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- New York, New Jersey put $71 billion price tag on Sandy
- Judge merges lawsuits against cinema chain in Colorado shootings
- Schapiro stepping down at SEC, Walter to step in
- Navy moves ahead to replace presidential helicopters
- With "fiscal cliff" deadline nearing, parties still at odds
- Bankrupt San Bernardino to halt payments to Calpers, bondholders
- California man accused in plot to join al Qaeda denied bail
- Chicago offers to pause school closings after 2013 cuts
- Supreme Court struggles over workplace harassment standard
- Officials probe how mentally ill man got gun used in Alabama shooting
- Eight-year term sought for California campaign treasurer fraud
- Analysis: For Obama, could 10,000 troops in Afghanistan be too many?
- Schapiro stepping down at SEC, Walter to step in
- New York City mayor to ask Congress for $9.8 billion for Sandy costs
- Police probe how Romney security data became New York City parade confetti
- Three from California family drown in ocean trying to save dog
- Obama health law to face religion-based challenge
- Trade groups hit airwaves to protect tax benefits
- Ohio inmate loses bid to stay his execution because of weight
- Fugitive returned to L.A. from Mexico to face murder charges
- Top court will not revisit Illinois eavesdropping law
- Head of patent office to step down
- White House: no decision on troops in Afghanistan post 2014
- Obama committed to immigration reform: White House
- Supreme Court declines to review insanity defense appeal
- Man behind anti-Islam film that stoked riots has no regrets: New York Times
- Top court rejects appeal of ex-Louisiana congressman
- Campaign for Los Angeles pension measure suspended
- Skinned carcasses of 11 puppies found in bag in Pennsylvania
- Autopsy finds winner of roach-eating contest in Florida choked to death
- LA money manager gets no jail in NY corruption case
| New York, New Jersey put $71 billion price tag on Sandy Posted: 26 Nov 2012 04:21 PM PST
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| Judge merges lawsuits against cinema chain in Colorado shootings Posted: 26 Nov 2012 06:17 PM PST
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| Schapiro stepping down at SEC, Walter to step in Posted: 26 Nov 2012 05:23 PM PST
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| Navy moves ahead to replace presidential helicopters Posted: 26 Nov 2012 03:56 PM PST
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| With "fiscal cliff" deadline nearing, parties still at odds Posted: 26 Nov 2012 02:59 PM PST
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| Bankrupt San Bernardino to halt payments to Calpers, bondholders Posted: 26 Nov 2012 06:22 PM PST
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| California man accused in plot to join al Qaeda denied bail Posted: 26 Nov 2012 03:57 PM PST RIVERSIDE, California (Reuters) - A California man accused alongside three co-defendants of conspiring to provide support to al Qaeda and Taliban militants plotting attacks against Americans overseas was ordered held without bail on Monday by a federal judge. Arifeen David Gojali, 21, was arrested with two others last week outside a southern California apartment complex by authorities who said the trio had imminent plans to travel to Afghanistan via Mexico and Turkey to prepare for "violent jihad. ... |
| Chicago offers to pause school closings after 2013 cuts Posted: 26 Nov 2012 04:18 PM PST CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Monday he wants a five-year moratorium on closing public schools after anticipated cuts in 2013, but the teachers union called his gesture a "sleight of hand." The third-largest school district in the United States, which was hit with a strike by public school teachers in September, was already facing a financial crisis that was made worse by granting pay rises to teachers. The school district forecasts a $1 billion deficit next year and is widely expected to try to balance its budget in part by closing public schools. ... |
| Supreme Court struggles over workplace harassment standard Posted: 26 Nov 2012 12:10 PM PST
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| Officials probe how mentally ill man got gun used in Alabama shooting Posted: 26 Nov 2012 03:28 PM PST BAY MINETTE, Alabama (Reuters) - Investigators in Alabama are trying to determine how a man with a history of mental illness obtained a gun he used to kill a sheriff's deputy and wound another when they responded to a 911 call at his trailer, a prosecutor said on Monday The man, 53-year-old Michael Jansen, initially opened fire from inside the trailer on Friday after three officers went to his home following a call from his mother that he was behaving erratically, according to police. Jansen was killed in the gunfight near the southern Alabama city of Fairhope. ... |
