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| Obama, Singapore leader push Pacific trade deal in state visit | |  By Timothy Gardner and Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Singapore's prime minister on Tuesday made sales pitches for a Pacific Rim trade deal that both U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have derided and that has been stalled in Congress. Aiming to keep alive hopes for a post-election congressional vote in the closing weeks of 2016 in favour of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Obama said its merits would overcome fierce criticism on the campaign trail. It won't just be a political symbol or a political football," Obama told a White House news conference with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong during a state visit.
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| Family of 'Star Trek' actor sues Fiat Chrysler over rollaway death | |  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The parents of the late "Star Trek" movie actor Anton Yelchin sued Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV for negligence and product liability on Tuesday over the rollaway crash of a Jeep Grand Cherokee that killed their son. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, is believed to be the first wrongful death complaint linked to the Fiat Chrysler recall in April of more than 1.1 million cars and SUVs because of vehicles that roll away after drivers exit them. Yelchin, 27, was killed on June 19 when his 2015 Grand Cherokee, which was covered under the recall, rolled backward in the steep driveway of his Los Angeles home and crushed the actor against a brick wall and fence.
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| Chicago police watchdog inaccurately reported shooting incidents - official | | | Inspector General Joseph Ferguson said in a 13-page report that the Independent Police Review Authority's (IPRA) public reporting of incidents involving officers who fired their weapons was incomplete and inaccurate. From September 2007 to September 2014, IPRA reported 344 shootings in which someone was struck by a bullet and 291 shootings in which no one was struck. |
| Republican tensions rise as Trump withholds support for leading figures | |  By Alana Wise and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump ratcheted up tensions in his Republican Party on Tuesday, denying leading figures support in their re-election bids, while his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton won her first endorsement from a Republican lawmaker. President Barack Obama blasted Trump as unfit to be president and questioned why any Republican would support the New York businessman seeking his first public office. "The question I think that they have to ask themselves is, if you are repeatedly having to say in very strong terms that what he has said is unacceptable: Why are you still endorsing him?" Obama, a Democrat, said at a White House news conference with Singapore's prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong.
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| U.S. police body camera policies put civil rights at risk - study | |  Police forces in 50 U.S. cities are failing to protect the civil rights and privacy of residents due to the inadequacy of programs that govern how their officers use body-worn cameras, a report by a coalition of rights groups said on Tuesday. Many U.S. cities have approved or expanded the use of body cameras since August 2014, when a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. The study was conducted for The Leadership Conference of Civil and Human Rights coalition by Upturn, a Washington DC-based company that studies how technology affects social issues.
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| Delaware's top court strikes down state's death penalty statute | | | (Reuters) - Delaware's top court on Tuesday struck down the state's death penalty statute, arguing that it grants judges powers that juries should wield and that it is unconstitutional. The 3-2 Delaware Supreme Court decision came in the case of Benjamin Rauf, who was charged with first-degree murder and robbery and being in possession of a firearm during the crimes. Prosecutors have been seeking the death penalty against Rauf. |
| Canada to let Supreme Court candidates nominate themselves | |  By Ethan Lou TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada will change the way it fills vacancies on its top court, letting qualified lawyers and judges nominate themselves for Supreme Court openings and using a nonpartisan advisory board to recommend candidates, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday. There is a looming vacancy on the nine-member Supreme Court, with Justice Thomas Cromwell announcing he will retire in September, giving Trudeau his first chance to appoint a member of the court since becoming prime minister last November. Under the current system, Supreme Court justices in Canada are effectively picked directly by the prime minister, who does not require parliamentary approval.
