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News Schumer, Feinstein support for Mukasey could push nominee through committee
Schumer, Feinstein support for Mukasey could push nominee through committee
Mike Rosen-Molina
November 2, 2007 05:00:00 pm

US senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Ca) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Friday that they would support the nomination of Michael Mukasey as US attorney general, according to preliminary reports. Their endorsements in combination...

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News Federal judge rules Rice, other US officials must testify in AIPAC espionage case
Federal judge rules Rice, other US officials must testify in AIPAC espionage case
Eric Firkel
November 2, 2007 04:30:00 pm

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other senior administration officials must testify about whether they shared classified national defense information with two American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobbyists, a federal judge ruled [opinion,...

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News FCC files Supreme Court appeal in expletives case
FCC files Supreme Court appeal in expletives case
Josh Camson
November 2, 2007 04:27:00 pm

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Friday asked the US Supreme Court to review a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York vacating an FCC determination [FCC...

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News UN rights panel condemns Algeria for continuing violations
UN rights panel condemns Algeria for continuing violations
Eric Firkel
November 2, 2007 03:31:00 pm

The UN Human Rights Committee expressed concern Friday over continuing human rights violations in Algeria. In its 2007 report on the North African country, the Committee flagged massacres, torture, rape and...

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News ICJ schedules hearings in France-Djibouti dispute over  judge’s death
ICJ schedules hearings in France-Djibouti dispute over judge’s death
Josh Camson
November 2, 2007 02:55:00 pm

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague announced Friday that hearings in a case involving France and Djibouti will begin January 21, 2008. The dispute between the two countries...

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News Israel lobbyists spying case testimony ruling [US DC]
Israel lobbyists spying case testimony ruling [US DC]
November 2, 2007 02:33:00 pm

United States of America v. Steven J. Rosen, and Keith Weissman, US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, November 2, 2007 [ruling that US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other senior administration officials must testify whether they...

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News Amnesty urges no transfer of genocide suspects to Rwanda
Amnesty urges no transfer of genocide suspects to Rwanda
Patrick Porter
November 2, 2007 02:17:00 pm

Amnesty International Friday urged governments worldwide not to transfer genocide suspects to Rwanda until fair trials there can be guaranteed. The human rights group is concerned about the Rwandan justice system's fairness and impartiality with respect to...

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News Pakistan Supreme Court to rule on Musharraf presidential bid within days
Pakistan Supreme Court to rule on Musharraf presidential bid within days
Katerina Ossenova
November 2, 2007 02:07:00 pm

The Supreme Court of Pakistan judge presiding over the case challenging the legality of President Pervez Musharraf's re-election bid said Friday that the court will move ahead with hearings and will likely issue a verdict by November...

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News Leahy to vote against AG nominee Mukasey
Leahy to vote against AG nominee Mukasey
Mike Rosen-Molina
November 2, 2007 02:06:00 pm

US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said Friday that he will not support the nomination of Michael Mukasey as US attorney general, citing Mukasey's continuing reluctance to unequivocally denounce waterboarding...

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News French charity workers to stand trial in Chad for allegedly kidnapping 103 children
French charity workers to stand trial in Chad for allegedly kidnapping 103 children
Katerina Ossenova
November 2, 2007 01:31:00 pm

The Chad Supreme Court ruled Friday that a group of European citizens connected to the attempt by French charity Zoe's Arc to fly 103 children believed to be orphans from the...

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Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, murdered by Henry II's knights

On December 29, 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by knights acting in the name of Henry II.

Becket and Henry had been entangled in a power struggle over, among other things, criminal jurisdiction over clergy. Read a contemporary account of the murder of Thomas Becket.

Texas attains US statehood

On December 29, 1845, Texas became the twenty-eighth state to join the United States of America when US President James K. Polk signed the Ordinance of Annexation. Texas had a complicated path to statehood because it had formerly been part of Mexico and then an independent republic. The US Congress passed the Annexation of the Republic of Texas Joint Resolution on March 1, 1845. Voters in Texas then approved the Ordinance of Annexation in October, before it was approved by the US Congress and signed into law by President Polk on this day in 1845. The US Supreme Court later ruled in Texas v. White that, despite its unique path to statehood, Texas did not have the right to secede from the union.

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