内容摘要：Two US megacorporations - Tempur Sealy International, with its headquarters in Lexington, Kentucky, and Serta Simmons Holdings, based in Atlanta, Georgia - together account for nearly half of mattress sales in the entire industry.

Two US megacorporations - Tempur Sealy International, with its headquarters in Lexington, Kentucky, and Serta Simmons Holdings, based in Atlanta, Georgia - together account for nearly half of mattress sales in the entire industry.

Later, Trump’s Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reiterated the president’s outrage and warned of dire consequences.“The evil of anti-Semitism must be eradicated from our society,” she said. “The Department of Justice will be prosecuting the perpetrator responsible for this to the fullest extent of the law.”

She also tied the shooting to Trump’s crackdown on anti-Semitism, which has largely focused on antiwar student protesters demonstrating against Israel’s war on Gaza.“Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked thousands of student visas from campuses where these pro-Hamas terrorist campus agitators and violent protests took place,” Leavitt explained.“We’ve also withheld funding from those varied campuses as well in an effort to combat anti-Semitism. So the president has made it very clear that such hatred will have no place in our country.”

Israeli officials also strongly condemned the incident, describing it as a “despicable act of hatred”. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after the shooting: “We are witnessing the terrible price of anti-Semitism and the wild incitement against the State of Israel.“I have instructed to enhance security arrangements at Israeli missions around the world and to increase protection for state representatives,” Netanyahu said.

On Thursday, reactions and condolences poured in from other countries as well.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called the shooting a “heinous act” in a post on X, adding that at the moment “we must assume there was an anti-Semitic motive”.A large share of grills sold in the US are imported, mainly from China, Vietnam and South Korea. Several well-known brands, including Weber, Char-Broil and Traeger, have moved a significant portion of their manufacturing operations overseas, with much of it now based in China.

The reality of global trade is complex, and understanding the interconnectedness in supply chains is crucial in navigating the future of US manufacturing.A 31-year-old suspect, Elias Rodriguez, is in custody for shooting dead two Israeli embassy staffers in the US capital near a Jewish museum on Wednesday night.

Two staff members from the Israeli embassy in the United States wereon Wednesday night as they left a Jewish museum in Washington, DC, prompting outrage from US and Israeli officials.