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Conversations with a mosque leader that became incoherent. 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/americas/guantanamo/story/1301477.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1301477.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:30 EDT President Barack Obama says he's serious about closing the military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1301344.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1301344.html Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:22 EDT All detainees at the Guantánamo Bay prison should be freed or transferred to U.S. federal courts for trial by the Jan. 22 deadline set by President Barack Obama, a U.N. human rights investigator said Monday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1323067.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1323067.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:50 EST It is the British empire of the dead. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1323030.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1323030.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:45 EST In a Nov. 7 story about the racial issues in a New York community a year after the stabbing death of an Ecuadorean immigrant, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of one of the defendants charged in the immigrant's death. His correct name is Anthony Hartford, not Harfford. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322722.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322722.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:05 EST The scenes seared into the minds of those who know Bobby Yurkanin differed only in place: Whether in the pool, around the dinner table or at the bowling alley, he was the 50-something man whose life had long before been handed over to the sickness of his parents. Always his father was by his side. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322721.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322721.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:05 EST Gunfire erupted inside a bar near the ski town of Vail Saturday night, leaving one man dead and three others wounded, police said. A 63-year-old suspect was quickly arrested. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322427.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322427.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:10 EST Virginia Tech administrators have been advising Pentagon officials on how to respond to the mass shootings at Fort Hood. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322393.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322393.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:30 EST Authorities say one of the officers who has been hailed as a hero in the Fort Hood massacre has had a second surgery and is grateful for all the good wishes. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322378.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322378.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:20 EST A U.S. Army spokesman says the man authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood has been taken off a ventilator but still remains in intensive care at a military hospital. 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/story/1305769.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1305769.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed the first major piece of federal gay rights legislation, a milestone that activists compared to the passage of 1960s civil rights legislation empowering blacks. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1305758.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1305758.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT President Barack Obama on Wednesday bestowed one of the nation's highest awards on former Sen. Edward Brooke Wednesday, calling Brooke -- the first African American elected to the Senate by popular vote -- a trailblazer whose path he followed. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322362.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322362.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:10 EST Police described a suspect in the shooting death of a Seattle policeman as a "lone domestic terrorist" and said he was also suspected of firebombing four police vehicles. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1321809.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1321809.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:00 EST Finance officials from rich and developing countries have pledged to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured, but failed to reach a clear agreement to bear the cost of fighting climate change. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322196.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322196.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:05 EST The father of an autistic Massachusetts boy who died after his mother allegedly withheld cancer medication has died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322190.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322190.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:00 EST A brother of the man authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood says the Army psychiatrist is peaceful person - and hopes he will be treated fairly by the legal system. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322106.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322106.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:15 EST In retrospect, the signs of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's growing anger over the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan seem unmistakable. But even people who worried his increasingly strident views were clouding his ability to serve the U.S. military could not predict the murderous rampage of which he now stands accused. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322103.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322103.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:10 EST Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's family says he confided in them that he felt harassed as a Muslim in the U.S. military - and wasn't treated as an American and soldier should be. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322102.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322102.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:10 EST Some Muslim servicemembers are worried that the mass shooting at Fort Hood could unravel their work to be accepted as loyal, dedicated soldiers. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322085.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322085.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:00 EST Fire officials say operations at Ellis Island have been widely disrupted by a transformer fire. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322070.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322070.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:50 EST New York State Police investigators said in a written report that a woman who killed seven people plus herself in a crash on the Taconic State Parkway was a regular marijuana user. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322014.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1322014.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:10 EST One of two police officers who confronted the alleged Fort Hood killer says he shot Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan before kicking the man's weapon away, handcuffing him and ending the nation's worst killing spree on a military base. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1321995.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1321995.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:55 EST A slain Catholic nun who lived and worked on the Navajo Indian reservation was remembered Saturday for her passion for the poor at funeral services. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1321986.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1321986.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:45 EST Authorities say Anthony Sowell lured women into his home in a busy neighborhood, killed them - most by strangulation - and scattered their remains throughout the inside and buried some in the backyard. 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. 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.