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News Kenya charging 5 in massive corruption scandal
Kenya charging 5 in massive corruption scandal
Christopher G. Anderson
March 15, 2006 04:18:00 pm

Four former senior Kenyan government officials and a top businessman are to be charged with corruption for their roles in a $1 billion scam known as the Goldenberg affair . The graft charges will be the...

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News Zimbabwe drops charges against alleged Mugabe assassination plotters
Zimbabwe drops charges against alleged Mugabe assassination plotters
Christopher G. Anderson
March 15, 2006 03:11:00 pm

Zimbabwe prosecutors have dropped charges against six men accused of a plot to assassinate President Robert Mugabe , according to lawyers involved in the case speaking Wednesday. Media reports originally indicated that eight men had been charged, but...

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News DOJ, Google to spar over search data in federal court
DOJ, Google to spar over search data in federal court
Christopher G. Anderson
March 13, 2006 04:08:00 pm

Google goes to federal court on Tuesday - backed by online privacy advocate groups - to fight a Bush administration subpoena that seeks to force the search engine giant to hand over an enormous amount of its...

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News France PM holds line on youth labor law after protests
France PM holds line on youth labor law after protests
Christopher G. Anderson
March 13, 2006 03:03:00 pm

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said that despite widespread protests he remains committed to a proposed labor law that will make it easier for companies to fire workers under the age of 26. Villepin...

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News Yemen newspaper editor faces death for printing Muhammad cartoons
Yemen newspaper editor faces death for printing Muhammad cartoons
Christopher G. Anderson
March 8, 2006 03:44:00 pm

Prosecutors in Yemen Wednesday called for the death penalty against the editor of a Yemen newspaper who republished cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad originally printed in a Danish newspaper in September. Muhammad al-Asadi was arrested [JURIST...

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Moussaoui jury hears testimony from jailed terrorist
Christopher G. Anderson
March 8, 2006 02:59:00 pm

The jury in the Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing trial heard testimony Wednesday that, during a visit to Malaysia in 1999, a man matching Moussaoui's description told Islamic militant Fauzi bin Abu Bakar Bafana that he...

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News Muslims in British terrorist prison say staff ‘don’t understand’ them
Muslims in British terrorist prison say staff ‘don’t understand’ them
Christopher G. Anderson
March 8, 2006 02:21:00 pm

Britain's chief inspector of prisons has expressed concern after Muslim inmates in London's maximum-security Belmarsh Prison - dubbed "the UK's Guantanamo Bay" by the British press - told authorities that the staff did not understand...

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News Judge rejects joint motion to delay Abramoff sentencing for months
Judge rejects joint motion to delay Abramoff sentencing for months
Christopher G. Anderson
March 6, 2006 04:24:00 pm

The judge who will sentence Jack Abramoff has refused a joint motion by the defense and prosecution to delay for months the hearing that will determine the former Republican lobbyist's prison term. Although US District Judge...

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News Supreme Court to consider when inmates can challenge prison conditions
Supreme Court to consider when inmates can challenge prison conditions
Christopher G. Anderson
March 6, 2006 03:51:00 pm

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider the boundaries of the 1995 Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) in a set of cases that will further specify when and how prisoners can...

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British appeals court refuses to stop sale of US ports operating rights to Dubai firm
Christopher G. Anderson
March 6, 2006 03:04:00 pm

United Arab Emirates state-owned company Dubai Ports World Monday received the go-ahead to take over British shipping company P&O , after the UK's Court of Appeal declined to hear an appeal from Miami-based Eller...

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Chief Justice Taft resigned

On February 3, 1930, Chief Justice William Howard Taft, former President of the United States, resigned from the United States Supreme Court for health reasons. He died 5 weeks later. Learn more about the life and career(s) of William Howard Taft and review his complex medical history.

Last execution in Australia

On February 3, 1967, Ronald Ryan became the last person executed in Australia. He was hanged in Pentridge Prison in Melbourne for killing a guard during an escape attempt. Belief in Ryan's innocence led to protests across the country, culminating in the Death Penalty Abolition Act of 1973. The Last Man Hanged, a documentary about the execution of Ronald Ryan, was released in 1993.

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