US candy maker Hershey on Friday pleaded guilty to participating in a chocolate price-fixing scheme and paid a CAN$4 million (US$4.2 million) fine. The company entered the plea at the Ontario Superior Court and, according to the Competition Bureau of Canada, received lenient treatment in exchange...
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Candy maker Hershey pays $4 million for price-fixing
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Hillary Clinton: I hope we have a woman president in my lifetime
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton has fed speculation that she might run for the White House in 2016 by telling an audience in Canada that she would like to see a woman president in the United States in her lifetime. “Let me say this, hypothetically speaking, I really do hope that...
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Washington state on alert after leaks found at power plant
Heightened radioactivity levels were found outside a nuclear waste tank in the US state of Washington, officials said Friday, in a new alert about a site used to make Cold War-era bombs. Governor Jay Inslee said there was no immediate public health threat, but urged federal authorities to...
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Obama confirms climate change speech for Tuesday
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Saturday that he will outline a climate change plan on Tuesday centered around reducing pollution from carbon emissions as he attempts to make good on a pledge for his second term. “This Tuesday, I’ll lay out...
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More protests in Brazil despite president’s ‘great pact’ offer
Fresh protests erupted across Brazil Saturday despite conciliatory remarks by President Dilma Rousseff, who pledged to improve public services and fight harder against corruption. Rousseff’s televised address late Friday appeared to have done little to satisfy protesters, as activists vowed...
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Palestinian singer from Gaza wins ‘Arab Idol’ contest
Palestinian singer Mohammed Assaf on Saturday won a pan-Arab singing contest that has had millions of viewers fixed to their TV screens since March. Powerfully voiced Syrian singer Farah Yousef came second, and Egyptian Ahmed Jamal third in the Arab Idol competition, modelled on the Western Pop...
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Pelosi booed at Netroots while defending espionage charges against Snowden
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) drew boos and heckling from members of the crowd at a progressive conference on Saturday while defending President Barack Obama’s administration and the recently-discovered surveillance policies by the National Security Agency (NSA). About 47 minutes...
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Sante! Japanese sake becomes a hit in France
Toshiro Kuroda is a man on a mission. Over the past seven years he estimates he has introduced up to 50,000 people in France to the delights of the fermented rice drink sake with fans that include French actor Gerard Depardieu. “When I started seven or eight years ago, nobody was doing...
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Power outages in flood-stricken Calgary to continue for days
By Nia Williams CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Some residents began returning to damaged homes on Saturday after record-breaking floods in southern Alberta that killed at least three people, displaced more than 100,000 and will leave the core of Canada’s oil capital, Calgary, without...
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Air Force officer charged with rape and child molestation
A U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel faces court-martial after being charged with assault, rape and lewd acts against a child for a series of alleged abuses over a six-year period in two states. The Military Times reported on Thursday that Lt. Col. Reginald W. Kabban’s trial at...
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Cops accused of stiffing family for vet bill after shooting their dog
A family in El Monte, California criticized local police on Friday for both shooting one of their dogs dead then reneging on an offer to pay for the animal’s treatment. KABC-TV reported that the family’s home security system captured officers entering his home on Wednesday in defiance...
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Snowden seeks asylum in Ecuador
Edward Snowden has requested asylum in Ecuador, the Ecuadoran foreign minister said Sunday, as he seeks to escape US justice for revealing secrets of a vast phone and Web surveillance drive. Minister Ricardo Patino made the announcement on his Twitter account. Ecuador has been sheltering WikiLeaks...
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Palestinians struggle to save remains of ancient Christian monastery
A haven of peace in the sea of concrete that is the Gaza Strip, the crumbling remains of the Holy Land’s oldest monastery are in danger of disappearing for lack of funds to preserve them. Saint Hilarion, which is located at a site called Tel Umm al-Amr, draws its name from the fourth century...
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Texas Republican swears gun Tweet was actually about unarmed fetuses
As hundreds of pro-choice protesters swarmed to the Texas capitol on Sunday, state Rep. Jonathan Stickland (R) quipped on Twitter that he’s “extra thankful” for the Second Amendment because “today is 1 of those days.” Attempting to explain that comment hours later, he...
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Police infiltration of Greenpeace sparked Britain’s ‘McLibel’ scandal
An undercover police officer posing for years as an environmental activist co-wrote a libellous leaflet that was highly critical of McDonald’s, and which led to the longest civil trial in English history, costing the fast-food chain millions of pounds in fees. The true identity of one of the...
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Texas lawmakers debate closing nearly all the state’s abortion clinics
The Texas House of Representatives spent Sunday night debating debating legislation that will close all but five of the state’s abortion clinics and prohibit abortions beyond 20 weeks of pregnancy. Sunday’s debate is expected to progress into the night, following days of protests kicked...
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Study finds H7N9 bird flu killed 1/3 of those infected
The H7N9 bird flu that hit China this year killed over a third of hospitalised patients, said researchers Monday who labelled the virus “less serious” but probably more widespread than previously thought. They warned watchdogs not to take comfort from a lull in new infections, as the...
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Turkish transsexuals join popular protest marches
Hundreds of Turkish transsexuals and rights activists staged a protest in Istanbul on Sunday against the conservative government of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The annual march came after weeks of unprecedented anti-government protests in Istanbul, the capital Ankara and other...
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Verdict looms in Berlusconi sex trial
A verdict is expected Monday in a high-profile trial against former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi for allegedly having sex with an underage prostitute and abusing his official powers to favour her. Prosecutors in Milan have called for the 76-year-old magnate to be banned from politics...
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Drug Policy Alliance: Marijuana reform ‘is not a laughing matter’ in 2013
This year at Netroots Nation, Raw Story was asking 5 Questions of various panel speakers, exhibitors and attendees about issues you didn’t hear addressed on the main stage. Ask a Netroots attendee who is most interested and likely to be affected by marijuana policy reform, and chances are...
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