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DHS bars Haitians from temporary work visas
David Zwier
January 18, 2018 02:32:34 pm

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday announced that it will bar Haitians from receiving H-2A and H-2B visas, which provide foreign workers access to the US for temporary agricultural and seasonal work. DHS...

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Federal judge denies request to remove Mulvaney as head of CFPB
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January 12, 2018 08:32:09 am

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday denied a motion for preliminary injunction brought by Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Deputy Director Leandra English to remove Mick...

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Inter-American Court of Human Rights endorses same-sex marriage
David Zwier
January 10, 2018 11:30:04 am

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Wednesday issued a unanimous advisory opinion that member states "must recognize and guarantee all the rights that are derived from a family bond between people of...

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Trump dissolves voter fraud commission
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January 4, 2018 11:36:14 am

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday revoked the May executive order that created the "Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity." This order terminates the Trump administration's investigation into alleged voter fraud during the 2016...

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Federal judge orders release or bond hearings for detained Iraq immigrants
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January 3, 2018 12:31:13 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration must release or conduct bond hearings for 1,444 detained Iraqi immigrants. In a followup to his July...

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Spain Supreme Court withdraws arrest warrant for ousted Catalan leaders
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December 5, 2017 12:07:26 pm

Spain's Supreme Court on Tuesday withdrew a European arrest warrant seeking the deportation of Carles Puigdemont , the former President of Catalonia, and four former Catalan officials. The deposed officials...

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African and European leaders’ joint statement condemns migrant slave trade
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December 1, 2017 01:15:13 pm

African and European leaders, gathered in Abidjan for the 5th AU/EU Summit , condemned in a joint statement the inhuman treatment of African migrants and refugees by criminal groups. The statement is seen as an response to...

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Forty-eight former Argentine officers sentenced for ‘dirty war’ killings
David Zwier
November 30, 2017 12:43:56 pm

An Argentine judicial panel on Wednesday sentenced 29 former officials to life in prison, and 19 to between 8-25 years for murder and torture during the junta's 1976-1983 "Dirty War" [GlobalSecurity backgrounder; JURIST news...

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Federal judge blocks Trump’s transgender military ban
David Zwier
November 22, 2017 05:35:49 pm

The US District Court for the District of Maryland on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction against President Donald Trump's transgender military ban . The development follows another preliminary injunction partially granted by...

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November 17, 2017 04:24:32 pm

Luisa Ortega Díaz, Venezuela's deposed chief prosecutor, filed a complaint on Thursday with the International Criminal Court (ICC) calling for the arrest and trial of top Venezuela officials for crimes against humanity. These...

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President Johnson signed law against burning draft cards

On August 31, 1965, President Johnson signed a law making the burning of draft cards a federal offense subject to a five-year prison sentence and $1000 fine. In response to the law and in protest of the war in Vietnam, the student-run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam staged the first public burning of a draft card in the United States on October 15, 1965. The constitutionality of the federal law was upheld in 1968 by the US Supreme Court in US v. O'Brien.

Gdansk Agreement reached

On August 31, 1980, the communist government of Poland and labor leaders settled the Gdansk Agreement. The accord settled a summer of labor strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland. With the Agreement, Poland became the first communist country to allow the creation of an independent labor union, which was called Solidarity. Solidarity then became the driving force that ended communism in Poland.
Learn more about the history of Solidarity.

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