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UK residents in Guantanamo can seek order requiring UK intervention with US
Cathy J. Potter
February 17, 2006 08:27:00 am

A UK High Court judge has ruled that three UK residents detained by the US at Guantanamo Bay since 2002 can seek a court order requiring the British government to petition the US government...

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Gonzales rejects Democrat call to recuse himself from Abramoff investigation
Cathy J. Potter
February 16, 2006 08:45:00 pm

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Thursday rejected a call from thirty-one Senate Democrats to recuse himself from the ongoing investigation of Jack Abramoff because he was too close to the...

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Cheney says he may testify in Libby case, claims declassifying power
Cathy J. Potter
February 16, 2006 08:05:00 am

In an interview on the Fox News Channel Wednesday, US Vice President Dick Cheney said that while he may be called as a witness in the CIA leak case and therefore...

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Abu Ghraib abuse violated international law, says Red Cross
Cathy J. Potter
February 16, 2006 07:17:00 am

Recently released photographs and video showing the apparent abuse of prisoners by US personnel at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison show clear violations of international humanitarian law, a spokeswoman for International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)...

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Georgia voter ID law challenge sent back to lower court
Cathy J. Potter
February 10, 2006 05:14:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday instructed a lower court to reconsider a challenge to Georgia's controversial voter ID law that required voters to show government-issued photo identification before casting...

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French PM presents bill to limit influx of poor, unskilled immigrants
Cathy J. Potter
February 9, 2006 10:01:00 pm

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin Thursday presented a draft bill to the French cabinet introducing the concept of selective immigration . Under the proposed bill, immigration by highly skilled...

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Italy may try CIA agents in absentia for Milan abduction of imam
Cathy J. Potter
February 9, 2006 07:55:00 pm

A senior Italian judicial source who asked not to be named has said that the 22 CIA agents accused of kidnapping Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr in Milan and transporting him out of the country in 2003 in...

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Fresh round of race riots breaks out in Los Angeles jail
Cathy J. Potter
February 9, 2006 08:51:00 am

Racially-motivated riots again erupted at a Los Angeles County jail on Wednesday, leaving 22 inmates injured. The fighting at Pitchess Detention Center began when inmates at a group dorm were separated along racial lines. The violence was...

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Drastic force-feeding measures push Gitmo hunger strike to lowest point
Cathy J. Potter
February 9, 2006 08:24:00 am

The number of detainees still on hunger strike at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay has dropped to four, military officials said Wednesday. The head military spokesman at Guantanamo also said that prison...

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Google subpoena hearing postponed until March
Cathy J. Potter
February 3, 2006 10:57:00 am

A federal court hearing to decide whether Google will be required to comply with a request from the US Department of Justice for extensive excerpts from its search log has been postponed until March 13....

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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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