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News DOJ reaches settlement with LA prisons on mentally ill inmate care
DOJ reaches settlement with LA prisons on mentally ill inmate care
Sarah Boehme
August 7, 2015 12:10:40 pm

The Department of Justice announced Wednesday settlement with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department on reforms to LA prisons in an attempt to improve care for mentally ill inmates. The agreement comes after a series of...

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News Israel rights group sues to block Iran asset release
Israel rights group sues to block Iran asset release
Sarah Boehme
August 7, 2015 11:32:40 am

Israeli rights group Shurat HaDin Law Center and two dozen Americans filed a lawsuit Wednesday in an attempt to block the Obama administration from releasing an estimated $100 billion in frozen Iranian funds. The plaintiffs hold...

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News Federal judge finds Greenpeace protesters in contempt
Federal judge finds Greenpeace protesters in contempt
Sarah Boehme
July 31, 2015 12:43:02 pm

A federal judge in Alaska ruled Thursday that Greenpeace USA will be fined $2,500 for every hour that protesters block a Royal Dutch Shell vessel from leaving Portland. The protesters have been suspending themselves from a...

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News Greece parliament approves second set of economic reforms
Greece parliament approves second set of economic reforms
Sarah Boehme
July 24, 2015 12:12:15 pm

Greece's parliament on Thursday passed a second set of economic reforms with an overwhelming 230-63 majority vote. Greece's creditors asked that the second set of economic overhauls be passed before they began negotiations for the aid...

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News Report: Obama policies protect majority of illegal immigrants from deportation
Report: Obama policies protect majority of illegal immigrants from deportation
Sarah Boehme
July 24, 2015 11:06:34 am

The Migration Policy Institute released a report on Thursday finding that the Obama administration's new policies that will protect up to 87 percent of undocumented immigrants in the United States from facing deportation. The report stated that...

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News Northern Cameroon bans face veils after suicide bombings
Northern Cameroon bans face veils after suicide bombings
Sarah Boehme
July 17, 2015 01:46:07 pm

After suicide bombings last Sunday in Fotokol by two women wearing burkas, Northern Cameroon on Wednesday banned women from wearing burkas and face-covering veils. The suicide bombers smuggled the bombs into public areas by hiding them under their veils. The...

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News ICC judges ask prosecutor to reopen investigation of Gaza flotilla raid
ICC judges ask prosecutor to reopen investigation of Gaza flotilla raid
Sarah Boehme
July 17, 2015 12:42:39 pm

Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday asked for the court's prosecutor to review her decision not to investigate the 2010 Israeli raid of a flotilla headed for the Gaza Strip. Review of the...

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News India top court orders investigation of deaths around corruption case
India top court orders investigation of deaths around corruption case
Sarah Boehme
July 10, 2015 01:45:47 pm

India's Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the country's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to open an investigation into the deaths of a number of people connected to a college admission and government job recruitment scandal. The...

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News South Korea: North has executed more than 90 officials so far
South Korea: North has executed more than 90 officials so far
Sarah Boehme
July 10, 2015 11:25:16 am

Officials from South Korea's National Intelligence Service said on Thursday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has unleashed a "reign of terror" in North Korea by executing more than 90 officials since taking power in 2011....

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News DOJ report: Ferguson police response made protests worse
DOJ report: Ferguson police response made protests worse
Sarah Boehme
July 1, 2015 12:10:10 pm

The US Justice Department Office of Community Oriented Policing Service (COPS) has found that the response by the Ferguson, Missouri police department escalated riots after Michael Brown's death last summer. The findings were in a draft report [St....

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt born

Carrie Chapman Catt, suffragist, womens' rights advocate and co-founder of the League of Women Voters, was born on January 9, 1859.

Visit the Carrie Chapman Catt Childhood Home.

Great Britain's first income tax introduced

On January 9, 1799, British Prime Minister William Pitt introduced Great Britain's first income tax. The tax was announced the previous December as a means of raising money for war against Napoleon. Pitt's successor, Henry Addington, repealed the tax when hostilities subsided in 1802. Addington then reinstated the tax during the following year when fighting was renewed. The Addington tax model later became the model for the modern British income tax. Learn about the history of income taxation in Great Britain from Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs.

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