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News Former Enron executives scheduled for retrial
Former Enron executives scheduled for retrial
Abigail Salisbury
May 13, 2008 08:49:00 pm

US District Court Judge Vanessa Gilmore ordered retrials for three former Enron Broadband Services executives Monday. Scheduled to begin in November, the new series of trials follows a refusal by the US Court of...

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News ICTY transfers Bosnian Croat war criminal to Italy prison
ICTY transfers Bosnian Croat war criminal to Italy prison
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 13, 2008 03:46:00 pm

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said Tuesday that it has transferred a former Bosnian Croat military commander who was convicted of war crimes related to the forced relocation...

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News Pakistan court clears Bhutto widower of smuggling charges
Pakistan court clears Bhutto widower of smuggling charges
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 13, 2008 03:15:00 pm

A Pakistani court Tuesday cleared Pakistan People's Party leader Asif Ali Zardari of charges that he smuggled antiquities out of the country following the ouster of his now-late wife former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto...

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News Northern Kosovo courts in legal limbo after independence: judges group
Northern Kosovo courts in legal limbo after independence: judges group
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 13, 2008 02:02:00 pm

Courts in Kosovo's northern districts have been left in legal limbo since the Assembly of Kosovo's February unilateral declaration of Kosovo's independence from Serbia, the Steering Council of the Kosovo Judges' Association said Monday. The Council...

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News Federal judge dismisses lawsuit by Muslim woman asked to remove veil in court
Federal judge dismisses lawsuit by Muslim woman asked to remove veil in court
Mike Rosen-Molina
May 13, 2008 01:08:00 pm

A federal judge Monday dismissed a federal lawsuit filed by a Muslim woman against a judge who asked her to remove her niqab in court. Ginnnah Muhammad had alleged that Illinois small claims Judge...

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News Ex-officials condemn ineffectiveness of US anti-corruption effort in Iraq
Ex-officials condemn ineffectiveness of US anti-corruption effort in Iraq
Andrew Gilmore
May 13, 2008 01:00:00 pm

Two former State Department officials lambasted the Bush administration for ineffectiveness in combating corruption in Iraq in a hearing Monday before the US Senate Democratic Policy Committee . Retired Associate Superior Court Judge Arthur Brennan, who...

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News Omagh bombing civil trial moves to Ireland for testimony
Omagh bombing civil trial moves to Ireland for testimony
Andrew Gilmore
May 13, 2008 12:26:00 pm

A British civil lawsuit against members of the Real IRA alleged to have been involved with the 1998 Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland opened in a Dublin court Monday. The trial, which began [JURIST...

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News Schwarzenegger nixes California mass prisoner release: report
Schwarzenegger nixes California mass prisoner release: report
Devin Montgomery
May 13, 2008 12:25:00 pm

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has abandoned a 2007 plan to release approximately 22,000 "lower risk" prisoners who have less than 20 months of their sentences remaining, according to a Tuesday report in the Sacramento Bee. The proposal...

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News Vietnam journalists arrested after reporting on corruption scandal
Vietnam journalists arrested after reporting on corruption scandal
Andrew Gilmore
May 13, 2008 11:46:00 am

Two Vietnamese journalists, Nguyen Van Hai of Tuoi Tre news agency and Nguyen Viet Chien of Thanh Nien news agency , were arrested Monday by Vietnamese authorities and charged with abuse of power in...

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News Colombia extradites ex-paramilitary leaders to face US drug charges
Colombia extradites ex-paramilitary leaders to face US drug charges
Devin Montgomery
May 13, 2008 11:21:00 am

Colombia Tuesday extradited 14 former militia leaders suspected of organizing violent massacres and drug smuggling operations to the United States to face drug trafficking charges. The guerrilla leaders had surrendered to Colombian authorities under a peace...

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28 countries unite against Axis Powers

On January 2, 1942, twenty-eight countries formally agreed not to make peace with the Axis Powers separately. At the time, all twenty-eight were fighting against the Axis as Allies in World War II. The agreement was part of the Declaration by the United Nations, signed the previous day. In December of 1941, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt referred to this group of allies as the "United Nations."

US government agents arrested thousands in Palmer raids

On January 2, 1920, over 500 government agents acting on the direction of US Attorney General Mitchell Palmer carried out a massive counter-terror operation in 33 US cities, arresting between six and ten thousand aliens suspected of Communism, radicalism and anarchism. The "Palmer Raids" and the detentions and deportation proceedings that followed them were denounced by a number of prominent lawyers and judges who later established the American Civil Liberties Union. Read an excerpt from Attorney General Palmer's 1920 article, The Case Against the 'Reds' and learn more about the Palmer Raids and the Red Scare of 1919-20.

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