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Starbucks agreed last week to settle a discrimination lawsuit by the state of Florida, pledging not to adopt race- or sex-based quotas or preferences in hiring, promotion and pay decisions. Starbucks and Florida’s Republican Attorney General James Uthmeier jointly announced …
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India’s food regulator said it has initiated legal action against Nestle India Ltd. for breaching infant nutrition marketing rules and for substandard manufacturing. The company’s promotional material for Nan Excella Pro Stage 1 and Lactogen Pro Stage 1 claims to …
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A liquefied natural gas tanker bringing fuel from the U.S. to Europe suffered a systems failure that the crew reported as a suspected cyber-attack, according to people familiar with the matter. In the latest of a number of potential cybersecurity …
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Heat will continue to sear the Great Plains and central Mississippi Valley this weekend, as well as pushing into Texas, Oklahoma and even the eastern U.S., prompting the nation’s largest grid operator to call on customers to conserve energy. Dallas …
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A senior Glencore Plc executive last year urged counterparts at Radiant World not to communicate by email, according to WhatsApp messages from the company’s head of iron ore seen by Bloomberg News. “Say nothing on email,” Peter Hill wrote in …
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Multilevel marketing company Amway Corp. and two of its affiliates will pay the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Washington state $225 million to resolve allegations it recruited new members by deceptive claims about how much money they could make, the …
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Open-source artificial intelligence is making it easier for hackers to hide malicious code on blockchains, opening a new front in a crypto industry already grappling with rising cybercrime. Instances of malware instructions written into on-chain transactions and smart contracts are …
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Credit Acceptance Corp. agreed to a $710 million settlement with 40 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. to resolve charges it drove thousands of borrowers with low incomes and low credit scores into predatory auto loans it knew they could not …
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The Atlantic has been pretty quiet so far this season, but one system east of Bermuda could soon develop into a tropical storm, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday. If the storm were to develop into a Category 5 hurricane …
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U.S. EV maker Lucid Group and European shared mobility platform Bolt said on Thursday they are teaming up to roll out self-driving ride services across Europe, as they seek to tap into the region’s emerging robotaxi market. Lucid shares rose …
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