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| Bill Cosby charged with felony sexual assault in Pennsylvania | |  By Daniel Kelley NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) - Comedian Bill Cosby was charged on Wednesday with sexually assaulting a woman in 2004 after plying her with drugs and alcohol, marking the only criminal case against a once-beloved performer whose father-figure persona was damaged by dozens of misconduct accusations. Cosby, 78, walking with a cane and accompanied by two lawyers, appeared for his arraignment hours later at a courthouse in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia, where he posted a $1 million bond, turned over his passport and was ordered to avoid any contact with his accuser. Smiling and politely thanking District Court Judge Elizabeth McHugh at the end of the brief proceeding, Cosby left the courthouse and was driven to a nearby police precinct to be finger-printed and booked.
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| San Bernardino shooter's visa file raised no red flags - U.S. government sources | |  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - State Department visa officers conducted all required security checks on Tashfeen Malik, one of two shooters in the San Bernardino massacre early this month, but found no "derogatory" information before granting her a visa to enter the United States in 2013, a person familiar with the documentation said. The standard security inquiries include interagency counter-terrorism screening, fingerprint checks, facial recognition analysis and checks against worldwide U.S. consular records, a State Department source said. Because there was no derogatory information in Malik's application, visa officers had no grounds for ordering deeper investigations into her background, let alone blocking her entry when she arrived in the United States in December 2013, officials have said.
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| U.S. prosecutors trumped by Uruguay in FIFA corruption case | |  By Mica Rosenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - A little-known criminal case in Uruguay is hindering U.S. efforts to prosecute a top official charged in the wide-reaching investigation into corruption at world football body FIFA. In an unexpected turn of events, Swiss authorities on Christmas Eve extradited a former FIFA vice president Eugenio Figueredo, arrested in Zurich in May at the request of U.S. prosecutors, to his native Uruguay instead of to the United States.
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| Georgia attorney general says state cannot bar Syrian refugees | |  Georgia, whose governor has vowed to block entry to Syrian refugees, cannot deny them resettlement within the state or federally funded benefits such as food stamps, the state's attorney general said in an official opinion on Wednesday. Republican Governor Nathan Deal said he was concerned about the safety of residents in his state and would not accept any Syrian refugees until the federal government overhauled its screening procedures. Deal was among more than two dozen U.S. governors who vowed to keep refugees from the war-torn country out of their states after the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris, for which the Islamic State militant group claimed credit.
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| Texas 'affluenza' teen and his mother block extradition from Mexico | |  By Marice Richter and Dave Graham FORT WORTH/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Texas teenager, scorned for his "affluenza" defence in a deadly car crash, and his mother won a delay in extradition from Mexico on Wednesday where they fled as U.S. authorities investigated whether he had violated a probation deal that kept him out of prison. Ethan Couch, 18, and his mother, 48-year-old Tonya Couch, were captured in the Mexican Pacific Coast city of Puerto Vallarta on Monday and had been due to be flown back to Houston accompanied by U.S. Marshals. Ricardo Vera, a Mexican migration official in Jalisco state, said the pair had filed an injunction to delay their extradition and they would not be leaving on Wednesday.
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| White House says concerned by arrest of journalists in Ethiopia | |  The White House on Wednesday voiced concern about the arrest of journalists in Ethiopia and urged that country's government to release people imprisoned for exercising their right to free expression. While the United States had welcomed the release of several detained bloggers in Ethiopia earlier this year, National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said in a statement, "we are deeply concerned by the recent arrests of other journalists." He did not give details about the recently arrested journalists. On a visit to Ethiopia in July, U.S. President Barack Obama said in a speech at the African Union in Addis Ababa that Ethiopia "cannot unleash the full potential of its people" if it jails journalists and restricts legitimate opposition groups.
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| Lawyer for accusers says many clients keen to testify against Cosby | | | (Reuters) - A lawyer for several women who have accused comedian Bill Cosby of sexual assault said that seeing the actor charged on Wednesday was the "best Christmas present" ever for her clients, and that many of them would be willing to testify in the criminal case. Attorney Gloria Allred, who has represented 29 women in civil suits against Cosby, told a news conference in Los Angeles she would continue to work to eliminate statute of limitation laws that hinder the prosecution of sex crimes. Word of the charges "is the best Christmas present they have ever received," Allred said of her clients. |
| Cosby charges prompt race and justice debate on social media | | | By Angela Moon and Melissa Fares NEW YORK (Reuters) - The sexual assault case brought on Wednesday against comedian Bill Cosby rekindled a long-running debate on social media about race and the U.S. justice system. While sentiment on social media weighed heavily against Cosby, many of the hottest threads featured fierce debates over the often-diverging outcomes of U.S. criminal investigations depending on whether alleged perpetrators are white or black. Cosby is black. |
| Pennsylvania prosecutor makes good on promise to charge Cosby | | | A Pennsylvania prosecutor who campaigned for district attorney on the promise of becoming the first in the United States to charge comedian Bill Cosby with sexual assault fulfilled his pledge on Wednesday, a week before he officially takes office. Kevin Steele, a Democrat elected in November to serve as Montgomery County district attorney, announced a single felony charge against Cosby, who has been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting dozens of women dating back to the 1960's. "Reopening this case was not a question. Rather, reopening this case was our duty as law enforcement officers with a sworn obligation to uphold our constitutions and to uphold the law," Steele told a news conference. |
| U.S. downplayed evidence of abuses in Chinese detention camps | | | By Alexandra Harney, Jason Szep and Matt Spetalnick BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After China abolished a notorious penal system based on forced labor in December 2013, the United States rewarded Beijing by removing the world's most populous country from a global blacklist of countries that are failing to combat modern-day slavery. Shutting the detention camps had been a U.S. priority for more than a decade, according to a previously unreleased U.S. State Department memo seen by Reuters. But two years after China announced it was ending the "re-education through labor" system, extrajudicial networks of detention facilities featuring torture and forced labor thrive in its place, according to former detainees, their lawyers and people with knowledge of the facilities. |
| Little sign of compromise as Turkey seeks constitutional reform | |  By Ercan Gurses and Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's ruling AK Party and the main opposition agreed on Wednesday to revive efforts to forge a new constitution, a move President Tayyip Erdogan hopes will hand him sweeping powers, but deep divisions mean progress is likely to be halting. The AKP has put a new constitution at the heart of its agenda after winning back a majority in a November parliamentary election. Erdogan wants the change to consolidate power in the hands of the presidency by turning the previously ceremonial office into that of a chief executive.
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