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News Afghanistan set to release American convicted of torturing detainees
Afghanistan set to release American convicted of torturing detainees
Alexis Unkovic
April 10, 2007 08:27:00 pm

Former US Green Beret Jonathan 'Jack' Idema , the last of three US citizens jailed in 2004 on charges of running a private jail and torturing eight Afghan men, will reportedly be released from an Afghan...

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News Europol releases terrorism status report
Europol releases terrorism status report
Alexis Unkovic
April 10, 2007 07:15:00 pm

Europol , the EU law enforcement organization that handles criminal intelligence, presented its EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report TE-SAT 2007 to the European Parliament Tuesday, providing an overview of terrorism in the 27-member...

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News US government not prosecuting most illegal immigrants
US government not prosecuting most illegal immigrants
Alexis Unkovic
April 9, 2007 12:41:00 pm

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) only prosecuted about two percent of the individuals arrested on suspicion of illegally entering the country along the US-Mexico border during a five-year period, according to an Associated Press analysis of...

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News Ukraine protests continue as high court prepares to hear dissolution decree case
Ukraine protests continue as high court prepares to hear dissolution decree case
Alexis Unkovic
April 9, 2007 11:56:00 am

Nearly 1,000 protesters continued demonstrations Monday outside the parliament building in central Kiev as the Constitutional Court of Ukraine prepared to hear a lawsuit filed earlier this month by Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor...

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News Thailand sticks to YouTube ban
Thailand sticks to YouTube ban
Alexis Unkovic
April 9, 2007 11:11:00 am

The government of Thailand said Monday it will continue to block access to the popular video-sharing website YouTube until Google , YouTube's owner, agrees to remove video clips deemed offensive to the country's...

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News UK bomb plotter accused of planning to attack US targets appeals life sentence
UK bomb plotter accused of planning to attack US targets appeals life sentence
Alexis Unkovic
April 3, 2007 08:34:00 pm

Dhiren Barot , a British man who pleaded guilty in October to planning a series of bombs on US and British targets, filed an appeal in London’s Court of Appeal Criminal Division Tuesday. Barot...

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News Federal judge frees journalist after record imprisonment for refusing to testify
Federal judge frees journalist after record imprisonment for refusing to testify
Alexis Unkovic
April 3, 2007 07:31:00 pm

US District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District of California approved the release Tuesday of jailed video journalist and blogger Josh Wolf , who was imprisoned for 226 days, longer than any other...

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News South Africa court approves release of Zuma documents
South Africa court approves release of Zuma documents
Alexis Unkovic
April 2, 2007 12:25:00 pm

The Durban High Court in South Africa ruled Monday that the country's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) can seek the release of documents that may be used to file additional corruption charges...

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News Supreme Court declines to hear Guantanamo detainee habeas appeals
Supreme Court declines to hear Guantanamo detainee habeas appeals
Alexis Unkovic
April 2, 2007 11:10:00 am

A divided US Supreme Court Monday denied petitions for certiorari in two cases brought by Guantanamo Bay detainees seeking habeas corpus review of their detentions. The petitions for certiorari came in the...

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Supreme Court hears arguments in securities antitrust case
Alexis Unkovic
March 27, 2007 08:56:00 pm

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in the case of Credit Suisse Securities v. Billing , 05-1157, a case in which investors filed a class...

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President Lincoln signed first US federal income tax act

On July 1, 1862, the Tax Act of 1862 was passed and signed by President Lincoln, establishing a 3% federal tax on income above $600 and a 5% tax on income above $10,000.

Compliance with the act was poor, even though there were needs for the Civil War. After the war the act was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Review a brief history of the US income tax from the Library of Congress.

UK returns Hong Kong to China

On July 1, 1997, the United Kingdom returned Hong Kong to China at the conclusion of a 99-year lease. The foundation for the transfer of power was set in December of 1984, when China and UK signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong. The Declaration affirmed the handover of Hong Kong along with governing principles. Most significantly, the Chinese agreed not to impose their socialist system on Hong Kong.

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