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Puerto Rican Orlando Cruz, the first openly-gay professional boxer in history, proposed to his partner on Wednesday via Facebook.
The United States Government formally asked Mexican authorities to re-arrest Rafael Caro Quintero on Wednesday, the Mexican drug kingpin who was unexpectedly freed from prison in the state of Jalisco on a technicality at 2.AM. last Friday.
The New Mexico Supreme Court on Monday ruled unanimously that prospective jurors cannot be dismissed from a case because of their inability to speak English. The ruling comes in response to an appeal case made by Michael Anthony Samora, an Albuquerque man who was convicted for a crime spree in 2004 that included the murder of his girlfriend, an armed robbery, and a further stabbing.
Smoke comes before fire, and lighting, apparently, comes before smoke.
Senator Marco Rubio (R - Florida) has taken to the airwaves to urge the House of Representatives to push the immigration bill through after the Congressional recess of August, stating that if they don't, Democratic President Barack Obama may just find a way to issue the law by executive order.
Chris Simcox, staunch activist against illegal immigration, was arrested and charged with child molestation in Phoenix in Wednesday for sexually abusing three girls under ten.
Protests in Brazil gathered in intensity over the weekend, and on Monday night over 200,000 protesters took to the streets in major Brazilian cities from Rio de Janiero to Sao Paulo and the capital of Brasilia in what is quickly becoming the largest anti-government movement since the nation turned away from military dictatorship towards democracy in 1985.
But what's causing the unrest? Like with any large-scale protest, the reasons are multiple and evolving, however a few common themes have emerged.
Pope Francis blessed 35,000 Harley Davidson riders at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican on Sunday, in commemoration of the 110th anniversary of the motorcycle.
The Supreme Court struck down an Arizona law on Monday that would have required Arizonans to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote.
Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, remains at the Ecuadorian embassy in Knightsbridge, England after British and Ecuadorian officials met and were unable to come to consensus on how to handle the journalist's case.
A group of armed men entered a prison in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero on Sunday, killing two guards and wounding another while setting nine prisoners free in a daring jailbreak. For the southwestern coastal state, it was the latest in a string of incidents.
Australian Marathon Swimmer Chloe McCardel failed in an attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida across the Florida Strait 11 hours into her 60-hour journey, after being stung repeatedly by jellyfish.
Top security aides are concerned that Edward Snowden, the Ex-CIA whistleblower that leaked classified documents about the NSA's PRISM program, may be thinking about defecting to China, ABC News reports.
Brazil-based Condor Non-Lethal Technologies SA confirmed that it sold the tear gas that Turkish security forces are using against their own people in the 2013 protests that have rocked Istanbul and other cities, adding that the gas is "specifically designed to temporarily incapacitate people without causing them permanent damage or death".
Mexican-American Sebastien de La Cruz came back to sing the National Anthem in Game 4 of the NBA Finals, one game after a racist backlash to his rendition for when he filled in for a late Darius Rucker at Game 3.
