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| Severe criminal justice policies hurt U.S. economy - White House | |  By Julia Harte WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Longer prison sentences for non-violent criminals and crowded prisons are hurting the American economy more than they are helping it, economists in U.S. President Barack Obama's administration said in a report released on Saturday. The prison population in the United States is 4.5 times larger than it was in 1980, primarily driven by longer sentences and higher conviction rates for nearly all offenses, according to the Council's report. Economists are "of one mind" that packed prisons, excessively long sentences, and insufficient reentry programs "are counter-productive to our economy as a whole in addition to hurting the people involved," Jason Furman, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told reporters in a call on Friday.
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| Let's not overreact to Panama Papers, some EU finmins warn | |  By Francesco Guarascio AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A European Commission plan to publicly reveal tax and financial data of large companies raised concerns among some European Union finance ministers who on Saturday advised caution after the Panama Paper leaks. Under pressure after the revelations about offshore firms hiding wealth, the EU executive proposed on April 12 a plan to increase tax transparency of multinational companies, including public disclosure of their activities in tax havens. "We would prefer that as a first step, (corporate tax data) should be available to tax authorities, not to the public," Maltese Finance Minister Edward Scicluna told reporters on Saturday before an EU finance ministers meeting in Amsterdam.
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| China regulator reprimands 15 publishers for false reports - Xinhua | | | China's media regulator has said it has uncovered false reports at 15 domestic news organizations, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The business magazine Caijing, Shanghai's The Paper and the Jinan Times were among the publications that published false news, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) said on Friday. The regulator said a report by Caijing in February on the social decline of a village contained false information and it had retracted the certification of the journalist responsible, Xinhua said. |
| Five killed in apparently related shootings in Georgia -reports | | | (Reuters) - Five people were killed in Georgia on Friday in two separate shootings that authorities said appeared to be related domestic incidents, local media reported. According to the Columbia County Sheriff's Office, the suspect identified as Wayne Anthony Hawes, 50, apparently snapped after learning his wife planned to divorce him. A man, believed to be the suspect, was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot at Hawes' home after authorities were called to the scene of a fire at the residence, according to reports. |
| Suspected Islamist militants kill Bangladesh teacher - police | | | Suspected Islamist militants brutally murdered a university professor on Saturday in northwestern Bangladesh, a police official told reporters, the latest in a spate of attacks on liberal activists. Two or three assailants rode up on a motorcycle and attacked Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, an English professor at Rajshahi University, slitting his throat and hacking him to death, said police official Golam Sackline. The pattern of the murder was similar to other recent attacks by Islamist militants, he said. |
| China, U.S. pledge to ratify Paris climate deal this year | |  By Michelle Nichols and Valerie Volcovici UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - China and the United States, the world's top producers of greenhouse gas emissions, pledged on Friday to formally adopt by the end of the year a Paris deal to slow global warming, raising the prospects of it being enforced much faster than anticipated. The United Nations said 175 states took the first step of signing the deal on Friday, the biggest day one endorsement of a global agreement. Of those, 15 states also formally notified the United Nations that they had ratified the deal.
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| U.S. drops New York fight with Apple after gaining access to iPhone | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Friday dropped its effort to force Apple Inc to help unlock an iPhone in a drug case in New York after someone provided authorities the passcode to access the device. In a letter filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, prosecutors said that investigators late on Thursday used that passcode to access the iPhone at issue, and as a result "no longer needs Apple's assistance." The letter marked a sudden end to a closely watched case, in which the Justice Department had been appealing a ruling by a federal magistrate judge holding that he could not force Apple to assist authorities.
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| Eight relatives dead in Ohio 'execution style' killings | | | Eight members of the same family were shot to death execution-style in four homes in Pike County, Ohio, and more than 30 people have been questioned in the search for the killer or killers, officials said on Friday. The victims included seven adults and one juvenile, all shot in the head, Pike County Sheriff Charles Reader and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said. Asked about possible suspects, DeWine told a news conference: "We don't know whether we're talking about one individual, or two, or three, or more." An infant less than a week old, a 6-month-old and a 3-year-old survived the shootings in Pike County, in south-central Ohio. |
| Prosecutors seek dismissal of charges against man in Arizona shootings | |  Prosecutors in Phoenix on Friday filed court papers to withdraw criminal charges against a man who was arrested last year and accused in a string of Arizona freeway shootings, a spokesman for prosecutors said. The move by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office came after a judge on Tuesday reduced the bail of 21-year-old Leslie Allen Merritt Jr to nothing from $150,000, clearing the way for his release later that day. "We have a professional and ethical duty to act in the interest of justice and not merely seek a conviction and this is a textbook example of doing that," said Jerry Cobb, a spokesman for the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.
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