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News Senators block Gonzales no-confidence vote
Senators block Gonzales no-confidence vote
Leslie Schulman
June 11, 2007 07:06:00 pm

The US Senate voted 53-38 Monday on a cloture motion limiting debate on a joint resolution expressing its lack of confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales , effectively stopping the resolution...

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News Ex-KKK member on trial for 1964 civil rights killings
Ex-KKK member on trial for 1964 civil rights killings
Leslie Schulman
June 4, 2007 07:09:00 pm

The trial of former Ku Klux Klan (KKK) member James Ford Seale , accused of kidnapping and killing two black men in Mississippi in 1964, began Monday. Seale, now 71 years old, was originally arrested in 1964 on...

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News Spain PM backs Sarkozy call for limited EU constitutional treaty
Spain PM backs Sarkozy call for limited EU constitutional treaty
Leslie Schulman
May 31, 2007 07:12:00 pm

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and new French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Wednesday that they both back proposals for a limited constitutional treaty that would amend the...

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News US House passes lobbying reform bills
US House passes lobbying reform bills
Leslie Schulman
May 24, 2007 07:03:00 pm

The US House of Representatives passed two measures Thursday that would require stricter regulation of lobbying practices. The Lobbying Transparency Act , which passed 382-37 , would amend the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995...

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News Egypt police release extremists, arrest more  Muslim Brotherhood members
Egypt police release extremists, arrest more Muslim Brotherhood members
Leslie Schulman
May 21, 2007 08:07:00 pm

More than one hundred Muslim extremists belonging to the group al-Jihad have been released from Egyptian prisons over the last two weeks, according to Egyptian police on Monday. The prisoners, many of whom had been held for...

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Iran charges detained Iranian-American scholar
Leslie Schulman
May 21, 2007 07:16:00 pm

Prominent Iranian-American scholar Dr. Haleh Esfandiari was formally charged with plotting to overthrow the Iranian government by organizing a network "against the sovereignty of the country," according to Iranian television Monday. Esfandiari, director of the Middle East...

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US seeks extradition of Muslim cleric imprisoned in UK
Leslie Schulman
May 17, 2007 08:03:00 pm

Lawyers for the US government argued for the extradition of Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri in a hearing before a London court Thursday. Al-Masri is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in...

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News UN rights council election sidelines Belarus
UN rights council election sidelines Belarus
Leslie Schulman
May 17, 2007 06:49:00 pm

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) held elections to its 47-member Geneva-based panel on Thursday, with Bosnia-Herzegovina and Slovenia defeating Belarus for the two available Eastern European...

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News Bush orders federal agencies to set vehicle emissions regulations by end of term
Bush orders federal agencies to set vehicle emissions regulations by end of term
Leslie Schulman
May 14, 2007 08:10:00 pm

US President George W. Bush issued an executive order Monday requesting that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US departments of Agriculture, Energy, and Transportation cooperate to begin the regulation of vehicle emissions by the...

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US Deputy Attorney General McNulty resigns
Leslie Schulman
May 14, 2007 07:04:00 pm

US Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty announced Monday that he will resign from his post as second-in-line at the Department of Justice (DOJ) as early as the end of the summer, or when a successor...

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Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the US in perpetuity

On February 23, 1903, Cuba leased Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity" as part of the Cuban-American Treaty. The United States subsequently used the lease to establish a Naval Base at Guantanamo. With the US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, a military prison was built at Guantanamo to house prisoners of war and terrorism suspects captured by American forces, becoming the subject of much controversy over its detentions without trial.

NAACP founder W.E.B. DuBois born

W.E.B. DuBois, founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was born on February 23, 1868. Review the W.E.B. DuBois Papers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and released FBI files on DuBois kept because of his affiliation with "communist front groups."

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