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News Iran lawmakers threaten withdrawal from Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Iran lawmakers threaten withdrawal from Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Nishat Hasan
May 7, 2006 09:35:00 am

Iranian lawmakers have sent a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan threatening to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty , which it signed in 1968, if "the U.N. Secretary General and other members of...

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News Israel police detain Hamas cabinet member in Jerusalem
Israel police detain Hamas cabinet member in Jerusalem
Nishat Hasan
April 6, 2006 10:47:00 am

Khaled Abu Arafa, the minister of Jerusalem affairs in the new Hamas-led Palestinian government , was detained Thursday by Israeli police as he attempted to meet his predecessor, Ziad Abu Zayyad, for administrative purposes. Reports indicate Abu Arafa...

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News BP faces EPA criminal probe into Alaska oil spill: WSJ
BP faces EPA criminal probe into Alaska oil spill: WSJ
Nishat Hasan
April 6, 2006 08:04:00 am

The Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a criminal investigation into management by British Petroleum of oil pipelines in Alaska, according to a report in Thursday's Wall Street Journal. A corroded pipeline owned by...

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News Poland prosecutors charge Communist-era leader for imposing martial law
Poland prosecutors charge Communist-era leader for imposing martial law
Nishat Hasan
March 31, 2006 10:58:00 am

Polish prosecutors on Friday charged General Wojciech Jaruzelski with "organizing crimes of a military nature" and "carrying out crimes that consisted of the deprivation of freedom through internment" for his imposition of martial law ...

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News Alabama House approves bill to pardon Rosa Parks, civil rights activists
Alabama House approves bill to pardon Rosa Parks, civil rights activists
Nishat Hasan
March 31, 2006 10:25:00 am

The Alabama House of Representatives has unanimously passed a bill that would pardon Rosa Parks and others arrested for violating segregation-era laws. Under the proposal, arrest records of those pardoned would not be removed from...

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News US states restricting access to more government information in secrecy surge
US states restricting access to more government information in secrecy surge
Nishat Hasan
March 12, 2006 12:25:00 pm

A new investigatory report by the Associated Press shows an increasing trend among state legislatures to restrict access to information that was public before the 9/11 attacks. Security concerns were found to be the main driving force...

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News US officials discussing Guantanamo closure with UK counterparts
US officials discussing Guantanamo closure with UK counterparts
Nishat Hasan
March 12, 2006 11:59:00 am

A senior US State Department official has indicated that US officials are talking with their British counterparts about how to eventually close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay . US State Deputy Assistant Secretary Colleen Graffy [official...

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News Changes in government whistleblower law proposed
Changes in government whistleblower law proposed
Nishat Hasan
February 14, 2006 07:18:00 pm

US Rep. Christopher Shays (R-CT) , chairman of the national security subcommittee of the House Government Reform Committee, said Tuesday that changes in whistleblower laws are needed to provide better protection for whistleblowers in the national...

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News Rights group flags upcoming Uganda election as unfair
Rights group flags upcoming Uganda election as unfair
Nishat Hasan
February 14, 2006 07:03:00 pm

Human Rights Watch has accused Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni of "playing dirty tricks" to intimidate voters in the upcoming elections on Feb. 23. Principal opposition leader Kizza Besigye is facing criminal charges in civil...

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News DOJ white paper: President authorized to conduct warrantless wiretaps
DOJ white paper: President authorized to conduct warrantless wiretaps
Nishat Hasan
January 19, 2006 08:14:00 pm

The US Justice Department Thursday released a 42-page white paper laying out a legal basis for the domestic surveillance program run by the National Security Agency...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

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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