News about United States

©Reuters/Mike Blake Juicy court case leaves Coca-Cola on defensive Coca-Cola was taken to task by the US Supreme Court on Monday, with justices questioning whether a drink sold as fruit juice was the real thing.
22 April 2014
©Alamy Powdered alcohol poised to hit US stores Just add water and stir. A US company says its new powdered alcohol product has been approved by US regulators and is poised to hit stores in the coming months.
22 April 2014
Actor Denzel Wahington (R),Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (C). ©Reuters Wrongfully imprisoned US boxer 'Hurricane' Carter dies Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the prizefighter whose racially tinged wrongful murder conviction made him a symbol of injustice and a pop culture cause, died on Sunday at the age of 76.
21 April 2014
©Reuters/Secretaria de Gobernacion Mexican troops free 60 migrants Mexican troops Sunday released a group of 60 migrants trying to reach the United States who were being held captive in a home in northern Mexico, authorities said.
21 April 2014
David Beckham. ©Reuters/Zachary Fagenson Miami mayor defends Beckham stadium plan The mayor of Miami on Friday defended David Beckham's plans to build a state-of-the-art stadium on the city's waterfront, rejecting criticism of the project by a coalition of business groups.
20 April 2014
Los Angeles Times building. Photo courtesy of wikipedia.org US police arrest man after LA Times shooting threat US police arrested a man late Friday after he entered the Los Angeles Times building and threatened to start shooting, the newspaper said.
20 April 2014
SpaceX launches Dragon capsule to ISS Private US firm SpaceX launched its unmanned Dragon capsule to the International Space Station on Friday, its third trip carrying supplies and equipment to the orbiting lab.
19 April 2014
Whoopi Goldberg debuts as marijuana columnist Oscar-winning actress, comedienne and talk-show host Whoopi Goldberg sang the praises of marijuana inhaled through a pocket vaporizer on Thursday as she made her debut as an online pot columnist.
19 April 2014
Greenland. ©Reuters/Michael Studinger Preglacial landscape found deep under Greenland ice US geologists said Thursday they have uncovered a preglacial tundra landscape preserved for 2.7 million years far below the Greenland ice sheet.
19 April 2014
©Reuters/Jeff Zelevansky Mattel reports loss as Barbie sales plummet Toymaker Mattel has a problem: Barbie's performance has not been very pretty of late.
19 April 2014
©Reuters/Olivier Anrigo US orange production hit by disease, juice prices soar A citrus disease spread by a tiny insect has devastated Florida's orange crop, which is expected to be the worst in nearly 30 years, and sent juice prices soaring on New York markets.
18 April 2014
Briton 'global exporter of terrorism' NY trial hears British hate preacher Abu Hamza was a "global exporter" of violence and terrorism intent on waging war against non-Muslims, prosecutors said Thursday as the Egyptian-born cleric's trial opened in New York.
18 April 2014
©Reuters/Romeo Ranoco Fourth officer charged in US Navy bribery scandal A fourth US Navy officer has been charged with leaking information to a foreign defense contractor in exchange for cash and other gifts in a widening bribery scandal, officials said Thursday.
18 April 2014
Chelsea Clinton announces pregnancy America's former first daughter Chelsea Clinton announced in New York on Thursday that she is pregnant with her first baby, giving her parents Bill and Hillary a long-awaited grandchild.
18 April 2014
©Reuters/Yuya Shino Sony's PlayStation 4 sales top seven million Sony says it has sold seven million PlayStation 4 worldwide since its launch last year and admitted it can't make them fast enough, in a welcome change of fortune for the Japanese consumer electronics giant.
18 April 2014
Eocasea martini. Photo courtesy of breakingnews.ie Paleontologists discover land herbivores' earliest ancestor Paleontologists unearthed the oldest ancestor of land-dwelling herbivores with the discovery of a 300-million-year-old skeleton, shedding light onto plant eaters' emergence on land, a study said.
18 April 2014
©Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin Russian FSB demanded Ukraine protest group details: VKontakte founder The founder of Russia's biggest social network VKontakte (VK) said Russia's security services demanded to know the identities of people running group pages of Ukrainian pro-EU protest last year.
18 April 2014
Computer-generated pop star Hatsune Miku. 
©Reuters/Toru Hanai Japan virtual star Hatsune to join Lady Gaga tour Hatsune Miku, a computer-generated Japanese pop star who performs as a hologram, is to support some of Lady Gaga's tour of North America next month, the US songstress has announced on Twitter.
17 April 2014
Ford Mustang turns 50 atop Empire State Building Ford celebrated the 50th birthday of its beloved Mustang by displaying a new model of the convertible on top of the Empire State Building in New York.
17 April 2014
U.S. actor Paul Walker. ©Reuters/Filipe Carvalho Dead star's brothers to finish 'Fast and Furious 7' Late "Fast and Furious" star Paul Walker's brothers will stand in for him to complete the seventh movie in the blockbuster franchise, after the actor's death, filmmakers said.
17 April 2014

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