President Barack Obama's speech on the use of drones and the fate of Guantanamo prisoners was largely welcomed Friday in two key countries affected by the policies- Pakistan and Yemen.

The $40 million project will put an underwater cable from the base in southeast Cuba through the Windward Passage to an undisclosed site in South Florida.

Its motto is ‘Rockin’ in Fidel’s Backyard,’ although its on air jingle is more discrete. For listeners on the Guantánamo base, the station offers a little levity with the serious mission.

Better known for its experiment in offshore detention, interrogation and military justice, Guantánamo is also a lab for environmental exploration.

The cost to house a captive at Guantánamo Bay is $800,000 per year, far in excess of other federal or state lockups.

Here is a comprehensive list of who is still held at the Guantánamo detention center in Cuba. McClatchy determined who was still there using both sources and court records as well as secret intelligence files obtained by WikiLeaks and passed to McClatchy.

The Obama administration turned to a Republican senator from Florida to deliver a message to the Spanish government: Don't indict former President George W. Bush's legal brain trust for alleged torture in the treatment of war on terror detainees or it will chill U.S.-Spanish relations. The Spanish responded with a lecture on the independence of the judiciary.

A federal appeals court Tuesday backed the U.S. government's decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid in which the terrorist leader was killed by U.S. commandos.

President Barack Obama will discuss the legality of his administration’s secret drone program and his plans to close the prison camps at Guantánamo during a speech Thursday on counterterrorism practices, a White House official said.

A lawyer for a Guantánamo Bay prisoner is calling on the U.S. Justice Department to release photos of wounds the man suffered when struck with non-lethal rounds at a recent clash with guards at the prison.

Military officials would not comment on whether the current 102 hunger strikers include alleged 9/11 conspirators.

Guantánamo prison staff members were tube-feeding 30 of the 100 hunger-striking captives on Wednesday, the detention center said, reporting an all-time high last reached in 2005.

Human rights organizations are asking Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel to order troops to abandon the practice of force-feeding prisoners at Guantánamo, a move that could permit them starve to death if they choose.

Candidate Barack Obama pledged that he’d close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility. Easier said than done. Here are some key questions and answers.

The Naval officer who has been defending an alleged terrorist linked to a plot on a U.S. Navy warship is leaving the case to study at Harvard Law School.

In a newly released court filing, a Guantánamo detainee accused guards of going through their holy books to instigate a hunger strike.

With a months-old hunger strike focusing new attention on conditions at the United States’ detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the minister of human rights for Yemen is due in Washington this weekend to seek repatriation of at least some of the scores of Yemenis held at the island prison.

The White House said Wednesday that despite President Barack Obama’s pledge to do what he can to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, a moratorium on sending cleared detainees back to Yemen “remains in place” – a policy that, if unchanged, provides perhaps the biggest obstacle to shuttering the controversial island prison.

The U.S. military now counts 100 of the 166 captives as hunger strikers. Twenty-three are being tube fed, four in the prison hospital.

The president of the American Medical Association said in a letter to the Secretary of Defense that every competent patient — even a prisoner — has the right to refuse food or medical care.

About 40 additional U.S. Navy medical forces have arrived at the prison camps at Guantánamo to assist in the growing hunger strike by 100 captives, more then a fifth of them being force-fed, a spokesman said Monday.

America’s offshore war-on-terror prison camp has gone from peaceable routine to hunger-striking nightmare. A look at life at the prison where nearly every captive is under lockdown.

The U.S. military now counts 100 of the 166 captives as hunger strikers. It said a fifth of them were being force fed on Saturday as the International Red Cross launched new prison camp visits.

The U.S. military now counts 94 of the 166 captives as hunger strikers, 17 being tube fed, 3 hospitalized.

Military says hunger strikers have more than doubled since April 13 lockdown: 92 on strike, 17 tube fed, 2 hospitalized.

The U.S. military prepared to increase the size of its medical staff as the number of hunger strikers being tube fed increased to 17 on Tuesday.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up any of seven Guantánamo detainee cases, and also refused to reinstate a lawsuit by former ‘enemy combatant’ Jose Padilla against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

A federal judge has dismissed a damages claim by former Guantánamo captive Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak Al Janko, a Syrian who sought recompense for alleged abusive treatment.

A briefing schedule makes clear that the alleged Sept. 11 plotters won’t be back at the Camp Justice war court at Guantánamo until next year.

President Barack Obama is lifting his self-imposed ban on transferring Guantánamo Bay detainees to Yemen, where a leadership upheaval has improved the country's security but not eliminated a terrorist organization trying to recruit jihadists.

U.S. troops can once again tweet and post on Facebook from the coffee shop, Irish pub and library at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, a base spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Uniformed defense lawyers for alleged Guantánamo terrorists invoked the Vietnam War’s My Lai massacre in their bid to get Vietnam veteran Chuck Hagel to intervene in the prison camps.

The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantánamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close.

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