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News Canada anti-terror law discriminates against Muslims: lawyer for terror suspect
Canada anti-terror law discriminates against Muslims: lawyer for terror suspect
Jaime Jansen
July 11, 2006 01:56:00 pm

A lawyer representing one of 17 Canadians arrested on terror charges in June argued Monday in an Ontario court that Canada's anti-terror legislation discriminates because it focuses only on "brown" Muslim and Arab groups...

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News Bush renews call for Senate to pass line-item veto bill
Bush renews call for Senate to pass line-item veto bill
Joe Shaulis
July 11, 2006 01:48:00 pm

President Bush again urged the US Senate on Tuesday to pass legislation allowing him to use a line-item veto to weed out what the White House has labeled wasteful spending. In White House remarks...

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News EU court finds former France PM breached obligations while European Commissioner
EU court finds former France PM breached obligations while European Commissioner
Jaime Jansen
July 11, 2006 12:59:00 pm

The European Court of Justice Tuesday found former French prime minister Edith Cresson breached the obligations of her office by indulging in favoritism and abuse of office when she served as a...

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News Geneva Conventions Common Article 3 US compliance memo [US DOD]
Geneva Conventions Common Article 3 US compliance memo [US DOD]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
July 11, 2006 12:46:00 pm

Application of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions to the Treatment of Detainees in the Department of Defense, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England, July 7, 2006 [directing that all DOD personnel adhere to Article 3 standards on...

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News China offers non-binding UN resolution on North Korea after rejecting Japan proposal
China offers non-binding UN resolution on North Korea after rejecting Japan proposal
Jaime Jansen
July 11, 2006 12:05:00 pm

China has rejected a strongly worded UN Security Council official website] resolution responding to North Korea's missile launches earlier this month, instead proposing a mild resolution to encourage North Korea not to launch test-missiles....

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News Retired military officers criticize federal bench nomination of top DOD counsel
Retired military officers criticize federal bench nomination of top DOD counsel
Jaime Jansen
July 11, 2006 11:29:00 am

A group of twenty retired military officers has submitted a letter to the US Senate Judiciary Committee expressing "deep concern" about the fitness of William Haynes II , the current Pentagon general counsel,...

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News Former Khmer Rouge leader facing genocide probe leaves town at night
Former Khmer Rouge leader facing genocide probe leaves town at night
Jaime Jansen
July 11, 2006 10:08:00 am

Khieu Samphan , the former head of state of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime, left his home overnight and headed toward a neighboring province, just hours after prosecutors began compiling evidence against former Khmer...

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News Colorado legislature passes bill requiring proof of citizenship for public benefits
Colorado legislature passes bill requiring proof of citizenship for public benefits
Jaime Jansen
July 11, 2006 09:18:00 am

Colorado state lawmakers passed a bill Monday that will force residents receiving state or federal benefits to prove their citizenship in order to continue receiving aid, in what some are calling one of the toughest...

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News Saddam judge adjourns trial to resolve defense boycott
Saddam judge adjourns trial to resolve defense boycott
Jaime Jansen
July 11, 2006 08:57:00 am

Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman , presiding over the Saddam Hussein trial , on Tuesday adjourned the trial until July 24 in a bid to give Hussein and his lawyers time to return from a boycott of proceedings....

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News Killed Russian terrorist was mastermind behind Beslan plot
Killed Russian terrorist was mastermind behind Beslan plot
Jaime Jansen
July 11, 2006 08:50:00 am

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) killed the self-confessed mastermind of the 2004 Beslan school siege along with 12 other militants in an early morning special operation Monday, according...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US President William McKinley dies after shooting

US President William McKinley died on September 14, 1901, eight days after being shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Czolgosz was executed over McKinley's assassination on October 29, 1901. Read more about William McKinley.

Eugene Debs sentenced for opposing US entry into WWI

On September 14, 1918, socialist and labor activist Eugene Debs was sentenced to ten years in prison for violating the Espionage Act and opposing the entry of the United States into World War I. Incarcerated in the Atlanta Penitentiary, he was still there when he ran for President as the Socialist Party candidate in the 1920 election, receiving 919,799 votes. He was pardoned by President Warren Harding in December 1921. Learn more about Eugene Debs on the website of the Debs Foundation.

OPEC founded

On September 14 1960, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded in Baghdad, Iraq. OPEC was created to promote higher crude oil prices for its members through the restriction of global supply. Learn more about the history of OPEC.

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