Chief Justice Roy Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court said in an opinion dissenting from most of his colleagues on the all-Republican court that the state’s secretary of state should have been required to determine whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States and qualified to be on state ballot in 2012.
Pope Francis delivered his most forceful denunciation yet of organized crime at a Roman church, warning mobsters they will go to hell if they don’t repent and renounce their “bloodstained money and bloodstained power.”
Jack McMahon, the lawyer for Kermit Gosnell, the abortion provider convicted of killing babies who were born alive, said at a law school seminar in Delaware that he thinks regular inspections at his client’s Philadelphia clinic would’ve kept him from going so far astray.
Amar Kaleka, 35, a Wisconsin Democrat mounting a long-shot bid to unseat Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, said he used medical marijuana in California on his doctor’s advice after his father was killed by a white supremacist at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee in 2012.
James “Whitey” Bulger, 84, the convicted Boston gangster who was determined by court officials to be indigent after his 16 years as a fugitive, has run up a defense bill of more than $3 million, according to documents filed in federal court.Michael Anthony Brown, a registered sex offender, was arrested at his home in Concord, N.C., accused of sucking on a woman’s toes at a Wal-Mart after convincing her that he was a podiatry student.
Ruhakana Rugunda, Uganda’s health minister, said the government has lost up to $6 million in annual U.S. government support because of the East African country’s new anti-gay law, which sets a life term for those convicted of engaging in gay sex.
David Manning, 36, a Monroe, La., man convicted of multiple drug charges, hit the courtroom wall after the jury issued its verdict, breaking his hand.
Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., said as he faces re-election this fall that the Affordable Care Act isn’t perfect but has benefited many, including his own family, explaining that his 23-year-old daughter was able to stay on the family health plan and that he was happy with the coverage and savings he got by purchasing a plan on the state health-insurance exchange.
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