Senate advances bill on insider trading
Congress is rushing to make it absolutely clear to everyone that its members are banned from insider stock trading, hoping to improve their sagging image.
Senators made the first move Monday. Their 93-2 procedural vote cleared the way for Senate passage — possibly later this week — of a bill that would require disclosure of stock transactions within 30 days and explicitly prohibit members of Congress from initiating trades based on non-public information they acquired in their official capacity.
Florida patrol defends interstate reopening
The Florida Highway Patrol said Monday that conditions were clear enough when they decided to reopen the interstate highway where 10 people later were killed in two deadly pileups amid thick smoke from a 62-acre brushfire and fog.
Yet after the highway reopened early Sunday morning, visibility along that section of Interstate 75 quickly began to deteriorate, spokesman Lt. Patrick Riordan said. The crashes began shortly after.
Veterans oppose West Point speaker
A veterans' advocacy group asked the Army chief of staff Monday to rescind a West Point prayer breakfast invitation to a retired general who made comments denigrating Islam.
VoteVets.org told Gen. Raymond Odierno in a letter that allowing retired Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin to speak at the U.S. Military Academy next week would be contrary to Army values and disrespectful to Muslim cadets.
India will continue to import Iranian oil
India has joined China in saying it will not cut back on oil imports from Iran, despite stiff new U.S. and European sanctions. India and China together accounted for 34 percent of Iran's oil exports from January to September 2011, slightly more than Europe, according to International Energy Agency data.
Hunger crisis looming in Sudan, officials say
The World Food Program estimates that as many as 500,000 people could be forced to flee Sudan if the government in Khartoum does not allow humanitarian aid into the country. A U.S. official said Monday that a humanitarian crisis is looming in a border region with South Sudan.
From wire reports
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