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News New York AG to investigate allegations of stock price manipulation
New York AG to investigate allegations of stock price manipulation
Devin Montgomery
September 19, 2008 02:43:00 pm

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo Thursday said his department is conducting an investigation into whether some investors used illegal methods to profit from recent declines in banking and insurance stocks. It is alleged that...

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News Cambodia genocide court to hold Khmer Rouge leader for additional year
Cambodia genocide court to hold Khmer Rouge leader for additional year
Devin Montgomery
September 19, 2008 02:43:00 pm

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on Friday announced that former Khmer Rouge official Nuon Chea will be held for another year as prosecutors continue to build a war...

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News US psychologist group bars participation in military interrogations
US psychologist group bars participation in military interrogations
Leslie Schulman
September 19, 2008 02:35:00 pm

The American Psychological Association (APA) announced Wednesday that it had adopted a measure prohibiting members from participating in interrogations of terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay and other military prisons...

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News US Special Forces soldier charged with Afghanistan killing
US Special Forces soldier charged with Afghanistan killing
Joe Shaulis
September 19, 2008 01:47:00 pm

A US Army Special Forces soldier faces court-martial proceedings following his arraignment in connection with the killing of an Afghan man earlier this year. The Army announced Thursday that Master Sgt. Joseph D. Newell...

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News China regulations clarify Labor Contract Law
China regulations clarify Labor Contract Law
Leslie Schulman
September 19, 2008 11:29:00 am

The State Council of China on Thursday issued regulations implementing ambiguous provisions of the Labor Contract Law that took effect at the beginning of this year. Among other clarifications, the regulations provide...

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News US indicts 16 over dual-use electronics exports to Iran
US indicts 16 over dual-use electronics exports to Iran
Andrew Gilmore
September 19, 2008 11:15:00 am

In an indictment unsealed on Wednesday, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) charged sixteen individuals and companies from Iran and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on thirteen counts related to alleged...

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News South African prosecutors to appeal invalidation of Zuma charges
South African prosecutors to appeal invalidation of Zuma charges
Andrew Gilmore
September 19, 2008 08:43:00 am

The South African National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) announced Thursday it would appeal a Pietermaritzburg High Court judgment invalidating corruption charges against politician Jacob Zuma . The NPA stated...

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News US House passes Second Amendment Enforcement Act
US House passes Second Amendment Enforcement Act
Kiely Lewandowski
September 19, 2008 08:20:00 am

The US House of Representatives on Thursday passed the Second Amendment Enforcement Act (H.R. 6842) , which would repeal multiple parts of the District of Columbia's Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975, including its semiautomatic handgun...

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News Ontario leaders renew call for Canada handgun ban
Ontario leaders renew call for Canada handgun ban
Kiely Lewandowski
September 19, 2008 07:55:00 am

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty on Thursday urged Canadian officials to embrace his call for an outright ban on handguns. Acknowledging that all federal leaders should use the upcoming October election to discuss the issue, McGuinty commented [The...

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News Singapore court sentences US blogger to 3 months for insulting judge
Singapore court sentences US blogger to 3 months for insulting judge
Joe Shaulis
September 18, 2008 04:26:00 pm

US blogger and attorney Gopalan Nair was sentenced to three months in jail Wednesday for insulting a Singaporean judge. Justice Kan Ting Chiu of the Singaporean High Court told Nair that he...

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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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