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News Federal bill would require pharmacists to fill contraception prescriptions
Federal bill would require pharmacists to fill contraception prescriptions
Russell Adkins
April 14, 2005 09:11:00 pm

In response to recent refusals by some pharmacists objecting on moral grounds to filling prescriptions for emergency contraceptives or birth control pills, federal legislators unveiled a draft bill on Thursday that would require pharmacies to fill all prescriptions,...

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News Chirac tries to salvage EU constitution vote in TV town hall meeting
Chirac tries to salvage EU constitution vote in TV town hall meeting
Russell Adkins
April 14, 2005 08:43:00 pm

Fighting off a barrage of opposition to the agreement, French President Jacques Chirac embarked Thursday on a campaign to save the proposed European Union constitution from defeat in an upcoming national referendum. With the anti-treaty...

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News Chinese court bars evidence obtained through torture
Chinese court bars evidence obtained through torture
Russell Adkins
April 14, 2005 07:55:00 pm

A provincial appeals court has issued what is reported to be China's first ruling that confessions obtained by coercion, torture, or trickery cannot be used in court, and while defense attorneys hailed the decision as an important step toward...

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News Criminal complaint re: representing Iraq in oil-for-food kickback deals [FBI]
Criminal complaint re: representing Iraq in oil-for-food kickback deals [FBI]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 14, 2005 04:36:00 pm

United States v. Tongsun Park, United States District Court Southern District of New York, unsealed April 14, 2005 [accusing Park of accepting millions of dollars from the Iraqi government while operating in the US as an unregistered agent for Saddam...

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News Indictment for oil-for-food kickbacks to Iraq [US DOJ]
Indictment for oil-for-food kickbacks to Iraq [US DOJ]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 14, 2005 04:17:00 pm

United States v. David Chalmers at al., United States District Court Southern District of New York, April 14, 2005 [charging Texas businessman David Chalmers and others with participating in a scheme to pay millions of dollars in secret kickbacks to...

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News Federal judge strikes down FDA ephedra ban
Federal judge strikes down FDA ephedra ban
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 14, 2005 04:06:00 pm

A federal judge in Utah has struck down the Food and Drug Administration ban on the weight-loss supplement ephedra, pulled off the market by the FDA in April 2004 after it was found to be linked...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ US House passes bankruptcy bill
BREAKING NEWS ~ US House passes bankruptcy bill
Jeannie Shawl
April 14, 2005 03:43:00 pm

AP is reporting that the US House has approved the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 by a vote of 302-126 . The legislation, designed to make it harder for those in...

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News New murder charges filed against former Yukos security chief
New murder charges filed against former Yukos security chief
Jeannie Shawl
April 14, 2005 03:17:00 pm

Russian prosecutors filed new murder charges Thursday against former Yukos security chief Alexei Pichugin . Last month, Pichugin was convicted of organizing a double murder and was sentenced to 20 years in jail...

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News Federal Election Commission dismisses Nader, Swift Boat complaints
Federal Election Commission dismisses Nader, Swift Boat complaints
Amit Patel
April 14, 2005 02:40:00 pm

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has dismissed three complaints from the 2004 presidential race involving Ralph Nader and the anti-John Kerry group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth . The three complaints include one alleging...

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News US marshals, DOJ arrest 10,000 fugitives in nationwide sweep
US marshals, DOJ arrest 10,000 fugitives in nationwide sweep
Amit Patel
April 14, 2005 02:23:00 pm

The Justice Department in conjunction with the US Marshals Office announced Thursday that more than 10,000 fugitives, many wanted for violent crimes, were arrested over the last week as part of a coordinated nationwide effort led by...

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Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, murdered by Henry II's knights

On December 29, 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by knights acting in the name of Henry II.

Becket and Henry had been entangled in a power struggle over, among other things, criminal jurisdiction over clergy. Read a contemporary account of the murder of Thomas Becket.

Texas attains US statehood

On December 29, 1845, Texas became the twenty-eighth state to join the United States of America when US President James K. Polk signed the Ordinance of Annexation. Texas had a complicated path to statehood because it had formerly been part of Mexico and then an independent republic. The US Congress passed the Annexation of the Republic of Texas Joint Resolution on March 1, 1845. Voters in Texas then approved the Ordinance of Annexation in October, before it was approved by the US Congress and signed into law by President Polk on this day in 1845. The US Supreme Court later ruled in Texas v. White that, despite its unique path to statehood, Texas did not have the right to secede from the union.

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