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| White House directs federal agencies to consider climate change | | | By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. federal agencies should disclose whether their actions and decisions will have an impact on climate change, the White House announced on Tuesday. The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) finalised an update after nearly six years of consultations of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a Nixon-era statute that called on officials to weigh the environmental effects of projects such as highways, dams or oil drilling. The update takes NEPA a step further by requiring agencies such as the Interior Department to the Army Corps of Engineers to quantify greenhouse gas emissions in NEPA project reviews and to describe the potential climate change impacts. |
| Somalia urged to pass law banning "horrendous" FGM | | | By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Somalia's next government should ensure a law is passed banning all forms of female genital mutilation (FGM), a U.N. official said on Tuesday, describing the deeply entrenched practice as a "horrendous rights violation". Somalia has the world's highest rate of FGM with 98 percent of women between 15 and 49 having been subjected to the potentially deadly ritual. A bill on FGM is sitting in parliament but is unlikely to be debated until next year because of elections expected this month in the Horn of Africa country. |
| New York City Police Commissioner Bratton to retire | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton said on Tuesday he will retire in September, ending a four-decade career that earned him credit for pushing crime rates to historic lows but also criticism for his "zero tolerance" approach to policing. Bratton, 68, will head a newly created risk division at the consulting firm Teneo, where he will advise chief executives on cyber crime and terrorism, he said during an interview on CNBC. At a City Hall news conference, Mayor Bill de Blasio praised the man he tapped to head the nation's largest municipal police force in 2014, saying Bratton reduced violent crime while bolstering the department's extensive counterterrorism operation.
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| Former Michigan prosecutor pleads guilty to soliciting a sex worker | | | A former Michigan prosecutor who had been an outspoken advocate for ending prostitution pleaded guilty on Tuesday to patronizing prostitutes and misconduct in office, the state's attorney general said. Stuart Dunnings III, a former prosecuting attorney in central Michigan's Ingham County, was arrested in March and charged with 15 criminal counts, including felony pandering and multiple prostitution misdemeanours. The majority of the charges were dropped under a plea deal announced on Tuesday in which Dunnings admitted guilt to a new felony charge of misconduct in office, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said in a statement. |
| U.S. officials provide stopgap Zika funds, Congress urged to act | |  Federal health officials, scrambling to fund efforts to combat the spread of the Zika virus in the United States, said on Tuesday they have provided more stopgap money to various locales while calls grew for Congress to cut short its recess and act. Concern is mounting about the threat posed by the mosquito-borne virus after authorities in Florida last week reported the first signs of local transmission of Zika in the continental United States. The Florida Department of Health on Tuesday said it was investigating one more case of locally transmitted infection, bringing to 15 the number of people infected by the bite of local mosquito in the same one square mile (2.6 square km) area of Miami-Dade County.
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| Bavarian leader plans to visit Putin again in October-media | |  Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer plans to visit Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in October, risking a repeat of the firestorm caused by their meeting in February, a German newspaper said on Wednesday. The Straubinger Tagblatt, citing an internal document, reported that Seehofer's meeting with Putin was planned for Oct. 5 as part of a broader visit to Moscow that will also include a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Seehofer, an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel who has blamed her open-door refugee policy for a spate of recent violent attacks in Germany, sparked tensions in Berlin's right-left coalition government when he met Putin in February.
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| Brazil impeachment trial closer to sealing Rousseff fate | |  By Maria Carolina Marcello BRASILIA (Reuters) - A Senate report found on Tuesday that Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff violated the constitution by manipulating government accounts, moving her drawn-out impeachment trial closer to deciding her fate. The report is expected to be approved by the impeachment committee on Friday and by the full Senate next Tuesday, leading to the final trial phase in which the 81 Senators must reach a verdict at the end of August or first days of September. The impeachment of the unpopular leftist leader has paralysed Brazilian politics for seven months and held interim President Michel Temer in a legal limbo that has hindered his efforts to pull Brazil from fiscal crisis and severe recession.
