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News North Dakota same-sex marriage ban challenged
North Dakota same-sex marriage ban challenged
William Helbling
June 7, 2014 12:32:14 pm

Seven couples have filed a lawsuit to the United States District Court of North Dakota on Friday in an effort to challenge North Dakota's same-sex marriage ban. Some of the claims within the suit state that...

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News ICC to focus on sexual and gender-based crimes
ICC to focus on sexual and gender-based crimes
William Helbling
June 7, 2014 11:04:37 am

The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Friday published a Policy Paper on Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes. The ICC has reported that the comprehensive policy paper will help the Office of...

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News Cambodia court releases garment worker protesters
Cambodia court releases garment worker protesters
William Helbling
May 31, 2014 11:27:08 am

A Cambodian court on Friday convicted 23 workers and activists for inciting violence during a mass garment workers' strike but suspended their jail sentence, which has caused a lot of controversy and international scrutiny. The ruling reverses the appeals...

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Turkish high court lifts YouTube ban
William Helbling
May 31, 2014 10:41:32 am

The Constitutional Court of Turkey on Tuesday ruled that a previous decision to ban Youtube violated users' freedom of speech rights. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had imposed the ban on YouTube and...

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News Egypt court sentences 19 Morsi supporters
Egypt court sentences 19 Morsi supporters
William Helbling
May 24, 2014 12:41:18 pm

The Court of Cassation in Egypt today sentenced 19 supporters of the formerly ousted president Mohammed Morsi to five years in prison for rioting last year outside the Al-Azhar Islamic institution . It has...

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Federal Appeals court rejects challenges to broadband internet expansion
William Helbling
May 24, 2014 11:25:00 am

The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit rejected on Friday challenges to the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) plan to expand broadband Internet service to rural areas. The FCC's plan is a $4.5 billion...

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Federal judge orders halt in force feeding at Guantanamo Bay
William Helbling
May 17, 2014 11:26:52 am

The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday ordered officials in Guantanamo Bay to temporarily suspend forced feedings of a Syrian prisoner kept at the detention facility on Guantanamo Bay. Syrian national...

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News Police in France arrest and investigate seven terrorist suspects
Police in France arrest and investigate seven terrorist suspects
William Helbling
May 17, 2014 11:11:31 am

French police on Tuesday arrested in Strasbourg seven men who were suspected of fighting alongside rebels within Syria. The arrest was conducted by French Police special unit Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion (RAID) , and no...

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News UN urges investigation into human rights violations in South Sudan
UN urges investigation into human rights violations in South Sudan
William Helbling
May 9, 2014 10:10:18 am

Both sides in the South Sudan conflict are committing gross human rights violations, according to a UN report released Thursday. The UN Mission in South Sudan's (UNMISS) issued the report after compiling evidence from interviews...

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Oklahoma court delays executions to investigate lethal injection issues
William Helbling
May 9, 2014 09:30:50 am

The Oklahoma Criminal Court of Appeals on Thursday approved a six-month stay of execution for a current death row inmate while an investigation is conducted into issues with last week's lethal injection. Attorneys for Charles Warner requested...

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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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