Five teenagers arrested for stealing Halloween candy (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? Five Virginia teenagers were charged with robbery and assault after they beat up two Halloween trick-or-treaters and stole their candy, Police said on Saturday.

The group allegedly surrounded two other teenagers, ages 15 and 17, as they were going door-to-door in a neighborhood in Dale City, Virginia, said Jonathan Perok, a spokesman for the Prince William County Police Department.

One of the teens said he had a handgun and demanded the trick-or-treaters turn over their Halloween loot. The pair refused and the group assaulted them, police said, adding the assault resulted in minor injuries.

"Robberies are not unusual, but these are kids," Perok said.

Of the five arrested, four were juveniles aged between 16 and 17, and were not identified. Andre Diggs, 19, was also arrested and is being held without bond.

Prince William County is located roughly 35 miles southwest of Washington, D.C.

(Reporting by Roy Strom; Editing by Greg McCune)

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White House rebuffs subpoena on failed solar firm (AP)

Associated Press ? The White House is strongly rebuffing a subpoena from House Republicans seeking all communications about a failed solar panel manufacturer that received a half-billion dollar federal loan guarantee.

In a letter to two top Republicans on the House energy panel, White House Counsel Kathy Ruemmler says partisan politics is driving the request.

The White House has already turned over 85,000 pages of documents on Solyndra. The company filed for bankruptcy and laid off 1,100 workers after receiving $528 million in federal backing.

Ruemmler said those documents show no wrongdoing or political favoritism by the administration.

House Republicans have used Solyndra to highlight what they see as President Barack Obama's failure to create jobs.

On Thursday, the panel voted on party lines to issue the subpoena, calling the White House "obstructionist."

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Senate to block competing infrastructure plans

President Barack Obama speaks in front of the Key Bridge, which spans Arlington, Va. and Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011, urging Congress to pass the infrastructure piece of the American Jobs Act. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Barack Obama speaks in front of the Key Bridge, which spans Arlington, Va. and Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011, urging Congress to pass the infrastructure piece of the American Jobs Act. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

(AP) ? President Barack Obama's campaign-style drive for another batch of economic stimulus spending is facing defeat yet again at the hands of Republicans in the Senate.

This time it's Obama's $60 billion plan for infrastructure jobs that is expected to fall victim to a GOP filibuster Thursday. In votes last month, Republicans blocked Obama's entire $447 billion jobs package and a subsequent attempt to pass a $35 billion piece of it aimed at preventing layoffs of teachers and firefighters.

In turn, the president's Democratic allies are likely to block a competing GOP plan that would extend existing highway and transit spending programs, accompanied by a $40 billion cut in unspent funding for other domestic programs.

Despite repeated losses, Democrats seem to think they've found a winning issue in pressing popular ideas from Obama's poll-tested jobs package. Republicans say the president is more interested in picking political fights with them than seeking compromise, but they also are sensitive to criticism that they're blocking jobs legislation.

Obama made the case for the infrastructure measure Wednesday, standing at a Potomac River bridge, in a speech aimed at pressuring Republicans to back him.

"Members of Congress who do, who vote no, are going to have to explain why to their constituencies," Obama said. "The American people are with me with this. And it's time for folks running around spending all their time talking about what's wrong with America to spend some time rolling up their sleeves to help us make it right."

He also tried to shame the Republican-controlled House by accusing its leaders of wasting time during a jobs crisis with debates over commemorative baseball coins and reaffirming "In God We Trust" as the country's motto. The House has refused to consider Obama's jobs bill.

"That's not putting people back to work," Obama said. "I trust in God, but God wants to see us help ourselves by putting people back to work. There's work to be done. There are workers ready to do it. The American people are behind this."

But Republicans are expected to unanimously oppose Obama because his legislation is financed by a tax surcharge on income exceeding $1 million.

The legislation would provide an immediate $50 billion investment in roads, bridges, airports and transit systems. It also would establish a $10 billion bank to leverage private and public capital for longer-term infrastructure projects.

The measure would be financed by a 0.7 percent surcharge on income over $1 million.

After Obama's full $447 billion jobs bill was filibustered to death last month, the White House immediately announced it would seek votes on component pieces. That's a way to exert political pressure on Republicans sensitive about their own jobs agenda, which so far has centered on relaxing regulations. Those moves are proving equally futile.

