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News European rights court asked to rule on Muhammad cartoons
European rights court asked to rule on Muhammad cartoons
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 9, 2006 04:50:00 pm

The European Court of Human Rights based in Strasbourg announced Thursday that it has received an application from French Muslims asking it to declare the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad ...

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News US defense officials deny imminent Abu Ghraib closure
US defense officials deny imminent Abu Ghraib closure
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 9, 2006 04:31:00 pm

US Defense Department officials said Thursday afternoon that reports originating from earlier statements by a military spokesman in Iraq that the US intended to close Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison within three months...

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News Tennessee Senate votes to remove abortion right from state constitution
Tennessee Senate votes to remove abortion right from state constitution
Tom Henry
March 9, 2006 04:26:00 pm

The Tennessee Senate on Thursday passed a bill to remove from Tennessee constitutional law any guarantees of a woman's right to abortion. The vote was 24-9. Under Tennessee law, both chambers of the...

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News Civil liberties groups seek to block domestic spying program
Civil liberties groups seek to block domestic spying program
Tom Henry
March 9, 2006 04:00:00 pm

In an extension of an earlier lawsuit , the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed motions in federal court...

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News Doctors condemn US force-feeding policy at Guantanamo Bay
Doctors condemn US force-feeding policy at Guantanamo Bay
Tom Henry
March 9, 2006 03:34:00 pm

In an open letter in the British medical journal Lancet , more than 250 doctors from seven countries have urged the US government to ensure that detainees at Guantanamo Bay are examined...

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News Iraq hangs 13 in first execution of insurgents
Iraq hangs 13 in first execution of insurgents
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 9, 2006 03:30:00 pm

An official of Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council has confirmed that Iraqi authorities executed 13 insurgents by hanging Thursday in Baghdad, the first official executions of insurgents carried out in the country since the restoration of the death penalty [JURIST...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Bush signs Patriot Act renewal
BREAKING NEWS ~ Bush signs Patriot Act renewal
Jeannie Shawl
March 9, 2006 03:12:00 pm

President Bush has signed legislation to renew the USA PATRIOT Act , making permanent several sunsetting provisions in the anti-terror law, extending two provisions until 2009, and incorporating a number of new rights...

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News Documents show former DOJ lawyer questioned legal rationale for spy program
Documents show former DOJ lawyer questioned legal rationale for spy program
Tom Henry
March 9, 2006 03:03:00 pm

Recently released documents reveal that former Associate Deputy Attorney General David S. Kris expressed reservations about the Bush administration's legal rationale for its warrantless domestic surveillance program . In an e-mail to an...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Dubai firm to transfer ports control to US entity: Warner
BREAKING NEWS ~ Dubai firm to transfer ports control to US entity: Warner
Jeannie Shawl
March 9, 2006 01:58:00 pm

CNN is reporting that US Sen. John Warner (R-VA) has said that Dubai Ports World has decided to transfer operation of six major US ports to a US entity. DP World, a government-owned company from...

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News Human Rights Record of the United States in 2005 [China State Council]
Human Rights Record of the United States in 2005 [China State Council]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
March 9, 2006 01:41:00 pm

Human Rights Record of the US in 2004, China State Council, March 8, 2006. Read the full report as reprinted in the Chinese government's People's Daily. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here....

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Memphis Massacre of 1866 breaks out

The Memphis Massacre of 1866 broke out on May 1 of that year after Black Union veterans and police were involved in an altercation surrounding the arrest of a Black soldier. The ensuing skirmish spiralled out of control due to the racial tensions that followed the end of the US Civil War, lasting for two days and claiming the lives of 46 Black people and six whites.  The riot later cemented support for what would become the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Consitution, ensuring equal protection under the law. Learn more about the Memphis Massacre.  

Acts of Union creates Great Britain

On May 1, 1707, the two Acts of Union went into effect, implementing the Treaty of Union and thereby uniting the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain. The Union with Scotland Act was passed by the Parliament of England in 1706, and the Scottish Parliament promulgated the Union with England Act. Learn more about the Acts of Union from the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

First US trade union formed

On May 1, 1794, the Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers (shoemakers) was organized in Philadelphia to negotiate wages for its members, becoming the first trade union in the United States. Learn more about the history of the labor movement in the United States, and visit the website of the AFL-CIO, the federation of America's labor unions, representing more than 13 million workers.

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