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News UK urges prosecutors to combat hate crimes with tougher sentences
UK urges prosecutors to combat hate crimes with tougher sentences
Matthew Santiago
July 24, 2016 10:04:07 pm

The UK Home Office announced on Sunday that prosecutors will be encouraged to use tougher sentences against hate crimes in response to the nation's increasingly hostile environment since the EU referendum. Since the middle of June over 6,000...

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News UN calls ISIS suicide bombings in Afghanistan a war crime
UN calls ISIS suicide bombings in Afghanistan a war crime
Matthew Santiago
July 24, 2016 09:24:51 pm

UN Special Representative to Afghanistan Tadamichi Yamamoto stated on Sunday that the recent suicide bombings in Kabul amounted to a war crime. On Saturday two suicide bombers targeted Shiite Hazaras who were holding a peaceful demonstration to...

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News Former Peru leader makes another presidential pardon request
Former Peru leader makes another presidential pardon request
Taylor Isaac
July 24, 2016 12:13:35 pm

Alberto Fujimori , Peru's former leader who was jailed in 2007, submitted another request for a presidential pardon on Saturday, just five days before President-elect Pedro Pablo Kuczynski takes office. Fujimori is serving a...

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News UN condemns fighting in Mali
UN condemns fighting in Mali
Taylor Isaac
July 24, 2016 10:50:01 am

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon released a statement on Friday condemning the recent fighting in Kidal, Mali . The fighting arose at the end of last week between the Platform Movement and the...

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News Alaska Supreme Court rejects parental consent requirement for under-18 abortions
Alaska Supreme Court rejects parental consent requirement for under-18 abortions
Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
July 23, 2016 05:43:18 pm

In a 4-1 opinion on Friday, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that the state's parental "notification law" requiring doctors to inform the parents of minors seeking an abortion is unconstitutional, and cannot be enforced. The Court...

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News Virginia Supreme Court strikes down governor’s order restoring felon voting rights
Virginia Supreme Court strikes down governor’s order restoring felon voting rights
Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
July 23, 2016 03:24:41 pm

In a 4-3 ruling on Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court held that Governor Terry McAuliffe's executive order granting a blanket restoration of the state's felon voting rights is unconstitutional. The voter-disqualification provision...

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News Federal judge rules in favor of Missouri lawmaker to exclude contraception in his health insurance
Federal judge rules in favor of Missouri lawmaker to exclude contraception in his health insurance
Alonso Diaz
July 23, 2016 01:19:19 pm

A federal judge on Friday ruled in favor of a Missouri lawmaker "who cited religious objections while challenging the inclusion of birth control coverage in his government-provided health insurance." The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires...

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News Turkey closes thousands of private schools, charities and other institutions
Turkey closes thousands of private schools, charities and other institutions
Alonso Diaz
July 23, 2016 12:38:50 pm

President Tayyip Erdogan ordered the closure of thousands of private schools, charities and other institutions on Saturday. Mr. Erdogan alleges Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen of orchestrating last week's failed coup and the schools and other institutions are...

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News California governor signs firearm registration law
California governor signs firearm registration law
Mark Casper
July 22, 2016 04:37:36 pm

California Governor Jerry Brown signed a law which would require individuals to apply for a state-issued firearm registration number where they made their own weapons with parts they have purchased or found. Assembly Bill...

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News DOJ brings suit against Pennsylvania township for denying zoning approval to mosque
DOJ brings suit against Pennsylvania township for denying zoning approval to mosque
Mark Casper
July 22, 2016 03:31:49 pm

On Thursday the US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint against Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania for denying zoning approval to a mosque in 2014. The complaint alleges that the township violated the federal Religious Land Use...

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US Congress passed 16th Amendment

On July 12, 1909, the US Congress passed the Sixteenth Amendment, giving Congress the power to collect income taxes. The Amendment was ratified and went into force in 1913. Learn more about the history of the 16th Amendment.

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