Shell and the other owner of a petrochemical and refinery complex near Houston that caught fire in May over alleged environmental damage.
- The wildfire that reduced Lahaina in Hawaii to an ashy rubble has left at least 93 people dead, officials said, making it America's deadliest wildfire event in over a century.
(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)
