CHARGES POSSIBLY DROPPED AGAINST TECH ATHLETE, THE MANDATORY VOTING EFFECTS ON VIRGINIA, AND MOSQUE ATTACKS IN YEMEN KILL OVER ONE HUNDRED.

The charges against a Virginia Tech football player will be dropped. Tight-end Bucky Hodges has set several school records, but was arrested on February 8 after officers found him shouting outside of The Edge apartment complex. Hodges was charged with public intoxication. He was booked and then immediately released from Montgomery County Jail. Hodges’ charge of the class four misdemeanor will be dropped in six months as long as he has no more problems and agrees to complete 25 hours of community service.

A statement by President Obama on Wednesday alluding to mandatory voting is causing a national stir. While in Cleveland, the president spoke about the benefits of potential mandatory voting, although he announced no plan to actually implement it. In Virginia, there are about 6.5 million adults that are eligible to vote, but fewer people that are registered and only about 2.1 million what cast a ballot in the 2014 governor election. Experts say that, if mandatory voting were to ever be put in place in Virginia, the Democrats would have the upper hand. Hollins University Professor Dr. Jong Ra said that the most under-represented groups at polls are minorities, who generally tend to be more liberal. If the United States were to implement mandatory voting, they would join Australia and more than 20 other countries that already have it.

ISIS claims to be responsible for an attack on Yemeni mosques that killed over one hundred people. Early today, suicide bombers entered two mosques in Sana’a, Yemen, killing approximately 137 people and injuring another 300. A statement released by the ISIS claimed that the act was carried out by five bombers. The two mosques in Sana’a that were attacked were apparently frequented by members of a minority Shiite group. This group is followed by members of the Houthi militant group, which recently took control on Yemen’s capital. These attacked occurred two months after the Houthis took control and a day after fighting occurred between them and those loyal to the previous leader. Although ISIS has claimed responsibility for this incident, it cannot be concluded whether or not that is the truth.