http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Nation 60 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:23:08 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1138975.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1138975.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Don't expect a lot of fireworks from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday as it begins hearing testimony on whether Sonia Sotomayor should be the next Supreme Court justice. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1138250.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1138250.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:02 EDT Haji Sahib Rohullah Wakil spends his days going from one high-level official meeting to another with the swagger of a tribal elder, advocating for the needs of Kunar province, his home region. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1135957.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1135957.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:41 EDT Police said Friday they have launched a criminal investigation to determine if British intelligence officers were aware of the treatment of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who claims he was tortured at the U.S. Navy base,Pakistan and Morocco. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1135865.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1135865.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:01 EDT Representatives of the U.S. State Department and the government of Palau are in Honolulu discussing money, but officials say the talks are not tied to the possible transfer of Guantánamo detainees to the South Pacific island. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1134305.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1134305.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:45 EDT Congress has debated the wisdom of it. Human rights groups have decried the use of it. Now the dictionary people at Merriam-Webster have decided it's a real term that came into the American vernacular in 2004. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1131895.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1131895.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Even as the White House pledges to empty the prison camps at Guantánamo Bay, a 30-year-old prisoner is so afraid of returning to his native Tajikistan that he is asking to stay at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1132160.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1132160.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:29 EDT Palau, which has agreed to resettle some Guantánamo detainees, is asking longtime benefactor the United States for a 35-year extension on direct aid funding. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1131111.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1131111.html Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:30 EDT The Obama administration prefers war on terror prosecutions in civilian courts but has not yet decided where to try those accused of involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks who are now held at Guantánamo Bay, government lawyers told a Senate committee on Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1131405.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1131405.html Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:07 EDT A former Guantánamo Bay prisoner now living in England says the United States has photographs of him being beaten during his detention and has asked a judge to preserve the evidence. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1129826.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1129826.html Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:45 EDT Actor Kal Penn, who last year portrayed a captive in an orange jumpsuit escaping from Guantánamo, started a new job Monday as a liaison between the White House and Asian communities. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1126600.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1126600.html Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT In what may well be a first, a Catholic archbishop worshipped with U.S. troops at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo then turned up across the minefield separating the base from Cuba a day later to offer a Mass for Cuban worshipers in Guantánamo province. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1125406.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1125406.html Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:54 EDT Newly released Defense Department documents and memos about the first years of operation of the jail at the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, portray a chaotic and sometimes violent operation that its own commanders described as dysfunctional. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1125603.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1125603.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:25 EDT A prosecutor agreed Thursday that the government will not dismantle overseas locations where a former Guantánamo detainee claims he was interrogated by the CIA before he was brought to the United States for trial on terrorism charges. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1125281.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1125281.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:40 EDT President Barack Obama said Thursday he is uneasy about his own proposal to indefinitely imprison some of the most dangerous terror suspects being held now at Guantánamo Bay. He called it ``one of the biggest challenges of my administration.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1124201.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1124201.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:05 EDT Lawyers for a Guantánamo detainee charged with terrorism crimes have asked the U.S. government to preserve overseas locations where he was subjected to ''physical and psychological ill-treatment'' at secret CIA prisons known as ''black sites'' until they can inspect them. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1120781.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1120781.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:55 EDT The White House is still committed to emptying the prison camps at Guantánamo of war-on-terror detainees within President Barack Obama's first year in office. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140467.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140467.html Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:02 EDT A small earthquake has rattled Los Angeles International Airport, but there are no immediate reports of damage or injuries. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140451.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140451.html Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:26 EDT Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who says she'll leave office at the end of the month, is already taking on one national issue, calling the Obama administration's plan to reduce greenhouse gases a threat to the U.S. economy. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140447.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140447.html Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:06 EDT When it comes to the sport of presidents, Barack Obama is very much the everyman. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140396.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140396.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:01 EDT Three people are dead after their vehicle was struck by an Amtrak train in Illinois. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140395.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140395.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:01 EDT A suburban Philadelphia swim club's board should resign to settle claims that the club canceled the pool memberships of dozens of minority children because of their race, a lawyer for most of the children's families said Monday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140309.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140309.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:26 EDT A Nevada jury found an unemployed house painter guilty of 51 of 52 felony charges against him in a shooting inside a Las Vegas Strip casino two years ago. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140234.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140234.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:53 EDT Republican Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday set a new course from her Democratic predecessor on the issue of abortion, signing a measure imposing new mandates and restrictions. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1138038.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1138038.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT In the struggle to overhaul the nation's healthcare system, 16 physicians have ended up in ringside seats -- as members of the House and Senate. But they do not agree on what a bill should look like. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1138024.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1138024.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT (AP) -- A female body stuffed inside an air-conditioning duct was found Saturday in a Manhattan skyscraper where a cleaning woman was last seen four days ago. Police discovered the corpse, hidden in a utility room duct, as they searched the 26-story tower for 46-year-old Eridania Rodriguez. