Exit polls suggest that voters in the Republic of Ireland have voted about two-to-one to allow abortion.
Abortion has been illegal in Ireland since long before most of the island achieved independence in 1922. A 1983 amendment to the republic's constitution guaranteed the right to life for unborn babies.
A New Hampshire judge set aside state guidelines to allow lawyers who represented two girls who suffered horrific sex abuse while under the care of the state's social-services agency to get 40 percent of the settlement instead of the recommended 25 percent.
The judge found that the lawyers took on a high-risk case and earned essentially no money from it for four years and did an outstanding job with it, meriting a 40 percent contingency-fee payout worth $2.7 million, according to The Union Leader.