| Eight-year term sought for California campaign treasurer fraud Posted: 26 Nov 2012 01:43 PM PST SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors are seeking an eight-year prison sentence for a Democratic campaign treasurer accused of draining up to $20 million from the war chests of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein and other politicians, court documents showed on Monday. Kinde Durkee, who controlled the funds of some 400 political candidates and groups, should spend 97 months in federal custody and pay an as-yet undetermined amount of restitution, a sentencing memo by prosecutors said. Durkee was arrested in September 2011 and charged with criminal mail fraud. ... |
| Analysis: For Obama, could 10,000 troops in Afghanistan be too many? Posted: 26 Nov 2012 03:01 PM PST
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| Schapiro stepping down at SEC, Walter to step in Posted: 26 Nov 2012 03:05 PM PST
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| New York City mayor to ask Congress for $9.8 billion for Sandy costs Posted: 26 Nov 2012 12:49 PM PST
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| Police probe how Romney security data became New York City parade confetti Posted: 26 Nov 2012 03:40 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police are investigating how shredded documents revealing confidential information, including details about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's motorcade, wound up as confetti on a Manhattan sidewalk during the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Bits of shredded paper from the Nassau County Police Department could still be found on Monday afternoon in the cracks of the sidewalks along Central Park, according to Saul Finkelstein, the eyewitness who first alerted authorities to the problem. ... |
| Three from California family drown in ocean trying to save dog Posted: 26 Nov 2012 02:56 PM PST SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California mother and father and their 16-year-old son were swept out to sea over the weekend after a deadly chain of events set off when the teenager jumped into frigid waters to save the family dog from turbulent Pacific Ocean waves. The dog escaped on his own from the water off the Northern California coast. But Howard Kuljian, 50, and Mary Scott, 54, of Eureka died while their 16-year-old son, Gregory Kuljian, remained lost at sea, said Deputy Ariel Gruenthal of the Humboldt County Coroner's office. ... |
| Obama health law to face religion-based challenge Posted: 26 Nov 2012 12:54 PM PST
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| Trade groups hit airwaves to protect tax benefits Posted: 26 Nov 2012 01:26 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - As the debate around tax reform grows more heated, broker-dealers and other companies that service retirement plans offered by employers are increasingly concerned that the tax benefits of 401(k) plans are on the chopping block. Groups representing the spectrum of financial services have begun marketing campaigns online as well as on television protect their members' interests and bring investors to their side. ... |
| Ohio inmate loses bid to stay his execution because of weight Posted: 26 Nov 2012 02:45 PM PST CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A federal judge said on Monday that an Ohio death row inmate weighing more than 450 pounds cannot be given a stay of execution because of his obesity. Ronald Post, 53, is scheduled to be executed January 16 for the 1983 aggravated murder of hotel clerk Helen Vantz in Elyria, Ohio. Since his first appeal in 1997, Post's attorneys have argued that his weight, of more than 450 pounds, in combination with the state's death penalty drug protocols creates a certainty of, "substantial risk for serious and psychological pain" and a "torturous and lingering death. ... |
| Fugitive returned to L.A. from Mexico to face murder charges Posted: 26 Nov 2012 01:55 PM PST
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| Top court will not revisit Illinois eavesdropping law Posted: 26 Nov 2012 01:55 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court refused on Monday to revive a controversial Illinois law that prohibited audio recordings of police officers acting in public places, a ban that critics said violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Without comment, the court on Monday let stand a May 8 ruling by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago that blocked enforcement of the law, which had made it a felony to record audio of conversations unless all parties consented. ... |
| Head of patent office to step down Posted: 26 Nov 2012 02:13 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The popular director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, David Kappos, will be stepping down in January, according to an email sent to agency employees on Monday. In the email, Kappos said he would be leaving around the end of January and thanked agency employees for their work. A patent office spokesman confirmed that Kappos would step down. Kappos, who is famous for his long hours, has been popular with patent attorneys and industry for being responsive to their desire for more communication and a reduced backlog in patent applications. ... |
