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News Dallas suburb approves new rental ordinance targeting illegal immigrants
Dallas suburb approves new rental ordinance targeting illegal immigrants
Leslie Schulman
January 23, 2008 07:14:00 am

The City Council of Farmers Branch , a Dallas, Texas suburb, on Tuesday approved a measure that would require all adults to apply for a city license before they can lease...

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News Sears Tower terror retrial underway
Sears Tower terror retrial underway
Leslie Schulman
January 22, 2008 01:08:00 pm

Jury selection began Tuesday in the retrial of six of the seven men charged with allegedly conspiring to bomb the FBI headquarters in Miami and the Sears Tower in Chicago. The seven men first went to...

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News US Supreme Court refuses to consider class action status for Enron shareholders
US Supreme Court refuses to consider class action status for Enron shareholders
Leslie Schulman
January 22, 2008 12:25:00 pm

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday denied without comment a petition for certiorari filed in University of California Regents v. Merrill Lynch (06-1341) , a derivative lawsuit filed in...

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News Kenya opposition brings ICC ‘crimes against humanity’ complaint against government
Kenya opposition brings ICC ‘crimes against humanity’ complaint against government
Leslie Schulman
January 22, 2008 12:02:00 pm

Kenya's main opposition party, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) , has filed a formal complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC) , alleging that the Kenyan government has committed crimes against humanity in using force against demonstrators...

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News Federal judge orders Libya to pay $6B to US victims of 1989 air bombing
Federal judge orders Libya to pay $6B to US victims of 1989 air bombing
Leslie Schulman
January 16, 2008 08:20:00 am

US District Judge Henry Kennedy ruled Tuesday that the Libyan government and six Libyan officials should pay more than $6 billion in damages to families of seven Americans who died in the 1989 bombing...

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News Conyers calls for special counsel in CIA interrogation videos probe
Conyers calls for special counsel in CIA interrogation videos probe
Leslie Schulman
January 16, 2008 07:54:00 am

US House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) sent a letter Tuesday to Attorney General Michael Mukasey urging him to appoint a special counsel to investigate allegations that the US Central Intelligence Agency...

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DOJ facing legal hurdles in Blackwater Iraqi civilian shooting criminal case: NYT
Leslie Schulman
January 16, 2008 07:05:00 am

Bringing criminal charges against Blackwater employees for the September 16 killings of 14 Iraqi civilians in West Baghdad would require surmounting numerous legal hurdles, US Department of Justice officials told Congress during...

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US to increase deportations of illegal immigrant criminals
Leslie Schulman
January 15, 2008 01:19:00 pm

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to step up deportation of illegal immigrants serving time in US prisons and jails during 2008, ICE Assistant Secretary Julie L. Myers said in an interview published Tuesday...

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News Norway to extradite Vukovar war crimes suspect to Serbia
Norway to extradite Vukovar war crimes suspect to Serbia
Leslie Schulman
January 15, 2008 12:42:00 pm

Norway has agreed to extradite an unnamed Croatian citizen wanted for his alleged involvement in the 1991 Vukovar massacre to Serbia to face war crimes charges, Norwegian officials said Tuesday. Croatia...

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News Estonia trial begins for ethnic Russians accused of violence over WWII memorial
Estonia trial begins for ethnic Russians accused of violence over WWII memorial
Leslie Schulman
January 15, 2008 11:59:00 am

Four ethnic Russian Estonians accused of taking part in violence that occurred last year during the removal of a Red Army war memorial in Tallinn went on trial in Estonia Monday. The violence occurred last April when Estonia removed...

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Catalonia declares independence from Spain

The Parliament of Catalonia declared independence from Spain in a failed bid for sovereignty on October 27, 2017. The declaration followed an independence referendum, boycotted by pro-union residents, that saw 92% of voters choose independence. The declaration was subsequently declared illegal by Spain's Supreme Court. Many Catalan independence figures such as then-Catalan President Carles Puigdemont were criminally charged as a result of their involvement in the independence attempt. Read the Catalan Declaration of Independence.

First of the Federalist Papers published

On October 27, 1787, the first of the Federalist Papers, written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison under the pen-name "PUBLIUS" to promote the ratification of the new US Constitution, was published in a New York newspaper.

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