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| Texas Muslims decry Trump policies at capitol rally in Austin | | Wednesday, February 01, 2017 12:52 AM | |
|  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - With arms locked and voices joined to sing the U.S. national anthem, more than 1,000 people rallied at the Texas Capitol on Tuesday against Trump administration immigration policies and travel restrictions aimed at seven mostly Muslim countries. Texas Muslim Capitol Day, designed to show Muslims how the state government in Austin works, has been held for more than a decade when the legislature meets every other year for its regular session. This year's event held increased significance after Republican President Donald Trump last week imposed the travel restrictions, and a Texas Republican lawmaker held a meeting over what he sees as Islamic threats.
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| New York City police to wear body cameras under labour settlement | | Wednesday, February 01, 2017 12:47 AM | |
| | By Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City and its largest police union settled on a tentative five-year labour contract on Tuesday that includes salary increases while also agreeing that all patrol officers will wear body cameras by the end of 2019. The agreement "is a big step forward for a vision of safety in which police and the community are true partners," Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference with union and police officials. The New York Police Department, the nation's largest, already has a pilot program with cameras for 1,000 officers. |
| New York art dealer avoids prison for $80 million counterfeit scheme | | Wednesday, February 01, 2017 12:40 AM | |
|  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York art dealer avoided prison for her role in a scheme that led two Manhattan galleries to buy dozens of fake paintings that they then sold for $80 million, after a federal judge ruled on Tuesday she was coerced by her abusive ex-boyfriend. Glafira Rosales, 60, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla in Manhattan to nine months of home detention after pleading guilty in 2013 to charges that included conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering. Failla, who said the sentence would be served as part of the Long Island resident's three years of supervised release, cited defence arguments that Rosales' conduct stemmed from abuse she suffered at the hands of her boyfriend, the scheme's mastermind.
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| 1,700 residents of Flint, Michigan sue EPA over water crisis | | Wednesday, February 01, 2017 12:38 AM | |
|  More than 1,700 residents of Flint, Michigan who say the Environmental Protection Agency mismanaged the water crisis that exposed thousands of children to lead poisoning have sued the U.S. government, seeking class action status for their claims. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Michigan on Monday, asserted that the EPA failed to warn them of the dangers of the toxic water or take steps to ensure that state and local authorities were addressing the crisis.
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| Trump poised to name conservative judge as U.S. Supreme Court pick | | Wednesday, February 01, 2017 12:08 AM | |
|  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump was expected to nominate a conservative on Tuesday for a lifetime U.S. Supreme Court post who could help shape rulings on issues such as abortion, gun control, the death penalty and religious rights, while liberals promised a fight. Trump made his choice between two U.S. appeals court judges, Neil Gorsuch and Thomas Hardiman, according to a source involved in the selection process. Trump said he would reveal his choice to replace Antonin Scalia, a leading conservative voice on the court who died last February, at the White House at 8 p.m. (0100 GMT on Wednesday).
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| Canada shooting suspect rented apartment close to mosque - neighbours | | Wednesday, February 01, 2017 12:07 AM | |
|  By Kevin Dougherty and Allison Lampert QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - The French-Canadian student accused of killing six people during evening prayers in a Quebec City mosque had rented an apartment nearby, neighbours said on Tuesday, a sign he may have been targeting the house of worship. Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, was charged in court on Monday with six counts of premeditated murder and five counts of attempted murder with a restricted weapon after Sunday evening's massacre at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec. RDI, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's French-language arm, cited sources as saying the gunman had a 9 mm handgun and a long gun, but the report did not provide further details.
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| Some nations affected by U.S. immigration order may stay on list | |  By Julia Edwards Ainsley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries temporarily barred from the United States by President Donald Trump's executive order may be blocked indefinitely, and others might be added to the list, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said on Tuesday. The executive action was not explicit about how to handle a wide range of people trying to enter the United States, including permanent residents, students and even Iraqi pilots training to protect U.S. troops.
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| Canada PM's office demands Fox News withdraw tweet about gunman | |  OTTAWA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's chief spokeswoman on Tuesday demanded that Fox News channel in the United States either retract or update a tweet that a gunman who killed six people at a Quebec mosque was of Moroccan origin because the suspect is in fact French-Canadian. Spokeswoman Kate Purchase said the tweet on Monday dishonoured the victims "by spreading misinformation, playing identity politics, and perpetuating fear and division within our communities". A Fox News representative could not immediately be reached for comment. ...
