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Financial Follies 2.0
Nancy Cook 10/6/2009 12:00:00 AM
One year after the global economic collapse, the United States has yet to adopt any legislation to change the way it oversees or regulates financial industries. Banks that received bail-out money still don't have any restrictions placed on the way they spend the government's cash, and although President Obama wants Congress to create a new consumer financial protection agency to act as a watch dog against unfair lending practices and confusing credit card contracts, the idea has met massive resistance from Washington’s well-funded business lobbyists.
The Hunt for a Hidden Bomb Factory
Mark Hosenball 9/22/2009 12:00:00 AM
Court documents made public over the weekend by federal authorities accused three men of making false statements to federal investigators when they were recently questioned about the alleged plot. Two of the men, Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old Afghan-born U.S. resident, and his father, Mohammed Wali Zazi, 53, live in Denver. The third man, 37-year-old Ahmad Wais Afzali, is an Afghan-born imam living in Queens. The elder Zazi has been released on bail; detention hearings for his son and Afzali are expected later this week. Lawyers for the suspects have said the men have done nothing wrong. Ron Kuby, a lawyer for Afzali, the Queens imam, said that his client had a good working relationship with NYPD officers in his neighborhood. Official papers say the NYPD considered the cleric a "source"; Kuby described him as a "community liaison."
Fears for Obama
Mark Hosenball 10/29/2008 12:00:00 AM
With the presidential election only days away, federal officials are looking closely for any uptick in threats to presidential candidates from white supremacist or other extremist groups. But in contrast to the pre-election atmosphere of four years ago, U.S. agencies have picked up little "chatter" about looming Islamic terror plots—and scant indications of any imminent pre-election messages from Al Qaeda leaders like Osama bin Laden.
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This is no theoretical debate. A new federal law, slipped unobtrusively into a spending bill in September, says that anyone convicted of even a misdemeanor in a domestic-violence incident--ever--is prohibited from owning, carrying or transporting a gun. The law was widely praised then as a quick and easy way to curb an escalation of violent acts against wives and children--and if a cop got caught up, so be it. It also plugged a legal loophole; while felons were already barred from owning guns, most domestic-abuse cases are prosecuted as misdemeanors.