USA Today: MOSCOW – As a sports fan, Mikhail Prokhorov, the majority owner of the New Jersey Nets NBA basketball franchise, knows underdogs can often pull off shock victories. The Russian billionaire has set for himself a high goal, some say impossible, in announcing he will challenge Vladimir Putin in next year’s presidential election. “Prokhorov [...]
Los Angeles Times: A Los Angeles police officer was justified in fatally shooting a naked combative man, the Los Angeles Police Commission has ruled. The unanimous decision by the civilian board, which judges whether serious uses of force by officers are reasonable, closes the Los Angeles Police Department’s internal investigation into the confrontation that drew [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Firefighters scrambled Friday to replace toys lost when the city’s biggest blaze in more than seven years left more than 40 people homeless at the height of the holiday season. The effort to help those displaced by the blaze came after firefighters saw ruined gifts strewn in the wreckage near the [...]
(Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday issued legal sanctions against high profile Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio for destroying documents in a civil rights lawsuit accusing him and his department of racially profiling Latinos. Citing the admitted destruction of emails and patrol records by Arpaio’s office, U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow said he would [...]
CCTV footage of a drunken woman falling under a train has been released as part of a campaign to warn of the dangers of being drunk on station platforms.
Washington Times: Texas Gov. Rick Perry failed to garner enough signatures to appear on the GOP presidential primary ballot in Virginia, leaving former Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul as the only Republican candidates to qualify for the ballot in the crucial swing state as of early Friday evening. The commonwealth’s stringent ballot requirements [...]
A Pakistani security officer examines a U.S. surveillance drone that crashed in the town of Chaman near the Afghan border in August. Los Angeles Times: In an effort to mend badly frayed relations with Pakistan, the CIA has suspended drone missile strikes on gatherings of low-ranking militants believed to be involved in cross-border attacks on [...]
Three-year-old Jacob Jones holds his ‘daddy ornament’ on Friday. Wall Street Journal: This Christmas, Donna Jones is doing her best to avoid heartwarming scenes of military homecomings. It’s not easy: Thousands of troops are reuniting with their families in a blur of on-camera kisses, and she works on a military base. “There are all these [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The CIA said Friday its internal watchdog found nothing wrong with the spy agency’s close partnership with the New York Police Department. The agency’s inspector general concluded that no laws were broken and there was “no evidence that any part of the agency’s support to the NYPD constituted `domestic spying’,” CIA spokesperson [...]
(Reuters) – Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich on Friday urged rival Ron Paul to explain his links to newsletters two decades ago that carried the Texas congressman’s name and contained racist, anti-homosexual and anti-Israel rants. “I think that Congressman Paul has to explain his own situation and how he could have had a decade of [...]
Wall Street Journal: Best Buy Co. is scrambling to stem the public-relations damage after it was forced to tell some customers in recent days that it couldn’t deliver the merchandise they ordered online last month. The world’s largest electronics chain by revenue stepped up its discounts on Black Friday and offered free online shipping this [...]
