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| Racist rant at Kentucky mall prompts ban, apology from mayor | | | A racist, expletive-filled rant caught on camera at a Louisville, Kentucky, mall has led to a permanent ban for a shopper and prompted an apology from the city's mayor. The video shows a white woman standing in a checkout line at a JCPenney department store in the Jefferson Mall and berating two women who shopper Renee Buckner, who posted the footage on Facebook on Tuesday, said were Hispanic. |
| Deutsche Bank agrees to $7.2 billion mortgage settlement with U.S | |  By Karen Freifeld, Arno Schuetze and Kathrin Jones NEW YORK/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank has agreed to a $7.2 billion settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over its sale and pooling of toxic mortgage securities in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. The agreement in principle, announced by Deutsche Bank's Frankfurt headquarters early Friday morning, offers some relief to the German lender, whose stock was hit hard in September after it acknowledged the Justice Department had been seeking nearly twice as much. It also highlights the Justice Department's recent efforts to hold European banks accountable for shoddy securities that contributed to the U.S. housing market collapse.
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| Video of Texas mother's arrest starts social media storm | | | By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - A video showing a white Fort Worth police officer in an escalating argument with a black woman he took into custody along with the woman's daughters touched off a social media storm on Thursday, stoking a debate on race and U.S. policing. The woman identified by relatives as Jacqueline Craig, 46, was put on the ground and the officer held a stun gun to her back after they argued about a man she said had choked her 7-year-old son for throwing paper on the ground. "The initial appearance of the video may raise serious questions," Fort Worth police said in a statement. |
| German police arrest two men suspected of planning shopping mall attack | | | BERLIN (Reuters) - Police special forces arrested two men suspected of planning an attack on a shopping mall in Oberhausen in the West German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, police said on Friday. The suspects, two brothers aged 28 and 31 who were born in Kosovo, were arrested in the city of Duisburg after information provided by security sources, police said in a statement. It was not clear if there was any connection with Monday's attack on a Berlin Christmas market that killed 12 people. Police are searching for a Tunisian suspect whose fingerprints were found inside the truck. ... |
| U.S. sues Barclays, ex-execs for mortgage securities fraud | |  By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday sued Barclays Plc and two former executives on civil charges of fraud in the sale of mortgage-backed securities during the run-up to the 2008-09 financial crisis. The lawsuit was filed after Barclays resisted a penalty the U.S. government had sought in settlement negotiations, a person familiar with the matter said. Major U.S. banks, including JPMorgan Chase & Co and Bank of America Corp, have paid tens of millions of dollars to settle similar claims over misconduct in the sale and pooling of mortgage securities, which helped to cause the financial crisis.
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| Mistrial declared in corruption case against ex-Los Angeles sheriff | |  By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal judge declared a mistrial on Thursday in the obstruction of justice case against former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, ruling that jurors were hopelessly deadlocked, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Baca, aged 74 and suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, was standing trial on charges of trying to thwart a federal corruption probe that overshadowed the final years of his tenure as chief custodian of the nation's largest county jail system. U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson's determination of a hung jury came during the fourth day of deliberations following a series of confidential "sidebar" talks between Anderson and the attorneys, joined at times by Baca and one of the jurors.
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| Australia police charge man in 20-year plus serial killings | | | By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police on Friday charged a 48-year-old man with the murder of two women more than 20 years ago in the city of Perth, ending the country's longest continuous investigation into a serial killing. Bradley Edwards was charged with murdering Jane Rimmer, a 23-year-old whose body was found in August 1996, and Ciara Glennon, a 27-year-old lawyer. Edwards was not charged in relation to the disappearance of a third woman, Sarah Spiers, 18, who also vanished in the Perth suburb of Claremont in January 1996. |
| Australia arrests seven over 'imminent threat' of Christmas Day attacks | |  By Tom Westbrook SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police said on Friday they had foiled a plot to attack prominent sites in the city of Melbourne with a series of bombs on Christmas Day that authorities described as "an imminent terrorist event" inspired by Islamic State. Six men and a woman, all in their twenties, were arrested in overnight raids across Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city, involving counter-terrorism police and Australia's domestic spy agency, Victoria state police said in a statement. "This is a significant disruption of what we would describe as an imminent terrorist event in Melbourne," Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin told reporters in Sydney.
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| Five good news stories you might have missed in 2016 | |  By Magdalena Mis LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As 2016 draws to a close with news dominated by bloodshed, disasters and disease from the Middle East to Africa and Latin America, it may seem there wasn't much to be happy about this year. Despite continued violence in Syria and Yemen, severe drought in Africa and the outbreak of the Zika virus in Latin America, there have been events worth celebrating in 2016. PEACE COMES TO COLOMBIA In November, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londono signed a modified peace deal, cobbled together after the first version was rejected in a public vote in October, to end 52 years of war.
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| Chelsea broke no rules in handling abuse allegations - Premier League | |  Chelsea did not break Premier League rules in failing to report allegations of historical sex abuse made by their former player Gary Johnson in 2014, a statement from English soccer's top division said on Thursday. Johnson, 57, said earlier this month he had been abused by former Chelsea chief scout Eddie Heath in the 1970s, receiving 50,000 pounds ($61,430) from the club in settlement in 2015. Heath died before the allegations became public and Chelsea apologised to Johnson on Dec. 3 for the abuse he suffered.
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| New Jersey man groped woman on flight, then wrote apology note - prosecutors | | | A New Jersey man groped a woman during a transcontinental flight and then apologised in a pair of notes in which he acknowledged his actions were "stupid," U.S. authorities said on Thursday. Ganesh Parkar, 40, of Windsor appeared in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, on Thursday to face a charge of abusive sexual contact, one day after the overnight Air India flight from Mumbai to Newark. "My client asserts his innocence," Parkar's attorney, Frank Arleo, said by email. |
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