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 2008 MiamiHerald.com Nation 60 Mon, 12 May 2008 21:01:09 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/530391.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/530391.html Mon, 12 May 2008 17:14 EDT You're in your house, your car, maybe your mobile home, and you've just heard a tornado warning announced for your area. What should you do now? Just as importantly, what shouldn't you do? Here are some dos and don'ts: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/530193.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/530193.html Mon, 12 May 2008 17:58 EDT Violent crime has increased in some cities in recent years in part because local police are too cash-strapped to fight it, the ATF chief said Monday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/529285.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/529285.html Mon, 12 May 2008 13:02 EDT The Environmental Protection Agency planned to check for high lead levels Monday after a deadly tornado blew through a heavily polluted former mining town where lead-filled waste is piled into giant mounds. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/530581.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/530581.html Mon, 12 May 2008 20:58 EDT Presumably, she didn't fleece Prince Charles. But a couple of young jet-setters plan to admit in court that other people who crossed their paths unwittingly financed their luxury lifestyle. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/529685.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/529685.html Mon, 12 May 2008 03:31 EDT Everyone expected Jody Weis to make changes in the Chicago Police Department when he left the FBI to become the first outsider in decades to head the city force. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/529744.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/529744.html Mon, 12 May 2008 06:11 EDT Delaware officials say evacuations are in progress in flooded coastal communities. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/529847.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/529847.html Mon, 12 May 2008 14:17 EDT Heavy rain drenched the mid-Atlantic region Monday, knocking out power to tens of thousands of customers, flooding roads and chasing people out of their homes. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/530181.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/530181.html Mon, 12 May 2008 14:31 EDT A teenager convicted of killing a man, then beheading him and setting fire to his body in what prosecutors called a thrill killing was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/530284.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/530284.html Mon, 12 May 2008 15:48 EDT A central Florida man has been sentenced to death for murdering his ex-girlfriend by setting her on fire. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/530316.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/530316.html Mon, 12 May 2008 16:13 EDT Several American victims of terrorist attacks in Israel are demanding more than $500 million in compensation from a Swiss bank. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/529572.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/529572.html Mon, 12 May 2008 03:01 EDT Stunned survivors picked through the little that was left of their communities Sunday after tornadoes tore across the Plains and South, killing at least 22 people in three states and leaving behind a trail of destruction and stories of loss. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/529573.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/529573.html Mon, 12 May 2008 03:01 EDT A group called VoteBoth has been leading the charge for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up on the Democratic ticket. But the people behind it come from just one of those camps -- Clinton's -- and one of their goals may be keeping Clinton's White House prospects alive. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/529601.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/529601.html Mon, 12 May 2008 00:42 EDT With their actual trials a year or more away, the focus in Guantánamo Bay these days is preparing for this summer's first public appearances of the alleged architects of the worst attack on domestic America. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/528161.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/528161.html Sun, 11 May 2008 03:01 EDT Dorothy Brower's husband died two years ago. She is 79, and in order to afford her $143-a-month medicine costs, she is working at a McDonald's restaurant. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/528727.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/528727.html Sat, 10 May 2008 21:37 EDT In a rebuke, a military judge banned a key Pentagon general from any role overseeing the Guantánamo war crimes trial of Osama bin Laden's driver, citing interference. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/528419.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/528419.html Sat, 10 May 2008 11:54 EDT In a rebuke, a military judge has disqualified a key Pentagon general from any role overseeing the Guantánamo war crimes trial of Osama bin Laden's driver. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/528007.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/528007.html Sat, 10 May 2008 03:01 EDT Sen. Hillary Clinton will campaign beyond Tuesday's West Virginia primary and take her fight for the Democratic presidential nomination all the way to the party's convention this summer if she or Sen. Barack Obama hasn't won enough delegates to clinch the party's nomination, her campaign advisors said Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/526594.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/526594.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT Weary congressional negotiators on Thursday completed a massive farm bill that confronts a presidential veto threat amid complicated election-year politics. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/526510.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/526510.html Fri, 09 May 2008 03:01 EDT GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- A military judge threatened Thursday to suspend the terror trial of Canadian Omar Khadr unless the prison camp releases a detailed log of the Toronto-born captive's treatment in detention. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/525126.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/525126.html Thu, 08 May 2008 06:58 EDT The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating an incident onboard an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Paris, in which a Miami-based captain continued flying after crew members heard what they believed to be an explosion in the cargo hold shortly after take-off. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/525297.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/525297.html Thu, 08 May 2008 03:01 EDT The Pentagon tested its new $12 million war court complex Wednesday with the arraignment of an alleged al Qaeda propagandist -- and the state-of-the-art facility was plagued by technical tribulations. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/525304.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/525304.html Thu, 08 May 2008 03:01 EDT Broke and politically battered, Hillary Clinton has few options left as she vows to fight on for a Democratic presidential nomination that appears to be slipping rapidly from her grasp. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/525314.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/525314.html Thu, 08 May 2008 03:01 EDT The Environmental Protection Agency's top science advisor on Wednesday defended his boss for allowing more ozone pollution than the EPA's advisory panels recommended and for holding meetings with White House officials about pollution risks that are kept secret from Congress and the public. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/525316.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/525316.html Thu, 08 May 2008 03:01 EDT President Bush served up a spirited defense of his priorities in Latin America on Wednesday, dismissing recent reforms by Cuba's new leadership as ''empty gestures'' and pushing ambitious initiatives for Mexico and Colombia that face scrutiny by Democrats in Congress. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/525317.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/525317.html Thu, 08 May 2008 03:01 EDT After months of stalled talks between the United States and Iran, the Iraqi government said it was time for the two nations to stop trading accusations and come to the table.