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1138039.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1138039.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT An argument earlier in the day between teens from rival neighborhoods had Jason Broom worried as he stood in a pothole-riddled parking lot pondering his next move. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1136928.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1136928.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT (AP) -- An Iranian-American scholar whom Iran once accused of fomenting political unrest has been arrested there for the second time in two years, the State Department and the man's family said Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1136949.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1136949.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT (AP) -- One of the country's main monitors of hate groups asked Congress Friday to investigate possible racial extremism in the military, after finding U.S. service members participating on a social networking site advertised as being for white people only. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1136916.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1136916.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT (AP) -- A spokeswoman for Gov. Sarah Palin is scoffing at comments by Bristol Palin's former fiance, who says he thinks Palin resigned to cash in on her fame. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1136936.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1136936.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Despite the Bush administration's insistence that its warrantless eavesdropping program was necessary to protect the country from another terrorist attack, FBI agents, CIA analysts and other officials had difficulty evaluating its effectiveness, according to an unclassified government report made public Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1136950.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1136950.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT (AP) -- Hundreds of horrified relatives grappling with guilt and anger wandered around a historic black cemetery near Chicago on Friday searching for their loved ones' graves after former cemetery workers were accused of dumping hundreds of unearthed corpses in scheme to resell their plots. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1136944.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1136944.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Veterans healthcare programs would receive another big boost under a $132.4 billion measure passed by the House on Friday. The 12 percent increase for the veterans medical services account is the latest in a recent string of increases. Funding for veterans has long had strong bipartisan support. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1135284.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1135284.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, explaining her stunning announcement she is resigning from office, has repeatedly said that attacks on her since she ran for vice president have cost state government ``millions.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1135369.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1135369.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT A U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs letter pledges free medical care and treatment for former patients who have tested positive for HIV or hepatitis since being exposed to endoscopic cleaning mistakes at three VA hospitals, including one in Miami. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1135289.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1135289.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT 'Status quo' farm spending bill passes U.S. House The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a $123.8 billion farm spending bill that's loaded with congressional earmarks, including some in Florida. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140191.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140191.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:42 EDT The two men named by Michael Jackson to administer his estate confirmed their powers with a judge Monday, despite new opposition by Katherine Jackson's lawyers to gain for her a larger say in her late son's affairs. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140227.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140227.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:27 EDT Fifteen people were injured when a charter bus carrying students in a job training program collided with a tractor-trailer in northeast Kansas, overturned and briefly caught fire. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140226.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140226.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:27 EDT A Los Angeles coroner's official says toxicology reports that may determine the cause of Michael Jackson's death could be completed this week. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140222.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140222.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:22 EDT The number of cadets with confirmed cases of the swine flu at the Air Force Academy has increased to 67. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140211.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140211.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:07 EDT A Nevada landmark has been tagged. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140131.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140131.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:43 EDT A man who pleaded guilty to sending an e-mail threat to two Virginia Tech alumni on the eve of the first anniversary of the university's mass shooting has been released from jail and ordered to undergo psychiatric treatment. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140121.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140121.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:37 EDT Federal investigators say a Boston trolley operator who was killed when her train rammed into another didn't heed a red warning signal and was going too fast. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140120.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140120.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:37 EDT Two men are accused of supporting terrorism in a grand jury indictment unsealed Monday, the first charges in an investigation into the disappearances of several young Somali men who activists believe were recruited from the Minneapolis area by radical elements in Somalia. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140119.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140119.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:37 EDT Southwest Airlines is inspecting nearly 200 of its aircraft overnight after a hole the fuselage of a plane forced an emergency landing in West Virginia. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140116.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140116.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:32 EDT Ten men from a polygamist sect asked a judge on Monday to bar prosecutors from using thousands of documents seized from their West Texas ranch during their trials, saying law enforcement did little to verify the domestic abuse hoax on which the raid was based. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140096.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140096.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:12 EDT NAME - Regina M. Benjamin http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140005.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1140005.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:58 EDT President Barack Obama's nominee to be census director was approved Monday by the Senate, ending weeks of opposition from a pair of Republicans over his role in next year's high-stakes count. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1140333.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1140333.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Sonia Sotomayor told her up-from-the-bootstraps story Monday to the Senate Judiciary Committee and vowed that a judge's role is ''not to make law. It is to apply the law.'' Skeptical Republicans warned that they'll ask tough questions starting Tuesday about her background and activism. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1138029.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1138029.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT The Obama administration has made offshore wind energy a priority and an important part of its plans to create jobs and combat climate change, but even such favorable political breezes have not been strong enough to propel the nation's first projects. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1138047.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1138047.html Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT The phone calls clamored in from Miami, Europe and Australia to the line of a tiny office near Perez's Produce and Pig Farm. Is it true? they asked the receptionist. Do you have really have Bubbles, Michael Jackson's old chimpanzee, there in. . . how do you pronounce the name of that town?