Feb 18 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the New York Times business pages. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

- The United States indicted the captain of an oil tanker that led American forces on a weeks-long chase across the Atlantic Ocean after being stopped on its way to Venezuela.

- U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, has died at age 84.

- U.S. President Donald Trump's administration announced three projects valued at $36 billion to be financed by Japan, including an oil export facility in Texas, an industrial diamonds plant in Georgia and a natural gas power plant in Ohio.

- Goldman Sachs GS.N is preparing to eliminate race, gender identity, sexual orientation and other diversity-related factors from the criteria its board uses to assess prospective candidates.