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| New York City police officer killed in Bronx shooting - media | | | By Gina Cherelus NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City police officer was fatally shot on Friday while investigating a report of a robbery in the Bronx and a second officer was wounded before the shooter was killed in an exchange of gunfire, according to authorities and local media. One of the officers died of his wounds after being taken to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, the New York Daily News reported. A spokeswoman for the New York City Police Department said she could not confirm the death, and she could provide no details on the condition of the officers. |
| San Diego Catholic church says devil works through Hillary Clinton | |  (Reuters) - A Roman Catholic church in San Diego told its parishioners the devil works through politicians like Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and warned that voting for Democrats is a "mortal sin," according to local media and the church's website. The Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in the neighbourhood of Old Town made the statements in a weekly leaflet given to churchgoers, a copy of which remains on the church's website. The letter rails against abortion and constraints on tax-exempt organizations from certain political activity, and blames elected officials for allowing U.S. society to be "enslaved" to sin.
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| Despite guilty verdicts, 'Bridgegate' charges vs N.J. governor seen unlikely | | | By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is unlikely to face criminal prosecution for the "Bridgegate" lane closure scandal, even after two of his former associates were convicted for their roles in the scheme on Friday. "Much as I do think this was an abuse of office, I think the potential remedy for that is a political one, rather than a criminal law one," said Stuart Green, a law professor at Rutgers University who has followed the case. After his own presidential campaign failed, he became a key adviser to Republican nominee Donald Trump, and many observers believe he hopes to secure an administration post if Trump wins the presidency on Tuesday. |
| FBI examining fake documents targeting Clinton campaign - sources | |  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies are examining faked documents aimed at discrediting the Hillary Clinton campaign as part of a broader investigation into what U.S. officials believe has been an attempt by Russia to disrupt the presidential election, people with knowledge of the matter said. U.S. Senator Tom Carper, a Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, has referred one of the documents to the FBI for investigation on the grounds that his name and stationery were forged to appear authentic. In a document forged to appear as though Carper was writing a letter to Clinton, Carper is quoted as saying the Department of Homeland Security had advised him of a risk that a "massive" cyber attack "could change the election results in favour of a specific candidate." The document dated October 3 was reviewed by Reuters.
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| British PM May confident of Brexit plans, reassures EU leaders | |  By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May told European Union leaders on Friday she was confident a court ruling that could delay Britain's departure from the bloc would be overturned and said she would stick to her Brexit timetable. May told German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker she believed her case that the government - not parliament - should be responsible for triggering Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty to begin the divorce would win in Britain's highest court, a spokesman said.
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| Multiple people stabbed at Rutgers University in New Jersey | | | By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Multiple people were stabbed at Rutgers University in New Jersey on Friday, forcing the campus to be placed on lockdown, the school said. A suspect was taken into custody after the stabbing attack at Rutgers' business school in New Brunswick, the school wrote on Twitter. "Stabbing at Rutgers Business School," Rutgers wrote at about 3 p.m. ET. |
| Rolling Stone liable for defamation in campus rape story | | | A federal jury in Virginia on Friday found Rolling Stone liable of defaming a University of Virginia administrator by publishing a since-retracted story about an alleged gang rape at the school. The decision followed a three-week trial in U.S. District Court in Charlottesville, Virginia, where the administrator, Nicole Eramo, sued the magazine, owner Wenner Media and reporter Sabrina Erdely for $7.9 million. Erdely was found liable of actual malice, a key element in libel law, in six statements in the November 2014 story, "A Rape on Campus." Rolling Stone and Wenner Media were each found liable of actual malice in three statements, according to court documents. |
| U.S. acts to block North Korea access to financial system | |  The United States on Friday formally prohibited U.S. financial institutions from opening or maintaining accounts created on behalf of North Korean banks, extending sanctions imposed on the isolated Asian country over its nuclear and missile programs. The U.S. Treasury Department said North Korea was using front companies and agents to conduct illicit financial transactions to support the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and to evade international sanctions. "Such funds have no place in any reputable financial system," Adam Szubin, the department's acting under secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence said in a statement.
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| Turkey draws strong condemnation over arrest of Kurdish lawmakers | |  Turkish authorities arrested the leaders of the main pro-Kurdish opposition party in a terrorism investigation on Friday, drawing strong international condemnation of a widening crackdown on dissent under President Tayyip Erdogan. Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, co-leaders of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), were jailed pending trial after being held in overnight raids, officials said. Ten other HDP lawmakers were also detained, although some were later released.
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| Second Egyptian general killed in Sinai in as many weeks | | | An Egyptian general was killed by militants on Friday near his home in North Sinai, the military said, the second soldier of his rank to be shot dead in as many weeks. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, in which gunmen opened fire on Brigadier General Hesham Mahmoud Abualazm from a moving car in Arish city, North Sinai's provincial capital. Islamic State claimed responsibility via its news agency Amaq. |
| Foreign help building Eritrea bases violates embargo - U.N. experts | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations sanctions monitors warned in an annual report released on Friday that possible foreign support for a new military base and seaport in Eritrea and the presence of foreign weapons and equipment were likely in violation of an arms embargo. The monitors told the U.N. Security Council last year that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates had established a military presence in Eritrea as part of the Saudi-led campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen, which lies just 40 km (25 miles) across the Red Sea from the poor Horn of Africa ... |
| U.S. 'deeply concerned' about Turkish arrests of lawmakers - State Department | | | The United States said on Friday it was "deeply concerned" by the Turkish government's arrest of the leaders of the country's main pro-Kurdish opposition party and its move to limit the country's access to the internet. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with an undersecretary in the Turkish Foreign Ministry on Friday to voice U.S. concern about the detention of the lawmakers, State Department spokesman John Kirby told a news briefing. "The United States is deeply concerned by the Turkish government's detentions of opposition members of parliament ... and by government restrictions on internet actions today," Kirby said. |
| Insight - Emails show how Republicans lobbied to limit voting hours in North Carolina | |  (This version of the November 3 story officially corrects paragraph 13 to read Chapel Hill, instead of Raleigh. The White House initially misidentified Obama's location in a transcript of his remarks) By Julia Harte ASHEBORO, N.C. (Reuters) - When Bill McAnulty, an elections board chairman in a mostly white North Carolina county, agreed in July to open a Sunday voting site where black church members could cast ballots after services, the reaction was swift: he was labelled a traitor by his fellow Republicans. ...
