- In a 55-22 vote, Brazil's Senate has voted to proceed with the impeachment trial of President Dilma Rouseff, meaning she will have to step aside as president while the trial proceeds.
- Louisiana will become the sixth state to pass a 72-hour waiting period before an abortion, Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards says he will sign the bill into law.
- The US will go ahead with activating a missile defense site in Poland, a move that the Kremlin says amounts to NATO military provocation.
- Italy will recognize same-sex unions after a multi-year battle in the country's parliament, as Prime Minister Matteo Renzi scores a major victory.
- A new report finds the Centers for Disease Control has been sanctioned multiple times for mishandling dangerous bioterror pathogens in labs.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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