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McDonald's is advertising for an assistant manager for its sole franchise in Cuba -- serving up burgers and fries that sometimes feed detainees at the prison camps at Guantánamo Bay. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1322972.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1322972.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:46 EST U.S. officials are reviewing which Guantánamo Bay detainees could face trial in American courts and the first indications could come next week, the U.S. attorney general said Sunday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1318853.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1318853.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:18 EST The Democratic-controlled Senate on Thursday turned back a GOP-led effort to bar Sept. 11 terrorists from being prosecuted in civilian federal courts. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1318031.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1318031.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:30 EST It's one year before South Carolinians elect a new governor and the possibility that the Charleston Brig could house Guantánamo detainees is already roiling the race. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1315122.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1315122.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:05 EST An Italian judge found 23 Americans and two Italians guilty Wednesday in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect, delivering the first legal convictions anywhere in the world against people involved in the CIA's extraordinary renditions program. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1313929.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1313929.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:31 EST The White House says detainees at Guantánamo Bay are not yet receiving vaccinations against the swine flu. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1314856.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1314856.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:53 EST A Guantánamo Bay prisoner who has been on hunger strike for more than four years is in critical danger from malnutrition, his lawyers said Tuesday. U.S. officials insist his weight loss is not an immediate health risk. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1314591.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1314591.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:22 EST A Kuwaiti Airways engineer whom the U.S. military has accused of being a key aide to Osama bin Laden has been moved to the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, detention center's collective prison camp for detainees cleared for release. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1313758.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1313758.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:09 EST The defense secretary and attorney general are opposing an attempt to prohibit Guantánamo detainees from having civilian trials in the United States. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1312758.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1312758.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:37 EST Six former Guantánamo Bay detainees brought to Palau for resettlement have received a warm official welcome, but a plan to deport Bangladeshi workers could halve this Pacific Island nation's already-tiny Muslim community, making integration harder. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1307250.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1307250.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:02 EDT An al Qaeda sleeper agent who admitted having contact with the alleged mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was sentenced to more than eight years in prison Thursday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1305387.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1305387.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:57 EDT President Barack Obama brought back Bush-era military trials for terror suspects at Guantánamo Bay on Wednesday by signing new rules into law that will give detainees stronger legal rights in court. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1305022.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1305022.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:02 EDT Even as some Americans await the arrival of their swine flu vaccines, the Pentagon has decided to vaccinate both soldiers and terror suspects at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1302289.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1302289.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:22 EDT The Arenac, Mich., County Board of Commissioners changed its collective mind Monday morning. In a fashion. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1302275.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1302275.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:37 EDT Seven former Guantánamo Bay detainees asked the High Court in London on Tuesday to reject a government request to use secret sessions to hear allegations that Britain was complicit in their torture overseas. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326903.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326903.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:21 EST A district attorney in Colorado has decided no criminal charges are warranted against the sheriff who disclosed that child welfare workers were involved in the inquiry in the runaway balloon case. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326901.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326901.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:21 EST Sniper John Allen Muhammad is meeting with relatives in the hours before his execution and one of his attorneys described the convicted killer as fearless. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326891.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326891.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:06 EST A fifth foreign mission to the United Nations has received an envelope with a suspicious white powder inside, police say. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326888.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326888.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:06 EST Fort Hood officials say that 15 of 29 people wounded in last week's shooting rampage remain hospitalized. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326856.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326856.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:46 EST A former Bush administration lawyer is asking a federal court to toss a lawsuit by a convicted terrorist who accuses him of drafting the legal theories that led to his alleged torture. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326816.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326816.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:26 EST It was a heartwarming story: A 200-year-old general store suffers a fire, the owner can't afford to rebuild it and the town's historical society steps in to buy the building, hoping to make it the commercial and social hub of town once again. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326808.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326808.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:21 EST Vice President Joseph Biden says seven Fort Lewis soldiers killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan last month were extraordinary young men to whom the nation owes more than it can repay. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1321106.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1321106.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Democrats in the House of Representatives struggled Friday to find enough votes to pass sweeping healthcare legislation as lawmakers prepared for an all-day debate and perhaps a final vote on the bill Saturday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1321118.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1321118.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The Obama administration intends to seek resolution to a lawsuit filed by American Indian farmers who alleged discrimination in the granting of federal agricultural loans over three decades. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1320135.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1320135.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:43 EST A gunman opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago. At least one person was killed and five others injured in the shooting at a downtown Orlando office building. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1319267.