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News Oklahoma Senate approves legislation targeting undocumented workers
Oklahoma Senate approves legislation targeting undocumented workers
Jennie Ryan
April 28, 2011 02:34:38 pm

The Oklahoma Senate on Wednesday approved HB 1446 , a bill creating a criminal penalty for undocumented workers who hold jobs and criminalizing the transportation of those workers into the state. The bill, written by Representative George...

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News Egypt prosecutor orders Mubarak to prison hospital
Egypt prosecutor orders Mubarak to prison hospital
Jennie Ryan
April 25, 2011 03:31:23 pm

Egyptian public prosecutor Abdel-Maguid Mahmoud on Sunday ordered ousted president Hosni Mubarak transferred from a private hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh to a prison hospital in Cairo. Mahmoud ordered the transfer after...

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News Idaho governor blocks implementation of federal health care law
Idaho governor blocks implementation of federal health care law
Jennie Ryan
April 21, 2011 01:28:50 pm

Idaho Governor CL "Butch" Otter (R) issued an executive order on Wednesday prohibiting implementation of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in the state. Executive Order 2011-03 bars "every executive...

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News Sri Lanka implicated in possible war crimes by UN panel
Sri Lanka implicated in possible war crimes by UN panel
Jennie Ryan
April 18, 2011 03:25:31 pm

A UN panel of experts on Sri Lanka has found credible allegations of war crimes committed during the country's war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) , according to excerpts of a report disclosed...

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News Tunisia charges ousted president with protester abuse
Tunisia charges ousted president with protester abuse
Jennie Ryan
April 14, 2011 01:16:00 pm

Tunisian Justice Minister Lazhar Karoui Chebbi announced Wednesday that the government has charged former president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali with 18 offenses ranging from murder and...

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News Ninth Circuit upholds injunction against Arizona immigration law
Ninth Circuit upholds injunction against Arizona immigration law
Jennie Ryan
April 11, 2011 03:29:02 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday upheld a lower court decision to enjoin several provisions of Arizona's controversial immigration law . In July, the US...

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News Arkansas high court upholds decision to strike gay adoption ban
Arkansas high court upholds decision to strike gay adoption ban
Jennie Ryan
April 7, 2011 01:12:37 pm

The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court decision invalidating a state ban on adoptions by same-sex couples. The court affirmed the decision of the Pulaski County Circuit Court invalidating Act...

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News Dutch court upholds ban on religious headscarves in Catholic school
Dutch court upholds ban on religious headscarves in Catholic school
Jennie Ryan
April 4, 2011 03:06:42 pm

A Dutch court in the Amsterdam district of Haarlem on Monday upheld a ban on Islamic headscarves at Don Bosco College , a Catholic school in Volendam. The...

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News Federal appeals court upholds EPA cap on vehicle emissions
Federal appeals court upholds EPA cap on vehicle emissions
Jennie Ryan
March 31, 2011 01:17:16 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday upheld an approval by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of caps on motor vehicle emissions in California. The court held that no...

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News Kosovo presidential election ruled unconstitutional
Kosovo presidential election ruled unconstitutional
Jennie Ryan
March 28, 2011 03:11:10 pm

Kosovo's Constitutional Court on Monday declared last month's presidential election of Behgjet Pacolli unconstitutional . The decision comes after a complaint was filed by opposition parliamentarians who alleged irregularities in the voting process by...

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Trial of former-Yugoslavia leader Slobodan Milošević begins

On February 12, 2002, the trial of Slobodan Milošević, the former President of Yugoslavia, began at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. Milošević was indicted on sixty-six counts of war crimes allegedly perpetrated during the Balkan civil wars of the 1990s, including allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity. The trial ended without a verdict, when Milosevic died of a heart attack during the proceedings. Read ICTY documents from the trial of Slobodan Milošević.

Congress passed Fugitive Slave Law

On February 12, 1793, the US Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, prohibiting anyone from assisting a runaway slave.

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