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2013/05/25 16:56
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NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for men who sued the New York Police Department are asking for major changes to how the department conducts street stops that could affect policing nationwide. A policing...
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2013/05/25 02:44
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WASHINGTON : Weakened by a prolonged hunger strike, Yemeni detainees who have languished at Guantanamo Bay for years see growing hope of finally returning home after a ban on transfers to Yemen was...
2013/05/24 06:19
2013/05/24 06:19
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President Barack Obama laid out new guidelines for drone strikes and launched a fresh bid to close Guantanamo, warning that a "perpetual" US war on terror would be self-defeating. Obama told...
2013/05/23 18:10
2013/05/23 18:10
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Actually, that headline overstates things. Obama will never capitulate to ACLU, the organization. As I’ve shown, his Administration has gone to absurd lengths to defeat ACLU in Court, even holding up...
2013/05/23 13:11
2013/05/23 13:11
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WASHINGTON - May 23 - Attorney General Eric Holder sent a letter to Congress confirming that the government has killed four Americans since 2010 in strikes overseas, and claiming that the government’s...
2013/05/23 11:33
2013/05/23 11:33
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HAGERSTOWN — The WikiLeaks organization and a handful of journalists asked a federal judge Wednesday to order greater transparency in the court-martial of an Army private who has acknowledged sending...
2013/05/22 23:14
2013/05/22 23:14
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NEW YORK (AP) — The city's fire department must subject itself to court supervision for five years to ensure it does not discriminate against blacks and Hispanics in its hiring practices, a federal...
2013/05/22 21:10
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WASHINGTON - May 22 - Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a complaint and motion for preliminary injunction asking a federal district court in Baltimore to order the military judge...
2013/05/22 19:20
2013/05/22 19:20
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Yasiin Bey (f/k/a Mos Def) Checks NYPD With Stop & Frisk PSA [VIDEO] Working with two non-profits, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and Communities United For Police Reform (CPR), the artist...
2013/05/22 09:02
2013/05/22 09:02
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NEW YORK -- It was one word that struck me. More than any other word spoken over the past 10 weeks of court testimony in Floyd v. City of New York, the civil trial questioning the New York Police...
2013/05/22 08:37
2013/05/22 08:37
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There are still 166 prisoners at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Of these, U.S. authorities have cleared 86 for release, some in 2009 under President Obama, and others as early as 2004...
2013/05/22 01:46
2013/05/22 01:46
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More and more police departments across the country are using video cameras when they stop citizens on the street, and the federal judge in the stop-and-frisk trial may be eyeing that practice for...
2013/05/21 23:19
2013/05/21 23:19
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Army Col. Denise Lind, the judge in the case, ruled that two dozen witnesses will be able to provide at least some of their testimony in closed session. She said the court had considered alternatives...
2013/05/21 14:44
2013/05/21 14:44
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Civil rights attorneys called for sweeping changes to the New York City police department's controversial street-stop practices in the closing arguments of a landmark federal trial. US district court...
2013/05/20 14:27
2013/05/20 14:27
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The genocide conviction of Guatemala’s ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt has put respect for human rights at a crossroads, with one option to reverse the judgment and another to expand the investigation...
2013/05/19 23:19
2013/05/19 23:19
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This month, CACI argued in U.S. District Court in Alexandria that the Supreme Court decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum provided grounds to dismiss much of the case. In Kiobel, the high court...
2013/05/18 03:59
2013/05/18 03:59
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Two weeks ago, the FBI finally got around to publicizing photos of three individuals at the Benghazi murder scene who are wanted for questioning. Congressional and intelligence sources have said the...
2013/05/17 12:57
2013/05/17 12:57
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In spite of obstacles thrown up by Congress and defenders of the offshore anti-terrorism operations, changing politics in the Islamic world may give Obama a new chance to make good on his overdue...
2013/05/17 10:53
2013/05/17 10:53
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Obama could close Guantanamo prison if he wanted to: Henry Norr I do not think he (Obama) is serious. I think that he wants to look good in the eyes of the world and in the eyes of liberals in the...
2013/05/16 08:32
2013/05/16 08:32
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NEW YORK (AP) — The city's fire department must subject itself to court supervision for five years to ensure it does not discriminate against blacks and Hispanics in its hiring practices, a federal...