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| Grappling with attacks, U.S. leaders ask Muslim Americans to fight back | | | By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facing what President Barack Obama has called a new phase of terrorism, U.S. officials appealed to Muslim Americans on Monday to fight harder against extremist ideology. The Obama administration has defended Muslim Americans after attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, and the inflammatory rhetoric that came in its wake, while a parallel message to Islamic communities is gaining urgency: please help. As Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump suggested banning all Muslims from entering the country on Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson stood in solidarity with an imam and leaders of other faiths at a northern Virginia Islamic center. |
| Donald Trump urges ban on Muslims entering United States | |  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 had been radicalized. "We have no choice," Trump said at a rally in South Carolina, warning of more Sept. 11-style attacks if stern measures are not taken. Trump's statement on "preventing Muslim immigration" drew swift and fierce blowback from many directions, including the White House, rivals for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton and Republican former Vice President Dick Cheney, who said the idea "goes against everything we stand for and believe in." "Donald Trump is unhinged.
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| FBI says California shooters were radicalized for 'some time' | |  By Dan Whitcomb SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Investigators believe the married couple who massacred 14 people in California last week - a U.S.-born husband and his Pakistani wife - had been radicalized "for quite 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 practice near their Southern California home within days of last week's deadly shooting rampage, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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| Key ally of Brazil's president 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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| 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 Monday 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 country's politics. Opposition leaders said final tallies showed they won a two-thirds majority, or at least 112 seats.
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| Bank deposit of $28,500 made to California shooter - Fox News | |  (Reuters) - A deposit of $28,500 was made to Syed Farook's bank account on Nov. 18, some two weeks before he and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, went on a shooting rampage in San Bernardino, California, Fox News reported on Monday, citing a source close to the investigation. Investigators were trying to determine whether the transaction, made from Utah-based WebBank.com, was a loan, Fox News said, citing the source. On or around Nov. 20, Farook withdrew $10,000 of the money in cash and deposited it at a Union Bank branch in San Bernardino, according to the Fox News source, who also told the cable news network that in the days before the shooting, there were at least three transfers of $5,000 each that appeared to be to Farook's mother.
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| Special Report - In the heart of U.S. opioid epidemic, help finds mother and baby | |  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' | |  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 | | | 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 | | | 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 | | | 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 | | | (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 | | | 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 | | Monday, December 07, 2015 11:58 PM | |
| | 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 | | Monday, December 07, 2015 11:57 PM | |
| | 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 | | Monday, December 07, 2015 11:53 PM | |
|  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 | | Monday, December 07, 2015 11:49 PM | |
|  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. | | Monday, December 07, 2015 11:41 PM | |
|  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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