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News China critical of US human rights report
China critical of US human rights report
Chris Buell
October 13, 2005 08:21:00 am

China has expressed "resolute opposition" to a US report critical of the country for its handling of human and religious rights, with a spokesman from the Foreign Ministry of China arguing that the US was...

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Judge lifts contempt order for NYT reporter
Chris Buell
October 13, 2005 08:01:00 am

US District Judge Thomas F. Hogan has lifted a contempt order against New York Times reporter Judith Miller following her testimony Wednesday before a federal grand jury investigating the 2003 leak of the identity...

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News Federal judge awards $91 million to family of former hostage
Federal judge awards $91 million to family of former hostage
Chris Buell
October 13, 2005 07:37:00 am

A US district judge has awarded $91 million for emotional distress to the family of Joseph Cicippio, who was held hostage in Lebanon by the paramilitary group Hezbollah from 1986 to 1991. US District Judge Henry...

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News Iraqi prisoners cast votes in referendum as US, Iraq step up security
Iraqi prisoners cast votes in referendum as US, Iraq step up security
Chris Buell
October 13, 2005 07:10:00 am

Detainees at prisons across Iraq who have not yet been tried cast their votes in the country's constitutional referendum Thursday as authorities stepped up security in preparation for the full referendum on Saturday. Those...

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News FEMA reconsidering gun ban in emergency Louisiana housing parks
FEMA reconsidering gun ban in emergency Louisiana housing parks
Chris Buell
October 12, 2005 08:27:00 pm

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said Wednesday that it was reconsidering a ban on firearms for people living at emergency housing parks in Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina after being pressured...

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NY AG Spitzer drops charges against Sihpol following SEC settlement
Chris Buell
October 12, 2005 07:58:00 pm

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer Wednesday dropped criminal charges against Theodore Sihpol, a former Bank of America broker accused of aiding illegal trades by a hedge fund, after Sihpol settled related charges with...

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Indonesia to review anti-terror laws with help from Australia
Chris Buell
October 12, 2005 07:38:00 pm

Indonesia has agreed to work on strengthening its anti-terrorism laws with help from Australia, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Wednesday. Downer made the announcement after meeting with Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda in...

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White House cites Miers religious views in outreach to conservatives
Chris Buell
October 12, 2005 07:11:00 pm

The White House Wednesday cited the religious views of US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers , acknowledging the relevance of those to religious conservatives while denying that they should play any role in the rulings...

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US Supreme Court hears arguments in whistleblower, mining cases
Chris Buell
October 12, 2005 04:39:00 pm

The US Supreme Court Wednesday heard arguments on how far First Amendment protection should stretch for government whistleblowers who claim retaliation for their speech. In Garcetti v. Ceballos , an employee in...

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October 12, 2005 04:15:00 pm

Hundreds of demonstrators Wednesday gathered again outside the prison where several men convicted in the 2002 Bali bombings had been held, calling for the execution of the bombers on the third anniversary of the attacks [Jakarta Post...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Bank of England granted political independence

On May 6, 1997, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that the Bank of England would be granted political independence for the first time in the three-hundred year history of the Bank. This policy was statutized in the subsequent Bank of England Act of 1998 gave the Bank independent control of British monetary policy effective June 1, 1998. Read the Bank of England Act of 1998.

Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese laborers from US

On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States and prohibiting courts from bestowing US citizenship on Chinese. Connecticut Senator Joseph Hawley spoke out against the Act in these words: Let the proposed statue be read 100 years hence, dug out of the dust of ages and forgotten as it will be except for a line of sneer by some historian, and ask the young man not well read in the history of this country what was the reason for excluding these men and he would not be able to find it in the law. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and its successors were abolished in 1943 at the insistence of President Franklin Roosevelt.

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