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| Los Angeles judge orders deposition of Bill Cosby by former model | | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 3:05 AM | |
|  By Jonathan Tolliver LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bill Cosby and his former lawyer were ordered on Monday to give sworn depositions in the defamation lawsuit brought by an ex-supermodel who says they falsely called her a liar after she publicly accused the comedian of sexually assaulting her three decades ago. The ruling by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Debra Weintraub marks the second time in two months that Cosby, 78, will be required to testify under oath in response to a complaint of sexual misconduct against him. In this case, he and Martin Singer, a prominent Los Angeles attorney who had represented Cosby until he was replaced last month with a new legal team, must submit to questions from lawyers of onetime model and reality TV personality Janice Dickinson.
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| 'Dance Moms' star Abby Lee Miller pleads not guilty to fraud | | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 3:02 AM | |
|  By Elizabeth Daley PITTSBURGH, Pa. (Reuters) - Reality television show star Abby Lee Miller pleaded not guilty on Monday to concealing over $755,000 in income that U.S. investigators say she earned from Lifetime network's "Dance Moms" and spinoff projects during her Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Miller, 50, who appeared in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh, was indicted by a federal grand jury last month on charges of bankruptcy fraud, concealment of bankruptcy assets and false bankruptcy declarations. If convicted, Miller faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each of the 20 counts against her, U.S. Attorney David Hickton said in a statement.
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| Justin Bieber taken off formal probation in egg-pelting case | | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 2:21 AM | |
|  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Canadian pop star Justin Bieber was taken off formal probation by a U.S. judge on Monday after he was found guilty of vandalism last year for throwing eggs at a neighbor's house. Bieber, 21, did not attend the hearing in which Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Andrea Thompson changed the status of his probation to informal after receiving good reports on his two-year probation sentence, according to court documents. The "Boyfriend" singer pleaded no contest to misdemeanor vandalism in July 2014 after pelting eggs at a neighbor's home in an upscale Calabasas, California, neighborhood.
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| Porsche, more Audi models pulled into VW emissions scandal | | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 1:38 AM | |
|  By Patrick Rucker and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Volkswagen used devices to cheat air pollution tests in diesel luxury vehicles, U.S. environmental regulators said on Monday, in a new blow to the automaker already reeling from similar allegations regarding millions of smaller diesel engines. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it is now looking at 3.0-liter V6 diesel engines used mostly in larger, more expensive models like the Porsche Cayenne sport utility vehicle in addition to engines on Jettas, Passats and other mass-market models whose test-deceiving software were initially targeted by the agency in mid-September. Volkswagen in a response Monday took issue with the EPA's findings, saying that "no software has been installed" in its 3.0-liter V6 diesel engines "to alter emissions characteristics in a forbidden manner." VW made similar denials for more than a year to U.S. regulators before admitting to cheating on the four-cylinder diesels.
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| No coherent strategy for Syria air strikes, UK lawmakers say | | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 12:36 AM | |
| | By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Britain should not extend its air strikes against Islamic State fighters into Syria until there is a clear strategy to defeat the militants, a committee of British lawmakers said, dealing a blow to Prime Minister David Cameron. Cameron has said he wants to do more to tackle Islamic State and hopes to seek parliamentary approval to carry out attacks in Syria. Britain is already involved in bombing IS targets in Iraq and has provided allies with surveillance over Syria. |
| Google aims to begin drone package deliveries in 2017 | | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 12:33 AM | |
|  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Internet giant Alphabet Inc , the new holding company for Google, expects to begin delivering packages to consumers via drones sometime in 2017, the executive in charge of its drone effort said on Monday. David Vos, the leader for Alphabet's Project Wing, said his company is in talks with the Federal Aviation Administration and other stakeholders about setting up an air traffic control system for drones that would use cellular and Internet technology to coordinate unmanned aerial vehicle flights at altitudes under 500 feet (152 meters).
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| Drug cartel debt collector sentenced to life for California murders | | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 12:13 AM | |
| | A self-styled debt collector for a Mexican drug cartel, who admitted to killing dozens of people over more than three decades, was sentenced on Monday to life in prison without parole for nine murders in California, officials said. Jose Manuel Martinez, who accepted a plea deal in October that spared him the death penalty, was sentenced in a court in Tulare County, located some 250 miles (400 km) southeast of San Francisco, according to Stuart Anderson, a spokesman for the county's district attorney. |
| South Africa asks appeal court to convict Pistorius of murder | | Tuesday, November 03, 2015 12:12 AM | |
|  By Stella Mapenzauswa BLOEMFONTEIN (Reuters) - South African paralympian Oscar Pistorius, freed on parole last month after serving a fifth of his prison term for killing his girlfriend, faces years more in jail if state lawyers can get his conviction scaled up to murder from culpable homicide. Prosecutors will argue before the Supreme Court that a high court judge was wrong to let Pistorius off the more serious charge after he fired four shots through a door on Valentine's Day 2013, killing Reeva Steenkamp. The 28-year-old track star will not be present at the one-day hearing in Bloemfontein, 400 km (250 miles) southwest of Johannesburg, his lawyer Barry Roux told Reuters.
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| Special Report - U.S. places weak limits on messaging by foreign governments | |  By John Shiffman and Koh Gui Qing WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Under the First Amendment, the U.S. Constitution generally prevents the federal government from censoring any media. A law administered by the FCC, the Communications Act, bans foreign governments or their representatives from owning a radio license for a U.S. broadcast station. The law, first enacted in 1934, does not apply to cable or satellite outlets, such as Russia's RT or Qatar's Al-Jazeera, or to Internet sites, according to FCC officials.
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| Ex-pro wrestler Snuka pleads not guilty to murdering girlfriend in 1983 | | | By David DeKok HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, a professional wrestling star in the 1980s, pleaded not guilty on Monday to third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in the 1983 death of his girlfriend. The 72-year-old Snuka appeared before Judge Kelly Banach in Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas in Allentown, Pennsylvania, according to a spokeswoman for District Attorney James Martin. A native of Fiji who now lives in Camden County, New Jersey, Snuka was charged in September with killing his girlfriend Nancy Argentino, 23, of New York. |
| FCC, Justice Department investigate covert Chinese radio network | |  By John Shiffman and Koh Gui Qing WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department are investigating a California firm whose U.S. radio broadcasts are backed by a subsidiary of the Chinese government, officials said. Both investigations come in response to a Reuters report published on Monday that revealed the existence of the covert radio network, which broadcasts in more than a dozen American cities, including Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Houston and San Francisco.
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