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| Special Report - In the heart of U.S. opioid epidemic, help finds mother and baby | | Tuesday, December 08, 2015 12:09 AM | |
|  Yeager, 24, had been clean since leaving jail eight months earlier. "I just wanted to escape from myself," Yeager recalled, "basically the loneliness, the anger and uncertainty of everything." Getting high is easy in Charleston, a city at the centre of Appalachia's epidemic of opioid addiction. On that fall day last year, two months before her baby was due, Yeager poured powdered heroin into a spoon, added water and held a lighter beneath it until the drug liquefied.
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| Special Report - As social services stand back, mother and baby fall 'into hell' | | Tuesday, December 08, 2015 12:08 AM | |
|  The help came too late to save her daughter, Jacey. In December 2011, Frazier gave birth to Jacey at a hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina. Jacey spent two weeks suffering through withdrawal, a result of the methadone Frazier took during pregnancy to control an addiction to prescription painkillers.
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| Special Report - Newborns die after being sent home with drug-dependent mothers | | Tuesday, December 08, 2015 12:08 AM | |
| | By Duff Wilson and John Shiffman LEHIGHTON, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Brayden Cummings turned 6 weeks old the morning his mother suffocated him. High on methamphetamine, Xanax and the methadone prescribed to help her kick a heroin habit, 20-year-old Tory Schlier told police that she was "fuzzy" about what happened to her baby boy. A 12-year-old federal law calls on states to take steps to safeguard babies like Brayden after they leave the hospital. |
| Infant deaths prompt changes at methadone clinic | | Tuesday, December 08, 2015 12:08 AM | |
| | By Duff Wilson BRADENTON, Florida (Reuters) - Connie Shingledecker, a major with the Manatee County Sheriff's Office here, was investigating the deaths of children in Florida when she noticed a disturbing pattern. During a six-month period in 2012, four babies had died in the care of mothers with histories of drug abuse. At the time, only about 50 new mothers were visiting the methadone clinic. |
| In North Carolina, a botched review of a baby's death | | Tuesday, December 08, 2015 12:07 AM | |
| | By Duff Wilson WILKESBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - Procedures for protecting drug-exposed babies are haphazard in North Carolina. In the case of Caleb Joe Tipton, who died at 4 months of age, authorities failed to check even basic facts about the baby's life and death. "There was no report or notification to the Wilkes County Department of Social Services when the newborn tested positive at birth for marijuana and opiates by the Wilkes Regional Medical Center," the report said. |
| 'Helpless & Hooked' - About the Series | | Tuesday, December 08, 2015 12:05 AM | |
| | (Reuters) - Reporter Duff Wilson reviewed more than 50,000 pages of documents and interviewed more than 300 people to assess the impact of opioids on newborns. To obtain those documents, Reuters began filing Freedom of Information Act requests in 2014 with federal, state, county and city agencies. Reporters Wilson and John Shiffman interviewed mothers in seven states - including three mothers who are currently in prison - as well as doctors, nurses, social workers, drug counsellors, prosecutors, defence lawyers, academics, child protection workers, lawmakers and relatives of people struggling with addiction. |
| Hospital fails to test for drugs; days later, a newborn is dead | | Tuesday, December 08, 2015 12:02 AM | |
| | By Duff Wilson DEVILS LAKE, North Dakota (Reuters) - Two days after giving birth in the summer of 2014, Reanne Pederson left a hospital with her baby boy Avery and a prescription for 20 hydrocodone pills to treat pain. A day later, Pederson was prescribed another 15 pills. High, she breastfed Avery and then fell asleep on top of him, suffocating the newborn. |
| Most states ignore U.S. law protecting drug-endangered newborns | | | The Keeping Children and Families Safe Act of 2003 requires states to set up systems to ensure that medical personnel alert child protection workers to newborns "identified as being affected by illegal substance abuse or withdrawal symptoms resulting from prenatal drug exposure." Congress was spurred in part by a 2001 Washington Post investigation of flaws in the District of Columbia's child protection system. The Post found 11 newborns during an eight-year period who died after being sent home with parents "whose troubles were well documented by hospitals and social workers." After the 2003 provisions were enacted, some states passed laws to meet the federal requirements. A Reuters survey of state child protection officials and an examination of state statutes show that today, no more than nine states and the District of Columbia have laws that satisfy the federal provisions. |
| State policies deter doctors from reporting drug-endangered babies | | | By Duff Wilson and John Shiffman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Congress adopted the Keeping Children and Families Safe Act in 2003, the intent - spelled out in the law - was to ensure protection for drug-dependent newborns, not to punish mothers battling addiction. "This goes to some of the same issues related to controlling women's bodies and their reproductive choices." PROBLEMS WITH CRIMINALIZING DRUG USE The non-profit National Advocates for Pregnant Women says criminalising drug use during pregnancy gives expectant mothers an incentive to hide their addictions or avoid prenatal care. |
| U.S. urges Venezuelan parties to talk; official denies meddling | |  By Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Monday urged dialogue among Venezuela's parties after the ruling Socialists lost legislative elections, as a U.S. official denied any intention by Washington to interfere in Venezuelan politics. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued the call for all parties in the oil-exporting country to discuss how to grapple with its challenges, which include runaway inflation, shortages of basic foods and medicines and a devalued currency. "Dialogue among all parties in Venezuela is necessary to address the social and economic challenges facing the country, and the United States stands ready to support such a dialogue together with others in the international community," he said.
