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News Ex-White House media strategist warns Saddam trial could "easily backfire" for US
Ex-White House media strategist warns Saddam trial could "easily backfire" for US
David Shucosky
June 30, 2005 10:29:00 am

Robert Weiner, a former public affairs aide in the Clinton White House and now head of a Washington, DC media relations firm , said in an op-ed in Thursday's Boston Globe that the upcoming trial of Saddam...

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News AMD takes Intel antitrust case to Japan, public
AMD takes Intel antitrust case to Japan, public
David Shucosky
June 30, 2005 10:08:00 am

Just days after filing a federal antitrust lawsuit against rival Intel, Advanced Micro Designs (AMD) has filed two similar suits against Intel in Japan. The company announced Thursday that its Japanese arm,...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Ebbers to forfeit personal assets in civil settlement
BREAKING NEWS ~ Ebbers to forfeit personal assets in civil settlement
David Shucosky
June 30, 2005 09:43:00 am

Wire services are reporting that former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers , convicted of fraud in March for his part in an $11 billion accounting scandal, will forfeit as much as $45 million worth of personal...

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News TIME to turn over reporter’s notes
TIME to turn over reporter’s notes
David Shucosky
June 30, 2005 09:42:00 am

TIME magazine said in a statement Thursday that it will turn over notes by reporter Matthew Cooper to a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's name despite Cooper's own willingness to go to jail rather than...

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News Sudan justice minister rejects Darfur extradition calls
Sudan justice minister rejects Darfur extradition calls
David Shucosky
June 30, 2005 08:49:00 am

Ali Mohammed Osman Yassin, Sudan's justice minister, has rejected calls for the extradition of 10 suspects to face charges for war crimes in Darfur before the the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Yassin said the men...

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News DOJ: No prosecution of Shell Oil for reserves overstatement
DOJ: No prosecution of Shell Oil for reserves overstatement
David Shucosky
June 30, 2005 08:38:00 am

The US Justice Department has officially ended its probe into Royal Dutch/Shell Group , announcing on Wednesday that it will not prosecute the company for overstating gas and oil reserves . Shell had previously settled civil investigations...

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News Spain legalizes same-sex marriage
Spain legalizes same-sex marriage
David Shucosky
June 30, 2005 08:05:00 am

Despite being voted down in the Senate , the Spanish parliament on Thursday passed a law legalizing same-sex marriage and allowing same-sex couples to adopt and inherit each other's property. Read the text of the...

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WMD Executive Order [White House]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
June 29, 2005 07:57:00 pm

Executive Order blocking property of weapons of mass destruction proliferators and their supporters, President George W. Bush, June 29, 2005 . Read the full text of the...

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News Federal jury convicts East St. Louis Democrats of election fraud
Federal jury convicts East St. Louis Democrats of election fraud
Alexandria Samuel
June 29, 2005 07:47:00 pm

A federal jury Wednesday convicted five East St. Louis (Illinois) Democratic Party officials on charges of felony conspiracy to commit vote fraud, and election fraud in the November 2004 election. Charles Powell Jr., the local Democratic...

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News US Justice Department assails city use of Patriot Act against homeless man
US Justice Department assails city use of Patriot Act against homeless man
Alexandria Samuel
June 29, 2005 07:24:00 pm

The US Justice Department Wednesday called a city invocation of the Patriot Act as a defense in a suit by a homeless man an "overreaching application of the law." Summit, New Jersey cited the act in...

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First Chief Justice of the United States commissioned

On September 26, 1789, John Jay was commissioned as the first Chief Justice of the United States following his confirmation by the Senate.

Violent protesters arrested at international economic summit

On September 26, 2000, police in Prague scuffled with and arrested dozens of violent protesters who were attempting to disrupt the G-20 economic summit taking place there. Despite hurling stones and Molotov cocktails at security forces, the activists failed to prevent meetings as they did in Seattle during the 1999 G-20 conference.

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