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News Iraqi government investigations document rampant police corruption, abuse
Iraqi government investigations document rampant police corruption, abuse
Brett Murphy
July 9, 2006 01:13:00 pm

Iraqi Interior Ministry investigations into Iraqi police operations have revealed over 400 incidents of police misconduct, "including the rape of female prisoners, the release of terrorism suspects in exchange for bribes, assassinations of police officers and participation in insurgent...

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US resumes repatriation flights for illegal immigrants from Mexico
Brett Murphy
July 9, 2006 12:08:00 pm

The US Department of Homeland Security resumed its repatriation program for illegal immigrants from Mexico Friday with a flight carrying 67 people to Mexico City. This is the third straight summer that the...

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News DOJ tells court legal notes may have aided Guantanamo suicide plot
DOJ tells court legal notes may have aided Guantanamo suicide plot
Brett Murphy
July 9, 2006 10:08:00 am

US Department of Justice lawyers said Friday in court documents that Guantanamo Bay detainees may have used paper provided by lawyers to plan the three suicides that occurred at the prison last...

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News Hussein daughter, first wife named on Iraqi most-wanted list
Hussein daughter, first wife named on Iraqi most-wanted list
Brett Murphy
July 2, 2006 03:54:00 pm

Iraqi officials disclosed Sunday that Saddam Hussein's eldest daughter Raghad and first wife Sajida are named on its most-wanted list along with top Baathists and al Qaeda leaders. Iraqi authorities accuse the two of using...

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Pentagon releases declassified Church report on detainee interrogations
Brett Murphy
July 2, 2006 11:22:00 am

The Pentagon released a declassified version of a 2005 review of US prisoner interrogation practices on Friday. The review, conducted by Vice Adm. Albert T. Church , found that while "interrogation policy could have benefited from additional expertise...

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US and British agents assisting Mladic manhunt
Brett Murphy
July 2, 2006 10:28:00 am

Serbian Defense Minister Zoran Stankovic said Saturday that US and British intelligence agents are helping with the search for indicted UN war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic . The Serbian government holds that...

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Paris marchers protest stricter immigration law after parliament passage
Brett Murphy
July 2, 2006 09:52:00 am

Thousands of Parisians marched through the city Saturday in a protest against a contentious new immigration law passed by the French Parliament Friday. The new law...

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US soldiers charged in another shooting of unarmed Iraqi civilian
Brett Murphy
June 25, 2006 11:40:00 am

The US military announced Sunday that two US Pennsylvania National Guardsmen have been charged in connection with the February 15 shooting of an Iraqi civilian near a US military base at Ramadi west of Baghdad. Specialist...

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Bush urges Congress to pass line-item veto bill in weekend radio address
Brett Murphy
June 25, 2006 11:24:00 am

President Bush Saturday urged Congress to approve a line-item veto bill in his weekly radio address Saturday, insisting that "a line-item veto would allow the President to remove wasteful spending from a bill while preserving the...

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Hussein believes US will use death penalty to force him to stop insurgency: NYT
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June 25, 2006 10:53:00 am

Saddam Hussein knows that a death sentence awaits him at the end of his trial {JURIST news archive] before the Iraqi High Tribunal for alleged crimes against humanity, but his lawyer says Hussein believes the US...

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US suffragists formed Equal Rights Party, named Presidential candidate

On September 20, 1884, a group of American suffragists formed the Equal Rights Party in San Francisco, dedicated to "equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens, without distinction of color, sex, or nationality" and in support of the proposition that "the laws of the several states be so amended that women will be recognized as voters, and their property-rights made equal with that of the male population, to the end that they may become self-supporting - rather than a dependent class."
Read the full text of the first platform of the Equal Rights Party.

The party immediately nominated Mrs. Belva Lockwood for US President and Marietta Snow for Vice-President. Grover Cleveland won that election, but Lockwood was included in a number of presidential primaries, and is recorded to have won some 4149 votes from the male voters of the time.

Catholic Church tries Galileo for heresy

On September 20, 1633, the Roman Catholic Church tried Galileo Galilei on charges of heresy. Galileo was brought before the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith for his assertion that the Earth orbits the Sun. He was sentenced to spend the rest of his life under house arrest.
Read documents from the trial of Galileo.

Suffragists formed Equal Rights Party, named Presidential candidate

On September 20, 1884, a group of suffragists formed the Equal Rights Party in San Francisco, dedicated to "equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens, without distinction of color, sex, or nationality" and in support of the proposition that "the laws of the several states be so amended that women will be recognized as voters, and their property-rights made equal with that of the male population, to the end that they may become self-supporting - rather than a dependent class."
Read the full text of the first platform of the Equal Rights Party.

The party immediately nominated Mrs. Belva Lockwood for US President and Marietta Snow for Vice-President. Grover Cleveland won that election, but Lockwood was included in a number of presidential primaries, and is recorded to have won some 4149 votes from the male voters of the time.

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