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• William Benton (senator)
  ...illiam Burnett Benton''' (April 1, 1900 – March 18, 1973) was a [[United States|U.S.]] senator from [[Connecticut]] (1949 - 1953) and [[publisher]] of the ...in the general election on 7 November 1950 as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [[Raymond E. B
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• Work–life balance (United States)
  == United States history == ...er week. Similar laws were later adopted by about half of the country’s states. Only men in exceptionally hazardous jobs were covered in early legislatio
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• Salvia divinorum
  ...ans]], who use it to facilitate [[Altered state of consciousness|visionary states of consciousness]] during spiritual healing sessions.<ref name="Valdés1983 ...the first person charged for ''Salvia divinorum'' possession in the United States.<ref name="ReferenceA">[[#refDWC20080425|DRCNet 2008-04-25 (US Media)]].</r
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• Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
  ...Party (United States)|Democratic]] nomination for President of the United States, [[Robert F. Kennedy]] was shot as he walked through the kitchen of the [[A ...s death prompted the protection of presidential candidates by the [[United States Secret Service]]. [[Hubert Humphrey]] went on to win the Democratic nominat
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• Bath School disaster
  |location=[[Bath Township, Michigan|Bath Township]], [[Michigan]], [[United States]] ...]ings in [[Bath Township, Michigan|Bath Township]], [[Michigan]], [[United States|USA]], on May 18, 1927, which killed 38 [[primary school]] children and 7 a
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• History of terrorism
  |publisher=[[United Nations]] *'''1989'''. [[United States of America|United States]]: premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncomb
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• Terrorism
  ...alif Deen. [http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29633 POLITICS: U.N. Member States Struggle to Define Terrorism], [[Inter Press Service]], 25 July 2005.</ref> ...te [[international law]])'' --><ref>{{cite web |title=UN Reform |publisher=United Nations |date=2005-03-21 |url=http://www.un.org/unifeed/script.asp?scriptId
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• Hostage
  ...is seized by a criminal [[kidnapping|abductor]] in order to compel another party such as a [[kinship|relative]], [[employer]], law enforcement, or [[governm A person or party which seize(s) (a) hostage(s) is/are known as (a) '''hostage-taker(s)'''; i
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• Propaganda of the deed
  ...r Germany]], the prohibition of the [[Communist Party of Germany|Communist Party]] (KDP) and thus of institutional far-left political organization may also, ...registered membership in the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], and never having belonged to an anarchist organization. Bombings were as
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• Guerrilla warfare
  ...on of 1857]], as well as by [[Pazhassi Raja]] of [[Kerala]] to fight the [[United Kingdom|British]]. During the [[American Civil War]] of 1861-1865, the breakaway Confederate States for a time attempted to use guerrilla warfare as part of broader military s
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• Organized crime
  ...it (economics)|profit]]. The ''[[Organized Crime Control Act]]'' ([[United States|U.S.]], 1970) defines organized crime as "The unlawful activities of [...] ...ed in [[Sicily]], known to its members as [[Cosa Nostra]]. In the [[United States]], "the Mafia" generally refers to the [[American Mafia|Italian American Ma
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• Taliban
  |international = [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Pakistan]], [[United Arab Emirates]] (before [[September 11 attacks|11 September attacks]]) ...ecognition]] from only three states: Pakistan, [[Saudi Arabia]], and the [[United Arab Emirates]]. It has regained some amount of political control and accep
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• Person of interest
  ...ice]].<ref name="DilemaOfInterest" /> Though associated with the [[United States]], the term is used by police forces in other countries.<ref>{{cite web | u The use of the term became widely critiqued when [[United States Attorney General]] [[John Ashcroft]] used it in a [[press conference]] when
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• Moazzam Begg
  | citizenship = [[United Kingdom|British]]/ [[Pakistan]]i ...detainment camp]], in [[Cuba]], by the [[Federal government of the United States|U.S. government]] for nearly three years.<ref name=AkronBeacon060616>[[Davi
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• Congressional response to the NSA warrantless surveillance program
  ...[[United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|Judiciary]] and [[United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence|Intelligence Committees]] chairmen ...e, with the telephone companies. I was further advised that you told those Republican members that the telephone companies had been instructed not to provide any
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• Extraordinary rendition by the United States
  ...oxy'''" is used by some critics to describe situations in which the United States has transferred suspected terrorists to countries known to practice [[tortu | publisher=[[All Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition]]
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• Military Commissions Act of 2006
  ...October 17, 2006. Drafted in the wake of the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]]'s decision on ''[[Hamdan v. Rumsfeld]]'',<ref name="nytimes ...alien unlawful enemy combatants engaged in hostilities against the United States for violations of the law of war and other offenses triable by military com
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• NSA call database
  ...om the four largest [[telephone company|telephone carriers]] in the United States: [[AT&T]], [[SBC Communications|SBC]], [[BellSouth]] (all three now called ...Amendment to the United States Constitution|Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution]].
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• NSA warrantless surveillance controversy
  {{Multiple issues|cleanup=January 2010|expert=United States Government|prose=January 2010|tone=January 2010|update=January 2010|date=Ja ...ef> This action was challenged by a number of groups including the United States Congress as unconstitutional. This article examines the scope, nature and
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• Operation TIPS
  ...e United States of America|President]] [[George W. Bush]] to have [[United States]] citizens report suspicious activity. The program's website implied that U ...ng of the website was subsequently changed. President Bush's then-[[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]], [[John Ashcroft]] denied that private
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