Murder Charges: Three Oklahoma teenagers allegedly shot and killed an Australian collegiate baseball player because they were bored, prosecutors said Tuesday as they charged two of the boys with murder, the Associated Press reports.
Seeking Settlement: Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. will pursue a multibillion-dollar antitrust settlement with U.S. merchants over credit card fees even though opposition to the deal reached a level that would have allowed the card firms to walk away, Bloomberg reports.
Hoop Suit: University of Maryland basketball player Dez Wells filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Xavier University, his former school, and its president seeking to recover damages for his expulsion last summer amid sexual assault allegations, the Washington Post reports.
Manning Sentencing: Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier convicted of the biggest breach of classified data in the nation's history, will be told on Wednesday how much of his life will be spent in a military prison, Reuters reports.
FISA Judge: The newest appointee to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is Judge José A. Cabranes from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, a centrist Democratic appointee who is unlikely to be a liberal counterweight to conservatives on privacy rights, The New York Times reports.
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