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Lindsey Graham plans to introduce a bipartisan bill Tuesday to block funding for civilian trials of five alleged plotters of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks who are now being held at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1457465.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1457465.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:02 EST President Barack Obama spent about 40 minutes answering video and written questions from YouTube users on topics that included the questions surrounding Guantánamo. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1455702.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1455702.html Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:02 EST A top presidential adviser says the Obama administration hasn't decided where it will try professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four fellow accused terrorists. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1454607.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1454607.html Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:10 EST The Obama administration is proposing a $200 million fund to help pay for security costs in cities hosting the trials of accused terrorists such as Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1452730.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1452730.html Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:22 EST Canada's Supreme Court ruled Friday that it will not force the government to seek the repatriation of the youngest detainee held by the U.S. at Guantánamo Bay. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1452080.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1452080.html Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:00 EST A yearlong review of evidence against men who are being held as terrorism suspects at Guantánamo has concluded that most of them should be released or transferred to third countries. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1450011.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1450011.html Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:18 EST President Barack Obama was notably silent on the topic of Guantánamo in his State of the Union address. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1445914.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1445914.html Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:00 EST The United States sent four Guantánamo detainees to European countries for resettlement over the weekend -- three to Slovakia and another to Switzerland, U.S. officials said Monday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1445408.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1445408.html Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:17 EST The Supreme Court on Monday decided not to stop the U.S. government from sending former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega to France to face money laundering charges. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1440813.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/guantanamo/story/1440813.html Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:43 EST Foreign war-on-terror captives rose for pre-dawn prayers, as usual, in the mist-shrouded open-air compound called Camp 4 on Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, the day President Barack Obama had set as the deadline for closure of the prison camps at the U.S. Navy Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1472099.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1472099.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:12 EST Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich heads to court Wednesday to answer a revised batch of charges that he schemed to sell or trade President Barack Obama's old Senate seat and swap official favors for campaign money. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1472088.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1472088.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:42 EST The latest Pacific storm that brought heavy rain, hail and snow to Southern California is heading east, but the mudslide threat is not over for communities below wildfire-scarred mountains. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471977.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471977.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:22 EST The San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office has identified two bodies found near the border with Mexico as siblings who drowned when their vehicle was swept away in Tijuana by last month's torrential rains. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471956.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471956.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:42 EST After a major drop over the past two years, Afghanistan's opium cultivation is unlikely to rise or fall dramatically in 2010, a U.N. report said Wednesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471881.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471881.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:17 EST One pedestrian is dead and another seriously injured following separate accidents in San Francisco involving city-owned vehicles. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471697.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471697.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:42 EST A jury has convicted a 23-year-old California man of killing his girlfriend's 1-year-old son. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471679.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471679.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:27 EST Blizzard warnings spanned the Mid-Atlantic early Wednesday as the second major snowstorm in less than a week barreled into the region, leaving more than 10 inches of new snow in northern Maryland before dawn and threatening a similar whiteout for New York City. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1468723.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1468723.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:00 EST An explosion blew apart a power plant under construction as workers purged natural gas lines Sunday, killing at least five people and injuring a dozen or more in a blast that shook homes for miles, officials said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1468717.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1468717.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:00 EST In the first major step to revive his healthcare agenda after his party's loss of a filibuster-proof Senate majority, President Barack Obama on Sunday invited Republican and Democratic leaders to discuss possible compromises in a televised gathering later this month. Obama's move came amid widespread complaints that efforts so far by him and his Democratic allies in Congress have been too partisan and secretive. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1468720.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1468720.html Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:00 EST Planes were grounded, trains stood still and Greyhound buses weren't rolling in the Mid-Atlantic on Sunday, leaving stranded travelers wondering when they'd be able to escape the icy, gray mess created by a major snowstorm. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1465817.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1465817.html Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:00 EST The job market is lurching toward improvement. It just has a long way to go.<p/> The outlook for jobs became a bit less bleak Friday when the government released January's unemployment rate showing an unexpected decline from 10 percent to 9.7 percent. It was the first drop in seven months. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1461763.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1461763.html Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:00 EST The Swiss government rebuffed Chinese protests Wednesday and agreed to give sanctuary to two brothers of the Muslim Uighur minority who had been cleared for release from Guantánamo, but feared persecution if they went home. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1461772.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1461772.html Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:00 EST Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. has been named recipient of the William Allen White Foundation's National Citation.