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News Gonzales aware of FBI privacy violations before Patriot Act testimony: WP report
Gonzales aware of FBI privacy violations before Patriot Act testimony: WP report
Michael Sung
July 10, 2007 11:31:00 am

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales received reports that the FBI had improperly used national security letters (NSL) prior to testifying before Congress in 2005 that "there has not been...

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News Former Milberg Weiss partner pleads guilty to conspiracy
Former Milberg Weiss partner pleads guilty to conspiracy
Michael Sung
July 10, 2007 10:56:00 am

David J. Bershad , former name partner at leading class action law firm Milberg Weiss , pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to obstruct justice in a plot in which Milberg Weiss allegedly paid up to...

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News US Marines court-martial begins in Hamdania Iraqi civilian murder case
US Marines court-martial begins in Hamdania Iraqi civilian murder case
Michael Sung
July 10, 2007 10:15:00 am

The court-martial of US Marine Corps Cpl. Trent D. Thomas for his alleged role in the 2006 kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania began Monday, with the prosecutor asking...

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News US Privacy Act to protect EU citizens under new passenger data-sharing agreement
US Privacy Act to protect EU citizens under new passenger data-sharing agreement
Michael Sung
July 10, 2007 09:23:00 am

EU Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security Franco Frattini told the European Parliament Monday that protections afforded under the US Privacy Act will extend to European Union citizens as a part of a new airline passenger...

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News Thailand high court to hear corruption charges against ex-PM
Thailand high court to hear corruption charges against ex-PM
Michael Sung
July 10, 2007 08:41:00 am

The Thai Supreme Court agreed to hear corruption charges against former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra Tuesday, scheduling the first hearing for August 14 and ordering the exiled Thaksin and his wife Pojamarn...

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News China executes former drug safety commissioner for taking bribes
China executes former drug safety commissioner for taking bribes
Michael Sung
July 10, 2007 08:00:00 am

Zheng Xiaoyu, former commissioner of China's State Food and Drug Administration was executed Tuesday, as the Supreme People's Court denied Zheng's appeal for leniency. The court sanctioned Zheng's execution, saying that Zheng's acceptance...

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News Germany minister publicly mulls targeted killings, indeterminate terror detentions
Germany minister publicly mulls targeted killings, indeterminate terror detentions
Caitlin Price
July 9, 2007 08:33:00 pm

German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said it was imperative not to underplay the gravity of terrorist threats and raised the possibility of "targeted killings" of terror suspects like Osama Bin Laden and...

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News Former Alaska lawmaker convicted of bribery, corruption
Former Alaska lawmaker convicted of bribery, corruption
Caitlin Price
July 9, 2007 07:53:00 pm

Former Alaska state Representative Tom Anderson was convicted Monday on seven counts of bribery and corruption by an Anchorage federal jury. Anderson, a Republican, was accused of accepting nearly $26,000 he believed to be from private correctional...

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News Iran police arrest 20 accused of spying for ‘enemy’
Iran police arrest 20 accused of spying for ‘enemy’
Caitlin Price
July 9, 2007 07:12:00 pm

Iranian police arrested twenty people near the Iraqi border on suspicion of participating in an international spy ring, according to state news agency IRNA Monday. The arrests come several months after the Iranian government first...

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News Former Zambia president challenges $58M fine imposed by UK court
Former Zambia president challenges $58M fine imposed by UK court
Gabriel Haboubi
July 9, 2007 04:00:00 pm

Former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba Monday challenged the $58 million (USD) fine imposed upon him last month by a London judge, asking a Zambian court to throw out the fine because the UK...

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President Lincoln signs Naitonal Banking Act into law

On February 26, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the National Banking Act into law, creating the American banking charter system. The Act furthermore created the Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC) within the Treasury Department. The law was further intended to help raise money for the Civil War by pressing banks to buy federal as opposed to state bonds. The law was not as successful as intended in this regard and was soon replaced by the National Banking Act of 1864. Read the history of the OCC from the US Department of the Treasury.

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On February 26, 1924, Adolf Hitler and several others were put on trial for treason in Munich in connection with an attempted coup. Learn more about the Munich (or "Beer Hall") Putsch and the subsequent trial of Hitler and his associates.

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