The mystery killer disease threatening North America’s bats

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Cave of death

Toyota says it will suspend output at its North American plants in five one-day shutdowns as component supplies remain limited.

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Toyota to pause N American output

David Bezmozgis’s first novel, set in Rome in 1978, follows three generations of Soviet Jews as they wait for visas to North America.

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Jewish Refugees in the Eternal City

Archaeologists unearth thousands of stone tools in North America they say predate the technology widely assumed to have been carried by the first settlers.

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Tools ‘demand new American story’

Researchers say the tools may be as old as 15,500 years, retiring a hypothesis that the so-called Clovis people arrived first.

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Tools Suggest Earlier Human Arrival in America

Honda recalls nearly 700,000 vehicles in Asia and North America after it found a defective spring that could cause engines to stall.

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Engine worry prompts Honda recall

Everybody’s heard they are more likely to die in a car accident than on an airplane, but they probably don’t know how skewed those numbers are. If you’re flying in North America or Europe, you’re even more safe than you’ve been told: The top 25 global…

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The Myth of Air Safety

Low-budget thriller The Roommate tops the North America box office over a weekend in which takings are hit by the Super Bowl.

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Roommate film tops US box office

Wael Ghonim, who leads Google marketing for the Middle East and North America, is expected to be released by the authorities.

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Optimism About Missing Google Executive in Egypt

The U.S. is not the only region of North America in the throes of an unrelenting winter: The northern Mexico state of Chihuahua is experiencing the coldest weather in sixty years, and 35 zoo animals have frozen to death as a result. Temperatures…

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35 Zoo Animals Freeze in Mexico

Britons are the most anxious about immigrants, an international survey of eight European and North American countries suggests.

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UK ‘most anxious’ over immigrants

Nevertheless, there is a destructive ideological part of the Daley appointment and Emanuel’s ascent, despite their non-ideological devotion to power. Emanuel and Daley were two of the three principal Clinton lobbyists in the campaign to pass the corporate-backed, anti-labor North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993, and Daley helped push through the even greater killer of U.S. jobs, Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) with China, in 2000. Both are former employees of investment banks, which have a burning interest in “free trade” and cross-border investment deals facilitated by “free trade.” Obama has already reneged on his Ohio presidential-primary pledge in 2008 to reform NAFTA and has let drop the pro-union Employee Free Choice Act. . . .

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JOHN R. MACARTHUR—A Country with Chicago in Charge

Western remake True Grit has shot to the top of the North American box office, taking $15m (£9.7m) in its third weekend, studio estimates show.

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True Grit shoots Fockers off top

Western remake True Grit has shot to the top of the North American box office, taking $15m (£9.7m) in its third weekend, studio estimates show.

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True Grit shoots Fockers off top

Apparently we can add stadium-show rock star to the list of jobs going overseas. Bon Jovi, the world’s top-earning concert act, made half its $201.1 million in ticket revenue from shows outside North America. AC/DC and U2, the second and third highest…

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Bon Jovi Top Concert Earner