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| Eagles of Death Metal make powerful return to Paris after attacks | |  By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) - Eagles of Death Metal, the band which was performing when the deadliest of the Islamic State attacks took place in Paris on Nov. 13, made an emotional, powerful appearance at a U2 concert in the city on Monday. Led by frontman Jesse Hughes dressed in a white suit at a packed AccorHotels Arena, the Californian rock band gave a rendition of Patti Smith's "People have the Power" before performing their own "I Love You All The Time." "Nothing left except to introduce you to some people whose lives will be forever part of Paris. The coordinated attacks in the French capital killed 130 people, most of them at the Bataclan concert hall where Eagles of Death Metal, also known as EODM, were performing.
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| Donald Trump urges ban on Muslims entering U.S. | |  By Steve Holland and Emily Stephenson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Monday called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States in the most dramatic response by a candidate yet to last week's shooting spree by two Muslims who the FBI said were radicalised. Withering reaction flowed in from former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Ohio Governor John Kasich, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. "Donald Trump is unhinged.
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| Pakistan woman in California shooting attended troubled university | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Security officials have been closely monitoring a university in east Pakistan attended by Tashfeen Malik, the woman involved in last week's mass shooting in California, because of concerns that Islamist militancy was taking hold there. Malik, a Pakistani, attended the sprawling Bahauddin Zakariya University to study pharmacy between 2007 and 2012, after she had lived most of her life in Saudi Arabia. Police and security officials on campus in the Punjabi city of Multan said intelligence officers had been stationed there to monitor militancy among 35,000 students studying in red-brick buildings set amid neatly kept grounds.
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| Bomb threat triggers evacuations at Florida college - social media | | | Daytona State College alerted students that it had received a "specific bomb threat" on Monday and was evacuating several buildings at its campus in Daytona Beach, Florida, officials said. Classes were cancelled Monday evening in at least three buildings, according to social media posts by officials at the public college on the state's central east coast, about 55 miles (89 km) northeast of Orlando. The school has recently received other bomb threats, according to local media reports. |
| Triumphant Venezuela opposition looks to boost economy, free prisoners | |  By Andrew Cawthorne and Eyanir Chinea CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition vowed on Monday to revive the OPEC nation's troubled economy and free jailed political activists after winning control of the legislature for the first time in 16 years of Socialist rule. By evening, some results from Sunday's election were not yet in, but the Democratic Unity coalition had already won a commanding majority in the 167-member National Assembly, opening a new chapter in the polarized nation's politics. Opposition leaders said final tallies showed they won a two-thirds majority, or at least 112 seats.
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| Immediate medical help would have prevented death of Baltimore man -prosecution | |  By Ian Simpson BALTIMORE (Reuters) - The prosecution in the case of a Baltimore police officer charged in the death of a black man in custody said he would not have died had he received immediate medical help, while a defence lawyer attacked the findings of a medical examiner who ruled the death a homicide. Officer William Porter, 26, is accused of manslaughter in the April death of Freddie Gray from a spinal injury suffered while he was transported in a police van. Dr. Morris Marc Soriano, a neurological surgeon from Rockford, Illinois, and witness for the prosecution, said the failure to get Gray medical attention brought on brain death.
