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News El Salvador supreme court rules street gangs are terrorist groups
El Salvador supreme court rules street gangs are terrorist groups
Taylor Gillan
August 25, 2015 12:24:31 pm

El Salvador's Supreme Court ruled Monday that the country's street gangs and those who support them financially will now be classified as terrorist groups. The ruling was made as part of a...

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News UN rights office denounces Iraq executions
UN rights office denounces Iraq executions
Taylor Gillan
August 25, 2015 11:42:20 am

A spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday spoke against the execution of an Iraqi man and his two wives in the Kurdistan region. Human rights officials...

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News Iraq judicial council rejects call for top judge’s resignation
Iraq judicial council rejects call for top judge’s resignation
Taylor Gillan
August 18, 2015 09:06:07 am

Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council on Monday rejected calls from protesters for the resignation of the country's most senior Supreme Court judge. The demand for Judge Medhat Mahmoud to "retire" came as...

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News NLRB dismisses petition for college athlete union
NLRB dismisses petition for college athlete union
Taylor Gillan
August 18, 2015 08:29:41 am

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Monday declined to assert jurisdiction over whether Northwestern University football players can form a union, overturning its 2014 decision which recognized the players as...

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US eases oil export ban
Taylor Gillan
August 15, 2015 11:30:32 am

The US Department of Commerce on Friday agreed to allow limited crude oil trading with Mexico, easing a ban on crude exports that has been in place for 40 years. Members of the US Congress was informed...

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Kentucky county clerk appeals same-sex marriage license court order
Taylor Gillan
August 15, 2015 10:14:16 am

A Kentucky county clerk on Friday again appealed the ruling of a federal judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky ordering her to resume issuing marriage licenses. Following the US Supreme Court's...

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Azerbaijan begins reporter’s trial
Taylor Gillan
August 8, 2015 12:21:27 pm

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty contributor Khadija Ismayilova on Friday went on trial in Baku, Azerbaijan eight months after her arrest. The investigative journalist faces charges of tax evasion, abuse of power and embezzlement,...

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Colorado gunman sentenced to life in prison
Taylor Gillan
August 8, 2015 10:38:29 am

A Colorado jury on Friday sentenced James Holmes to life in prison for killing 12 people and injuring 70 in the 2012 shooting movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado. The sentence , which carries no possibility of...

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Defense secretary orders recruitment office security review after shootings
Taylor Gillan
July 31, 2015 09:36:16 am

US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter on Thursday ordered a review of military recruitment office security policies, according to a statement from the Pentagon. Speaking on the order , Pentagon spokesperson Navy Captain Jeff...

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Israel prisoner force-feeding measure becomes law
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July 31, 2015 08:30:38 am

The Israeli parliament on Thursday passed a law that allows the force-feeding of prisoners on hunger strikes if their lives are at risk. The law, which passed in a close vote of 46 - 40,...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Supreme Court ruled corporations due equal protection rights

On May 10, 1886, the US Supreme Court ruled in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company that corporations were "persons" within the terms of the Fourteenth Amendment, and therefore were due rights of equal protection under state law.

Nelson Mandela became first black president of South Africa

On May 10, 1994, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first black President of South Africa. Before becoming President, Mandela was an anti-Apartheid leader in segregated South Africa. He served twenty-seven years in prison before his release in 1990, after which he was elected president of the country. Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

Read a biography of Nelson Mandela from the Nobel Foundation.

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