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| California Assembly passes bill mandating porn film condoms | |  A bill requiring pornographic film actors to wear condoms during sex scenes easily passed the California State Assembly on Tuesday despite resistance from most of the adult film industry. The bill would also require employers to test pornography film actors regularly for sexually transmitted diseases. The lower house passed the measure 48-13, with 19 Assembly members not voting. State Assembly member Isadore Hall, a Democrat from Compton who authored the bill, has hailed the measure as a public health effort aimed at reducing the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, within the pornography industry.
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| Beastie Boys fight for rights to songs in trial vs. Monster | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Beastie Boys hip-hop group turned to the courts on Tuesday to fight for their right to not let energy drink maker Monster Beverage Corp use their songs. A jury in Manhattan federal court heard opening statements in the case stemming from the popular Brooklyn-born band's attempts to hold Monster to account for unauthorized use of its music in a 2012 promotional video. Paul Garrity, a lawyer for the Beastie Boys, said the Beastie Boys had made a choice years ago to not license their music to promote commercial products like the caffeine-filled drink sold by Monster, which was required to seek a license. "It stole the Beastie Boys' right to say no," Garrity said.
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| Edward Snowden says he was trained 'as a spy' | |  Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked details of massive U.S. intelligence-gathering programs, said in a U.S. TV interview he "was trained as a spy" and had worked undercover overseas for U.S. government agencies. In an advance excerpt of his interview in Moscow with "NBC Nightly News" that aired on Tuesday, Snowden rejected comments by critics that he was a low-level analyst. "Well, it's no secret that the U.S. tends to get more and better intelligence out of computers nowadays than they do out of people," Snowden told NBC news anchor Brian Williams. And I've done that at all levels from - from the bottom on the ground all the way to the top." He said he worked undercover overseas for both the CIA and NSA and lectured at the Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy "where I developed sources and methods for keeping our information and people secure in the most hostile and dangerous environments around the world." "So when they (critics) say I'm a low-level systems administrator, that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it's somewhat misleading," Snowden added.
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| Hackers break into Brazil foreign ministry email system | | Tuesday, May 27, 2014 11:46 PM | |
| | BRASILIA (Reuters) - Hackers penetrated Brazil's foreign ministry internal email system but failed to get access to confidential government documents and cables, a ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack on Monday, which came amid protests by groups opposed to Brazil hosting the World Cup in June and July. Police and government security teams were investigating the extent of the attack. The ministry shut down its email communications for a day. ... |
| Florida triple murder suspect dies after standoff in Tennessee | | Tuesday, May 27, 2014 11:42 PM | |
| | By Barbara Liston ORLANDO Fla. (Reuters) - A U.S. military veteran suspected in the Memorial Day weekend killings of three people in Florida died on Tuesday after he shot himself during a standoff with a SWAT team in Tennessee, officials said. David Smith, 27, who was described as delusional, is believed to have killed the three victims, one of whom was his sister, sometime between Saturday and Monday in Lakeland, Florida, law enforcement officials said. On Tuesday, Smith called authorities in Tennessee and said he was wanted for murder in Florida and was holed up at a motel in West Knoxville. Smith fired multiple shots from his motel room during negotiations for his surrender but eventually became quiet, according to a statement from the Knox County Sheriff's Department. |
| Chinese man gets 70 months in U.S. prison for smuggling ivory | | Tuesday, May 27, 2014 11:41 PM | |
|  A Chinese antiques dealer was sentenced to 70 months in prison on Tuesday as the ringleader of a crew that smuggled rhinoceros horn and elephant ivory artifacts from the United States to China. The sentence imposed on Zhifei Li, 30, in U.S. District Court for smuggling more than $4.5 million in goods is one of the longest in the United States for wildlife smuggling. Li, the owner of a firm called Overseas Treasure Finding in Shandong, China, admitted that he led three antiques dealers in the United States who helped him smuggle the items. The sting was part of a crackdown on wildlife smuggling with the Department of Justice.
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| Emblematic Venezuelan prisoner begins hunger strike for freedom | | Tuesday, May 27, 2014 10:51 PM | |
| | By Diego Ore CARACAS (Reuters) - An imprisoned former Caracas police commissioner at the center of stalled political talks between Venezuela's government and opposition went on a hunger strike on Tuesday, demanding he be released due to frail health. Ivan Simonovis, 54, was sentenced to 30 years behind bars after being convicted of participating in the assassination of four protesters during a march that triggered a brief coup against the late President Hugo Chavez in 2002. The issue was a factor in this month's collapse of negotiations between the opposition and President Nicolas Maduro's government. |
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