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| 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. |
| Trump denies AP report he will visit Jordan this month | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump denied a report by the Associated Press earlier on Tuesday that he would visit the majority-Muslim kingdom of Jordan at the end of December. Trump said in a tweet: "Despite my great respect for King Abdullah II, I will not be visiting Jordan at this time. This is in response to the false @AP report." Trump, currently the party's front-runner for the November 2016 election, came under criticism from around the world after he called on Monday for a ban on Muslims entering the United States. ...
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| In pattern, gun maker shares surge after California shooting | | | By Noel Randewich SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shares of U.S. gun makers have surged after the massacre of 14 people in California last week, following a pattern that has grown more common in recent years as high-profile mass shootings spur firearms sales as well as calls for gun control measures. Since last Thursday's shooting in San Bernardino, California, the deadliest burst of U.S. gun violence in three years, Smith & Wesson shares have surged about 17 percent, compared to the S&P 500's 1 percent loss. Sturm Ruger shares have gained about 10 percent. |
| Loan to California shooter puts online lenders under the spotlight | | | By Michael Erman and Suzanne Barlyn NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prosper Marketplace's $28,500 loan to the husband of the couple that killed 14 people in California last week risks drawing regulatory scrutiny of the online lending industry's "fast and easy" business model. Online lenders such as privately held Prosper and market leader Lending Club Corp are part of a small, but fast-growing industry. Shooter Syed Rizwan Farook took out the loan from Prosper around the middle of last month, according to a source familiar with the matter. |
| Brazil's Congress names impeachment panel stacked against Rousseff | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - The lower house of Brazil's Congress voted on Tuesday to appoint a committee stacked with opponents of President Dilma Rousseff to study whether to impeach her for breaking budget rules, a blow to the leftist leader battling for political survival. In a secret ballot, lawmakers voted 272-199 for a list of committee members drawn up by the opposition and pro-impeachment members of the centrist Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), the biggest party in Rousseff's governing coalition. It was a clear defeat for Rousseff in the first battle of an impeachment process started last week that threatens to paralyse Congress for months, distracting policymakers from Brazil's worst recession in decades.
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| Trump to visit Jordan at end of month, after anti-Muslim comments - AP | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will visit the majority-Muslim kingdom of Jordan at the end of December, after he called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday. Trump, currently the party's front-runner for the November 2016 election, came under criticism from around the world after he proposed the ban on Monday. The AP did not provide a source for its report. (Reporting by Eric Beech; Editing by Eric Walsh)
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| Cuba returns U.S. fugitive in sign of renewed diplomacy | | Tuesday, December 08, 2015 11:29 PM | |
| | By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - An American man wanted on firearms charges was brought back from Cuba on Tuesday, marking the first fugitive returned since the two nations restored diplomatic ties this year, the U.S. Marshals Service said. Shawn Wegmann, 38, of Indiana removed an electronic monitoring bracelet in October and attempted to enter Cuba on board a 13-foot Boston Whaler boat that was reported stolen from a Florida marina, according to officials. While Cuba has returned fugitives before the normalization of relations between the two countries, U.S. authorities hope for further cooperation. |
| Countering extremists online remains elusive in U.S. Congress | | Tuesday, December 08, 2015 10:49 PM | |
| | By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fighting violent extremism online will be the focus of private briefings this week for members of the U.S. Congress from law enforcement officials and Silicon Valley executives, as Washington struggles to formulate a coherent strategy. The classified briefings, scheduled weeks ago, come as Washington policymakers grow increasingly alarmed at how the Islamic State militant group uses technology to recruit online and evade surveillance detection. Figuring out what to do about it within the boundaries of U.S. privacy law is a puzzle that has baffled authorities for years. |
| Volkswagen diesel civil suits to be heard in California | | Tuesday, December 08, 2015 10:45 PM | |
|  More than 500 civil lawsuits filed against Volkswagen AG over the use of software to evade emissions limits will be heard by a federal judge in California, a U.S. judicial panel responsible for consolidating related lawsuits said on Tuesday. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation said the cases will be heard by U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in the Northern District of California. Volkswagen and the U.S. Department of Justice had both urged the panel to send the cases to Detroit, while plaintiffs' lawyers from across the country suggested a range of venues, from Illinois and Ohio to New Jersey and Massachusetts.
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