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News Turkish military claims US ordering arrest of PKK members in Iraq
Turkish military claims US ordering arrest of PKK members in Iraq
Jamie Sterling
July 19, 2005 01:24:00 pm

According to a top military general in Turkey, the US has given orders to capture rebel members of the Turkish terrorist organization, the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) in Iraq. The PKK has been fighting the...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Bush to announce Supreme Court nominee at 9 PM ET
BREAKING NEWS ~ Bush to announce Supreme Court nominee at 9 PM ET
Tom Henry
July 19, 2005 01:08:00 pm

AP is reporting that a senior administration official has said that US President George Bush will announce his nominee for the US Supreme Court this evening at 9:00 PM ET. AP has more. The latest speculation has centered around...

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News Falwell cleared of FEC charges
Falwell cleared of FEC charges
Krista-Ann Staley
July 19, 2005 11:34:00 am

According to the attorney for Rev. Jerry Falwell , the Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Monday dismissed a Campaign Legal Center complaint against the evangelist in a 6-0 decision. According to the...

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African Union submits UN Security Council expansion plan
David Shucosky
July 19, 2005 10:52:00 am

The African Union introduced its own plan for expansion of the UN Security Council on Monday, despite ongoing negotiations that would give Africa permanent representation on the council and opposition by the US, Russia, and...

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News Iraq says corruption and violence undermining reconstruction effort
Iraq says corruption and violence undermining reconstruction effort
David Shucosky
July 19, 2005 10:13:00 am

Iraq detailed concerns about corruption and violence delaying reconstruction as it submitted a list of its most pressing rebuilding needs to international donors on Monday. Concerns about graft and insurgent violence have meant delays and have resulted in only...

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Hicks lawyers looking to avoid military trial
David Shucosky
July 19, 2005 09:53:00 am

Despite approval of a military tribunal by the US courts and Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock , lawyers for Australian terror suspect David Hicks are looking to the US federal courts to get...

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Conservative reports Gonzales "taken off the table" as Supreme Court nominee
Krista-Ann Staley
July 19, 2005 09:49:00 am

According to a conservative source familiar with the nomination discussions, White House officials have stated President Bush will not nominate Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the US...

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Iran wants Saddam trial to include charges from 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war
David Shucosky
July 19, 2005 09:43:00 am

Iran demanded that Saddam Hussein face charges in connection with the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war at the end of a landmark visit to Tehran this week by Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari . Iraq agreed in May 2005 to...

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Guatemala ordered to apologize for 1982 violence during civil war
David Shucosky
July 19, 2005 09:31:00 am

Guatemala formally apologized on Monday for a government-ordered massacre that occurred during the country's civil war on July 18, 1982, taking the lives of 226. Vice President Eduardo Stein made the acknowledgement in a small town north...

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Senate confirms Crawford as new FDA chief
David Shucosky
July 19, 2005 09:22:00 am

The Senate on Monday confirmed Lester Crawford as the new head of the US Food and Drug Administration by a 78-16 vote , ending an earlier debate about his nomination stalled by...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Bank of England granted political independence

On May 6, 1997, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that the Bank of England would be granted political independence for the first time in the three-hundred year history of the Bank. This policy was statutized in the subsequent Bank of England Act of 1998 gave the Bank independent control of British monetary policy effective June 1, 1998. Read the Bank of England Act of 1998.

Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese laborers from US

On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States and prohibiting courts from bestowing US citizenship on Chinese. Connecticut Senator Joseph Hawley spoke out against the Act in these words: Let the proposed statue be read 100 years hence, dug out of the dust of ages and forgotten as it will be except for a line of sneer by some historian, and ask the young man not well read in the history of this country what was the reason for excluding these men and he would not be able to find it in the law. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and its successors were abolished in 1943 at the insistence of President Franklin Roosevelt.

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