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BREAKING NEWS ~ US judge refuses to cut off BlackBerry service just yet
Jeannie Shawl
February 24, 2006 01:07:00 pm

A US federal judge has refused to grant an immediate injunction against Research in Motion , which would have shut down the company's BlackBerry wireless service in the United States. In 2003, the US District Court...

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Ports takeover approval alleged illegal
Jeannie Shawl
February 24, 2006 08:54:00 am

US Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) said Thursday that the Bush administration is ignoring federal law by refusing to extend its investigation into the takeover of operations of six US ports by Dubai Ports World , a...

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Saddam defense seeks disqualification of presiding judge
Jeannie Shawl
February 23, 2006 08:21:00 pm

Lawyers defending former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein , on trial before the Iraqi High Criminal Court, have filed a formal motion seeking the disqualification of chief judge Rauf Abdel-Rahman . Abdel-Rahman began presiding over the...

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Supreme Court rules in federal immunity, sentencing, discrimination cases
Jeannie Shawl
February 22, 2006 12:04:00 pm

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday handed down decisions in four cases, including Dolan v. U.S. Postal Service , where the Court ruled that a Pennsylvania woman could sue the US Postal Service...

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ICTY prosecutor says war crimes fugitive Mladic still at large
Jeannie Shawl
February 22, 2006 08:39:00 am

Carla del Ponte , chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia , said Wednesday that Serbian government officials had told her that war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has...

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Serbia denies reports of Mladic arrest
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February 21, 2006 02:00:00 pm

The Serbian government on Tuesday denied earlier reports that Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic had been arrested and would be turned over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former...

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BREAKING NEWS ~ Serb war crimes fugitive Mladic arrested: report
Jeannie Shawl
February 21, 2006 12:21:00 pm

Reuters is reporting that top Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has been arrested, according to Serbian news sources. Mladic's arrest has not been officially confirmed. The former general has been charged by...

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BREAKING NEWS ~ Supreme Court to hear ‘partial-birth’ abortion ban case
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February 21, 2006 10:12:00 am

MSNBC is reporting that the US Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case concerning the constitutionality of the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act .The Bush administration in September appealed to the Supreme...

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BREAKING NEWS ~ Federal jury finds Merck not liable in Vioxx case
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February 17, 2006 05:58:00 pm

AP is reporting that a federal jury has cleared Merck of responsibility in the death of a Florida man who had taken the popular painkiller Vioxx . The painkiller was recalled in 2004 after clinical...

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Former Rwanda president loses appeal against incitement conviction
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February 17, 2006 02:27:00 pm

The Rwandan Supreme Court on Friday rejected the appeal of former Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu , who had asked the court to overturn his 15-year criminal sentence for inciting violence, embezzlement, and associating with...

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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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