South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley signed a historic bill that will remove the Confederate battle flag from the state Capitol grounds, where it has been a source of friction for more than half a century, LA Times reported....
The Indian-American ringleader of a massive "call centre" fraud scam that collected more than $1 million by impersonating FBI and tax department officials has been sentenced to nearly 15 years in jail....
An Indian, on the run for over seven years after his wife was found murdered at the couple's home in Canada, has been arrested in San Francisco, a media report said on Thursday....
Dallas Mavericks welcomed a new era for basketball when 19-year-old Satnam Singh Bhamara was introduced as the first-ever Indian NBA Draft pick here....
Two and a half months after the death of a black man in police custody sparked days of rioting in Baltimore, close to the American capital, the troubled city's mayor has fired the police commissioner. ...

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Indian American CEO Satya Nadella-led Microsoft on Wednesday announced it was laying off 7,800 employees primarily in the phone business as part of a major overhaul aimed at focusing the company on its core businesses. ...
As the US presidential race hots up, rival Democratic and Republican frontrunners, Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush, are taking potshots at each other over immigration, while long shot Bobby Jindal criticised all as "talkers". ...
Two people were killed after an F-16 fighter jet of the US Air Force collided with a civilian aircraft in the state of South Carolina, a media report said. ...
The white shooter who had been charged with killing nine African-Americans in a racially-motivated shooting spree in a church in South Carolina state last month was indicted on three additional murder charges, a media report said....