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| Obama proposes $4.1 trillion spending plan in final White House budget | | Wednesday, February 10, 2016 3:21 AM | |
|  By Jeff Mason and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama proposed a $4.1 trillion spending plan for fiscal year 2017 on Tuesday in a final White House budget that met immediate Republican resistance for its cost and reliance on tax hikes to fund domestic priorities. Obama, a Democrat who leaves office next January, sought to outline his fiscal and political vision for the country with proposed investments in infrastructure, cyber security, education, and job growth. Paul Ryan, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, called it a "manual for growing the federal government at the expense of hardworking Americans." The budget envisions a deficit of $503 billion in fiscal 2017 after a $616 billion budget gap in the current fiscal year ending on Sept. 30.
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| Trump, Sanders win U.S. nominating contests in New Hampshire | | Wednesday, February 10, 2016 2:35 AM | |
|  By Steve Holland and Amanda Becker MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) - Riding a wave of voter anger at traditional politicians, billionaire Donald Trump won New Hampshire's Republican presidential nominating contest on Tuesday and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont won the Democratic primary. The results, though decisive, did little to clear up confusion about who would emerge as the establishment contender to Trump on the Republican side, and there were signs that the campaign of Sanders' rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was defensive about her future prospects. Trump's win solidifies his front-runner status in the race to be the party's White House nominee for the Nov. 8 election.
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| Legal proceedings for U.S. Sgt. Bergdahl halted due to classified material | | Wednesday, February 10, 2016 12:42 AM | |
| | Legal proceedings in the military desertion case against U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl were halted on Tuesday over defence access to 300,000 pages of classified documents held by the government, which could push back his trial planned for August. The U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals granted the stay after the government requested one, court documents showed. At a pretrial hearing in January, Captain Michael Petrusic said prosecutors expected to turn over thousands of classified documents to the defence before the trial, planned for Fort Bragg, North Carolina. |
| Forensic team finds remains in Mexico dump, but no sign of 43 students | | Wednesday, February 10, 2016 12:35 AM | |
|  Argentine forensics experts said on Tuesday they had found the remains of 19 people in a dump in southwestern Mexico where the government claimed 43 missing students were incinerated in 2014, but no sign of the students. The student teachers disappeared in the southwestern city of Iguala in September 2014, in an incident that sparked an international outcry over human rights abuse, forced disappearances and killings committed with impunity in Mexico. The government originally said the students were abducted by corrupt police officers who handed them over to a local drug gang.
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| Insurgents Trump and Sanders seek lift at New Hampshire primary | | By James Oliphant and Amanda Becker MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) - Insurgent candidates in the 2016 U.S. presidential race, billionaire Republican Donald Trump and Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders, sought to lift their campaigns on Tuesday at the New Hampshire primary elections by defeating mainstream rivals. Riding a wave of voter anger at traditional politicians, the two men held big leads over their respective opponents in New Hampshire, the second state in the process of picking party nominees for the Nov. 8 election to replace President Barack Obama. The polls were to close at 7 p.m. EST (0000 GMT) and New Hampshire officials predicted a historic high turnout of about 550,000 as long lines of voters formed at polling stations.
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| French plan advances to strip passports from those convicted of terrorism | | | By Emile Picy PARIS (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande's plan to strip French citizenship from people convicted of terrorism passed a first hurdle on Tuesday when the lower house of parliament backed controversial proposals introduced after Islamic extremists killed 130 people in Paris last November. The National Assembly voted by 162-148 late on Tuesday to write a passport-stripping clause into the Constitution, despite misgivings by some lawmakers that it was too extreme. The vote appeared to only partially defuse concerns of a broad rebellion scuttling a proposal that some, notably members of the ruling Socialist Party, consider an ineffective, symbolic measure in France's battle against terrorism. |
| U.S. judge deports Qatar military officer accused of enslaving servants | | | By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ordered the immediate deportation on Tuesday of a Qatar military officer and his wife after they were accused of holding two female servants in slave-like conditions in their upscale San Antonio home. Hassan al-Homoud, 46, who received military training at San Antonio's Camp Bullis, and his wife, Zainab al-Hosani, a citizen of the United Arab Emirates, pleaded guilty to federal charges in December. |
| Iraq PM says to bring in technocrats in cabinet reshuffle | | | By Ahmed Rasheed and Stephen Kalin BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday he would reshuffle his cabinet to appoint technocrats to replace ministers appointed on the basis of political affiliations. "Out of my responsibility ... to lead the country to safety, I call for a radical cabinet reshuffle to include professionals, technocrats and academics," Abadi said in a televised speech which focussed largely on economic challenges facing Iraq, a major OPEC oil exporter. By replacing ministers chosen on the basis of party affiliation or ethnic or sectarian identity, Abadi risks disturbing the delicate balance of Iraq's governing system in place since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 which toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. |
| Concerned by cyber threat, Obama seeks big increase in funding | |  By Dustin Volz and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday sought a surge in funding to counter cyber security threats, as his top intelligence official warned Congress that computer attacks were among the most imminent security challenges facing the United States. In his fiscal 2017 budget proposal, Obama asked for $19 billion for cyber security across the U.S. government, an increase of $5 billion over this year While the White House's overall fiscal plan faces tough going in the Republican-controlled Congress, increased cyber security funding has won bipartisan support of lawmakers in the past. The request comes as the Obama administration has struggled to address the growing risk posed by criminals and nation states in the digital world.
