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News French, Germany, Polish leaders push for French "yes" vote on EU constitution
French, Germany, Polish leaders push for French "yes" vote on EU constitution
Jamie Sterling
May 19, 2005 04:18:00 pm

The leaders of French, Germany, and Poland banded together Thursday in defense of the EU Constitution just ten days before the French vote on the document. French President Jacques Chirac, German Chancellor Gerard Schroeder, and Polish President Aleksander...

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News Hedge-fund operators must pay settlement for illegal stock trading
Hedge-fund operators must pay settlement for illegal stock trading
Jamie Sterling
May 19, 2005 03:09:00 pm

Three hedge-fund managers must pay $2.4M to settle charges that the companies used illegal stock trading tactics to profit off 22 other companies. Galleon Management LP, Oaktree Capital Management LLC and DB Investment Managers Inc. were alleged by the...

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News Suspect faces 61 new charges for 1998 Omagh bombing
Suspect faces 61 new charges for 1998 Omagh bombing
Jamie Sterling
May 19, 2005 02:57:00 pm

Real IRA member Sean Gerard Hoey faces 61 new charges connected to the 1998 Omagh bombing which killed 29 people and injured over 300. Hoey was already faced murder charges for his involvement...

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News Cuban anti-Castro militant charged for entering US illegally
Cuban anti-Castro militant charged for entering US illegally
Jamie Sterling
May 19, 2005 02:34:00 pm

Anti-Castro Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles was been charged by US immigration officials Thursday with illegally entering the country. Carriles, wanted in Venezuela and Cuba for his alleged connection to a 1976 bombing of a Cuban...

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News Ohio high court declines to punish lawyers for filing claim against 2004 election
Ohio high court declines to punish lawyers for filing claim against 2004 election
Jamie Sterling
May 19, 2005 02:04:00 pm

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the four lawyers who filed a claim citing widespread fraud in the 2004 presidential election should not be punished. Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro had attempted to file...

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News Prosecutors oppose provisional release for former Kosovo PM
Prosecutors oppose provisional release for former Kosovo PM
Jamie Sterling
May 19, 2005 01:39:00 pm

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Thursday announced their opposition to a provisional release of Kosovo's former prime minister, Ramush Haradinaj, pending trial. Albanian Haradinaj, who had pleaded not guilty on...

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News Jury selected for ex-professor’s terrorism trial
Jury selected for ex-professor’s terrorism trial
David Shucosky
May 19, 2005 11:23:00 am

Lawyers Thursday finalized a pool of 12 jurors and 10 alternates for the trial of former University of South Florida computer science professor and Palestinian human right activist Sami Al-Arian ...

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News Suspect in Russian school hostage-taking pleads not guilty
Suspect in Russian school hostage-taking pleads not guilty
David Shucosky
May 19, 2005 10:44:00 am

The alleged sole survivor of a group responsible for the Beslan school hostage crisis which last September led to the deaths of 344 people, including at least 172 children, pleaded not guilty Thursday in a Russian court...

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News Second Lynndie England Article 32 hearing set for next week
Second Lynndie England Article 32 hearing set for next week
David Shucosky
May 19, 2005 10:37:00 am

Pfc. Lynndie England will be back in court next week for a second Article 32 hearing in advance of a possible new trial at Fort Hood . Earlier this month a judge threw out...

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News FBI: violent environmental, animal rights groups top domestic terror threat
FBI: violent environmental, animal rights groups top domestic terror threat
David Shucosky
May 19, 2005 10:00:00 am

Testifying before the US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee , FBI Deputy Assistant Director for Counterterrorism John Lewis said at a hearing Wednesday that environmental and animal rights groups that have turned to arson...

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Germany surrenders unconditionally, ending WWII in Europe

On May 7, 1945, General Gustav Jodl, on behalf of Germany, signed an unconditional surrender, effectively ending World War II in Europe. The surrender was formally accepted by the Allied Powers the next day, May 8, which came to be known as Victory in Europe (VE) Day.

Read World War II legal documents, treaties, and declarations from the Avalon Project at the Yale University School of Law.

27th Amendment to US Constitution ratified

On May 7, 1992, the Twenty-seventh Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, barring Congress from granting its members pay raises in the middle of terms. The Amendment had initially been proposed in 1789 by James Madison, but only became law after a grass-roots campaign in the 1980s against "excessive" Congressional privileges. Learn more about the Twenty-seventh Amendment.

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