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News IAEA: Iran keeping nuclear commitments
IAEA: Iran keeping nuclear commitments
Emelina Perez
July 2, 2015 12:50:16 pm

Iran has been keeping its commitment as part of a preliminary nuclear deal from 2013 barring Iran from expanding nuclear programs during negotiations, according to an UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report obtained by the the...

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News US and Cuba to reopen embassies
US and Cuba to reopen embassies
Emelina Perez
July 2, 2015 11:18:36 am

US President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that the US and Cuba will reopen embassies in each other's capital cities, after 54 years of severed diplomatic relations. Obama said US Secretary of State John Kerry [official...

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News FDA announces plans to ban artificial trans fat
FDA announces plans to ban artificial trans fat
Emelina Perez
June 17, 2015 09:41:08 am

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday that food manufacturers will be given three years to remove all partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), the main ingredient in artificial trans fat, saying they are no...

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News Federal judge finds against Arpaio in civil rights pre-trial motion
Federal judge finds against Arpaio in civil rights pre-trial motion
Emelina Perez
June 17, 2015 08:49:07 am

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Arizona issued a pre-trial order Monday accepting another court's finding of racial profiling by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio . Hearing a lawsuit brought by...

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News Nepal leaders reach agreement for new constitution
Nepal leaders reach agreement for new constitution
Emelina Perez
June 10, 2015 11:29:51 am

Leaders of the four major political parties in Nepal reached an agreement Monday on key issues for a new constitution, dividing the country into eight federal states. An assembly elected in 2008 was tasked with completing the...

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News Romania lawmakers rebuff efforts to strip PM of immunity
Romania lawmakers rebuff efforts to strip PM of immunity
Emelina Perez
June 10, 2015 10:52:03 am

Lawmakers in Romania rejected a request from prosecutors to strip Prime Minister Victor Ponta of immunity on Tuesday, despite him being named as a suspect last week in an anti-corruption probe. Prosecutors questioned Ponta in...

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Egypt authorities arrest Muslim Brotherhood leaders
Emelina Perez
June 3, 2015 11:27:03 am

Authorities in Egypt on Tuesday announced the arrest of two leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo's Gaza district after they were both convicted and sentenced to death in absentia. Mahmoud Ghozlan and Abdul Rahman al-Barr were part of...

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News Guantanamo detainee alleges wider use of torture by CIA
Guantanamo detainee alleges wider use of torture by CIA
Emelina Perez
June 3, 2015 10:37:52 am

A Guantanamo detainee has alleged that the CIA's torture techniques went beyond those described in last year's Senate Intelligence Committee report, Reuters reported Tuesday. Majid Khan was detained in Pakistan in 2003 and confessed to delivering...

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News North Carolina governor vetoes same-sex marriage religious objection bill
North Carolina governor vetoes same-sex marriage religious objection bill
Emelina Perez
May 29, 2015 11:44:55 am

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory vetoed legislation Thursday that would allow officials to avoid performing same-sex marriages. The bill, which would permit court officials and magistrates to avoid any marriage duties if they have...

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News Former Czech PM’s wife acquitted of criminal charges
Former Czech PM’s wife acquitted of criminal charges
Emelina Perez
May 29, 2015 10:50:17 am

A Czech court in Prague acquitted the wife of former Czech prime minister Petr Necas of charges of abusing military intelligence. Jana Necasova, formerly Jana Nagyova, allegedly used military intelligence to spy on Necas's former wife when Necasova served...

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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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