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A prison cell during the dirty protest. The dirty protest (also called the no wash protest) [1] was part of a five-year protest during the Troubles by Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) prisoners held in the Maze Prison (also known as "Long Kesh") and a protest at Armagh Women's Prison in Northern Ireland.
Frank Horton (R-NY) pleaded guilty to a DWI (arrested at 105 mph with two women; neither were his wife) and was sentenced to 11 days in jail. (1976) [110] James F. Hastings (R-NY) was convicted of taking kickbacks from his staff and mail fraud. He took the money from his employees and used it to buy cars, boats, school tuition and retirement.
Rep. John Conyers Jr. of Michigan (Democrat) was accused of unwanted sexual advances by a former staffer in 2017. A woman who had settled a sexual harassment claim against him stated that the lawmaker had "violated" her body, repeatedly propositioned her for sex, and asked her to touch his genitals.
History and politics Early American political figures. An early example of tampering was in the early 1860s, when a photo was altered using the body from a portrait of John C. Calhoun and the head of Lincoln from a famous seated portrait by Mathew Brady – the same portrait which was the basis for the original Lincoln five-dollar bill.
Multiple women competing for a top political office is still rare in Japan, which has a terrible global gender-equality ranking, but Koike’s win highlights a gradual rise in powerful female ...
t. e. Women in conservatism in the United States have advocated for social, political, economic, and cultural conservative policies since anti-suffragism. [ 1] Leading conservative women such as Phyllis Schlafly have expressed that women should embrace their privileged essential nature. [ 2]
During the early stages of the Iraq War, members of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency committed a series of human rights violations and war crimes against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. These abuses included physical abuse, sexual humiliation, physical and psychological torture, and rape, as well as the ...
The list below reflects presenters' normal postings, but can be posted to cover other studios, they often assume News Correspondent roles when not in a presenting capacity, some have specialisms for example Carl Nasman is the BBC's Environment and Climate Change presenter, he is an anchor and correspondent for coverage of COP summits as well as ...