| Bureaucratic rivalries may have hampered Benghazi security: sources Dec 21st 2012, 21:15  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Infighting and bureaucratic jealousies between the State Department and the Pentagon may have played a role in lax security arrangements prior to the deadly attacks on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, congressional sources said. Evidence of the bureaucratic rivalries, not previously reported, is contained in unpublished documents being studied by congressional investigators and is referred to in a classified version of a report on the attacks in Libya, which was turned over to Congress earlier this week, the sources said. ...
|  | Obama calls Senator Inouye a "political inspiration" Dec 21st 2012, 20:35  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday paid tribute to U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye, a World War Two hero who represented Hawaii in Congress for more than 50 years, calling the senator who died on Monday "my earliest political inspiration." Inouye, who lost his right arm in battle and gained national attention during the Senate's Watergate hearings, died at age 88. Obama, former President Bill Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden spoke about Inouye's legacy at a funeral service at the Washington National Cathedral. ...
| | Insight: Mass shootings tend to lift gun sales, data shows Dec 21st 2012, 20:30  NEW YORK/SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The coming weeks may well be a banner one for gun sales in America - and the massacre at a Connecticut elementary school will likely be a reason. The appetite for guns tends to increase following a mass shooting, according to a Reuters analysis of U.S. government data on background checks run on prospective gun buyers in the past 13 years - generally regarded as a reliable indicator of whether gun sales are increasing. ...
| | Four dead, three police hurt in Pennsylvania shooting Dec 21st 2012, 19:46 (Reuters) - Four people died on a Pennsylvania highway on Friday when a gunman shot dead three people and later was killed in a shootout with police, authorities said. Three state troopers were injured in the incident in Frankstown Township, about 100 miles east of Pittsburgh. Investigators suspect the shooter might have been driving when he opened fire, shooting people for unknown reasons, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review reported, citing an official with the Blair County Emergency Management Agency. ... | | Superstorm Sandy helped strip 41,600 jobs from NY and NJ Dec 21st 2012, 19:42 NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York and New Jersey lost a total of 41,600 jobs in November as Superstorm Sandy wiped out employment in restaurants, offices, dry cleaners, nail salons, construction sites and other businesses. New York state lost more jobs than any other U.S. state in November, shedding 33,500 nonfarm jobs, with most of the losses - 29,100 - in the private sector, according to U.S. Labor Department data released on Friday. New Jersey lost another 8,100 nonfarm jobs -- 3,700 in the private sector and 4,400 in the public sector, New Jersey labor officials said. ... | | NY state telemarketers keep most funds raised for charity: report Dec 21st 2012, 19:41 (Reuters) - Telemarketing companies in New York state are paid, on average, more than 61 percent of the money they raise for charity, according to an annual study released on Friday by New York's attorney general. A total of more than $240 million was raised by telemarketing firms hired by 434 charities in 2011, according to a report released by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, which is based on 602 professional fundraising reports filed with his office in 2011. The report found that 82 telemarketers were paid nearly $148 million, or about 61. ... | | Sexual assault reports jump 23 percent at U.S. military academies Dec 21st 2012, 19:33 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sexual assaults reported by students at the three U.S. military academies rose 23 percent in 2012, the Pentagon said on Friday, prompting Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to ask the military service secretaries for a "strong and immediate response." Eighty cases of sexual assault were reported by cadets and midshipmen at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York during the 2011-2012 academic year, the Pentagon said in a report. ... | | Chicago may try again to lease Midway Airport Dec 21st 2012, 19:32 CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago will take steps to keep the option of leasing Midway Airport alive as the city decides whether the move will benefit taxpayers and air travelers, city officials said on Friday. Midway, Chicago's "other" airport which is less sprawling than O'Hare International Airport, has been seeking ways to come up with a lease structure that is more financially viable. ... | | Judge orders end to HIV prison segregation in Alabama Dec 21st 2012, 18:11 BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge ruled on Friday to end the segregation of prisoners with HIV in Alabama, agreeing that it violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). "It is evident that, while the ... segregation policy has been an unnecessary tool for preventing the transmission of HIV, it has been an effective one for humiliating and isolating prisoners living with the disease," U. S. District Judge Myron Thompson wrote in his ruling. South Carolina now remains the only state segregating HIV inmates from the general population. ... | |
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