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News Moussaoui sentencing jury taking weekend off from death penalty deliberations
Moussaoui sentencing jury taking weekend off from death penalty deliberations
Alexis Unkovic
April 1, 2006 11:51:00 am

The jury in the Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing trial is taking the weekend off after adjourning Friday, having not yet reached a verdict on whether the alleged al Qaeda terrorist should receive the death penalty ....

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News New Jersey appeals court upholds Vioxx class action certification
New Jersey appeals court upholds Vioxx class action certification
Greg Sampson
April 1, 2006 11:17:00 am

A New Jersey appeals court on Friday upheld a July 2005 trial court decision to certify a nationwide class of plaintiffs suing the drug maker Merck for damages relating to its withdrawn drug Vioxx...

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News AG Gonzales commits $15M to fight against urban gangs
AG Gonzales commits $15M to fight against urban gangs
Greg Sampson
April 1, 2006 11:06:00 am

In a speech in Los Angeles on Friday, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced that the US Department of Justice, through its anti-gang initiative, will give out $15 million in grants to six areas to help fund...

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News UN Security Council considers resolution to shift Taylor war crimes trial
UN Security Council considers resolution to shift Taylor war crimes trial
Alexis Unkovic
April 1, 2006 10:58:00 am

Britain has circulated a draft resolution to fellow UN Security Council members that would permit the pending war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor to be moved from Sierra Leone...

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News Bosnia high court strikes down use of ethnic symbols
Bosnia high court strikes down use of ethnic symbols
Alexis Unkovic
April 1, 2006 10:41:00 am

The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina ruled Friday that Bosnia's main ethnic groups dominating the country's two semi-autonomous regions must discontinue use of ethnic symbols, including anthems, flags, and coats of arms adopted after the 1992-95...

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Bush calls again for guest worker program as US students protest immigration reforms
Greg Sampson
April 1, 2006 10:36:00 am

President Bush on Friday completed a two-day summit in Cancun with Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper by once again calling on the US Congress to pass immigration reform legislation that would...

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US Catholic Church sex abuse report [USCCB]
March 31, 2006 10:04:00 pm

Report on the Implementation of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, US Conference of Catholic Bishops, March, 2006 . Read the full...

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News Sweden to audit ICTY detention facility following Milosevic death
Sweden to audit ICTY detention facility following Milosevic death
Jaime Jansen
March 31, 2006 04:25:00 pm

The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced Friday that the Swedish government has accepted its invitation to conduct an audit of the Scheveningen detention unit outside of...

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Senate Judiciary Committee debates Feingold resolution to censure Bush
Jaime Jansen
March 31, 2006 03:43:00 pm

Members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee sparred Friday at a hearing on a resolution put forward by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) to censure President Bush for...

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Taylor awaits war crimes trial under close UN guard
Jaime Jansen
March 31, 2006 03:07:00 pm

Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) Chief Prosecutor Desmond de Silva told the Associated Press in an interview Friday that Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor is being closely guarded by UN peacekeepers from...

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First American anti-slavery society organized

On April 14, 1775, Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia helped organize the first American society for the abolition of slavery.

Learn more about the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.

USSR agrees to leave Afghanistan

On April 14, 1988, the USSR signed the Geneva Accords, pledging to withdraw its military forces from Afghanistan. Soviet troops had been in the country since the USSR invaded in 1979 in order to support the communist government there. In addition to setting a timetable for Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Geneva Accords further defined the terms of relations between the government of Pakistan and the communist government of Afghanistan, providing for the return of prisoners and non-interference in the affairs of the other nation.

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