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| Caddies lose lawsuit vs. PGA Tour, ponder next step | | Thursday, February 11, 2016 12:27 AM | |
| | (Reuters) - Professional caddies were scheduled to meet at Pebble Beach on Wednesday night and discuss whether to continue fighting the PGA Tour after losing a class action lawsuit contending they were forced to wear bibs featuring corporate logos that made them 'human billboards'. The lawsuit, filed just over a year ago in U.S. federal court in California, said the PGA Tour threatened to prevent the caddies from working at tournaments organised and promoted by the organisation if they refused to wear the bibs. The lawsuit also claimed that the PGA Tour reaps more than $50 million annually from the endorsements, but the caddies receive no compensation. |
| Republicans Christie, Fiorina drop White House bids | |  By Ginger Gibson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former business executive Carly Fiorina ended their presidential campaigns on Wednesday, narrowing the field challenging front-runner Donald Trump in the race for the 2016 Republican nomination. Christie, 53, said in a Facebook post he was leaving the race "without an ounce of regret," a day after the combative Republican's sixth-place finish in the New Hampshire primary raised doubts about his viability as a candidate. Fiorina, 61, a former Hewlett-Packard chief executive, said in a Facebook post she would suspend her campaign.
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| U.S. Senate unanimously backs tougher North Korea sanctions | |  The U.S. Senate voted unanimously on Wednesday to toughen sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear programme, human rights record and cyber activities, as U.S. lawmakers sought to crack down on Pyongyang for its nuclear tests. The House of Representatives passed a similar bill last month. Differences between the two are expected to be resolved quickly and Senate Democrats said they expected President Barack Obama would sign the measure into law.
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| N.Y. art gallery, Sotheby's chairman settle fake Rothko case | | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - Knoedler & Co, which before closing in 2011 was New York City's oldest art gallery, has agreed to settle a lawsuit over an $8.3 million sale of a fake Rothko painting, just as its ex-president was preparing to testify at trial. The deal, confirmed on Wednesday by lawyers in the case, resolved the remaining claims in a closely watched trial in Manhattan federal court in a lawsuit brought by Sotheby's Chairman Domenico De Sole and his wife, Eleanore. The settlement with the De Soles, who were seeking $25 million in damages, came after the collectors reached a separate agreement on Sunday with Ann Freedman, Knoedler's former president. |
| Auschwitz guard, 93, stands trial in Germany | | | By Tina Bellon BERLIN (Reuters) - A 93-year-old former guard at Auschwitz goes on trial in Germany on Thursday accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 170,000 people - the first of four such court cases that could be the last due to the very old age of the defendants. The three men and one woman accused are all in their nineties and will be tried over the next few months, starting with Reinhold Hanning in the western German city of Detmold. Hanning was 20 years old in 1942 when he started serving as a guard at the Auschwitz death camp in occupied Poland where more than 1.1 million Jews were killed by the Nazis. |
| Consternation at Austrian case of Nazi camp survivors called 'a plague' | | | Concentration camp survivors voiced indignation on Wednesday at an Austrian prosecutor's statement that it was justifiable for a far-right magazine to call people who were liberated from the Nazi camp at Mauthausen a criminal "plague". "The fact that a non-negligible portion of freed prisoners became a plague on people is deemed by the judiciary to have been proven and is only disputed today by concentration camp fetishists," Die Aula's article said. Prosecutors in the southern city of Graz initiated criminal proceedings against the author on accusations of Holocaust denial and inciting hatred, but later dropped the case. |
| Obama plan to ease new U.S. visa limits faces sceptics in Congress | |  By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's plan to loosen some requirements of a visa law spurred by the deadly attacks in Paris met with open resistance from both Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday. The measure, which went into effect in late January, requires that citizens of 38 countries who previously were able to travel to the United States for up to 90 days without a visa must now obtain one if they have visited Iran, Iraq, Sudan or Syria since March 1, 2011. Ed Royce, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Wednesday said he wanted to add Libya to the list of countries covered by the visa waiver restrictions.
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| U.S. Republicans' feud threatens to reignite fiscal battles | | | By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior House Republican warned on Wednesday that differences among lawmakers over a spending increase could threaten plans for a more orderly budget process under House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has been basking in a honeymoon period. The comments from House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers came as Ryan was facing the first big challenge of his speakership, with some conservatives wanting to back out of a deal made last year increasing spending by $80 billion over two years. Many Republicans did not vote for the two-year budget framework negotiated in former Speaker John Boehner's waning days in office. |
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