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News Guatemala high court drops charges in 1982 massacre case
Guatemala high court drops charges in 1982 massacre case
Gretchen E. Moore
February 4, 2005 07:42:00 pm

Guatemala's Constitutional Court Friday ordered charges dropped against soldiers accused of participating in a 1982 massacre of more than 300 civilians, citing the countrys's National Reconciliation Law . The law is a type of amnesty the...

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News British soldiers target commanding officer in Iraqi abuse trial
British soldiers target commanding officer in Iraqi abuse trial
Gretchen E. Moore
January 21, 2005 08:03:00 pm

At a court martial that resumed Friday at a British military base in Osnabrueck Germany after the defense requested a temporary halt , a lawyer for one of three British soldiers charged with abusing Iraqi detainees accused their...

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News JP Morgan offers reparations for pre-Civil War slave collateral
JP Morgan offers reparations for pre-Civil War slave collateral
Gretchen E. Moore
January 21, 2005 07:39:00 pm

The second largest bank in the nation, JP Morgan Chase & Co. , has publicly disclosed that two of its predecessor banks had received thousands of slaves as collateral prior to the Civil War. JP Morgan offered a...

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News UPDATE ~ US soldier found guilty of murdering Iraqi teen
UPDATE ~ US soldier found guilty of murdering Iraqi teen
Gretchen E. Moore
January 14, 2005 07:52:00 pm

Following up a JURIST report from earlier today, US Central Command has now announced that Staff Sgt. Jonathan J. Alban-Cardenas has been convicted of one count of murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder...

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News VA Supreme Court invalidates "singles sex law"
VA Supreme Court invalidates "singles sex law"
Gretchen E. Moore
January 14, 2005 07:52:00 pm

In a unanimous ruling Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court struck down a state law prohibiting consensual sex between unmarried people. Read the opinion . The justices based their decision on Lawrence v. Texas , the 2003 US...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Ukraine high court rejects all legal appeals against election by PM Yanukovych
BREAKING NEWS ~ Ukraine high court rejects all legal appeals against election by PM Yanukovych
Gretchen E. Moore
December 30, 2004 10:32:00 am

AP is reporting that Ukraine's Supreme Court has rejected all appeals by Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych against Sunday's presidential revote, won by opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko. CTV News has more....

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News Taiwan high court rejects second challenge to presidential election
Taiwan high court rejects second challenge to presidential election
Gretchen E. Moore
December 30, 2004 09:52:00 am

Taiwan's High Court Thursday rejected a second lawsuit filed by the opposition Nationalist Party to nullify the March 20 presidential poll and upheld President Chen Shui-bian's narrow re-election victory. The first lawsuit was dismissed in November after an extensive...

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News New trial nixed in Schiavo right-to-die case
New trial nixed in Schiavo right-to-die case
Gretchen E. Moore
December 30, 2004 09:34:00 am

The Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal Wednesday denied a request from the parents of Terri Schiavo for a new trial in her long-running right-to-die case. Once the court issues a formal decision within two weeks, Schiavo's husband will...

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News Arkansas judge rules ban on gay foster parents unconstitutional
Arkansas judge rules ban on gay foster parents unconstitutional
Gretchen E. Moore
December 30, 2004 09:09:00 am

Arkansas Circuit Judge Timothy Fox Wednesday declared that a state ban on placing foster children in a household with a gay member was unconstitutional. The Arkansas chapter of the ACLU brought the case, challenging a 1999 regulation that stated...

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News Navy SEALs sue AP over Iraq prisoner photos
Navy SEALs sue AP over Iraq prisoner photos
Gretchen E. Moore
December 29, 2004 10:41:00 am

Six members of a Navy SEALs unit and two Navy wives sued the Associated Press Tuesday, stating that the news agency endangered the servicemen's lives and invaded their privacy by publishing private photos showing the men interacting with Iraqi...

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Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, murdered by Henry II's knights

On December 29, 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by knights acting in the name of Henry II.

Becket and Henry had been entangled in a power struggle over, among other things, criminal jurisdiction over clergy. Read a contemporary account of the murder of Thomas Becket.

Texas attains US statehood

On December 29, 1845, Texas became the twenty-eighth state to join the United States of America when US President James K. Polk signed the Ordinance of Annexation. Texas had a complicated path to statehood because it had formerly been part of Mexico and then an independent republic. The US Congress passed the Annexation of the Republic of Texas Joint Resolution on March 1, 1845. Voters in Texas then approved the Ordinance of Annexation in October, before it was approved by the US Congress and signed into law by President Polk on this day in 1845. The US Supreme Court later ruled in Texas v. White that, despite its unique path to statehood, Texas did not have the right to secede from the union.

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