House approves $800 billion increase to federal borrowing limit
The House passed the debt limit boost by 208 to 204 as White House and lawmakers edge toward a year end spending package totaling about $388 billion. Negotiators target a vote by late today with the government facing possible default while the cap rises to $8.18 trillion, about 70 percent of GDP and over $2.4 trillion higher than 2001.
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TV reporter convicted in contempt over FBI tape leak
Providence Rhode Island Jim Taricani a television reporter was convicted of criminal contempt for refusing to name the source of an FBI video showing a city official taking a bribe He could face up to six months in prison with sentencing set for December 9 by U S District Judge Ernest Torres Taricani 55 aired the tape but did not break any law a special prosecutor was appointed to identify the leaker in the federal corruption probe linked to former Mayor Vincent Buddy Cianci Jr administration
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Bomber Bobby Frank Cherry Dies in Prison at 74
Bobby Frank Cherry, convicted of the 1963 Birmingham Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing that killed four girls, died in Kilby Correctional Facility at age 74 after battling cancer. He was sentenced to life in prison in May 2002 for the racially motivated attack, a defining civil rights era crime.
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Murder charges filed in 2001 rapper slaying
Federal prosecutors filed murder charges in the 2001 killing of a rapper known as E Money Bags. Dennis Crosby and Nicole Brown face possible death penalty if convicted, with investigators linking the shooting to Queens drug kingpin Kenneth McGriff in a retaliation slaying.
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