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News US asks Switzerland to extradite several FIFA officials
US asks Switzerland to extradite several FIFA officials
Matt Belenky
July 3, 2015 09:09:42 am

Swiss authorities on Thursday said that the United States has asked Switzerland to extradite seven FIFA officials who were arrested on corruption charges in late May. The Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) announced that...

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Australian parliament passes copyright piracy bill
Matt Belenky
June 24, 2015 08:13:32 pm

The Australian parliament on Monday passed the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill 2015 to prevent the online piracy of film and TV shows. The approved legislation gives rights holders the chance to go to a...

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News US court upholds regulations on loans at for-profit colleges
US court upholds regulations on loans at for-profit colleges
Matt Belenky
June 24, 2015 07:38:24 pm

The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday ruled in favor of tight regulations pointed at the for-profit college industry. The court ruled that the Education Department has the right to demand...

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News Bahrain court sentences Shiite opposition leader to 4 years in prison
Bahrain court sentences Shiite opposition leader to 4 years in prison
Matt Belenky
June 17, 2015 12:10:58 pm

A Bahraini court on Tuesday sentenced prominent Shiite leader Sheikh Ali Salman to four years in prison for insulting the Interior Ministry , inciting others to break the law, and inciting hatred against naturalized Sunnis. Salman...

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News European Court of Justice rules in favor of central bank bond buying program
European Court of Justice rules in favor of central bank bond buying program
Matt Belenky
June 17, 2015 11:24:09 am

The European Court of Justice handed down a ruling Tuesday that strengthened the role of the European Central Bank (ECB) in mediating financial markets. The Court upheld the ECB's 2012 offer to purchase the...

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Federal appeals court upholds controversial parts of Texas abortion law
Matt Belenky
June 10, 2015 01:08:52 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday upheld some of the strictest parts of a Texas abortion law, which could cause the majority of the state's abortion clinics to close, leaving...

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News Bangladesh war crimes tribunal sentences fugitive commander to death
Bangladesh war crimes tribunal sentences fugitive commander to death
Matt Belenky
June 10, 2015 12:01:28 pm

Syed Mohammed Hasan Ali, a fugitive commander of Razakar Bahini, an auxiliary force of the Pakistani troops, was sentenced to death on Tuesday by a Bangladeshi court for torture and massacre committed during Bangladesh's 1971 Liberation War ....

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Canada court orders tobacco companies to pay billions in damages
Matt Belenky
June 3, 2015 08:28:09 am

A judge for the Quebec Superior Court has awarded over $15 billion (USD $12 billion) in damages to Quebec smokers in a case against tobacco companies JTI-Macdonald, Imperial Tobacco, and Rothmans, Benson & Hedges, making this the...

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US Senate votes to reduce government’s mass surveillance powers
Matt Belenky
June 3, 2015 07:45:39 am

The US Senate approved the USA Freedom Act on Tuesday, which reduces the federal government's surveillance of Americans' phone records. Shortly after the approval, President Barack Obama signed the measure into law, stating...

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Supreme Court rules on bankruptcy courts’ authority
Matt Belenky
May 27, 2015 12:13:29 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in Wellness International Network Ltd. v. Sharif that bankruptcy judges have the power to make final judgments in certain legal disputes. In so ruling the Supreme Court...

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White supremacists overthrow government in Wilmington, North Carolina

A group of white supremacists overthrew the government of Wilmington, North Carolina on November 10, 1898, killing at least dozens of Black people in the process. The city's Republican government resigned after the 500-2,000 strong white mob burned the offices of a Black-owned newspaper and terrorized black neighborhoods. The new state Democratic government passed laws in 1899 disenfranchising Black voters across North Carolina. Learn more about the 1898 Wilmington Coup.

Supreme Court limited free speech in wartime

On November 10, 1919, the US Supreme Court ruled in Abrams v. United States that the federal government could criminalize speech if it was of a type tending to bring about harmful results, in this case, resistance to the United States war effort. In a powerful dissenting opinion, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes countered that even during wartime, free speech could only be curtailed when there was clear and "present danger of immediate evil or an intent to bring it about."

Leonid Brezhnev dies

On November 10, 1982, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died of a heart attack. He had served as leader of the USSR from October 1964 until his death. Following his death, the Soviet Union cycled through three more leaders during the 1980s until Mikhail Gorbachev allowed the country to dissolve in 1991. Read an obituary of Leonid Brezhnev from the New York Times.

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