Industry News
Fast-fashion online retailer Shein, which is hoping to list in London, faces a U.K. hearing on Jan. 7 where a British parliamentary committee plans to question the firm, founded in China in 2008, about the rights of workers in its …
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Chinese state-sponsored hackers broke into the computers of senior U.S. Treasury Department leaders as part of a recent breach of the agency, according to a U.S. official and another person familiar with the matter. The hackers were able to access …
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A gruesome attack on revelers celebrating New Year’s in New Orleans thrust U.S. domestic security back into the spotlight just weeks before Donald Trump is sworn in as president. The tragedy, which killed at least 15 people and injured dozens …
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Waves of intense cold will send temperatures plunging as much as 20F (11C) below normal across the central and eastern U.S. this month, triggering ice storms that could down power lines and snarl travel from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic. …
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An employee who was injured when rescuing chocolate candies from the heat in his employer-owned delivery truck is not due workers’ compensation benefits. The Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission (WCC) upheld a deputy commissioner’s denial of benefits, agreeing that Ronald Mark …
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Commercial aviation has suffered its deadliest year since 2018 after the Jeju Air Co. disaster in South Korea and last week’s downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane. Fatalities onboard passenger aircraft jumped to 318 this year with the two recent …
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Maryland is suing the company that produces the waterproof material Gore-Tex often used for raincoats and other outdoor gear, alleging its leaders kept using “forever chemicals” long after learning about serious health risks associated with them. The complaint, which was …
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A federal judge in Connecticut refused to dismiss a long-running lawsuit accusing the former Nestle Waters North America of defrauding consumers by labeling its Poland Spring bottled water as “spring water.” While rejecting some claims in the proposed class action, …
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U.S.-based utility Duke Energy said it filed a plan with the Florida Public Service Commission (FPSC) to recover about $1.1 billion in direct costs associated with the company’s emergency activation and response to hurricanes Debby, Helene and Milton. Severe storms …
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A U.S. judge said Hain Celestial Group must face a proposed class action claiming its labels failed to disclose the alleged presence of arsenic in some of its baby food. U.S. District Judge Nina Morrison in Brooklyn said parents plausibly …
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