GUANTANAMO BAY

U.S. plans for end of Guantánamo prison camps

What can stay? What can go? And what can be destroyed? Undaunted, Guantánamo is preparing for the da...

WHITE HOUSE

Counsel quits, possibly due to Guantánamo

Although he gave no reason, there was speculation that White House Counsel Greg Craig had quit over fallout...

SEPT. 11 TERROR CASE

NYC trial won't close Guantánamo war court

The Obama administration will pursue military trials for some and civilian trials for others accused in the...

Guantánamo 9/11 suspects to go to NYC for trial

Confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his four co-accused will face a federal trial in New Yo...

SOCIAL TRENDS

Most young Americans called unfit for military

A study has found that 75 percent of young Americans wouldn't qualify for military service -- for health pr...

THE HEALTHCARE DEBATE | PEMBROKE PINES

Healthcare event is mostly civil

Congressional Democrats' advocacy of their party's healthcare-reform measures met with a mixed reaction at ...

THE ECONOMY

Initial jobless claims in U.S. fell last week to 10-month low

Fewer Americans than anticipated filed claims for jobless benefits last week, signaling the worst employmen...

WILDLIFE

Brown pelicans fly off at-risk list

(AP) -- Much like its death-defying dives for fish, the brown pelican has resurfaced after plummeting to th...

United pilot charged with being over alcohol limit

A United Airlines pilot who failed a breath test shortly before he was due to take off has been charged wit...

GUANTANAMO BAY

Serve burgers, fries at Guantánamo

Out of work and willing to relocate? McDonald's is advertising for an assistant manager for its sole franch...

PUERTO RICO

Fuel firm flouted safety rules

The fuel company whose tank farm in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, exploded last month collected environmenta...

Some doubts about earrings tied to Mrs. Lincoln

The Kentucky Historical Society has been displaying and publicizing a pair of earrings as having belonged t...

Beating of SoCal student may be tied to Facebook

Authorities say a 12-year-old boy assaulted by a group of middle school classmates in Southern California m...

Lethal injection creator fine with 1 drug in Ohio

India's PM arrives for state visit to US

India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has arrived in Washington for a visit to be highlighted by an offic...

Couple, 14-year-old boy killed in fiery crash

Authorities say a couple and a 14-year-old boy have been killed in a fiery freeway crash in Southern Califo...

Arrest in 1981 tribal murders revives old mystery

In the days before Fred Alvarez was shot execution-style with two friends on his verandah, the strapping Ca...

3.7 magnitude quake hits Big Bear Lake in Calif.

A magnitude 3.7 earthquake has rattled Southern California's Big Bear Lake area, followed by a sharp afters...

Police identify gunman in deadly Saipan rampage

The gunman who killed four people and wounded nine in a shooting rampage on the Pacific island of Saipan wa...

Iraqi refugees move to Mich. despite poor economy

The U.S. government resettled Mazen Alsaqa in Massachusetts in February. Within a month, the Iraqi refugee ...

Va. Military Institute faces sexism accusations

Virginia Military Institute is defending itself against a lengthy investigation into accusations that the s...

Sizing up the Kennedy dynasty's next generation

NYC lawyer: 9/11 accused want platform for views

The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticis...

Algerian court clears former Guantánamo captives

An Algerian court on Sunday acquitted two men once held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who were returned h...

Judge orders Algerian freed from Guantánamo

A federal judge Friday ordered the Obama administration to free a long-held Guantánamo captive who f...

Ashcroft: Don't prosecute terror suspects in federal court

Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Friday that prosecuting terror suspects in federal court in...

GUANTANAMO BAY

Broken deadline not a surprise at Guantánamo

No reinforcements, and no surprise at Guantánamo, as word spread that President Barack Obama confirmed the ...

Guantánamo war court gavels back into 1-day session

With a prison camps closure date now uncertain, the Pentagon gaveled into business a military commissions s...

Illinois lawmaker defends `savage religion' remark

An Illinois congressman says his comment that suspected terrorists detained at Guantánamo Bay follow a "sav...

Obama: No exact deadline for closing Guantánamo

President Barack Obama says he won't set a new deadline for closing the Guantánamo Bay military pris...

Alleged 9/11 plotters 'stoic,' polite on learning of New York trial

The alleged 9/11 conspirators neither greeted with joy nor trepidation the news that they would be taken to...

Illinois town would rather get Guantánamo prisoners

Some folks in this dying Mississippi River town would rather take their chances with suspected terrorists i...

GUANTANAMO BAY

U.S. plans for end of Guantánamo prison camps

What can stay? What can go? And what can be destroyed? Undaunted, Guantánamo is preparing for the da...