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News Pentagon defends force-feeding at Guantanamo
Pentagon defends force-feeding at Guantanamo
Stefanie Presley
March 11, 2006 01:21:00 pm

Pentagon officials said Friday that the force-feeding of hunger-striking detainees at Guantanamo Bay would continue despite opposition from doctors who signed an open letter published in the British medical journal Lancet [journal...

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News Jury acquits former Atlanta mayor of corruption charges
Jury acquits former Atlanta mayor of corruption charges
Stefanie Presley
March 11, 2006 01:10:00 pm

After a day and half of deliberation a federal jury Friday found former mayor of Atlanta Bill Campbell not guilty of racketeering, fraud and bribery charges, although he was found guilty on three counts of tax evasion....

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News Wisconsin voters to consider same-sex marriage ban
Wisconsin voters to consider same-sex marriage ban
Stefanie Presley
March 1, 2006 12:59:00 pm

A bill banning same-sex marriage passed the Republican-majority Wisconsin State Legislature Tuesday evening and will be presented to voters on the state ballot in November. Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle (D-WI),...

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News EU ministers approve data retention directive in controversial anti-terror move
EU ministers approve data retention directive in controversial anti-terror move
Stefanie Presley
February 22, 2006 01:38:00 pm

EU justice and interior ministers meeting in Brussels Tuesday approved a controversial data retention directive passed by the European Parliament in December designed to track down terrorists, paedophiles, and criminal gangs and...

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News Soldier faces trial on Afghan prisoner abuse charges
Soldier faces trial on Afghan prisoner abuse charges
Stefanie Presley
February 22, 2006 01:17:00 pm

Trial was scheduled to begin Wednesday in El Paso, TX for Sgt. Alan J. Driver, a reservist accused of abusing prisoners at Bagram Control Point in Afghanistan . He is the...

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US Army enlisting more recruits with criminal backgrounds
Stefanie Presley
February 15, 2006 01:02:00 pm

Facing a wartime enlistment deficiency, the US Army is granting special exceptions, called recruiting waivers , to an increasingly high percentage of recruits with criminal records or drug and alcohol problems. While the...

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Alito chooses former Ashcroft aide as law clerk
Stefanie Presley
February 15, 2006 12:47:00 pm

New US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has chosen Adam G. Ciongoli, a former counselor to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft as one of his five law clerks. Ciongoli, 37, who currently serves...

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Marie Antoinette convicted of treason and guillotened

French Queen consort Marie Antoinette was convicted of treason by a Revolutionary court and then guillotined on October 16, 1793. The queen consort was convicted of conspiring with foreign powers, depleting the treasury, and high treason only four days after her initial arrest on October 12. Her husband Louis XVI was executed nine months prior. Learn more about the trial and execution of Marie Antoinette.

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On October 16, 1946, 10 Nazi war criminals, including former German Foreign Minister von Rippentrop, were hanged following the verdicts of the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal.

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