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Supreme Court remands torture lawsuit by ex-Guantanamo detainees

December 15, 2008 03:30:00 PM

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari, vacated, and remanded the case of Rasul v. Myers for further consideration in light of the Court's June decision...

March 27, 2008 11:54:00 AM

Journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal , convicted in 1982 of killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner after a traffic stop, may escape the death penalty after the US Court of Appeals...

January 11, 2008 01:01:00 PM

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday that four former Guantanamo Bay detainees do not have the right to sue high-ranking government officials for alleged torture and infringement...

April 21, 2006 01:06:00 PM

The appointment of Jamal Abu Samhadana , fugitive leader of the militant Popular Resistance Committees , as director general of the Palestinian Authority's Interior Ministry and head of a new Palestinian security force raised concerns Friday that...

December 12, 2005 03:54:00 PM

AP is reporting that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has refused to grant clemency to Crips gang co-founder and convicted murderer Stanley Tookie Williams , set to be executed just after midnight tonight. In denying clemency,...

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WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban

On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans. Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

Library of Congress created

On April 24, 1800, U.S. President John Adams approved $5,000 to fund the establishment of the U.S. Library of Congress.

Learn more about the history of the U.S. Library of Congress.