- Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old woman suffering from terminal
cancer, committed
assisted suicide this weekend in Oregon with a lethal dose
of prescription drugs. - Audio recordings reveal that the Federal Aviation
Administration’s 12-day ban on flights over Ferguson, Missouri, was
intended—at least by local authorities—to
keep news helicopters from witnessing and covering events
there. - It will all be over soon, but one more time for kicks: Weekend
polling numbers show Republican candidates with a slight lead
over Democrats in several of the more contested U.S. Senate
races. - J/K!, it never ends: Runoff elections are
looking likely in Georgia and Louisiana, which means “Who will
control the Senate?” might not actually be answerable until
2015. - Meanwhile, in eastern Ukraine, Pro-Russian separatist
Alexander Zakharchenko has been elected “head of the Donetsk
People’s Republic”—a vote Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko
denounced as a “farce”. - The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments today
concerning the passports of American citizens born in
Jerusalem. - Canada has officially
joined in on bombing ISIS. - Meet Texas’
wacky roster of third-party gubernatorial candidates.
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