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News Former US official pleads guilty to Iraq reconstruction bribery charges
Former US official pleads guilty to Iraq reconstruction bribery charges
Asha Puttaiah
February 3, 2006 09:39:00 am

Robert J. Stein , a former US Defense Department contract official for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of conspiracy, bribery, money laundering, unlawful possession of machine guns,...

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News Federal judge slams former EPA head over post-9/11 air quality statements
Federal judge slams former EPA head over post-9/11 air quality statements
Asha Puttaiah
February 3, 2006 07:55:00 am

US District Judge Deborah A. Batts on Thursday denied a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit against former Environmental Protection Agency head Christine Todd Whitman , saying her reassurances about the air quality in New...

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News Senate approves Patriot Act extension until March 10
Senate approves Patriot Act extension until March 10
Asha Puttaiah
February 3, 2006 07:08:00 am

The US Senate late Thursday evening passed a one-month extension of the USA Patriot Act by a 95-1 vote . The extension until March 10 has already been approved by the US...

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News Father of ‘American Taliban’ urges commuted sentence for son
Father of ‘American Taliban’ urges commuted sentence for son
Asha Puttaiah
January 20, 2006 08:59:00 am

The father of John Walker Lindh , the American caught fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, called on President Bush Thursday to grant his son clemency and commute his 20 year sentence in...

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News Cheney defends NSA wiretapping program
Cheney defends NSA wiretapping program
Asha Puttaiah
January 20, 2006 08:39:00 am

US Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday defended the Bush administration's authorization of domestic surveillance in the weeks following Sept. 11, saying the program is a crucial tool in monitoring terrorist organizations. In a...

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DOJ seeks Google compliance with subpoena for search records
Asha Puttaiah
January 20, 2006 08:05:00 am

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a motion in federal court seeking to compel Internet search giant Google to comply with a subpoena issued last summer. The subpoena requests that Google...

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Debs sentenced for leadership of Pullman strike

On December 15, 1894, US labor leader and socialist Eugene V. Debs was sentenced to six months imprisonment for his leadership of the Pullman railroad strike. Visit the website of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation.

Adolf Eichmann sentenced to death in Israel

On December 15, 1961, former-Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death in Jerusalem, Israel. Known as the "architect of the Holocaust," Eichmann escaped to Argentina after World War II until he was captured there by Israeli agents in 1960. Learn more about the trial of Adolf Eichmann from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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