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News Moussaoui judge refuses DOJ report release
Moussaoui judge refuses DOJ report release
Christina Gheen
April 30, 2005 11:42:00 am

US District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema Friday denied a US Department of Justice request to release a report on FBI missteps leading up to 9/11. The report chronicles three episodes considered to be missed opportunities to detect the 9/11...

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News 2004 Wiretap Report [Administrative Office US Courts]
2004 Wiretap Report [Administrative Office US Courts]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 30, 2005 11:30:00 am

2004 Wiretap Report , Administrative Office of the United States Courts, April 28, 2005 [reporting that wiretaps increased by 19 percent in 2004, with federal and state judges approving 1,710 applications while...

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News First Vioxx wrongful-death suit to go to trial
First Vioxx wrongful-death suit to go to trial
Christina Gheen
April 30, 2005 10:04:00 am

An Alabama Circuit Court refused Friday to dismiss the first wrongful-death suit brought against Merck for their painkiller Vioxx. Merck pulled Vioxx from the market when a study found it to double the chances of heart attacks and strokes...

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News Death penalty reinstatement bill [MA Gov. Mitt Romney]
Death penalty reinstatement bill [MA Gov. Mitt Romney]
Bernard Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
April 29, 2005 09:13:00 pm

An Act Reinstating Capital Punishment in the Commonwealth, filed with the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives, April 29, 2005 [to reinstate the death penalty in Massachusetts for deadly acts of terrorism, killing sprees, murders involving torture, and the killing...

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News US trade rep puts China on ‘watch list’ for copyright infringement
US trade rep puts China on ‘watch list’ for copyright infringement
Chris Buell
April 29, 2005 02:43:00 pm

The US Trade Representative on Friday said the office had placed China on a "priority watch list" due to what the US considers rampant copyright infringement in the country. China was at the center of the US...

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News GOP sets June target for social security draft legislation
GOP sets June target for social security draft legislation
Chris Buell
April 29, 2005 02:16:00 pm

House Republicans on Friday said they planned to finish drafting social security reform legislation by June, a day after President Bush in a prime-time press conference challenged legislators to move forward on the issue. House Ways and Means...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ US, Italy fail to agree on shooting investigation
BREAKING NEWS ~ US, Italy fail to agree on shooting investigation
Chris Buell
April 29, 2005 12:33:00 pm

AP is reporting that the US and Italy have issued a joint statement that they have failed to agree on the circumstances surrounding the shooting of an Italian agent by US soldiers in Iraq. Italy had indicated earlier [AP...

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News Taiwanese opposition, Chinese president end hostilities
Taiwanese opposition, Chinese president end hostilities
Chris Buell
April 29, 2005 11:42:00 am

Taiwan opposition leader Lien Chan and Chinese President Hu Jintao agreed on Friday to end decades of hostility and to work to avoid dangerous tensions in the Taiwan Strait during a historic meeting in...

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News UPDATE ~ Chalabi named to deputy prime minister post in new Iraq cabinet
UPDATE ~ Chalabi named to deputy prime minister post in new Iraq cabinet
Chris Buell
April 29, 2005 11:20:00 am

Following up on a story reported Thursday on JURIST, prominent Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi was named deputy prime minister and acting oil ministry chief in the Cabinet approved Wednesday by the interim national assembly...

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News Massachusetts governor introduces death penalty bill
Massachusetts governor introduces death penalty bill
Amit Patel
April 29, 2005 10:44:00 am

MA Gov. Mitt Romney filed a bill Thursday to reinstate the death penalty in Massachusetts for deadly acts of terrorism, killing sprees, murders involving torture, and the killing of law enforcement authorities. Romney's bill uses ten recommendations...

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No lynchings reported in US for first time

On December 30, 1952, the Tuskegee Institute reported that 1952 was the first year of no lynchings of African Americans in the United States in the 71 years it had kept records. Learn more about lynching and listen to Billie Holiday's jazz recording of the 1938 protest song Strange Fruit.

USSR established

On December 30, 1922, representatives of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and the Transcaucus approved the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and the Declaration of the Creation of the USSR, creating the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). During World War II, the USSR would also annex Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Moldova. Learn more about the history of the USSR from the BBC.

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