Plan to divide California into six states fails to qualify for ballot
(Reuters) – A long-shot effort to break California into six separate states failed to collect enough signatures to put it on the November 2016 ballot, state officials said on Friday, as the group behind the plan criticized the rejection.
Colorado mistakenly sends valid driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants
DENVER (Reuters) – More than 500 illegal immigrants in Colorado mistakenly received driver’s licenses or photo identification cards intended for U.S. citizens because of a vendor’s printing error, the company and state officials said on Friday.
South Carolina congressman Mark Sanford calls off engagement
CHARLESTON S.C. (Reuters) – South Carolina congressman Mark Sanford called off his engagement to his Argentine “soul mate,” Maria Belen Chapur, in a lengthy Facebook post on Friday, citing an ongoing lawsuit with his ex-wife.
Obama says need to ‘snuff out’ militant groups like Islamic State
BALTIMORE (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Friday the goal of an international coalition he is helping to form is to “ultimately snuff out” the type of extremism demonstrated by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Appeals court gives temporary okay to Wisconsin voter ID law
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court in Chicago said on Friday that Wisconsin can implement its 2012 law requiring voters to present photo identification at the ballot box, allowing the state to put the new rules into effect at the general election…
U.S. uses state secrets law to intervene in Iran-related lawsuit
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government has moved to invoke a powerful national security law to dismiss a private lawsuit against a non-profit group, United Against A Nuclear Iran, on grounds that the case could reveal state secrets, according to a co…
U.S. judge orders Arizona to recognize gay couple’s marriage
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday ordered Arizona to recognize the California marriage of a gay man whose spouse died from cancer last month, a ruling that could foreshadow a decision on the state’s same-sex marriage ban.
Lawyers want 2,000 potential jurors called for Boston bombing trial
BOSTON (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors and attorneys for the accused Boston Marathon bomber asked a judge on Friday to call 2,000 potential jurors to be screened for his trial.
Foley family says was ‘threatened’ by U.S. official over ransom: ABC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The family of murdered American journalist James Foley says it was threatened by a U.S. official who warned that family members could be charged with supporting terrorism if they paid a ransom to his Islamist captors, ABC News re…
Support for death penalty hits 50-year low in California
(Reuters) – The majority of California voters still favor the death penalty as a form of punishment but support has dwindled to a 50-year low, according to a Field Poll released on Friday.
