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News Marine cleared in shooting of unarmed Iraqi
Marine cleared in shooting of unarmed Iraqi
Jamie Sterling
May 5, 2005 08:36:00 am

The US Marine Corps has dropped charges against the Marine corporal responsible for shooting a wounded and unarmed Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque last November in an incident caught on a dramatic videotape aired on...

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News Colorado lawmakers kill vote on same-sex marriage ban
Colorado lawmakers kill vote on same-sex marriage ban
Jamie Sterling
May 5, 2005 08:19:00 am

Colorado's House Judiciary Committee have killed SB 140 , a bill that would have allowed Colorado voters in the upcoming November election to vote on the addition of a same-sex marriage ban to the state Constitution....

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News Mexico drops case against Mexico City mayor
Mexico drops case against Mexico City mayor
Jamie Sterling
May 4, 2005 04:04:00 pm

The Mexican attorney general's office (PGR) Wednesday dropped a land dispute case brought against Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador . Lopez Obrador , the popular front-runner in the country's 2006...

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News US soldiers arrested for attempted arms smuggling in Colombia
US soldiers arrested for attempted arms smuggling in Colombia
Jamie Sterling
May 4, 2005 02:53:00 pm

Colombian police arrested two American soldiers Wednesday for attempted arms smuggling, potentially to illegal far-right Colombian para-military groups. This is the second set of arrests for US military smuggling in the past month; the other involved a US Air...

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News IRA member charged with murder for 1998 terrorist bombing
IRA member charged with murder for 1998 terrorist bombing
Jamie Sterling
May 4, 2005 02:36:00 pm

Sean Gerard Hoey, a member of the Irish Republican Army , was charged Wednesday with the murder of 29 people in the largest terrorist bombing in the history of Northern Ireland's "troubles." The 1998 Omagh bombing [BBC archive...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ FBI charges Pentagon analyst with leaking classified documents
BREAKING NEWS ~ FBI charges Pentagon analyst with leaking classified documents
Jamie Sterling
May 4, 2005 11:26:00 am

AP is reporting that Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin , previously demoted and stripped of his security clearance in the wake of August allegations that he had spied for Israel, was arrested Wednesday after turning himself in on charges...

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News Annan says Security Council reforms will not alter veto entitlement
Annan says Security Council reforms will not alter veto entitlement
Jamie Sterling
May 4, 2005 09:06:00 am

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Tuesday that expecting any of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council to endorse reforms that would give other nations the same veto powers they already enjoyed...

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News UPDATE ~ Judge questions England guilty plea after psychologist testimony
UPDATE ~ Judge questions England guilty plea after psychologist testimony
Jamie Sterling
May 4, 2005 08:46:00 am

Following up on a earlier report in JURIST's Paper Chase, Judge Col. James Pohl asked Pfc. Lynndie England late Tuesday whether she wanted to consider withdrawing her guilty plea after her childhood psychologist testified to her reduced...

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News Air Force investigating constitutionality of religious activities at Academy
Air Force investigating constitutionality of religious activities at Academy
Jamie Sterling
May 4, 2005 08:18:00 am

Acting Air Force Secretary Michael L. Dominguez , announced Tuesday that the Pentagon will investigate reported religious activities at the Colorado Springs United States Air Force Academy to determine if the climate there respects the Establishment...

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News England sentencing panel chosen
England sentencing panel chosen
Jamie Sterling
May 3, 2005 03:28:00 pm

A US military court Tuesday selected a panel of six soldiers, all American Iraqi war veterans, to sentence Pfc. Lynndie England, the face of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. England pleaded guilty Monday to seven charges and...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Soviet spy Klaus Fuchs sentenced to 14 years in UK prison

On March 1, 1950, German-British atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs was sentenced to 14 years in prison by a UK court for passing British and American nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. Read a biography of Fuchs from PBS.

Civil Rights Act of 1875 became law

On March 1, 1875, the Civil Rights Act of 1875 became law. It declared that all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law. In 1883, in the Civil Rights Cases, the US Supreme Court ruled the 1875 Act unconstitutional and unauthorized by either the 13th or 14th Amendments. Congress passed no more civil rights legislation until 1957.

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