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Airport greeting turns testy between President Obama, Jan Brewer
By Christi Parsons
President Obama's warm reception in sunny Arizona on Wednesday lasted about as long as it took him to step off Air Force One and greet Gov. Jan Brewer.
Brewer, champion of her state's controversial anti-immigration law, welcomed Obama on the tarmac with a handwritten letter and an intense conversation in which, at one point, she pointed her finger at him.
According to pool reporters who were present, Obama and Brewer seemed to be talking at the same time, seemingly over each another, until he walked away mid-sentence.
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Geithner: Obama won't ask me to stay in a 2nd term
By Martin Crutsinger
Timothy Geithner said Wednesday that he doesn't expect to serve a second term as Treasury secretary. He said he doesn't think President Barack Obama would ask him to remain if Obama won re-election.
"He's not going to ask me to stay on, I'm pretty confident," Geithner said in a Bloomberg Television interview. "I'm also confident he's going to have the privilege of having another Treasury secretary."
Geithner is the only remaining top official on Obama's original economics team. He had considered leaving in August after the congressional battle over raising the debt limit was resolved.
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The bumbling jihadi? Alleged terror backer guessed FBI was listening.
By Warren Richey
An Uzbekistan man living in Denver has been charged with attempting to provide material support to a militant Islamic group in his home country.
Jamshid Muhtorov was arrested Saturday at Chicagoâs OâHare International Airport prior to boarding a Polish Airlines flight to Istanbul.
Federal agents suspect Mr. Muhtorov was on his way to volunteer for a mission or missions to help the Islamic Jihad Union, an Uzbekistan-based militant group seeking to establish a government based on Islamic law.
Attorney General Jim Hood, a Democrat who has filed a legal challenge to dozens of the 198 pardons issued by Barbour at the end of his second term, said about 20 files are missing from a batch of several boxes that his office is examining.
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No files on pardoned Miss. killers
Holbrook Mohr
Pardon files are missing or don't exist for four convicted killers and another man who worked as trusties at the Governor's Mansion and were pardoned by former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour during his final days in office.
The Associated Press made public records requests for such documents, but state officials said Wednesday they don't have them on the trusties and some others pardoned by Barbour, a two-term Republican governor who left office this month. |
Exclusive: Senate investigating HSBC for money laundering
HSBC Holdings PLC is under investigation by a U.S. Senate panel in a money-laundering inquiry, the latest step in a long-running U.S. effort to halt shadowy money flows through global banks, according to people familiar with the situation and a company securities filing.
The inquiry being conducted by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations could yield a report and congressional hearing later this spring, these people said. The subcommittee has a history of conducting high-profile hearings that have proved embarrassing for the world's biggest banks.
The intensifying scrutiny of HSBC is the latest in a series of investigations by U.S. officials into how global banks have processed -- and in some cases, intentionally hidden -- financial transactions on behalf of countries which allegedly support terrorism, corrupt foreign officials, drug gangs and criminals. Since 2008, European and U.S. banks have signed deferred prosecution agreements and paid more than $1.2 billion in penalties for alleged violations of anti-money laundering regulations. |
Open WebOS committed to fall 2012
Seth Rosenblatt
Hewlett-Packard kicked the first open source component to WebOS out the door today, along with a calendar for when its source code will be completely open.
The first part of WebOS to go open is Enyo, which also received a version bump to 2.0 today. Enyo is a developer's tool for writing a single app that will work across multiple mobile devices and PC browsers, including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, iOS, Android, and WebOS itself.
The company plans to release several components per month from now until September. February will get the intended project governance model, QT WebKit extensions, JavaScript core, and UI Enyo widgets. March will see the standard Linux kernel, graphics extensions EGL, LevelDB, and USB extensions. Node services, Ares 2.0, and an update to Enyo land in April, followed by a break until July, when the Luna system manager, core applications, and Enyo 2.2 will be opened. August gets a build release model and an Open WebOS beta, with version 1.0 of the source code landing in September. |
Einhorn, Greenlight fined for UK market abuse
David Einhorn's reputation as one of the hedge fund industry's most respected investors took a bit of a hit on Wednesday when Britain's financial regulator imposed a 7.2 million pounds ($11 million) fine on him and his Greenlight Capital fund for alleged trading abuses.
Britain's Financial Services Authority (FSA) said it fined Einhorn 3.64 million pounds ($5.67 million) and Greenlight Capital 3.65 million pounds for using inside information he obtained from a broker before selling shares in a UK public company in 2009.
The regulator said Einhorn had learned from a telephone conversation with the broker that British pub company Punch Taverns was on the verge of a significant equity fundraising, prompting Einhorn to sell down his holdings before an expected fall in the shares |
Kim Dotcom 'email' to neighbours: Don't forget the cocaine
Sydney Morning Herald
Alleged internet pirate Kim Dotcom reportedly sent an email to his concerned neighbours joking about money laundering, hacking their email accounts and taking cocaine.
Some neighbours were reportedly scared by the email, though one said she saw the funny side.
Dotcom and three others were arrested on Friday in an FBI-led police raid at his rented Coatesville mansion in New Zealand. Dotcom was on Thursday denied bail, while decisions were pending on his co-accused. US authorities want them extradited.
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Papua New Guinea defence chief 'replaced in mutiny'
BBC News
Soldiers in Papua New Guinea have staged a mutiny and replaced the defence force chief, reports say.
The apparent mutiny took place early in the morning in the capital, Port Moresby, Australian media and officials said.
A group of 12 to 20 soldiers were involved, ABC News reported.
The incident appears to be linked to the conflict between Peter O'Neill and Sir Michael Somare - the two men claiming the role of prime minister. |
Scotland: Let 16-Year-Olds Have Vote
Jill Lawless
Scotland's leader said Wednesday that 16- and 17-year-olds should be eligible to cast ballots in an independence referendum that could see the breakup of Britain within four years.
First Minister Alex Salmond announced the Scottish government's preferred options for the vote on whether to sever ties from Britain, which it plans to hold in the fall of 2014. A "yes" vote would lead to independence taking effect with a May 2016 election for the Scottish Parliament.
Salmond told Scottish lawmakers in the Edinburgh assembly the ballot would ask "Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country?" but could also include a third option, for increased autonomy short of full independence.
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