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NEW YORK (AP) — The powerful House Ways and Means Committee has been ordered to appear in federal court along with key staffer Brian Sutter. A federal judge in Manhattan says the committee must show why it should not be ordered to produce documents demanded by the Securities and Exchange Commission in May. The SEC says the committee and Sutter refused to comply.
SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) — A San Francisco congresswoman wants to do to electronic cigarettes what was done to tobacco many years ago. Rep. Jackie Speier unveiled legislation yesterday that would regulate e-cigarettes just like tobacco and accused the industry of targeting children and teenagers with its marketing with flavors like gummy bear, cotton candy, and chocolate cake.
DETROIT (AP) — The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has voted to approves divestiture as a protest against the way Israel treats the Palestinians. The General Assembly vote was narrow, 310-303, to sell church stock in three companies whose products Israel uses in the occupied territories. A Jewish advocacy group calls it hatred of Israel, but the assembly also affirmed Israel's right to exist.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nation's chief says nearly half of Syria's population now need urgent help in a worsening humanitarian situation. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says 10.8 million people need help and up to 4.7 million live in areas that are difficult or impossible for humanitarian workers to reach.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Colorado officials say they don't think drinking water was affected by a crude oil storage tank spill into a northern river. Todd Hartman of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources says the bank where the storage tank sat next to the river was undercut by the high spring river flows, causing it to drop and break a valve. Cleanup crews are on the job.
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