Ex-Air China employee pleads not guilty to U.S. smuggling charge
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former Air China Ltd employee linked to defendants in a U.N. bribery case pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to U.S. charges that she helped military personnel at China’s mission to the United Nations smuggle packages out of the Unite…
Starbucks to serve stevia-based sweetener in select cafes
(Reuters) – Starbucks Corp, the world’s largest coffee chain, said it would serve its first stevia-based, zero-calorie sweetener at select cafes in the U.S. and Canada.
ITT to shut institutes, thousands of students to be affected
(Reuters) – ITT Educational Services Inc said it would shut its flagship ITT Technical Institutes, following a U.S. Department of Education order, affecting thousands of students and employees.
Hermine lingers off U.S. East Coast, high winds and rain expected
(Reuters) – Hermine, a storm that raked Florida with hurricane-force winds last week, lingered on Tuesday off the U.S. East Coast where it was expected to produce heavy gusts and rain over the next two days.
Ex-Stanford swimmer registers as sex offender in Ohio after assault
(Reuters) – Former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner has registered as a sex offender in his home state of Ohio, following his conviction for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in 2015 and public outrage over his six-month jail sentence.
U.S. conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly dead at 92
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Phyllis Schlafly, who became a “founding mother” of the modern U.S. conservative movement by battling feminists in the 1970s and working tirelessly to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment, died on Monday at the age of 92, her Eagle …
Puerto Rico debt fix unlikely to resemble Detroit’s
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The federal appointees tapped to help map Puerto Rico’s economic future are technocrats more than political actors, and that could make the U.S. territory’s fiscal turnaround look more like a corporate restructuring than a politica…
Obama defends Kaepernick’s right to protest even if message obscured
HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday that NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick was exercising his constitutional right by refusing to stand for the national anthem, although he added that the nature of the protest could ma…
Gunfire kills two at New York’s Caribbean street party
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two people were shot dead at a pre-dawn Caribbean heritage celebration in New York despite ramped-up efforts by police and community activists to prevent the violence that has plagued the annual event in years past, authorities sai…
Obama says more needs to be done to grow wages, shrink inequality
HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) – More needs to be done to grow wages and shrink inequality in the global economy, United States President Barack Obama said on Monday, at the close of the G20 summit in the Chinese city of Hangzhou.
