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News Federal judge in KPMG case may not dismiss charges
Federal judge in KPMG case may not dismiss charges
Michael Sung
July 3, 2007 11:40:00 am

US District Judge Lewis Kaplan indicated Monday that he may reconsider a 2006 ruling in which he threatened to dismiss all charges in an ongoing criminal tax shelters case against former employees of the accounting...

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News Missouri governor signs law keeping identities of executioners confidential
Missouri governor signs law keeping identities of executioners confidential
Michael Sung
July 3, 2007 10:58:00 am

Missouri Governor Matt Blunt Monday announced the signing of a bill intended to protect the identities of individuals who provide direct support for the administration of the death penalty, formally prohibiting the...

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News Kurd security forces torturing detainees in Iraq: HRW
Kurd security forces torturing detainees in Iraq: HRW
Michael Sung
July 3, 2007 10:26:00 am

Kurdish security forces "routinely torture and deny basic due process to detainees" in northern Iraq, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) . The report found that the Asayish security...

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News Taylor war crimes trial delayed to give new defense team time to prepare
Taylor war crimes trial delayed to give new defense team time to prepare
Michael Sung
July 3, 2007 09:58:00 am

The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) formally suspended the trial against former Liberian President Charles Taylor Monday, ordering the prosecution to resume its case on August...

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News Federal judge dismisses NYT lawsuit for classified domestic spying documents
Federal judge dismisses NYT lawsuit for classified domestic spying documents
Jeannie Shawl
July 3, 2007 09:39:00 am

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by the New York Times against the US Defense and Justice Departments, ruling that the departments were not required to disclose classified records on the government's warrantless wiretapping program...

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News Arizona governor signs tough sanctions for employers hiring illegal workers
Arizona governor signs tough sanctions for employers hiring illegal workers
Jeannie Shawl
July 3, 2007 09:10:00 am

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano signed the Legal Arizona Workers Act Monday, legislation that requires employers to verify that employees are in the United States legally. In what Napolitano called "the most aggressive...

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News Revised Iraq draft oil law going before parliament
Revised Iraq draft oil law going before parliament
Jeannie Shawl
July 3, 2007 08:53:00 am

The Iraqi Cabinet has approved a revised draft oil law and the Iraqi Parliament will begin debating the proposal Wednesday, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Tuesday. Several amendments to the draft law were...

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News Libby prosecutor says sentence not ‘excessive’
Libby prosecutor says sentence not ‘excessive’
Jeannie Shawl
July 3, 2007 08:31:00 am

US Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald has questioned President Bush's classification of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's 30-month sentence for perjury and obstruction of justice as "excessive" , saying Monday that Libby's sentence "was imposed pursuant to the laws...

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News Russia prosecutors lay new coup plot charges againt billionaire Berezovsky: lawyer
Russia prosecutors lay new coup plot charges againt billionaire Berezovsky: lawyer
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 2, 2007 08:53:00 pm

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) has charged Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky on suspicion of plotting a violent coup against President Vladimir Putin, Berezovsky's lawyer said Monday. The charge...

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News Lawyers for Madrid bombings ‘mastermind’ demand acquittal on last day of trial
Lawyers for Madrid bombings ‘mastermind’ demand acquittal on last day of trial
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 2, 2007 08:27:00 pm

Lawyers for Rabei Osman el Sayed , the alleged mastermind behind the 2004 Madrid train bombings , demanded Monday that Osman be acquitted, accusing prosecutors of trying to convict him "based on nothing, and with an...

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Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, murdered by Henry II's knights

On December 29, 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket, former Chancellor of England, was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral by knights acting in the name of Henry II.

Becket and Henry had been entangled in a power struggle over, among other things, criminal jurisdiction over clergy. Read a contemporary account of the murder of Thomas Becket.

Texas attains US statehood

On December 29, 1845, Texas became the twenty-eighth state to join the United States of America when US President James K. Polk signed the Ordinance of Annexation. Texas had a complicated path to statehood because it had formerly been part of Mexico and then an independent republic. The US Congress passed the Annexation of the Republic of Texas Joint Resolution on March 1, 1845. Voters in Texas then approved the Ordinance of Annexation in October, before it was approved by the US Congress and signed into law by President Polk on this day in 1845. The US Supreme Court later ruled in Texas v. White that, despite its unique path to statehood, Texas did not have the right to secede from the union.

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