Ginsburg: Justices won’t avoid gay marriage case
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court won’t duck the issue of same-sex marriage the next time a case comes to the court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says.
The 81-year-old Ginsburg said in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday that she expects a same-sex marriage case to be heard and decided by June 2016, and possibly a year earlier.
Attitudes have changed swiftly in favor of same-sex marriage, which is now legal in 19 states and the District of Columbia, Ginsburg said in her wood-paneled office on the court’s main floor.
Demoted executive kills firm’s CEO, himself
CHICAGO – A demoted executive shot and critically wounded his company’s CEO before fatally shooting himself Thursday inside a high-rise office building in downtown Chicago’s bustling financial district, police said.
The worker pulled a gun after entering the 17th-floor office to privately meet with the CEO, and during a struggle for the weapon, the CEO was shot in his head and abdomen, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said. The gunman then fatally shot himself.
The alleged gunman was later identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office as 60-year-old Anthony DeFrances.
Family asks U.S. to help North Korean detainee
SEATTLE – The family of an American tour guide who has been detained in North Korea for nearly two years says reports that he feels abandoned are devastating.
A pro-North Korea newspaper based in Japan published a new interview with Kenneth Bae in which he is quoted as saying that nothing seems to be happening in his case, and he feels abandoned.
Bae’s sister, Terri Chung, said Thursday that it was the first word the family has had of him since mid-April, and it was hard to hear.
She renewed her call for the White House to do whatever it can to free him.
Associated Press
