| Doping admission could cost Armstrong millions - lawyers Jan 18th 2013, 06:12 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lance Armstrong's admission that he used performance-enhancing drugs during his cycling career could hurt his bank balance as much as his reputation, with one company demanding $12 million from him. The Texas-based company, SCA Promotions, said it would sue Armstrong if he did not pay them back $12 million in bonus money they paid out for Tour de France wins. Included in that $12 million is the $7.5 million SCA Promotions paid the Texan for winning his sixth Tour de France crown in 2004. That sum was made up of a $5 million performance bonus and $2. ... |  | Armstrong must now confess under oath: USADA Jan 18th 2013, 05:52 (Reuters) - Lance Armstrong finally confessed his doping sins to talk show host Oprah Winfrey on Thursday but the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has now challenged the disgraced cyclist to do the same under oath. USADA, who exposed the seven-times Tour de France winner as a drug cheat, said in a statement that Armstrong's admission to a worldwide television audience was a good first step but that the 41-year-old needed to do more. ... | | Incredulous Oprah sheds trademark warmth for Armstrong Jan 18th 2013, 05:43 LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Incredulous, attentive and direct, Oprah Winfrey dug into the psyche of disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong on Thursday, calling him out as a bully and a brazen liar after he admitted to years of systematic doping. Casting aside her trademark warmth and brimming eyes, Winfrey wasted no time on niceties, plunging straight into short, direct questions that saw the seven-times Tour de France winner end years of denials. ... | | "Disappointed" Livestrong still grateful to Armstrong Jan 18th 2013, 04:54 (Reuters) - The cancer foundation set up by Lance Armstrong said they were 'disappointed' with the former cyclist's admission of doping but remained grateful to him for his work battling the disease. Armstrong, who has already been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, told Oprah Winfrey in an interview broadcast worldwide on Thursday that he had used performance enhancing drugs in all of his wins. ... | | In Armstrong's Austin, beer-fueled disappointment Jan 18th 2013, 04:42 AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - At a bike shop in a hilly area of Austin, local cyclists gathered on Thursday over beer, wine and pizza to watch disgraced cyclist and Austinite Lance Armstrong confess to Oprah Winfrey that he used performance-enhancing drugs. Surrounded by bicycles, dozens of people and a few dogs crowded around a single flat-screen television near the cash register at Nelo's Cycles. They wore cycling gear or jeans, brought their own chips and salsa and were joined by television crews from everywhere from Texas to Denmark. ... | | Andreu says Armstrong missed a shot at redemption Jan 18th 2013, 04:35 PARIS (Reuters) - Betsy Andreu, the wife of a former Lance Armstrong team mate, lashed out at the disgraced cyclist after his televised interview with Oprah Winfrey on Thursday and said he had missed a shot at redemption. Andreu, whose husband Frankie rode with Armstrong, had testified in the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's case that triggered the Texan's fall from grace. She said she had heard the 41-year-old confess to doctors treating him for testicular cancer that he had taken performance enhancing drugs. ... | | U.S. Air Force eyes changes to national security satellite programs Jan 18th 2013, 04:04 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force is moving ahead with plans to change its approach to national security satellites, including greater use of government sensors on commercial satellites and possible launches of cheaper, less-complex satellites for other missions, a top Air Force general said on Thursday. General William Shelton, who heads Air Force Space Command, told reporters that he expected to issue an open-ended, multiyear contract in 2013 that would allow the government to use more "hosted payloads" in which government sensors are launched aboard commercial satellites. ... | | New Jersey Governor Christie slams NRA ad as "reprehensible" Jan 18th 2013, 03:39  (Reuters) - New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie harshly criticized the National Rifle Association on Thursday for referring to U.S. President Barack Obama's children in an ad that advocates putting armed guards in schools, calling it "reprehensible" and "wrong." "I think it's awful to bring public figures' children into the political debate," Christie said at a press conference in Trenton, New Jersey. ...
| | U.S. soldier charged in Afghan massacre had PTSD: lawyer Jan 18th 2013, 03:37  TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier charged with slaying 16 civilians, most of them women and children, near his Army post in Afghanistan was diagnosed before his deployment as suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and a brain injury, his lawyer said on Thursday. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Robert Bales, a decorated veteran of four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan who is accused of gunning down the villagers in cold blood during two rampages through their family compounds in Kandahar province last March. ...
| | Judge weighs legal challenge to San Francisco nudity ban Jan 18th 2013, 03:04  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A federal judge weighing a challenge by nudists in famously tolerant San Francisco to a measure aimed at curtailing public nudity questioned on Thursday whether city officials had fashioned the ban too broadly. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen suggested that the municipal ordinance, which was approved by a slim majority of the Board of Supervisors last month, could infringe upon the constitutional rights of nudists to free expression. Activists, who sued in November, are seeking an injunction to block the law from taking effect as scheduled at the beginning of ...
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