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The Sad Truth Behind Happy Meals: How McDonald's is exploiting child workers

America has a child labour problem. According to a recent investigation by the US department of labour, over 305 minors including two 10-year-old kids, who were unpaid, were working longer hours than allowed, sometimes until 2 am at McDonald's in Kentucky and other states

What is better than chocolates and beer? Weed, says America

US cannabis sales surpassed those of chocolate and beer, indicating more people are favouring marijuana these days than other delights. A recent report predicted weed sales may increase by Rs 295 million by 2024 and the industry is expected to be worth more than Rs 13.93 lakh crore annually by 2028

Children in Iowa to work longer hours, serve alcohol: How America is exploiting its teenage workers

In Iowa, senators pulled an all-nighter only to relax child labour protections. They voted on a bill that allows 14-year-olds to work six-hour night shifts and 16- and 17-year-olds to serve alcohol. Arkansas, Ohio and Minnesota have also passed bills that fail to protect teenage workers

Johnson & Johnson's talc unit $8.9 billion bankruptcy deal must be dismissed, cancer victims' lawyers say

Johnson & Johnson said last week that its new bankruptcy plan was the best way to resolve current and future talc lawsuits alleging that its baby powder products cause cancer, including more than 38,000 cases that have previously been filed in federal court in New Jersey

FBI warns of threat to synagogues in New Jersey

Public warnings about nonspecific threats against Jewish institutions, made by a variety of groups, including Christian supremacists and Islamist extremists, aren’t unusual in the New York City metropolitan area, and many turn out to be false alarms. But the area has also seen deadly attacks

Up, up and away: Balloon festival turns American skies into a rainbow

The skies of New Jersey turned colourful during the annual New Jersey Lottery Festival of Ballooning. The 135-foot tall sun-shaped balloon was the show stealer

Explained: Nor'easter that battered US East Coast with deep snow and powerful winds

Five states — New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Rhode Island and Virginia — declared an emergency after heavy snowfall caused transport chaos and power cuts for thousands

US toddler cleans out mother's online shopping cart, orders furniture worth $2,000 from Walmart

The toddler’s mother, Madhu Kumar, said that she had shortlisted some furniture for the family's new home in a Walmart cart but never proceeded to the next step

Lawsuit accusing New Jersey Hindu organisation of human trafficking widens to four more states

As per the initial lawsuit, leaders of Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha coerced the workers into working for more than 12 hours per day and paid below standards set by federal and state minimum wage laws

Several US states to celebrate October as Hindu Heritage Month, note 'great contribution' of Hinduism to America

The Hindu groups in America are now campaigning and striving hard for the formal declaration of 'Hindu Heritage Month' by the US government