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| California shooting probe focussing on shooters' domestic contacts - source | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The investigation into the mass shooting last week in California is now focussing closely on contacts the shooters may have had with radical Islamists in the United States, as opposed to overseas, a government source said on Monday. The source also said evidence in hand so far suggests the radicalisation of the shooters, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his spouse, Tashfeen Malik, 29, started no earlier than 2014. (Reporting by Mark Hosenball; Writing by Tim Ahmann; Editing by Eric Walsh)
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| U.S. DOJ to examine Chicago Police Department's use of force | |  By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Monday it will investigate Chicago's police department following protests over the 2014 police shooting death of a black teenager, on the same day local prosecutors said they would not seek charges in another police shooting case. U.S. authorities will look at the department's use of force, including deadly force, among other issues, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said at a news briefing. "Our goal in this investigation ... is not to focus on individuals but to improve systems," the United States' top law enforcement official said.
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| Peru arrests American accused of running child sex tourism ring | | | Peruvian authorities arrested an American man charged with running a child sex tourism ring out of Lima for the past 10 years and rescued 11 victims aged between 4 and 17, police said on Monday. The arrest of Joshua Brown, 64, along with five accomplices, was the first major bust of a child sex trafficking operation allegedly led by a foreigner in the South American country in recent years. Brown was in police custody and could not be reached for comment on Monday. |
| FBI says California shooters were radicalised for 'some time' | |  By Dan Whitcomb SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Investigators believe the married couple who massacred 14 people in California last week - the U.S.-born husband and his Pakistani wife - had been radicalised "for some time," but no clues pointing to an international plot have yet emerged, the FBI said on Monday. Authorities also have evidence that Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his spouse, Tashfeen Malik, 29, had engaged in firearms target practise near their Southern California home, at least once within days of last week's deadly shooting rampage, according to the FBI. The latest disclosures in the FBI-led investigation came as San Bernardino County employees began returning to work under tighter security, five days after Farook, an environmental health inspector for the county, and his spouse opened fire with assault-style rifles on a holiday gathering of his colleagues.
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| Key ally of Brazil's Rousseff divided over her impeachment | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Impeachment proceedings against Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff were delayed on Monday by a fight between supporters and opponents trying to stack a lower house committee that will report on whether she committed an impeachable offence. Rousseff's main ally, the fractious Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), split over her impeachment, resulting in separate lists of lawmakers to sit on the 65-member committee. The division was a rocky start for Rousseff who is counting on PMDB votes to save her presidency from opposition lawmakers accusing her of breaking budget laws as she ramped up economic stimulus during her re-election campaign last year.
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| N.Y. judge tosses Saudi developer's $10 billion lawsuit versus Barclays | |  Barclays Plc won the dismissal on Monday of a Saudi real estate company's $10 billion lawsuit alleging the bank ceased pursuing lease payments due from the Saudi government on military complexes in order to obtain a banking licence. New York Supreme Court Justice Charles Ramos ruled from the bench in dismissing the 2014 lawsuit by the company, Jadawel International, a unit of London-based MBI International Holdings Inc, a Barclays spokesman said. The lawsuit sought $10 billion in damages for what Jadawel claimed was a fraudulent scheme Barclays hatched to secure the rare Saudi banking licence, selling out Jadawel in the process.
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| Small blast in central Moscow injures three - agencies | | | A small explosion at a bus stop in central Moscow injured three people on Monday night, and investigators were treating it as an act of hooliganism, Russian news agencies reported. The blast occurred on Pokrovka street in the Chistiye Prudy part of Moscow, an area that has numerous bars and cafes, possibly after a home-made explosive was thrown from a passing car or nearby building, said Interior Minister spokesman Andrei Galiakberov. Currently, a Moscow police investigative team is working at the scene," Tass news agency quoted Galiakberov as saying. |
| California shooters radicalised but no sign of international plot - FBI | |  (Reuters) - The couple who carried out an attack on a San Bernardino County employee party last week that killed 14 people had been radicalised "for some time" but there was no evidence so far of an international plot, an FBI official said on Monday. Investigators were working to determine when and why U.S.-born Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his Pakistani wife, Tashfeen Malik, 29, began plotting the Dec. 2 attack, FBI Assistant Director in Charge David Bowdich told reporters. (Reporting by Laila Kearney)
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| U.S. citizen who fought for Islamist group surrenders in Somalia - official | | | By Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen who fought for the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab surrendered to authorities in the Horn of Africa country after he defected from the militants, a Somali official said on Monday. Colonel Ali Dalel Hirsi, a military officer, said U.S. citizen Malik John had surrendered to officials on the edge of Barawe, about 220km (135 miles) southwest from the capital Mogadishu. Al Shabaab wants to topple Somalia's Western-backed government and has staged frequent bomb and gun attacks in the capital Mogadishu. |
| U.S. Homeland Security chief to revamp terrorism alert system | |  By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Monday he would soon announce changes to the national alert system to warn the public about terrorism risks. The changes come amid fresh concerns about terrorism in the United States after last Wednesday's shooting in San Bernardino, California, although they were not specifically prompted by it. President Barack Obama has called the shooting, in which 14 people were killed, an act of terrorism.
