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Court considers ending Stanford Ponzi scheme suits
The Supreme Court is considering shutting down class-action lawsuits from investors who lost billions in former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford's massive Ponzi scheme. Justices listened to lawyers argue over whether lawsuit should proceed against individuals, law firms and investment companies that allegedly aided Stanford's fraud. He was sent to ...
Extremists gun down 7 civilians in Nigerian mosque
Gunmen believed to be Islamic militants lured Muslims with a call to prayer and gunned them down as they entered the mosque in Damboa village in the latest killings reported in an Islamic uprising in northeast Nigeria, residents and officials said. The tactics used by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network ...
Obama thanks FEMA for work during shutdown
President Barack Obama is thanking workers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency for doing their jobs under "less than optimal circumstances" during the government shutdown. Obama made an unannounced visit to FEMA Monday as the shutdown neared the one-week mark. Some furloughed employees at the agency were recalled last week ...
Wave of bomb blasts rock Iraqi capital, killing 30
A wave of explosions rattled the Iraqi capital after sunset Monday, killing at least 30 people as al-Qaida claimed responsibility for a spate of rare suicide attacks last month in the northern, relatively peaceful self-ruled Kurdish region. Attacks on anti-Qaida fighters earlier in the day claimed another five lives. The ...
Gobble tov! American Jews ready for Thanksgivukkah
It's a turkey. It's a menorah. It's Thanksgivukkah! An extremely rare convergence this year of Thanksgiving and the start of Hanukkah has created a frenzy of Talmudic proportions. There's the number crunching: The last time it happened was 1888, or at least the last time since Thanksgiving was declared a ...
Greek ex-minister found guilty in corruption case
A former Greek defense minister was found guilty of money laundering on Monday in the most prominent corruption case to date in the financially stricken country. An Athens court found Akis Tsochadzopoulos, a prominent figure in past Socialist governments, guilty along with 16 of his 18 co-defendants, including his wife, ...
Hungary rejects Croatia's CEO extradition request
A Budapest court has rejected a European arrest warrant issued by Croatia for the head of Hungary's main oil company, who is wanted for his alleged involvement in a bribery case. MOL Rt. chairman and chief executive Zsolt Hernadi is wanted due to allegations he bribed former Croatian Prime Minister ...
White House open to short-term hike in debt limit
Senate Democrats are drafting legislation to raise the nation's debt limit without the type of unrelated conditions that Republicans have said they intend to demand, officials said Monday, as the White House signaled it would accept even a brief extension in borrowing authority to prevent an unprecedented default. The details ...
France's Sarkozy cleared in campaign finance case
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was cleared Monday of allegations that he illegally took donations from France's richest woman on the way to his 2007 election victory, his lawyer and an official said. The announcement fanned speculation of a political comeback for Sarkozy, who lost the presidency to Socialist Francois ...
Target of SEAL raid planned attacks in Kenya
The man U.S. Navy SEALs tried to take down in Somalia over the weekend was a Kenyan who had plotted to attack his country's parliament building and the United Nations headquarters in Nairobi, according to a Kenyan government intelligence report. The pre-dawn, seaside SEAL raid on Saturday targeted Abdulkadir Mohamed ...
Egypt says attack in Sinai was suicide bomber
Egypt's Interior Minister says Monday's attack on a security headquarters in the southern Sinai Peninsula was the work of a suicide bomber. Mohammed Ibrahim told The Associated Press that another attack on the country's main satellite telecommunications center in the capital appeared to be in retaliation for the killing of ...
Children of US couple in death probe leave Qatar
The family of an American couple facing charges in Qatar of starving to death their 8-year-old adopted daughter says the Gulf state has allowed their two other children to return to the United States. A statement Monday says the children, also adopted from Africa, arrived Saturday from Qatar and are ...
ACLU says ATF blocks whistleblower book on scandal
The Obama administration is blocking a federal law enforcement agent from publishing a book about the failed "Fast and Furious" gun-smuggling sting operation because of concerns that the book would negatively affect morale, the American Civil Liberties Union said Monday. The ACLU charged that the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, ...
Gov't seeks delay in NSA case over US shutdown
The Justice Department says that because of the shutdown, it wants a federal court to delay a court case in which the government has said it will reveal more secret documents about the National Security Agency's surveillance program. In a new filing with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the government ...
BP trial focus shifts to how much oil spilled
The focus of a trial over BP's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has shifted to the multibillion-dollar question of how much crude gushed from BP's blown-out well. Lawyers for BP and the federal government began Monday presenting U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier with conflicting scientific theories to ...
Iraqi Kurds OK Abu Dhabi's Taqa plans to pump oil
Iraq's northern self-ruled Kurdish region has given the green light to a consortium led by a United Arab Emirates state-run energy investment company to pump oil, a statement said Monday, in a latest move shows the Kurds' determination to pursue ambitious oil plans despite central government objections. Ethnic Kurds and ...
Stocks fall as government shutdown drags on
Investors kept their focus on Washington Monday, sending stocks lower with little hope for a deal to end the government shutdown. Speaker John Boehner on Sunday ruled out a vote in the House of Representatives on a straightforward bill to increase the borrowing authority of the U.S. government without concessions ...
Court seeks to lift immunity for 3 Golden Dawn MPs
Greece's Parliament has been asked to lift the immunity from prosecution of three lawmakers from the extremist right-wing Golden Dawn party so they can face charges of participating in a criminal organization, as part of a crackdown on the party sparked by the fatal stabbing of a left-wing rap singer. ...
Ohio opens case in $100M charity fraud case
A onetime fugitive went on trial Monday on charges of masterminding a $100 million multistate fraud under the guise of helping Navy veterans, with prosecutors calling him a lying thief and the defense detailing his charity work. The 67-year-old defendant calls himself Bobby Thompson, but authorities have identified him as ...
Blackberry shares up on report of buyout interest
Shares of BlackBerry Ltd. rose more than 4 percent Monday on a report that the company is in sale talks with a handful of companies. Reuters reported Friday that the struggling smartphone maker was holding discussions with Cisco, Google and SAP about a possible sale of all or part of ...
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