By Jessica DiNapoli BOCA RATON, Fla (Reuters) – McCormick & Company Inc is looking to hike prices on its spices and hot sauces at retailers like Walmart Inc and Kroger Co but is getting “pushback” on the increases, CEO Lawrence Kurzius said in an interview with Reuters on Tuesday. Kurzius, speaking on the sidelines of …
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By Valerie Volcovici and Brad Brooks WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The head of the U.S. government’s environmental agency said on Tuesday that rail operator Norfolk Southern Corp must “pay for cleaning up the mess” created when a freight train derailment in Ohio released toxic chemicals into the environment. The comments by the head of the Environmental Protection …
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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Seattle became the first U.S. city to outlaw caste discrimination on Tuesday, after its local council voted to add caste to the city’s anti-discrimination laws. The move addresses an issue important to the area’s South Asian diaspora, particularly the Indian and Hindu communities. India’s caste system is among the world’s …
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(Reuters) – U.S. regulators are investigating Wells Fargo & Co’s retention of employee communications over “unapproved” messaging tools, the bank said on Tuesday, the latest in a crackdown that has already sparked billions of dollars in fines. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission and the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission have undertaken the …
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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The second of two reputed gang members jailed in the execution-style killings of six people in a central California farming town last month, including an infant and his mother, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to murder and weapons charges. Angel Joseph Uriarte, 35, entered his plea and was …
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By Isla Binnie and Simon Jessop NEW YORK (Reuters) – Major U.S. pension fund CalPERS is seeking a meeting with rail operator Norfolk Southern at which it plans to ask about the derailment of a train loaded with toxic chemicals earlier this month, a spokeswoman for the fund said on Tuesday. The U.S. government has …
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By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian wages grew at the fastest annual pace in a decade last quarter but that was still short of market forecasts and could lessen the pressure for further aggressive hikes in interest rates, sending the local dollar lower. Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics out on Wednesday showed its …
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By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday expressed uncertainty over whether to narrow a legal shield protecting internet companies from a wide array of lawsuits in a major case involving YouTube and the family of an American student fatally shot in a 2015 rampage by Islamist militants in …
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By Moira Warburton (Reuters) -Democrat Jennifer McClellan won a special election for the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, a victory that will make her Virginia’s first Black congresswoman, Edison Research projected. The special election was held to fill a vacancy created by the November death of Representative Don McEachin, a Democrat who won re-election …
By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) -A trial challenging Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay at Tesla Inc may hang on whether a single material misleading disclosure to shareholders would void the compensation plan, which the judge hearing the dispute called “a kill shot.” At Tuesday’s closing arguments in a Delaware court, a judge pressed lawyers …
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