A tornado from a large storm system moving cross the south has struck a Georgia town 60 miles north of Atlanta, according to CNN. A least one death has been reported in the state.
High winds also are raking Tennessee, where a man died after a tree fell into his home, according to CNN.
The force-feeding of terror suspects at the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, runs counter to international standards, medical ethics and the practices at American prisons, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Wednesday in pressing the Pentagon to establish a more humane treatment.
High-profile developers Jorge Perez and Stephen Ross are pitching changes to the long-stalled Watson Island redevelopment plan that would make the project less like a plush resort and marina — and more like a mega shopping center.
The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee says she opposes the force-feeding of terror suspects at the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and is pressing the Pentagon to establish a more humane treatment.
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