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- The United Steelworkers Union and Royal Dutch Shell negotiate a contract, pending union ratification, to end of a six-week strike that began February 1 that has affected twelve U.S. refineries. Previously, the strike had been cited as a reason for recent oil price increases. (AP)
- In New York City, U.S. district court judge Thomas Griesa expands the force of his existing remedial rulings in the ongoing litigation over the Argentine debt restructuring, blocking planned bond payments by Citigroup. The Citigroup processing of payments would violate a requirement that Argentina treat bondholders equally. (Reuters)
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- US Treasury deputy inspector general for tax administration Timothy Camus testifies before the Senate Finance Committee that, since 2013, criminals pretending to be IRS tax agents contacted more than 366,000 people with harassing phone calls demanding payments and threatening prosecution and incarceration in the largest scam of its kind in the history of the agency. More than 3,000 people were duped out of a total of $15.5 million, with victims in almost every state. Federal investigators believe there is more than one group of perpetrators, including some overseas. Currently, two people in Florida have been arrested, accused of being part of a scam that involved people in call centers in India contacting U.S. taxpayers. Immigrants were the primary target early on. The callers can manipulate caller ID to make it look like they are calling from an IRS phone number. They might even know the last four digits of the taxpayer's Social Security number. (AP)
- US state of California Judge Thomas M. Goethals recuses the Orange County district attorney's office from the case of a convicted mass killer, 45-year-old former tugboat operator Scott Dekraai, who has already pleaded guilty to killing his ex-wife and seven others during the October 12, 2011 shooting rampage at a Seal Beach hair salon and turns over further prosecution of the case to the California attorney general's office after finding that sheriff's deputies had lied on the witness stand or withheld information about the misuse of jailhouse informants utilized to gather evidence for prosecutors. The ruling deals a blow to prosecutors' efforts to impose the death penalty. Defense attorneys also wanted the possibility of the death penalty thrown out but the judge refused. (AP)
- The anti-graft agency of the Communist Party of China (CCFDI) investigates former Urumqi party chief Li Zhi. He is the first official investigated from Xinjiang since the campaign began in 2013. (SCMP)
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