The New York City Council voted 43-8 to ban the use of e-cigarettes in restaurants, bars, city parks and any other places where smoking is already not allowed
President Barack Obama addressed a litany of topics in his year-end press conference on Friday, CNN reported. As if this was the worst year of his presidency, Obama said there have been many successes. "Among those are an increase in wireless capacities in classrooms, a manufacturing hub in Youngstown, Ohio, that will "build on the renaissance we're seeing in manufacturing" and the fact that the U.S. is "producing more oil and natural gas in this country than we're importing,"
Actor-activist Sean Penn told The Associated Press in an email on Tuesday that Jacob Ostreicher, the New York businessman held in Bolivia since 2011, was safe and receiving medical care in an undisclosed location in the United States
The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday struck down all current restrictions, "including bans on brothels and on street solicitation, declaring the laws were unconstitutional because they violated prostitutes' safety."
