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News White supremacist sentenced for soliciting murder of federal judge
White supremacist sentenced for soliciting murder of federal judge
Jeannie Shawl
April 6, 2005 02:11:00 pm

US District Judge James Moody sentenced white supremacist Matthew Hale to 40 years in prison for soliciting an undercover FBI informant to murder US District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow . In an earlier, trademark infringement suit, Lefkow had...

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News Hong Kong asks China for ruling on term length issue
Hong Kong asks China for ruling on term length issue
Jeannie Shawl
April 6, 2005 01:47:00 pm

Hong Kong's Acting Chief Executive Donald Tsang said Wednesday that it is "accurate and necessary" to ask China's National People's Congress to interpret Hong Kong's Basic Law in order to settle...

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News German court acquits terror suspect of plot to bomb US targets
German court acquits terror suspect of plot to bomb US targets
Jeannie Shawl
April 6, 2005 12:49:00 pm

A German court Wednesday found Tunisian national Ihsan Garnaoui not guilty of charges of founding a terrorist organization and planning bomb attacks against American and Jewish targets in Germany. Garnaoui went on trial last May on allegations...

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News Conclave electing papal successor to begin April 18
Conclave electing papal successor to begin April 18
Jeannie Shawl
April 6, 2005 12:21:00 pm

The Vatican announced Wednesday that the College of Cardinals has set April 18 as the beginning of its secret conclave to elect a successor to Pope John Paul II, who died Saturday . The conclave will...

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News Connecticut to challenge constitutionality of No Child Left Behind Act
Connecticut to challenge constitutionality of No Child Left Behind Act
Jeannie Shawl
April 6, 2005 08:15:00 am

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced Tuesday that his office is preparing the first state-sponsored federal lawsuit against the US Department of Education for imposing millions of dollars worth of illegal...

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News Kansans vote to add same-sex marriage ban to state constitution
Kansans vote to add same-sex marriage ban to state constitution
Jeannie Shawl
April 6, 2005 07:59:00 am

Voters in Kansas overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional amendment Tuesday that will ban same-sex couples from marrying or entering into civil unions. Kansas law already prohibits same-sex marriage, but supporters of the constitutional amendment have said...

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News UPDATE ~ Talabani elected new interim Iraqi president
UPDATE ~ Talabani elected new interim Iraqi president
Jeannie Shawl
April 6, 2005 07:39:00 am

As expected , Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani was elected by the 275-member Iraqi National Assembly Wednesday to serve as president of Iraq's transitional government. In the same vote, Shiite Adel Abdul-Mahdi and Sunni current...

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News Justice Department releases new Patriot Act data ahead of hearings
Justice Department releases new Patriot Act data ahead of hearings
Jeannie Shawl
April 5, 2005 08:32:00 am

Ahead of key Senate Judiciary Committee hearings Tuesday on whether Congress should extend the USA PATRIOT Act , the Justice Department has released new data suggesting that some of the extraordinary powers...

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News ICC investigators get UN Darfur papers
ICC investigators get UN Darfur papers
Jeannie Shawl
April 5, 2005 08:08:00 am

Pursuant to a Security Council resolution passed Thursday, the International Criminal Court has received several boxes of evidence on alleged war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region collected by the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur [Commission report,...

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News Executions, death sentences on the rise, Amnesty reports
Executions, death sentences on the rise, Amnesty reports
Jeannie Shawl
April 5, 2005 07:43:00 am

At least 3,797 people were executed in 2004 and at least 7,395 people in 64 countries were sentenced to death last year, according to the annual report on the use of capital punishment released by Amnesty International ...

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Guyana gains independence

On May 26, 1966, Guyana gained independence from the United Kingdom.

Read the Constitutions of Guyana.

President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial ended

On May 26, 1868, the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson ended, with the Senate falling one vote short of reaching the two-thirds majority required for impeachment.

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