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Documents published by the US National Transportation Safety Board corroborated evidence of pilot errors as the cause of the crash of UPS' Airbus A300-600F plane in Birmingham, Alabama. The documents revealed that the pilots had been struggling to keep up with their nighttime work shifts, 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 ruling of US District Judge William Martini of Newark regarding the lawsuit filed against the New York Police Department over its surveillance programs said that the efforts were legal in order to thwart acts of terrorism that could befall on the state.