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1319267.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Base commander Lt. Gen. Robert Cone told reporters late Thursday that the shooter, identified as Hasan, was in custody and that he was expected to live, despite having been shot multiple times. Earlier, Cone had reported that Hasan had been killed, McClatchy News Service reported. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1321121.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1321121.html Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The national unemployment rate surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983, the government reported Friday, and is likely to go higher, giving greater urgency to efforts in Congress and at the White House to consider tax and other incentives to spur businesses to hire. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1317316.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1317316.html Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00 EST President Barack Obama and the Democrats have a problem heading into next year's elections for control of Congress -- they're losing independents to the Republicans and parts of their own Democratic base to apathy. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1314856.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1314856.html Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A Guantánamo Bay prisoner who has been on hunger strike for more than four years is in critical danger from malnutrition, his lawyers said Tuesday. U.S. officials insist his weight loss is not an immediate health risk. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1311587.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1311587.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00 EST When California wildfires ruined their jewelry business, Tony Becker and his wife fell months behind on their mortgage payments and experienced firsthand the perils of subprime mortgages. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1310368.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1310368.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00 EDT Goldman Sachs Group got into the residential mortgage business in 1984, and for 17 years, it ran a staid operation that simply bought and sold loans. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1310367.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1310367.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the value of those securities plummeting. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1307475.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1307475.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Democratic leaders Thursday invoked the spirit of generations of party heroes to rally their members of the House of Representatives behind a new healthcare plan -- but it's clear that winning a majority will be a tough fight. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1307477.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1307477.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Congress' in-house Law Library is rebuffing calls from the chairmen of the House and Senate foreign relations committees to retract a report on the military-backed coup in Honduras that the chairmen charge is flawed and ``has contributed to the political crisis that still wracks'' the country. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326732.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326732.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:01 EST A settlement in a civil suit against the government contractor once known as Blackwater has apparently fallen apart after a plaintiff's lawyer said a faulty translation prompted the decision to settle. But lawyers for the company argue that a deal's a deal. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326709.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326709.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:41 EST A medical examiner says an Arkansas TV anchorwoman was beaten so severely that one blow knocked a tooth out of her mouth and another shoved her jaw to the back of her head. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326696.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326696.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:36 EST The families of three Americans accused of espionage in Iran are attempting the delicate feat of keeping a spotlight trained on the plight of their loved ones while trying to avoid the tangled politics of the tense U.S.-Iran relationship. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326685.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326685.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:31 EST An anti-abortion opponent says he's the one who killed a Kansas abortion provider - and did it because it was necessary to save lives. But one of his attorneys says there's no such thing as a "necessity defense" in state law, and that is not the strategy the defense team plans to present at his trial. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326684.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326684.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:31 EST A Connecticut businessman has been sentenced to a year in prison for conspiring with others to corrupt the oil privatization process in Azerbaijan. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326683.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326683.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:31 EST The federal government has agreed to pay $218,500 to settle a lawsuit over the fatal drug overdose of a young Michigan veteran who served as a U.S. Marine in Iraq. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326675.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326675.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:21 EST A Connecticut judge has ordered the release of thousands of documents connected to sexual abuse lawsuits involving Bridgeport's Roman Catholic Diocese. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326674.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326674.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:21 EST The United States accused Iran Tuesday of violating a U.N. arms embargo by secretly sending weapons to Syria in a cargo ship seized by Israel, a U.S. official said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326659.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326659.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:11 EST Arizona authorities say a truck rolled over on a dirt road while trying to elude U.S. Border Patrol agents, killing two men and badly injuring three others. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326648.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326648.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:06 EST In a Nov. 6 story about the tactics of gay marriage opponents, The Associated Press reported erroneously that gay marriage foes had won 31 consecutive statewide ballot measures against the issue. While 31 states have indeed voted down gay marriage, it was not an unbroken string of defeats. Arizona voters in 2006 rejected a proposal to ban same-sex marriage. They reversed course and adopted a ban two years later. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326647.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326647.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:06 EST A judge overturned tight restrictions Tuesday on Colorado medical marijuana providers, saying state health officials had ignored the needs of patients and violated open meetings laws while imposing the rules. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326637.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1326637.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:01 EST The FBI is investigating a death threat against U.S. Rep. Brian Baird. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1323695.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1323695.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The glow from a healthcare triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1322566.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1322566.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST There was the classroom presentation that justified suicide bombings. Comments to colleagues about a climate of persecution faced by Muslims in the military. Conversations with a mosque leader that became incoherent. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1308527.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1308527.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:07 EST The United Nations demanded to know Friday why it took an hour for Afghan police and NATO troops to respond to a Taliban attack on a guest house filled with U.N. staff in Kabul.