The Campbell’s Co. said it saw stronger sales of broth and condensed soup in its latest quarter as more Americans cooked their meals at home. “Consumers continue to cook at home and focus their spending on products that help them stretch their food budgets, and they’re increasingly intentional about their discretionary snack purchases,” Campbell’s President [...]
DEADHORSE, Alaska (AP) — President Donald Trump wants to double the amount of oil coursing through Alaska’s vast pipeline system and build a massive natural gas project as its “big, beautiful twin,” a top administration official said this week while touring an oil field near the Arctic Ocean. The remarks by U.S. Energy Secretary Chris [...]
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have made it a priority this year to require people to prove citizenship before they can register to vote. Turning that aspiration into reality has proved difficult. Trump’s executive order directing a documentary, proof-of-citizenship requirement for federal elections has been blocked by a judge, while [...]
LONDON (AP) — British water and sewage utility Thames Water said that an American investment firm has dropped a rescue bid for the debt-burdened company. Thames Water said private equity company KKR decided not to make a bid and its status as preferred bidder had lapsed. The utility said it is talking to “senior creditors” [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department last week notified Congress of an updated reorganization of the agency, proposing cuts to programs beyond what had previously been revealed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and a steeper 18 percent reduction of staff in the United States. The planned changes, detailed in a notification letter obtained by [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has formally moved to dismiss a criminal fraud charge against Boeing and has asked a judge to cancel an upcoming trial connected to two plane crashes that killed 346 people off the coast of Indonesia and in Ethiopia, according to court documents filed late last week. The deal [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court last week narrowed the scope of environmental reviews required for major infrastructure projects in a ruling that could accelerate development of railroads, highways and pipelines around the country. The 8-0 decision follows an appeal to the high court from backers of a multibillion-dollar oil railroad expansion project in Utah, [...]
Snack food maker Mondelez International is suing the Aldi supermarket chain, alleging the packaging for Aldi’s store-brand cookies and crackers “blatantly copies” Mondelez products such as Chips Ahoy, Wheat Thins and Oreos. In a federal lawsuit filed last week in Illinois, Chicago-based Mondelez said Aldi’s packaging was “likely to deceive and confuse customers” and threatened [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Businesses impacted by President Donald Trump’s changing tariff policies adjusted last week after a United States appeals court temporarily blocked a federal court order that would have halted most of his taxes on foreign imports. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled that Trump overstepped his authority [...]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — CVS and Express Scripts asked a federal judge last week to block a law prohibiting pharmacy benefit managers from owning or operating pharmacies in Arkansas, challenging the first such restriction enacted by a state. The lawsuits come a little more than a month after Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the [...]