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 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:15:34 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1344839.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1344839.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Thirty years of spying for Cuba will send a retired State Department official to prison for life after he and his wife pleaded guilty Friday to sending secrets to the United States' longtime antagonist. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1346609.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1346609.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:27 EST The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1346598.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1346598.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:12 EST An Algerian court on Sunday acquitted two men once held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who were returned home to face trial on links to terrorism, their defense lawyer said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1344610.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1344610.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:37 EST A federal judge Friday ordered the Obama administration to free a long-held Guantánamo captive who fled his native Algeria years ago and kicked around Europe as a construction worker for a decade before his capture in Pakistan. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1344671.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1344671.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:52 EST Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Friday that prosecuting terror suspects in federal court in New York rather than a military tribunal jeopardizes the safety of Americans. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1338879.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1338879.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:37 EST Guards didn't go through the prison camps Wednesday and unpin the presidential closure order from detainee bulletin boards. And the detention center didn't put in an urgent call for reinforcements. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1340676.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1340676.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:07 EST With a prison camps closure date now uncertain, the Pentagon gaveled into business a military commissions session Wednesday with an Afghan foot soldier case. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1339798.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1339798.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:37 EST An Illinois congressman says his comment that suspected terrorists detained at Guantánamo Bay follow a "savage religion'' has been misinterpreted. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1339323.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1339323.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:57 EST President Barack Obama says he won't set a new deadline for closing the Guantánamo Bay military prison, but does expect the facility to shut down sometime next year. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1338372.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1338372.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:42 EST The alleged 9/11 conspirators neither greeted with joy nor trepidation the news that they would be taken to New York City to face a civilian trial for the Sept. 11 attacks. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1336034.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1336034.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:50 EST Some folks in this dying Mississippi River town would rather take their chances with suspected terrorists in their backyard than watch their neighbors continue to move away in despair over the lack of jobs. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1335533.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1335533.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:00 EST What can stay? What can go? And what can be destroyed? Undaunted, Guantánamo is preparing for the day when the detainees are gone. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1332775.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1332775.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Confessed mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other alleged 9/11 plotters will face a federal trial in New York, Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday in an announcement that left intact the war court at Guantánamo. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1332599.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1332599.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:02 EST Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to prosecute confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four alleged underlings in civilian courts ignited a debate Friday about whether the trial would invite new attacks on New York and if the proceeding would be stymied by legal wrangling over the defendants' rights. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1332361.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1332361.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:50 EST The move to put the self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind on trial just blocks from ground zero raises a host of legal, political and security questions, chief among them: Can a fair-minded jury be found in a city still nursing deep wounds from the attack on the World Trade Center? http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1331792.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1331792.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:10 EST The federal government argued before the Supreme Court Friday that Canadian courts do not have the right to order authorities to seek the repatriation of the youngest detainee held by the U.S. at Guantánamo Bay. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346866.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346866.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:59 EST The Kentucky Historical Society has been displaying and publicizing a pair of earrings as having belonged to Mary Todd Lincoln, but others aren't as sure about their authenticity. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346853.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346853.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:44 EST Authorities say a 12-year-old boy assaulted by a group of middle school classmates in Southern California may have been targeted after an Internet posting urged students to beat up redheads. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346839.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346839.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:29 EST The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn't matter whether three fatal drugs are used or one - as his home state of Ohio has proposed - as long as the drug works efficiently. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346768.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346768.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:44 EST India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has arrived in Washington for a visit to be highlighted by an official welcoming ceremony and a state dinner at the White House with President Barack Obama. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346665.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346665.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:09 EST Authorities say a couple and a 14-year-old boy have been killed in a fiery freeway crash in Southern California that two younger children managed to survive. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346660.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346660.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:59 EST In the days before Fred Alvarez was shot execution-style with two friends on his verandah, the strapping Cabazon tribal leader feared he was a marked man: His motorcycle had been tampered with, his mailbox shot up and his house ransacked. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346624.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346624.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:59 EST A magnitude 3.7 earthquake has rattled Southern California's Big Bear Lake area, followed by a sharp aftershock. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1335533.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1335533.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:00 EST What can stay? What can go? And what can be destroyed? Undaunted, Guantánamo is preparing for the day when the detainees are gone. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1332784.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1332784.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:00 EST In a shake-up, White House Counsel Greg Craig abruptly announced his resignation Friday, just weeks after telling reporters that he had no plans to leave. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1332775.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1332775.html Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Confessed mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other alleged 9/11 plotters will face a federal trial in New York, Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday in an announcement that left intact the war court at Guantánamo. