Monday, June 18, 2018

Canadian dairy Saputo urges end to contentious pricing system

WINNIPEG, Manitoba, June 18 (Reuters) - Saputo Inc, one of Canada's largest dairies, wants an end to a domestic milk ingredient pricing system that has angered the United States, Chief Executive Lino Saputo Jr. said on Monday.

Tesla spontaneously catches fire with no crash

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Christo’s Latest Work Weighs 650 Tons. And It Floats.

Christo’s temporary floating sculpture “The London Mastaba,” made from thousands of stacked oil barrels, on the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park, London, on June 15.

Posters, Banners, Boarding Passes: Museums Try to Get a Head Start on History

Brenda Malone, a curator at the National Museum of Ireland, holding a poster used by campaigners during the country’s abortion referendum.

Supreme Court Sidesteps Decision on Partisan Gerrymandering

Demonstrators gather outside the Supreme Court during oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford in October.

Mo Salah Gives Egyptians What We Need

A man in Mohamed Salah’s home village of Nagrig, Egypt, wearing a football jersey with the athlete’s name on it.

‘I Can’t Go Without My Son,’ a Mother Pleaded as She Was Deported to Guatemala

Elsa Ortiz, 25, was deported to Guatemala from the United States on June 5 without her son Anthony, 8.

Audi Chief Executive Rupert Stadler Arrested Over Diesel Scandal

Rupert Stadler is the highest-ranking Volkswagen executive still in his job to have been identified as a suspect in the diesel emissions case.

The New Health Care: Why the Medical Research Grant System Could Be Costing Us Great Ideas

At work in the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.

Riling Up the Base May Backfire on Trump

President Trump delivers remarks at a Make America Great Again rally in May.

German Leaders Delay Migration Showdown, Seeking Solution in E.U.

From left: Armin Laschet, the premier of North Rhine-Westphalia; Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany; and Volker Bouffier, the state premier of Hesse, in Berlin on Monday.

What Happens When Prosecutors Break the Law?

Glenn Kurtzrock in 2016.

U.N. Rights Chief Tells U.S. to Stop Taking Migrant Children From Parents

Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, left, in Geneva on Monday. “The thought that any state would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable,” he said.

EU antitrust regulators to rule on Blackstone's F&R deal by July 20

BRUSSELS, June 18 (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators will decide by July 20 whether to clear U.S. private equity firm Blackstone Group's US$20 billion acquisition of a majority stake in Thomson Reuters' Financial and Risk (F&R) unit, a filing on the EU competition watchdog's website showed on Monday.

The world's biggest advertiser wants women to produce half of its ads

The world's biggest advertiser is pushing for gender equality in the ad business.

UPDATE 1-Forest City Realty restarts merger talks with Brookfield - Bloomberg

June 18 (Reuters) - U.S.-based Forest City Realty Trust Inc has restarted talks with Brookfield Asset Management Inc for a takeover by the Canadian firm, Bloomberg reported https://ift.tt/2I17L2H on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

It's time for corporate boards to tackle #MeToo

Even at the very top of American business, people hesitate to openly discuss sexual harassment.

UPDATE 2-Fujifilm sues Xerox for well over $1 bln after aborted merger

NEW YORK, June 18 (Reuters) - Fujifilm Holdings Corp sued Xerox Corp on Monday for well over $1 billion, faulting the printer and copier company for succumbing to pressure from activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason in calling off a proposed merger.

JPMorgan to pay $65 mln to settle charges of attempted ISDAFIX manipulation

WASHINGTON, June 18 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase Bank NA will pay a $65 million civil penalty to settle charges that it attempted manipulating ISDAFIX benchmark swap rates between 2007 and 2012, the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission said on Monday.

Forest City Realty restarts merger talks with Brookfield -Bloomberg

June 18 (Reuters) - U.S.-based Forest City Realty Trust Inc has restarted talks with Brookfield Asset Management Inc for a takeover by the Canadian firm, Bloomberg reported https://ift.tt/2I17L2H on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Op-Ed Columnist: What Did the Romans Ever Do for Us?

Cyclists passed the Colosseum in Rome during the last stage of the Giro d’Italia race, in May.

'Incredibles 2' crushes animation box office record

"Incredibles 2" flexed its muscles at the box office this weekend.