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News Federal appeals court rejects 22-year sentence for LA ‘Millennium bomber’
Federal appeals court rejects 22-year sentence for LA ‘Millennium bomber’
Ryan Olden
January 16, 2007 06:06:00 pm

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday overturned the 22-year sentence of Ahmed Ressam , convicted of attempting to blow up Los Angeles International Airport on the eve of the...

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News Nepal cabinet OKs interim constitution, Maoists prepare to join parliament
Nepal cabinet OKs interim constitution, Maoists prepare to join parliament
Ryan Olden
January 14, 2007 11:03:00 am

Former Maoist insurgents are preparing to enter their first session of parliament in Nepal after the Nepalese cabinet approved a draft interim constitution on Sunday. The party will hold roughly twenty-five...

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Pentagon and CIA viewing US domestic financial records
Ryan Olden
January 14, 2007 10:06:00 am

The CIA and the American military have been accessing the banking and credit records of hundreds of American citizens suspected of ties to terror groups, the New York Times reported Sunday. Since 9/11 ,...

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News Sept. 11 conspirator appeals German sentence
Sept. 11 conspirator appeals German sentence
Ryan Olden
January 10, 2007 09:12:00 am

Moroccan-born Mounir al-Motassadeq on Tuesday appealed the 15-year prison sentence handed down by a German court earlier this week for Motassadeq's role in assisting the men who carried out the Sept. 11...

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News US soldier pleads guilty in Samarra Iraqi detainee deaths case
US soldier pleads guilty in Samarra Iraqi detainee deaths case
Ryan Olden
January 10, 2007 07:42:00 am

US Army Spc. Juston R. Graber pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the deaths of three Iraqi detainees in Thar Thar, a town near Samarra, some 60 miles north of Baghdad, but...

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HP agrees to settle California pretexting suit
Ryan Olden
December 7, 2006 07:02:00 pm

Hewlett-Packard reached a $14.5 million settlement agreement with California Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Thursday in an unfair business practices suit stemming from HP's allegedly fraudulent attempts to obtain certain...

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Senate Judiciary chair files bill to restrain corporate fraud investigations
Ryan Olden
December 7, 2006 05:58:00 pm

Outgoing Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) presented a bill Thursday that would prevent federal prosecutors from exerting what he sees as excessive pressure on companies and executives in fraud...

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Serb ultranationalists say US, UN trying to kill hunger-striking war crimes defendant
Ryan Olden
December 2, 2006 03:58:00 pm

Some 30,000 Serbs gathered in front of the US embassy in Belgrade on Saturday insisting that the United States and the United Nations are trying to kill ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader and war...

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New York Times seeks dismissal of anthrax libel lawsuit
Ryan Olden
December 2, 2006 02:56:00 pm

The New York Times has asked US District Judge Claude M. Hilton to dismiss a libel lawsuit brought by Dr. Stephen J. Hatfill, a former Army germ-warfare researcher who was named a "person of interest" by the FBI [JURIST...

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Full Massachusetts high court to hear same-sex marriage measure case
Ryan Olden
December 1, 2006 08:28:00 am

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Justice Judith Cowin ruled Thursday that all seven of the court's justices will hear a request to put a measure effectively banning same-sex marriage on the 2008 Massachusetts...

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Kosovo declares independence from Serbia

On February 17, 2008 the Assembly of Kosovo declared independence from Serbia. While Serbia denounced the declaration as illegal, the international community has remained divided on this issue. Several nations including the United States, United Kingdom, France, Taiwan, and Turkey have recognized Kosovar independence, but others such as Russia maintain that the declaration violates international law. The majority of countries and international organizations, including the United Nations, have yet to take a position on the legality of Kosovar independence.

The Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo went into effect on June 15, 2008. Read the Kosovo Declaration of Independence and a timeline of the Kosovar independence movement.

Supreme Court ruled on equal Congressional districts

On February 17, 1964, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Wesberry v. Sanders that congressional districts within each state had to be roughly equal in population.

Learn more about Congressional redistricting from the Center for Voting and Democracy.

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