Washington, Feb 27 (IANS) Two senior Republican senators have urged the US Department of Justice to investigate what they described as foreign-operated surrogacy centres exploiting American citizenship laws, raising concerns that the practice poses a “serious national security risk”.In a letter dated February 26 to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Senators Tom Cotton and Rick Scott requested that the Department of Justice “investigate surrogacy centers operated by foreign nationals”.“We wri…
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Washington, Feb 26 (IANS) The US Department of Justice has reached a settlement with a Virginia-based IT services company after it allegedly used artificial intelligence to generate job advertisements that excluded American workers. The Civil Rights Division said it secured a settlement agreement with Elegant Enterprise-Wide Solutions, describing it as a “Virginia IT professional service provider”.The department said the settlement “addresses allegations that the company violated the Immig…
Washington, Feb 14 (IANS) Indian national Nikhil Gupta has pleaded guilty in a US federal court to participating in a plot to assassinate a U.S.-based Sikh separatist leader in New York City, in a case that has drawn significant diplomatic attention between India and the United States, the Department of Justice said. Gupta, also known as “Nick,” admitted guilt to three charges: murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, and conspiracy to commit money laundering, before U.S. Ma…
Washington, Feb 10 (IANS) The connections between late sex offender and US financier Jeffrey Epstein and the scientific community were “deeper than previously known” and “unheard of” in extent, according to a recent report by the journal Nature.Citing newly released documents from the US Department of Justice, the Nature report revealed that Epstein invested millions of US dollars in science projects and “maintained a list of nearly 30 top scientists”. The documents show researchers consulted th…
Dharamsala, Feb 8 (IANS) The office of the Dalai Lama on Sunday firmly denied media reports suggesting any association between the Tibetan spiritual leader and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.The clarification comes after several media outlets, citing documents from the United States Department of Justice (DoJ), reported that the Dalai Lama’s name appeared 169 times in the widely discussed Epstein files.According to some reports, the Buddhist leader’s name allegedly appeared in multip…
Washington, Feb 4 (IANS) A US Senate panel has flagged serious antitrust risks in Netflix’s $83-billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, questioning whether the merger would give the streaming giant excessive market power and reshape competition across the entertainment industry. Senate Antitrust Subcommittee Chair Mike Lee said the proposed transaction was “extraordinary in both scale and in potential consequence” and warranted close scrutiny.He said that Netflix, the world’s largest streaming p…
Washington, Jan 17 (IANS) A Delhi-based businessman has been sentenced to 30 months in US federal prison for conspiring to illegally export controlled aviation components from Oregon to Russia, violating American export control laws, the Justice Department said.Sanjay Kaushik, 58, was sentenced in Portland, Oregon, to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his role in a scheme to ship sensitive aviation technology to Russian end users without required US government…
Mumbai, Jan 14 (IANS) A California man, Yan Lin, 41, was produced in a court in United States’ Cincinnati on charges that he conspired to launder tens of millions of dollars in drug proceeds, according to an official statement.The statement from the US State Department said that the indictment alleged that between March 2022 and October 2024 Mexico‑based traffickers hired Lin to return profits from sales of fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine across US cities.Lin arranged for his co-conspira…
New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) China has emerged as the dominant supplier of precursor chemicals and technical inputs that sustain the manufacture of synthetic narcotic drugs produced in Southeast Asia, particularly the Golden Triangle region, according to a media report.China’s chemical industry produces the overwhelming majority of the world’s active pharmaceutical ingredients and industrial precursors, many of which have legitimate commercial uses but can be repurposed for synthetic drug production…
Washington, Jan 9 (IANS) US Vice President JD Vance defended an ICE officer who fatally shot a woman during an immigration enforcement action in Minneapolis, calling the death “a tragedy” while saying the officer acted in self-defence and accusing Democrats and parts of the media of stoking hostility toward federal agents.Speaking at the White House on Thursday, Vance said the episode was “an attack on federal law enforcement” and insisted the woman, Renee Good, “aimed her car at a law…