<p/> The annual award, named after influential Kansas editor and publisher William Allen White, honors outstanding journalistic service. Pitts will receive the award Friday at the University of Kansas. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1459855.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1459855.html Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:00 EST Americans hold mixed views of President Barack Obama's first year in office, with 41 percent saying that he tried to do too much, 35 percent concluding that he did about the right amount and 19 percent saying that he didn't do enough, according to a new McClatchy-Ipsos poll. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1459853.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1459853.html Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:00 EST The nation's top military officer told Congress Tuesday that gay men and lesbians should be allowed to serve openly in the military, the strongest endorsement ever by the nation's military leadership for overturning the law that excludes them from the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1457617.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1457617.html Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:14 EST The military's top uniformed officer on Tuesday made an impassioned plea for allowing gays to serve openly in uniform, telling a Senate panel it was a matter of integrity and that it is wrong to force people to "lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens." http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1456615.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1456615.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:00 EST With women's advocacy groups voicing growing unease with administration policy, President Barack Obama will propose a $3.8 trillion budget on Monday that would exempt programs for women and girls from spending restrictions he's proposed for other programs. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1455506.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1455506.html Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:00 EST Bush administration lawyers who paved the way for sleep deprivation and waterboarding of terrorism suspects exercised poor judgment but will not be referred to authorities for possible sanctions, according to a forthcoming ethics report, a legal source confirmed. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1455521.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1455521.html Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:00 EST China curtailed military exchanges with the United States on Saturday and threatened to sanction U.S. firms in retaliation for proposed weapon sales to Taiwan http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471662.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471662.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:22 EST A Democratic state senator who betrayed his colleagues by joining Republicans in a brief coup and was convicted of a misdemeanor assault charge for dragging his girlfriend around during an argument at his apartment says he'll go back to court to fight his expulsion from the Senate. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471655.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471655.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:07 EST A grand jury declined Tuesday to indict a Muslim chaplain accused of trying to smuggle razor blades and scissors into a jail, spurring his release without bail while the case continues. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471634.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471634.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:57 EST The Homeland Security Department estimates the number of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. fell about 7 percent to 10.8 million in January 2009. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471614.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471614.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:42 EST Authorities have arrested a California man who they say was teaching a sixth-grader how to drive when his car crashed into another vehicle, killing the boy, his mother and younger sister. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471555.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471555.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:59 EST Gov. David Paterson's chief of staff is seeking an internal inquiry into how The New York Times' reporting of a story led to unproven rumors of wild, personal misconduct by Paterson. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471550.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471550.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:55 EST The head of UNICEF warned Tuesday that people may still be trying to smuggle children out of Haiti and said protecting youngsters who survived the earthquake is the top concern of the U.N. children's agency. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471491.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471491.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:45 EST Rep. John Murtha's family says the late congressman will be buried in the heart of the Pennsylvania district he represented for nearly 40 years. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471457.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471457.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:15 EST The body of a U.S. Air Force officer visiting Haiti at the time of last month's earthquake has been found in the rubble of a hotel in the country's devastated capital, military officials said Tuesday. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471393.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471393.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:36 EST The New York Senate has passed a resolution opposing trials of terrorists being held in New York City. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471392.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471392.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:36 EST Nevada officials on Tuesday outlined drastic cuts to the state's Medicaid program that include plans to ration adult diapers, eliminate denture and hearing-aid programs, and force personal care assistants to buy their own disposable gloves. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471378.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471378.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:26 EST Family members, investigators, clergy and even a psychic have spent weeks testifying in an Illinois courtroom - yet Drew Peterson's murder trial hasn't even started. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471370.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/AP/story/1471370.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:21 EST The father of an airport driver accused of trying to cook up homemade bombs in a Colorado hotel for an attack on New York City pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges he tried to get rid of chemicals and other evidence, prosecutors said. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1470019.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1470019.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:00 EST The U.S.-led offensive that's expected to start soon in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province will be a battle not only against the Taliban but also against an insurgent-backed narcotics trade that provides a livelihood for thousands of residents. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1469990.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1469990.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:00 EST Rep. John Murtha, a retired Marine Corps officer who became the first Vietnam War combat veteran elected to Congress and later an outspoken critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1470014.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1470014.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:00 EST Failing to overhaul the nation's immigration system, currently a back burner issue for Congress and President Barack Obama, could play a pivotal role in key mid-term election in November, according to a new study on Latino voting patterns.