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The Note's Must-Reads for Tuesday February 26, 2013
The Note’s Must-Reads are a round-up of today’s political headlines and stories from ABC News and the top U.S. newspapers. Posted Monday through Friday right here at www.abcnews.com Compiled by ABC News’ Carrie Halperin, Jayce Henderson Amanda VanAllen and Danielle Genet FISCAL BATTLE ABC News’ John...
PRESS DIGEST - Wall Street Journal - Jan 26
Feb 26 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in theWall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories anddoes not vouch for their accuracy. * Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc director Rajat Guptawill have to reimburse the investment bank for more than $6.2million in legal fees and expenses it paid in connection withhis insider-trading case, a federal judge ruled on Monday. ...
U.S. ex-basketball player Rodman bound for North Korea: AP
SEOUL (Reuters) - Retired U.S. basketball player Dennis Rodman is to visit North Korea to film a television documentary and will arrive in the capital Pyongyang on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported. Rodman, now 51 years old, won five NBA championships in his prime, achieving a mix of fame and notoriety for his on- and off-court antics. ...
New York assemblyman apologizes for blackface party costume
(Reuters) - A state assemblyman apologized on Monday for donning blackface and wearing an Afro wig at a party celebrating the Jewish holiday of Purim, a costume that drew criticism from fellow lawmakers and the Anti-Defamation League bias monitoring group. Democratic Assemblyman Dov Hikind of New York City, who had earlier defended the costume on his blog, said he did not mean to offend anyone with the outfit, which also included black sunglasses and an orange jersey. "It was not meant to offend anybody, it was not meant to hurt anybody. ...
Powers to offer Iran sanctions relief at nuclear talks
ALMATY (Reuters) - World powers are expected to offer Iran limited sanctions relief on Tuesday if it agrees to halt its most sensitive nuclear work, in a new attempt to resolve a dispute that threatens to trigger another war in the Middle East. In their first meeting in eight months - time that Iran has used to expand atomic activity that the West suspects is aimed at developing a bomb capability - the powers hope Iran will engage in serious talks on finding a diplomatic solution. ...
DNA a civil rights issue in Supreme Court case
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a case that spotlights the growing use of genetic data by law enforcement agencies, the Supreme Court will consider on Tuesday when a DNA sample may be taken from a suspect. Police and prosecutors in Maryland suffered a major setback when the state's court of appeals ruled in April 2012 that Alonzo King's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure was violated when he was required to provide his DNA upon being arrested. ...
What Is Sequestration and What Does It Mean For Me?
This won’t hurt a bit. Just kidding. Sequestration could hurt a lot, for a lot of people.
Rocket explodes in Israel, first attack from Gaza since truce
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A rocket exploded in southern Israel on Tuesday in the first such attack by militants in the Hamas Islamist ruled Gaza Strip since a truce ended a week of cross-border fighting in November, Israeli police said. The rocket caused some damage to a road near the city of Ashkelon but no injuries, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. "An explosion was heard in the Ashkelon region experts searched areas experts and found one rocket that struck, damaging a road but causing no injuries," Rosenfeld said. ...
