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Rebecca DiLeonardo
May 29, 2012 11:37:49 am

The Senate of the Philippines on Tuesday voted to remove Chief Justice Renato Corona on charges of violating the constitution through failure to declare his assets in a sworn statement. Renato was impeached on eight...

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Sung Un Kim
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An Israeli military court on Sunday sentenced Palestinian protest leader Bassem al-Tamimi to 13 months imprisonment for encouraging youth to throw rocks at Israeli soldiers. He was charged with urging the youth to throw the rocks during...

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Sung Un Kim
May 29, 2012 10:32:39 am

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed disappointment Monday with Nepal for its failure to meet the Sunday deadline to write a new constitution. With the country's failure to draft a new constitution, Ban...

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May 29, 2012 09:59:02 am

Bahraini rights activist Nabeel Rajab was released on bail on Monday, according to his lawyer. Rajab was arrested for insulting a statutory body through messages he posted on Twitter criticizing the Interior Ministry. Rajab is the...

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Most of the victims of a recent massacre in Houla, Syria , were shot at close range, including women and children, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) revealed...

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Bahraini human rights activist Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja has ended his hunger strike because he believes he has adequately raised awareness of his cause , Al-Khawaja's wife told Reuters on Monday. Al-Khawaja has been on...

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May 28, 2012 01:53:27 pm

The Supreme Presidential Electoral Commission (SPEC) of Egypt announced presidential election results on Monday and declared that there will be a run-off election between the top two candidates later in June. The run-off will be between Muslim...

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US President Barack Obama announced Thursday that he will nominate Dr. Allison Macfarlane as the new head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) . Macfarlane is known as an advocate for safe...

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May 28, 2012 10:07:25 am

Special war crimes tribunals of the government of Bangladesh on Monday indicted the chief of Bangladesh's largest Islamic party, along with his deputy, for alleged human rights atrocities committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War against Pakistan....

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May 28, 2012 09:56:06 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled on Friday that a lawsuit opposing a Ten Commandments monument displayed on property owned by the City of Fargo, North Dakota, may move forward. The...

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Dred Scott decided

On March 6, 1857, the US Supreme Court announced its landmark decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford, holding that black people—slaves as well as free—were not and could never become citizens of the United States and that the 1820 Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. Learn more about the Dred Scott case from Washington University in St. Louis (the city where Dred Scott initially filed his suit for freedom and had his case first tried). Review a selection of contemporary newspaper editorials reacting to the decision.

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