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News Myanmar extends house arrest for pro-democracy leader despite release calls
Myanmar extends house arrest for pro-democracy leader despite release calls
Holly Manges Jones
May 27, 2006 12:22:00 pm

The military government of Myanmar - formerly Burma - Saturday extended the house arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi for another year, according to a government source speaking to Reuters on...

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News Afghanistan parliament refuses to reinstate high court chief justice
Afghanistan parliament refuses to reinstate high court chief justice
Holly Manges Jones
May 27, 2006 11:55:00 am

The parliament of Afghanistan on Saturday voted against reappointing Chief Justice Fazel Hadi Shinwari to continue his lead post on the Afghanistan Supreme Court . Afghan President Hamid Karzai had recommended Shinwari to...

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News ‘Iraqi agent’ sentenced to 13 years in prison
‘Iraqi agent’ sentenced to 13 years in prison
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
May 27, 2006 11:54:00 am

A federal judge in Indianapolis sentenced an Indiana truck driver to 160 months in prison Friday for acting as an unregistered foreign agent and violating sanctions against Iraq. Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban, a Soviet-educated Palestinian Ph.D. who speaks...

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News California appeals court says shield law extends to online journalists in Apple case
California appeals court says shield law extends to online journalists in Apple case
Holly Manges Jones
May 27, 2006 11:31:00 am

A California appeals court ruled Friday that Apple Computer is not permitted to subpoena an Internet service for e-mail records in order to uncover the names of online reporters who leaked information about unreleased product...

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News Egypt protesters say tortured by police after peaceful demonstration
Egypt protesters say tortured by police after peaceful demonstration
Holly Manges Jones
May 27, 2006 10:52:00 am

Two Egyptian protesters were allegedly tortured and sexually assaulted by Egyptian police after a peaceful demonstration in favor of two judicial reformists who exposed alleged fraud in the country's election last year, according to one of the...

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News Gonzales threatened to quit if forced to turn over Jefferson office search evidence: NYT
Gonzales threatened to quit if forced to turn over Jefferson office search evidence: NYT
Holly Manges Jones
May 27, 2006 10:09:00 am

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, and FBI Director Robert Mueller were among a host of other government officials and prosecutors at the US Department of Justice who said they would...

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News Hastert, Frist cool constitutional confrontation with DOJ over office search
Hastert, Frist cool constitutional confrontation with DOJ over office search
Joshua Pantesco
May 26, 2006 03:27:00 pm

In the wake of public urging from President Bush, Congressional leaders Friday took steps to damp down a brewing constitutional conflict with the US Department of Justice over a weekend FBI search of the...

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News Marines may have murdered two dozen Iraqi civilians at Haditha: top DOD official
Marines may have murdered two dozen Iraqi civilians at Haditha: top DOD official
Joshua Pantesco
May 26, 2006 02:46:00 pm

An ongoing investigation into the November 2005 deaths of two dozen Iraqi civilians in the city of Haditha has yielded evidence indicating that the US Marines may have committed murders, according to a senior military officer speaking to AP...

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News Stewart to contest SEC insider trading charges
Stewart to contest SEC insider trading charges
Jaime Jansen
May 26, 2006 01:43:00 pm

Martha Stewart has opted to deny allegations of insider trading brought in a civil lawsuit by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rather than settle the charges. Stewart's Thursday response...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Judge orders TIME magazine to turn over documents in CIA leak case
BREAKING NEWS ~ Judge orders TIME magazine to turn over documents in CIA leak case
Joshua Pantesco
May 26, 2006 01:17:00 pm

AP is reporting that the federal judge in the CIA leak case against former Vice-Presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has granted part of Libby's request to issue subpoenas to TIME magazine and the New York Times...

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Massacre of hundreds of Jews ends in Lisbon, Portugal

An anti-Jewish pogrom known as the "Lisbon Massacre" came to an end on April 21, 1506. The killings started as the result of a "New Christian," who was forcibly converted from Judaism as a result of King Manuel I's 1497 Edict of Forced Conversion, questioning a purported miracle at the Church of Saint Dominic. At least 1,000 New Christians were killed as a result of the ensuing riots, spurred on by two friars.  Today a memorial to the massacre victims stands outside of the church. Learn more about the Lisbon Massacre.

Henry VIII becomes King of England

On April 21, 1509, King Henry VII died, leaving his son, Henry VIII, King of England. Henry VIII eventually seceded his nation from the Roman Catholic Church, becoming the first major European nation to do so. Henry then made himself head of the Church of England and dissolved Catholic monasteries throughout the country.

Learn more about Henry VIII.

Maryland Toleration Act established freedom of worship for all Christians

On April 21, 1649, the Maryland Assembly passed the Maryland Toleration Act, providing for freedom of worship for all Christians. The key section of the act read: And whereas the inforceing of the conscience in matters of Religion hath frequently fallen out to be of dangerous Consequence in those commonwealthes where it hath been practised, And for the more quiett and peaceable governement of this Province, and the better to preserve mutuall Love and amity amongst the Inhabitants thereof, Be it Therefore also by the Lord Proprietary with the advise and consent of this Assembly Ordeyned and enacted (except as in this present Act is before Declared and sett forth) that noe person or persons whatsoever within this Province, or the Islands, Ports, Harbors, Creekes, or havens thereunto belonging professing to beleive in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth bee any waies troubled, Molested or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof within this Province or the Islands thereunto belonging nor any way compelled to the beleife or exercise of any other Religion against his or her consent, soe as they be not unfaithfull to the Lord Proprietary, or molest or conspire against the civill Governement established or to bee established in this Province under him or his heires. Learn more about the Maryland Toleration Act.

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