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News Former Homeland Security chief calls waterboarding torture
Former Homeland Security chief calls waterboarding torture
Dennis Zawacki II
January 19, 2008 09:56:00 am

Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge told the Associated Press Friday that he has "no doubt" that the controversial interrogation technique waterboarding should be considered torture. Ridge noted that he didn't have specific information...

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China company sues Microsoft for alleged patent violation
Dennis Zawacki II
January 19, 2008 09:42:00 am

Chinese company Zhongyi Electronic sued Microsoft Friday in Beijing No.1 Intermediate People's Court claiming that Microsoft has been using a technology that converts Roman characters to Chinese characters without paying Zhongyi a...

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News Federal appeal courts rules NASA cannot require background checks of all workers
Federal appeal courts rules NASA cannot require background checks of all workers
Dennis Zawacki II
January 12, 2008 10:10:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday that NASA cannot compel low-risk contract employees working at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory to undergo intensive background checks. NASA has...

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News Federal appeals court rules No Child Left Behind challenge can proceed
Federal appeals court rules No Child Left Behind challenge can proceed
Dennis Zawacki II
January 7, 2008 05:58:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Monday ruled that a 2005 lawsuit challenging the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) should not have been dismissed by a lower federal court....

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News South Korea president pardons ex-Daewoo chief, others
South Korea president pardons ex-Daewoo chief, others
Dennis Zawacki II
December 31, 2007 11:19:00 am

The South Korean Ministry of Justice on Monday said that 75 politicians and businessmen would receive amnesty as part of President Roh Moo-hyun's last round of presidential pardons. Among those granted amnesty is former chairman of the...

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Guantanamo Bay detainee dies of cancer
Dennis Zawacki II
December 31, 2007 10:01:00 am

Suspected Afghan terrorist Abdul Razzak died of colorectal cancer Sunday while in US custody at Guantanamo Bay . Razzak had been receiving chemotherapy treatment since October after being diagnosed with cancer and is the first...

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DOD transfers 10 Saudi detainees from Guantanamo Bay
Dennis Zawacki II
December 30, 2007 11:42:00 am

The Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry confirmed Saturday that 10 Saudi detainees released from Guantanamo Bay have returned home. With the latest release, roughly 275 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay , approximately 60 of whom...

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News Federal appeals court overturns $156M verdict in Muslim charity terror case
Federal appeals court overturns $156M verdict in Muslim charity terror case
Dennis Zawacki II
December 30, 2007 10:53:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has overturned a $156 million verdict awarded in 2004 by a federal jury to the family of a 17-year-old killed in the West Bank against several...

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Cambodians demonstrate for faster Khmer Rouge trials
Dennis Zawacki II
December 25, 2007 02:15:00 pm

Cambodian students and Buddhist monks protested Tuesday in Phnom Penh, asking the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) to quickly begin trials against former leaders of the late-1970s Khmer Rouge communist regime for crimes...

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Italy police arrest former Uruguay officer for alleged ‘Dirty War’ crimes
Dennis Zawacki II
December 25, 2007 11:08:00 am

Italian police have arrested former Uruguayan naval intelligence officer Nestor Jorge Fernandez Troccoli for crimes relating to the kidnapping and murder of Italian citizens and others who opposed South American military dictators during the 1980s, according to Italian media...

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Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the US in perpetuity

On February 23, 1903, Cuba leased Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity" as part of the Cuban-American Treaty. The United States subsequently used the lease to establish a Naval Base at Guantanamo. With the US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, a military prison was built at Guantanamo to house prisoners of war and terrorism suspects captured by American forces, becoming the subject of much controversy over its detentions without trial.

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W.E.B. DuBois, founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was born on February 23, 1868. Review the W.E.B. DuBois Papers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and released FBI files on DuBois kept because of his affiliation with "communist front groups."

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