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News Missouri judge blocks law banning teachers from using social media with students
Missouri judge blocks law banning teachers from using social media with students
Aman Kakar
August 28, 2011 03:58:59 pm

Cole County Circuit Court of Missouri issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday enjoining the State of Missouri from implementing Missouri Revised Statutes § 162.069.4 , which prevents students and teachers from communicating...

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News First Circuit upholds right to record public police action
First Circuit upholds right to record public police action
Aman Kakar
August 28, 2011 02:55:30 pm

The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Friday ruled that there is a clearly-established First Amendment right to film police officers performing their duties in a public space. The...

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News Whistleblower soldier pleads guilty in Afghan civilian death
Whistleblower soldier pleads guilty in Afghan civilian death
Aman Kakar
August 7, 2011 04:06:53 pm

Military judge Colonel David Conn sentenced Specialist Adam Winfield to three years in prison, demotion to private and a bad-conduct discharge on Friday for involuntary manslaughter in the death of an Afghan civilian. Winfield pleaded guilty to...

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News Federal appeals court strikes down Wisconsin ban on hormone therapy for inmates
Federal appeals court strikes down Wisconsin ban on hormone therapy for inmates
Aman Kakar
August 7, 2011 02:53:07 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Friday upheld a lower court's ruling invalidating the Inmate Sex Change Prevention Act , which prohibited the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) [official...

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News Europe rights court rejects appeals against Switzerland minaret ban
Europe rights court rejects appeals against Switzerland minaret ban
Aman Kakar
July 10, 2011 03:22:11 pm

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected two appeals from Swiss Muslims challenging Switzerland's ban on construction of minarets. The court ruled that the appeals were inadmissible because the complaints failed...

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News Thailand opposition lawyers challenge election
Thailand opposition lawyers challenge election
Aman Kakar
July 10, 2011 12:14:48 pm

Lawyers associated with Thailand's outgoing ruling Democrat Party filed papers with the Election Commission on Friday challenging the Puea Thai party's election victory. The filings seek to dissolve the Puea Thai party on grounds that the...

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News Federal judge enjoins Indiana immigration law
Federal judge enjoins Indiana immigration law
Aman Kakar
June 25, 2011 03:00:00 pm

A judge for the US District Court Southern District of Indiana on Friday issued a preliminary injunction against two provisions of a controversial Indiana immigration law . The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)...

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News New York governor signs same-sex marriage legislation
New York governor signs same-sex marriage legislation
Aman Kakar
June 25, 2011 12:00:00 pm

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) on Friday signed legislation allowing same-sex couples to marry in the state. The New York State Senate had passed the Marriage Equality Act 33-29 earlier that day...

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News UN SG expresses concern over escalation of violence in Syria
UN SG expresses concern over escalation of violence in Syria
Aman Kakar
June 4, 2011 04:52:38 pm

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday expressed concern regarding the escalation of violence in Syria and called for end to the repression by security and military forces. Ban cited 70 deaths in the last week,...

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US urges China to release Tiananmen Square protesters
Aman Kakar
June 4, 2011 03:12:10 pm

The US State Department (DOS) urged the Chinese government on Friday to release protesters arrested for the peaceful protests in Tiananmen Square in June 1989. Friday marked the twenty-second anniversary of the suppression...

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Mexican Army kills over 400 Texas prisoners of war

The Mexican army executed more than 400 Texian prisoners of war on March 27, 1836, during the Texas Revolution, in an event that would become known as the Goliad Massacre. A decree passed in December 1835 allowed Mexican soldiers under General Antonio López de Santa Anna to shoot any foreigners in rebellion. Texian Colonel James Fannin and his men surrendered to the Mexican government under the expectation that they would be treated as prisoners of war, but they were executed regardless, engendering sympathy (and eventual support) from the neighboring United States. Learn more about the Goliad Massacre.

Khrushchev becomes USSR leader

On March 27, 1958, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev became the new Premier of the USSR, replacing Joseph Stalin as the Soviet leader. During his rise to power, Khruschev denounced crimes of the Stalinist regime and the "cult of personality" surrounding his predecessor. While in office as Soviet Premier, Khruschev oversaw some of the most famous and influential events of the Cold War: the launch of Sputnik, the Sino-Soviet split, the U-2 Spy Plan incident, and finally the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963, which led to his ouster by reactionary elements the following year. The conspirators forced Khruschev's resignation on October 15, 1964 and replaced him with Leonid Brezhnev.

Read the New York Times obituary of Nikita Khrushchev.

President Andrew Johnson vetoed citizenship for slaves

On March 27, 1866, President Andrew Johnson vetoed a civil rights bill that would later become the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, conferring full US citizenship on all slaves. Read President Johnson's veto letter, transmitted to the US Senate.

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