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| Georgia executes man for 1992 killing over forged checks | | | Georgia on Wednesday executed a man convicted in the 1992 murder of a family friend after a dispute over money, state officials said, which takes to 28 the tally of executions in the United States this year. Brian Keith Terrell, 47, was convicted of shooting and beating to death John Watson, 70, after Watson threatened to prosecute him for stealing money out of his bank account by using forged checks, court records showed. Terrell was executed at 12:52 a.m., the Georgia Department of Corrections said, nearly six hours later than scheduled, as his legal team made final attempts to stay his death sentence. |
| Venezuela's Maduro says will veto amnesty laws, reshuffle cabinet | |  By Girish Gupta and Alexandra Ulmer CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced an imminent cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday after his ruling Socialist Party was crushed in legislative elections, but he vowed to veto opposition plans for an amnesty law for jailed politicians. Current National Assembly head Diosdado Cabello added that the government would appoint 12 new supreme court judges, among other "tasks," before Dec 31. The new legislature, two-thirds of which will be made up of opposition politicians, is set to begin work in January.
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| Australia, SE Asia need to "re-double" efforts to avoid Paris-style attacks | | | Australia and Southeast Asia must re-double efforts to share intelligence and make sure Paris-style terror attacks can't be replicated in the region, Australian Justice Minister Michael Keenan said on Wednesday. Hundreds of Indonesian Islamic State sympathisers and some Malaysians and Singaporeans are believed to have gone to fight in Syria and Iraq. Southeast Asia faces the risk of attack when they return, Malaysia has said. |
| California shooters borrowed $28,000 before attack - source | |  By Dan Whitcomb and Edward McAllister SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - A married couple who killed 14 people in a California shooting rampage the FBI is investigating as an act of terrorism borrowed about $28,000 from an online lender, a sum deposited into their bank account about two weeks before the attack, sources said on Tuesday. Disclosure of the unsecured loan the husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, took out from San Francisco-based Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending service, offered a new glimpse into the money trail under scrutiny by investigators of last week's mass shooting. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has described Farook, the U.S.-born son of Pakistani immigrants, and his Pakistani-born wife, Tashfeen Malik, 29, as a couple "radicalized" by Islamic extremist ideology.
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| McCullum 'comfortable' with Cairns trial evidence | |  New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum is "very comfortable" with the evidence he gave against former all-rounder Chris Cairns, who was found not guilty of perjury and perverting the course of justice in a trial last month. Cairns had been accused of falsely claiming he had never cheated at cricket when he won 90,000 pounds ($135,171) in damages from Lalit Modi, the former boss of the Indian Premier League, in a libel action three years ago. McCullum was one of two former team mates, along with self-confessed matchfixer Lou Vincent, who gave evidence against Cairns in the trial, accusing his predecessor as test skipper of twice asking him to fix matches.
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| New York probes sale of 'speculative' Bruce Springsteen tickets on StubHub | |  By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The New York Attorney General is investigating why so-called "speculative" tickets to a series of upcoming Bruce Springsteen concerts were listed for sale on websites owned by eBay and two other companies, according to letters seen by Reuters. The Dec. 7 letters, sent by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office to eBay-owned StubHub Inc., Connecticut-based TicketNetwork Inc. and Illinois-based Vivid Seats Ltd., order them to immediately remove any listings by ticket re-sellers for speculative Springsteen tickets. It also asks company executives to meet with investigators in the Internet bureau to answer questions about how they identify and combat speculative ticket sales.
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| San Bernardino shooter may have been plotting an earlier attack - CNN | |  (Reuters) - Investigators believe San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook may have been plotting an earlier attack in California with someone else, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing two U.S. officials. One of the officials told CNN the two conspired in 2012 and a specific target was considered. Neither of the officials could say how serious the plotting got, CNN said.
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| Trump defends proposed Muslim ban from U.S. as outrage mounts | |  By Emily Stephenson and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the United States, comparing his plan to the World War Two detainment of Japanese-Americans and others in dismissing growing outrage from around the world. The White House called on Republicans to say they would not support Trump, currently the party's front-runner for the November 2016 election. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said his comments could undermine U.S. security.
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| Gun supplier in California attack connected to shooters' family by marriage - documents | | | By Edward McAllister RIVERSIDE, Calif. (Reuters) - The man who supplied guns to the couple who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, last week is connected to the shooters' family by marriage, state documents show. Enrique Marquez, whose home was raided over the weekend and who is being questioned by federal investigators, was married last year to Mariya Chernykh, whose sister is the wife of Raheel Farook, brother of one of the shooters, Syed Rizwan Farook. The family connection, revealed in marriage documents seen by Reuters, adds another element to the relationship between Farook and Marquez. |
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