Indictments Filed in Dugard Kidnapping Case in California
A grand jury indicted Phillip and Nancy Garrido on 18 counts each in the Jaycee Dugard kidnapping and rape case. The move aims to shield witnesses and expedite trial while keeping evidence private. Indictments seal grand jury transcripts and end the upcoming prelim hearing.
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Placerville
Calif
Jaycee Dugard
California
Phillip
Nancy Garrido
el Dorado County
Vern Pierson
Dugard
Pierson
Superior Court
Douglas Phimister
Santa Ana
Dale Franklin Wensinger
Lillie King Park
Wensinger
Alison Gyves
Bear
Ignacio Marquez
Marquez
Obama reshapes White House with Pete Rouse as chief of staff
President Obama announced Rahm Emanuel will resign to run for Chicago mayor and be replaced by Pete Rouse as interim chief of staff. The change signals a new phase for the Obama operation as Rouse prepares for months in the key role.
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Washington
White House
Barack Obama
Rahm Emanuel
Pete Rouse
Emanuel
Chicago
Obama
Rahm
Rouse
Grand East Room
UN report links Congo killings to possible genocide probes
A U N rights office report on Mugunga camp killings in eastern Zaire from 1996 to 1999 describes mass deaths and mass rapes amid a regionwide civil war. It cites 617 incidents and calls for accountability though not a judicial indictment, urging action to end impunity and support international tribunals.
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Geneva
Mugunga
Zaire
U.N. Human Rights Office
Congo
Rwanda
Paul Kagame
Louise Mushikiwabo
United Nations
Red Cross
U.N
U.N. High Commissioner For Human Rights
Navi Pillay
Martin Nesirky
Ban Kimoon
Pillay
New York
Ileka Atoki
Atoki
Kinshasa
U.S. apologizes for 1940s Guatemala syphilis studies
The United States apologized for a 1946 to 1948 NIH funded experiment in Guatemala where prisoners and hospital patients were deliberately infected with syphilis to test penicillin. Officials vow reforms and ensure such research cannot recur, as leaders including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama acknowledge the atrocity and its impact on trust in medical research.
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Washington
Guatemala
Tuskegee
Francis Collins
National Institutes of Health
NIH
Hillary Clinton
Health and Human Services
Kathleen Sebelius
Barack Obama
Alvaro Colom
Clinton
White House
Robert Gibbs
U.S
Fernando de la Cerda
USA
Institute of Medicine
Presidential Commission For the
Pirates on Falcon Lake Spark U.S. Warning After Tourist Shot
Texas officials warn boaters to stay on the U.S. side as pirates suspected of operating on Falcon Lake shoot a Colorado man, David Hartley, in Mexican waters. Tiffany Hartley fled on a jet ski while police search on both sides for the oil industry worker.
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San Antonio
Texas
U.s.-Mexico
Colorado
U.S
Falcon Lake
David Michael Hartley
Laredo
Texas Department of Public Safety
Hartley
U.S. Border Patrol
Narciso Ramos
Texas Dps
Aaron Pena
South Texas
Pena
Mexico
Zapata County
Sigifredo Gonzalez
Tiffany Hartley
Gonzalez
Cials
Guerrero
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Denver
John Salazar
House of Representatives
Salazar
D-Coro
9Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
San Francisco
Supreme Court
Kimua
Lauran Neergaard
Associated Press
Mexican
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