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At least eight people are confirmed dead, and authorities believe there are three more bodies they have yet to reach at the site of the paper mill explosion in Longview, Washington. Two people had previously been pronounced dead, bringing the total number of deaths to 11. The bodies of six of the nine missing workers were recovered from the site of the chemical tank implosion. Related: West Coast Chemical Emergencies Raise Questions About Safety A tank holding 600,000 gallons of a chemical used to make packaging for milk and juice cartons exploded Tuesday morning at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging plant.…

A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston this week to payroll tax avoidance and workers’ compensation insurance fraud, prosecutors reported. According to the U.S. attorney’soffice, Henry Lam, of Lowell, used cash payments to employees to hide his firm’s true payroll, avoid collecting and paying taxes, and lowering his workers’ compensation costs. Between 2016 and 2023, Lam owned and operated HL Temporary Services – a temporary employment agency in Lowell that served companies in Massachusetts. The clients paid HL Temporary Services for the temporary employees’ work on an hourly basis. Lam cashed these client’s checks at check cashing…

Davis & Towle Insurance Group, headquartered in Concord, New Hampshire, appointed John Kneeland as commercial lines manager and promoted Sherri Cole to assistant commercial lines manager. Both positions are effective June 1. Kneeland brings extensive insurance industry experience to Davis & Towle, with a background that includes leadership and business development roles at Providence Mutual, The Hanover, Bristol West and Farmers. In his new role, he will oversee the commercial lines team based in Concord while also helping lead strategy, operations, and carrier relationships across all 14 Davis & Towle-affiliated agencies. Cole, a long-time senior commercial lines account manager with…

Germany faces losses of up to $131 billion between 2026 and 2030 if heat waves seen in the past decade recur, the study showed Rising temperatures cut productivity and push up energy costs, weighing on companies and investment, it added Output losses of up to 3% of GDP are possible by 2030, placing Germany in the middle of Europe but on the losing side Southern Europe remains the hardest hit, while hotter regions outside Europe have adapted more to extreme heat Hamburg-based Allianz Trade said productivity drops by about 3% for each degree above 30°C, while energy costs rise roughly…

Insurance Australia Group Ltd. said it has agreed to a settlement of proceedings brought by Greensill Bank AG and its insolvency administrators. IAG said the settlement won’t have a material impact on its financial position, according to a statement on Friday. Terms of the settlement are confidential, it said. The Greensill Bank proceedings are a subset of the litigation against Insurance Australia and other parties in the Federal Court of Australia. They relate to policies issued by BCC Trade Credit Pty on behalf of Insurance Australia to Greensill entities. The face value of the claimed amounts was about A$4 billion…

A Google software engineer was charged with insider trading on Polymarket, where he allegedly made more than $1 million betting on one of last year’s most popular Internet searches. Michele Spagnuolo was charged in a complaint unsealed Wednesday in federal court in New York. Spagnuolo, 36, appeared before a federal magistrate and was released on a $2.25 million bond. Mike Ferrara, a lawyer for Spagnuolo, declined to comment on the charges. The case comes amid growing concern about insider trading on prediction markets. The charges against Spagnuolo come just a little more than a month after a US Army Special…

President Donald Trump filed a new version of his $10 billion libel lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and its parent company News Corp. over an article about his alleged close ties to Jeffrey Epstein, after an earlier version of the suit was tossed out by a judge. The revised suit was filed late Wednesday in federal court in Florida, meeting a deadline set by a judge who dismissed the original complaint for lacking sufficient claims that the story was filed with “actual malice” toward Trump, a high bar set for libel suits by public figures. Trump sued over a…

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the University of California for what it says is discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students at its University of California Los Angeles campus. The suit says the environment on the UCLA campus is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. “Earlier this year, we sued UCLA for subjecting its Jewish and Israeli employees to an antisemitic hostile work environment,” stated Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “Now, the Department of Justice calls UCLA to account for its toleration of the…

Tesla Inc. has just 42 vehicles operating as robotaxis in Texas almost a year after Elon Musk launched the service, a small fraction of the fleet commanded by rival Waymo. The official count was revealed for the first time in registration information Tesla submitted to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles under new rules that went into effect Thursday. A DMV website shows that Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo has registered 577 automated vehicles in the state, more than 13 times Tesla’s total. The tally represents the most concrete assessment yet of the scale of Tesla’s Texas robotaxi network that began operating…

Ohio will pause incentives for future data center projects, following a directive from the governor to halt the tax credits while a committee studies the impact of the projects on the state’s economy. The pause is not a complete ban but a suspension of requests from facilities for state tax breaks, Governor Mike DeWine said in a statement Wednesday. The Ohio Tax Credit Authority, the body that oversees issuing the perks, will stop accepting new applications after its next meeting on June 1. Data centers previously incentivized by the state had a total capital investment of $27 billion last year,…