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Philippine Chief Justice Defends Finances At Impeachment Trial
nytimes.com 3 days, 1 hour agoAt times weeping on the stand, Chief Justice Renato C. Corona testified for the first time in his impeachment trial in the Philippine Senate.
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Battered Indian Tribal Women In Limbo
abcnews.com 1 week, 4 days agoWife beating is behavior that would land abusers anywhere else in the country in jail. But on some Indian reservations U.S. laws give tribal police no jurisdiction over non-tribal abusers. States have no jurisdiction on tribal lands. Abused women go unprotected. Legislation to fix the problem has passed both houses of Congress, but in differing forms. Until the two sides in Washington can find agreement, battered women on tribal lands will remain in a legal limbo and their abusers know it.










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