WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. nuclear regulator said on Tuesday it has launched an inspection to examine ground settling at various places around Energy Harbor Corp’s Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in Ohio. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in release it determined a “special inspection” was necessary after learning that a failure in October 2022 of a…
By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) -Cargill Inc will need months to fully sever ties with a U.S. company fined for hiring kids to do dangerous work cleaning meat plants, the head of the meatpacker’s North American protein business said on Tuesday. The timeline shows the challenges of quickly finding and implementing replacements for Packers Sanitation…
By Luis Jaime Acosta and Oliver Griffin BOGOTA (Reuters) -A summit meant to reinvigorate talks between the Venezuelan government of Nicolas Maduro and opposition political parties, attended by representatives from 19 countries and the European Union, produced no concrete results on Tuesday, though a further meeting was planned. The meeting in Bogota, hosted by Colombian…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chrysler-parent Stellantis NV wants to cut approximately 3,500 hourly U.S. jobs and is offering voluntary exit packages, according to a United Auto Workers union letter made public Tuesday. The automaker is looking to reduce its hourly workforce offering incentive packages that include $50,000 payments for workers hired before 2007,…
By Sinéad Carew, Sruthi Shankar and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) – Wall Street’s major averages suffered their deepest declines so far this month as a downbeat UPS forecast exacerbated investor concerns about a slowing U.S. economy on Tuesday while plunging deposits at regional First Republic Bank added to jitters about the bank sector’s health. Shares in…
By Gabriella Borter CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina (Reuters) – In a bustling sunken courtyard at the center of the University of North Carolina’s Chapel Hill campus, a group of students handed out slips of papers with a warning for their peers. “Is diversity at UNC important to you? It’s under threat,” the handouts read. The…
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s biggest food bank network said the amount of emergency food parcels it distributed rose 37% to a record 3 million in the year to March as more people faced hardship in a cost-of-living crisis that shows little sign of easing. The Trussell Trust, which supports a network of 1,300 food bank…
By Hilary Russ and Granth Vanaik (Reuters) -Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc topped Wall Street expectations for first-quarter profits and sales on Tuesday, helped by higher menu prices, 41 new restaurant openings and some recovery among lower-income customers. The company said it expects second quarter and full year comparable sales growth in the mid-to-high single digits….
By Ross Kerber (Reuters) -Top U.S. bank investors gave only slim support on Tuesday to shareholder resolutions calling for the lenders to wind down new fossil fuel financing, setbacks for climate activists who had hoped for new constraints on the oil and gas industries. The resolutions won only about 10% support of votes cast at…
By Ross Kerber (Reuters) -Top U.S. bank investors gave only slim support on Tuesday to shareholder resolutions calling for the lenders to wind down new fossil fuel financing, setbacks for climate activists who had hoped for new constraints on the oil and gas industries. The resolutions won only about 10% support of votes cast at…
