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News Gaddafi appears for trial via video conference
Gaddafi appears for trial via video conference
Amy Mathieu
April 27, 2014 11:29:29 am

The Libyan News Agency reported on Sunday that the son of Muammar Gaddafi , Saif al-Islam Gaddafi , and other officials have appeared for their trial via video conferencing. Saif al-Islam...

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News Bahrain court sentences eight protesters to life in prison
Bahrain court sentences eight protesters to life in prison
Amy Mathieu
April 27, 2014 11:00:43 am

A Bahraini court on Sunday sentenced eight activists to life in prison for killing a policeman and participating in anti-regime protests in August. The eight pro-democracy protesters said that they confessed while being tortured. Harsh...

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News Supreme Court upholds traffic stop based on 911 tip
Supreme Court upholds traffic stop based on 911 tip
Amy Mathieu
April 22, 2014 11:59:31 am

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Tuesday in Navarette v. California that the traffic stop in this particular case was permissible under the Fourth Amendment because the officer had reasonable suspicion...

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News Russia court finds opposition leader guilty of slander
Russia court finds opposition leader guilty of slander
Amy Mathieu
April 22, 2014 11:04:36 am

Judge Anna Nekryach of the Babushkinsky district court on Tuesday found opposition leader Alexei Navalny guilty of slander. A Moscow City Duma Deputy, Aleksei Lisovenko filed the lawsuit after Navalny...

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News Virginia high court holds emails exempt from state Freedom of Information Act
Virginia high court holds emails exempt from state Freedom of Information Act
Amy Mathieu
April 18, 2014 12:48:46 pm

The Virginia Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the emails of Michael Mann, a former University of Virginia climatologist and professor, are exempt from disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act . Former Virginia...

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News Judge upholds New York state gun law
Judge upholds New York state gun law
Amy Mathieu
April 17, 2014 11:34:16 am

A trial judge for the Supreme Court of New York dismissed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging the state's strict gun laws. The plaintiffs, a group of gun rights activists, argued that the New...

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Human rights groups urge Nepal to reject amnesty legislation
Amy Mathieu
April 17, 2014 10:53:41 am

Amnesty International (AI), Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) urged Nepalese legislators on Thursday to reject certain sections of the proposed Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) bill...

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Federal judge dismisses lawsuit against credit card issuers
Amy Mathieu
April 11, 2014 12:07:31 pm

Judge William Pauley of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed a class action lawsuit on Thursday against American Express, Citigroup and Discover Financial Services that alleged the...

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UN experts: Iranian political prisoners being denied urgent medical treatment
Amy Mathieu
April 11, 2014 11:42:25 am

Experts from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) voiced concern on Thursday about the lack of medical treatment to two political prisoners in Iran who are at risk of dying...

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Turkey reinforces YouTube ban
Amy Mathieu
April 10, 2014 11:43:31 am

Turkish government reinforced their ban of YouTube on Thursday, despite a Constitutional Court ruling last week that the ban was unlawful. The Information and Communications Technologies Authority (BTK) said [Reuters...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

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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