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Sunday, January 15, 2012
FIRST LOOK: Inside Beyonce & Jay-Z's Posh Hospital Room
When Beyonce and Jay-Z's daughter Blue Ivy Carter was born in New York City on Jan. 7, she came into this world in style.
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Video: Van der Sloot pleads guilty to Peru murder
>>> joran van der sloot , the prime suspect in the disappearance of natalee holloway , will be sentenced tomorrow, but in a different case. he's pleaded guilty to murdering a young woman in peru . nbc's lilja luciano is in peru with details. good morning to you.
>> reporter: good morning, matt. joran van der sloot has been behind bars here in lima for 19 months. this morning, he awaits sentence after pleading guilty to murder. a guilty plea , and then an apology. appearing calm and confident, joran van der sloot told the judge he was responsible for the murder of 21-year-old stephanie flor flores. i regret what i did, he said in broken spanish. adding he felt very bad about it. outside, a cluster of protesters shouted "killer" and demanded justice. a hotel worker found flores dead in joran van der sloot 's room 19 months ago. police say she was murdered five years to the day that natalee holloway went missing in aruba. joran van der sloot has always denied any wrongdoing in the holloway case. and authorities in aruba never found enough evidence to charge him in peru , there was no lack of evidence, legal experts say. and the state's confession, the peruvian police, van der sloot describes beating and strangling the victim to death.
>> the most overwhelming piece of evidence was his own testimony. that was not a random act and it was basically premed dated.
>> reporter: the evidence also included surveillance video. seen walking into his room. hours later, he walks out by himself. prosecutors say leaving stephanie 's lifeless body inside. prosecutors seek a 30-year sentence for the 24-year-old dutch citizen. going by your experience, how long do you think he'll serve?
>> if he were to be sentenced to 30 years, he'll probably end up serving seven to nine years, given the overcrowded conditions in peru .
>> reporter: appealing for a lighter sentence, van der sloot 's lawyer told the judge his client was suffering from post traumatic stress when he killed stephanie . stemming from the constant questioning on the holloway case. natal natalee's parents says they hope this will move their quest for justice forward.
>> the holloways continue to cooperate with all the law enforcement agencies and remain hopeful that some day, someone will be held accountable for justice here in alabama.
>> reporter: today in alabama judge is scheduled to decide whether to declare natalee holloway dead. here in peru , van der sloot will be sentenced for the murder of stephanie flores tomorrow morning . matt?
>> lilja, thank you very much.
>>> it's now 19 after the
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Case of the severed penis is delayed
By NbcLosAngeles.com
A woman accused of cutting off her ex-husband's penis and throwing it in a garbage disposal was scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Santa Ana, but her case was continued to Feb. 2.
Catherine Kieu, 48, was indicted on one felony count of torture, one felony count of aggravated mayhem, and a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a knife.
The Garden Grove woman allegedly cut off the man's penis after an argument over whether a friend should be staying at his residence.
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After dinner on the night of July 11, the man fell asleep in his bed. Kieu tied the man's arms and legs to the four corners of the bed as he slept, according to investigators. When he awoke, Kieu pulled down his pants and severed his penis with a knife, prosecutors said.
She then placed the penis in a garbage disposal and turned on the disposal before calling 911, according to investigators.
The 60-year-old victim was transported to Irvine Medical Center for emergency surgery.
Kieu faces a maximum sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole. She is being held on $1 million bail.
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Oil below $102 as Iran oil embargo talks falter (AP)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia ? Oil prices hovered above $102 a barrel Wednesday in Asia as the European Union's efforts to block imports of Iranian oil appear to be stalling.
Benchmark crude for February delivery dropped 3 cents to $102.21 a barrel at midday Kuala Lumpur time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 93 cents to settle at $102.24 in New York on Tuesday.
Oil prices rallied Tuesday after China said oil imports grew 6 percent from a year earlier in December. Strong demand for oil in China, the world's second-biggest oil consumer behind the U.S., is a boost to global crude prices.
Tension between Iran and Western powers over Iran's nuclear program has also helped keep crude above $100. However, prices edged down Wednesday after the EU's plan to ban purchases of Iranian oil in hopes of choking off funding for the country's nuclear program were bogged down by issues such as exemptions for existing supply contracts.
Officials have said exemptions for long periods of time would significantly weaken any proposed embargo. Some EU members, notably Greece, are also heavily reliant on Iranian oil.
"There is a premium attached to oil prices due to the Iranian tension but efforts by the EU to impose an embargo on Iranian oil appeared to be stalling," said Victor Shum, an energy analyst with Purvin & Gertz in Singapore.
The U.S. has recently enacted new sanctions targeting Iran's central bank and its ability to sell petroleum abroad. Iran has threatened to respond to sanctions by shutting the Strait of Hormuz, a transit route for a fifth of the world's oil.
