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FCC releases plan to dismantle net neutrality
Jennifer Suder
November 22, 2017 04:03:36 pm

The Federal Trade Commission (FCC) released a plan on Tuesday to dismantle regulations that require equal access to the internet, often called net neutrality . The proposal would repeal internet regulations put in place by the Obama...

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News War criminal Mladić handed life sentence for genocide, crimes against humanity
War criminal Mladić handed life sentence for genocide, crimes against humanity
Erin McCarthy Holliday
November 22, 2017 11:30:57 am

Former Bosnian Serb Army Commander Ratko Mladić was sentenced to life imprisonment Wednesday by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for crimes committed during the Bosnian conflict from 1992-1996. Mladić was...

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News Exiled Venezuela Supreme Court justices file complaint against president in ICC
Exiled Venezuela Supreme Court justices file complaint against president in ICC
Lawrenz Fares
November 21, 2017 08:38:52 pm

Venezuelan Supreme Court justices currently in exile have filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) accusing President Nicolás Maduro of crimes against humanity. The complaint was initially filed [Miami Herald...

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News The Federal Supreme Court of Iraq rules Kurdish referendum on independence unconstitutional
The Federal Supreme Court of Iraq rules Kurdish referendum on independence unconstitutional
Sean Rohtla
November 21, 2017 06:06:09 pm

The Federal Supreme Court of Iraq ruled Monday that a referendum on Kurdish Independence held on September 25 was unconstitutional. The court claims jurisdiction over the constitutionality of the referendum through Article 93...

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News Palin appeals dismissal of defamation suit against the New York Times
Palin appeals dismissal of defamation suit against the New York Times
Andrew Morgan
November 21, 2017 03:56:57 pm

Former Alaska Governor and 2008 Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin on Tuesday filed notice of her intention to appeal the dismissal of her defamation suit against the New York Times . Palin filed suit in June,...

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Virginia immigrants file federal suit over DACA extension restrictions
Erin McCarthy Holliday
November 21, 2017 03:04:54 pm

Two immigrants in Virginia filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Acting Secretary Elaine Duke in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia challenging the decision to...

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News ICC requests authorization to investigate US involvement in Afghanistan war crimes
ICC requests authorization to investigate US involvement in Afghanistan war crimes
Austin Koltonowski
November 21, 2017 02:40:52 pm

International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda made a formal request on Monday to investigate alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by U.S. military and the CIA. The proposed investigation focuses...

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News Massachusetts governor signs bill guaranteeing women access to free birth control
Massachusetts governor signs bill guaranteeing women access to free birth control
Mary Nicholas
November 21, 2017 01:30:08 pm

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed House No. 4009 (H4009) on Monday guaranteeing access to free contraception for women notwithstanding any future changes to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that may be effected by Congress...

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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to put injunction on hold in travel ban dispute
Ohara Hamlin
November 21, 2017 01:26:59 pm

The Trump administration on Monday asked the US Supreme Court to stay a district court order preventing enforcement of Trump's revised travel ban pending the outcome of an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of...

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News Federal judge strikes down Trump’s executive order withholding funding from sanctuary cities
Federal judge strikes down Trump’s executive order withholding funding from sanctuary cities
Lindsay Offutt
November 21, 2017 12:35:56 pm

The US District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday struck down as unconstitutional President Donald Trump's Executive Order "Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States" (Order 13768) ,...

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Supreme court overturns racially restrictive covenants

On May 3, 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that racially restrictive covenants violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, even covenants between private individuals. In Shelley v. Kraemer, the Court overturned a covenant among members of a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri that restricted home sales to only white families.

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