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News Illinois judge permits same-sex marriage cases to go to trial
Illinois judge permits same-sex marriage cases to go to trial
Cynthia Miley
September 30, 2013 12:51:09 pm

Illinois Cook County Circuit Court Judge Sophia Hall on Friday allowed two lawsuits challenging the state's ban on same-sex marriage to proceed to trial. This could permit Illinois state courts to decide whether same-sex couples...

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India MP convicted of corruption
Cynthia Miley
September 30, 2013 10:45:47 am

An Indian court on Monday convicted Lalu Prasad Yadav, a former federal minister of India's state of Bihar and current MP, of corruption, criminal conspiracy and cheating. Yadav and 44 others were found guilty of conspiracy and...

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News ACLU, Planned Parenthood challenge Texas abortion law
ACLU, Planned Parenthood challenge Texas abortion law
Cynthia Miley
September 28, 2013 12:13:56 pm

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Planned Parenthood and more than 19 other health organizations across Texas jointly filed a lawsuit Friday in federal court to block two provisions of provisions of a Texas abortion...

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Gun rights advocates challenge Maryland firearm safety law
Cynthia Miley
September 28, 2013 11:34:47 am

Several Maryland residents, gun store owners and gun rights advocates have filed two lawsuits and a restraining order Thursday and Friday in the US District Court for the District of Maryland to block the implementation...

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ITC judge issues preliminary ruling against HTC in Nokia patent dispute
Cynthia Miley
September 24, 2013 03:12:55 pm

US International Trade Commission (ITC) Judge Thomas Pender on Monday issued a preliminary ruling holding that HTC infringed on two patents for mobile technology held by Nokia . The patents have to...

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ICC prosecutor offers assistance in wake of Kenya shopping mall attack
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September 24, 2013 01:49:15 pm

International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on Tuesday offered to assist in prosecuting those behind the Nairobi Westgate shopping mall attack. Somali Islamist group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility...

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UN SG urges justice in Kenya shopping mall terrorist attack
Cynthia Miley
September 23, 2013 10:57:32 am

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday condemned the terrorist attack at a Nairobi shopping mall and urged the perpetrators to be brought to justice quickly. On Saturday, a group of armed fighters stormed the Westgate...

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Pussy Riot member launches hunger strike to protest prison conditions
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September 23, 2013 09:20:19 am

A member of the Russian feminist rock group Pussy Riot , Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, launched a hunger strike Monday in protest of living conditions and death threats from the deputy head of the prison in...

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ACLU urges Obama administration to curb FBI surveillance powers
Cynthia Miley
September 17, 2013 02:33:17 pm

FBI powers have expanded rapidly in the wake of the 9/11 attacks , according to a report released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) , which called on the...

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UN expert calls for halt to supplying conventional weapons to Syria
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September 17, 2013 01:20:54 pm

Paulo Pinheiro, the chairman of the International Commission of Inquiry on Syria , said Monday that the vast majority of Syrian casualties are killed in unlawful conventional weapon attacks and called for an end to weapons...

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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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