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News Texas appeals court to hear DeLay request for speedy trial
Texas appeals court to hear DeLay request for speedy trial
Joshua Pantesco
December 28, 2005 02:39:00 pm

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has agreed to hear arguments regarding the request of US Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) to speed up his money-laundering trial by either beginning the case immediately...

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News Turkish Foreign Minister says state slander laws could be changed
Turkish Foreign Minister says state slander laws could be changed
Joshua Pantesco
December 28, 2005 02:13:00 pm

Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said in a TV interview Wednesday that state slander laws used to prosecute Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk and implicated as recently as Tuesday in a possible prosecutorial probe of comments...

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News Padilla lawyers urge Supreme Court to review detention
Padilla lawyers urge Supreme Court to review detention
Joshua Pantesco
December 28, 2005 12:54:00 pm

Lawyers for so-called "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla have responded to the government's contention that Padilla's US Supreme Court appeal is moot and should be denied, insisting that his...

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News Toronto mayor assails US gun laws after fatal downtown shooting spree
Toronto mayor assails US gun laws after fatal downtown shooting spree
Joshua Pantesco
December 28, 2005 12:32:00 pm

After a fifteen year-old girl was killed and six bystanders were injured Monday in a random shooting spree on a busy downtown shopping street, Toronto Mayor David Miller said Tuesday that weak US gun laws are partly...

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News Rights group asks G8 to lobby Putin against restrictive NGO bill
Rights group asks G8 to lobby Putin against restrictive NGO bill
Joshua Pantesco
December 28, 2005 12:13:00 pm

Monitoring group Human Rights Watch Wednesday asked the G8 , the heads of government of the major industrial democracies, to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin not to sign a controversial bill that would create an oversight...

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News Defense lawyers to investigate illegal wiretaps in terror cases
Defense lawyers to investigate illegal wiretaps in terror cases
Kate Heneroty
December 28, 2005 11:42:00 am

Defense lawyers working on several high-profile terrorism cases plan to bring legal challenges to discover whether the National Security Agency (NSA) used illegal wiretaps against several dozen Muslims linked to Al Qaeda and whether...

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News Greece investigating London bombing suspects’ torture allegations
Greece investigating London bombing suspects’ torture allegations
Kate Heneroty
December 28, 2005 11:17:00 am

The Greek Ministry of Justice has begun investigating the alleged torture in Greece of 28 Pakistanis suspected of involvement in the July 7 London bombings following a lawsuit filed by the men against Greek...

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News Russian parliamentary commission blames police for Beslan school siege
Russian parliamentary commission blames police for Beslan school siege
Kate Heneroty
December 28, 2005 10:46:00 am

Alexander Torshin, the head of the Russian parliamentary commission investigating last year's Beslan school siege told the upper house of parliament Wednesday that despite their exoneration by prosecutors earlier this week,...

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News Ex-Enron chief accounting officer to testify against executives under plea agreement
Ex-Enron chief accounting officer to testify against executives under plea agreement
Kate Heneroty
December 28, 2005 09:56:00 am

Former Enron Chief Accounting Officer Richard Causey has reached a deal with prosecutors and is expected to plead guilty Wednesday to one or more criminal charges and a reduced prison sentence in exchange for his...

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News CIA investigating fewer than 10 ‘erroneous renditions’
CIA investigating fewer than 10 ‘erroneous renditions’
Kate Heneroty
December 28, 2005 09:12:00 am

CIA inspector general John Helgerson has launched an investigation into fewer than ten cases of possibly erroneous rendition , according to an intelligence official quoted by AP. In several cases it is believed that either...

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Roe v. Wade decided

On January 22, 1973, the US Supreme Court handed down its split decision in Roe v. Wade, liberalizing abortion.

Listen to the oral arguments from the Oyez Supreme Court multimedia project at Northwestern University and read the Justices' Opinions.

Cuba suspended from OAS

On January 22, 1962, the Organization of American States (OAS) suspended Cuba from the group, following a communist revolution in the island nation. The OAS voted to reinstate Cuba on June 3, 2009, but the Cuban government rejected the offer almost immediately.

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