Federal immigration Judge Leonard I. Shapiro in Boston, Massachusetts granted Onyango Obama, the uncle of the U.S. President, the permission to stay in the country, The Associated Press reported. The 69 yea old who has been in the U.S. illegally for decades "has gotten a federal court's OK to stay in his adopted country."
Newsweek magazine, which ceased publication in late 2012, plans to start back up again in January or February, according to its editor-in-chief Jim Impoco
A federal judge in New Orleans said he expected to seat a jury, which will hear the retrial of David Warren, the former police officer who shot and killed a man outside a strip mall after Hurricane Katrina
Ukraine's government held onto power after the opposition lost its attempt to topple the government by parliamentary means as a no-confidence vote failed by a substantial margin, Reuters reported. Protesters however, vowed to soldier on with their demonstrations, even as President Fedorovyc Yanukovich was not in the country.
