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News Lawyers for Canada Guantanamo detainee to request extradition
Lawyers for Canada Guantanamo detainee to request extradition
Tom Henry
June 29, 2006 07:46:00 pm

Lawyers for Omar Khadr , the Canadian citizen who is detained at Guantanamo Bay and charged with killing a US Special Forces soldier in Afghanistan, said Thursday they will seek his extradition to Canada....

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News UN rights council endorses treaty banning enforced disappearances
UN rights council endorses treaty banning enforced disappearances
Tom Henry
June 29, 2006 07:13:00 pm

The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday adopted a resolution endorsing the draft International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance , which would require signatories to refrain from engaging in...

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News ACLU demands disclosure of Haditha files
ACLU demands disclosure of Haditha files
Tom Henry
June 22, 2006 08:13:00 pm

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday filed a Freedom of Information Act request demanding that the US Department of Defense publicly release its files about the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians ...

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News Line-item veto bill passes House
Line-item veto bill passes House
Tom Henry
June 22, 2006 07:48:00 pm

The US House of Representatives voted 247-172 Thursday to pass the Legislative Line-Item Veto Act of 2006 . The bill, which President Bush proposed in March, allows the...

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News House votes to scale back estate tax
House votes to scale back estate tax
Tom Henry
June 22, 2006 07:18:00 pm

Led by Republicans willing to delay a push to abolish the estate tax completely, the US House of Representatives voted Thursday to end taxation for single estates up to $5 million and married couples' estates up to...

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News Most counts of New Hampshire GOP phone jamming lawsuit dismissed
Most counts of New Hampshire GOP phone jamming lawsuit dismissed
Tom Henry
June 15, 2006 08:28:00 pm

A New Hampshire judge on Thursday dismissed 5 of 8 counts in a lawsuit brought by Democrats against Republicans after the jamming of Democratic phone lines in the 2002 Senate race between Sen. John Sununu (R-NH) [official...

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News Kentucky high court rules inmate can be executed despite mental age questions
Kentucky high court rules inmate can be executed despite mental age questions
Tom Henry
June 15, 2006 07:42:00 pm

The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that, despite a 2005 US Supreme Court ruling barring the death penalty for juveniles, the mental age of a death row inmate could not be invoked to...

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News Bush signs bill to increase FCC indecency fines
Bush signs bill to increase FCC indecency fines
Tom Henry
June 15, 2006 07:21:00 pm

One week after the US House of Representatives voted 379-35 to pass the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act , President Bush signed into law the legislation that will increase by tenfold the maximum...

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Denmark adopts new anti-terror laws
Tom Henry
June 3, 2006 10:44:00 am

Denmark's parliament has adopted two new anti-terror measures conceived in the aftermath of the July 2005 London terrorist attacks . The new laws give the Danish Security Intelligence Service (PET) broader access to the...

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News Court rejects broad bid for documents in CIA leak case
Court rejects broad bid for documents in CIA leak case
Tom Henry
June 3, 2006 10:12:00 am

US District Judge Reggie B. Walton ruled Friday that most of the government documents sought by former Vice-Presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and his defense team were not closely tied to the narrow issue of...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Richard III of England killed and Henry VII takes throne at Battle of Bosworth Field

The reign of Richard III of England came to an end and that of Henry VII began after the former was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last major battle of the Wars of the Roses, on August 22, 1485. The battle marked the beginning of Tudor rule in England, which would last until Elizabeth I died in 1603.

First Geneva Convention signed

On August 22, 1864, twelve nations signed the first Geneva Convention protecting vulnerable persons in times of conflict. Review the text of the Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field and learn more about the modern Geneva Conventions from the American Red Cross.

Welfare Reform signed into law

On August 22, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act into law. The act fundamentally reformed the American welfare system, putting an emphasis on work requirements for those receiving federal assistance. The new law also limited most recipients to no more than five years on welfare and shifted money provided to states in the form of block grants, which the states could use to set their own criteria for welfare recipients.

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