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 2009 MiamiHerald.com Nation 60 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:17:52 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1135292.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1135292.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Amid the great debates of the day over healthcare, global warming and economic recovery, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that there will be no pause in the action to honor Michael Jackson. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1135957.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1135957.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:41 EDT Police said Friday they have launched a criminal investigation to determine if British intelligence officers were aware of the treatment of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who claims he was tortured at the U.S. Navy base,Pakistan and Morocco. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1135865.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1135865.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:01 EDT Representatives of the U.S. State Department and the government of Palau are in Honolulu discussing money, but officials say the talks are not tied to the possible transfer of Guantánamo detainees to the South Pacific island. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1134305.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1134305.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:45 EDT Congress has debated the wisdom of it. Human rights groups have decried the use of it. Now the dictionary people at Merriam-Webster have decided it's a real term that came into the American vernacular in 2004. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1131895.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1131895.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Even as the White House pledges to empty the prison camps at Guantánamo Bay, a 30-year-old prisoner is so afraid of returning to his native Tajikistan that he is asking to stay at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1132160.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1132160.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:29 EDT Palau, which has agreed to resettle some Guantánamo detainees, is asking longtime benefactor the United States for a 35-year extension on direct aid funding. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1131111.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1131111.html Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:30 EDT The Obama administration prefers war on terror prosecutions in civilian courts but has not yet decided where to try those accused of involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks who are now held at Guantánamo Bay, government lawyers told a Senate committee on Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1131405.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1131405.html Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:07 EDT A former Guantánamo Bay prisoner now living in England says the United States has photographs of him being beaten during his detention and has asked a judge to preserve the evidence. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1129826.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1129826.html Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:45 EDT Actor Kal Penn, who last year portrayed a captive in an orange jumpsuit escaping from Guantánamo, started a new job Monday as a liaison between the White House and Asian communities. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1126600.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1126600.html Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT In what may well be a first, a Catholic archbishop worshipped with U.S. troops at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo then turned up across the minefield separating the base from Cuba a day later to offer a Mass for Cuban worshipers in Guantánamo province. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1125406.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1125406.html Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:54 EDT Newly released Defense Department documents and memos about the first years of operation of the jail at the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, portray a chaotic and sometimes violent operation that its own commanders described as dysfunctional. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1125603.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1125603.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:25 EDT A prosecutor agreed Thursday that the government will not dismantle overseas locations where a former Guantánamo detainee claims he was interrogated by the CIA before he was brought to the United States for trial on terrorism charges. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1125281.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1125281.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:40 EDT President Barack Obama said Thursday he is uneasy about his own proposal to indefinitely imprison some of the most dangerous terror suspects being held now at Guantánamo Bay. He called it ``one of the biggest challenges of my administration.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1124201.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1124201.html Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:05 EDT Lawyers for a Guantánamo detainee charged with terrorism crimes have asked the U.S. government to preserve overseas locations where he was subjected to ''physical and psychological ill-treatment'' at secret CIA prisons known as ''black sites'' until they can inspect them. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1120781.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1120781.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:55 EDT The White House is still committed to emptying the prison camps at Guantánamo of war-on-terror detainees within President Barack Obama's first year in office. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1117359.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1117359.html Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:47 EDT The White House is considering whether to issue an executive order to indefinitely imprison a small number of Guantánamo Bay detainees, concerned that Congress might otherwise stymie its plans to quickly close the naval prison in Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1137080.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1137080.html Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:10 EDT George Lima is offended by his state's full official name, and he wants it shortened. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1137048.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1137048.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:45 EDT A gay couple say they were detained by security guards on a plaza owned by the Mormon church and later cited by police, claiming it stemmed from a kiss on the cheek. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1137027.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1137027.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:25 EDT A historically black fraternity has voted to induct former President Bill Clinton as an honorary member. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136838.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136838.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:35 EDT Two bronze eagles stolen from Central Park more than 30 years ago by a drug dealer who used them to store his stash are finally back at home. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136820.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136820.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:05 EDT Gun rights enthusiasts welcomed Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as she made an appearance Friday on a radio talk show, whose callers included rock n' roller turned avid hunter Ted Nugent. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136811.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136811.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:45 EDT A day after the iconic Ilikai hotel shut down, its new owner and a labor union say the Waikiki landmark will soon be back in business. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136785.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136785.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:25 EDT A Florida attorney says a couple who were rocketed into the public eye because of ex-astronaut Lisa Nowak are getting married. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1136923.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1136923.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT The Obama administration is developing an initiative to take money from the $700 billion bailout of banks and make it available to millions of small businesses, which officials say are essential to any economic recovery because they employ so many people. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1135277.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1135277.