Obama last week uncorked a "We Can't Wait" initiative that relies on executive authority rather than legislation from a bitterly divided Congress to help homeowners refinance "underwater" homes and give borrowers relief from their student loans.

Meanwhile, House GOP leaders are casting blame on the Senate for failing to act on 16 "forgotten" jobs bills, including a measure to repeal a law requiring federal, state and many local governments to withhold 3 percent of their payments to contractors until their taxes are paid.

On Thursday, the House is poised to approve bipartisan legislation to remove a Securities and Exchange Commission ban that prevents small, privately held companies from using advertisements to solicit investors. The SEC ban, says bill sponsor Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., unfairly limits the ability of small companies to raise capital.

"While the president is out doing campaign events all over the country, what he could do is to actually come to Washington and be focused on trying to help pass bills that would create a better environment for job creation and help put the American people back to work," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said.

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Prince Charles told to reveal environmental info (AP)

LONDON ? Prince Charles must lift the veil of secrecy covering his lucrative 700-year-old royal estate and answer public requests for environmental information, a British tribunal has ruled.

The First-Tier Tribunal on information rights said Thursday that Charles' 136,000-acre (55,000-hectare) estate ? the Duchy of Cornwall ? must abide by some of the same regulations followed by other government bodies.

The ruling stems from a demand for information made by environmental activist Michael Bruton, who was concerned over the Duchy's oyster farming plans in Port Navas, a protected area of salt meadows and mudflats about 300 miles (480 kilometers) southwest of London.

The prince had argued that the estate is effectively a private inheritance and should be exempt from disclosing the information.

Judge John Angel acknowledged that the estate had a "historical context which is complicated and possibly unique" but ruled that it was a public authority for the purpose of environmental information regulations, which work like freedom of information laws for environmental issues.

Prince Charles' office said it was still considering whether to appeal the judgment. Bruton could not immediately be reached for comment and there was no immediate response from his group, Port Navas Quay Preservation.

The Duchy of Cornwall was created in 1337 by Edward III for his son and heir, Prince Edward, in a bid to provide him and future heirs to the throne an income from its assets.

The land is broken up over 23 counties and includes residential and business properties besides agricultural tracts. The largest chunk is in Dartmoor, in southwest England, where farmers rear cattle and sheep. It also includes the Isles of Scilly, just off the coast, which are known for their flower farming.

The duchy earned Charles almost 18 million pounds ($29 million) last year. The bulk of the money is used to fund the prince's travels and his charity work; the rest is for Charles to keep.

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AP Exclusive: BCS discounted chances of WH action

(AP) ? The head of the Bowl Championship Series told college and university presidents that the Obama administration was unlikely to challenge the legality of its selection process ? and argued that even if the system were to be found illegal, so would a playoff.

Bill Hancock, the BCS executive director, made the assurance in a Feb. 4, 2010, memo to the group's presidential oversight committee after the Obama administration said it was considering several steps to review the legality of the BCS. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the memo from a state open records request filed with Western Kentucky University, whose president, Gary Ransdell, serves on the oversight committee.

Hancock's memo offers some insight into the thinking of those who run the top tier of college football's postseason and are charged with setting up a No. 1 vs. No. 2 national title game. He wrote it in response to a Jan. 29, 2010, letter the Justice Department sent to Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican and BCS critic who had asked for a DOJ investigation to determine if the BCS violated antitrust laws.

Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich told Hatch in that letter the department was reviewing his request and other materials to determine whether to open such an investigation, and was considering other options such as asking the Federal Trade Commission to review the legality of the BCS under consumer protection laws.

But Hancock told the school presidents that a government investigation was unlikely.

"Given all the other issues facing our country, we find it doubtful that the White House is seriously considering contemplating action on the series of items outlined in the letter," wrote Hancock, who said he had discussed the DOJ letter with BCS advisers in Washington.

The Justice Department declined to comment on the BCS memo.

The government's interest in the BCS has continued this year. In May, the DOJ's top antitrust official sent a letter to NCAA President Mark Emmert asking why there was no playoff at college football's highest level, saying that "serious questions continue to arise suggesting the current Bowl Championship Series system may not be conducted consistent with the competition principles expressed in the federal antitrust laws."

Two days later, the BCS pushed back, issuing a news release titled, "WHAT THEY'RE SAYING: About Government Intervention in College Football." It included a sampling of commentators criticizing the idea of the Justice Department poking around on the issue.

