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News Colombia congress approves new peace accord with rebel group
Colombia congress approves new peace accord with rebel group
Erik Slobe
December 1, 2016 09:09:38 am

Colombia's Congress approved a peace accord Wednesday with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The Senate and House of Representatives both voted in support of the agreement, although many voting members walked out ...

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News Supreme Court declines to review Stanford’s Ponzi scheme conviction
Supreme Court declines to review Stanford’s Ponzi scheme conviction
Erik Slobe
November 28, 2016 01:45:55 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in the case of Allen Stanford, a former financier convicted in 2012 of defrauding investors. Last October the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit [official...

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News Amnesty: Bahrain rights reforms remain inadequate
Amnesty: Bahrain rights reforms remain inadequate
Erik Slobe
November 21, 2016 02:10:49 pm

Two organizations Bahrain established in 2011 to protect human rights, the Ombudsman of the Ministry of the Interior and the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), have not adequately protected its citizens from allegations of torture, Amnesty International (AI) reported...

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News Federal government issues new regulations governing natural gas waste
Federal government issues new regulations governing natural gas waste
Erik Slobe
November 17, 2016 09:13:03 am

The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) enacted new regulations on Tuesday requiring a reduction in the amount of natural gas wasted through release to the atmosphere through venting, flaring and leaks during oil and natural gas production...

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News Supreme Court declines review of Kansas science education case
Supreme Court declines review of Kansas science education case
Erik Slobe
November 14, 2016 02:02:06 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in a case brought by Citizens for Objective Public Education (COPE) against science education policies adopted by the Kansas State Board of Education ....

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ICC to significantly expand investigations in Libya
Erik Slobe
November 10, 2016 01:04:30 pm

The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) informed the UN Security Council on Wednesday that the ICC wants to significantly expand investigations in Libya in 2017. The ICC began work in Libya in 2011...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

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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