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News Japan cult member arrested in connection with subway gas attack: report
Japan cult member arrested in connection with subway gas attack: report
Rebecca DiLeonardo
June 4, 2012 02:03:07 pm

Japanese police have arrested one of the last fugitive members of Aum Shinrikyo suspected of involvement in a nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, a Japanese newspaper reported on Monday. The attacks killed...

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News Supreme court rules on equal protection in taxation
Supreme court rules on equal protection in taxation
Rebecca DiLeonardo
June 4, 2012 01:20:44 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled 6-3 in Armour v. Indianapolis that a tax amnesty program did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment rights of those citizens who had already paid the...

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News Supreme Court rules secret service agents protected by qualified immunity
Supreme Court rules secret service agents protected by qualified immunity
Rebecca DiLeonardo
June 4, 2012 12:19:04 pm

The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday in Reichle v. Howards that two secret service agents are entitled to qualified immunity in a lawsuit alleging retaliatory arrest. The petitioners are...

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News Supreme Court to hear case on detention incident to search warrant
Supreme Court to hear case on detention incident to search warrant
Rebecca DiLeonardo
June 4, 2012 10:43:35 am

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in Bailey v. United States to determine whether police officers may lawfully detain individuals incident to a search warrant when those individuals have...

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News Mongolia ex-president on trial for corruption
Mongolia ex-president on trial for corruption
Rebecca DiLeonardo
June 4, 2012 09:55:28 am

Former Mongolian president Nambar Enkhbayar went on trial for corruption charges on Monday. Enkhbayar was arrested in April and charged with corruption and abuse of power during his time as president until 2009. Enkhbayar told reporters that he believed...

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News Egypt prosecutor to appeal Mubarak trial verdict
Egypt prosecutor to appeal Mubarak trial verdict
Rebecca DiLeonardo
June 4, 2012 09:16:34 am

Egyptian prosecutors plan to appeal the verdict in the trial of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and his associates, a court official told reporters on Sunday. An Egyptian court on Saturday found Mubarak...

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News US Army amends charges in Afghan shootings case
US Army amends charges in Afghan shootings case
Rebecca DiLeonardo
June 1, 2012 03:06:20 pm

The US Army has dropped one of 17 murder charges and added others, including steroid and alcohol use, in its case against Army Sgt. Robert Bales, his lawyer told reporters on Friday. Bales was charged with 17 counts of...

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News Serbia president: Srebrenica massacre was not genocide
Serbia president: Srebrenica massacre was not genocide
Rebecca DiLeonardo
June 1, 2012 02:40:49 pm

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic told a Montenegrin state television station Friday that he does not think that the 1995 Srebrenica Masscre was genocide. The Srebrenica massacre took place during the Bosnian Civil War [JURIST...

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News China government detains suspected US spy: report
China government detains suspected US spy: report
Rebecca DiLeonardo
June 1, 2012 02:06:43 pm

The Chinese government has detained a former aide to a vice minister in China's security ministry who is suspected of spying for the US , anonymous sources told Reuters. The former aide, whose identity is unknown, allegedly passed...

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News ICC postpones order for Libya to turn over Gaddafi son
ICC postpones order for Libya to turn over Gaddafi son
Rebecca DiLeonardo
June 1, 2012 01:35:22 pm

A pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday granted a request by the Libyan government to postpone an order to transfer Saif al-Islam Gaddafi , the...

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Sewing machine patented

On September 10, 1846, United States patent number 3640 was awarded to Elias Howe for his sewing machine. In 1854, Howe brought legal action against Isaac Singer, because he alleged Singer's machine infringed upon the patent. Howe won the case and was awarded royalties from the Singer sewing machines.
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Last French execution by guillotine

On September 10, 1977, Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant convicted of murder, became the last person executed by guillotine in France.

The French death penalty was formally abolished by President Francois Mitterand in 1981. Learn more about the history of the guillotine.

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