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| Armenian vote boosts prime minister's powers, opposition cries foul | |  By Hasmik Mkrtchyan YEREVAN (Reuters) - Armenians voted in a referendum to boost the prime minister's powers, results showed on Monday, a move supporters say will bolster stability but opponents warn will entrench the ruling party's control over the ex-Soviet state. Observers from the Council of Europe rights group reported problems with the voting lists and other irregularities, and said that the low turnout suggested many voters saw Sunday's referendum as a piece of political manoeuvring. The ruling Republican party, which called the vote, said minor violations could not affect the result.
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| Venezuela opposition savours long-craved triumph, unity now key | | | By Alexandra Ulmer CARACAS (Reuters) - In a side room of an affluent Caracas hotel, the wife of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez locked hands with the spouses of other detained politicians on Sunday night as they waited for the results of Venezuela's legislative elections. Defeated at the polls time and again during 17 years of "Chavismo," the leftist movement founded by late leader Hugo Chavez, the opposition now hopes the days of Socialist rule are numbered. "Finally we've glimpsed the light," beamed student Yelimar Bayona, 22, as gleeful supporters hugged in the heavily-guarded hotel. |
| Twelve Syrian refugees to arrive in Texas despite effort to block them | | | By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - Two families of Syrian refugees are due to arrive in Texas on Monday despite efforts by the state to bar their resettlement, including a lawsuit Texas filed last week in federal court. A family of six, comprised of the parents, two children under age 6 and the children's grandparents, are scheduled to arrive in Dallas. The results of the case filed in U.S. District Court in Dallas could determine whether the governors of about 30 states will be able to go through with plans to bar the local resettlement of Syrian refugees. |
| Arrested CONMEBOL head agrees to U.S. extradition - Paraguay media | | | Paraguay's Juan Angel Napout, president of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL), has agreed to be extradited to the United States after being arrested in Zurich on charges of involvement in bribery schemes for marketing and broadcast rights, the ABC daily reported on Monday. Napout was among 16 football officials charged by U.S. prosecutors on Thursday following a first wave of arrests last May in its investigation of world football's governing body FIFA. Napout and fellow FIFA executive committee member Alfredo Hawit of Honduras were suspended from football by the FIFA ethics committee for 90 days after their arrests. |
| White House says Venezuelan election shows 'overwhelming desire' for change | | | The White House said on Monday results of the election for Venezuela's National Assembly showed a clear desire for change and were "encouraging." "The people of Venezuela have expressed their overwhelming desire for a change in direction," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters, noting it was too soon to tell whether the results would lead to a change in the nation's relationship with the United States. |
| Top tribunal to consider temporarily lifting Platini ban | |  By Brian Homewood BERNE (Reuters) - Sport's highest tribunal will meet on Tuesday to consider temporarily lifting the 90-day suspension on Michel Platini barring him from seeking the presidency of football's scandal-plagued governing body FIFA. Platini, the European football boss who until recently was seen as the man to lead FIFA out of its worst ever graft crisis, was suspended by FIFA's ethics committee on Oct. 8 pending a full investigation into his conduct. Sepp Blatter, who has been FIFA president since 1998, was also suspended after being swept up by a crisis that has led to criminal investigations into the sport in both Switzerland and the United States.
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| Florida man tied to hacking case involving JPMorgan indicted | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Florida man has been indicted for scheming to make illicit payments to an official at a credit union that prosecutors say facilitated an illegal bitcoin exchange owned by an Israeli linked to cyber attacks on companies including JPMorgan Chase & Co . Yuri Lebedev, 37, pleaded not guilty on Friday to a one-count indictment filed last week in Manhattan federal court, a spokeswoman for Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said on Monday. Lebedev was arrested in July along with a Florida man, Anthony Murgio, for engaging in a conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business.
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