A U.S. federal court gave a stay of execution on Wednesday to 85 sea lions slated to be killed starting Thursday to help boost salmon stocks below a dam between Washington and Oregon.
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A U.S. federal court gave a stay of execution on Wednesday to 85 sea lions slated to be killed starting Thursday to help boost salmon stocks below a dam between Washington and Oregon.

As state authorities began a second day of court-ordered DNA testing Tuesday on members of a polygamist sect, children were being moved to foster families, according to NBC reports.
In a landmark hearing on gun ownership, the Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to endorse the view that the Second Amendment gives individuals the right to own guns, but was less clear about whether to retain the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns.
For the first time in 70 years, the U.S. Supreme Court will take on the question of whether individual Americans have the right to keep and bear arms or whether it a collective right of the people for service in a state militia.
