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News EPA denies request for full explanation of California emissions waiver rejection
EPA denies request for full explanation of California emissions waiver rejection
Josh Camson
January 20, 2008 10:00:00 am

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday cited executive privilege in denying congressional requests for certain documents relating to the agency's decision to deny California a waiver from new auto-emissions standards. The waiver would...

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News Turkish president signs expanded anti-smoking law
Turkish president signs expanded anti-smoking law
Josh Camson
January 18, 2008 01:29:00 pm

Turkish President Abdullah Gul Friday signed a bill banning smoking in government buildings, offices, bars and restaurants. The bill was passed by the Turkish Grand National Assembly earlier this month. The ban includes...

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Niger judge OKs release of French journalists on bail
Josh Camson
January 18, 2008 12:59:00 pm

Niger authorities will release on bail two French journalists charged this week with threatening state security, the journalists' lawyer said Friday. Reporter Pierre Creisson and cameraman Thomas Dandois will be released when each journalist...

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US intelligence chief says waterboarding would be torture ‘for me’
Josh Camson
January 13, 2008 10:00:00 am

US Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said in an article published in the New Yorker Sunday that waterboarding , the controversial interrogation technique simulating drowning allegedly used against detainees by the CIA,...

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ACLU challenges Michigan election law as unconstitutional
Josh Camson
January 11, 2008 02:18:00 pm

The ACLU of Michigan filed a federal suit Friday challenging a Michigan election law that limits access to information on presidential primary voters to the Democratic and Republican parties. The complaint alleges that Section 615c...

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Josh Camson
January 11, 2008 01:01:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday that four former Guantanamo Bay detainees do not have the right to sue high-ranking government officials for alleged torture and infringement...

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Pakistan police arrest US rights activists pressing for top lawyer’s release
Josh Camson
December 4, 2007 03:34:00 pm

Pakistani police acting at the direction of what one official called "higher ups" arrested two American human rights activists in Lahore Tuesday, according to AP. Medea Benjamin and Tighe Barry are members of the US-based human rights...

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Padilla sentencing postponed to January
Josh Camson
December 4, 2007 02:57:00 pm

The sentencing of convicted terrorism conspirator Jose Padilla will be delayed until January, according to US federal court officials cited by AP Tuesday. Sentencing hearings that were due to begin this week were rescheduled due to...

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Denmark rejects US request to take Guantanamo detainees
Josh Camson
November 30, 2007 03:12:00 pm

Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs Per Stig Moeller said Friday that Denmark has rejected a US request to accept the transfer of several detainees from Guantanamo Bay . Moeller said that the detainees could be...

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Pakistan AG says high court likely to overturn amnesty for ex-PM Bhutto
Josh Camson
November 18, 2007 10:07:00 am

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is likely to face 8 1/2-year old corruption charges again in the likely event that an amnesty ordinance issued by President Pervez Musharraf is thrown out...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

First Fleet departs from England to establish penal colony in Australia

On May 13, 1787, the First Fleet departed from England, carrying 780 British convicts to establish a penal colony in Australia. Led by Captain Arthur Philip, all eleven ships arrived safely in Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia in January of 1788.

Read Captain Philip's account of his voyage on Project Gutenberg, and learn more about the journey and its impact from First Fleet online.

Federal government denied funding to segregated school districts

On May 13, 1966, the US federal government took its first action against violators of the desegregation guidelines of the 1964 Civil Rights Act by denying federal education funding for 12 segregated Southern school districts. Learn more about school desegregation.

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