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| LGBT advocates scared, despite White House words on equality | | | By Laila Kearney and Daniel Trotta NEW YORK (Reuters) - Advocates said on Tuesday they were bracing for a Trump administration rollback of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights, despite a White House statement vowing to uphold protection for LGBT people in the workplace.U.S. President Donald Trump will continue to enforce a 2014 executive order by his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, barring discrimination against LGBT people working for federal contractors, the White House said. The statement marked a break with the Republican Party's traditional stance, but advocates said they feared Trump could still take executive actions allowing discrimination under the guise of religious exemptions. |
| Bomb threats target U.S. Jewish centres for third time in a month | | | More than a dozen Jewish community centres around the United States and one in Canada received bomb threats on Tuesday, the third wave of threatened attacks against them this month. A total of 14 centres across 10 states, along with one in Canada, received the threats, according to David Posner, a director at the JCC Association of North America who advises centres on security. Jewish community centres in California, Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, Utah, Wisconsin and Ontario, Canada received the threats, according to the statement. |
| Kuwait minister to face no-confidence vote over sports ban | | | Ten Kuwaiti lawmakers filed a motion on Tuesday to hold a vote of no-confidence in the minister of information and youth after questioning him over the country's 15-month international sports ban, according to state news agency KUNA. Sheikh Salman Humoud Al-Sabah, a member of the ruling family, will face the vote on Feb. 8 after lawmakers accused him of "complacency and mismanagement," the KUNA statement said. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended Kuwait in October 2015, accusing the government of interference in its national Olympic Committee. |
| Challenges to Trump's immigration orders spread to more U.S. states | |  Massachusetts, New York and Virginia joined the legal battle against the travel ban, which the White House deems necessary to improve national security. San Francisco became the first U.S. city to sue to challenge a Trump directive to withhold federal money from U.S. cities that have adopted sanctuary policies toward undocumented immigrants, which local officials argue help local police by making those immigrants more willing to report crimes.
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| Germany arrests three suspected of Islamic State links | | | German police arrested three men in Berlin on Tuesday on suspicion of having close links to Islamic State militants and planning to travel to the Middle East for combat training, a police spokesman said on Tuesday. The newspaper Bild reported that the three suspects had close links to Islamic State members in Syria and Iraq and were frequent visitors of a mosque in the Berlin district of Moabit that Anis Amri, who attacked a Berlin Christmas market in December, also used to visit. |
| Trump pushes drugmakers for lower prices, more U.S. production | |  By Roberta Rampton and Deena Beasley WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump in a meeting on Tuesday with pharmaceutical executives called on them to manufacture more of their drugs in the United States and cut prices, while vowing to speed approval of new medicines and ease regulation. Trump told them the government was paying "astronomical" prices for medicines in its health programs for older, disabled and poor people and said he would soon appoint a new U.S. Food and Drug Administration leader. "We're going to streamline the FDA," Trump said in a statement, referring to the regulatory agency responsible for vetting that new drugs are safe and effective.
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| Trump's embattled U.S. education sec. pick may face Senate fight | | | By Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Billionaire philanthropist Betsy DeVos, already known as one of the most controversial nominees for education secretary in U.S. history, now risks a rare Congressional rejection. The deeply divided U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Tuesday agreed to send her nomination to the full chamber for a vote, the final step in the confirmation process. |
| Trump set to name conservative judge as U.S. Supreme Court pick | | By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump was set to unveil his pick on Tuesday for a lifetime job on the U.S. Supreme Court, likely choosing a conservative judge to try to shape the court for years to come on issues like abortion and gun and religious rights. Democrats, still fuming over the Republican-led Senate's refusal to act on former President Barack Obama's court nominee last year, girded for a fight. Trump has announced he will reveal his choice to replace conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last February, at the White House at 8 p.m. (0100 GMT on Wednesday).
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| Defence for accused New York bomber Rahimi vows fight over DNA | |  By Daniel Trotta NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for the man accused of injuring 30 people by detonating a bomb in New York City complained that government investigators took a DNA sample from him without his attorneys present and promised a fight to keep that evidence out of court. Defence attorneys also sought to delay the trial of Ahmad Khan Rahimi, 29, an Afghan-born U.S. citizen, saying a U.S. judge and prosecutors were pushing for too prompt a start for a case that could result in life in prison. Rahimi has pleaded not guilty to a host of both U.S. and New Jersey state charges that he detonated bombs in New York and New Jersey in September and left behind others that failed to explode.
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| Olympians urge speedy resolution to Trump travel ban | |  (Reuters) - The World Olympians Association (WOA) expressed concern on Tuesday about the potential impact U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban on visitors from some Muslim-majority nations could have on athletes and urged a quick resolution. The WOA, which serves as the member organization for the more than 120,000 Olympians worldwide, wants to ensure the right of athletes to compete is protected in the wake of Trump's controversial immigration order. "Like many across the world, the WOA is concerned about the impact of the recent executive order on immigration signed by President Trump," WOA President Joël Bouzou said in a statement.
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| Canada shooting suspect rented apartment close to mosque - neighbours | | By Kevin Dougherty and Allison Lampert QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - The French-Canadian student accused of killing six people during evening prayers in a Quebec City mosque had rented an apartment nearby, neighbours said on Tuesday, a sign he may have been targeting the house of worship. Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, was charged in court on Monday with six counts of premeditated murder and five counts of attempted murder with a restricted weapon after Sunday evening's massacre at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec. The mass shooting, which was rare for Canada and which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a "terrorist attack," prompted an outpouring of support for the mosque and for Canada's one million Muslims in the country of about 35 million.
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