Shum said concerns over the health of European economies amid a debt crisis also dragged down oil prices. Oil also fell after the American Petroleum Institute's data showed a rise in U.S. crude inventories last week, he said. The Energy Department is expected to release its weekly inventory report later Wednesday.
In other Nymex trading, heating oil rose 1.6 cents to $3.12 per gallon and gasoline futures added 1.3 cents at $2.79 per gallon. Natural gas futures were down 4.7 cents to $2.89 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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Justice Dept says recent recess appointments legal
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Justice Department is publicly rebutting Republican criticism of the legality of President Barack Obama's recent recess appointments of a national consumer watchdog and other officials.
The department released a 23-page legal opinion Thursday summarizing the advice it gave the White House before the Jan. 4 appointments. GOP leaders have argued the Senate was not technically in recess when Obama acted so the regular Senate confirmation process should have been followed.
Assistant Attorney General Virginia Seitz wrote that the president has authority to make such appointments because the Senate is on a 20-day recess, even though it has held periodic pro forma sessions in which no business is conducted. Seitz argued the pro forma sessions ? some with as few as one member present ? have not been sufficient for the chamber to exercise its constitutional authority to advise and consent to normal presidential nominations.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has said Obama has endangered the nation's systems of checks and balances, and Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch says the appointments are a very grave decision by an autocratic White House.
Senate Republicans have been using their ability to block or stall Senate confirmation of some regular nominees as a way to curb agencies they believe have taken or are poised to take actions they disagree with.
On Jan. 4, Obama appointed Richard Cordray, a former attorney general of Ohio, to be the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Obama also appointed two Democrats and a Republican to the National Labor Relations Board that day. There was stiff Republican opposition to creating the new consumer agency, which was authorized in the financial regulation law, and Republicans have argued that the labor board has tilted toward unions under Obama's Democratic administration.
The Justice official who wrote the opinion, Seitz, heads the department's Office of Legal Counsel, which is empowered to provide binding legal opinions to the executive branch.
Her new memo cites a Justice Department legal opinion from President George W. Bush's Republican administration in justifying Obama's recent appointments. The Bush administration opinion from 2004 says that a recess during a session of the Senate can meet constitutional requirements for permitting the president to make recess appointments as long as the recess is of sufficient length. Seitz noted that the last five presidents have made recess appointments during recesses of 14 days or less.
In December, the Senate agreed to adjourn until Jan. 23 but to convene pro forma sessions in which no business was to be conducted every Tuesday and Friday.
The Senate pro forma sessions in which no business was conducted, do not "in our opinion" interrupt the recess "in a manner that would preclude the president" from acting, Seitz wrote in her Jan. 6 opinion.
Beginning in late 2007, the Senate has frequently conducted pro forma sessions that typically last only a few seconds and that "apparently require the presence of only one senator," Seitz wrote. Under a legal framework dating back nearly a century, recess appointments have been permitted when the Senate cannot receive communications from the president or participate as a body in confirming nominees.
In an op-ed article in the Washington Post, Edwin Meese, who served as attorney general under Republican President Ronald Reagan, and Todd Gaziano, a former Office of Legal Counsel attorney who is now a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, called Obama's actions "a breathtaking violation of the separation of powers."
The GOP's unsuccessful opposition to creating the consumer watchdog agency has turned into opposition to potential nominees to lead the office. Stiff Republican opposition headed Obama off from even nominating Elizabeth Warren, the interim official who helped set up the office, to be its permanent chief.
There is GOP resistance as well to filling slots on the National Labor Relations Board that Republicans feel has become pro-labor under Obama. If Republicans keep enough slots vacant on the labor board, they can prevent it from acting at all.
The pro forma sessions have been used by both Democratic and Republican senators in an effort to stave off recess appointments.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said in 2008 that the pro forma sessions were designed to prevent the president ? at that time Bush ? from exercising his constitutional power to make recess appointments.
Last year with Obama in the White House, some Republican senators urged House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, not to pass any resolution that would allow the Senate to recess or adjourn for more than three days. The Constitution provides that neither the House nor the Senate shall adjourn for more than three days without the consent of the other. No concurrent resolution of adjournment has been introduced in either chamber since May of last year.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
PayWizard offers more ways to pay for content on Samsung smart TVs
PayWizard's "multi-screen" TV payment platform has been available for some time in the UK, but the company's now taking advantage of CES to attempt a big push into the US market. That multi-screen bit comes from the ability to manage your account and purchase content on multiple devices (including smartphones and PCs, in addition to smart TVs), and the company is also touting a new voucher system that can be used for gifting and promotions from content providers. While it remains to be seen how widely it will be used, the company has already gotten off to a decent start by announcing an application for Samsung's smart TVs, which will let folks refill their balance and manage their accounts. Additional details can be found at the source link below and in the press release after the break.
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