| White House: no decision on troops in Afghanistan post 2014 Posted: 26 Nov 2012 01:08 PM PST
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| Obama committed to immigration reform: White House Posted: 26 Nov 2012 01:07 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will push for comprehensive immigration reform, his spokesman said on Monday, an accomplishment that eluded him during his first four years in office. "There is a real opportunity here to move forward and the president is committed to that," White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters at a briefing. "He believes that comprehensive immigration reform is achievable. ... |
| Supreme Court declines to review insanity defense appeal Posted: 26 Nov 2012 12:39 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal over whether criminal defendants have a constitutional right to assert an insanity defense, leaving in place a paranoid schizophrenic's guilty plea over two murders. With three of its nine justices dissenting, the court without explanation declined to take up the case of John Joseph Delling, who had been sentenced to life in prison in Idaho over the 2007 shooting deaths of David Boss, a childhood friend, and Brad Morse, whom he had met playing online video games. ... |
| Man behind anti-Islam film that stoked riots has no regrets: New York Times Posted: 26 Nov 2012 10:58 AM PST (Reuters) - The Egyptian-born Coptic Christian who made the anti-Islam film that sparked protests across the Muslim world has no regrets about his insulting portrayal of the Prophet Mohammad, according to an interview with the New York Times. In his first public comments since the 14-minute trailer for his film, "Innocence of Muslims," gained notoriety in September, Mark Basseley Youssef told the newspaper he wanted to reveal what he called "the actual truth" about Mohammad and raise awareness of the violence committed "under the sign of Allah. ... |
| Top court rejects appeal of ex-Louisiana congressman Posted: 26 Nov 2012 11:42 AM PST
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| Campaign for Los Angeles pension measure suspended Posted: 26 Nov 2012 12:04 PM PST SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan suspended on Monday his campaign to put a measure before voters to overhaul the second-largest U.S. city's pension system. Riordan concluded the campaign could not meet the deadline for gathering signatures to qualify the plan for the May 2013 ballot, spokesman John Schwada said. Schwada said Riordan is reviewing options for the measure, including a potential effort to put it on the June 2014 city ballot. "Rest assured that Mayor Riordan is actively looking at all the options available to him," the spokesman said. ... |
| Skinned carcasses of 11 puppies found in bag in Pennsylvania Posted: 26 Nov 2012 12:37 PM PST PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Animal welfare investigators on Monday sought clues in the skinning of 11 puppies whose bodies were found stuffed in a bag left in a ditch in eastern Pennsylvania. The gruesome discovery was made on Friday in Lower Macungie, about 20 miles from Lynn Township, where days earlier another animal carcass was found skinned and cooked, with its feet cut off, said Bruce Fritch, board president of the Lehigh County Humane Society, which is investigating the slayings. "It's just heinous," Fritch said. ... |
| Autopsy finds winner of roach-eating contest in Florida choked to death Posted: 26 Nov 2012 12:32 PM PST (Reuters) - A Florida man choked to death after eating dozens of roaches and worms last month to win a contest featuring a python as the top prize, according to autopsy results released on Monday. The Broward County Medical Examiner's Office ruled that 32-year-old Edward Archbold's October 6 death to be accidental and said he died after being deprived of oxygen "due to choking and aspiration of gastric contents." Lab tests were negative for lethal intoxicating substances and a severe allergic reaction, the medical examiner said. ... |
| LA money manager gets no jail in NY corruption case Posted: 26 Nov 2012 03:06 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Los Angeles money manager Elliott Broidy was spared jail time and a felony conviction on Monday for his role in a "pay to play" scheme at the New York state pension fund. Justice Lewis Bart Stone reduced Broidy's felony to a misdemeanor and sentenced him to a conditional discharge. Broidy, 55, admitted making nearly $1 million in gifts for New York state pension fund officials, including $75,000 in travel expenses for luxury trips to Israel and Italy. ... |
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