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| Trump backs off praise of Russia's Putin after debate | | Thursday, October 06, 2016 12:05 AM | |
|  By Emily Stephenson HENDERSON, Nev. (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump backed off from praising Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, saying he was unsure of his relationship with the Russian president who he has described as a better leader than President Barack Obama. The day after running mate Mike Pence appeared to break ranks with Trump during a vice presidential debate and called Putin "a small and bullying leader," Trump adjusted his own previously warm rhetoric toward the Russian. "I don't love (Putin), I don't hate.
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| Chicago latest to sanction Wells Fargo for defrauding customers | |  By Karen Pierog and Dave McKinney CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago City Council on Wednesday approved a one-year suspension for Wells Fargo & Co from city business because of its scandal over phony accounts, joining the states of Illinois and California in punishing the bank. Wells Fargo has earned $19.5 million in fees from Chicago since 2005. Wells Fargo staff opened checking, savings and credit card accounts without customer approval for years to satisfy managers' demand for new business, according to a $190 million settlement with U.S. regulators and California prosecutors reached on Sept. 8.
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| Colombia's Santos, rival Uribe willing to work on peace deal | |  By Julia Symmes Cobb and Helen Murphy BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and opposition rival Alvaro Uribe met on Wednesday in a bid to resolve differences over a peace deal with Marxist FARC rebels that was rejected in a shock vote this week, leaving the country in limbo. Sunday's surprise referendum result, which confounded pollsters and was a political disaster for Santos, plunged the country into uncertainty over the future of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels, who had been expected to disarm once the deal was passed by voters. After more than three hours of talks, former President Uribe emphasized the need for "adjustments and proposals that should be introduced...to seek a new peace deal that will include all Colombians." Without giving any concrete proposals, Uribe, 64, said Santos had shown he was disposed to changes.
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| Trump donated to state attorneys general reviewing his business - WSJ | |  (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has given campaign contributions to state attorneys general while they considered decisions affecting his business, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The Journal said records showed that Trump, his family and associates donated in particular to attorneys general in New York, from the 1980s through incumbent Eric Schneiderman, a Democrat who said last month he had opened an inquiry into the Donald J. Trump Foundation. The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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| Yahoo scan by U.S. fell under foreign spy law expiring next year - sources | |  By Mark Hosenball and Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Yahoo operation in 2015 to scan the incoming email of its customers for specific information requested by the U.S. government was authorized under a foreign intelligence law, parts of which will expire next year, two U.S. government officials familiar with the matter said. Reuters on Tuesday reported that the Yahoo program was in response to a classified U.S. government request to scan emails belonging to hundreds of millions of Yahoo users. The revelation rekindled a long-running debate in the United States over the proper balance between digital privacy and national security.
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| Suspect in slaying at L.A. home of Canada TV host was burglar - police | |  By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A man arrested in the killing of an actor at the rented Los Angeles home of Canadian talk-show host George Stroumboulopoulos was a transient who is believed to have slain the victim during a burglary, police said on Wednesday. The suspect, who has been identified by authorities only as an adult male, was taken into custody earlier this week in Arizona and was awaiting extradition to California, Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Norma Eisenman said. "He was only in the city (of Los Angeles) for a few days.
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| U.S. top court leans toward making insider trading prosecutions easier | |  By Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices hearing a closely watched insider trading case indicated on Wednesday they were likely to make it easier for prosecutors to pursue such charges against traders, but questioned where to draw the line. The appeal by Bassam Salman, an Illinois man convicted after making nearly $1.2 million trading on information that came from his brother-in-law, was the first insider trading case to come before the justices in two decades. Because Congress never defined what constitutes insider trading, courts and regulators have been forced to supply the answer.
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| France makes new push for Aleppo ceasefire | |  By John Irish, Lidia Kelly and Angus McDowall PARIS/MOSCOW/BEIRUT (Reuters) - France is to launch a new push for United Nations backing for a ceasefire in Syria that would allow aid into the city of Aleppo after some of the heaviest bombing of the war. As diplomatic efforts resumed, the Syrian military said army commanders had decided to scale back air strikes and shelling in Aleppo to alleviate the humanitarian situation there. It said civilians in rebel-held eastern Aleppo were being used as human shields and a reduced level of bombardment would allow people to leave for safer areas.
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