| Kentucky clerk asks court to force governor to OK denial of gay marriage licenses Posted: 07 Sep 2015 10:28 AM PDT  LOUISVILLE, Ky (Reuters) - Lawyers for jailed Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis said on Monday they had asked an appellate court to force Governor Steve Beshear to allow her to refuse to issue same-sex marriage licenses based on her religious convictions. They sought emergency relief from the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, asking it to grant Davis an exemption from the "Governor's mandate that all county clerks issue marriage licenses," lawyers from the non-profit legal advocacy group Liberty Counsel, which represents Davis, said in a press release. ...
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| 'Glaring errors' led court to annul Knox murder conviction Posted: 07 Sep 2015 09:53 AM PDT  Italy's top court threw out a conviction of American Amanda Knox for the 2007 murder of her British flatmate due to "glaring errors" in the case against her, a document showed on Monday. The brutal stabbing of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher prompted a zigzag of contradictory rulings which ended in March with the acquittal of Knox and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, casting an uncomfortable spotlight on Italy's legal system. The Court of Cassation said there were no certain biological traces of Knox or Sollecito in the room where the murder was committed, nor on the victim's body.
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| Obama: world economy is volatile right now, U.S. is bright spot Posted: 07 Sep 2015 09:37 AM PDT  BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday the world economy was volatile at the moment and the U.S. economy was a bright spot in the mix.
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| Man shot in head before Brooklyn parade is reportedly Gov. Cuomo aide Posted: 07 Sep 2015 07:59 AM PDT A man reportedly identified as an aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was shot in the head and critically injured after gunfire erupted in the pre-dawn hours on Monday before the West Indian Day parade in Brooklyn, police said. The 43-year-old man was the "unintended target" of the shooting, which took place at 3:41 a.m. at 1680 Bedford Avenue, said a spokeswoman for the New York Police Department. Cuomo's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. |
| Obama to order government contractors to offer workers paid sick leave Posted: 07 Sep 2015 06:34 AM PDT  President Barack Obama will sign an executive order on Monday in Boston requiring U.S. government contractors to offer seven days of paid sick leave a year to their workers, the White House said. Senior adviser Valerie Jarrett told reporters on a conference call on Sunday that the United States was the only developed country that did not have a paid leave policy and that the executive order would benefit about 300,000 people working on government contracts. "Everyday, the president sees the pressing need for policies to support working families," said Jarrett.
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| Migrant flow into Austria ebbs after 14,000 weekend influx Posted: 07 Sep 2015 02:13 AM PDT  VIENNA (AP) — Calm returned Monday to the main border point between Austria and Hungary after more than 14,000 people used it over the weekend to enter Austria, but cross-border tensions continued with Hungary's leader hitting back at EU counterparts who blamed his country for the chaos.
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| Obama observes Labor Day, extends contractors' paid leave Posted: 06 Sep 2015 09:50 PM PDT  The president will sign an executive order Monday requiring paid sick leave for employees of federal contractors, including 300,000 who currently receive none.
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| Austria to revoke measures that let migrants cross from Hungary Posted: 06 Sep 2015 05:28 PM PDT  By Michael Shields and Irene Preisinger VIENNA/MUNICH (Reuters) - Austria said on Sunday it planned to end emergency measures that have allowed thousands of refugees stranded in Hungary into Austria and Germany since Saturday morning. Austria had suspended its random border checks after photographs of a Syrian toddler lying dead on a Turkish beach showed Europeans the horror faced by those desperate enough to travel illegally into the heart of Europe, which is deeply divided over how to cope. After 71 people suffocated in the back of a truck abandoned on an Austrian highway en route from Hungary, and as thousands headed from Budapest toward Austria on foot, Vienna had agreed with Germany to waive rules requiring refugees to register an asylum claim in the first EU country they reach.
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| Indiana zoo locked down briefly after cheetah jumps out of exhibit Posted: 06 Sep 2015 03:17 PM PDT  No zoo visitor, staff or cheetah was injured in the incident, Indianapolis Zoo spokeswoman Judy Palermo said. About 9:40 a.m. local time on Sunday, a zoo staffer noticed that a 4-year-old male cheetah named Pounce jumped into a fenced grassy area next to the primary exhibit. Zoo visitors walk alongside the grassy area, Palermo said.
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