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| Maryland police kill armed black woman who threatened them | | | The shooting of Korryn Gaines, 23, of Randallstown, Maryland, about 17 miles northwest of Baltimore, on Monday prompted outrage on social media, reigniting concerns about police use of force, especially against African-Americans. Gaines pointed a shotgun at Baltimore County officers when they arrived at her apartment to serve warrants on her and Kareem Courtney, 39, her boyfriend, police said. |
| NBA 2K videogame maker wins dismissal of big tattoo damages claim | |  By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - The maker of the popular NBA 2K video game series on Tuesday won the dismissal of a potentially large damages claim in a lawsuit over its depiction of tattoos belonging to LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and other National Basketball Association stars. U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan said Take-Two Interactive Software Inc cannot be held liable to the plaintiff Solid Oak Sketches LLC for statutory damages of as much as $150,000 per copyright infringement, a sum that in theory could reach billions of dollars. Swain said Solid Oak can still pursue actual damages over New York-based Take-Two's alleged unauthorised incorporation into NBA 2K16 of eight tattoo designs that the plaintiff had licensed from various artists.
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| Senior Democratic National Committee officials resign - DNC | | | By Luciana Lopez and Amanda Becker NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three senior officials with the Democratic National Committee have resigned, the DNC said on Tuesday, amid a shake-up following a hack of thousands of emails that embarrassed the party just as it staged its national convention last week. The resignations of DNC Chief Executive Officer Amy Dacey, Communications Director Luis Miranda and Chief Financial Officer Brad Marshall were announced by interim Chairwoman Donna Brazile. Brazile, who took over the role after Debbie Wasserman Schultz stepped down last week, did not mention the hacks or give a reason for the resignations in a statement on the reorganization, but cast the changes as looking ahead to the U.S. general election on Nov. 8. |
| A group of Chinese tourists robbed near Paris airport | | | Twenty-seven Chinese tourists were assaulted on Tuesday by half a dozen men as they boarded a bus that was to take them to Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport, a French police source said. Attacks on Chinese, Korean and Japanese tourists are frequent in the French capital as robbers believe they carry large sums in cash and their suitcases are stuffed with luxury goods purchased in Paris. In May, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo travelled to Beijing to reassure Chinese authorities that the world's most visited city had taken measures to beef up its security. |
| U.S. counterterrorism agents arrest Michigan man with grenades | | | Federal counterterrorism agents have arrested a 29-year-old Michigan man accused of illegally purchasing an arsenal of explosives and other devices capable of mass casualties, according to a criminal complaint filed this week. Sebastian Gregerson, a Detroit resident who also goes by the name Abdurrahman Bin Mikaayl, is accused of unregistered possession of a destructive device and the unlicensed receipt of explosive materials, according to the complaint. Officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's counterterrorism squad arrested Gregerson on Sunday, when he met with undercover agents at a gas station and traded a Beretta M9 handgun as payment for several grenades, the complaint said. |
| Obama says DNC hacks would not alter relations with Russia | |  By Timothy Gardner and Ruthy Munoz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday if Russia had engaged in hacking Democratic Party organizations it would be an issue he would discuss with President Vladimir Putin, but it would not "wildly" alter the countries' relationship. The United States already has "a lot of differences with Russia on a whole bunch of issues, but I think that we've been able to try to stay focussed on those areas where we still have a common interest," Obama said at a press conference during a state visit with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Calling the relationship between the United States and Russia tough and difficult, Obama noted common concerns.
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| Kazakh dissidents and lawyers hit by cyber attacks - researchers | | | By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hackers believed to be working on behalf of Kazakhstan government officials tried to infect lawyers and other associates of exiled dissidents and publishers with spyware, according to a report to be presented at this week's Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. It is also unusual in that the campaign involved an Indian company that was apparently hired by the hackers, and it targeted Western lawyers along with alleged opponents of the Kazakh government. A spokesman at the Kazakhstan embassy in Washington did not respond to emailed questions. |
| British-Iranian aid worker appears in Tehran court - family | |  By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin DUBAI (Reuters) - A British-Iranian aid worker, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, detained since early April and accused by hardline Revolutionary Guards of trying to overthrow Iran's government has appeared in court for the first time, her family said on Tuesday. In a statement, the family said Zaghari-Ratcliffe, arrested as she tried to leave Iran after a short visit with her two-year-old daughter, appeared in the Revolutionary Court on Monday.
