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The Israeli military said in a statement that detainees found to not be involved in terrorism are released back into the Gaza Strip and that the use of violence against detainees is prohibited.

County Superior Court Judge Terry Bork directed the company to shut down the scrap yard for good and sign a land covenant that would prohibit future recycling on the site.

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It also prohibits the use of exclusionary “safe spaces” that imply access only to students “of a specific racial or ethnic group.”

Tacit indulgence of private non-Muslim worship even while public practice of Christianity and other faiths remains formally prohibited.

If OMB revised the directive to prohibit the collection of racial data, it would make it more difficult for regulators and attorneys to devise schemes for government to discriminate by race.

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