Ginsburg explains nap during Obama speech: ‘I wasn’t 100 percent sober’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says there was a good reason she nodded off while attending President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address last month: “I wasn’t 100 percent sober.”
Majority of Alabama counties issuing marriage licenses to gay couples
(Reuters) – Officials in 24 Alabama counties began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Friday, gay rights advocates said, a day after a U.S. judge ordered one local official to issue licenses to gay couples in accordance with an earlier ru…
California has three new measles cases, Arizona says outbreak winding down
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California public health officials have confirmed three more cases of measles in an outbreak that began in late December, bringing to 113 the total number of people believed to have been infected in the state.
Illinois comptroller refuses to implement anti-union order
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Illinois’ comptroller will not implement an anti-union executive order issued by the state’s new Republican governor earlier this week, the state’s attorney general’s office said on Friday.
Oregon man admits helping people linked to Pakistan suicide bombing
(Reuters) – An Oregon man pleaded guilty on Friday to being an accessory after the fact for helping people linked to a suicide bomb attack on the headquarters of Pakistan’s intelligence service in 2009 that killed about 30 people, court records showed….
Obama denounces ‘outrageous murders’ of three U.S. Muslims
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday described the deaths of three young Muslims gunned down in North Carolina this week as “brutal and outrageous murders” and said no one in the United States should be targeted for the…
Ex-U.S. soldier ‘Rambo’ pleads guilty in murder-for-hire case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former U.S. soldier accused of recruiting an international team of military-trained snipers to carry out contract killings for a drug cartel pleaded guilty in New York federal court on Friday.
Gay couple sues to force Indiana to name both on son’s birth record
(Reuters) – A married same-sex couple on Friday asked a federal court to force Indiana state and county officials to name both of the women as parents on their newborn son’s birth certificate.
Majority of Alabama counties issuing marriage licenses to gay couples
(Reuters) – Officials in 24 Alabama counties began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Friday, gay rights advocates said, a day after a U.S. judge ordered one local official to issue licenses to gay couples in accordance with an earlier ru…
Ohio man arrested in shooting deaths of three at barbershop
CLEVELAND (Reuters) – An Ohio man was arrested on Friday for shooting and killing three other men at a suburban Cleveland barbershop last week, officials said.
