The highest court in Massachusetts has upheld the conviction for involuntary manslaughter of a teen-age girl who repeatedly urged her boyfriend to kill himself, saying the commonwealth has a "compelling interest in preserving life."
But the court said it was not ruling on assisted suicide in cases where there is a terminally ill patient, which is currently illegal in Massachusetts but is the subject of a court challenge and a bill in the state Legislature seeking to make it legal.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren listed herself as an "American Indian" in her own handwriting on a Texas Board of Bar Registration card in 1986 – about a year before she joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
It's the earliest public document that has surfaced showing Warren claiming American Indian ancestry.
