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• House plans to extend tax breaks through December
• States sue Obama administration on immigration: Texas attorney general
• NYC grand jury won't indict in police choke hold case
• Proposed U.S. ban on Russian rocket engine puts premium on replacement
• As CIA, senators settle feuds, long-awaited 'torture' report imminent
• U.S. couple leaves Qatar after convictions overturned in child death
• Obama says encouraged by Republicans who oppose government shutdown
• Stepfather apologizes for remarks during Missouri protest: reports
• New York neighborhood simmers over man's death in police chokehold
• UAE police seek suspect in killing of U.S. teacher
• NBC reporter apologizes on 'Today' show
• New York prepares for protests as grand jury mulls police choke-hold death
• Texas set to execute murderer afflicted with severe mental illness
• Iraq official: Arrested woman not IS leader's wife
• Former Cake drummer gets prison for child molestation
• American Alan Gross completes fifth year in Cuban prison
• Massachusetts hospital says treating possible Ebola patient
• 2 children, adult killed in Tenn. school bus crash
• Obama settles on Ashton Carter as Pentagon chief, sources say
• At least three dead in Tennessee crash between school buses: reports

House plans to extend tax breaks through December Posted: 03 Dec 2014 12:54 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is moving Wednesday to extend a massive package of expired tax breaks through the end of the year, adding about $42 billion to the budget deficit over the next decade.

States sue Obama administration on immigration: Texas attorney general Posted: 03 Dec 2014 12:37 PM PST By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas is leading a 17-state coalition that sued the Obama administration on Wednesday over its executive order to ease the threat of deportation for some 4.7 million undocumented immigrants, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said. The case filed at the Federal Court in the Southern District of Texas said the executive order was unlawful. Abbott, a Republican and the Texas governor-elect added the order requires federal agencies "to award large benefits to individuals whose conduct contradicts the priorities of Congress. ...

NYC grand jury won't indict in police choke hold case Posted: 03 Dec 2014 12:03 PM PST A cop who used a chokehold on Eric Garner will not face charges.

Proposed U.S. ban on Russian rocket engine puts premium on replacement Posted: 03 Dec 2014 11:28 AM PST By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - A proposed ban on purchases of a Russian-made rocket engine to launch U.S. military satellites will speed up the development of an American-made replacement, the head of United Launch Alliance, a Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co joint venture, said on Wednesday. A compromise defense policy bill in Congress would bar the purchase of more Russian-made RD-180 rocket engines to send U.S. military satellites into space. ULA, the Lockheed Martin-Boeing joint venture, uses the RD-180 to power its Atlas 5 rocket and holds a virtually monopoly on the U. ...

As CIA, senators settle feuds, long-awaited 'torture' report imminent Posted: 03 Dec 2014 11:10 AM PST By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate committee and the CIA have resolved a dispute over redactions in a long-awaited report highly critical of the spy agency's coercive interrogation program, paving the way for the document's likely release early next week, U.S. officials said. The document's publication is the culmination of years of work by Democrats who control the Senate Intelligence Committee, but who will cede power when the newly elected Republican majority takes over the Senate next month. The harsh CIA interrogations - which human rights campaigners and many U.S. ...

U.S. couple leaves Qatar after convictions overturned in child death Posted: 03 Dec 2014 09:46 AM PST By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. couple whose convictions were overturned in the death of their adopted daughter in Qatar left the Gulf Arab state on Wednesday after a travel ban that had kept them in the country was lifted, their supporters and the U.S. ambassador to Qatar said. Matthew and Grace Huang boarded a flight at the airport in Doha and are bound for their home in Los Angeles, said a statement on the website of the California Innocence Project, an organization that works to win the release of wrongfully convicted inmates. ...

Obama says encouraged by Republicans who oppose government shutdown Posted: 03 Dec 2014 09:30 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama voiced optimism on Wednesday that a government shutdown can be avoided in coming weeks, pointing to comments from Republican leaders of Congress who oppose a budget showdown. In wide-ranging remarks at the Business Roundtable, Obama said he believed it is possible to get an agreement for comprehensive tax reform legislation next year with the new Republican Congress that takes power in January. Obama also said weakness in the economies in Japan and Europe could impact the U.S. economy. ...

Stepfather apologizes for remarks during Missouri protest: reports Posted: 03 Dec 2014 09:13 AM PST (Reuters) - The stepfather of a black teenager who was gunned down by a Missouri police officer apologized on Wednesday for his emotional comments during fiery protests last week, but said he did not cause the rioting, according to media reports. Louis Head said his emotions "got the best of me" during protests of a grand jury's decision not to indict white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for killing 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9 in Ferguson, Missouri, a St. Louis suburb, reports said. The remarks were made in a statement obtained by NBC and CNN. ...

New York neighborhood simmers over man's death in police chokehold Posted: 03 Dec 2014 08:06 AM PST By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the Staten Island neighborhood where a black father of six died after police put him in a banned chokehold while arresting him for illegal cigarette sales, a painted tribute on a wall reads "His name was Eric Garner. Father, son and friend..." Garner lived and died in Tompkinsville, a neighborhood tucked on the north shore of New York's least populated borough, Staten Island, which is braced for a grand jury's decision whether to indict the New York Police Department officer who put Garner, 43, in the chokehold. ...

