In Brief - May 19, 2008
Around the Northwest
- Washington Democratic Party Chair Dwight Pelz, a superdelegate, has endorsed Barack Obama.
- The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the conviction of would-be millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam, on charges of conspiring to detonate explosives at the Los Angeles International Airport.
- A single mom has become the first woman promoted to Captain in the Ada County Sheriff's Department.
- In light of the recent Supreme Court ruling, Los Angeles County is preparing to issue same-sex marriage licenses.
- Habitat for Humanity is finding opportunity in the foreclosure crisis.
- Bad for American business: A Spanish firm has won the right to operate the Pennsylvania Turnpike for the next 75 years for $12.8 billion.
- Anti-immigrant sentiment isn't just for U.S. border states near Mexico. South Africa is struggling with anti-immigrant violence.
- A couple on a remote island in northern Great Britain is building one of the world's greenest houses, powered by the wind.
- Japan will be giving $10 billion in aid to African nations, over the next 5 years, to assist in their climate change efforts.
- 1848 - Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American war and ceding land to the United States.
- 1921 - The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act, establishing immigration quotas.
- 1962 - At a birthday party for President John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe does her infamous "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" routine.
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