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News Gonzales says anti-terror drive preventing more spending on local law enforcement
Gonzales says anti-terror drive preventing more spending on local law enforcement
James M Yoch Jr
September 6, 2006 03:20:00 pm

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Tuesday identified increasing financial costs in the war on terrorism as the reason that additional federal funding for local and state law enforcement is not forthcoming. Mayors and police...

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News Bush confirms existence of secret CIA prisons for high-value terror detainees
Bush confirms existence of secret CIA prisons for high-value terror detainees
Jeannie Shawl
September 6, 2006 02:09:00 pm

US President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged that the US Central Intelligence Agency has operated secret prisons outside the US where high-value terror suspects were detained, and said that 14 of those suspects...

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News New US Army interrogation manual mandates Geneva rules
New US Army interrogation manual mandates Geneva rules
Jeannie Shawl
September 6, 2006 11:45:00 am

A new US Army Field Manual on intelligence interrogations released Wednesday specifies that the Geneva Conventions apply to all detainees and eliminates separate standards for the questioning...

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News Argentina  judge rules ‘Dirty War’ pardon for junta leader unconstitutional
Argentina judge rules ‘Dirty War’ pardon for junta leader unconstitutional
Joshua Pantesco
September 6, 2006 10:13:00 am

A federal judge in Argentina Tuesday ruled unconstitutional a presidential pardon extended to Jorge Rafael Videla , who prosecutors say led Argentina's military junta during the worst periods of the so-called "Dirty War" ...

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News Virginia appeals court upholds first US felony spam conviction
Virginia appeals court upholds first US felony spam conviction
Joshua Pantesco
September 6, 2006 09:38:00 am

The Court of Appeals of Virginia , the state's second-highest court, upheld the nation's first felony conviction for computer spamming on Tuesday, ruling that Virginia's anti-spamming statute does not violate the First Amendment or the so-called Dormant...

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News Mexico presidential challenger refuses to accept court-certified Calderon win
Mexico presidential challenger refuses to accept court-certified Calderon win
Jeannie Shawl
September 6, 2006 07:54:00 am

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador , the defeated Mexican presidential candidate, said Tuesday that he refused to recognize the officially-declared victory of president-elect Felipe Calderon and confirmed plans to...

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News Justice Kennedy back at work after weekend hospital procedure
Justice Kennedy back at work after weekend hospital procedure
Lisl Brunner
September 5, 2006 08:56:00 pm

US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy underwent a "routine" stent replacement procedure at Washington Hospital Center on Saturday after complaining of chest pains, spokesperson Kathy Arberg revealed in a Tuesday statement [via...

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Iran parliament approves draft law to keep out nuclear inspectors
Lisl Brunner
September 5, 2006 08:09:00 pm

The Iranian parliament on Tuesday approved a draft of a bill to bar inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from entering the country if the UN Security Council imposes...

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NYT researcher appeals China fraud sentence
Lisl Brunner
September 5, 2006 07:13:00 pm

New York Times researcher Zhao Yan is appealing the three-year prison sentence he received last week from a Beijing court that convicted him of fraud. Zhao was charged with accepting $2,500...

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Denmark charges seven in connection with alleged terror plot
Brett Murphy
September 5, 2006 05:25:00 pm

Danish police Tuesday charged seven men with planning a terror attack in the country after arresting them and two others in a raid on an Odense suburb populated largely by immigrants. Justice...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

House Judiciary Committee opened impeachment hearings against Richard Nixon

On May 9, 1974, the US House Judiciary Committee chaired by Rep. Peter Rodino (D-NJ) opened hearings into the possible impeachment of President Richard Nixon in connection with the Watergate scandal. The Committee voted to impeach Nixon on three counts on July 30. Chairman Rodino died in 2005 at his home in New Jersey. He was 95.

Australia Parliament opened

On May 9, 1901, the Parliament of Australia convened for the first time in Melbourne. The Australian Parliament also held its first meeting in the new capital of Canberra 26 years later on the same day 1927. Finally, on this day in 1988 Australian opened its new Parliament House in Canberra. Read the Constitution of Australia.

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