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News South Carolina removes Confederate flag from state house
South Carolina removes Confederate flag from state house
Colleen Mallick
July 10, 2015 02:55:41 pm

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley signed into law a bill on Thursday to remove the Confederate flag from the state's legislature. The South Carolina Senate approved the bill Tuesday...

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Court rules NSA may temporarily resume metadata collection
Colleen Mallick
July 1, 2015 11:19:27 am

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled Monday that the National Security Agency(NSA) may temporarily resume its program of systematically collecting Americans' phone data in bulk. The program lapsed on June 1 after the...

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France authorities charge beheading suspect with murder and terrorism
Colleen Mallick
July 1, 2015 02:22:23 am

France's chief prosecutor said on Tuesday that the man who allegedly beheaded his boss, pinned the severed head on a fence post and tried to blow up an industrial plant will be charged with terrorism and murder. The announcement...

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US House passes compromise trade bill
Colleen Mallick
June 26, 2015 12:28:31 pm

The US House of Representatives voted 286-138 to approve a trade law that provides assistance to workers who lose their jobs to international trade and renews President Barack Obama's authority to negotiate trade deals on...

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The California State Assembly on Thursday passed legislation requiring schoolchildren to be vaccinated unless there is a medical reason not to do so. The measure ends exemptions among parents opposed to vaccination due to personal or...

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Supreme Court rules prosecutors must prove dealers knew synthetic drugs were illegal
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June 19, 2015 09:41:39 am

The US Supreme Court ruled in McFadden v. United States on Thursday that in a synthetic drug case, the government must prove that the defendant understood that he was dealing a substance regulated...

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Supreme Court upholds capital murder conviction despite minority exclusion from jury
Colleen Mallick
June 19, 2015 09:17:33 am

The US Supreme Court on Thursday reinstated the death sentence of a California man convicted of murder 25 years ago, despite evidence that seven of the prosecution’s peremptory challenges to jurors in the case were...

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Colleen Mallick
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Humans Rights Watch (HRW) , along with Amnesty International, Civil Society Organizations Reference Group and National Civil Society Congress called on authorities in Kenya on Thursday to stop the harassment and intimidation of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the...

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June 12, 2015 12:41:30 pm

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein and a spokesperson for the EU on Thursday demanded that the government of Pakistan reinstate its death penalty moratorium. The EU also called on the Pakistani government...

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Wednesday that in light of allegations of sexual abuse in the Central African Republic (CAR) by foreign troops not under UN control, an External Independent Review will be set up to examine...

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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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