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MOSCOW -- An American diplomat was detained in Moscow on suspicion of trying to recruit a Russian intelligence official to work for the CIA, Russian officials said Tuesday.The man was an employee at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, according to the country’s Federal Security Service (FSB).He was carrying "special technical equipment'', a "large sum of money" and the "means for changing one's appearance...
Amid withering accusations the Internal Revenue Service targeted tea party and other conservative groups with enhanced scrutiny, the agency faces another problem: It’s drowning in paperwork.The IRS’ Exempt Organizations Division, which finds itself at the scandal’s epicenter, processed significantly more tax exemption applications by so-called 501(c)(4) “social welfare” organizations — 2,774 durin...
He's called “the umpire.”Blunt yet sympathetic. Good with a calculator under pressure. Loves doing pro-bono work as a hobby. Because of all of those attributes, arbitration attorney Kenneth Feinberg is asked again and again to take on the awful task of putting price tags on pain, suffering and even human life.Feinberg, 67, has managed compensation for families damaged by the Sept. 11 terrorist att...
Michigan's biggest city is "clearly insolvent" and needs many fixes including to its pension system and labor agreements to addresses its problems, according to a report outlining the state of Detroit's finances. "The City of Detroit continues to incur expenditures in excess of revenues despite cost reductions and proceeds from longterm debt issuances," the city's recently installed emergency man...
Philadelphia abortion provider Kermit Gosnell was convicted Monday of three counts of first-degree murder for the death of three babies that prosecutors said were delivered alive and subsequently killed.Gosnell, 72, could face the death penalty when the jury reconvenes for the sentencing phase next week."He's disappointed and he's upset," defense lawyer Jack McMahon said of his client, who appeare...
New Orleans police have identified a 19-year-old man as a suspect in the Mother’s Day shooting that wounded 19 people marching in a parade.New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas said at a press conference late Monday that an arrest warrant has been issued for Akein Scott. He was positively identified by more than one person, Serpas said.Authorities searched three different addresses ...
Jodi Arias is off suicide watch after an evaluation established that she wasn't a threat to herself — even though she said she hoped a Phoenix jury would sentence her to death for killing her former boyfriend — authorities said Monday.Arias, 32, was convicted of first-degree murder last week for killing Travis Alexander in 2008. In an interview afterward with KSAZ-TV of Phoenix, she said she would...
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department used a secret subpoena to obtain two months of phone records for Associated Press reporters and editors without notifying the news organization, a senior department official tells NBC News, saying the step was necessary to avoid "a substantial threat to the integrity" of an ongoing leak investigation.The seizure of the phone records, disclosed earlier Monday by...
