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| San Bernardino shooter's visa file raised no red flags -US government sources | | Thursday, December 31, 2015 2:45 AM | |
|  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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| Texas 'affluenza' teen, mother sought low profile at Mexican resort | | Thursday, December 31, 2015 2:39 AM | |
|  By David Alire Garcia PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (Reuters) - Ethan Couch, the wealthy Texas teenager who fled with his mother to Mexico, tried to keep a low profile while the two of them stayed at a popular getaway for American tourists, but they still stood out, according to people who saw them. After first staying at an $80 a night beachfront hotel, Couch, 18, and his 48-year-old mother Tonya later moved to a modest apartment, and she used a false name at least once during their time in the Pacific resort of Puerto Vallarta.
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| Bill Cosby charged with felony sexual assault in Pennsylvania | | Thursday, December 31, 2015 2:26 AM | |
|  By Daniel Kelley NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) - Bill Cosby was charged on Wednesday with sexually assaulting a woman after plying her with drugs and alcohol in 2004, the only criminal case against a once-beloved entertainer whose father-figure persona has been marred by dozens of similar misconduct accusations. A frail-looking Cosby, 78, walking with a cane and accompanied by two lawyers, appeared for his arraignment hours later at a courthouse 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 Elkins Park courthouse and was driven to a nearby police precinct to be finger-printed and booked.
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| Exclusive - Microsoft to warn email users of suspected hacking by governments | | Thursday, December 31, 2015 2:24 AM | |
|  By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it will begin warning users of its Outlook.com email service when the company suspects that a government has been trying to hack into their accounts. Microsoft told Reuters about the plan in a statement. According to two former employees of Microsoft, the company's own experts had concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities had been behind the campaign but the company did not pass on that information to users of its Hotmail service, which is now called Outlook.com.
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| Criminal case against Cosby could hinge on credibility | | Thursday, December 31, 2015 1:35 AM | |
|  Bill Cosby's sworn statement in 2005 that he used a prescription sedative to seduce at least one woman could be one crack in his defence that the prosecution is likely to exploit in a criminal sexual assault case against the once-beloved entertainer. The charges that Cosby sexually assaulted a woman in 2004 after plying her with drugs and alcohol filed in a Pennsylvania court on Wednesday mark the first criminal case against the comedian whose reputation suffered from dozens of misconduct accusations. The case will likely come down to who has more credibility with a jury, criminal defence lawyers said: Cosby, who was once a dominant presence on U.S. television, or accuser Andrea Constand, a former Temple University employee who went to police 11 years ago and then sued Cosby when prosecutors did not initially act.
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| Neighbour of San Bernardino gunman indicted on terrorism charge | | Thursday, December 31, 2015 1:30 AM | |
| | By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A former neighbour who prosecutors say supplied assault rifles to the couple who massacred 14 people at a county office building in San Bernardino, California, was indicted on Wednesday on charges of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. Enrique Marquez, 24, was charged with conspiring with San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook in 2011 and 2012 to support a terrorist attack that was never carried out. Marquez was also accused in the indictment, which was handed down in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, of lying to federal authorities about the purchase of two assault rifles that were used by Farook and his wife in the San Bernardino shooting rampage. |
| Cosby charges prompt race and justice debate on social media | | Thursday, December 31, 2015 1:25 AM | |
| | 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 | | Thursday, December 31, 2015 1:25 AM | |
| | 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. |
| Lawyer for accusers says many clients keen to testify against Cosby | | Thursday, December 31, 2015 1:25 AM | |
| | (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. |
| In first court appearance, Cosby cuts a feeble figure | | Thursday, December 31, 2015 1:24 AM | |
|  (Reuters) - The sight of 78-year-old Bill Cosby walking with a cane into a Pennsylvania courthouse as he held the hands of his lawyers on Wednesday was in stark contrast to the spry, wisecracking 1980s TV dad most Americans remember. Cosby's appearance on Wednesday included a stumble as he walked into the courthouse in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia. While Cosby is not reported to have any serious medical conditions, paparazzi photos of him in November leaving his New York townhome with his wife, Camille, supporting him, and looking weak sparked a flurry of rumours on social media that he was dying.
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| Mother of 'affluenza' teenager deported to Los Angeles - Mexico official | | Thursday, December 31, 2015 1:15 AM | |
| | The mother of wanted Texan teenager Ethan Couch who fled with her son to Mexico, has been deported from the country on a flight to Los Angeles, a Mexican immigration official said on Wednesday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said Tonya Couch was arriving in Los Angeles because there were no more flights available to Texas. In Los Angeles, she would be in the hands of the U.S. Marshals service, the official said. |
| Texas 'affluenza' teen delays extradition, mother deported from Mexico | | Thursday, December 31, 2015 12:57 AM | |
|  By Marice Richter and Dave Graham FORT WORTH/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The mother of a Texas teenager, scorned for his "affluenza" defence in a trial over a deadly car crash, was deported from Mexico on Wednesday while her son won a temporary delay in his extradition, a Mexican official said. Ethan Couch, 18, and his mother, Tonya Couch, 48, were captured in the Mexican Pacific Coast city of Puerto Vallarta on Monday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the Mexican official said Tonya Couch was placed on a flight to Los Angeles because there were no more flights available to Texas.
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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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