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News UN Security Council votes to end Haiti peacekeeping operation
UN Security Council votes to end Haiti peacekeeping operation
Lawrenz Fares
April 14, 2017 11:32:53 am

The UN Security Council voted Thursday to end a 13-year-long peacekeeping operation in Haiti. The council will slowly downgrade the UN's presence in Haiti to a small policing force over the next six months. Following...

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News OIG: female national park employees faced inappropriate comments, treatment
OIG: female national park employees faced inappropriate comments, treatment
Lars Peterson
April 14, 2017 11:12:20 am

The Office of Inspector General on Wednesday released an investigative report with findings on allegations of gender discrimination and sexual harassment at Yellowstone National Park . The investigation began in September 2016 after an employee...

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News Michigan doctor charged with female genital mutilation
Michigan doctor charged with female genital mutilation
Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
April 14, 2017 10:57:10 am

Physician Jumana Nagarwala, was charged Thursday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan for performing female genital mutilation (FGM) on minors out of a medical office in Livonia, Michigan. According to...

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News Canada announces plan to legalize marijuana
Canada announces plan to legalize marijuana
Justin Cosgrove
April 14, 2017 10:50:58 am

The Canadian government on Thursday announced a plan to legal recreational use of marijuana by July 2018. Canada is set to implement this plan into law nationwide, though the government has stated that it would leave...

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News Iowa governor signs law expanding gun rights
Iowa governor signs law expanding gun rights
Justin Cosgrove
April 14, 2017 10:18:45 am

Iowa Governor Terry Branstad on Thursday signed legislation expanding gun rights in the state. House File 517 gives gun owners the ability to defend themselves in public and preventing local governments from implementing...

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News Insurance companies seek $4.2B from Saudi Arabia banks, other organizations in 9/11 lawsuit
Insurance companies seek $4.2B from Saudi Arabia banks, other organizations in 9/11 lawsuit
Alexandra Farone
April 13, 2017 09:10:39 pm

Over two dozen US insurance companies associated with Travelers Companies initiated a lawsuit on Wednesday against ten defendants over the September 11 terrorist attacks, including companies affiliated with Osama bin Laden's family, Saudi banks and several charities....

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News Trump signs law allowing states to block abortion provider funding
Trump signs law allowing states to block abortion provider funding
Alexandra Farone
April 13, 2017 08:41:24 pm

US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a bill into law that scales back an Obama administration regulation that protected certain federal funds for organizations that provide abortions, including Planned Parenthood . The new law...

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News Malaysia court postpones trial of women accused of killing Kim Jong Nam
Malaysia court postpones trial of women accused of killing Kim Jong Nam
Jonathon Churchin
April 13, 2017 01:52:22 pm

Malaysia's Sepang court on Thursday postponed until May proceedings against two women accused of killing Kim Jong Nam .The hearing was scheduled by request of the prosecutor to determine if the women...

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Japan appeals court upholds obscenity decision against artist
Jonathon Churchin
April 13, 2017 12:57:37 pm

The Tokyo High Court on Thursday upheld a lower court obscenity decision against a female artist over distribution of 3-D printed models of vaginas. Megumi Igarashi is an artist who was found guilty ...

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India parliament approves HIV/AIDS prevention bill
Alexis Wheeler
April 13, 2017 12:54:56 pm

The Lok Sabha chamber of Indian parliament approved a bill Tuesday to provide for the prevention and control of HIV and AIDS as well as to protect the human rights of affected persons. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

US Supreme Court ruled Indians not US citizens

On November 3, 1884, the US Supreme Court ruled in Elk v. Wilkins that John Elk, an American Indian who had tried to vote in a federal election in Omaha, Nebraska, was not a US citizen entitled to the protection of the 14th and 15th Amendments of the US Constitution. Native Americans became eligible for citizenship in 1887 under the Dawes Act, but only in 1924, under the Indian Citizenship Act, were all Native Americans born in the US made citizens.

Last public execution at Tyburn Gallows in London

On November 3, 1783, the last public execution took place at Tyburn Gallows in London, when John Austin was hanged for highway robbery. From the hanging of William Fitz Osburn in 1196 until Austin's execution, Tyburn served as London's primary location for public executions.

Learn more about the trial of John Austin.

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