By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -A California couple sued a Pasadena-based fertility clinic on Wednesday, saying it allegedly implanted an embryo carrying a rare gene that causes deadly stomach cancer and then falsified records to cover up its mistake. In their lawsuit against HRC Fertility, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Jason and Melissa Diaz said …

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By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -McDonald’s Corp’s board cannot be sued for allowing former CEO Steve Easterbrook to keep tens of millions of dollars when the restaurant chain fired him for having a relationship with an employee, a Delaware judge ruled on Wednesday. The directors acted in good faith in 2019 when they fired …

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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will consider “all options,” including a formal trade dispute panel, unless Mexico addresses Washington’s concerns over Mexico’s plan to limit imports of genetically modified corn, a senior U.S. trade official said on Wednesday. The United States has threatened a trade dispute panel under a trilateral agreement with …

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By Brendan O’Boyle MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The Bank of Mexico said on Wednesday that inflation is taking longer than initially anticipated to return to its target, in large part due to the persistence of core inflation. Banxico, as Mexico’s central bank is known, forecast that annual headline inflation would hit 4.9% in the fourth quarter …

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