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News State AGs seek to expand lawsuit against generic drug companies for price-fixing
State AGs seek to expand lawsuit against generic drug companies for price-fixing
Akira Tomlinson
November 1, 2017 01:01:32 pm

Attorneys General of 45 states and the District of Columbia amended a lawsuit on Tuesday to accuse more generic drug companies of acting in a price-fixing conspiracy. The lawsuit now accuses 18 companies and subsidiaries and two executives...

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News Argentina top prosecutor resigns over corruption scandal
Argentina top prosecutor resigns over corruption scandal
Akira Tomlinson
October 30, 2017 03:16:48 pm

Argentina's top prosecutor Alejandra Gils Carbo resigned on Monday amid accusations that she hindered investigations into the corruption scandal surrounding officials from former-president Cristina Fernandez's administration. Current President Mauricio Macri accused Carbo of misusing her...

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News Federal appeals court grants teen immigrant right to abortion
Federal appeals court grants teen immigrant right to abortion
Akira Tomlinson
October 25, 2017 12:14:51 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday ruled 6-3 that a 17-year-old unidentified, undocumented immigrant has the right to obtain an abortion. A week earlier, the same court through a...

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News Russia vetoes UN Security Council investigation into Syria chemical weapons attacks
Russia vetoes UN Security Council investigation into Syria chemical weapons attacks
Akira Tomlinson
October 25, 2017 10:27:27 am

Russia on Tuesday vetoed the UN Security Council's resolution to extend the UN Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapon (OPCW) investigation into the Syria chemical-weapons attack. In February Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy...

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News Human rights groups urge Greece PM to end detainment of asylum seekers
Human rights groups urge Greece PM to end detainment of asylum seekers
Akira Tomlinson
October 23, 2017 12:39:38 pm

Human rights groups and nongovernmental organizations sent a letter on Monday to Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tspiras urging him to end the "containment" of asylum seekers in island camp, which violates human rights, and transfer them to the mainland...

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News 17 state AGs oppose nationwide concealed-carry gun bill
17 state AGs oppose nationwide concealed-carry gun bill
Akira Tomlinson
October 23, 2017 12:34:13 pm

Attorneys general from 17 US states urged Congress in a letter Monday to abandon legislation that would require states to validate concealed-carry gun permits issued in another state, regardless of their own gun law restrictions. The attorneys general...

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Missouri appeals court vacates award in talcum powder suit
Akira Tomlinson
October 18, 2017 12:59:52 pm

The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District on Tuesday vacated a $72 million award to a woman who claimed that Johnson & Johnson (J&J) baby powder products containing talcum contributed to her ovarian cancer,...

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News Maryland federal judge blocks new travel ban
Maryland federal judge blocks new travel ban
Akira Tomlinson
October 18, 2017 12:20:35 pm

Judge Theodore Chuang of the US District Court for the District of Maryland on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump's latest version of the travel ban , finding that the president's purpose was to...

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News Supreme Court takes up Microsoft data privacy, American Express antitrust cases
Supreme Court takes up Microsoft data privacy, American Express antitrust cases
Akira Tomlinson
October 16, 2017 11:53:30 am

The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in four cases, including a Microsoft data privacy case, and an American Express antitrust case. In US v. Microsoft Corp. , the court will...

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US Supreme Court adds two water cases to docket
Akira Tomlinson
October 11, 2017 10:56:41 am

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday added to its docket two original jurisdiction cases concerning water rights. In Texas v. New Mexico , the court will determine whether New Mexico is in violation...

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WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban

On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans. Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

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