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Dry weather threatens Argentine wheat, but rain on the horizon
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine wheat yields during the 2023/24 season in western farmland could continue to fall if much-needed rains do not arrive quickly, the Buenos Aires grains exchange (BdeC)...
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Brazil mineral rights dispute casts shadow on Sigma Lithium expansion
By Fabio Teixeira RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Brazilian court injunction is halting the sale or mining of two plots of land where takeover target Sigma Lithium is planning open pits, according to cou...
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GE must face shareholder lawsuit over accounting, disclosures; judge urges settlement
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Electric failed to persuade a Manhattan federal judge to dismiss a long-running shareholder lawsuit accusing it of concealing risks at its power busine...
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US Treasury: homes must be ‘zero energy ready’ to get full tax credit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury on Thursday released new guidance on energy efficient home tax credits worth up to $5,000 per dwelling, showing that for builders to receive the full amount, t...
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US telecom board says it could boost authority over Huawei, ZTE equipment
(Reuters) - Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said on Thursday that the agency's proposal to reinstate net neutrality rules could give it new authority to force the removal o...
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Migrants cross into Texas, undeterred by razor wire or new asylum rules
By Brian Snyder and Daniel Becerril EAGLE PASS, Texas/PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico (Reuters) - For the past several days large groups of migrants, mostly from Venezuela, have been wading across the Rio Gran...
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Philadelphia retailers ransacked for a second night
(Reuters) - Roving groups of young people broke into retail stores in Philadelphia and grabbed merchandise in the early hours on Thursday, as a beefed-up police presence failed to bring a halt to a lo...
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Appeals court will not delay Donald Trump civil fraud trial
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York appeals court on Thursday refused to delay Donald Trump's scheduled Oct. 2 civil fraud trial, after the former U.S. president accused the trial judge of wrongly refusin...
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Tesla sued by US agency over alleged harassment of Black factory workers
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) - A U.S. civil rights agency sued Tesla Inc on Thursday, claiming the electric carmaker has tolerated severe harassment of Black employees at its flagship Fremont, Califor...
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California fast food workers to earn minimum of $20 an hour under new law
(Reuters) - Fast food workers in California will earn a minimum of $20 an hour starting in April under a new bill signed into law on Thursday by Governor Gavin Newsom. "The future happens here first,"...
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