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Unilever filed suit against Hampton Creek earlier this year claiming the name of the small California company's product amounted to false advertising. The consumer-products giant, whose U.S. arm is based in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, had said that "Just Mayo" has no eggs and therefore...

Nationwide, police and prosecutors quietly told the FBI they had abandoned their pursuit of nearly 79,000 accused felons during the past year and a half, a USA TODAY investigation found. They have given up chasing people charged with armed robbery and raping children, usually without informing...

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Obesity can constitute a disability in certain circumstances, the EU's highest court has ruled. The European Court of Justice was asked to consider the case of a male childminder in Denmark who says he was sacked for being too fat. The court said that if obesity could hinder "full and...

Apart from wealthy business tycoons, Nigerian clergymen and spiritual leaders are also joining the very elite league of jet owners. In March this year, David Oyedepo, a Nigerian cleric generally believed to be Africa’s wealthiest gospel preacher, acquired a Gulfstream V jet for US$30 million...

From the 'who needs regulations' files............ Two owners and 12 former employees of a US pharmacy have been arrested in connection with a 2012 outbreak of meningitis that killed 64 people across the country, prosecutors said. Barry Cadden and Gregory Conigliaro owned the New...

judge sentenced a Detroit-area Catholic priest Monday to two months in jail each calendar year for the next five years for stealing money from a charity for the poor. The Rev. Timothy Kane, 58, will be jailed only during the months of December and June, according to Wayne County Circuit Judge...

Canadian consumers may have ended up paying higher prices for cellphones and wireless services because of contracts between Apple Inc's Canadian unit and domestic carriers, the Canadian Competition Bureau said in a court filing this week. The iPhone has given Apple extraordinary bargaining...

The wild hog party goes down squealing It could only happen in Alberta, the land of cowboy Steve and not so Big Oil, Canada's Banana Republic. Where the leader of the opposition, after attacking the Con government for five years, and trailing them in the polls by only five points. Has...

Three people have been arrested in connection with what police called “one of the worst cases” of child sexual assault they've encountered. On Friday, Las Vegas Metro police detailed what they called the “disturbing” case against 48-year-old Christopher Sena, 50-year-old Debra Sena and...

The federal system designed to keep Canadian food safe to eat failed in December to prevent ground beef contaminated with E. coli from being offered for sale to consumers. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency's December recall of 31,000 pounds of ground beef followed a positive test of a random...

The 6-acre parcel of land is enclosed on all sides by tall, white fencing. “No trespassing” signs are posted intermittently, and vehicles drive in and out on a dirt road through the only opening in the fence. Beyond the walls, huge, white tents stand in one row and long, white trailers in...

Economists long argued that, just as buggy-makers gave way to car factories, technology would create as many jobs as it destroyed. Now many are not so sure. Lawrence H. Summers, the former Treasury secretary, recently said that he no longer believed that automation would always create new...

Germany has somehow managed to create a high-wage, unionized economy without shipping all its jobs abroad. Why Germany has it so much better than the US

Bryant Cochran, once the chief judge of Murray County’s Magistrate Court, also was found guilty of witness tampering, conspiring to distribute a controlled substance and a federal civil rights charge that accused him of sexually assaulting a court employee. Cochran, who faces almost certain...

Premier Paul Davis met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper Friday evening in Ottawa, but it didn’t do a whole lot of good. Davis left the meeting frustrated, saying Harper cannot be trusted. “They’re moving the goalposts,” he said. “They’ve moved them so far that the fund is going to be...

West needs to address 'root causes' of radicalism Until the causes of instability and radicalism in places such as Iraq and Syria are addressed, the West can expect to be engaged in foreign conflicts for a long time, NATO's top commander says. "Until we have addressed the root causes of...

South Dakota officials have decided to yank a "Don't Jerk and Drive" safety campaign after a powerful legislator and some members of the public complained about the sexual innuendo in the phrase. The campaign, intended to raise awareness about the dangers of jerking, or overcorrecting, with a...

Few reptiles can breathe underwater. Australia is home to one of the exceptions, the white-throated snapping turtle (Elseya albagula), which can extract oxygen from water through its backside via a process called cloacal respiration. This unusual technique, shared by a handful of other turtle...

TransCanada is warning Nebraska landowners who refuse to sign right-of-way contracts for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline that the company plans to proceed with eminent domain. The 2012 state law that let Gov. Dave Heineman give final approval of the proposed Keystone XL route through...