In the second day of her testimony regarding the phone hacking allegations at the now-closed News of the World tabloid, former editor and head Rebekah Brooks claimed she had no knowledge about payments made to a private detective to hack phones to gain front-page scoops for the newspaper, Bloomberg said.
Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum for Oregon said that the ban on recognizing same-sex marriages in the state could not always stand against a federal constitutional challenge under any standard of review, but stated that they would continue to enforce the statute.
The US government's latest statement about the violence in Ukraine indicated that the Obama administration could be drawing up an executive order to impose measures, which might include financial sanctions, on the Ukrainian government, said Voice of America.