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| Bishop removes priests from Irish seminary over gay sex app claims | | | The Catholic archbishop of Dublin has removed trainee priests from Ireland's largest seminary over allegations of widespread use of the gay sex app Grindr and the failure of the authorities to properly investigate it. The move is the latest scandal to hit the Catholic Church in Ireland, once the defining influence on public life, but now humbled by reports of child sex abuse stretching back decades and of church leaders' complicity in covering them up. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said a series of anonymous allegations about a gay sex culture at the Maynooth seminary, where over 50 students are training to be priests, had been compounded by the college authorities' failure to investigate. |
| After Saudi uproar, U.N. chief urges protecting children | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon warned countries on Tuesday that if "you want to protect your image, protect children" after diplomats said in June that Saudi Arabia threatened to cut U.N. funding when its military coalition was blacklisted for killing children in Yemen. Ban told the U.N. Security Council he had received information from the Saudi-led coalition on measures taken to prevent attacks on children and said the review was continuing.
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| New York City Police Commissioner Bratton to retire in September | |  New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton will retire in September, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday, capping a four-decade career that saw him become the most well known figure in U.S. policing. Bratton will step down after two years at the helm of the nation's largest city police force, the second time he has served in that position. Calling his accomplishments "literally inestimable and extraordinary," de Blasio credited Bratton with pushing the city's crime levels to historic lows and working to repair relations between the department and the communities it protects.
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| Erdogan says Turkey's coup script was 'written abroad' | |  By Ece Toksabay and Nick Tattersall ANKARA/ISTANBUL, Turkey (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan accused the West of supporting terrorism and standing by coups on Tuesday, questioning Turkey's relationship with the United States and saying the "script" for an abortive putsch last month was "written abroad". In a combative speech at his palace in Ankara, Erdogan said charter schools in the United States were the main source of income for the network of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who he says masterminded the bloody July 15 putsch. "I'm calling on the United States: what kind of strategic partners are we, that you can still host someone whose extradition I have asked for?" Erdogan said in a speech to local representatives of multinational firms operating in Turkey.
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| Georgia man pleads guilty in insider trading hacking case | | | Leonid Momotok, 48, pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, for his role in an alleged scheme that involved the theft of more than 150,000 unpublished press releases from Business Wire, Marketwired and PR Newswire. "I profited from these trades," Momotok told U.S. Magistrate Judge Ramon Reyes. "Using non-public press releases stolen by overseas hackers, Momotok and his group of traders engaged in a brazen scheme that was unprecedented in its scope, impact and sophistication," U.S. Attorney Robert Capers in Brooklyn said in a statement. |
| Obama to Republican leaders: Why are you still endorsing Trump? | |  By Jeff Mason and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama issued a scathing attack of Donald Trump on Tuesday for criticizing a Muslim family whose U.S. Army captain son was killed in Iraq, and he challenged Republican leaders to withdraw support for their "unfit" nominee. Obama's comments added to a growing number of statements from Republicans and Democrats lambasting Trump for his criticism of Khizr and Ghazala Khan, who appeared at the Democratic National Convention last week. Trump questioned whether Ghazala Khan did not speak at the convention because she was prevented from doing so by her religion and he characterized Khizr Khan's criticism of him as "vicious." Families who lose an immediate relative in a U.S. military action are called Gold Star families.
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| As party unease grows with Trump, Republican lawmaker says he will back Clinton | |  By Susan Heavey and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Republican lawmaker in Congress became the first to break with the party and support Democrat Hillary Clinton for the White House on Tuesday amid signs of growing Republican unease with volatile presidential nominee Donald Trump. The break by Representative Richard Hanna of New York followed days of uproar over Trump's criticism of the parents of a Muslim U.S. Army officer killed in the Iraq war, which has fueled a fresh round of Republican rebukes of the New York businessman. Illustrating the escalating tension between the candidate and the party, Trump pointedly thanked the primary opponent of Republican House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan on Monday for his "kind words" after Ryan had issued a statement saying the sacrifice of the parents, Khizr and Ghazala Khan, should be honored.
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