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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee meets privately today with the county clerk from Kentucky now jailed for contempt of court over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. He'll also join protesters at a rally outside the jail where Rowan (ROW'-uhn) County Clerk Kim Davis is being held.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is streamlining the Catholic Church's annulment process by issuing a new law regulating how bishops around the world determine when a fundamental flaw has made a marriage invalid. The new rules provide for fast-track decisions and removing automatic appeals in a bid to speed up and simplify the procedure. Catholics must get an annulment if they want to remarry in the church. The process has long been criticized for being complicated, costly and out of reach.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's government is pledging redoubled efforts to stop a human wave of migrants from the Middle East and Africa, even as thousands of people seeking new lives in Europe entered the country today. Almost all of those passing through Hungary are hoping to reach Germany or other Western European countries with generous welfare benefits and open asylum regulations.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's government now says 14 policemen have been killed by a roadside bomb in the eastern part of the country. The bombing today came after Turkish jets carried out airstrikes against Kurdish rebels and their camps in northern Iraq. There's been a sharp escalation of violence between Turkey's security forces and the Kurdistan Workers' Party.
LONDON (AP) — From Britain comes word that the "Sock it to Me" girl from the "Laugh-In" comedy show has died. Star Judy Carne was 76. Newspaper reports say she had pneumonia. Carne shot to fame with the rise of "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," coining the famous phrase. She left the show in its third season and her acting career faltered as she became heavily involved with drugs, a phase described in her autobiography.
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