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| Ex-Christie associates guilty in New Jersey 'Bridgegate' scandal | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two former associates of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie were convicted on Friday for their roles in the "Bridgegate" lane closure scandal, following a six-week trial that served to further tarnish the Republican's damaged reputation. Bridget Kelly, the governor's former deputy chief of staff, and Bill Baroni, former deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, were found guilty in Newark federal court on all counts. Christie, who is in charge of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's transition team, has not been criminally charged, but the scandal has torpedoed what was once seen as a promising political career.
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| Three U.S. trainers shot dead in Jordan - military source | | | By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Three U.S. military trainers were shot dead in Jordan on Friday when their car failed to stop at the gate of a military base and was fired on by Jordanian security forces, a Jordanian military source said. Two trainers died immediately and a third died later in hospital. A Jordanian army guard was also shot and wounded. |
| Verdict in Rolling Stone trial over university rape story | | | (Reuters) - A federal jury has reached a verdict in the defamation lawsuit brought by University of Virginia administrator Nicole Eramo over a retracted Rolling Stone magazine story about a gang rape at the school, a court spokeswoman said on Friday. The verdict was being read in U.S. District Court in Charlottesville, Virginia, she said. The spokeswoman had no information on the jury's findings. (Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Chris Reese and Jonathan Oatis) |
| Indonesian police quell mass protest by hardline Muslims | |  By Johan Purnomo and Fergus Jensen JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police quelled a mass protest by tens of thousands of hardline Muslims on Friday, firing tear gas and water cannon into crowds demanding the resignation of the Christian governor of Jakarta, who they said had insulted the Koran. Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim country, but most follow a moderate form of Islam and protests on such a large scale are rare. Critics say the protest was whipped up by an extremist group that latched on to political tension ahead of February's election for the governorship of Jakarta, the country's capital, and was allowed to grow because the government failed to rein it in.
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| U.S. Chief Justice's 'courtesy' vote blocks Alabama execution | |  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts provided the pivotal fifth vote on the Supreme Court to block the scheduled execution in Alabama of a 74-year-old man convicted in the 1982 shooting death of his girlfriend's husband. Roberts said in a brief order issued late on Thursday that his action was a "courtesy" to four justices on the eight-member court who favored putting on hold the lethal injection execution of death row inmate Thomas Douglas Arthur. The order did not say which justices voted for the stay of execution aside from Roberts, but noted that his fellow conservatives Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas opposed it.
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| U.S. authorities warn of al Qaeda threat to election | |  By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal officials have warned authorities in New York City, Texas and Virginia about an unspecific threat of attacks by the al Qaeda militant group around Election Day, putting local law enforcement on alert the weekend before Tuesday's vote, officials said on Friday. A U.S. government source in Washington said some federal agencies sent bulletins to local and state officials flagging the information but that the threat was relatively low-level. A U.S. official familiar with the threat information said that it was "uncorroborated," but that federal agencies believed that they needed nonetheless to remain vigilant.
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| Spain's Rajoy turns to troubleshooter deputy in bid to woo rivals | |  By Sarah White and Sonya Dowsett MADRID (Reuters) - The great survivor of Spanish politics, newly re-appointed Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, is hoping to cling to power with the help of a 45-year-old lawyer who has a valuable quality he lacks: she is well liked. Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, Rajoy's troubleshooter and deputy during his first term, is one of his few allies to emerge unscathed from years of austerity measures and unpopular policies that have chipped at relations with opposition parties. Rajoy has handed Saenz de Santamaria an expanded role in his new cabinet where alongside her deputy position she will deal with one of Spain's thorniest issues - an independence campaign by the northeastern Catalonia region.
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| Myanmar freedom of speech under threat amid Rakhine violence - monitors | |  Human rights monitors have raised concerns about press freedom in Myanmar after a journalist at an English-language newspaper said she was fired following government criticism of her reporting of allegations of rape by soldiers. Violence in the north of troubled Rakhine State, which began with deadly attacks on border police posts on Oct. 9, has sparked the biggest crisis of de facto Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi's seven months in power. Troops poured into the region after the attacks, which the government says were carried out by minority Rohingya Muslims with links to militant Islamists overseas.
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| Egypt arrests militants, links them to Muslim Brotherhood | | | By Ahmed Aboulenein CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities said on Friday they had arrested members of two recently emerged militant groups, along with weapons, explosives and evidence that the organisations had been set up by the Muslim Brotherhood. Police detained five leaders and other members of the Hasam Movement and Louwaa al-Thawra, the Interior Ministry said - both groups that have claimed responsibility for assassination attempts on judges, policemen and military officers. There was no immediate comment from either organisation, or from the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, which says it is a peaceful movement and accuses the government of abuses. |
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