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MEXICO CITY (AP) — An American quarry company said the Mexican government carried out a de-facto expropriation of its properties on Mexico’s Caribbean coast. Mexico’s Interior Department issued a decree declaring the firm’s seaport and quarries to be a natural protected area, in effect prohibiting the company’s activities on its own land. President Andrés Manuel [...]
An arbitration board has ruled that U.S. Steel may proceed with its proposed acquisition by Nippon Steel, a deal that faces opposition from its workforce. The board, which was jointly chosen by U.S. Steel and the United Steelworkers to decide disputes between them, said that U.S. Steel has satisfied each of the conditions of the [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio upheld the conviction of a man who challenged the verdict form used during the trial in which Mario Mays contested charges against him that included violating a protection order. The 4-3 court concluded that a verdict form’s citation of the statutory section that mandates the degree of the offense satisfied [...]
The extent of contamination and risks from the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine last year still are not fully known, according to research by the Associated Press. The method by which the Environmental Protection Agency reported its findings doesn’t offer specific measurements for chemicals that it says fall below a level considered dangerous [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa, alleging that the financial services company uses its size and dominance to stifle competition in the debit card market, costing consumers and businesses billions of dollars. The complaint filed earlier this week says San Francisco-based Visa penalizes merchants and banks [...]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — California avocado growers are fuming about a federal government decision to hand over pest inspections of Mexican orchards to the Mexican government. Inspectors hired by the U.S. Department of Agriculture have been guarding against imports of avocados infected with insects and diseases since 1997, but they also have been threatened in [...]
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Faculty have accused the University of California system of labor violations over what they say was a sweeping campaign to suppress pro-Palestinian speech and campus protests across the state earlier this year. The Council of University of California Faculty Associations made the allegations in a complaint filed last week with the [...]
BOSTON (AP) — The federal government was mostly responsible for a nighttime collision involving a snowmobiler who nearly died after hitting a Black Hawk helicopter that was parked on a Massachusetts trail, a judge ruled in awarding him $3.3 million in damages. U.S. District Judge Mark Mastroianni blamed both parties for the March 2019 crash, [...]
BALTIMORE (AP) — Attorneys for the U.S. Naval Academy say the officer training school should be allowed to continue using race as an admissions factor because prioritizing diversity in the military makes it stronger, more effective and more widely respected, according to recent court filings and testimony during an ongoing civil trial in Maryland. The [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California has sued ExxonMobil, alleging the oil giant deceived the public for half a century by promising that the plastics it produced would be recycled. Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office said that less than 5 percent of plastic is recycled into another plastic product in the United States even though the [...]