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News US Interior Department ‘unreasonably delayed’ Indian Trust accounting: judge
US Interior Department ‘unreasonably delayed’ Indian Trust accounting: judge
Jaime Jansen
January 31, 2008 09:19:00 am

A federal judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia Wednesday ruled that the US Department of the Interior (DOI) "unreasonably delayed" the accounting of billions of dollars of American Indian money...

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News Federal judge dismisses Hurricane Katrina Army class action against Army Corps
Federal judge dismisses Hurricane Katrina Army class action against Army Corps
Jaime Jansen
January 31, 2008 08:00:00 am

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a class action lawsuit brought by residents of New Orleans against the US Army Corps of Engineers , ruling that the Flood Control Act of 1928 grants immunity to...

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News Bush issues executive order on increased security review of foreign investments
Bush issues executive order on increased security review of foreign investments
Jaime Jansen
January 24, 2008 09:18:00 am

US President George W. Bush issued an executive order Wednesday "reforming how the United States reviews national security concerns that may arise from foreign investments." The executive order is designed to implement the Foreign Investment and...

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News Canada secretly halted Afghan detainee transfers over torture allegations: letter
Canada secretly halted Afghan detainee transfers over torture allegations: letter
Jaime Jansen
January 24, 2008 08:31:00 am

The Canadian government ceased transferring Afghan detainees from Canadian to Afghan custody in November after Canadian monitors in Afghanistan discovered evidence of torture, according to a Canadian Justice Department letter sent this week to...

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News Europe rights watchdog slams EU, UN terror watch lists
Europe rights watchdog slams EU, UN terror watch lists
Jaime Jansen
January 24, 2008 07:51:00 am

The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) on Wednesday called the European Union and United Nations' practice of blacklisting terror suspects from interstate travel "completely arbitrary" and urged member states of both organizations to...

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News Serbia court convicts 26 members of mob group on murder, kidnapping charges
Serbia court convicts 26 members of mob group on murder, kidnapping charges
Jaime Jansen
January 18, 2008 10:47:00 am

A Serbian court convicted 26 members of Belgrade's "Zemun clan" and sentenced them collectively to 465 years in prison Friday. The Zemun clan once acted as a hit squad for former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic . Those...

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News North Korea still violating human rights: UN envoy
North Korea still violating human rights: UN envoy
Jaime Jansen
January 18, 2008 10:08:00 am

North Korea has shown no improvement in its human rights record and still systematically tortures its citizens, a UN special rapporteur said Friday. Vitit Muntarbhorn and a special UN envoy visited Japan [press...

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News Kenya opposition party turns to economic boycott over disputed election
Kenya opposition party turns to economic boycott over disputed election
Jaime Jansen
January 18, 2008 08:48:00 am

Kenya's main opposition party, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) said Friday that it would use economic boycotts and strikes to continue protests over the disputed re-election of Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki after ODM...

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News House Oversight Committee schedules hearing on White House e-mail records
House Oversight Committee schedules hearing on White House e-mail records
Jaime Jansen
January 18, 2008 07:53:00 am

US House Government Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) has scheduled a hearing for mid-February to look into White House compliance with the Presidential Records Act and to investigate the contradiction between comments [press...

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News Niger charges French journalists for reporting on Tuareg rebels
Niger charges French journalists for reporting on Tuareg rebels
Jaime Jansen
January 17, 2008 09:18:00 am

Niger authorities charged two French journalists with threatening state security Wednesday, alleging that the journalists attempted to report on rebel groups in the country's volatile north region. The West African country has been in a state of...

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Supreme court overturns racially restrictive covenants

On May 3, 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that racially restrictive covenants violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, even covenants between private individuals. In Shelley v. Kraemer, the Court overturned a covenant among members of a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri that restricted home sales to only white families.

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