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Florida's surgeon general says the state is preparing for massive swine flu immunizations, starting with schoolchildren, as the Obama administration urges states to prepare for the likelihood that the virus might worsen in the fall. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1134019.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1134019.html Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:31 EDT Roughly a fourth of American women getting early abortions last year did so with drugs rather than surgery, statistics show, as a new study reported improved safety in using the so-called ``abortion pill.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1131895.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1131895.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Even as the White House pledges to empty the prison camps at Guantánamo Bay, a 30-year-old prisoner is so afraid of returning to his native Tajikistan that he is asking to stay at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1131911.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1131911.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT The nation's lawyers and law enforcement leaders gave Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor ringing endorsements Tuesday, even as Republicans tried to rally opposition. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1131903.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1131903.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT The life of Michael Joseph Jackson -- crowned as the world's King of Pop -- was eulogized in a public memorial in Los Angeles on the very stage where he rehearsed for a spectacular comeback. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1131907.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1131907.html Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT (AP) -- Sarah Palin says she's not a quitter and adds that, politically speaking, ``if I die, I die. So be it.'' Sporting fishing waders and a T-shirt, Palin defended her decision to resign as Alaska governor in six interviews Tuesday. The former vice presidential candidate invited journalists to Dillingham, a town of about 2,500, where she was fishing with her husband, Todd, and kids. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1131405.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1131405.html Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:07 EDT A former Guantánamo Bay prisoner now living in England says the United States has photographs of him being beaten during his detention and has asked a judge to preserve the evidence. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1131193.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1131193.html Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:00 EDT A veteran Los Angeles police detective who testified at the trial of four officers accused of beating Rodney King killed herself after walking into the lobby of a suburban sheriff's station, authorities said Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1130117.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1130117.html Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:00 EDT Gov. Sarah Palin returned to the spotlight Tuesday with an appearance in a remote Arctic village where she stood by her perplexing decision to resign just as she tries to elevate her national profile ahead of a possible 2012 presidential run. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1130762.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1130762.html Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:15 EDT Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor earned a "well-qualified" rating from the American Bar Association on Tuesday as she prepared for Senate hearings next week. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1130799.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1130799.html Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:15 EDT Continental, United and eight other airlines say the Justice Department's opposition to their bid for broad antitrust immunity was based on shortsighted analysis that ignored conditions in the airline industry. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136778.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136778.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:20 EDT A teenage hunter who shot and killed a hiker he mistook for a bear has been sentenced to 30 days in juvenile detention and 120 hours of community service. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136759.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136759.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:55 EDT In a July 9 story about dogfighting raids, The Associated Press, relying on information from a defense attorney, erroneously reported that the defendant was a Little League coach. Little League spokesman Christopher Downs said the league checked with its regional office in Waco, Texas, and discovered that Karl Courtney of Beckville, Texas, was not among its coaches. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136745.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136745.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:45 EDT A judge has given a five-year prison sentence to a 31-year-old man convicted of having a gun outside President Barack Obama's Chicago home in September. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136735.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136735.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:40 EDT A former civilian defense contractor was charged Friday with sexually assaulting a woman at an Iraqi air base. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136688.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136688.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:05 EDT Furloughed and fired up, California's largest state employee union announced on Friday it would ask its 95,000 members to authorize a potential strike. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136687.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136687.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:05 EDT Police believe that a cleaning woman who vanished from a Manhattan high-rise may be dead, that her body was dumped in the trash and that she could turn up in a Pennsylvania landfill. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136678.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136678.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:00 EDT Michael Jackson's boyhood hometown bade farewell to the King of Pop on Friday with a celebration of his life and music. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136646.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136646.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:40 EDT Detective Susan Clemmer became the latest Los Angeles police officer to commit suicide when she walked into a sheriff's station near her home, exchanged a few words with two deputies then shot herself in the head. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136645.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136645.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:40 EDT Police are investigating suspicious calls being made to the office of Michael Jackson's Beverly Hills dermatologist. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136638.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136638.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:35 EDT The head of the District of Columbia Council says a former federal prosecutor will look into a contract between former mayor Marion Barry and his ex-girlfriend. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136628.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136628.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:25 EDT Gov't report: Bush secret surveillance program extended beyond wiretapping without warrants http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136617.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1136617.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:20 EDT A guardianship hearing for Michael Jackson's three children has been delayed for a week to give the singer's mother and ex-wife time to reach an agreement, an attorney said Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1135284.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1135284.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, explaining her stunning announcement she is resigning from office, has repeatedly said that attacks on her since she ran for vice president have cost state government ``millions.'' http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1135369.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1135369.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT A U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs letter pledges free medical care and treatment for former patients who have tested positive for HIV or hepatitis since being exposed to endoscopic cleaning mistakes at three VA hospitals, including one in Miami. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1135289.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1135289.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:01 EDT 'Status quo' farm spending bill passes U.S. House The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a $123.8 billion farm spending bill that's loaded with congressional earmarks, including some in Florida.