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| FBI director says investigators unable to unlock San Bernardino shooter's phone content | | | By Dustin Volz and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI Director James Comey said on Tuesday that federal investigators have still been unable to access the contents of a cellphone belonging to one of the killers in the Dec. 2 shootings in San Bernardino, California, due to encryption technology. Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee that the phenomenon of communications "going dark" due to more sophisticated technology and wider use of encryption is "overwhelmingly affecting" law enforcement operations, including investigations into murder, car accidents, drug trafficking and the proliferation of child pornography. "We still have one of those killer's phones that we have not been able to open," Comey said in reference to the San Bernardino attack. |
| Corrected - Warner settles 'Happy Birthday' copyright suit for $14 million | | | (This version of the story corrects spelling of Warner/Chappell in paragraph one and date of hearing to March 14 in third paragraph) By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) - The copyright to the world's most popular song, "Happy Birthday to You," has been in dispute for decades, but if an agreement by Warner/Chappell Music to pay $14 million to end a lawsuit over the song is approved by a U.S. court, it will be free for all to use as they please. The settlement, unveiled in federal court in Los Angeles on Monday, would eliminate the music publisher's claimed ownership of the song. A group of artists and filmmakers filed a class action lawsuit in 2013 against Warner/Chappell, the music publishing arm of privately held Warner Music Group. |
| Obama budget request 'inadequate' to face security threats - McCain | | | U.S. Senator John McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, took immediate issue on Tuesday with President Barack Obama's budget request, saying it would leave the Defense Department with at least $17 billion less than it said it needed and planned for this year. "While the Committee will closely review the President's defense budget request, it is already clear that this request is inadequate to address the national security threats we face and the growing demands they impose on our men and women in uniform," McCain said in a statement. |
| U.S. Senate unanimously approves Myanmar ambassador nominee | | | The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed President Barack Obama's nominee to be ambassador to Myanmar on Tuesday, after the administration assured lawmakers it would not rush to ease sanctions as the country moves from decades of military rule. The Senate voted 90-0 to confirm career diplomat Scot Marciel to the post in Myanmar, also known as Burma. Currently the principal deputy assistant secretary in the State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Marciel has also been ambassador to Indonesia and served in Vietnam, the Philippines, Brazil and Turkey. |
| Cosby's former lawyer dropped from Dickinson defamation lawsuit | |  A California judge on Tuesday ordered that a former lawyer for comedian Bill Cosby be dropped from a defamation lawsuit brought by former model Janice Dickinson, Dickinson's attorney said. Dickinson, who alleges she was sexually assaulted by Cosby more than 30 years ago, sued the television star and later his attorney Martin Singer last year, saying she had been defamed by their denials of her story.
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| U.S. Air Force veteran accused of Islamic State support faces trial | | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jury selection began on Tuesday in the case of a U.S. Air Force veteran accused of trying to travel to Syria to join Islamic State, the first person to face a U.S. trial for attempting to support the militant group. Questionnaires were distributed to the first batch of 500 potential jurors in Brooklyn, New York, in the federal trial of Tairod Pugh, a 48-year-old New Jersey resident charged with attempting to provide material support to Islamic State. Pugh, who wore a blue collared shirt in court, is one of 80 people charged in federal cases related to Islamic State since 2014 as authorities push to identify potential domestic supporters of the group, according to a Reuters analysis. |
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