Laura Wagner

The political victory brings the 37-year-old, who had previously served in the Philippines' House of Representatives, ever closer to an eventual shot at the presidency.

The move has drawn criticism from Mexico's Catholic Church. But the church's opposition may not be much of an obstacle for Enrique Peña Nieto as he seeks the votes needed to amend the constitution.

"I heard a huge sound like a plane crashing into the earth," a villager said, according to The Associated Press. "I saw something like a huge fireball rolling down the mountain."

Even though it's mid-May, milder weather has yet to make its way up the 6,288-foot peak in New Hampshire.

The ruling is the latest development in a back-and-forth over the registration requirement, which supporters claim prevents voter fraud and opponents say is an effort to suppress voting rights.

After the retesting of samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics, dozens of athletes from six sports could be banned from the 2016 Games in Rio, the International Olympic Committee said.

Plains All American Pipeline company is facing 46 criminal counts after one of its pipelines ruptured last year, spilling crude oil that fouled miles of coastline near Santa Barbara.

"One-hundred-thousand orbits, the journey continues," NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams said in a video from space.

The drugmaker was the "last remaining open-market source of drugs used in executions," The New York Times reported. Other U.S. and European firms had already blocked drugs from use in executions.

The Republican said "most people had never heard of this issue" until recently. He also defended HB2, which requires transgender people to use public bathrooms that correspond with their sex at birth.