new police powers passed by house

By vote of 337-79, House agreed to Attorney General John Ashcroft most of the new tools he says enforcement agencies need to track down the terrorists for Sept 11 attacks on New York and Pentagon and to prevent such attacks in the future.. ..

killer to get death penalty

GREENBELT - A Laurel man is expected today to receive Maryland's first federal death sentence as the U.S. government steadily moves closer to its first execution since John F. Kennedy was in the White House. . Dustin John Higgs is to be sentenced for his role in the..

section 1: trust in government 1958-2010

2001 terrorist attacks, trust government began slipping almost immediately and continued to tumble with the debate over Iraq, series of White House and congressional scandals, the poor response to Hurricane Katrina, and worsening economic conditions. ... By the summer of 2007, with..

john wilkes booth's abduction plot gone wrong

In, the actor's original plan was to abduct Lincoln, take him to Richmond and exchange him for Confederate soldiers then held Union prisons The story is well known on April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater. The men were motivated by..

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