UAE police seek suspect in killing of U.S. teacher Posted: 03 Dec 2014 07:33 AM PST DUBAI (Reuters) - A female American teacher has been stabbed to death in the toilet of an Abu Dhabi shopping mall but police are uncertain if the suspected killer, who was dressed in a black robe, is a woman or a man, police said. A suspect seen entering the mall in CCTV footage minutes before the killing on Monday wore the traditional robe worn by Arab women in the region. But police left open the possibility that the bulky figure could have been a man in disguise. Police on Wednesday posted video of the suspect. ...

NBC reporter apologizes on 'Today' show Posted: 03 Dec 2014 06:27 AM PST NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News medical reporter Nancy Snyderman apologized on the "Today" show Wednesday for violating her quarantine for Ebola exposure, saying she failed to appreciate how frightened Americans were of the disease.

New York prepares for protests as grand jury mulls police choke-hold death Posted: 03 Dec 2014 04:51 AM PST By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York officials were preparing for likely protests as a grand jury decides whether to charge police in the death of a black man subjected to a banned choke hold, but aimed to avoid the kind of violence that engulfed a St. Louis suburb last month. Protest groups have planned marches if the grand jury does not charge any of the officers involved in the July 17 incident, which led to the death of Eric Garner, a 43-year-old father of six. It is not clear when the grand jury will rule. ...

Texas set to execute murderer afflicted with severe mental illness Posted: 03 Dec 2014 04:36 AM PST By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas plans to execute a convicted double murderer on Wednesday over the objections of lawyers arguing his life should be spared because he suffers from serious mental illness and putting him to death would be morally and legally wrong. Scott Panetti, 56, is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. CST (1900 ET) by lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville. If the execution goes ahead, Panetti would be the 519th person executed in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the most of any state. U.N. ...

Iraq official: Arrested woman not IS leader's wife Posted: 03 Dec 2014 03:46 AM PST BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi official denied Wednesday that a woman detained in Lebanon is a wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group, adding that she is the sister of a terror suspect being held in Iraq.

Former Cake drummer gets prison for child molestation Posted: 03 Dec 2014 01:00 AM PST (Reuters) - A former drummer in U.S. alternative rock band Cake has been sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison for molesting a three-year-old girl in 2009, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said. Peter Ivan McNeal was found guilty in March 2013 of one count of sexually molesting a child 10 years old or younger, the Attorney's Office said on Tuesday. McNeal molested the girl on Thanksgiving in 2009 at a home where he was a guest in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles, the statement said. ...

American Alan Gross completes fifth year in Cuban prison Posted: 02 Dec 2014 09:34 PM PST By Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - U.S. foreign aid worker Alan Gross completed his fifth year in a Cuban prison on Wednesday with his wife warning he is in terrible condition, while any hopes for improving hostile U.S.-Cuban relations hinge largely on his fate. "I am afraid that we are at the end. After five years of literally wasting away, Alan is done," his wife, Judy Gross, said in a statement that described him as gaunt, hobbling and missing five teeth. Cuba arrested Gross, now 65, on Dec. 3, 2009, and later convicted the U.S. ...

Massachusetts hospital says treating possible Ebola patient Posted: 02 Dec 2014 06:40 PM PST BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts General Hospital admitted a patient possibly exposed to the Ebola virus on Tuesday, the hospital said in a statement. The patient, whose identity was not disclosed, is being treated in a "specially prepared area within the hospital," Mass General said, noted that the diagnosis has not yet been confirmed. The worst outbreak of Ebola on record has killed more than 6,000 people, with the vast majority of cases in the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. U.S. ...

2 children, adult killed in Tenn. school bus crash Posted: 02 Dec 2014 05:35 PM PST KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two buses carrying children home from an intermediate and a primary school collided on a Tennessee highway, killing two children and an adult.

Obama settles on Ashton Carter as Pentagon chief, sources say Posted: 02 Dec 2014 04:46 PM PST By Phil Stewart and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Can a career Washington technocrat break into U.S. President Barack Obama's tight-knit inner circle and oversee the world's most powerful military? It looks like former Pentagon official Ashton Carter is about to find out. Administration sources said on Tuesday that Obama has settled on the 60-year-old Carter as his fourth defense secretary, with an announcement expected in coming days once he is thoroughly vetted. ...

At least three dead in Tennessee crash between school buses: reports Posted: 02 Dec 2014 03:05 PM PST (Reuters) - At least three people died and several were injured in a crash on Tuesday in Knoxville, Tennessee, involving two school buses, according to local media reports. The crash happened on Asheville Highway at 2:50 p.m., a Knoxville Police representative said, but she could not confirm other details. Local media, including the Knoxville News Sentinel, have said that three people died, citing local officials. Amanda Johnson, a spokeswoman for Knox County Schools, said that the buses served Chilhowee Intermediate School and Sunnyview Primary School in the eastern Tennessee city. ...

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