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News Ohio voter ID law temporarily suspended for absentee ballots
Ohio voter ID law temporarily suspended for absentee ballots
Kate Heneroty
October 27, 2006 07:53:00 am

US District Judge Algenon Marbley granted a temporary restraining order Thursday blocking enforcement of Ohio's voter ID law as it applies to absentee ballots because Ohio's 88 counties are applying...

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News Bank denies holding Pinochet gold stash
Bank denies holding Pinochet gold stash
Kate Heneroty
October 27, 2006 07:26:00 am

The Chilean office of the HSBC bank said Thursday that it has no accounts in the name of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and that bank documents detailing Pinochet's alleged $160 million gold fortune...

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News Bush asserts US right to protect interests in space
Bush asserts US right to protect interests in space
Kate Heneroty
October 20, 2006 08:37:00 am

US President George W. Bush has authorized the first changes to the US space policy in nearly 10 years by asserting authority to deny access to space to any adversary hostile to US interests. An unclassified version of the...

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News Texas death row inmate commits suicide hours before execution
Texas death row inmate commits suicide hours before execution
Kate Heneroty
October 20, 2006 08:21:00 am

Michael Dewayne Johnson, a death row inmate in Texas, committed suicide Thursday, 15-hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection . Johnson was convicted of murdering a gas station attendant in 1995, but maintained that...

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News Rice, Chinese foreign minister trade human rights concerns
Rice, Chinese foreign minister trade human rights concerns
Kate Heneroty
October 20, 2006 08:00:00 am

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that she raised concerns over China's human rights records during a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing that focused on North Korea and Iran's nuclear...

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Federal judge orders Cheney visitor logs released in WashPost lobbyist probe
Kate Heneroty
October 20, 2006 07:28:00 am

US District Judge Ricardo Urbina has ordered the Secret Service to release visitor logs for the personal residence and office of Vice-President Dick Cheney . In his ruling Wednesday, Urbina gave the Bush Administration until...

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News UK House of Lords backs pardons for WWI soldiers executed for desertion
UK House of Lords backs pardons for WWI soldiers executed for desertion
Kate Heneroty
October 13, 2006 08:40:00 am

Members of Britain's House of Lords Thursday voiced their support for an amendment to the Armed Forces Bill that would pardon 306 World War I soldiers who were executed for various offenses...

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News Pinochet immunity lifted in another human rights case
Pinochet immunity lifted in another human rights case
Kate Heneroty
October 13, 2006 08:24:00 am

The Santiago Court of Appeals voted 16-2 Thursday to strip the immunity of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet , in a case involving the kidnapping and murder of a chemist who worked...

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News US rejects latest UK call to close Guantanamo Bay
US rejects latest UK call to close Guantanamo Bay
Kate Heneroty
October 13, 2006 08:01:00 am

The US State Department has rejected Britain's latest call for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, saying the prison would remain open as long as necessary and was needed to house "some very dangerous...

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DOD documents show monitoring of anti-war groups for terror threats database
Kate Heneroty
October 13, 2006 07:35:00 am

The US Department of Defense (DOD) labeled anti-war activities as "potential terrorist activity" and monitored students, Quakers and other anti-war groups while collecting information for a domestic terror threats database, according to documents ...

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Reichstag Fire Decree issued in Germany

On February 28, 1933, German President Paul von Hindenburg issued the Presidential Decree for the Protection of People and State in response to the burning of the Reichstag (the German Parliament building) on the previous day. More commonly known as the Reichstag Fire Decree, the law suspended many key civil liberties, such as free press, habeas corpus, and warrant requirements. Blaming Communists for the attack on the Reichstag, the Nazi party and newly-appointed Chancellor Adolf Hitler pressed the law through as a first step in establishing absolute control over Germany. On March 23, the German Parliament passed the Enabling Act, which empowered Adolf Hitler to become the dictator of Germany. Four months later on July 14, the Nazis solidified their control over Germany with the passage of the Law Against the Establishment of Parties eliminated all political parties in Germany other than the Nazi Party.

Congress ratified Manypenny Agreement on the Black Hills

On February 28, 1877, the US Congress ratified the Manypenny Agreement with the Lakota Sioux, under which the United States took control of 900,000 acres of the Black Hills. Read the ratification act, which includes the terms of the Agreement. The Lakota argue to this day that the agreement is illegal, was obtained by coercion associated with starvation, and that the Black Hills should be returned to them.

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