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The United States has charged a former Indian intelligence officer who allegedly directed a foiled plot to murder a Sikh separatist in New York City last year, with the FBI saying it would not tolerate retaliation against a U.S. resident. An indictment of Vikash Yadav was ordered to be unsealed on Thursday. The U.S. Justice Department indictment mentioned …
Read More »Lilly Ledbetter, icon in the battle for U.S. equal pay, dead at 86
Lilly Ledbetter, an former Alabama factory manager whose lawsuit against her employer made her an icon of the equal pay movement and led to landmark wage discrimination legislation, has died at 86. Ledbetter’s discovery that she was earning less than her male counterparts for doing the same job at a …
Read More »Migrants promised a ‘VIP’ route to the U.S. from an idyllic Colombian island find danger instead
When Mafer González set foot on land after a gruelling 10-hour boat journey from the Colombian island of San Andrés last October, she said it felt like her soul had returned to her body. González and the 17 other Venezuelan migrants who’d crossed the Caribbean waters to Nicaragua in a small …
Read More »U.S. prosecutors dismiss sex abuse case against actor Nathan Chasing Horse
Warning: This story deals with allegations of sexual assault. U.S. federal prosecutors in Nevada have quietly dismissed a long-dormant sex abuse case against Nathan Chasing Horse, though the former Dances with Wolves actor still faces criminal charges elsewhere. The U.S. federal case was tossed Oct. 1, just as state prosecutors were …
Read More »Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to U.S. biologists who discovered microRNA
The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated. The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute, which awarded the prize, said the duo’s discovery is “proving to be fundamentally important” …
Read More »South Korean woman sues government over abduction, adoption of child to U.S.
A 70-year-old South Korean woman sued her government, an adoption agency and an orphanage Monday over the adoption of her daughter, who was sent to the United States in 1976, months after she was kidnapped at age four. It’s the first known case of a Korean birth parent suing the government …
Read More »‘Diva’ beaver, beloved since birth, allowed to stay at U.S. rescue centre
For some time, there was a question of whether a two-year-old beaver would be allowed stay with the rescuers she has known since she was a baby, or be released into the wild. That question was resolved Thursday when the governor of Massachusetts stepped in to protect the beaver — named Nibi. The state issued a permit to Newhouse Wildlife …
Read More »U.S. port workers and operators reach deal to suspend strike
The union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports has reached a deal to suspend a three-day strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract. The union, the International Longshoremen’s Association, is to resume working immediately. The union and the U.S. Maritime Alliance, …
Read More »Pricier pineapples? Here’s how the U.S. port strike could impact your wallet
With U.S. port workers on strike as of Tuesday morning, consumers around the world — and especially in Canada, with its close trade ties to the U.S. — could soon start seeing a shortage of goods or an upward tick in prices. Everything from fruits and vegetables to imported vehicles …
Read More »Startling video shows Russian fighter jet flying within feet of U.S. F-16 near Alaska
U.S. military officials have released new video of a startling encounter between a Russian fighter jet flying near Alaska and a U.S. Air Force F-16 sent to intercept it. In the video released Monday, the Russian plane comes from behind the camera and swoops by the U.S. jet, just feet …
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