| Rep. Michael Grimm pleads guilty to tax evasion Posted: 23 Dec 2014 12:48 PM PST  A US congressman pleaded guilty to felony tax evasion Tuesday, the latest stain for a lawmaker dogged by controversy but who won re-election last month despite indictment on criminal charges. Michael Grimm, a former FBI agent who represents parts of New York's Staten Island and Brooklyn, pleaded guilty to filing a false income tax return that underreported wages and sales in 2009. The House Republican, whose federal court trial was due to begin February 2, faces up to 36 months in a federal prison. The charge is linked to his conduct while owner of a Manhattan health food restaurant before he became a member of the House of Representatives in early 2011.
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| Canadian found guilty of murdering, dismembering Chinese student Posted: 23 Dec 2014 10:51 AM PST  By Nelson Wyatt MONTREAL (Reuters) - A Canadian man who killed and dismembered a Chinese student in Montreal in 2012 was found guilty of first-degree murder on Tuesday, with the jury delivering the verdict after more than a week of deliberating the gruesome case. Luka Magnotta, 32, had admitted to killing and dismembering engineering student Jun Lin, 33, but pleaded not guilty on grounds of mental illness. ...
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| Activists reject NY mayor's plea to pause protests over police Posted: 23 Dec 2014 10:18 AM PST  By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Protesters who have rallied for weeks over excessive use of police force rejected New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's plea to suspend demonstrations after the killing of two officers, vowing to march in the center of Manhattan on Tuesday evening. ...
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| 'The Interview' is back on Posted: 23 Dec 2014 09:58 AM PST Sony has reportedly reversed course and the film will come out. |
| Cuban dissidents shaken by U.S. rapprochement, seek new tactics Posted: 23 Dec 2014 09:43 AM PST  By Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's decision to end five decades of enmity with Cuba has shaken the island's political dissidents, dividing their ranks and forcing them to rethink tactics. Throughout the Cold War and beyond, the United States relied on the small dissident movement to lead domestic opposition to Cuba's communist government and keep track of human rights abuses. ...
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| Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow police Posted: 23 Dec 2014 09:12 AM PST  By Michelle Conlin NEW YORK (Reuters) - From the dingy donut shops of Manhattan to the cloistered police watering holes in Brooklyn, a number of black NYPD officers say they have experienced the same racial profiling that cost Eric Garner his life. Garner, a 43-year-old black man suspected of illegally peddling loose cigarettes, died in July after a white officer put him in a chokehold. On Saturday, those tensions escalated after a black gunman, who wrote of avenging the black deaths on social media, shot dead two New York policemen. The protests and the ambush of the uniformed officers pose a major challenge for New York Mayor Bill De Blasio. The mayor must try to ease damaged relations with a police force that feels he hasn't fully supported them, while at the same time bridging a chasm with communities who say the police unfairly target them. What's emerging now is that, within the thin blue line of the NYPD, there is another divide - between black and white officers. Reuters interviewed 25 African American male officers on the NYPD, 15 of whom are retired and 10 of whom are still serving.
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| Economy grows at fast 5% annual rate Posted: 23 Dec 2014 08:56 AM PST US economy grew at fast 5 pct. annual rate in Q3 |
| Abbas says to cut ties with Israel if UN move fails Posted: 23 Dec 2014 08:40 AM PST  Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas warned on Tuesday that his administration would "no longer deal" with Israel if a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a final peace deal fails. The Palestinian draft resolution sets a 12-month deadline for wrapping up negotiations on a final peace settlement and the end of 2017 as the timeframe for completing an Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian territories. A final peace deal would pave the way to the creation of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as a shared capital, according to the text. Speculation has been mounting since the death in December of a Palestinian official who was struck by an Israeli soldier that the Palestinian Authority could suspend security coordination with Israel in the West Bank if the resolution fails to pass.
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| HHS secretary says 6.4 million sign up for 2015 HealthCare.gov plans Posted: 23 Dec 2014 08:09 AM PST  (Reuters) - About 6.4 million Americans have enrolled for individual insurance plans for 2015 through HealthCare.gov, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said on Tuesday. HealthCare.gov sells individual plans created by the national healthcare reform law in 36 states. The rest of the states, including California and New York, have their own online exchanges and those figures are not included in these latest numbers. About 1.9 million new customers have signed up and the balance or 4.5 million are re-enrollments, Burwell said during a webcast press briefing. ...
