A salmonella outbreak linked to a large egg recall has made dozens of people sick in seven states in the West and Midwest, federal health officials said. The August Egg Company recalled about 1.7 million brown organic and brown cage-free egg varieties distributed to grocery stores between February and May because of the potential for [...]
The state of Ohio has allocated $2 million for cleanup and remediation work at the site of the former Eastland Mall in Columbus. The money was awarded from the state’s Brownfield Remediation Program to the Central Ohio Community Improvement Corporation for the project, which will include asbestos abatement and demolition of eight dilapidated structures on [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s employers slowed hiring last month, but still added 139,000 jobs, according to a new federal government report. Hiring fell from a revised 147,000 in April, the Department of Labor said late last week. The job gains last month were above the 130,000 that economists had forecast. Health-care companies added 62,000 [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court last week unanimously decided to toss out a $10 billion lawsuit Mexico filed against top firearm manufacturers in the United States that claimed the companies’ business practices were helping fuel cartel violence plaguing the country. In a victory for the firearm industry, the ruling tossed out the case under [...]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Brown-Forman Corp. last week reported weaker sales as the maker of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey says it confronts challenging market conditions amid global trade conflicts and pinched consumer spending. The Louisville, Ky.,-based spirits giant said its full-year net sales of nearly $4 billion were down 5 percent from a year ago [...]
Federal authorities are moving to drop a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Sheetz convenience store chain, part of a broader effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to halt the use of a key tool for enforcing the country’s civil rights laws. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces workplace anti-discrimination laws, confirmed it has begun [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A three-judge appeals panel rejected Apple’s request to pause an April 30 order banning the company from charging a fee on in-app iPhone transactions processed outside its once-exclusive payment system in a two-page decision issued last week. The setback threatens to divert billions of dollars in revenue away from Apple while [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States declined to label China a currency manipulator in a new Treasury report released last week, but accuses Beijing of standing out among America’s major trading partners for lacking transparency in its exchange rate policies. Treasury’s semi-annual report to Congress — called Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies of Major Trading [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is slapping sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court over the tribunal’s investigation into alleged war crimes by Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza and in the West Bank. The State Department said last week it would freeze any assets the ICC judges, who come [...]