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1331741.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1331741.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:57 EST Confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his four co-accused will face a federal trial in New York City -- not a military tribunal in Guantánamo, Attorney General Eric Holder announced Friday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1330906.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1330906.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Chalk up another national-security threat -- this one looming with each excess pound, failing grade and drug bust affecting young adults.<p/> An alarming 75 percent of Americans ages 17 to 24 would not qualify for military service today because they are physically unfit, failed to finish high school or have criminal records. So says a new report from an organization of education and military leaders calling for immediate action on the early-education front. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1330865.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1330865.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:00 EST People came armed with passion and questions.<p/> And they got plenty of answers -- from a decidedly Democratic perspective.<p/> But after close to two hours of healthcare talk Thursday afternoon, few of the 350 people at a town-hall meeting sponsored by U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, seemed to have changed their minds. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1328991.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1328991.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:22 EST Fewer Americans than anticipated filed claims for jobless benefits last week, signaling the worst employment slump in the post-World War II era is easing as the economy expands. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1328994.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1328994.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:00 EST (AP) -- Much like its death-defying dives for fish, the brown pelican has resurfaced after plummeting to the brink of extinction.<p/> Interior Department officials on Wednesday announced that they were taking the bird off the endangered species list, after a nearly four-decade struggle to keep the brown pelican population afloat. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1326452.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1326452.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:24 EST A United Airlines pilot who failed a breath test shortly before he was due to take off has been charged with having too much alcohol in his system, British police said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1327183.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1327183.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:00 EST The fuel company whose tank farm exploded in a massive fire last month has been cited for sweeping environmental violations dating back 10 years, costing $1.3 million in penalties and fines for leaking hazardous waste in the water, air and soil, a nonprofit investigative news organization has reported. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1327184.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1327184.html Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Out of work and willing to relocate? 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/nation/story/1325242.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1325242.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called for an immediate resumption of peace talks with Palestinians and pledged more steps to improve economic conditions in Palestinian areas. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346610.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346610.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:34 EST The gunman who killed four people and wounded nine in a shooting rampage on the Pacific island of Saipan was identified Sunday as a Chinese national believed to be employed at the shooting range where the deaths occurred. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346591.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346591.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:09 EST The U.S. government resettled Mazen Alsaqa in Massachusetts in February. Within a month, the Iraqi refugee moved to Michigan. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346563.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346563.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:04 EST Virginia Military Institute is defending itself against a lengthy investigation into accusations that the school's policies are sexist and hostile toward female cadets, a dozen years after women won the right to enroll. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346448.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346448.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:17 EST Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be a tough act to follow, even for the Kennedys. His death, coupled with the decision by family members not to seek the seat he held for nearly five decades, has prompted predictions that the family's long-running political dynasty is over. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346460.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346460.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:32 EST Astronaut Randolph Bresnik jubilantly welcomed his new daughter into the world Sunday as he floated 220 miles above it. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346446.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346446.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:12 EST A month of harsh words between Rep. Patrick Kennedy and a strident critic, Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin, escalated Sunday when the bishop acknowledged asking Kennedy not to receive Holy Communion because of the Democratic lawmaker's support for abortion rights. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346440.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346440.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:17 EST A low-pressure system that has lingered in the Gulf of Mexico the past few days, bringing rain to the Gulf Coast, was expected to finally move inland into the Southeast on Sunday. This was likely to translate to widespread rain and even a few thunderstorms in the area even as the system weakens while moving toward the Southeast coast. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346370.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346370.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:17 EST Thirty-two men and women from across the U.S. have been selected as Rhodes Scholars for 2010. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346298.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346298.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:12 EST A gunman fatally wounded a passenger in another vehicle at an Oregon intersection Saturday, setting off a police chase that ended when the suspect crashed and was killed by officers, authorities said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346284.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346284.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:07 EST Vladimir Gapor is a plumber by trade, but now he's a scavenger, prying bits of scrap steel from the ruins of his old factory and selling them for a pittance. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346218.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346218.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:37 EST Officials at the University of California, Santa Cruz say dozens of protesters who were occupying the university's main administrative building have ended their protest. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346169.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1346169.html Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:07 EST A subway passenger stabbed to death in front of horrified straphangers has been identified as 36-year-old Dwight Johnson of Brooklyn. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1343131.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1343131.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Cuba's celebrated and increasingly brassy blogger Yoani Sánchez emerged Thursday as a player in U.S.-Cuba relations, scoring a lengthy reply from President Barack Obama to her questions and playing a starring role in a congressional hearing on efforts to let American tourists visit Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1342963.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1342963.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:00 EST A day after two men described as soldiers in a terrorism plot to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices were sentenced to less than a decade behind bars -- far less than federal prosecutors sought -- two more men received similar sentences Thursday in Miami federal court. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1337124.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1337124.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:00 EST In a highly controversial move, an influential government-sponsored organization is recommending against routine annual mammograms for healthy women in their 40s.