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| Argentine Orangutan unfazed by right to freedom ruling Posted: 23 Dec 2014 03:42 AM PST  Sandra the orangutan took her newfound fame in stride after an Argentine court upheld her right to be freed from a zoo, munching a melon and putting the rind on her head for the cameras. In a world first, a court ruled that Sandra was entitled to some of the basic rights of a human being and as such was being subjected to unjust confinement at the Buenos Aires Zoo, where she has lived for the past 20 years. Zoo officials said they were still scratching their heads at the court's decision. It's a large space, there are specialists who take care of her diet, monitor her health, and in general she lives in very good conditions," said Adrian Sestelo, chief biologist at the zoo.
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| N. Korea's Internet back online after outage Posted: 23 Dec 2014 01:31 AM PST  The hours-long shutdown followed a U.S. vow to respond to a cyberattack on Sony Pictures.
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| Three men face attempted murder charges in Oregon school shooting Posted: 22 Dec 2014 10:57 PM PST By Shelby Sebens PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - Three men suspected in a gang-related shooting this month outside an Oregon high school for homeless and other vulnerable students are facing attempted murder and other charges, Portland police said on Monday. Police said the Dec. 12 shooting, which left four people injured, erupted following a dispute outside Rosemary Anderson High School. ... |
| U.S. State Department's Guantanamo envoy resigns Posted: 22 Dec 2014 10:09 PM PST By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department envoy responsible for negotiating prisoner transfers from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is resigning, officials said on Monday, even as President Barack Obama is promising a stepped-up push to close the facility. The surprise announcement of Clifford Sloan's departure followed a flurry of detainee repatriations and resettlements, though officials at the State Department and White House had made clear their frustration with the slow handling of such moves by outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. ... |
| New York mayor calls for pause in protests after police killings Posted: 22 Dec 2014 09:38 PM PST  By Jonathan Allen and Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Mayor Bill de Blasio implored protesters on Monday to wait until after the funerals of two policemen shot dead in an ambush before resuming rallies that have roiled the city and beyond over the deaths of black men at the hands of police. But de Blasio's plea was quickly dismissed by several activist groups that vowed to continue protests that have stirred the city daily after grand juries chose not to indict police officers who killed Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. ...
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| Key North Korean websites back online after shutdown Posted: 22 Dec 2014 07:48 PM PST  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Key North Korean websites were back online Tuesday after an hours-long shutdown that followed a U.S. vow to respond to a cyberattack on Sony Pictures that Washington blames on Pyongyang. The White House and the State Department declined to say whether the U.S. government was responsible for the shutdown in one of the least-wired countries in the world.
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| New York mayor calls for pause in protests after police killings Posted: 22 Dec 2014 06:12 PM PST  By Jonathan Allen and Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Mayor Bill de Blasio implored protesters on Monday to wait until after the funerals of two policemen shot dead in an ambush before resuming rallies that have roiled the city and beyond over the deaths of black men at the hands of police. But de Blasio's plea was quickly dismissed by several activist groups that vowed to continue protests that have stirred the city daily after grand juries chose not to indict police officers who killed Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. ...
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| Confusion over start of gay marriages next month in Florida Posted: 22 Dec 2014 04:21 PM PST By Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - Florida court officials, citing confusion after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to extend a stay on the state's same-sex marriage ban, agreed on Monday to ask a federal judge to clarify where gay couples may begin to tie the knot next month. When the stay expires after Jan. 5, it is unclear if weddings are permitted beyond the one county in northern Florida that was named in the case appealed to the high court. ... |
| Judge OKs Oklahoma's lethal injection protocol Posted: 22 Dec 2014 04:06 PM PST  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's lethal injection protocols are constitutional and the state can proceed with the scheduled executions of four death row inmates early next year, a federal judge ruled on Monday.
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| Ten injured in van attack on French Christmas market Posted: 22 Dec 2014 03:33 PM PST  A driver ploughed into a Christmas market in western France Monday, injuring 10 people before stabbing himself, a day after a man shouting "Allahu Akbar" ran down pedestrians in another French city. At least four people were badly hurt in the latest incident in the city of Nantes, the third attack in three days by individuals against civilians or security forces in France, sparking fears of possible copycat action. On Saturday, a man was shot dead by police after walking into a police station in the central town of Joue-les-Tours and attacking three officers with a knife while yelling "Allahu Akbar". Authorities in Nantes stressed there were no indications of a terrorist link in the Christmas market attack.
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