In an email obtained by the AP under a Freedom of Information Act request with Northern Illinois University, the school's president, John Peters, forwarded the news release to a colleague with the note, "Take that DOJ." Peters is a member of the presidential oversight committee.

Emmert responded to the Justice Department that its questions were best directed at the BCS, and the DOJ later called Hancock in for a voluntary meeting with 10 officials from the department's antitrust division in Washington. To date, the department has not launched an investigation. In addition to the DOJ review, the Utah attorney general, Mark Shurtleff, has said he plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against the BCS.

Critics and playoff proponents who have urged the Justice Department to investigate the BCS contend it unfairly gives some schools preferential access to the title game and other premier bowls ? along with the money that comes with it. Under the BCS, the champions of six conferences have automatic bids to play in top-tier bowl games; the other five conferences don't.

Hancock and other supporters of the BCS, which was established in 1998, say the system has improved access to the bowls for those other five conferences, and has benefited all schools that play college football.

In last year's memo, Hancock wrote that the BCS attorneys "have advised that in the unlikely event that the conferences' creation of the BCS were to be considered unlawful, it is probable that any other such arrangement ? including a playoff ? also would be unlawful. Based on conversations with many university presidents, we believe the likely outcome of a finding against the BCS would be a return to the old bowl system which was built upon individually negotiated agreements between conferences and bowls."

In 2008, before he was sworn in as president, Barack Obama said that he was going to "to throw my weight around a little bit" to nudge college football toward a playoff system. Hancock referenced the president's public comments on a playoff, but said that the Justice Department letter "is consistent with his spoken preferences as a fan; it is not indicative of a government that intends to take action."

In a recent interview, Hancock said his 2010 memo still reflects his views on the issue. He stressed that he was writing hypothetically when discussing what would happen if the BCS were to be struck down: "We feel strongly that the BCS system does comply with the law, so the topic is moot."

Nebraska Chancellor Harvey Perlman, who was chairman of the presidential oversight committee at the time of the memo, said he couldn't conceive of a system in which everyone had an equal chance to participate in the postseason.

"If you had a plus-one, does that change the environment very much? No," he said, referring to what amounts to a four-team playoff. "Is it a 16-team playoff, is it a 32-team-playofff?"

No matter what system is devised, he said, some schools and conferences are "not going to have as competitive a chance as others ? I mean that's just the reality of the world."

Perlman added that the logic behind concluding a playoff system would be equally suspect under antitrust laws is simple. "If it was held that it's illegal for us to get together (to create the BCS), it's hard to see how getting together to create a playoff wouldn't reach the same result," he said.

But sports antitrust experts contacted by the AP challenged that conclusion.

"I don't think that's true at all," said Gary Roberts, dean of the Indiana University Law School in Indianapolis. "I think you could craft a playoff system that would not have many of the anticompetitive aspects to it that the current BCS system has." Roberts added that the question of whether the BCS could pass antitrust muster is "extraordinarily complicated," and it's difficult to predict how an antitrust case would be resolved in court.

Matt Mitten, a law professor and director of the National Sports Law Institute at Marquette University in Milwaukee, said that what makes the BCS legally vulnerable is that some conferences have preferential access to the BCS bowl games over other conferences.

"That's the thing that makes it a potential antitrust violation," he said. "Not simply because there is an agreement to try to come up with a championship game. The antitrust laws don't prevent colleges from getting together and trying to devise a means to create a national championship game that consumers want. It's only when it unreasonably restrains trade."

Gabe Feldman, a law professor and director of the Sports Law Program at Tulane University Law School, said the key antitrust question for the BCS is whether there is a fairer way to crown a national champion.

"To the extent that a playoff system is more inclusive and is less likely to create a system of haves and have-nots, it's more likely to survive antitrust scrutiny," he said.

But Feldman cautioned that it's hard to predict how the BCS would fare in an antitrust challenge.

Matthew Sanderson, co-founder of Playoff PAC, which seeks to pressure college football to switch to a playoff, said that Hancock was trying to "present a false choice ? the BCS or nothing. But we all know better."

The current chairman of the BCS presidential oversight committee, Penn State President Graham Spanier, said even if it was determined that a playoff system was more inclusive than the current system, college presidents still wouldn't switch.

"We're not going to have a playoff," he said. "I chair the oversight committee for the BCS, and I represent the Big Ten Conference, and I've been on the BCS board and its predecessor organizations from the beginning. There has never been any sentiment whatsoever for a playoff ... If we didn't have the BCS, you would see a movement back to a more traditional bowl system."

