U.S. Women's Soccer Team Seeks Strike Over Pay

The world champion U.S. women's national soccer team asked a federal judge on Thursday to clear the way for it to strike over alleged pay inequities just two months before the start of the Summer Olympic Games.

U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, who heard arguments in Chicago from lawyers for the players' union and for the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF), didn't say when she might rule, The Associated Press reported.

The hearing came on the same day that the U.S.