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Barack Obama and Joe Biden head to the Midwest today.
The Chinese Gitmo detainees are heading to paradise.
No, they’re not winging to heaven to enjoy the company of 72 virgins. The Uighurs, as they’re known, are being resettled in various...
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A Pennsylvania man has been accused of burglarizing at least three apartments and vandalizing them with spray paint and chocolate pudding _ after police say he was...
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The head of a Philadelphia museum says its sample of Abraham Lincoln’s blood may get DNA testing, but some questions must be answered first.
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Rihanna is back _ on the red carpet, at least.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will provide Congress with a fresh assessment of the country’s fragile economic health that probably will note some recent...
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Online retailers are shifting their marketing from traditional advertising to less expensive tools like Facebook.com and Twitter and e-mail as they seek market share or...
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The owner of the ultra-exclusive Yellowstone Club says she opposed a $375 million loan blamed for the resort’s financial collapse, but never tried to stop the...
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Dan Barber, a pioneer of the so-called farm-to-table restaurant movement, was named the nation’s top chef Monday by the James Beard Foundation.
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A woman is under house arrest for falsely reporting that a man she was stalking was going to hijack a plane in Los Angeles _ a lie authorities say nearly prevented him...
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The first U.S. double hand transplant is taking place at a Pittsburgh hospital.
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Israel’s prime minister on Monday outlined a “triple track” approach to peace with the Palestinians, a strategy that emphasizes political, economic...
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Two teenagers have denied in court they planned to bring guns to their California high school and randomly shoot fellow students.
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Voters head to the polls Tuesday to select their mayor for the next 7 1/2 months in a runoff election seen as key to restoring stability to Detroit amid a bleak fiscal...
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The Supreme Court says Shell Oil Co. cannot be held responsible for cleanup of a contaminated Superfund site owned by a defunct company simply because it delivered...
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Union workers at The New York Times will accept a 5 percent pay cut through the end of the year to help the newspaper avert more layoffs.
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The way it’s portrayed, you’d think the moment a detainee was moved out of Guantanamo Bay,...
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A federal appeals court has for a second time rejected a lawsuit by Guantanamo Bay detainees who say they were tortured and denied religious rights.
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A federal judge has adopted the Obama administration’s standard for continuing to hold terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
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One of the poll promises of President Obama challenging that the horrendous Guantanamo Bay Prison in Cuba was contently signed. The executive orders were signed in a...
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Thousands of Iraqis held without charge by the United States on suspicion of links to insurgents or militants are being freed by this summer because of little or no...
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Attorney General Eric Holder says some Chinese Muslim detainees at Guantanamo Bay are being considered for release in the United States.
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The Obama administration said Friday that it is abandoning one of President George W. Bush’s key phrases in the war on terrorism: enemy combatant. But that...
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The Obama administration is abandoning one of President George W. Bush’s key phrases in the war on terrorism: enemy combatant
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A U.N. human rights expert applauded the Obama administration Tuesday for pledging to turn a page in U.S. history by closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, but said the...
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Top officials of the Obama administration have met privately to discuss closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
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President Barack Obama sided with the Bush administration Friday, saying detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights.
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President Barack Obama says U.S. detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights, the same position the Bush administration took.
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A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that 17 Turkic Muslims cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay must stay at the prison camp, raising the stakes for an Obama...
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A federal appeals court has overturned a ruling that would have transferred 17 Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States.
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The U.S. military says it has started releasing 50 detainees a day in Iraq, under a U.S.-Iraqi security agreement that requires that those in custody but not wanted by...
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A federal judge is giving the Obama administration time to jump into some of the legal cases brought by the United States’ overseas terror detainees.
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Luisa Sanchez, left, the wife of an indigenous farm worker from Mexico, holds her 9-month-old boy Ismael, in her apartment in Mount Vernon, Wash., Wednesday, March 4, 2009. The arrest of 16 of Vasquez’s neighbors by immigration agents in January has...
