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News Senate bill would bar terrorism suspects from buying guns
Senate bill would bar terrorism suspects from buying guns
Mike Rosen-Molina
April 27, 2007 04:16:00 pm

US Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) Thursday introduced a bill to restrict gun sales to terror suspects. S. 1237 would give the US attorney general the power and discretion to block gun sales to people listed...

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News US soldiers indicted in death of Spanish journalist in Iraq
US soldiers indicted in death of Spanish journalist in Iraq
Mike Rosen-Molina
April 27, 2007 03:15:00 pm

Three US soldiers were indicted Friday for the 2003 death of a Spanish reporter who was killed when their tank fired a shell at a Baghdad hotel. A Spanish judge charged Sgt. Shawn Gibson, Capt. Philip Wolford and Lt....

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News ICC urged to probe Canadian Afghan detainee transfers
ICC urged to probe Canadian Afghan detainee transfers
Mike Rosen-Molina
April 26, 2007 06:52:00 pm

Two Canadian law professors and human rights activists have written to the International Criminal Court (ICC) , asking it to investigate "possible war crimes" by top Canadian defence officials. Michael Byers of the University of British Columbia and...

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News ‘Spambot’ creators facing federal lawsuit in Virginia
‘Spambot’ creators facing federal lawsuit in Virginia
Mike Rosen-Molina
April 26, 2007 05:38:00 pm

A Utah-based anti-spam technology company filed a lawsuit in US District Court in Alexandria Thursday in an effort to identify the people behind so-called "spambots" , programs that search the Internet for e-mail addresses to sell to spammers....

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News Two more Guantanamo detainees transferred: DOD
Two more Guantanamo detainees transferred: DOD
Mike Rosen-Molina
April 26, 2007 04:56:00 pm

The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced the transfer of two more Guantanamo Bay detainees Thursday - one to Afghanistan and another to Morocco, reducing to approximately 380 the number of detainees remaining at Guantanamo. According...

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News White House admits federal agency election briefings as Hatch Act probe continues
White House admits federal agency election briefings as Hatch Act probe continues
Mike Rosen-Molina
April 26, 2007 04:09:00 pm

The White House admitted Thursday to holding about 20 briefings throughout 2006 and 2007 for federal agency employees to discuss the electability of Republican candidates, meetings similar to a January presentation that critics allege violated the Hatch Act [OSC...

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News Egypt trial of Muslim Brotherhood members begins
Egypt trial of Muslim Brotherhood members begins
Mike Rosen-Molina
April 26, 2007 03:18:00 pm

Forty top members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood went before a secret military court in Egypt Thursday on charges of terrorism and money laundering. Defense lawyers announced that they would boycott the...

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News Argentina judge revokes ‘dirty war’ amnesties as unconstitutional
Argentina judge revokes ‘dirty war’ amnesties as unconstitutional
Mike Rosen-Molina
April 25, 2007 07:53:00 pm

An Argentinean federal judge Wednesday declared amnesties granted to two members of Argentina's previous military dictatorship to be unconstitutional, saying the two men must serve out their life sentences in prison. Former military President Jorge Videla and former Navy...

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News Israel official recommends criminal probe of alleged Olmert patronage payoffs
Israel official recommends criminal probe of alleged Olmert patronage payoffs
Mike Rosen-Molina
April 25, 2007 06:12:00 pm

Israel's state comptroller Wednesday recommended holding a criminal investigation into allegations that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert improperly favored his supporters in distributing business grants when he was trade minister in 2001. A number of Israeli...

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News UK court orders release of alleged 9/11 conspirator
UK court orders release of alleged 9/11 conspirator
Mike Rosen-Molina
April 25, 2007 05:11:00 pm

A British court Wednesday ordered that a Moroccan man accused of being a UK contact for the September 11, 2001 hijackers and an associate of a suspected Spanish al Qaeda leader be released. The court said that the detention...

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Dreyfus convicted of treason

On December 22, 1894, Jewish French army officer Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason in a court-martial trial that prompted worldwide allegations of anti-Semitism. Dreyfus was later cleared. Learn more about the case of Alfred Dreyfus and read an English translation of the famous public letter J'Accuse...! by novelist and Dreyfus partisan Emile Zola.

US passed Embargo Act, banning foreign trade

On December 22, 1807, the Embargo Act was passed at the urging of US President Thomas Jefferson. The act barred trade with any foreign nations in an effort to avoid American entry into the Napoleonic Wars of Europe. However, the act proved unenforceable and was replaced with the Non-Intercourse Act, which barred trade with France and Great Britain. Learn more about the Embargo Act of 1807 from Monticello.org

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