Tag: Corporate news
Mexico to buy Shell share of Texas refinery for $600 million
MEXICO CITY — Mexico said Monday it will buy Shell’s 50% share in the jointly-owned Deer Park refinery near Houston, Texas for about $600...
Russian to be deported after foiled Tesla ransomware plot
RENO, Nev. — A Russian man was sentenced Monday to what amounted to time already served in U.S. government custody and will be deported...
Judge digs into Apple app store policies as Epic trial ends
SAN RAMON, Calif. — The judge who will decide a case challenging Apple’s stranglehold on its iPhone app store indicated on Monday she would...
US warns against all travel to Japan as Olympics loom
WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials and the State Department on Monday warned Americans against travel to Japan because of a surge in coronavirus cases...
Nonpartisan budget report says future nuke costs are rising
WASHINGTON — The projected cost of modernizing the U.S. nuclear force is escalating, including billions of dollars more to operate nuclear-armed submarines and to...
US Judge: Saipan casino builder must pay 7 ex-workers $5.4M
HONOLULU — A judge on the U.S. Pacific island of Saipan on Monday ordered a Hong Kong company to pay seven Chinese construction workers...
Experts or ‘grifters’? Little-known firm runs Arizona audit
In early March, a Boston-based vote-counting firm called Clear Ballot Group sent a bid to Arizona's state Senate to audit the 2020 presidential election...
Infrastructure deal slips, GOP pans $1.7T White House offer
WASHINGTON — The prospects for an ambitious infrastructure deal have been thrown into serious doubt after the White House reduced President Joe Biden's sweeping...
California says $5 million Ponzi scam bilked older Filipinos
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's attorney general on Friday charged 15 people with conspiring to defraud mostly elderly victims of Filipino descent out of a...
Firefighters battle flames at Poland’s largest lignite mine
WARSAW, Poland — Firefighters in central Poland say 13 units are fighting flames that have engulfed a conveyer belt at Poland’s largest brown coal...