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News US House bill introduced to help shield reporters
US House bill introduced to help shield reporters
Jeannie Shawl
February 2, 2005 02:16:00 pm

A bill seeking to impose stricter standards on federal courts before they can issue subpoenas to reporters was introduced in the US House Wednesday. According to Congressman Mike Pence , the Free Flow...

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Jeannie Shawl
February 2, 2005 01:26:00 pm

The New York Stock Exchange released a previously confidential report Wednesday that provides details of former Chairman Richard Grasso's compensation package. New York Supreme Court Justice Charles Ramos ruled last week that the so-called Webb...

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News Kansas house ready to approve amendment to ban same-sex marriage
Kansas house ready to approve amendment to ban same-sex marriage
Jeannie Shawl
February 2, 2005 01:19:00 pm

The Kansas House of Representatives has given its preliminary approval to a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage and would prohibit the state from allowing civil unions or granting benefits normally associated with...

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EU supports UN plan to try Sudan war criminals at ICC
Jeannie Shawl
February 2, 2005 12:46:00 pm

A European Union spokesperson said Wednesday that the EU supports the UN proposal to try those suspected of committing war crimes in Darfur at the International Criminal...

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Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
February 2, 2005 11:13:00 am

Federal appeals judge Michael Chertoff told a Senate committee Wednesday that if he were confirmed as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security he would balance "the imperatives of security with the preservation of liberty...

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D. Wes Rist
February 2, 2005 10:53:00 am

Outgoing US Attorney General John Ashcroft took some parting shots Tuesday at a recent Supreme Court sentencing ruling and at critics opposed to renewal of the Patriot Act. Addressing a staunchly conservative crowd at...

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American Bar Association asks Bush for torture probe
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February 2, 2005 10:39:00 am

The American Bar Association has called on President Bush to launch an independent investigation into "hundreds of alleged incidents of torture, even including murder, practiced against Iraqi civilians in U.S. military custody." In a letter to the President Tuesday,...

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Another Abu Ghraib guard pleads guilty
D. Wes Rist
February 2, 2005 09:40:00 am

A second guard charged in the torture of inmates at Abu Ghraib pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges and was sentenced to prison time. Specialist Roman Krol, a Russian-born US citizen serving as an interrogator for...

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Thousands turned away from Iraq polls due to lack of ballots
Jeannie Shawl
February 2, 2005 08:30:00 am

Iraqi interim President Ghazi al-Yawer has said that tens of thousands of would-be voters were unable to vote in the Iraqi elections because several polling places, including those in Baghdad, Basra and Najaf ran...

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February 2, 2005 07:45:00 am

Bosnian officials have asked the US government to hand over six men detained at Guantanamo Bay after families of the men staged a protest in Sarajevo . The six, all Algerians, were arrested in October 2001 on...

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Standard Oil incorporated

On January 10, 1870, John Davison Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil. Rockefeller's corporation would grow to achieve a virtual monopoly over oil production in the United States. Standard Oil's dominance lasted until the corporation was split into 34 separate companies in 1911 after the Supreme Court found the company in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The rise of Standard Oil made Rockefeller America's first billionaire and eventually the richest man in the world. Read the text of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey vs. United States, 221 U.S. 1 (1910).

League of Nations established

On January 10, 1920, the League of Nations was formally established as the Treaty of Versailles entered into force. Review the Covenant of the League of Nations and a full League of Nations timeline.

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