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| Judge puts GM ignition-switch lawsuits on ice, for now | | | By Jessica Dye NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Wednesday put on hold dozens of lawsuits accusing General Motors Co of concealing an ignition-switch defect while plaintiffs in those cases appeal an earlier ruling that found their cases were barred. GM had argued that claims for vehicles pre-dating its 2009 exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy should be dismissed, following U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Gerber's April 15 ruling that the company was shielded from those claims by the terms of its bankruptcy. Plaintiffs said the cases should be stayed pending a resolution of their appeal. |
| World soccer rocked by U.S., Swiss arrests of officials for graft | |  By Mike Collett, Brian Homewood and Nate Raymond ZURICH/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The world's most popular sport was plunged into turmoil on Wednesday as seven senior soccer officials were arrested on U.S. corruption charges and faced extradition from Switzerland, whose authorities also announced a criminal investigation into the awarding of the next two World Cups. The arrests in a dawn raid at a five-star Zurich hotel mark an unprecedented blow against soccer's governing body FIFA, which for years has been dogged by allegations of corruption but always escaped major criminal cases. U.S. prosecutors said they aimed to make more arrests but would not be drawn on whether FIFA President Sepp Blatter, for long the most powerful man in the sport, was a target of the probe.
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| U.S. seeks seven years in prison for friend of Boston bomber | | | By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors asked a judge on Wednesday to sentence a friend of the convicted Boston Marathon bomber to seven years in prison for obstructing the investigation into the deadly 2013 attack. Kazakhstan national Dias Kadyrbayev is one of three friends of convicted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev due to be sentenced next week for interfering with the investigation into the bombing that killed three people and injured 264. Kadyrbayev, who was in the United States as an exchange student, pleaded guilty in August to obstruction of justice after his roommate and fellow Kazakh exchange student Azamat Tazhayakov was found guilty by a jury of obstructing justice by removing a backpack containing empty fireworks shells from Tsarnaev's dorm room three days after the April 15, 2013, bombing. |
| D.C. subway system to decide on advocacy group's ad depicting Prophet Mohammad | | | By John Clarke WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington's transit system is weighing whether to allow a subway ad featuring a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad that won first prize at an event in Texas this month that was attacked by two gunmen. The Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a standard review of an ad submitted by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, Metro spokesman Mike Tolbert said on Wednesday. The advertisement calls for Americans to support free speech, and features a cartoon of a bearded, turban-wearing Mohammad waving a sword and shouting: "You can't draw me!" In reply, a cartoon bubble portrays the artist, his hand grasping a pencil, saying: "That's why I draw you." Depictions of the prophet of Islam are considered offensive by many Muslims. |
| U.S. IRS tax data hack traced to Russia - CNN | |  The U.S. Internal Revenue Service believes the theft of about 100,000 taxpayers' personal data from its computer system originated in Russia, CNN reported on Wednesday. The tax agency's criminal unit is leading an investigation into the cyber attack, in which criminals stole information through an online IRS application over the course of four months, and the Treasury Department's inspector general and the Department of Homeland Security are also looking into the breach, CNN said. On Wednesday, the IRS had no immediate comment to the CNN report.
