U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement announced his resignation Wednesday, ending a seven-year run of arguing the Bush administration's terrorism and detention cases and other controversial legal positions before the Supreme Court.
The chief judge of the Guantánamo Bay war court has set June 5 for the first court appearances of reputed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators.
CAMPAIGN 2008 | DEMOCRATS
Hillary Clinton easily won the West Virginia primary on Tuesday, hoping against hope that it was more than a hollow victory, since she has little prospect of slowing Barack Obama's march toward the Democratic presidential nomination.
GUANTANAMO BAY
Leading legal defense groups Tuesday accused the Pentagon of foot-dragging on security clearances that would let civilian lawyers help their military counterparts defend the alleged plotters of the Sept. 11 attacks at Guantánamo.
A Pentagon official has formally approved death penalty charges against reputed 9/11 architect Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other men for the Sept. 11 attacks; charges have been dropped again a sixth man, a Saudi, once suspected as the 20th Hijacker.
IMMIGRATION
It's the American Melting Pot, version 2.0. A wide-ranging and provocative new study of immigrants' integration into U.S. society has concluded that newcomers today are assimilating more quickly than their predecessors did 100 years ago -- with Cubans, Vietnamese and Filipinos among those leading the way.
MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
Wooing independent voters, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain called Monday for reductions in carbon emissions and criticized the Bush administration for failing to lead the fight against climate change.
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama made their closing arguments Monday in West Virginia on the eve of the state's Democratic presidential primary, which Clinton is expected to win handily.
Just over half of 88 hospitals got top marks under a new rating system created by two national gay-rights organizations that hope the standards will result in more compassionate treatment of gay and lesbian patients.
SEVERE WEATHER
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.
DECISION 2008 | DEMOCRATS
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.
AT THE NAVY BASE
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.
CAMPAIGN 2008 | HEALTHCARE
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.
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.
AT THE WAR COURT
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.
