5 Colorado Counties Vote Yes on Secession

Eleven Colorado counties voted on Tuesday whether or not they wished their county officials to officially investigate seceding from Colorado.

Ten of the counties were considering forming a new state, to be called Northern Colorado, while the other would've moved towards switching to Wyoming.

The vote failed to pass in Elbert, Lincoln, Logan, Sedgwick, Moffat, and Weld counties.

However, it did pass in Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Phillips, Washington, and Yuma.

Those five counties will now actively begin exploring their options and move towards an actual secession vote, to be held in the future.

Any successful secession would have to be approved by the Colorado legislature and the US Congress, making it unlikely that a fifty-first state will come out of this.

The vote does make clear how unhappy with things that those counties are.

6 Police Officers Killed by Suicide Bomber in Iraq

A suicide bomber struck in Baquba, Iraq, on Wednesday.

He drove an oil tanker into a police station and exploded the truck.

Six police officers were killed and dozens injures, in the attack.

That number could go up, as some of the injuries are quite severe.

Witnesses said that the police saw the truck coming and attempted to shoot the driver, but were unsuccessful in stopping him.

No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing.

1 Killed as 7 Bombs Strike Communist Party Building in China

A series of explosions shook Taiyuan, China, on Wednesday.

Seven explosions struck outside of the Communist Party building.

One person was killed and eighty were injured, in the blasts.

Witnesses used cell phones to capture pictures of the smoke emanating from the blast area.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

The target more than suggests a political motivation, behind the bombings.