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News DOJ seeks to avoid clearing Ken Lay criminal record
DOJ seeks to avoid clearing Ken Lay criminal record
Jaime Jansen
September 7, 2006 10:07:00 am

The US Justice Department filed a motion Wednesday requesting US District Judge Simeon T. Lake III defer a ruling on vacating the criminal record of former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay [Houston Chronicle...

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News Newmont Mining executive testifies in Indonesia criminal pollution trial
Newmont Mining executive testifies in Indonesia criminal pollution trial
Jaime Jansen
September 1, 2006 12:43:00 pm

The regional chief executive of Newmont Mining Corporation , an American gold-mining company with a subsidiary in Indonesia, testified Friday in his criminal pollution trial. Richard Ness , who is accused of placing arsenic and mercury into...

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News Peru judge indicts opposition leader for human rights abuses
Peru judge indicts opposition leader for human rights abuses
Jaime Jansen
September 1, 2006 12:15:00 pm

A Peruvian judge on Thursday indicted Ollanta Humala , the opposition leader who narrowly lost the June Peruvian presidential election to present incumbent Alan Garcia...

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News Russia implements tough illegal filesharing law
Russia implements tough illegal filesharing law
Jaime Jansen
September 1, 2006 11:46:00 am

A tough amendment to Russia's copyright protection law designed to crack down on the Internet piracy of text, music and videos took effect Friday as part of Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization [official...

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News Ohio rights groups sue to preserve 2004 election paper ballots
Ohio rights groups sue to preserve 2004 election paper ballots
Jaime Jansen
September 1, 2006 11:15:00 am

Several voting rights groups filed a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of Ohio Thursday demanding that Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell preserve the paper ballots from the 2004 presidential election , just...

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News Federal judge rejects $50 million Vioxx award as ‘grossly excessive’
Federal judge rejects $50 million Vioxx award as ‘grossly excessive’
Jaime Jansen
August 30, 2006 02:04:00 pm

US District Judge Eldon E. Fallon of the Eastern District of Louisiana on Wednesday threw out a jury verdict holding Merck liable for $50 million in compensatory damages to a retired FBI agent...

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News Bolivia constitutional convention stalls on key vote over powers
Bolivia constitutional convention stalls on key vote over powers
Jaime Jansen
August 30, 2006 01:42:00 pm

A Bolivian constitutional convention championed by President Evo Morales has delayed voting on a motion that would allow the assembly to create a constitutional framework without having to answer...

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News Pinochet judge removed from tax evasion case for alleged bias
Pinochet judge removed from tax evasion case for alleged bias
Jaime Jansen
August 30, 2006 01:40:00 pm

The Santiago Court of Appeals has temporarily removed Judge Carlos Cerda from presiding over a probe into the finances of former Chile dictator Augusto Pinochet , after hearing arguments that...

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News South Dakota governor blocks execution pending new lethal injection law
South Dakota governor blocks execution pending new lethal injection law
Jaime Jansen
August 30, 2006 10:26:00 am

South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds on Tuesday ordered a last minute reprieve for death row inmate Elijah Page , calling the 1984 state lethal injection law outdated and expressing concern that state...

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News Iran court sentences outspoken editor for publishing articles ‘against constitution’
Iran court sentences outspoken editor for publishing articles ‘against constitution’
Jaime Jansen
August 28, 2006 04:13:00 pm

An Iranian court has sentenced the managing editor of the monthly Aftab, Isa Saharkhiz , to four years in jail and barred him from working in the press for five years after he was convicted of publishing...

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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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