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| Sirius XM to face class action in Turtles copyright suit | | | By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge in California allowed a class action lawsuit to proceed on Wednesday against satellite-radio company Sirius XM Holdings Inc over the payment of royalties for songs produced before 1972, in a case that is being closely watched for its implications for digital media. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez marks another win for members of the 1960s band the Turtles, known for the hit "Happy Together," and means the company could face claims from a broader group of artists in the case. Gutierrez ruled last September that, under California state law, New York-based Sirius XM was liable for copyright infringement by airing the band's pre-1972 songs without paying royalties. |
| Latin American soccer fans cheer FIFA corruption sweep | | | By Caio Saad and Pedro Fonseca RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - As if losing the World Cup to Europe on home soil for the first time was not enough, Latin American soccer now faces more humiliation with some of its most powerful executives arrested in a massive international corruption sweep. "This should have happened long ago!" said Wilson Suares, 66, a newspaper seller, in Rio de Janeiro, the city that is for many the sport's spiritual 'home' and where the World Cup final was held - and won by Germany - in 2014. Latin American fans have long booed officials assumed to be on the take, amid deep public disgust at graft in the game. |
| FBI probing what J&J knew about uterine surgery device - WSJ | | | (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing a surgical tool found to spread uterine cancer and what Johnson & Johnson knew about its risks before withdrawing its version of the device last year, the Wall Street Journal reported. J&J said in July that it would ask doctors to return the device, called laparoscopic power morcellator, which is used to treat uterine growths called fibroids. It is unclear what stage the inquiry is in, the Journal reported, citing three people who have been interviewed. |
| Brazil president urges broad investigation after FIFA probe | |  Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff called on Wednesday for a comprehensive investigation of wrongdoing in soccer after U.S. and Swiss authorities announced separate inquiries into the activities of the game's powerful governing body, FIFA. Speaking to reporters on a visit to Mexico City, Rousseff said she believed the probes, which embroiled a senior Brazilian soccer figure, would help Brazil, and she urged authorities to look into all tournaments and soccer activities. Among those detained was Jose Maria Marin, former head of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF).
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| Warner's "football tsunami" warning finally comes true for FIFA | |  By Mike Collett ZURICH (Reuters) - Almost exactly four years to the day since former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner stood in the lobby of the Baur au Lac hotel and warned FIFA a "football tsunami" was about to hit it, his words have finally came true. This, though, was not the tsunami Warner had in mind when he himself was suspended by FIFA for his alleged part in the bribery scandal that led to his downfall in the build-up to the 2011 FIFA presidential election. At the time he said he had evidence of bribery going back years that would "hit FIFA and the world and shock you." But Warner never did unleash his threatened tsunami.
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| Costa Rica opens probe into arrested FIFA official Eduardo Li | |  By Enrique Pretel SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Costa Rican prosecutors have opened an investigation into the president of the country's soccer federation who was among seven FIFA executives arrested in Switzerland on Wednesday on corruption charges brought by prosecutors in the United States. The news caused concern in the Central American country, where federation chief Eduardo Li was named 2014 person of the year by newspaper La Nacion for his role in the national team's unexpected run to the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Brazil. Nine FIFA officials and five corporate executives were indicted on corruption, bribery and money laundering charges, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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| Islamic State sympathizers may have made airline threats - U.S. officials | | | Islamic State sympathizers may have been behind more than a dozen threats in the last two days to international flights using U.S. airports or flying over American airspace, U.S. law enforcement and security sources said on Wednesday. The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that after 11 threats were received by U.S. law enforcement officers on Monday, at least four more were phoned in late on Tuesday. The threats were all similar and the caller claimed the flights were carrying some form of chemical weapons, they said, adding that investigators' leading theory was that sympathizers of Islamic State were responsible. |
| Europeans lead outcry over latest FIFA scandal | |  Leading figures from across European soccer voiced dismay on Wednesday over the latest scandal to engulf FIFA, the game's powerful governing body, with many of them calling for its presidential election set for Friday to be postponed. The world's most popular sport was plunged into turmoil after U.S. and Swiss authorities announced inquiries into FIFA's activities. Wolfgang Niersbach, president of the German football federation (DFB), told reporters: "It is shocking and damaging for the (whole of) football what is going on in Zurich.
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| Apple finds bug that causes iPhones to crash | |  REUTERS - Apple Inc has found a bug which can cause iPhones to crash when a message containing a specific string of text is received. The bug, which includes symbols and Arabic characters, was first reported by Apple news blog MacRumors on Tuesday night, adding that it was noticed on social news hub Reddit earlier in the day. (http://bit.ly/1ExFAPr) "We are aware of an iMessage issue caused by a specific series of unicode characters and we will make a fix available in a software update," an Apple spokesperson said in an e-mail. ...
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