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News Bush signs new executive order to reform US intelligence agencies
Bush signs new executive order to reform US intelligence agencies
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 31, 2008 02:30:00 pm

US President George W. Bush issued an executive order on Thursday which gives the country's Director of National Intelligence the authority to coordinate information sharing between different US and foreign intelligence services, a duty previously...

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News Federal judge rejects White House privilege claims in Miers subpoena case
Federal judge rejects White House privilege claims in Miers subpoena case
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 31, 2008 01:31:00 pm

A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia Thursday rejected arguments that senior White House officials are protected from congressional subpoena by executive privilege, ruling that former White House legal...

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News Federal appeals court grants full rehearing of Nacchio insider trading case
Federal appeals court grants full rehearing of Nacchio insider trading case
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 31, 2008 12:21:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Wednesday granted  prosecutors' petition for an en banc rehearing on whether the insider trading conviction of former Qwest Communications CEO Joseph Nacchio [JURIST news...

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News South Africa court rejects Zuma bid to exclude evidence in corruption case
South Africa court rejects Zuma bid to exclude evidence in corruption case
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 31, 2008 11:40:00 am

The South African Constitutional Court on Thursday rejected a motion by politician Jacob Zuma to exclude evidence from his upcoming corruption trial. Zuma had argued that...

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News Miers subpoena ruling [US DC]
Miers subpoena ruling [US DC]
July 31, 2008 11:34:00 am

Committee on the Judiciary, US House of Representatives v. Harriet Miers, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, July 31, 2008 . Read...

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News Alabama Supreme Court stays execution after DNA evidence questioned
Alabama Supreme Court stays execution after DNA evidence questioned
Devin Montgomery
July 31, 2008 11:00:00 am

The Alabama Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Wednesday to indefinitely stay the execution of Thomas Arthur , who had been sentenced to death by lethal injection for a 1982 contract killing. Arthur would have...

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News California threatens to sue EPA over creation of emissions regulations
California threatens to sue EPA over creation of emissions regulations
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 31, 2008 10:40:00 am

California Attorney General Jerry Brown formally notified the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Thursday that the state would file a lawsuit against the agency if it refused to issue rules regulating greenhouse...

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News United Airlines seeks injunction against pilot union
United Airlines seeks injunction against pilot union
Deirdre Jurand
July 31, 2008 09:59:00 am

Officials for United Airlines filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois seeking to ban pilots' union Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) and four pilots from...

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News Karadzic refuses to enter plea on war crimes charges
Karadzic refuses to enter plea on war crimes charges
Devin Montgomery
July 31, 2008 09:33:00 am

Bosnian Serb leader and former fugitive Radovan Karadzic Friday refused to enter a plea and denied the assistance of counsel in his first appearance before the International Criminal Tribunal...

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News Prisoner settles eagle feather case against Wyoming prison system
Prisoner settles eagle feather case against Wyoming prison system
Deirdre Jurand
July 31, 2008 08:32:00 am

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced Wednesday that a Native American prisoner in Wyoming had settled his lawsuit against the Wyoming Department of Corrections after Department officials agreed to allow the man to keep up...

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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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