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China completes first space docking test (Reuters)

BEIJING (Reuters) ? China successfully carried out its first docking exercise on Thursday between two unmanned spacecraft, a key test of the rising power's plans to secure a long-term manned foothold in space.

The Shenzhou 8 spacecraft joined the Tiangong (Heavenly Palace) 1 module about 340 km (211 miles) above Earth, in a maneuver carried live on state television.

The 10.5 meter-long unmanned Tiangong, launched on September 29, is part of China's preparations for a space laboratory at some point in the future.

Premier Wen Jiabao and other senior leaders oversaw the operation from a command center in Beijing, a measure of the importance the government attaches to this mission and to China's space ambitions in general.

"China is now equipped with the basic technology and capacity required for the construction of a space station," chief designer Zhou Jianping was quoted as saying by the official Xinhua news agency.

"This will make it possible for China to carry out space exploration on a larger scale," he added.

Rendezvous and docking exercises between the two vessels are an important aspect of China's efforts to acquire the technological and logistical skills needed to run a full space lab that can house astronauts for long periods.

The next stage will be two similar docking exercises in 2012, with at least one carrying astronauts, a spokeswoman for China's space program said on Monday.

China aims to have a fully fledged space station by about 2020.

"The planned Chinese space station will be open to global scientists," Xinhua said. "(A) foreign presence might also be welcomed aboard Chinese spacecraft in the future."

Beijing is still far from catching up with the established space superpowers: the United States and Russia. The Tiangong 1 is a trial module, not the building block of a space station.

But the docking mission is the latest show of China's growing prowess in space, alongside its growing military and diplomatic presence -- at a time when budget restraints and shifting priorities have held back U.S. manned space launches.

Russia, the United States and other countries jointly operate the 400 ton International Space Station, to which China does not belong. But the United States will not test a new rocket to take people into space until 2017, and Russia has said manned missions are no longer a priority.

China launched its first manned space mission in 2003 when astronaut Yang Liwei orbited Earth 14 times. It launched its second moon orbiter last year after becoming only the third country to send its astronauts walking in space outside their orbiting craft in 2008.

Beijing also plans an unmanned moon landing and deployment of a moon rover in 2012. Scientists have raised the possibility of sending a man to the moon after 2020.

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Tim Pearce)

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Lindsay Lohan returns to court, may return to jail (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? Lindsay Lohan returns to court Wednesday to learn whether a judge will agree with a prosecutor advocating that the actress be returned to jail for failing to complete a community service assignment at a women's shelter.

Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner revoked Lohan's probation at a hearing nearly two weeks ago, but now must formally determine whether Lohan violated the terms of her sentence. The judge has asked prosecutors to calculate how long of a jail term the actress would have to serve if she is formally found in violation of her probation for misdemeanor drunken driving and theft cases.

Sautner, who is the fifth judge that Lohan has faced since her first arrest in 2007, has expressed exasperation with the actress and California's budget-strapped jail system.

"If jail meant something in the state of California now, maybe I'd put her in jail," Sautner said at Lohan's last court appearance.

The Los Angeles City Attorney's Office is advocating jail time for the actress, however spokesman Frank Mateljan declined to say Tuesday what sentence a prosecutor would seek.

Lohan's spokesman, Steve Honig, declined comment before the hearing.

The "Mean Girls" star has been reporting to the Los Angeles morgue regularly, which Sautner ordered her to do at the last court appearance. The judge had sentenced Lohan to serve 120 hours doing janitorial work at coroner's office in April, but expressed hope that the actress would benefit from working three times that amount of hours at a women's shelter.

Lohan, 25, was terminated from the shelter program after failing to show up nine times at the center. She told her probation officer the assignment was not fulfilling, according to the actress' probation report.

The actress' morgue service has not been without drama ? she was turned away the first day after showing up 40 minutes late. She has shown up early several times since then. Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter declined to characterize how Lohan's service was progressing Tuesday.

There are few, if any, untried punishment options if Sautner determines Lohan violated her orders. The former Disney star has been sent to jail, rehab, counseling and community service numerous times since being arrested twice for drunken driving in 2007. Her probation on that case is nearly over, but her release remains supervised after Lohan in May pleaded no contest to misdemeanor theft for taking a $2,500 necklace without permission in January.

Once a headlining actress, Lohan's court and personal troubles have overshadowed her career for years.

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