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News Supreme Court blocks ruling allowing transgender student to use boys’ restroom
Supreme Court blocks ruling allowing transgender student to use boys’ restroom
Mark Casper
August 5, 2016 10:28:18 am

A divided US Supreme Court on Wednesday granted an application to recall and stay lower court orders allowing a transgender student who identifies as a male to use the men's restroom in school. This comes...

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News Indonesia Supreme Court denies appeal of radical cleric
Indonesia Supreme Court denies appeal of radical cleric
Mark Casper
August 5, 2016 10:20:07 am

A three-member panel for the Supreme Court of Indonesia rejected a radical Islamic leader's appeal of his conviction on Thursday. Abu Bakar Bashir, religious leader of the southeast-Asian Jemaah Islamiyah militants, had requested judicial review of his...

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News Turkish court issues arrest warrant for US-based Fetullah Gulen over coup
Turkish court issues arrest warrant for US-based Fetullah Gulen over coup
Mark Casper
August 5, 2016 09:54:34 am

According to the state-run Anadolu news agency, an Istanbul court on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for the Pennsylvania-based preacher Fetullah Gulen on charges of orchestrating the recent July 15 attempted coup, which left more than 270...

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News Deal reached to scale back Texas voter ID law for November election
Deal reached to scale back Texas voter ID law for November election
Kasey Tuttle
August 5, 2016 09:27:29 am

Texas agreed to a deal Wednesday that will weaken their voter identification law and allow voters to cast ballots in the November election even if they lack all documents required by the law. The agreement will require Texas...

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News New York governor signs bill legalizing daily fantasy sports
New York governor signs bill legalizing daily fantasy sports
Mark Casper
August 5, 2016 09:00:11 am

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation Wednesday that would legalize daily fantasy sports in New York state. The law, SB 8153 , serves to legalize forms of daily fantasy sports, like Draft Kings, while...

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News Alabama Supreme Court justice’s suit against Judicial Inquiry Commission dismissed
Alabama Supreme Court justice’s suit against Judicial Inquiry Commission dismissed
Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi
August 5, 2016 08:14:12 am

A judge for the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama on Thursday dismissed a suit filed by suspended Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore against the Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC) . The...

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News UN rights chief: South Sudan government forces committing widespread violations
UN rights chief: South Sudan government forces committing widespread violations
Gwenyth Gamble Jarvi
August 5, 2016 07:04:24 am

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said Thursday that South Sudan government (SPLA) security forces have killed and raped citizens and looted and destroyed public and private property. The rights chief called on the UN Security...

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News Australia ignoring inhumane treatment of refugees to deter others: report
Australia ignoring inhumane treatment of refugees to deter others: report
Kasey Tuttle
August 4, 2016 10:33:35 am

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch reported Wednesday that Australia is ignoring inhumane treatment of refugees on the South Pacific island of Nauru in the hopes of deterring additional refugees from traveling to Australia. Individuals caught trying to travel...

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News UN: Islamic State continues to commit genocide in Northern Iraq
UN: Islamic State continues to commit genocide in Northern Iraq
Kasey Tuttle
August 4, 2016 09:40:34 am

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his concern for the human rights violations faced by the Yazidi minority in Northern Iraq on Wednesday, stating that actions of the Islamic State (IS) may amount to genocide. Two years ago the...

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News Obama grants clemency to 214 inmates
Obama grants clemency to 214 inmates
Mark Casper
August 4, 2016 08:53:56 am

US President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 214 federal inmates on Thursday, the most at one time during his presidency. Sixty-seven of the inmates whose sentences were commuted were serving life sentences for non-violent drug...

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Kellogg-Briand Pact signed renouncing war

On August 27, 1928, representatives of thirty-two nations gathered in Paris signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of national policy and agreeing to the peaceful settlement of disputes between them. Frank B. Kellogg, the US Secretary of State who proposed the treaty, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in 1929. The treaty's exceptions and qualifications, however, and the absence of any means of enforcement, ultimately guaranteed its failure. Review the text of the Kellogg-Briand pact.

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